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School parents join forces to fight ‘trans propaganda’ Jayden Lowe, 18, who took his own life last year BPM MEDIA Sian Griffiths , Education Editor Sunday August 04 2019, 12.01am, The Sunday Times Original article is here For Tanya Carter, a mother of four girls, the death of Jayden Lowe, a transgender teenager who took his own life last year after buying hormone treatment from doctors online, was the last straw. Carter had already begun to question some of the advice being given to children about changing sex when Jayden, 18, died. He had attended the sixth-form college in Cambridgeshire where one of her children is a pupil. “My heart breaks for the loss of . . . a truly special and talented individual with so much to offer,” she said. Carter, a former chairwoman of school governors, has watched with concern as schools across the country draw up LGBT policies and guidelines. She said some are inviting specialist lobby groups to  advise children who are questioning their gender i...

  Patient safety fears as NHS allows trans sex offenders in female-only wards Concern over guidance which says people can choose which shower and lavatory facilities they use based on the gender they identify with By Hayley Dixon,   SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT   and   Ewan Somerville 2 August 2021 • 9:30pm Male-born sex offenders who self-identify as women can be placed on female-only NHS wards, hospital trusts have said in guidance. Devon, Oxford and Nottinghamshire hospitals all tell staff that a criminal history should be part of a risk assessment when placing male-born people on female-only wards, but do not say it is a bar to admission. It comes as The Telegraph has found that NHS Trusts across the country have issued guidance that says patients should be admitted based on the gender they identify with and therefore can choose which ward, lavatory and shower facilities they use. Some trusts have labelled those patients who express discomfort as transphobic, compared t...

  The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye and Trans by Helen Joyce review — two radical perspectives Two authors with very different views on the transgender issue Christina Patterson Friday August 27 2021, 12.00am, The Sunday Times Up in arms: a Spanish protester holding a trans flag GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ/GETTY IMAGES The original article is here   F rom the age of 11, Shon Faye was bullied for being a gay boy. On a school trip she woke to find a porn magazine open on her face. “I have had to learn,” she says at the end of this book, “to keep on going in a world which signalled to me at every turn that I was mad, bad, sick, deluded, disgusting, a pervert, a danger, unlovable.” These upsetting glimpses of her painful experience are among the few she offers in  The Transgender Issue . However, she is utterly without self-pity. Her own experience as “a middle-class, white transwoman with a strong network of friends and family” is, she says, “wholly unrepresentative of the vast maj...

  The court judgement that confirms women pay for trans rights 2 July 2021, 5:59pm I am coming out of semi-retirement from writing about sex and gender to write this, because it’s about women in prison, a group that desperately need more attention from people interested in politics and policy. The High Court has been considering the question of transgender women (i.e. people who were born male) in the female prison estate. That’s after a legal action was brought by a woman in a female jail who says she was sexually assaulted by a trans prisoner. The prison service hasn’t denied that this assault took place. The claimant, was imprisoned between October 2016 and June 2020, argued that prison service policy in England and Wales is unlawful because it exposes women in the female estate to the increased risk of sexual assault by transwomen prisoners, a risk that is not similarly posed to male prisoners in the male estate. That prison service policy, in essence, says that at least some t...