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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Inside the collapse of the Tavistock Centre
Why the world’s largest gender clinic for children is closing.
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Judith Butler and the fear of gender
In the 1990s a new philosophy helped open up alternative ways of being. Nobody predicted it would lead to war.
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Why biological sex matters
Some argue that lived experience and personal choice trump biology – but they are wrong.
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The gender binary is false
We should question a mindset that viciously excludes whole groups of people.
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Anohni: “There needs to be a reckoning”
The singer who rose to fame with her band Antony and the Johnsons on her mentor Lou Reed, transphobia and…
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From nimbyism to the trans right debate, today’s politics is all about taking back control
What does it mean for our society when some people believe their word on what happens in their back yard…
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Sam Smith and the return of the Satanic Panic
The conservative hysteria around pop music, sexuality and Satanism has a long history.
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What X-Men can teach us about prejudice
The Florida state representative Webster Barnaby’s comparison of trans people with X-Men mutants couldn’t have backfired more.
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Rosie Duffield: “You never change sex”
The Labour MP's views on gender self-ID have been met with fierce opposition. Can her party find a compromise?
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