The High Court has heard claims that the health regulator, the Care Quality Commission, “acted irrationally” when it registered England’s first private clinic offering gender treatment to under-18s. The case, brought by a former nurse and a mother who wishes to remain anonymous, claims the watchdog did not consider all relevant information and should also...
Can Democrats escape the corner they painted themselves into on gender ideology? Survey says: “No!” At least not until the paint dries out completely, and this is slow-drying paint. That reality was demonstrated again on Wednesday, when the Supreme Court ruled that states have the power to ban “gender affirming care” (sterilizing and mutilating) procedures...
In December the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on Gender Affirming Care for minors. The media consensus at the time was that the liberals were in lockstep but the conservatives seemed unlikely to overrule the state’s ban. Today, the Supreme Court released a 6-3 decision in the case written...
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Tennessee can limit or even fully ban gender transition care for young people. The justices voted 6 to 3 that a Tennessee law limiting access to treatments such as puberty blockers for under-18s was not discrimination. The ruling will likely have a nationwide effect – 25 states have...
The UK’s only judge to ever publicly say they are transgender has told the BBC she is concerned the Supreme Court’s ruling on biological sex puts lives at risk and fears “someone’s going to get killed” because of it. Dr Victoria McCloud is planning to take the government to the European Court of Human Rights...
That could eventually include a new membership category, or shorter waiting times, for women to make a dent into the gender imbalance, although any such proposals would need the approval of members with the notion of ‘queue jumping’ likely to have some detractors. At the current rate, the MCC will achieve a 80-20% male-to-female ratio...
The Department of Health and Human Services released a 400-page report today titled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria.” The report only addresses treatment for those 18 and under and appears to follow the UK’s Cass Review in recommending more therapy for children and less use of medical intervention, such as puberty blockers and hormones. The...
The justice secretary has said it is “absolutely unacceptable” to question the validity of the Supreme Court after it ruled that the term “woman” is defined by biological sex. Speaking to Parliament’s Human Rights Joint Committee, Shabana Mahmood said judges at the UK’s highest court “provided the legal clarity in their legal decision which is...
Avalon Victoria McCloud, pictured in 2010 when she was sworn in as a Queen’s Bench Master, stood down from High Court work last year The UK’s only ever judge to publicly reveal they are transgender is planning to take the government to the European Court of Human Rights over the Supreme Court’s ground-breaking ruling on...
In nearly 25 years in daily journalism, I have never known another issue quite like it. The arguments over sex and gender, trans and women’s rights have a passion, an anger and often a toxicity on both sides greater in their intensity than those over the Iraq war two decades ago, or Brexit in more...
The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool takes us through the life of Pope Frances, and the challenges he faced as pontiff. Read full article at source...
John Swinney said members of the trans community would be feeling “uncertain and anxious”. Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has said the Supreme Court ruling over the legal meaning of a woman will leave members of the trans community feeling “uncertain and anxious”. He was speaking as protests were held in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh...
NHS could be forced to change gender guidance. Read full article at source...
Alison Holt Social affairs editor Getty Images After years of argument and dispute about the meaning of gender, the watchword of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling has to be clarity. Equality law has been made clear with the unambiguous statement that the term “woman” refers to a biological woman and does not include biological men who...
New guidance for public bodies on single-sex spaces will be issued, after the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) says it is “working at pace” to provide an updated code of conduct for services, including the NHS and prisons....