Simon Elmer The week after I published my article, ‘Trans Rights and the Order of Speech’ in Off-Guardian, The New Statesman published two articles by, respectively, the biologist, Richard Dawkins, ‘Why biological sex matters’ and the feminist, Jacqueline Rose, ‘The gender binary is false’. I don’t know Rose personally, but her 1986 book, Sexuality in the Field of Vision, had a considerable influence on …
NHS England has unveiled new plans on transgender treatment for children, including limiting the use of puberty blockers and setting a minimum age of seven for referral to gender identity clinics.
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Simon Elmer ‘There is a new word in Newspeak’, said Syme, ‘I don’t know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse; applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.’ George Orwell, Nineteen …
The growth in people adopting LGBT identities and behaviours in recent years has been extraordinary. Most attribute it to cultural changes. But could there be something in the water as well?
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Rishi Sunak is expected to delay issuing transgender guidance for schools after the Attorney-General and Government lawyers warned that plans to rule out gender transition would be unlawful.
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Transgender cyclists have been banned from international women’s competition, prompting the trans rider Emily Bridges to threaten legal action and furiously accuse the governing body of discrimination.
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In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the Huw Edwards BBC sex scandal, Miss Netherlands being a bloke and are Harry and Meghan getting a divorce?
Following news that the new Miss Netherlands is a biological male named Rikkie Valerie Kollé, Maureen Callahan says we can "add beauty pageants to the list of women's spaces that are no longer, well, women's spaces".
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Given the sad news that Nancy Kelley is leaving Stonewall at the end of this month, as a send-off James Esses has compiled her greatest achievements during the past three years.
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Calling God “our Father” is “problematic” for people who have suffered under "oppressive patriarchy”, the Archbishop of York has said. Why is God the only one these days not allowed his preferred pronouns?
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