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  • John Pesutto ordered to pay $2.3m legal bill in Moira Deeming defamation case

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    Former Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto has been hit with a $2.3m legal bill in the fallout from his defamation battle with Moira Deeming. Ms Deeming sued Mr Pesutto for defamation and won her Federal Court case in December last year, with Justice O’Callaghan finding that Mr Pesutto defamed Ms Deeming in radio interviews, a…

  • The New Texas Law That Could Change Everything.

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    Why Texas Senate Bill 1257 should be a model for the nation. In May 2025, Texas passed Senate Bill 1257 (SB 1257) with an 87-58 vote in the House. This law requires insurance providers covering sex-trait modification treatments, such as hormone therapy or surgeries, must also fund complications, reconstructions, and recovery care. Genspect has worked on…

  • ‘It’s not fair’: Transgender girl smashes records at school sports day

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    Parents at a private Catholic school have voiced “anger” after a transgender student broke a number of records competing against girls at a recent sports day. Parents at a private Catholic school in South Australia have voiced “anger” and “disappointment” after a transgender student broke a number of records competing against girls at a recent…

  • LA street artist Lauren YS causes public outrage with their Fitzroy woman in bondage mural

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    A mural depicting a woman in bondage painted by a Los Angeles-based artist in Fitzroy has sparked hundreds of people to flood the City of Yarra’s inbox with complaints. A mural depicting a woman in bondage gagged and bound with ropes that was painted on a wall in Fitzroy earlier this month has sparked hundreds…

  • Where the Trump administration has science on its side  

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    A government report evaluates gender therapy and medical care for children BACK IN JANUARY Donald Trump signed executive order 14187, entitled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation”. He instructed federally run insurance programmes to exclude coverage of treatment related to gender transition for minors. The order aimed to stop institutions that receive federal grants from…

  • Lost in Transition

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    Gender affirming care to treat children with dysphoria is discredited overseas yet routine here. Trans, by its nature, ia a world where appearances differ from reality. After years of the activist slogan that “trans women are women”, Britain’s highest court ruled in April that, under eqquality law, a woman is a biological female. In a…

  • Councillor crackdown: Laws to remove problematic members to be introduced

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    Local Government Minister Kerry Vincent says draft legislation to crack down on councillor misconduct, which includes their removal by an independent tribunal, will soon be released to the public. There has been debate over a number of years that the rules governing councillor misconduct are sufficient and penalties for code of conduct breaches are insufficient.…

  • Why the trans debacle matters

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    I first stuck my neck out on ‘trans’ nearly a decade ago, when a societal obsession with pretending to change sex was already going great guns. I’d been disturbed by this unhinged cultural preoccupation ever since documentaries about little boys in dresses started to glut our television schedules in 2012. I’m not proud of having…

  • Violent clashes in Melbourne after protesters descend on women’s rights rally

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    Out-of-control violence has marred busy CBD streets after protesters, who were left unaccompanied by police, clashed with passersby following earlier skirmishes with law enforcement in which four officers were injured. Earlier on Saturday, trans-rights activists and police clashed as protesters roamed the city after gathering to disrupt a women’s rights rally. Pro-trans protesters moved through…

  • Councillor responds over gender backlash

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    Several Burnie City councillors are considering lodging Code of Conduct complaints against outspoken and unapologetic fellow councillor Trent Aitken in the wake of his recent public comments attracting trans people But the “Boy from Burnie” says he has “never felt so much love from his community” since his Facebook post that stated a transgender woman…