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  • Report of the Special Rapporteur on – Violence against women and girls in sports

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    In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, explores the various forms, causes and consequences of violence against women and girls in sports. Reem Alsalem has stated ‘female athletes are more vulnerable to sustaining serious physical injuries when female-only sports spaces are opened to…

  • Genspect Conference – Reflections on Lisbon

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    Carl Jung tells us that “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” People who have been touched by the trans phenomenon often feel isolated in their own communities, separated by…

  • 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…

  • Statistics Show That HALF of Trans-Identified Men in Prison Are Sex Offenders

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    Eva Kurilova’s excellent article detailing prison data from different countries, including Australia. The justice system has fail vulnerable women by allowing men who identify as women to enter female prisons. Many Western countries are transferring men into women’s prisons and calling this violation of women’s human rights “progress.” Eva wrote. Fair Go for Queensland Women…

  • The social contagion of gender dysphoria

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    The term social contagion describes the “spread of phenomena (e.g., behaviours, beliefs, and attitudes) across network ties”[1] (p. 556). Using very large datasets (e.g., Framingham Heart Study) that have collected longitudinal data on original participants (Original cohort), as well as their children (Offspring cohort) and their children’s children (Third generation cohort) and including their spouses, siblings,…

  • Tickle vs Giggle Case Federal Court ruling. Files & transcripts

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    Roxanne Tickle v Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd & Anor Online File Given the significant public interest in this matter, the Court has adopted a publicly available Online File. Documents will be placed onto the Online File when they are considered both by the Court and the parties to be publicly accessible. https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/services/access-to-files-and-transcripts/online-files/roxanne-tickle-v-giggle-for-girls

  • Consequences of Tickle v Giggle

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    A 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…

  • 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…

  • Inquiry into sex self ID after Olympics Fiasco

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    Tasmanians will no doubt be interested in the IOCs turning a blind eye to the International Boxing Organisation’s warning about the serious problems with allowing males to compete in women’s sports. While the Olympics fiasco concerns a person with a Disorder of Sex Development, DSD, and not a trans identified male competing in women’s sports,…

  • Trans men ‘becoming postmenopausal’ in their 20s

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    Study found many had bladder and bowel symptoms they would expect to see in a woman after the menopause Transgender men are suffering from “postmenopausal” problems like incontinence in their 20s because of taking testosterone, a study has revealed. Experts analysed 68 transgender men who were taking the cross-sex hormone to change their identity from female to…