Tag: gender ideology
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US Health Swears Off Gender Meds for Kids
America’s federal health authorities have aligned with Europe’s more cautious position on care for gender-distressed minors On May 1, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its 409-page Gender Dysphoria Report outsourced to independent researchers. What follows is a lightly edited excerpt from the report’s discussion of key ethical questions raised by gender medicalisation…
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Lost in Transition
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in NewsGender 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…
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Violent clashes in Melbourne after protesters descend on women’s rights rally
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in NewsOut-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…
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Trans activists deface statue of feminist hero Millicent Fawcett
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in NewsThousands 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…
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Trans doctors can hide biological sex despite Supreme Court ruling
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in NewsGeneral 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…
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‘Mum, why was there a man at the pool in a wig and women’s bathers today?’
An unexpected conversation with our kids about mentally ill men and a sick society ‘Mum, why was there a man at the pool in a wig and women’s bathers today? Our 8-year-old daughter innocently piped up as we were driving home from ballet last week. My wife had already been filling me in on the…
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Is this the beginning of the end for puberty blockers?
Is this the beginning of the end in Australia for the experiment of using puberty blockers for gender-incongruent children? It began as a compassionate solution to the difficulties that trans people had in being accepted as the sex with which they identify. A Dutch doctor came up with a solution to block puberty, so a…
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Top children’s hospital silent on judge’s criticism of gender care guidelines
The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne has refused to respond to a Family Court judge’s criticism of its care standards for children presenting with gender concerns. One of the nation’s top children’s hospitals has refused to publicly defend its own treatment standards for patients questioning their gender, following calls for the “concerning” guidelines to be repealed…
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Judge lashes child gender-medicine experts in blow for clinic
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in NewsOne of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts has been ruled to have misled the Family Court when giving evidence to support a mother who wished to prescribe her child puberty blockers. One of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts has been ruled to have misled the Family Court when giving evidence to support a…
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Invitation to the Forum: Women’s rights in the Modern World
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Women Speak Tasmania members are pleased to inform that our previous cancel forum will go ahead at the RSL Club in Devonport on 7 May despite the threats received from trans activists and lobby groups.