When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. Unfortunately this assessment has proven true of Ireland, which has always been hellbent on importing American culture. It seems over the past half decade, Ireland has decided to completely forego her own culture, opinions and thought processes, and instead parrot American ‘progressive’ values, for better or worse. […]
The Irish College of GPs (ICCP) has amended its newly published transgender heath guidelines to remove statements which said that puberty blockers were “reversible”, and that oestrogen and testosterone therapies were “partially reversible”. The report now says that “There is limited research evidence available regarding the long-term effects of hormone and puberty blockers in children […]
In Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon, the Stalinist Rubashov’s prison neighbour responds to the news that Rubashov has fallen foul of the regime by tapping out “Bravo. The Wolves devour one another.” Some of us may be forgiven by having the same feelings with regard to the turning of the woke witch hunters on […]
The hashtag #RIPJKRowling has been trending on social media as transgender activists expressed opposition which often amounted to hatred and venom at the Harry Potter author. The author, who has come under sustained attack for expressing concern that the aggression of trans activists is diminishing women’s rights, has just published a book where a serial killer dresses as […]
The numbers are in and it looks as if JK Rowling has defied her critics in the best way possible – by increasing her book sales. Her books have been a “lockdown hit” according to publisher Bloomsbury, and their sales have pushed revenues at the children’s division of the group up more than a quarter in the […]
The acclaimed author JK Rowling has defended her views on sex and gender identity after a manufactured backlash was hyped by media reporting and a social media attack campaign. Writing on her blog, Rowling says that for expressing her views “activists who clearly believe themselves to be good, kind and progressive people swarmed back into […]
A transgender man working for The Guardian has failed in his attempt to be described as the father of his child on the birth certificate. Freddy McConnell, 34, was born female but started to live as a man about 10 years ago. He began taking testosterone in 2013 and had a double mastectomy in 2014. His passport […]
The T.C. Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland was established by a £20,000 donation from Thomas Charles Beirne, a devout Catholic businessman and Papal Knight who was warden of the University from 1928 to 1941. The vast tract of beautiful riverside land on which the university sits in St Lucia was donated by pioneering doctor […]
A professor of economics at the University of Exeter, England, has been accused of transphobia after tweeting that “only female people menstruate”. The conflict began when Dr. Poen responded to a tweet which said: “Not everyone who menstruates is female. Not everyone who is female menstruates. Let’s shift our language.” Dr. Poen replied by saying: […]
In Australia, as elsewhere in the developed world, doctors and parents are perplexed about an epidemic of young people, mostly teenage girls, who want to change gender. Back in August the Federal Health Minister, Greg Hunt, asked the The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) for advice on how to treat gender dysphoria in children […]
A decision to rebrand International Women’s Week so as to make it fully inclusive to transgender people has been slammed by women’s rights group. They say the latest push for inclusivity is “excluding and erasing women from our own movement”. The controversy arose after Leicester University students’ union decided to rename the long-established celebration of women […]
Last week, Marks & Spencer issued a series of apologies to a “transgender non-binary” shopper, over what they called a “mistake”. 30-year-old Myla Corvidae, who is biologically female, but uses “they/them” pronouns, was reportedly turned away from using the male changing room by a member of staff, who informed “them” that the changing facilities were […]