{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/680fcf0b9704d99f84c5052e/6927353f44d46fbcb28bf811?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Jacqui Gavin","description":"<p>In this special Fearless Diversity episode, we press pause on the culture war and lean into a quieter kind of courage: listening.</p><p><br></p><p>Rachel and Simon are joined by Jacqui Gavin BEM,&nbsp;a trans woman, former civil servant and long-time equality campaigner, for a deeply human conversation about growing up as Scott in 1970s Scotland, beginning transition as a teenager, and what it means to describe being trans not as an identity but as a process.</p><p><br></p><p>Across the hour, they explore:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The nine-year-old who “wanted to find the girl” and the 21-year-old stepping out with fear and liberation to live as a female.</li><li>Why Jacqui calls herself “female with a trans history” and how she still lovingly carries Scott with her.</li><li>What both sides of the sex and gender debate get wrong about each other, and why Jacqui sees herself not as a fighter but as a bridge-builder.</li><li>Letting children be children, respecting women’s boundaries, and learning to “earn your place in the world” through mutual respect, not demands.</li></ul><p>This is not a shouting match about policy. It’s three people, in a conversation, talking honestly about fear, dignity, belonging and how to stay human when the world is loud, angry, and certain.</p><p><br></p><p>If you’ve ever felt confused, anxious, or silenced by the noise around sex and gender, this gentle, thoughtful episode is an invitation: you’re allowed to just ask.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe"}