Tag: transgender

A growing push for transgender inclusion in community sport, driven by what the author calls “sacrificial empathy,” is sidelining fairness and safety for girls, even as elite women’s sport increasingly reinstates sex-based protections under public scrutiny.

The latest domino in a long line of countries banning indiscriminate use of puberty blockers is New Zealand. The health minister says that there is a lack of high-quality evidence.

It is a decision that has been hailed as “an important win for freedom of speech in Australia” and “part of a global fight against government censorship,” but it is really more a lesson on why consistency matters, writes Monica Doumit.

For some time, I have been concerned about the haste with which medical centres in Australia have given puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children with gender dysphoria. Is this what they are doing in other countries?

The Australian Doctors Federation says that a wave of alarming reports about gender medicine is being ignored here.

In a decision that drives a stake through the heart of the gender ideology cult, Justice Andrew Strum has delivered a victory for children and for common sense. I haven’t enjoyed reading a judgement this much since Justice Weinberg’s methodical and meticulous dissent in the Pell case, writes Monica Doumit.

The Federal Government’s cervical cancer screening campaign has drawn criticism, but not as much as it deserves. Aimed at women and “everyone with a cervix” it obscures the fact that only women have a cervix.

Chief executive officer of Women’s Forum Australia Rachael Wong, backed by many Catholic doctors, legal and ethical experts and politicians, has intensified her call for a national pause on youth “gender-affirmation” treatments pending the outcome of an independent public inquiry.

In a move welcomed by the US bishops' point man on family life, President Donald Trump 28 January signed an executive order stating his administration would seek to prohibit certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identifies as transgender.

Premier Chris Minns has backed a contentious bill proposed by independent member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, that would see people able to have the sex on their birth certificate changed simply by signing a form.

At the age of 18, Daisy Strongin underwent a gender transition because she thought she wanted to become a man. 4 years later, she regrets it and faces the irreversible impacts of that choice.

A recent funeral at New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral for a self-professed atheist and transgender woman who lobbied for the legalisation of prostitution poses serious questions for the whole church.