Transgender ideology crashes into pro-abortion cliches during politico’s interview

Sep 11, 2021 by

Transgender ideology crashes into pro-abortion cliches during politico’s interview

by Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite: One of the few pleasures of our post-sexual revolution age is watching progressives struggle to keep up with the runaway train that they themselves have launched down the tracks and towards the cliffs. As a prime example, Congress’s perkiest Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on CNN recently to complain to Anderson Cooper about the Texas Heartbeat Act—and promptly forgot that men can get pregnant, too.  She started by claiming that the Heartbeat...

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NHS gender identity clinic whistleblower wins damages

Sep 5, 2021 by

NHS gender identity clinic whistleblower wins damages

by David Connett, Observer: Child safeguarding expert awarded £20,000 after bringing claim against Tavistock and Portman trust. A child safeguarding expert who faced vilification after raising concerns about the safety of children undergoing treatment at a London NHS gender identity clinic has won an employment tribunal case against the hospital trust. Sonia Appleby, 62, was awarded £20,000 after an employment tribunal ruled the NHS’s Tavistock and Portman trust’s treatment of her damaged her...

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3,000 healthcare workers sue Biden admin. over mandate forcing them to perform sex-change surgeries

Sep 4, 2021 by

3,000 healthcare workers sue Biden admin. over mandate forcing them to perform sex-change surgeries

By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post: Two associations representing 3,000 medical professionals and an individual doctor based in Tennessee have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Transgender Mandate, arguing that it violates federal conscience protection laws. The American College of Pediatricians and the Catholic Medical Association, along with Dr. Jeanie Dassow of Chattanooga, filed the suit last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at...

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Protest against Scottish gender self-ID plans

Sep 4, 2021 by

Protest against Scottish gender self-ID plans

from Coalition for Marriage: The Scottish Government’s plans to speed up legal sex changes saw hundreds of protesters gather at Holyrood earlier this week. A commitment to liberalise the Gender Recognition Act was made in the recent SNP-Green agreement. The plans would mean someone could change legal sex by their own self-declaration. No medical evidence required. No input from doctors. Just three months living as the opposite sex rather than the current two years. And the minimum age would...

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Scots council reinstates single-sex toilets at school after campaign by parents

Sep 3, 2021 by

Scots council reinstates single-sex toilets at school after campaign by parents

from The Christian Institute: Plans to provide gender neutral toilets at a Scottish secondary school have been abandoned. The change, forcing boys and girls to share the same facilities at Culloden Academy in Inverness, was reversed by Highland Council after local families objected. Highland Council completed the work during the summer break, but – following a backlash from parents – the council reverted to single-sex toilet areas within days of the start of term. Local opposition The Scottish...

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The trans war on motherhood

Sep 1, 2021 by

The trans war on motherhood

by Mary Harrington, UnHerd: Shon Faye’s primer on gender identity draws strongly on second-wave feminism. […]  The Transgender Issue: an argument for justice is written with an op-ed journalist’s persuasive energy, in a style that (for anyone familiar with the so-called “Terf wars”) at times egregiously begs often hotly-contested questions. For example, proposed legislation that would replace biological sex in law with self-identified “gender identity”, a change with far-reaching...

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