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  • More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimes

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    Violent offences among male prisoners who identify as women shows why they shouldn’t be in female prisons, say women’s rights campaigners More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners in British jails are serving sentences for sex offences and violent crimes, government figures have revealed. At least 181 of the 244 transgender inmates, more than…

  • Gender rights groups clash over letters

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    The clash between rights groups over gender ideology has spilled over the Tasmanian school system, after an activist sent letters to school principals all over the state warning that “ideology driven programs” potentially place kids at harm. Former Hobart alderman and current member of Safeguarding Children in Australian Schools group, Jeff Briscoe, posted letters and…

  • LGB Tasmania funded the ‘Let Kids be Kids’ billboard in Hobart

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    A war of words between groups at the opposite ends of the transgender debate has escalated, with both groups launching campaigns to fund billboards promoting their views on the issue across the state. LGB Tasmania, which opposes medical transitions for people under the age of 18, claimed it has booked another billboard in the Launceston…

  • How did NHS body get the law so badly wrong over its rules on same-sex care?

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    Patients are supposed to be at the heart of everything the NHS does. This is considered such an important principle that, a decade ago, the fledgling NHS constitution was rewritten after the mid-Staffs scandal, in which so many patients died, to make clear it should frame every aspect of NHS work. Yet, last week, the NHS Confederation, the membership…

  • The gender issue deserves urgent and open debate

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    Parenting has never been easy and the onslaught of competing pressures vying for the attention of impressionable young minds makes ti more difficult still. For many, navigating the highly charged terrain of puberty represents a high-water mark ni the parental challenge. As we now know, a potent new factor has been added to the mix.…

  • Year 7 students are urged to question their gender identity as part of a ‘well-being’ program – parents left fuming

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    Australian students as young as 12 have been encouraged to explore new gender identities without their parents knowledge. The move is part of a well-being program for students running in multiple states to help bolster their mental health. But some teachers and students claim that ‘well-being coordinators’ are going too far.  In one example a year seven…

  • GPs lose part of insurance cover

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    One of the country’s biggest medical insurers will no longer cover private practitioners prescribing gender affirming care to adolescents. MDA National, one of four major medical indemnity providers insuring GPs and other private practitioners against legal claims, updated its policy this month to exclude cover for claims ‘‘arising from aspects of gender transitioning treatment for…

  • Judges warned of ‘worst medical scandal in 100 years’

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    Family Court judges are being urged to consider new evidence of the effects of hormone treatments and puberty blockers on young Australians that refutes a gender-affirming model of care. The paper documents in forensic detail a lack of clinical consensus on the concept of gender dysphoria, the diagnostic process or even whether a diagnosis is…

  • Parents raise alarm school ‘wellbeing teams’ encourage children to question gender

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    Parents are raising the alarm that some high schools are “crossing the line” in not only supporting students to socially transition as the opposite sex without parents’ knowledge but actively encouraging children to question gender identities. Concerned teachers say “wellbeing co-ordinators” stationed within public schools in several states, but often with no qualifications in education…

  • TikTok takes on transformative role

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    Lawrence Bing sits in front of the camera with his eyes closed and smiles nervously into a mirror as his mother undoes his chest covering to perform his “top ­surgery reveal”. He looks ecstatic as he opens his eyes and sees the results, faint fresh scars across a chest that once held his breasts. The…