Alana McLaughlin served as a man in the US Army Special Forces
Charged with indecent exposure
Senator Craughwell stated, there is also no getting away from the fact that the public perception is that “If you’re in the club you’ll be looked after.”
The activist faces up to two years in prison if found guilty.
It would seem that the lead transgender activist NGO, Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI), has found itself in spot of bother. According to a piece in The Burkean based on an internal email sent by the Health Services Executive to TENI CEO Sara Philips on June 11, the HSE said “may have to freeze funding” […]
The hashtag #NoThankYou has been trending worldwide all day. Here’s why. The Olympic Games have attracted a new kind of controversy this year as women faced what many of them saw as unfair competition from transgender athletes who were born male. One of those athletes is New Zealand weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who at 43 years old, would normally […]
Newly translated guidelines from the Finnish Health Authority say that, “in light of available evidence,” the gender reassignment of children is to be considered an “experimental practice.” The guidelines also state that the first-line treatment for gender dysphoria should not be puberty blockers, but rather psychosocial support, psychotherapy, and treatment of comorbid psychiatric disorders. The […]
A prominent medical journal has published an article arguing that parents should not have “veto power” in decisions around their children wanting to embark on medical treatment to change gender. Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics last month, bioethics professor Maura Priest (who is a philosopher and not a medical doctor) said that in […]
Undermining biology lessons?
Imagine a situation where some country – let us say China, since they’re not historically averse to training Olympic athletes from childhood – was found to have provided masses of testosterone to its female weightlifters from the ages of 12 to 25 while training them to enter the Olympic weightlifting competition later in life. In […]
Maya Forstater, a British feminist who lost her job after colleagues complained that they found remarks she had made on social media, such as a comment arguing that “trans women are male,” offensive, has had her claims of discrimination vindicated by the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Forstater had original brought a case to Central London Employment […]
A law student in a Scottish university is facing disciplinary action after saying in an online seminar about transgender issues that women were born with female genitals and that the difference in physical strength between men and women is a fact. Lisa Keogh, a 29-year-old mother of two boys, is in her final year at […]