Andrew Sullivan has an excellent opinion piece in the NY Times today about how the gay rights movement became too radical for its own good. If you read this story last week offering a history of the trans movement then you already know what Sullivan is going to say. But he says it as someone...
It was just a brief moment on a BBC broadcast, barely a second, but it made quite an impression on a lot of people. BBC presenter Martine Croxall was reading a story about “pregnant people” and made an immediate correction to the text. “London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has released research which says...
I just read through this rather lengthy story published today at the NY Times. It’s titled “How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost.” While I don’t agree with everything in the story, I do think this is a very fair and well rounded presentation of how we got where we...
Ezra Klein has an interview with Rep. Sarah McBride, the first trans congressperson, about why Democrats are losing on these issues. I don’t know who wrote the headline for this but it’s currently titled “Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights.” That seems a bit too final and definitive for me, or...
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...
Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles has called former US swimmer and activist Riley Gaines “sick” over online comments about a transgender woman softball player. Gaines, who has regularly spoken out about transgender women athletes competing in women’s sport, mocked Minnesota State High School League for removing comments on their post about the Chaplin Park girls’...
Emma Saunders Culture reporter BBC/Hera/Enda Bowe Byron is played by Ellis Howard, who has also appeared in Netflix teen horror Red Rose What It Feels Like For A Girl. A fairly innocuous title for a teen TV series, right? But the stars of BBC Three’s new drama say it’s taken on a deeper resonance since...
May is the month when student athletes from around California go through a series of competitions in Track and Field events to decide who will make it to the state level competition at the end of the month. Briefly, here’s how it works. Every high school is part of a local league consisting of a...
Has the tide turned against the Left — and toward reality? Especially when it comes to biological reality rather than the feelz? Today’s big news from the Supreme Court suggests that momentum is building, at least in the use of executive authority to define policy. Without comment — or much, anyway — the court reinstated the...
The Scottish FA is updating its gender policy in order to ban transgender women competing in women’s football, BBC Scotland has learned. From next season, only those born biologically female will be allowed to take part in competitive matches in the women’s game. The current policy allows transgender women to compete in their affirmed gender...
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...
Maine Rep. Laurel Libby has appealed her censure to the Supreme Court, arguing that Maine’s legislature is silencing her and also her constituents by not allowing her to vote. ???? BREAKING: Rep. Laurel Libby files an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to restore the voice of House District 90 — and defend constitutional...
I was reliably told that if Donald Trump got elected president, democracy itself was at risk. And sure enough, the warnings were correct. Without the unanimous consent of every federal judge, it turns out that elections can be nullified, the Constitution torn up, and the Executive Branch paralyzed. At the outset of his administration, President...
Meta has an independent Oversight Board that reviews and makes decisions about content. The way this usually works, it seems is that someone challenges the content and the Oversight Board acts as a kind of final court where the content is judged for compatibility with the site’s rules. Last year, two posts on Meta by...
Political parties are expected to be told that trans women cannot be on women-only shortlists but trans men can. It comes after last week’s Supreme Court ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law. Shortlists of candidates that only include women have been used by some parties since the mid-1990s to...