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 […]
Women are being discriminated against in the new transgender rights debate: International Womens Day #IWD #gript
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 […]
The alleged assailant, Austin Sauer, is reported to have had non-penetrative, non-consensual sexual contact with the victim and was arrested.
A 23-year-old woman is taking legal action against an NHS clinic because she was not challenged more by staff to avoid gender reassignment treatment as a teenager.
Two Harley Street doctors have been suspended ‘after mistakenly removing the vagina of a transgender patient without consent’; in what is thought to be a legal first in Britain, the case involved a ‘man, who was transitioning from a woman’, who was left “distraught” after the irreversible gender reassignment procedure’; the anonymous patient ‘had agreed […]
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 […]
The number of teenagers born as girls who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria has increased by almost 1,500 percent in ten years in Sweden, according to a report from the Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen). The report examines mental health and the rise of gender between 2008 and 2018. In that time the number […]
A Labour party deputy leadership candidate has said babies are not born with a sex and that talking about biological reality is “dog whistle transphobia.”
Former police officer Harry Miller has successfully challenged the use of Hate Crime Operational guidelines, issued by the College of Policing in 2014 and followed by police forces nationally; a Judge found they had been ‘unlawfully used to interfere with Mr Miller’s freedom of speech’ when he was visited by a policeman to question him […]
As an expert in hormone therapy, O’Shea has been privy to some of the most heart-wrenching cases of post-operation regret among transgender patients, with some dying by suicide and others undergoing difficult reversal surgery, hormonal treatment and prolonged counselling.
Mr. Justice Julian Knowles said the effect of workplace visits by police due to political opinions of staff “must not be underestimated.”