BROADview in Brief

Forgive the tardiness. I was trying to catch my breath, winded from chasing news. Of which there is just so much. Including: the UK Department of Health and Social Welfare’s “Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.” The aim: to find out if the claim that there had been a rash of youth suicides related to the waiting list for and closure of GIDS.

The conclusion: Wrong—both factually and morally.

Now do the United States, where members of a psychology-related listserv in Pennsylvania were barred from discussing the Cass Review. Colin Wright was kicked out of an NIH seminar, “Sex and Gender in the Clinic,” for…asking questions. We need help!

What else is happening, you might ask? Alejandra Q knows all.

Alpha Phi Fraternity

Jul 16: Alpha Phi Alpha reportedly second Black fraternity to ban trans members—Ban follows debate at fraternity’s annual convention and subsequent voting and approval process (The Guardian)

Leading Black LGBTQ organization condemns oldest Black fraternity’s proposed transgender ban “The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), the nation’s leading civil rights organization dedicated to empowering Black LGBTQ Americans, has condemned one of the nation’s most prominent Black fraternities over its proposed ban of transgender members.” (The Hill)

Nassau County Ban

Jul 14: 'Impossible to enforce': The logistical hurdles facing the Nassau County transgender athlete ban (Newsday)

Jul 15: Controversial transgender athlete ban signed into law on Long Island (CBS New York)

Jul 16: NY AG, NYCLU sue county for again banning transgender girls and women from teams that match their gender identity (CNN)Washington U

Jul 16: Opinion: My whistleblowing closed trans center in St. Louis.—There's more to do. (STL Today)

Jul 16: Washington University Transgender Center closing, whistleblower says (STL Today)

Jul 17: Missouri AG applauds closure of pediatric transgender clinic at Washington University (KTTN)

Jul 18: WashU disputes Missouri AG’s claims on pediatric transgender center “Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey claimed Tuesday that the Washington University Pediatric Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital would shut down, citing an apparent announcement from a whistleblower. The university, however, disputes this claim.” (Fox2)

Ohio Court case

Jul 15: Trial begins for Ohio's controversial transgender health care and women's sports law (10TV)

Jul 16: Legality of Ohio's transgender restrictions up for grabs in high-stakes court hearing (The CW Columbus) 

Jul 17: State presents first witness in trial for Ohio's transgender health care and women's sports law (10TV)

Jul 18: HB68 Trial: Ohio parents take stand asking state to allow gender-affirming care (Ohio Capital Journal)

California

Jul 16: California becomes first state to ban forced outing of LGBTQ+ students—According to the progressive think tank the Movement Advancement Project, eight states, including Idaho and North Dakota, legally force the outing of transgender youth in schools. (USA TODAY)

Jul 17: California passes deceptive trans policy in schools (UnHerd)

Jul 17: Elon Musk to move SpaceX and X to Texas blaming California transgender privacy law (Euro News)

Jul 17: California school district sues Newsom over transgender law (The Hill)

Jul 18: Abigail Shrier: California’s New Law Lets Schools Keep Secrets from Parents —Gavin Newsom signs a bill that keeps parents in the dark if their kids change gender identity at school. (The Free Press)

Wes Streeting

Jul 15: Wes Streeting is right about the evils of puberty blockers—We need brave adults in the room to defend vulnerable families from the policy demands of activists (The Telegraph)

Jul 15: Wes Streeting is right to ban puberty blockers—Trans activists are calling him a self-hating gay man for wanting to protect troubled kids. (Spiked)

Jul 15: British Labour’s Gender Sense—A party of the left moves cautiously on puberty blockers. Imagine that. (Wall Street Journal)

Other

Jul 11: Swiss authorities demand parents legally endorse gender “transition” of teenage daughter who has been separated from family for over a year “Parents ordered by court to hand over legal documents to allow their daughter to “transition,” appeal is pending. Backed by ADF International, parents seek reinstatement of their parental rights and to reunite with daughter, now 16, living in a government shelter since April 2023.“ (ADF International)

Jul 12: Katy Perry enrages transgender activists by including image of female body part in new Woman's World music video (The Daily Mail)

Jul 17: Two years ago, this mother fled from Texas to protect her transgender daughter (KATU 2 ABC)

Jul 17: Transgender community compared to a 'cult' by US author after 'abuse' hurled at detransitioners “US Reporter and Author Mary Margaret Olohan has defended the community of detransitioners as she revealed that transgender communities across America shower them with "crazy abuse" over their decision.Olohan, who penned the book 'Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult', revealed that after speaking to several people who had been through the "gruesome procedures" are now "emotionally scarred" after having their transition reversed.” (The Anniston Star)

Jul 17: ‘Infuriating’: Minnesota Mom Slams School District’s OK’ing of Radical Transgender Restroom Guidelines “On Tuesday night, another Minnesota school district voted to allow boys who say they identify as transgender into girls’ restrooms and locker rooms.” (The Daily Signal)

Jul 17: Gender reveal—Labour cautious on blockers; state transition in Switzerland; NYT surprises; Finnish progress; inquiry in Chile; paediatrics in court; Queensland LNP hears Cass; California's school secrecy; JD Vance (Gender Clinic News)

Jul 18: Creep: Texas Supreme Court “The Texas Supreme Court just ruled that blocking parents from providing gender-affirming care to their children is just fine.” (QSaltLake)

Jul 18: Fox-clubbing barrister who is leading legal challenge against Labour Government ban on puberty blockers claims parents will 'tip the ashes of their dead transgender children outside Downing Street' “Jolyon Maugham dramatically stepped up his attack on new Health Secretary Wes Streeting for making permanent the Conservatives' emergency restrictions on gender medicine for young people. The Good Law Project director, notorious for clubbing a fox to death with a baseball bat while wearing a kimono, is leading a High Court challenge against the ban and claimed on Friday it will 'kill trans children'.” (The Daily Mail)

Jul 18: Livingston Parish Library Board decides against limiting access to transgender youth book (Unfiltered with Kiran)

Jul 18: Turkish authorities close exhibition on transgender community amid broader LGBTQ+ crackdown—Police officers delivered a notice from a district governor that alleged the show at Depo Istanbul incited the public to hatred (The Art Newspaper)

Jul 18: Transgender sex killer, 83, says Kansas officials' refusal to let her loose in female prison has given her chronic DIARRHEA (The Daily Mail)

Jul 18: Transgender woman heads to court after being ‘kicked out’ of ladies’ toilet—Cape Town - Members of the LGBTQIA+ community gathered at the Equality Court in Cape Town yesterday in support of a transgender woman, Jackye Majawie, who was allegedly denied access to a ladies’ public toilet by a cleaner last year. (iol)

Jul 18: Meet The New Biotech Billionaire Putting Pig Hearts In Humans “In 1996, Martine Rothblatt’s six-year-old daughter was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare lung and heart disease without a cure. Undeterred, Rothblatt, a cofounder of Sirius Satellite Radio, launched her own biotech firm with the goal of finding one.” (Forbes)

Jul 18: Beyond binary: expanding the language of gender—Law professor coins a new term to accommodate the full spectrum of gender identity. “‘More and more individuals find themselves unmoored from simple binaries such as male/female and cis/trans,’ Ashley says. They point out that in the United States, almost 10 per cent of high school students don’t wholly identify with the gender they were assigned at birth, while about two per cent answer yes when asked whether they are transgender. To fill the linguistic gap, Ashley coined a new phrase in 2019 to capture the fluid, non-binary spectrum of the relationship between gender identity and gender assigned at birth — ‘gender modality.’ It caught on in a number of quarters, including within transgender communities and among clinicians and policy-makers to describe “the realities of trans communities and the heterogeneity of trans experiences.’” (University of Alberta)

Jul 18: 'Essential health-care': Manitoba providing easier access to gender-affirming care (Winnipeg CTV News)

Jul 18: Why JD Vance's Transgender Friend Turned Against Him “A college friend of Vance, Sofia Nelson, who is transgender and uses they/them pronouns, weighed in on Vance's stance on LGBTQ+ rights in comments made to The New York Times. Nelson said they were once friends with Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, and that the senator brought them home-baked treats when they received top surgery.” (Newsweek)

Jul 18: Police seek information after murder of transgender victim in Stone Mountain (The Campion)

Jul 18: Keir Starmer has to regain trust of transgender community, Trans Pride boss says—Trans Pride Brighton co-founder Sarah Savage said there is work to be done by the new government to make trans people feel supported. (The Standard)

Jul 18: Transgender Care: What Barriers Do Canadian Patients Face? (Medscape)

Jul 16: Federal Appeals Court Rejects Transgender Challenge To Tennessee’s Birth Certificate Policy(Legal Insurrection)

Jul 15: Minnesota Supreme Court to take up discrimination lawsuit brought by trans powerlifter (Minnesota Reformer)

Jul 15: West Virginia Appeals to SCOTUS Over Transgender Sports Ban—State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a petition with the court asking it to overturn an appellate court finding that the ban violated Title IX rights. (Governing)

Jul 16: West Virginia, Idaho want ruling on transgender athletes reviewed (Big News Network)

Jul 15: Once more, a judge has rejected Florida’s request to outlaw gender-affirming healthcare “A federal court rejected Florida’s plea Friday to overturn a ruling that had prevented the state’s restrictive statute on gender-affirming care while the state filed an appeal. The state’s implementation of SB 254, which limited transgender individuals’ access to gender-affirming medical care and outlawed it entirely for kids, was permanently stopped the previous month by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.” (Davidsonian)

Jul 17: Labour government will ban gay and trans 'conversion therapy' (ITV News)

Jul 17: Supportive care or 'conversion therapy'? The push for psychotherapy for gender dysphoric children—A new paper by two Canadian authors argues children and teens are being locked onto a path of medical transitioning without psychotherapy (Prince George Post)

Jul 17: Free to Be(lieve) in Gender Pseudoscience—I ordered leading youth transition advocate Jack Turban's new book, "Free to Be," to examine the evidence he claims supports a biological basis for innate gender identity (buttonslives)

Jul 15: NOA-LYNN VAN LEUVEN 'SCARED TO PLAY' WDF EVENTS SAYS NEIL DUFF, CALLS OUT 'BULLYING' AND 'DANGEROUS' TRANSGENDER VIEWS FROM HOME NATIONS (Darts News)

Jul 14: 3 Idaho transgender prisoners sue over medical care. They can get treatment — for now (Idaho Statesman)

Jul 15: Another judge rules against Biden rule forcing schools to cater to trans students (Red Lion)

Jul 17: Kids identifying as transgender need ‘talk therapy,’ not drugs, therapists say—A new paper by two Canadian authors argues children and teens are being locked onto a path of medical transitioning without psychotherapy “New York City-based psychotherapist Paul Garcia-Ryan heads an organization of mental health providers, Canadians among them, that doesn’t support the model that conceptualizes children and teens with gender dysphoria as having been “born in the wrong body” and that changing the body via hormones or surgery is necessary to relieve their distress.”(National Post)

Jul 17: After months of turmoil, Rochester schools adopt transgender guidelines “Ash Wartsbaugh had no problem Tuesday telling the Rochester Public School Board he's a transgender boy. The problem, as he saw it, was the district's proposed guidelines that could potentially out trans students like himself to their parents without their permission.” (Star Tribune)

Jul 17: Biden administration flip-flops on surgeries for trans minors after backlash Administration reaffirms support after reports White House opposed them, saying ‘surgeries should be limited to adults’ (The Guardian)

Jul 16: Labour MP Rosie Duffield hits out at primary school for sharing image of young students with trans flag and warns 'tiny' pupils would have no concept of gender identity (The Daily Mail)

Jul 16: Why are British doctors voting to reject the Cass report?—A motion to 'disavow' the Review is being considered by members of the BMA. (The New Statesman)

Jul 16: York County judge dismisses ACLU lawsuit challenging Virginia’s transgender student policies (WRIC ABC 8News)

Jul 16: EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Exposes ‘Unprecedented Violence’ In Prisons Following Transgender Policies (The Daily Caller)

Jul 16: Guidance around job adverts and transgender applicants updated by regulator—Campaign group Fair Play For Women, which describes itself as working to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK, welcomed the guidance as 'a step in the right direction' but said a 'loophole' remained “The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has released updated guidance on discriminatory job postings after concerns were raised about organisations seeking self-identifying females for what have been termed women-only positions. The watchdog acknowledged the ‘need for clarity" regarding certain legal exemptions and assured employers that the new guidance "will help them to comply with the law’.” (The Mirror)

Jul 15: Trump’s Running Mate, JD Vance, Wants To Criminalize Gender-Affirming Care For Minors—The Ohio senator introduced a bill that cobbles together numerous restrictions on gender-affirming care. (HuffPost)

Jul 17: Atlanta’s Trans Housing Coalition to expand services with $35K grant (Atlanta News First)

Jul 16: Fremont School Board to hear policies about pronouns and names for transgender students and staff (Wyoming Public Media)

Jul 15: The man behind the effort to limit gender care (Politico)

Jul 16: Research shows psychological risks increases for transgender youth at gender identity milestones (Medical Press)

Jul 16: Should Aged Care Staff Be Tasked with Dilating Post-Op Transgender Residents? “Gwenda, diagnosed with behaviour-variant frontotemporal dementia 12 years ago, recently highlighted a growing concern in aged care: the needs of post-op transgender individuals, particularly the necessity of dilating cosmetically created sex organs to prevent closure.” (HelloCare Australia)

Jul 15: No prisoners—Women and children are casualties in the uncompromising campaign waged by trans activists (Gender Clinic News)

Jul 16: Ohioans explain abandoning Republican Party for love of their transgender grandchild (The advocate)

Jul 16: New York Times Column challenges effectiveness of gender-affirming care for children, reflecting shift in transgender ideology discourse (International Family News)

Jul 16: Tel Aviv backs housing for transgender community with support from religious factions (The Jerusalem Post)

Jul 16: TN transgender activist says trans persons threatened for helping queer couple (The News Minute)

Jul 15: No opposition as House passes location shield bill “Massachusetts representatives took their latest step Wednesday to protect access to abortions, other reproductive health services and gender-affirming care with unanimous approval of a location data shield bill.” (MSM)

Jul 13: Pamala Paul: Ideology impedes gender treatement in U.S. (Why Evolution is True)

Jul 12: 7 Gender-Affirming Care Cases To Watch In 2024's 2nd Half (Law 360)

Jul 15: Rochester Public Schools superintendent knew that district’s position on transgender issues would cause controversy months in advance (Rochester Public Schools)

Jul 15: Lawsuit challenges Hanover County School Board policy on transgender student athletes “ A federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia (ACLU) against Hanover County Public Schools has sparked heated debate within the community. The lawsuit, filed on July 3, alleges that the school board violated the civil rights of 11-year-old transgender middle school student “Janie Doe” by barring her from participating on the girls’ tennis team after discovering she was transgender.” (WRIC)

Jul 12: Transgender student blocked from tennis team sues Va. school district—In a federal lawsuit against Hanover County school officials, the 11-year-old contends she was discriminated against based on her transgender identity. (Washington Post)

Jul 13: Chilling final words Florida teen 'killer' said to her mom before 'opening fire at home' - as girl, 16, is also accused of slaying mother's younger boyfriend who made haunting final request (The Daily Mail)

Jul 15: What Are We “Protecting” Women Against? (Gender GP)

Jul 15: 'I want to lead the way for transgender youngsters' “Venus Wailer had to hide her true identity in her home country, where being transgender is socially unacceptable and there is a ‘shame and stigma’ attached to the LGBT+ community.” (BBC)

Jul 15: A rallying cry to defend the rights of transgender people—Conservatives are going after transgender youth, banning their access to medical care, public bathrooms, accurate identity documents and athletic participation. (Chicago Sun Times)

Jul 15: Transgender Participation in the Olympics: the Inclusion Debates and Guidelines (The Teen Magazine)

Jul 15: “Visibility also comes with a cost”: What it’s like growing up transgender in Australia “I think a lot of queer people will agree in saying that even without putting your hand up to be an advocate, you end up having to be one either way.” (Fashion Journal)

Jul 15: Section 377 Repeal Leaves Male And Transgender Victims Vulnerable, Sparks Outcry—Section 377's repeal under BNS leaves male and transgender victims of sexual assault vulnerable, sparking criticism from LGBTQ+ activists and legal experts over reduced accountability for offenders. (News 4 Online)

Jul 14: Heartbreaking: Mother of Missing Chicago Woman Worries This One Detail Could Hinder Her Search—Will police look as hard for Taylor Casey, a Black transgender woman, as they do white women? (The Root)

Jul 13: These millions of Americans are more likely to live in poverty, be unemployed and have no family support “Merriss’ plight illustrates the harsh economic realities of millions of Americans who identify as transgender and/or non-binary. The evidence from research and surveys is unmistakable: People whose gender identity does not match their sex at birth are more likely to experience financial hardships than the general population. (Some transgender people identify as “non-binary,” which means they don’t conform to one particular gender.)” (CNN)

Jul 13: The transgender Americans lost to violence so far this year (The Advocate) 

Jul 13: Transgender mass shooter threat sent cops to Homestead “Police swarmed a home in the Homestead community Monday after someone told city officials they had “murdered their family” at the home and planned a mass shooting elsewhere in the city.” (InMaricopa)

Jul 13: Lawsuit challenges Hanover County School Board policy on transgender student athletes(WRIC)

Jul 13: PHRC members release statements on death of 14-year-old transgender girl “‘As the Chair of the PHRC, I extend my sincerest condolences to Pauly Likens’ family and friends,’ said Joel Bolstein, chair, PHRC. ‘This tragic and gruesome death underscores the need for protections for the LGBTQ community in Pennsylvania and our nation. While I am pleased to see officials pursuing hate crime charges, our Commonwealth needs to do more to prevent violence against transgendered Pennsylvanians.’ Although the PHRC does not have the authority to charge or investigate hate crimes and criminal offenses, the organization tracks incidents reported and can help determine if an incident violates the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.” (YourErie.com)

Study: Mental Health of Transgender Youth Following Gender Identity Milestones by Level of Family Support (JAMA)

Study: Increases in Self-identifying as Transgender Among US

Adults, 2014-2022 (Sexuality Research and Social Policy)

Study: Informing the Integration of Psychiatric Care with Gender-Affirming Services: A Formative Evaluation (Springer Link)

Study: A formative evaluation to inform integration of psychiatric care with other gender-affirming care(BMC Primary Care)