BROADview in Brief

What the heck was that?

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How’s everybody this morning, after watching that hilarious SNL episode with the two elderly toddlers pretending to be debating presidential candidates?

Oops. Reality is wild these days.

This week we saw new depths of scandal with youth gender medicine. Sometimes it’s hard to talk about what we’ve learned because it comes out sounding like conspiracy theory. Sometimes conspiracy theories are true.

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Summaries

• The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide if a Tennessee law banning pediatric gender transition violates the constitution after the Biden administration asked the SCOTUS to take up United States v. Skrmetti. This is first time SCOTUS will hear arguments on childhood gender transition after previously avoiding involvement on the issue. The case is likely to have broad ramifications for the 25 states that have enacted bans on pediatric “gender affirming” medical interventions.

• The New York Post interviewed Vanessa Sivadge, the Texas Children’s Hospital nurse who came forward with allegations about the hospital’s “gender affirmation” practices for minors. In the interview she alleges that TCH doctors manipulated parents to give their kids hormone therapy by suggesting that “if they didn’t do this, their child would commit suicide or they would harm themselves.” Sivadge further claims that hospital doctors would “miscategorize treatments” to have Medicaid cover hormonal interventions. Additionally, Sivadge claims that the hospital “dismissed” preexisting mental health diagnoses in minor patients being treated for gender issues. Last week, Sivadge shared allegations that two FBI agents visited her home to intimidate her for speaking to the media about the gender transitions at TCH. Meanwhile, Dr. Richard Ogden Roberts III, a pediatric endocrinologist at TCH is being investigated by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over claims that he committed Medicaid fraud “illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures”. Dr Ogden was also one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit aiming to prevent the state’s ban on childhood gender transition in tangent with transgender activist organizations.

• The Ohio Hause passed Bill 183 Wednesday which would bar trans-identified students from using bathrooms and locker rooms based on “gender identity” in K-12 schools and colleges. The bill was added to Senate Bill 104 as an amendment on the House floor.  Meanwhile, the Ohio Equal Rights amendment campaign, currently in its early organizing stages, looks to challenge the bill by adopting an “anti-discrimination amendment to the Ohio Constitution”. The campaign models its ballot issue after one approved in Nevada in 2022. 

• A proposed ballot initiative to ban pediatric gender transition in Colorado will not appear on the November ballot, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday.

• An analysis of federal data published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine concluded that rates of self-reported mental distress and depression more than doubled (from 18.8% in 2014 to 38.9% in 2022) among Americans who identify as transgender or gender-diverse (TGD). The researchers who performed the analysis noted that during the years 2014 and 2022 “a record number of enacted laws has threatened the rights and protections of TGD people, including restricting access to gender-affirming care and permitting discrimination in public accommodations."

• The Nassau County Assembly adopted a bill Monday that reintroduces a ban of trans-identified male athletes from women’s sports in county-owned athletic facilities. An earlier similar ban was thrown out after a May court ruling. The New York Civil Liberties Union called the bill "hateful and blatantly illegal" and vowed to challenge the measure once more.

• Jenna Longoria, a Texas mom with a large media following, claims to have been booted from a United Airlines flight (along with her mother and infant son) for accidentally misgendering a flight attendant. United Airlines contested Longoria’s account by releasing the following statement: “A party of three traveling out of San Francisco today was not allowed to board following a discussion about having too many carry-on items.” Gabriella Chidom, the United operations manager who informed Longoria that she would be unable to board the flight over “what came out of [Longoria’s] mouth’ is “experienced in developing and implementing DEI programs,” according to her LinkedIn account.

• Lou Holtz, professional football legend and the former football head coach at the University of Notre Dame, expressed his opinion regarding the inclusion of trans-identified males in female sports this past weekend. Holtz wrote on the platform X: “I was happy when Title IX came out. But here we are, many years later, and now we can’t even ensure women competing against women. It’s crazy!”

• CeCé Telfer, the trans identified male who in 2019 won the NCAA women’s track and field championship, vowed to return to indoor competitions. In an interview with Them, Telfer said the following:  "I look forward to indoor track, because 2024 indoors is going to be epic. My dreams were taken away from me once again. So I plan on going back to New England, hitting up all the indoor competitions, and taking all the names, all the records, and everything.” Last year, the international governing body for track and field, World Athletics, ruled against the participation of athletes who had undergone male puberty in elite women’s international championships, crushing Telfer’s Olympic aspirations. Riley Gaines reacted to Telfer’s statement by complaining about the track and field athlete’s “narcissism” and “entitlement.”

• The “Take Back Title IX” tour bus was vandalized on Friday during a stop in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, according to the Independent Women’s Forum. The “Take Back Title IX Summer Bus Tour” features female athletes who are part of the “Our Bodies, Our Sports” coalition.

International

• Jason Carruthers, the owner of an Ontario waxing spa, was given 30 days to pay the $35K a court awarded to a trans-identified male his business was unable to accommodate for genital waxing. The ruling follows a six-year-long battle. The plaintiff, identified as AB in court documents, filed the complaint at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario after speaking Carruthers on phone in 2018. Carruthers claims that the only female employee working that day is Muslim and avoids physical contact with males outside of her family. AB claims, however, to have been “misgendered” by Carruthers. Carruthers, who was interviewed by Rebel News on the matter, also applied for judicial review to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice looking to reverse the decision of the tribunal vice-chair.

• Many of the headlines coming from the UK center around JK Rowling and an article she wrote for The London Times discussing Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and his party’s stance on women’s rights. In the article, Rowling addresses a June 20 debate where Starmer stated that, “On the biology, I agree with what Tony Blair said the other day, in relation to men having penises and women having vaginas.” This is in contrasts with 2021, when Starmer took umbrage at gender critical Labour MP Rosie Duffield’s statement that only women have a cervix. Rowling expressed frustration about the party’s blasé attitude toward the violent vitriol that Rosie Duffield has endured over the years. “Like me,” Rowling writes referring to Duffield, “she believes the stakes are too high to walk away. For left-leaning women like us, this isn’t, and never has been, about trans people enjoying the rights of every other citizen and being free to present and identify however they wish. This is about the right of women and girls to assert their boundaries. It’s about freedom of speech and observable truth. It’s about waiting, with dwindling hope, for the left to wake up to the fact that its lazy embrace of a quasi-religious ideology is having calamitous consequences.” Starmer reacted to the article by claiming that he is proud of his party’s track record on women’s rights. Starmer said, “I do respect [Rowling], but I would point out the long record that Labour has in government of passing really important legislation which has advanced the rights of women and made a material difference.” As a response to Rowling’s article, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves invited Rowling to meet with the Labour party to provide her with “assurances” that they will not be changing “anything about biological sex.” Rowling has agreed to the meeting under the condition that Labour also meet with the groups Keep Prisons Single Sex, Lesbian Labour, Women’s Rights Network, Woman’s Place UK and LGB Alliance.  Unsurprisingly, Rowlings article also caused an outburst of support from women who consider themselves gender critical. Stephanie Davies-Arai of Transgender Trend, for example, wrote the following about Rowling’s article: “There are a lot of women who will spoil the ballot or vote for their local candidate who does know what a woman is. I hope that they [Labour] will take notice of the huge, mass support that JK Rowling has from ordinary women and see that they have been misguided on not taking really legitimate concerns of women seriously.” In spite of the party’s reply to Rowling’s article, Julie Bindel continues to believe that Starmer and the Labour Party have “chosen to bend the knee to trans activists”.

• The Telegraph writes about the future of current Tory school guidelines that ban children from being taught that there are more than two genders. Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson failed to clarify if the Labour Party would continue with the ban on teaching “gender identity” in schools. During an interview with BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Phillipson said that “any guidance needed to acknowledge that trans people exist”. However, when asked about the issue during a Monday interview, Starmer claimed that he was not in favor of the “ideology being taught in our schools on gender.” Starmer elaborated, “I think we need to complete the consultation process and make sure that there is guidance that is age appropriate.”

• Several media outlets also reported on the difference between the Labour and Tory positions on women’s rights and transgender issues, including The Week and The Independent. Meanwhile, the Chamber UK website outlines the Labour Party’s proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act. The website includes an interview with Katy Jon Went, founder of GenderAgenda, who highlights the “toxic environment surrounding transgender rights debates, exacerbated by polarising campaigns from both transgender advocacy groups and gender-critical factions.” The UK’s General Election will be held next week.

• Scottish actor David Tennant spoke about Kemi Badenoch during the British LGBT Awards where he openly fantasized that she “didn’t exist anymore” and told a cheering audience, “I don't wish ill of her, I just wish her to shut up.” Badenoch, the UK’s Women and Equalities Minister, reacted to Tennent’s statement on social media: “I will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from Stonewall over the safety of women and girls. A rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can't see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end.” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated regarding the exchange between Tennent and Badenoch that freedom of speech was the "most powerful feature of our democracy. If you’re calling for women to shut up and wishing they didn’t exist, you are the problem."

• Former Tavistock psychologist Dr Heather Wood launched Dignity Gender Assessment Services, a clinic for children in the English city of Leeds (home to the now defunct Gender Identity Service regional outpost). The private clinic charges £1,500 to assess minors under 18 for gender dysphoria. Dr Wood allegedly once agreed to prescribe puberty blockers to a young girl based on the latter’s love of Thomas the Train.

• Sir Gregor Smith, Scotland’s the chief medical officer, set up a group that will review the findings of the Cass report and will publish an update this month. In 2022, Jennifer Armstrong and Tracey Gillies, medical directors for Glasgow and Lothian hospital, raised safety concerns and asked for an independent review of the evidence around puberty blockers. This March, both Armstrong and Gillies wrote to Smith asking him to align Scotland’s YPGS (young person’s gender service) with the English guidelines. According to correspondence, Smith replied by emphasizing the different clinical approaches across countries and concluding that a decision on the matter should consider all potential implications.

• A Swindon Crown court found Lexi Secker, a trans-identified male, guilty of a rape committed in April 2021. A statement from Wiltshire Police reads: “A person from Melksham has been found guilty of rape following a trial at Swindon Crown Court.” The court tried Secker as a woman.

• BBC News channel’s The Context was accused a providing a “misleading impression” concerning the nutritional value of milk from trans-identified males. The BBC Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) found that the show had broken its rules on accuracy in addition to failing to “give due weight to an appropriate range of views” during a February broadcast. The show was also found to have given an inaccurate impression that the World Health Organization supported their claims. Milli Hill covers the topic in detail in her Substack, The Mule.

Headlines

National

Jun 24: Democrats to push back more strongly on anti-trans rhetoric (USA Today)

Jun 21: Father Says His Teenage Daughter 'Began Mentioning a Trans Lifestyle and Adopted a Male Name' While Being Treated at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital (The Tennessee Star)

Jun 24: Sarah McBride is poised to be the first transgender member of Congress. Here's how she feels about it (The Advocate)

Jun 24: Barnegat joins the growing wave of school districts rescinding transgender student policies “ The Barnegat Board of Education this month eliminated a policy regarding transgender and gender-nonconforming students, following a growing movement among New Jersey school boards to take a closer look at their policies toward LGBTQ+ youth.” (The Bharat Express)

Jun 25: Drag Performers to Lobby for ‘Transgender Bill of Rights’ on Capitol Hill (National Review)

Jun 23: Legislative leaders forced to testify in transgender lawsuit “The state’s top two Republican lawmakers have been ordered to answer questions, under oath, about why they voted to ban transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports. And they’re also going to have to turn over emails, including one with “talking points” about the law. In a new ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer Zipps, a nominee of President Obama, acknowledged that lawmakers are generally shielded from having to provide evidence in challenges to state laws.” (Arizona Capitol Times)

Jun 25: Support group for families, allies of transgender individuals to launch soon—The first meeting will take place July 21 at the Warwick Valley Community Center. (The Warwick Advertisers) 

Jun 25: West Midlands Police sergeant sacked for transgender comments—Sgt Andrew Grant was dismissed after making 'totally inappropriate' remarks about a transgender officer (Birmingham Live)

Jun 25: AG Marshall backs Tennessee after SCOTUS agrees to hear case over transgender surgeries, hormones for minors ban (1819 News)

Jan 26: US cops shoot and kill person who charged at them with knife in Denver “It is reported that the suspect was a 52-year-old transgender who identified as a woman. It is believed that the accused was a homeless person. The police are reportedly trying to find the suspect’s family members to notify them about the death.” (News9live)

Jun 25: Utah, federal government headed for confrontation over transgender changes to Title IX | News “The state government here is headed for a showdown with the Biden administration over transgender rights and Utah Democrats aren’t happy about it. During its special session on June 19, Republican lawmakers evoked the Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act to block attempts by the federal government to broaden the provisions of Title IX to include gender identity and sexual orientation.” (KVNU)

Jun 23: Prisoner allegedly sexually assaulted transgender inmate at Rikers Island (PIX11)

Jun 23: Gabbi Tuft, First Openly Trans Former W.W.E. Star, Returns to Wrestling—Ms. Tuft, who retired from the W.W.E. more than a decade ago and came out as transgender in 2021, will return to the ring on Tuesday, she said on social media. (The New York Times)

Jun 26: Federal judge starts hearing on allegations in gender-affirming care case—Eleven lawyers face accusation of seeking a judge who would be sympathetic to their case. (Alabama Reflector)

Jun 26: St. Louis chef closes Bulrush, citing Missouri 'hate politics' against LGBTQ community“Bulrush, the lauded St. Louis restaurant that gained national recognition for its food inspired by traditional Ozark cuisine, has served its last meal. Owner and chef Rob Connoley, a Missouri native, said Tuesday he did not want to continue bringing attention to the state because of its policies affecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.” (STLPR)

Jun 23: B.C. transgender teacher files human rights complaint after online hate, doxxing (Global News)

Jun 23: Lack of trans-specific resources in OC make stable housing ‘impossible to achieve,’ new report finds (Orange County Register)

Jun 23: Michigan group offers counseling to trans clients in states where they otherwise might go without  “Gender-affirming care. It’s a phrase that evokes a myriad of opinions, many of them focused on hormone treatment and surgery for trans individuals. And yet, long before either of those options becomes a possibility, therapy is almost always a requirement, especially when adolescents are involved. But where and how trans-identifying youth obtain that therapy can be a major barrier to receiving the proper care.” (Louisiana Illuminator)

Jun 25: Indictment: Transgender care 'whistleblower" never filed complaint against Texas hospital (Austin American Statesman)

Jun 27: High School Track Coach Speaks Out After Transgender Runner Dominates Girl's State Championship “Dean Vergillo, the coach of Cedarcrest High School, recently spoke to the Independent Women's Forum about his team competing, and ultimately falling short, in the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) state track and field meet in May. One member of his team had to compete against Garcia in the 400-meter sprint, a race Garcia won by a full second.” (OutKick)

Jun 26: Transgender inmate assaulted by cellmate in Tucson prison wins civil rights suit (Arizona Daily Star)

Jun 26: Jazz Jennings Responds to Body Shamers Who Claim She 'Doesn't Love Her Body' As a Transgender Activist “Sometimes, loving yourself and your body means honoring your desire to make a change,” the 23-year-old said “Jazz Jennings is setting the record straight after her recent posts about body positivity have received some backlash online.” (People)

Jun 27: Hearing over Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming care focuses on withheld documents

Attorneys representing transgender youth and the attorney general’s office both claim evidence is being illegally concealed (Missouri Independent)

Jun 27: UHS offers gender-affirming treatment through SHIP, eTang portal (The Daily Californian)

Jun 26: University of Nebraska Board of Regents files motion to be removed from gender-affirming care lawsuit (KETV 7)

Jun 27: Former high school track and field coach John Parks talks firing amid push for transgender athlete law change “John Parks, a track and field coach in Oregon, said the school district overseeing Lake Oswego High School fired him earlier this month after he sent a letter to state officials concerning laws related to transgender athletes.” (Fox Wilmington)

Jun 24: This Tri-Cities school board plans to weigh in on the transgender athlete debate (Tri Herald)

Jun 20: Shocking outburst of Utah transgender 'killer' after she was arrested for murdering her family, as police reveal disturbing new details about the bloodbath (The Daily Mail)

Jun 27: Barnegat Schools Abolish Transgender Policy “The local school board voted 5-3 to abolish its transgender student policy on June 11. The decision aligns with a trend seen in about 20 other New Jersey districts that have also repealed similar policies recently.” (Jersey Shore Online)

Jun 24: Objections From Parental Rights Group Derails Vote on School District’s Trans Policy (The Daily Signal)

Jun 27: Ted Cruz demands info on DOJ’s ‘politically-driven prosecution’ of transgender care whistleblower (The Washington Times) 

Jun 27: Cease-and-desist orders Rocklin Unified School District to cancel transgender notification policy—Those against the policy refer to its guidelines as a ‘forced outing’ policy (KCRA)

Jun 27: LETTER: Vernon's transgender bathrooms—Honesty and openness is so helpful for us all to understand better what drives a transgender person to acknowledge their true identity (Vernon Morning Star)

Jun 27: Gender-affirming surgeries are mostly performed on cisgender people: 'Bitter irony' “Out of the 151 breast reductions that were performed in 2019 on American minors, 146 (97 percent) were performed on cisgender males, according to a new study published in JAMA. Out of the 636 breast reductions performed on adults, 507 (80 percent) were performed on cisgender males.” (The Advocate)

Jun 27: Tennis Legend Chris Evert Takes Side In Transgender Athletes Debate “Tennis legend Chris Evert, one of the best players in the game's history and a longtime analyst for ESPN, has taken a clear side in the transgender athletes debate. Evert agreed with her longtime rival, Martina Navratilova, on the "unfairness" of transgender athletes competing in women's sports.” (The Spun)

International

Australia/New Zealand

Jun 27: Chloe Cole warns Australian government about its gender-affirming care (Sky News Australia)

Jun 21: Winston Peters’ demand Sport NZ re-writes transgender policy disappears in ‘no comment’ vortex (New Zealand Herald)

Jun 21: “Devastated” Victorian parents left in the dark as schools allow their kids to socially transition—Furious parents say “activist” teachers are socially transitioning their kids at school without their knowledge, accusing the education department of a “complete betrayal of trust”. (The Herald Sun)

Jun 20: What Butler knows—Australia's Health Minister has been quietly told that, yes, the Cass report is relevant Down Under (Gender Clinic News)

Jun 25: Transgender jockey Tyler Leslight banned for racist remark to fellow hoop—Tyler Leslight pleaded guilty to directing a racist remark towards a fellow jockey after the running of a race at Townsville. (News.co.au)

Canada

Jun 25: Formal support for transgender students guidelines wanted—A delegation spoke to the Pembina Hills School Board wanting a policy to support transgender children, train educators, and create a sense of belongings for these children (Town and Country Today)

Jun 26: Trans Youth Are Teaching Schools How to Actually Support Them “The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.” (YES! Magazine)

UK

Jun 24: NHS nurses sue over transgender policy that 'puts them at risk'—Nurses claimed colleagues have experienced panic attacks after being required to change into work clothes in front of a sexually active biological male (the London Times)

Jun 25: A conversion therapy ban could harm those it seeks to help—Such a move may make it harder to enact the Cass Review and protect gender-questioning children (The Telegraph)

Jun 27: Almost half of transgender people in Scotland are aged 16-24—Census data reveals that Dundee has the highest proportion of the adult population who identify as transgender or having a trans history (The London Times)

Jun 26: United Kingdom: Starmer accuses Sunak of using the transgender issue to divide the country (Nova Agency)

Jun 25: Transgender woman guilty of rape after night out “A transgender woman has been found guilty of rape following a night out. Lexi Secker, 35, of Lowbourne, near Melksham, was living as a man when she attacked a woman in Blunsdon, Wiltshire, on 23 April 2023. Swindon Crown Court was told Secker would be tried as a woman and she was found guilty of one count of rape on Friday, following a four day trial.” (BBC)

Jun 21: New director of BBC Sport chief has pledged to leave his personal views 'at the door' after facing backlash for trans article (The Daily Mail)

Jun 18: Leading women's rights campaigner who said trans GP 'enjoyed examining women' claims she was 'threatened by arrest' and is now being investigated by the Met Police - as she accuses force of 'bullying' (The Daily Mail)

Jun 24: Sue Barker says trans women should not be allowed to compete against biological females in sport - as the Wimbledon and BBC legend backs Martina Navratilova and warns 'young girls' dreams are being taken away' (The Daily Mail)

Jun 25: Edinburgh Fringe venue 'threatens to pull play about how JK Rowling fell out with stars of Harry Potter over her trans views' "An Edinburgh Fringe show about JK Rowling’s views on trans rights is at the centre of a cancellation storm amid claims its venue has threatened to pull the plug on the performance. Terf, a play about the Harry Potter author’s falling out with the stars of the movie franchise after revealing her gender critical views, had been booked for St Stephen’s Theatre in the city’s Stockbridge area.” (The Daily Mail)

Other International

Jun 27: Virgin Active SA to leave X after backlash on transgender changing room policy—Health club Virgin Active SA has announced it’s leaving Elon Musk’s X following a backlash to its new transgender changing room policy. “Health club Virgin Active SA has announced it’s leaving Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, following a backlash in response to its recent announcement that trans people could use the changing rooms which aligned with their legal gender.” (SA People News)

Jun 20: Horrified man wakes up in hospital to find his genitals removed by doctors after he was 'tricked' into a sex change operation amid bizarre land feud in India (The Daily Mail)

Jun 25: Peru to stop labeling transgender people as mentally ill (Reuters) 

Jun 25: Korea's first transgender soldier laid to rest at national cemetery amid controversy (AJU Press)

Jun 21: Japan top court declares transgender woman as father of daughter conceived after legal gender change (JURIST Legal News)

Jun 25: Russia’s First Transgender Politician Says Detransitioned Due to ThreatsRussia’s First Transgender Politician Says Detransitioned Due to Threats (The Moscow Times)

Jun 23: Sex testing at the Olympics: What is it? How does it work? “Sex testing, also known as sex verification or gender verification, is a process that aims to confirm an athlete’s assigned sex at birth and disclose any changes since. Sex testing came about in the 1940s, typically via visual inspection. As the decades went on, the process evolved to include physical examinations, chromosome testing and testosterone level testing, according to a National Library of Medicine report. Proponents of testing say it helps exclude athletes with perceived biological advantages, typically in women’s sports. Those against the practice argue it is a discriminatory way to exclude transgender athletes that ignores natural differences in bodies, as cisgender and intersex women with higher testosterone counts are also flagged by this system.” (WBTW)

Opinion

Jun 25: Suppression of Dissent— The Justice Department tries to silence and imprison whistleblowers who expose the barbarism of transgender medicine. (City Journal) “The Left has adopted a new approach in response: political persecution of those speaking out against trans dogma. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice indicted Eithan Haim, a surgeon at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) who exposed the hospital’s secret continued use of irreversible sex-change procedures on minors after having publicly stated that it had stopped. By indicting Haim, the DOJ is seeking to silence future whistleblowers and to signal its disregard for the mounting evidence that gender-affirming care is harmful, and often irreversible.” (City Journal)

Jun 26: Trans Men Tell Us What Body Positivity Means To Them (Refinery 29)

Jun 26: How to be a better teacher to transgender students—As states surrounding Illinois pass laws restricting transgender children, a new book illustrates a framework for educators to better include their trans students. (WBEZ Chicago)

Jun 26: Arizona Fails Detransitioners—Governor Katie Hobbs vetoes a bill that would have expanded coverage for those harmed by “gender-affirming care.” (City Journal)

Jun 26: Plaintiffs join in requesting stay in district court proceedings over gender affirming care (Alabama Reflector)

Jun 27: SAUNDERS: What does science have to do with transgender politics? Nothing “The Biden White House put gender politics over children when a bureaucrat intervened in what was supposed to be a scientifically based process to determine standards of care for treating gender-dysphoric minors.” (Las Vegas Review Journal)

Jun 25: Legal scholars worry Supreme Court may prioritize “politics” over “real stakes” in trans rights case—SCOTUS announced it was taking up a case on transgender rights on the second anniversary of the Dobbs decision “‘This is a political Supreme Court, and transgender health care is a polarizing issue,’ Jessica Clarke, a USC Gould School of Law professor specializing in anti-discrimination law with a focus on sex, gender and sexuality, told Salon. ‘I am worried that the decision will be driven by politics rather than principle.’” (Salon)

Jun 24: The Times view on trans rights: Luxury Beliefs—Sir Keir Starmer is fuelling confusion about Labour's stance on the trans issue. His failure to clearly champion the right of women to enjoy their own spaces is an insult (The London Times)

Jun 24: I'm the parent of a trans daughter. There's nothing conservative about blocking her care.—Politicians should stop trying to impose personal beliefs as statewide mandates that harm children and interfere with the private, individualized medical decisions of families. (USA Today)

Jun 25: Supreme Court Must Allow States to Protect Children From Transgender Medical Interventions (Daily Citizen)

Jun 25: Heritage report: School transgender policies clash with parental rights “recent Heritage Foundation report raises concerns about K-12 school transgender policies that exclude parental input. The report questions state and local policies that abridge the fundamental rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, a pressing issue in North Carolina as the battle continues over implementing the Parents Bill of Rights.”  (Carolina Journal)

Jun 22: ‘One Of The Wildest Stories I’ve Ever Heard’: Michael Knowles Interviews Christian Couple Who Previously Identified As Gay And Transgender (The Daily Wire)

Jun 17: How trans fanatics tore Pride apart—Some women no longer feel safe at what's meant to be a celebration of all things LGBT - and the tensions could undermine the whole movement (The Telegraph)

Jun 24: Brandon Teena Was Failed By the American Legal System and the Media—Thirty years after Teena's murder, trans Youth are still blamed for transphobic attacks against them. (Teen Vogue) 

Jun 22: Another planet sounds inviting “Only ‘on another planet’ do people care about single-sex bathrooms for women and girls, Christopher Luxon was quoted as saying in August 20231. Many women might wish to move to that planet, not because they are obsessed with toilets, as critics would have it, but to avoid being swallowed whole by the language and symbols vacuum busily being created by those in thrall to the ideological belief that humans can change sex at will.” (Plain Sight New Zealand)

Jun 26: “Gender-affirming care” is not a right—The Supreme Court will decide if states can regulate transgender medical interventions for minors (World News Group)

Jun 26: Gender-affirming care at Penn Medicine: A future ‘not in the shadows’

The Penn Medicine Program for LGBTQ+ Health and gender-affirming care at Penn Medicine has helped Mattie Chaya Kimberly ‘Kimi’ Klauser and others get the right care in an open, safe, and nurturing environment. (Penn Today)

Research/Studies

Study: Transformative tales: The role of story videos on children's reasoning about transgender identities (British Journal of Developmental Psychology)

Jun 25: Survey finds interest in progestin-only pills among transgender populations (Contemporary OB/GYN)

Jun 26: Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Cancer Survivors Have Higher Odds of Most Conditions—LGBTQ+ cancer survivors overall had higher rates of comorbidities, cognitive limitations and difficulty with daily activities. (POZ)

Jun 26: What's a Normal PSA Value for Transgender Women on Estrogen Therapy?— Study suggests threshold is too high to identify risk of prostate cancer in this population (Med Page Today)

Study: Prostate-Specific Antigen Values in Transgender Women Receiving Estrogen