Category: News
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United Kingdom’s ban on puberty blockers for children is not a culture war but a safety matter
Yet again, Australia’s health ministers and officials have been warned about puberty blockers, the drugs given to minors who reject their birth sex and want the “wrong puberty” to be chemically suppressed. The typical response from our gender medicine lobby, and their social justice backers in politics, is that any scepticism about standards of evidence…
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ACON given $7 million to produce non-gendered language cancer campaign
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The Albanese government has given a seven-figure contract to a LGBTQ group which produced a cancer campaign targeting women, using non-gendered language such as “people with a cervix”. The federal government awarded a $7 million contract to a LGBTQ lobby group to produce a women’s cancer campaign using non-gendered language, despite the public health message…
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‘Pedophile’ TikTok star Rachel Queen Burton faces sentencing submissions in District Court
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in NewsA TikTok influencer who amassed a large following sharing her experiences as a trans woman has faced a sentencing hearing. A TikTok star who abused two children told her mother she’s still “the queen” and planned to become famous once released from custody, a court has heard. Rachel Queen Burton, who victims called a pedophile,…
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U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says
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in NewsThe leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care. An influential doctor and advocate of adolescent gender treatments said she had not published a long-awaited study of puberty-blocking drugs because of the…
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Female-Only App Founder to Appeal Court’s Ruling in Favour of Trans Woman
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The woman behind a female-only app says she will appeal Federal Court decision ruling sex is ‘changeable.’ Giggle for Girls app founder Sall Grover has launched an appeal against a Federal Court decision ruling sex is “changeable.” The appeal resulted from Grover banning trans woman Roxanne Tickle from the female-only app and a subsequent successful…
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Athletes not born female shouldn’t be able to compete in women’s sport, UN human rights expert says
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Only athletes who were female at birth should be allowed to compete in women’s sport, a United Nations-appointed human rights expert will tell the UN General Assembly next week. Reem Alsalem, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, told Sky News she hopes the recommendations will influence the policies of states and…
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Consequences of Tickle v Giggle
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in NewsA federal court judge’s ruling that “sex is changeable” is part of an all out assault on the rights of females – an outcome ironically pushed and celebrated by women themselves, writes Rocco Loiacono Last week transgender person Roxanne Tickle won her claim in the Federal Court of unlawful discrimination after being banned from a…
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Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle wins discrimination case after being banned from women-only app
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in NewsA transgender woman who sued a women-only social media app for alleged gender discrimination has been awarded $10,000 plus costs after a judge found she had been indirectly discriminated against in a landmark decision that tested the meaning and scope of the Sex Discrimination Act. Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman from regional New South Wales, sued…
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Why elite women’s sports need to be based on sex, not gender
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Opinion piece by Doriane Lambelet Coleman Two dozen U.S. boys under 17 swim faster than Katie Ledecky in her best event. After an ugly controversy erupted at the Paris Olympics, the critical question in elite women’s sport still needs an answer: Who should get to participate in the female category? At the Games, two formerly…
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Puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise – review
There is no evidence of a large rise in suicides in young patients attending a gender identity clinic in London, an independent review has found. Professor Louis Appleby was asked by Health Secretary Wes Streeting to examine the data following claims made by campaigners of a rise in suicide rates since puberty-blocking drugs were restricted at the…