Category: News
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Doctor’s advocacy trumped duty to objectivity in court
The public should know why gender-affirming care became the dominant practice in Australia without good quality evidence to support it. Medicalised gender change for distressed minors, driven by puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, is experimental treatment. Since 2019, jurisdictions as different as Finland, Florida, Sweden and England have independently put these hormonal treatments to the…
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Judge critical of Michelle Telfer over gender guidelines, evidence
Judge Andrew Strum has criticised the evidence of gender medicine expert Dr Michelle Telfer and allowed publication of her name and of the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne following a landmark case. Australia’s foremost gender medicine expert and the lead author of the nation’s guidelines on gender-affirming care, Michelle Telfer, was excoriated by a Family Court…
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Medical report leaked that ‘proves Imane Khelif is biological male’
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Sex-test results published online which debunk IOC’s stance on controversial Olympic champion Imane Khelif’s sex-test results from the 2023 World Championships have been published for the first time, with the medical report appearing to indicate that the boxer is biologically male. Just 36 hours after World Boxing ruled that Khelif, a hugely controversial Olympic champion in women’s…
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Witch ‘thrown out by Druids after being accused of transphobia’
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Angela Howard claims her membership was revoked after she supported the exclusion of trans women from single-sex spaces A witch has claimed she was thrown off a Druid training course amid allegations that she was “transphobic” in a row over women’s rights. Angela Howard claimed she joined the British Druid Order (BDO) in 2020 to…
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Don’t let trans rapists choose gender, UN warns police
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Special rapporteur concerned third of British forces still take into account self-identified gender in violence cases against females Police forces that allow criminals to pick their own gender are the “biggest barrier to ending violence against women and girls”, a United Nations report has found. Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur for violence against women and girls, said…
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Two transgender netball players banned from playing in Riddell District Netball Football League
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Two transgender netball players have been banned from competing in a major community Melbourne netball league, the decision coming after a video emerged of a smaller female opponent being knocked over at a weekend match. Two transgender players have been banned from competing in a major community netball league due to their “superior stamina and…
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I changed my mind on trans rights – and lost multiple friends
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As a human rights lawyer, I never questioned the trans movement. But, after a lightbulb moment, I publicly changed my position I am a human rights lawyer and professor at King’s College London. Until 2018, I supported all the demands of the transgender-rights movement. But since then, I have changed my mind. Why? Because I finally…
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Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormones
The evidence that shifted the Government’s position on providing the treatment to children is revealed here. It emerged last week that the health secretary was “actively reviewing” whether to restrict or ban the prescription of cross-sex hormones to children who want to transition to another gender. On 28 April, a group of clinical specialists was…
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If biological truth is transphobic, then we’ve lost our minds
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in NewsThe case of Jayney Sutherley, who was acquitted for threatening or abusive behaviour for misgendering a fellow prisoner, is proof that a reckoning is coming Under Section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010, a person may be charged with “threatening or abusive behaviour” if they behave in such a manner in…
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One of the state’s leading sporting organisations is probing whether transgender players pose a safety risk to female players
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Netball Victoria has engaged an independent expert to review possible on-court safety risks after a club in Melbourne’s outer north said it was worried about the size and strength of transgender players. One of the state’s leading sporting organisations is investigating whether transgender players pose a safety risk to female players. Netball Victoria has launched…