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Tag: 2025

  • ABC Schtum on Strum  

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    by Vera Figner Back in 2022, when Paul Barry had a go at his fellow-journos at the ABC for not reporting on the closure of the UK’s Tavistock youth gender clinic, one Julia Holman – who was at that stage the executive producer at RN Breakfast – commented: We’ve had plenty of occasions since then to point out things…

  • 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…

  • Recommended Websites

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    Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine Our aim is to promote safe, compassionate, ethical and evidence-informed healthcare for children, adolescents, and young adults with gender dysphoria https://segm.org Stats for Gender The sources for the statistics we use are selected for their reliability. We mostly use peer-reviewed papers; however, we occasionally refer to government-commissioned studies, authoritative…

  • Trans activists deface statue of feminist hero Millicent Fawcett

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    Thousands protest in London over Supreme Court’s ruling on definition of a woman Trans rights activists defaced a statue of Millicent Fawcett during a protest against the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman. The Parliament Square statue of the suffragist, a prominent campaigner for women’s rights in the 19th century, was daubed with graffiti reading…

  • Trans doctors can hide biological sex despite Supreme Court ruling

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    General Medical Council pressing ahead with its new policy of making it voluntary for medics to record any data on their gender or sex Transgender doctors will be able to hide their biological sex from the public despite the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling. The General Medical Council (GMC) has until now kept a record of the gender…

  • Why did we need a court of law to tell us what a woman is?

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    No man, whether it’s a 6’5” bloke called Dave or a genderfluid lad who’s taken estrogen, will be legally treated as a woman in the UK. I’m glad this ruling has been made, but I’m bemused – and kind of scared – that we needed it. Why did we need a court of law to…

  • U.K. Top Court Says Trans Women Are Not Legally Women Under Equality Act

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    Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that the word “woman” refers to biological sex under the country’s anti-discrimination law, in a blow to trans rights activists. The Supreme Court in Britain ruled on Wednesday that trans women do not fall within the legal definition of women under the country’s equality legislation. The landmark judgment, which said that the legal…