Bea Groves-McDaniel

Being 'Normal'

Or how the NDC is the only 'normal' around.

Wittgenstein and the Self

Notes on a transgender experience.

An Article on Trans People

From -- https://trans.org.uk/wholetextprintversion.htm

The Lucky Ones

I am 70 years old. I have lived long enough to watch fashions in prejudice come and go, and I have noticed a pattern: the groups targeted change, but the language of fear is always the same. What varies is who is reading it.

Who Is A Woman?

Biology Says: It's Complicated.

MCC and AI

While current large language models present significant challenges to consciousness attribution, the MCC research programme points toward specific, testable criteria that will become increasingly urgent as machine intelligence grows in complexity.

Corrosive Capital

The Case Against Extreme Plutocracy

For Women Scotland

Otherwise known as The SC Ruling of April 2025. An easy-read summary. The full text of the judgement is available as a PDF download, as is a link to commentary at the House of Commons Library website. June 2026.

The Equality Act 2010

An easy-read summary. The full version is downloadable below.

The Big Musk Problem

Those who possess resources sufficient to distort the cooperative infrastructure upon which all wealth depends are, by their hoarding, eroding the very conditions that make their own wealth possible.

Why do Voluntary Organisations Fail?

A third-person summary of an article now lost.

Let's Get Something Straight

No transgender person transitions on a whim

Transgender Aphorisms

Written in the light of experience

You really should have said, y’know...

There comes a day when a transgender person gets ‘found out’.

The Big Game (Transcript)

This is a video about the most famous problem in game theory.

The Public Sphere

An Essay on the Conditions of Democratic Life

Musk, The Trillionaire

"There shouldn't even be any billionaires, never mind trillionaires." (SGC 12/6/26)

The Rowling Issue

How a Billionaire Author Became the Figurehead of Trans-Hostility in Britain

The Law

... as it applies to trans' exclusion now, June 2026

The Daft Side of Being Trans'

I have to laugh, because I get the joke first.

The Alignment Problem

Why Getting AI Right Is Harder Than It Looks

The Markov Chain

Or why YOU are SO predictable!

The War we don't want.

War with Russia in Europe? WTF?

The Closet That Should Never Have Been Opened

There's a lot of racism, a lot of transphobia, a lot of disability hatred, and a lot of misogyny expressed in the UK. I don't think this is new. I think it's always been there — hiding in the shadows, waiting for its moment. And that moment, I'm sorry to say, has well and truly arrived.

The Risk of being Wrong.

Before you act on a fear, ask what the actual numbers are.