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Game on

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The New York Times published an interview with Dr. Hilary Cass, under the headline “Hilary Cass Says U.S. Doctors Are ‘Out of Date’ on Youth Gender Medicine.”

The Archives of Sexual Behavior published a paper called “Intersex Pretenders,” noting: “False claims of having an intersex condition have been observed in print, video, Internet media, and in live presentations.” Of those studied:

“Almost all (34/37) were transgendered, living, or aspiring to live, in their non-natal sex or as socially intergender…Some such pretenders appear to be avoiding the external or internalized stigma of an actual transgendered condition. Some appear, similarly to persons with factitious disorder, to be seeking attention and/or the role of a sick, disadvantaged, or victimized person. Some showed evidence of paraphilia, most frequently autogynephilia, and, in several cases, paraphilic diaperism. For some cases, such claims had been accepted as authentic by journalists or social scientists and repeated as true in published material.”

Then there was the revelation of the email between Johns Hopkins evidence-based medicine experts and the HHS’s ARHQ, acknowledging the lack of evidence for medical treatments for youth gender dysphoria. Funny, because HHS employee Rachel Levine claimed that gender-affirming care is “medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth.”

And finally, as Alejandra Q writes, “English schoolteachers will now be barred from to teaching children that they can change their gender identity under new sex education rules. In what constitutes its first major overhaul in five years, the new statutory guidance released Thursday covers topics like relationships, sex education and health. According to the new guidance, ‘The contested theory of gender identity will not be taught and the guidance confirms copyright law should not be a barrier to sharing curriculum materials with parents - with the updated curriculum open for a nine week consultation from today.’ [Emphasis mine] While secondary school students will learn about legally 'protected' characteristics (sexual orientation and gender reassignment) the updated guidance clarifies that schools are not allowed to teach about gender Identity. The guidance also prohibits ‘explicit’ conversations about sex for students younger than 13.”

Game on. Of course, I’ve thought that before, but it really seems like there’s an actual pivot toward truth and complexity now. Well, except in media training programs, but more on that later.

And now, summaries and headlines from our indispensable Alejandra Q:

SUMMARIES

National

On Monday, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed Senate Bill 2753 (the Securing Areas for Females Effectively and Responsibly Act, “SAFER”) into law. The new law will restrict access to restrooms based on sex in public institutions, including schools.

The Alaska House adopted a measure that would prevent trans-identified male student athletes from accessing girls’ sports. This happened after a prolonged minority filibuster during the final week of the legislative session.

As reported previously, six sorority sisters sued Kappa Kappa Gamma over their admission of a trans-identified male, Artemis Langford, in their University of Wyoming chapter. Federal appellate court judges expressed doubts Tuesday about whether they could rule on the case or have it be heard by a lower court. A Wyoming judge threw out the lawsuit last year claiming that he could not override how an organization that is private and voluntary defined the term “woman”.

11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday upheld a lower court's May ruling that a Georgia county had discriminated against Anna Lange, a trans-identified sheriff's deputy, after refusing to pay for “gender-affirming” surgery.

A temporary block on Ohio’s bill banning pediatric gender affirmation (House Bill 68) that was set to expire on May 20 has been extended once more. A hearing on the motion for preliminary injunction and trial on the merits of the bill was originally scheduled for Thursday and Friday in a Franklin County Court. However, it is now scheduled for the week of July 15.

Eighteen states filed a lawsuit against the new guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) which will now interpret harassment claims based on gender identity. The new guidance means that employers who do not use an individual’s preferred pronouns or name or who limit their employees’ access to bathrooms based on sex could face workplace harassment claims. Among the states joining the lawsuit are Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri and Ohio. 

A New Hampshire bill that will restrict student access to the sports teams that align with their sex is now on the way to the governor's desk following Thursday’s approval by the state Senate. According to the bill, eligibility for sports teams for students in grades 5-12 will now be based on their birth certificates.

Justice Francis Ricigliano of Nassau County Supreme Court ruled Friday that County Executive Bruce Blakeman did not have the authority to bar trans-identified male athletes from women’s sports teams. Mr. Blakeman said to The New York Times that he plans to appeal the decision and “take all measures to protect the integrity of women’s sports.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU of Mississippi filed a complaint Wednesday with the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against the Harrison County School District (Mississippi). The complaint was filed on behalf of the mother of a trans-identified teenager (identified in legal documents as “A.H”) who was barred from attending a band concert while wearing a dress. According to the complaint, feminine clothing is “critically important to A.H.’s sense of self, gender expression, and identity as a girl.”  

Christina Barton, an elementary school counselor, was allegedly expelled from a Minnesota teachers’ union after blowing the whistle on the school district’s policies for trans-identified students. Rochester Education Association's board voted to terminate Barton’s membership for “mischaracterizing” the district’s transgender guidelines. The association also accused Barton of “creating a hostile work environment” and “distorting the students’ progress”. In the meantime, Rochester Public Schools is moving this week to formalize its guidelines for trans-identified students into district procedure. Some Rochester citizens expressed concerns during a school board meeting addressing whether staff should inform parents about their child’s gender identity. Barton spoke at the meeting: “How would a parent know how to request such information if they aren’t aware their child is struggling with gender dysphoria? How would a parent be able to care for and support their student if the school never reached out to them.”

A Christian teacher was fired in 2022 from California's Jurupa Unified School District for not using students’ preferred pronouns and for refusing to hide students’ gender identities from parents. Jessica Tapia has now received a $360,000 settlement from her former employer, almost a year after she initially filed a lawsuit in a California federal court.

Sasha Jane Lowerson, an Australian trans-identified male surfer, had originally been banned from participating in the Huntington Beach Longboard Pro. Competition. The California Coastal Commission told competition organizers that they must allow Lowerson to compete in the women's division claiming that to exclude Lowerson would be in violation of state law.  According to International Surfing Association (ISA) rules, trans-identified males are permitted to compete against women based on certain criteria surrounding testosterone levels.

International

Katherine Deves, a high-profile Australian lawyer, has stated that she is willing to represent any female athletes who “feel forced to play against male-born players’. This surrounds the controversy about the Flying Bats, an Australian amateur women soccer team with five trans-identified male teammates that went undefeated during the four-week tournament.

An undercover Mail on Sunday reporter posing as a teen girl was able to purchase “large quantities” of puberty blockers from websites in Turkey, Hong Kong and Russia. The reporter accessed these by following advice and links from popular websites like Facebook and Reddit. This happened despite the NHS ban on the prescription of puberty blockers for minors that came into effect this March. 

Kaimes School, an Edinburgh school serving severely autistic children, has been criticized for having overhauled its curriculum on how it teaches the topics of biological sex and gender to win “charter status” from the charity LGBT Youth Scotland (LGBTYS). Carolyn Brown, a former educational psychologist who helped draw up the Scottish autism strategy, spoke to The Telegraph on the issue, “This is the opposite of what a specialist school in autism should be doing. These youngsters will interpret things very literally and see the world in black and white. If you tell them they can be a member of the opposite sex, then they will really believe that. Showing them nonsense like the gingerbread person, which is highly regressive and misleading, is only going to make them very confused.”

Following the publication of the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD by the World Health Organization), the Peruvian government released a decree Friday that declares “transsexualism” to be a mental health problem to be covered by its universal health insurance. Peru’s Ministry of Health (MINSA) clarified that the judgement does not imply trans identified individuals should undergo “reconversion therapies.”

HEADLINES

National

May 12: American school district encounters investigation over transgender rules “The United States Department of Education has initiated a civil rights investigation into the Katy Independent School District (ISD) in southern Texas following allegations of discrimination stemming from its pronoun policy. The policy, which was enacted by the school board in August, requires parental notification if students identify as transgender or request the use of pronouns different from their biological sex.” (Mena FM)

May 14: Judge refuses to dismiss all claims by transgender child against state, Williamson County Schools—9-year-old claims rights violated by 2021 state  law “A challenge of Tennessee’s law dealing with the use of public school restrooms and locker rooms by transgender students remains alive after a federal judge declined to dismiss all claims against the state education department and Williamson County Schools. U.S. District Court Judge William Campbell denied the state’s request in to dismiss the child’s claim of a violation of rights under the Equal Protection Clause.” (Tennessee Lookout)

May 15: Conestoga Valley again drops talks of changing policy concerning transgender student-athletes “Conestoga Valley School District’s board has again dropped discussion of changing its athletic policy to prohibit transgender student-athletes from competing on teams that correspond with their gender identity.” (Lancaster Online)

May 14: Employer health plan's exclusion for gender-affirming care violates Title VII, 11th Circuit rules—The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Atlanta ruled for Georgia transgender sheriff’s deputy Anna Lange in a May 13 decision, report Law360 and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (ABA Journal) 

May 14: Gender Identity Protections: Transgender Harassment, Reverse Discrimination Cases Allowed by Courts (National Law Reviews)

May 15: Fort Worth women’s club admitted a transgender woman, resignations followed—The controversy comes as transgender rights and identity are debated in Texas and across the U.S. (The Dallas Morning News)

May 16: Reyna Hernandez, Latina trans woman, salon owner, and “vibrant spirit,” killed in Washington State (HRC)

May 16: Catholic groups pummel HHS secretary after heated exchange with GOP rep on transgender surgeries—CatholicVote president blasts Biden admin's 'overt hostility toward institutions of faith' (Fox News)

May 16: Houston man pleads guilty to murder of transgender woman, receives life sentence (Fox 26 Houston)

May 16: Florida Asks Court to Halt HHS Transgender Health Rule (1) (Bloomberg Law)

May 16: California Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur’s Bill to Increase Access to Gender-Affirming Care Moves to Senate—Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur's bill to expedite medical licensure for gender-affirming care advances out of the Assembly and moves to the Senate with bipartisan support (Sierra Sun Times)

May 15: OKLAHOMA STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION CONSIDERING RULE CHANGE ON TRANSGENDER WRESTLERS “The Oklahoma State Athletic Commission is reportedly contemplating a change to its rules regarding transgender wrestlers, according to documents obtained by Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics through a public records request.” (Ring Side News)

May 15: Maui transgender pageant queen shuts down hateful comments, strives to empower others(Island News)

May 16: ‘Hopeless’: Idaho trans teens seeking to transition cope without gender-affirming care “Inside a Boise clinic in April, Dr. Marvin Alviso was meeting with a transgender patient who had been on puberty blockers for a year. The Boise teen was ready and “giddy” to start taking testosterone, Alviso said, as part of the next step in his transition. It’s also a step in the slate of practices recommended in gender-affirming medicine.” (Idaho Statesman)

May 16: This is why SC state lawmakers like me voted to ban transgender health care for children (The State)

May 16: THESE 3 NON-PROFITS PROVIDE GENDER-AFFIRMING MENTAL HEALTH CARE TO THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY & BEYOND (Her Campus) 

May 15: California’s Transgender Respect Law Survives Inmates’ Challenge “Cisgender female inmates in California saw their request for an injunction against implementation of the state’s Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which requires placement of transgender women in prisons consistent with their gender identity, dismissed by a federal court.” (Bloomberg Law)

May 15: Map Shows States Suing Biden Admin Over Trans Worker Laws (Newsweek)

May 14: How We Analyzed the Impact of State Bans on Gender-Affirming Care— These drugs are only a part of gender-affirming care, but they hint at bigger changes over time “To get a better understanding of how gender-affirming care for youths is being impacted by state bans, MedPage Today analyzed prescription data from Symphony Health, which captures 85% of retail pharmacy prescriptions and three-quarters of specialty and mail-order prescriptions in the U.S. We chose to focus on puberty-blocking drugs as an imperfect proxy for access to gender-affirming care. While this care encompasses much more than these drugs -- including consultations with a clinician, counseling, discussions with family, lab tests, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), among other services -- they would be the most useful indicator given the limitations of the dataset.” (MedPage)

May 11: A Kansas Republican voted for a gender-affirming care ban. But then she flipped  “When Kansas state Rep. Susan Concannon learned that the state’s proposed gender-affirming care ban would gut mental health services for kids across the state, she knew she would have to break from her party. Concannon, a Republican who has represented Beloit and the surrounding counties in the Legislature for 11 years, would have to change her vote and oppose the ban.” (Raw Story)

May 15: Transgender 18-year-old Jazlynn Johnson shot to death in Las Vegas (The Advocate)

May 14: Dads of Transgender Teens Urge Lawmakers To Vote Down Discriminatory Bills “A father from West Ossipee and another from Windham who have experienced life as parents of transgender teens spoke about the harm that could come if bills are passed related to restricting them from sports teams and certain medical care this week in the Senate.” (In Depth NH)

May 14: 4 GOP-led states sue administration over Title IX rules for transgender students “In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal district court in Topeka, Kan., attorneys general in Kansas, Utah, Wyoming and Alaska accused the Education Department and the Department of Justice of attempting to “politicize our country’s education system” by extending the law’s protections to transgender students.” (The Hill)

May 14: California parents blast school for giving fifth graders transgender book 'My Shadow is Pink' then forcing them to explain it to kindergartners (Th Daily Mail)

May 15: Transgender Ohio Statehouse candidates line up behind bill allowing people to run under legal name (Ohio Capital Journal)

May 15: Transgender athletes to face fewer barriers to compete under new policy—Under a policy expected to be approved Wednesday by the Maine Principals' Association, schools will allow transgender athletes to compete on teams either according to their birth-assigned gender or gender identity. “The policy, which abides by the Maine Human Rights Act, allows transgender athletes to compete on teams either according to their birth-assigned gender or gender identity, but not both at the same time. It leaves it to the schools to handle their request to compete on boys or girls teams.” (Centralmaine.com)

May 15: New Title IX regulations intensify fight over transgender youth restrictions in schools—LGBTQ students and their schools at the center of political debate. (ABC News)

May 15: Pressure Builds for Supreme Court to Address Transgender Cases—Advocates say high court will have to step in, but it is a matter of ‘which case and when’ (Wall Street Journal)

May 10: Trump Promises Rollback On Trans Rights: Here's What He's Said (Forbes)

May 13: Emotional moment mom of trans NCAA college swimmer breaks down in tears describing how she grew to accept her child's new identity (The Daily Mail)

May 12: Republicans in West Virginia governor’s race run to the right on transgender issues (The Hill)

May 12: A college athletics association banned transgender women from women’s sports. Now all eyes are on the NCAA (CNN)

May 10: Riley Gaines lashes out at 'cowardly' college administrator who draped himself in trans flag after she took to podium to give commencement speech - and removed it before she turned around (The Daily Mail)

May 12: Houston murder: Transgender woman runs man over, stabs him multiple times...killing him (Fox 26 Houston)

May 10: A Constitutional Right to Gender Surgery?—An appeals court uses the Bostock ruling to usurp state law, in a new version of Roe v. Wade. (Wall Street Journal)

May 13: WCCO In-Depth Part 1: Transgender Minnesotans in rural areas face healthcare challenges (Audacy)

May 14: Transgender bathroom policy discussed by community at Wappingers School District board meeting (Princeton Daily Clarion) 

May 13: NCAA POLICY ON TRANSGENDER PARTICIPATION ‘UNDER REVIEW’ AGAIN (Swim Swam)

May 15: Transgender Golfer Hailey Davidson Fails To Qualify For US Women's Open - But Could Still Get In As First Alternate—Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson narrowly missed out on qualifying for the US Women's Open, but could still get in as first alternate (Golf Monthly)

May 13: Bucks County school district approves separate bathrooms for transgender, non-binary students—On Monday night, the Pennridge School District, by a vote of 5-to-4, voted to provide separate bathroom facilities to enable students to use facilities for the gender they identify with (NBC Philadelphia)

International

Australia/New Zealand

May 12: Maxien Stevens, transgender inmate who claimed she was punished for prisoner relationships, loses appeal (The New Zealand Herald) 

May 13: Catholic archbishop's denouncement of 'transgender lobby', legal abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, heavily criticised (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 

POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT: NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPACES OR SPORTS (New Zealand First) 

Canada

May 11: Gender-affirming care: discomfort and lack of knowledge among healthcare professionals “People who begin their gender transition and who take the medical and surgical route often encounter the discomfort and lack of training of health care workers… when they are able to access it. The conference Gender-affirming care for French-speaking transgender people in Canada focuses in particular on this issue.” (Actual News Magazine)

UK

May 13: Thumb-sucking paedophile, 63, who claims to identify as little girl and once appeared in court dressed as an elf is jailed after police found secret phones (The Daily Mail)

May 11–I’ve seen first-hand that we’re too quick to help young people change gender—A Scottish clinician warns that girls robbed of their own childhoods are directed unquestioningly towards cross-hormone treatment that may make them infertile (The London Times)

May 13: Swinney’s definition of a woman ‘just silly’, say campaigners against transgender reform—New First Minister accused of indulging in word games worthy of Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll (The Telegraph)

May 12: JK Rowling calls trans football manager ‘straight, white, middle-aged bloke’—Harry Potter author denies bullying Lucy Clark, as people on social media accuse her of being cruel (The Telegraph)

May 12: Former darts world No 1 and sports psychology expert reveals why it's scientifically UNFAIR for transgender darts players to compete in female events... following Deta Hedman's Denmark Open withdrawal (The Daily Mail) 

Other International

May 10: The German Medical Assembly Passes a Resolution to Restrict Youth Gender Transitions to Controlled Research Settings—The future of youth gender transitions in Germany is now in question, as the resolution clashes with the trans-affirmative draft guidelines released in March 2024 (SEGM)

May 14: Peruvian government's controversial classification of transgender individuals sparks debate, rejections

The government said the decision allows the state to provide free psychological treatment “The Peruvian government officially declared trans people as mentally ill, causing controversy at a national and international level. The government justified its decision saying it allows the state to provide free psychological treatment, but advocates were quick to criticize it.” (Latin Times)

May 15: Mexico: court rules Church need not revise baptismal certificates for transgender people (The Catholic Thing) 

May 12: In progressive Argentina, the LGBTQ+ community says president has turned back the clock—Some 105 transgender people have lost their civil service jobs in the last three months. “When Luana Salva got her first formal job after years of prostitution, she was ecstatic. A quota law in Argentina that promoted the inclusion of transgender people in the work force — unprecedented in Latin America except in neighboring Uruguay — pulled her from the capital’s street corners into the Foreign Ministry last year. Yet just months after Salva got her first paycheck, right-wing President Javier Milei entered office and began slashing public spending as part of his state overhaul to solve Argentina’s worst economic crisis in two decades. Abruptly fired in a wave of government layoffs, Salva said her world began to unravel.” (Politico)

May 13: World reacts as transgender woman makes sports history “Earlier this year, Lucy Clark made history when she became the new manager of Sutton United Women FC in the fifth-tier London & South East Regional Women’s Premier Division. And it’s clear that it’s an accomplishment she’s wanted for quite a long time, especially as a lifelong supporter of Sutton United.” (Next Impulse Sports)

May 11: France’s answer to JK Rowling warns of lessons in UK trans failures—Pair backed by JK Rowling have faced death threats over ideology-busting book (The Telegraph)

May 15: Transgender darts star Noa-Lynn van Leuven speaks out after opponent refused to play—Noa-Lynn van Leuven has issued a fiery response to her critics. (Express)

Opinion

May 13: Hilary Cass Says U.S. Doctors Are ‘Out of Date’ on Youth Gender Medicine—Dr. Hilary Cass published a landmark report that led to restrictions on youth gender care in Britain. U.S. health groups said it did not change their support of the care. (The New York Times)

May 15: ROOKE: Men In Dresses Aren’t The Only Delusional Victims Of Left-Wing Brainwashing “The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) apparently blocked Johns Hopkins University researchers from publishing their findings regarding a study concerning child sex changes because they didn’t like what they discovered, newly unearthed emails reveal. WPATH paid for Johns Hopkins researchers to study the possible effects of so-called “gender-affirming care” on children, according to the emails. “Gender–affirming care” is a euphemism proponents use to describe the use of irreversible hormone suppression and treatments that can lead to chemical castration, as well as surgeries like mastectomy, phalloplasty and vaginoplasty. (Daily Caller)

May 14: Trans health group fought study analyzing 'gender affirming care' for children, docs show “A transgender health group tried to prevent researchers from publishing a study showing little evidence supporting gender transition procedures for children, according to documents acquired by Do No Harm (DNH).” (Local 12)

May 9: A 1920s doctor with a phony insanity cure was hailed as a hero. It’s a cautionary tale for today.—A combination of self-delusion and self-righteousness is a sure-fire way for experts to lose our trust. (The Boston Globe)

May 13: Welcome to the warped world of 'gender-affirming care'—A journalist with a conservative news outlet attributes the lack of media coverage about individuals who regret having gone through "gender transition" to a simple factor: the establishment media isn't interested in giving a voice to de-transitioners. (American Family News)

May 10: The UK’s New Study on Gender Affirming Care Misses the Mark in So Many Ways—It’s like the DeSantis administration wrote it (Mother Jones)

May 14: Foster Children: the New Pawn in the Gender Wars—A foster-care regulation from the Biden administration conditions federal funds on support for a child’s transgender identity. (City Journal) 

May 14: UK author of transgender study: U.S. groups are ‘misleading the public’ (Catholic News Agency)

May 14: As Europe pumps breaks on transgender care for minors, US pushes full steam ahead“ Scotland is the latest to join England, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark to drastically limit the prescriptions of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone drugs for minors. The restrictions stem from concerns over the effectiveness, safety and long-term impacts of these often irreversible treatments. These concerns were outlined in a report led by Dr. Hilary Cass for NHS England.” (NBC News 24)

May 15: WCCO In-Depth Part 3: Elderly transgender people face many obstacles to healthcare (Audacy) 

May 13: VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Stand together for transgender youth “The article called into question the validity of providing gender affirming care to youth in Nova Scotia, with particular reference to the much-derided Cass Report from the U.K. It seemed to imply that the report would have some effect on access to gender affirming care for youth here. This is simply not the case.” (Salt Wire)

May 12: For Mother's Day, I Want Lawmakers to Stop Blocking Care for Trans Kids | Opinion (Newsweek)

May 11: Is transgender inclusion more important than women’s sports? (Shreveport Times)

May 12: After my husband transitioned into my wife, I struggled to think of her as another mother to our kids (Business Insider)

May 13: Sascha Bailey: I nearly became a woman—After childhood abuse and a volatile marriage, the photographer David Bailey’s son was on the path to gender transition. He tells Mark Smith why he’s made a U-turn (The London Times)May 16: NZ First’s bathroom bill: A cynical attack on transgender rights (New Zealand Listener)

May 16: Young transgender person attempts own mastectomy “A young transgender person’s attempt to perform their own mastectomy highlights a healthcare system where gender diverse people’s needs are being chronically unmet, experts say. An 18-year-old transgender person arrived at the emergency department several hours after attempting a mastectomy, with concerns he had damaged a nerve, according to a case report published by the New Zealand Medical Journal on Friday.” (The Post New Zealand)

May 16: Education Secretary pressed on transgender views “Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has been pressed on whether she has changed her position on the status of transgender people since 2020, when she stated ‘trans women are women’. Speaking to BBC Radio 4, she said there was a difference between trans people who had undergone gender reassignment surgery and those who had not. She said that in 2020, she ‘had in her head at the time’ someone who had fully physically transitioned. ‘Someone that was a man, that has transitioned, that has fully transitioned, is known as a woman’, she added.” (BBC)

May 16: Gillian Keegan changes transgender stance and agrees men can sometimes become women—Education Secretary says issue depends on whether someone self-identities or has a gender reassignment certificate (The Telegraph)

May 16: Transgender Russian Politician Claims To Have De-Transitioned Back To A Man—Roman Alyoshin, who previously went by the name Yulia Alyoshina and last year ran for governor of a Siberian region, said he had come to the decision during Orthodox Lent after a period of "spiritual anguish". (NDTV World)

May 16: Parents blast FA transgender policy that allows boys to play ‘girls-only’ football tournaments—FA rules also do not specifically prohibit boys who identify as girls from using communal female changing and showers (The Telegraph) 

May 11: Teachers trained to tell children about hormone blockers—LGBTQ+ charity also talks about surgical procedures and has received £100k in government grants (The Telegraph)

May 13: GenderGP clinic has betrayed us with Al rip-off, say trans patients—Users of the controversial and unregulated Gender GP feel they are being treated as (The London Times)

May 10: GenderGP founders ‘chased by bailiffs’ after moving abroad—Helen and Michael Webberley left south Wales for Spain to run the online clinic, whose advisers have little obvious medical expertise (The London Times)

May 11: CPS scraps guidelines warning parents they could be prosecuted for not agreeing to trans kids' demands “The Crown Prosecution Service has axed guidelines warning parents they could be taken to court for refusing to agree to specific demands from a transgender child. Previous guidance indicated that a parent could face domestic abuse charges for 'withholding money for transitioning' from their offspring or 'refusing to use their preferred name or pronoun'. But the revised section on 'Transgender and non-binary identifying victims' has dropped the reference to withholding money.” (The Daily Mail)

May 16: Scots nurseries adopt guidelines claiming kids can 'come out' as transgender at any age—Glasgow City Council admitted that it signposted nurseries and pre-schools to Scottish Government guidance about gender, despite this being written up by controversial groups Stonewall and LGBT Youth Scotland. (Scottish Daily Express)

May 11: Teachers trained to tell children about hormone blockers—LGBTQ+ charity also talks about surgical procedures and has received £100k in government grants (The Telegraph)