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Editor’s note: please skim through the titles and summaries of these recent articles, and read what you can. We are in the middle of a revolution, and we need to keep up to date, understand the ideologies taking hold of people’s minds, mourn the victims and celebrate when there is push-back. Most recent articles at the top:
Why a Bill to Ban Conversion Therapy is a Terrible Idea by Toby Young, The Daily Sceptic
Watch: Julia Hartley Brewer accused by Jayne Ozanne of talking rubbish on conversion therapy
Has extreme trans ideology finally ‘peaked’? by Nicole Lampert, CapX
It’s not prayer or faithful Christian teaching on transgenderism that will cause harm by David Robertson, Christian Today
Watch:Blanket ban on ‘conversion therapy’ stops children being able to explore options says Darren Grimes, GB News
People should be free to seek help, including prayer, for unwanted same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria by Lynda Rose, CT
The week the trans spell was broken by Hadley Freeman, UnHerd
Banning conversion therapy is a terrible idea by Jo Bartosch, spiked
Prime Minister’s blast of common sense on trans debate – Daily Mail Editorial
Watch Prime Minister on Twitter
Watch: Caroline Farrow tells GB News about intimidation by the transgender lobby(about 40 seconds in, following writer Graham Linehan)
Joe Biden’s gender agenda by Park MacDougald, UnHerd
Becoming transgender a sacred journey of becoming whole, says ex-Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, by Gabriella Swerling, Telegraph
Jacob Rees-Mogg says ‘God made men and women’ as LBC phone-in caller vows to boycott Labour and Lib Dems over ‘woke’ stance on trans rights, by James Tapsfield and Daniel Martin, Mailonline
Women whose husbands want to become transgender will not be trapped in same-sex partnerships, Liz Truss pledges, by Glen Owen And Georgia Edkins, Mail On Sunday
The beatification of Jamie Wallis, by Joanna Williams, spiked:
The Conservative MP caught up in a sex and hit-and run scandal, is now absolved of all guilt and praised for his bravery as he “comes out” as transgender.
GPs will be paid for trans hormone prescriptions, by Kat Lay, The Times
What a tangled web, by Carl Trueman, First Things: Confusion over what it means to be human continues to dog public life in the West.
It’s ridiculous that so many politicians can’t answer the question ‘What is a woman?’,
by Emily Carver, Conservative Home
We need to talk about trans children, by Jo Bartosch, spiked: Trans activists want to silence concerns about children’s welfare.
BBC changes ‘assigned female at birth’ to ‘women’ after flood of complaints, by Samantha Haynes, GB News: The BBC has amended a news story after describing people suffering from endometriosis as having been “assigned female at birth”.
Woman who lived as a man explains how the internet drives teens to embrace trans ideology, by Matt Lamb, LifeSite
Doctor challenges ruling on use of transgender language, from the Religion Media Centre: The Christian Legal Centre is defending a doctor who lost his job after he refused to identify trans people by their chosen gender.
How many more women will be sacrificed to trans ideology? by Jo Bartosch, spiked
How many more outrages will women have to put up with to placate the gender ideologues? by Nicole Lampert, CapX
Female swimmers are ‘frightened’ to speak out against dominant male competitor, by Calvin Freiburger, LifeSite
Children on waiting list at NHS transgender clinic climbs to 5,500, from Christian Today
Hospital staff told police their patient was not raped as alleged attacker was transgender, despite CCTV showing assault…by Georgiana Scott, GB News
First Scotland, now Ireland embraces trans ideology, by Debbie Hayton, UnHerd
New York serial killer dismembers woman and woke media fears to misgender him, by Kurt Mahlburg, MercatorNet
USA Today names Rachel Levine, a biological male, among its ‘Women of the Year’, by Ryan Foley, Christian Post:
The trans fairy tale, by Nicole Jones, The Critic: Pink News is shamelessly exploiting the “authentic self” to sell mastectomies to young people.
JK Rowling: Keir Starmer misrepresents equalities law by saying ‘trans women are women’, from Coalition for Marriage
Doctors feel pressured to take an ‘unquestioning approach’ to children wanting gender-change, report says
by Shaun Wooller, Mailonline
Grassroots resistance grows to Scot Govt gender self-ID plans, from The Christian Institute
The SNP’s Gender Recognition Bill is a threat to women, by Jo Bartosch, spiked
Scotland’s shame, by Stephanie Davies-Arai, The Critic: Stonewall’s grip on the Scottish Government is now complete after the announcement of the Gender Recognition Act reform bill in Scotland yesterday.
When Evil Is Called Good, by Carl R Trueman, EPPC:
Last week, three news stories threw into sharp relief the ambitions of the sexual revolutionaries who govern the United States…Each story reveals a particular aspect of the current sexual revolution.
Defund Woke UNT Now, by Rod Dreher, The American Conservative:
A politician whose son was taken from him in a widely publicised transgender custody case was due to speak at a meeting at University of North Texas. Serious violent intimidation by trans activists who blocked the meeting has not been addressed by the university authorities.
The Genderbread Person may seem innocent, but it teaches kids very dangerous concepts,
by Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite: The Genderbread Person was a concept developed to sell gender ideology to kids.
At what point do we notice the misogyny of transactivism? by Lorenzo Warby, from Helen Dale substack
A childhood is not reversible, from Transgender Trend
As trans swimmer triumphs, real women look on in cowed silence, by Donald Forbes, TCW: American swimmer Lia Thomas broke six records at the weekend…
Parents win permission for judicial review on trans-affirming policies in schools, from Christian Concern: A High Court judge has ruled that Nigel and Sally Rowe’s case can go forward. In 2017, the Rowes were forced to educate their children at home after their son’s Church of England primary school said that their children could be labelled ‘transphobic’ for not being trans-affirming.
‘You can put Christianity in the bin because transgenderism is the only ideology that is going to be allowed’,
from GB News: Former A&E Doctor, Dr David Mackereth, discusses being sacked for refusing to call a trans woman ‘she’ because it was against his religious beliefs.
How to Argue Against Gender-Transition Interventions for Children, by Joe Carter, TGC
Tony Blair: ‘Voters don’t want radical trans ideology shoved at them’, by Colin Hart, Coalition for Marriage
The New York Times erases JK Rowling, by Peter Franklin, UnHerd
Why Conservative backbench MPs should demand that Boris Johnson cancel the “Safe To Be Me” international LGBT conference, by Gary Powell, Lesbian and Gay News:
No self-respecting gay or lesbian person who has any idea of what is going on with gender ideology colonisation can any longer support Stonewall UK or any conference where they and the UK Government promote gender identity politics.
Nearly 40 Percent of U.S. Gen Zs, 30 Percent of Young Christians Identify as LGBTQ, Poll Shows,
by Paul Bond, Newsweek: Thirty percent of Millennials identify as LGBTQ, according to a soon-to-be released study that is based on scientific polling data. Among Christians the numbers were lower—but only slightly,
A Desister’s Tale, by Lisa Selin Davis, Quillette: How many trans-identified children “desist”? That is, how many identify as transgender for a time, and then eventually stop doing so, prior to medical intervention
Transgender ideology and the rise of the thought police, by David Robertson, Christian Today.
The latest update from Scotland shows the SNP government prioritising pushing through ‘self-identification’ even over independence!
EHRC calls on Scot Govt to halt ‘choose your own sex’ plan, from The Christian Institute:
In a letter to Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison, the Commission stressed that the “established legal concept of sex” gave the “correct balanced legal framework that protects everyone”.
Criminalising parental love, by Brendan O’Neill, spiked: More and more nations are making it an offence to steer your kid away from transgenderism.
We will not be silenced, vow peers who were labelled ‘bigots’ for speaking out over trans prisoners, by Hayley Dixon, Telegraph
How trans identity politics imprisons us all, by Tim Black, spiked:
The supposed conflict between an individual’s authentic inner feeling of gender and the inauthentic gender roles they are expected to play is at the heart of the trans cause…it expresses, in arguably its purest form yet, this simple but pervasive cultural ideal – be true to yourself.
Fact not fiction, by Maya Forstater, The Critic:
The proposed legislation to “ban conversion therapy” threatens to close down freedom of plain speaking where it matters most — amongst those caring for children and young people who have suddenly come to believe they are “the wrong sex”.
Inside the Tory trans civil war, by Josephine Bartosch, UnHerd: MPs vilify their colleagues for criticising Stonewall.
Boots sorry over magazine article suggesting that transgender people are more likely to commit suicide if they are not addressed with their ‘preferred’ personal pronouns, from Mail on Sunday: Stephanie Davies-Arai, from the monitoring group Transgender Trend, said: ‘Lobby organisations have pushed the message…that a child who is not affirmed as the opposite sex is more likely to attempt suicide, on the basis of no evidence.’
The Trans Movement Is Not About Rights Any More, by Andrew Sullivan: It’s about a cultural revolution and the abolition of biological sex.
The elite war on biological sex, by Frank Furedi, spiked: Transgender ideology is relentlessly promoted by the elites – despite huge opposition from ordinary people.
SNP accused of ignoring feminist and religious groups in gender reform talks, by Daniel Sanderson, Telegraph: Critics attack Nicola Sturgeon for allowing only pro-trans lobbyists to discuss changes letting people legally change sex without diagnosis.
Leading group of girls’ schools says it ‘will not accept transgender pupils, by Harry Howard, Mailonline:
The Girls’ Day School Trust, which represents 23 private schools and two academies, will not accept transgender pupils because they are worried it will ‘jeopardise’ their status as single-sex institutions.
Preferred gender pronouns used for first time in New Year Honours list, by Gordon Rayner, Telegraph
Children are being ‘brainwashed’ by TikTok videos on ‘cool’ trans surgery viewed 26 billion times, campaigners claim, by Sam Merriman, Mail on Sunday:
Some parents are concerned the involvement of TikTok, which became the UK’s most downloaded app last year, is fuelling a ‘social contagion’ of pressure on impressionable youngsters and the rise in teenagers who are identifying as trans.
Welsh Government erases biological sex from sex ed, by Colin Hart, Coalition for Marriage:
The ‘Relationships and Sexuality Education Code’ has been roundly criticised for attempting to erase biological sex from the sex education curriculum. The Code fails, for instance, to mention man or woman, male or female, boy or girl. Quite a feat, given its subject matter.
Calls to scrap transgender requirement are ‘totally out of touch’, from Christian Today: MPs are wrong to suggest that transgender people should no longer have to live for two years in their chosen gender being receiving legal recognition.
She who shall not be named, by Raquel Rosario Sanchez, spiked:
JK Rowling’s books have been translated into 65 languages, making her one of the most-translated authors in history, and the first to make a billion dollars. And now she’s being subtly erased.
Swimming in nonsense: where are the grown ups in the transgender debate? by Nicole Lampert, CapX: When the winner reached the side of the pool there was silence, almost as if the triumph was being determinedly ignored.
The GenderBread Man is coming, by Caroline ffiske, The Critic:
Public sector organisations, law firms, large corporations and schools, are paying for “trans-inclusion” training from an organisation called Global Butterflies. Who are they and what do they do?
I rescued my daughter from LGBT insanity, let parents learn from my story, by Charlie Jacobs, LifeSite:
She came home with a whole new language. She and all her girlfriends discussed their labels — polyamorous, lesbian, pansexual. None of the five girls chose “basic,” their term for a straight girl. Now, I was worried.
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