Your Party’s existential spat over trans rights
The public split between Zarah Sultana and Adnan Hussain cuts deeper than a single social issue
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Nicola Sturgeon: “Where does JK Rowling get the time to obsess about me?”
On the New Statesman Podcast, the former Scottish first minister talks flag-flying nationalism, the rise of Reform and the Harry…
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Why Graham Linehan’s freedom of speech matters
Why is our government arresting people for tweets?
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Why do right-wing “transvestigators” believe Michelle Obama is a man?
The online right is lost inside an “emasculation fetish”.
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Do our politicians understand the Supreme Court’s gender ruling?
As members of the Women and Equalities Committee questioned Baroness Kishwer, it was not clear they do.
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Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormones
The evidence that shifted the government’s position on providing the treatment to children is revealed here.
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Why the Scottish trans movement lost
Through its dogmatism, the SNP alienated even those sympathetic to trans rights.
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How gender ideology corrupted government data
Blurring the line between sex and gender has serious consequences.
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Are politicians trying to undermine the Cass Review?
A parliamentary committee on puberty blockers this week revived all the gravest errors of the Tavistock era.
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Why courts could stop a teenager changing their gender
The wishes of a 16-year-old seeking to transition could be overruled because of concerns that hormone treatment isn’t in their…
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The Scottish government is ignoring women’s rights
A hearing at the Supreme Court exposed just how flawed its position on gender recognition is.
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Questions remain over NHS youth gender care, despite Cass Review
One of the services treating the Tavistock’s former patients appeared to be taking cues from American healthcare guidelines.
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The BMA turns away from rejecting the Cass Report
The doctors’ union has voted to retain a neutral position on the issue.
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Data and ideology don’t mix
With the census gender debacle, an opportunity to assess the trans community’s needs has been squandered.
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Hundreds of doctors are challenging the BMA’s stance on puberty blockers
In a letter to the association’s UK Council chair, 870 doctors have expressed “dismay” at the union’s criticism of the…
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Labour’s women problem
Keir Starmer must accept that JK Rowling is right.
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Kemi Badenoch and the legal definition of sex
The presumptive front-runner for the next Conservative leadership contest has been unfairly vilified.
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The government’s 11th-hour ban on puberty blockers
The emergency legislation will expire in September.
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Hilary Cass: “Do I regret doing it? Absolutely not”
The Cass Review author on facing her critics, and how children’s gender identity services failed to “pause for thought”.
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The Cass Review into children’s gender care should shame us all
Why was the prescription of puberty blockers to distressed children allowed to continue for so long?
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