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Voyeurs filmed 5,000 teenagers in swimming pool changing rooms Adam Dennis and Robert Morgan used hidden cameras at pools in London and Surrey for four years and shared the images online Robert Morgan was part of a gang that filmed teenagers in cubicles and shared the pictures CENTRAL NEWS Georgia Lambert Thursday April 25 2024, 10.45pm, The Times Share A gang of voyeurs hid in mixed-gender changing rooms at swimming pools to secretly film more than 5,000 young women getting undressed, a court heard. Adam Dennis, 39, and Robert Morgan, 33, boasted of “hunting” teenage victims and made catalogues of their pictures to share and trade online. Inner London crown court heard that the gang used hidden cameras to observe women in pools in east London and Surrey between April 2013 and November 2017. A fellow voyeur, Declan Golden, fled to the United States, while Miguel Jose Sainz’s whereabouts are unknown. Judge Benedict Kelleher sentenced Dennis, a husband and father of a 19-month child from

Are autism and gender dysphoria linked? This professor thinks so When Michael Craig, an expert in neurodevelopmental conditions, sat in with the Tavistock’s gender identity development service, he began to question diagnoses Professor Michael Craig: “Some days I was fairly convinced 40-50 per cent of the patients I was seeing were autistic” TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE Rhys Blakely , Science Correspondent | Tom Whipple , Science Editor Friday April 19 2024, 11.00am BST, The Times For six months during the Covid lockdown, Professor Michael Craig sat in remotely on sessions with patients at the Tavistock gender clinic in London. They were children who were being seen for gender dysphoria, the term used to describe a sense of distress caused by somebody feeling that their biological sex does not match their gender identity. But as Craig watched them pass through he says he was “perturbed” by how many also seemed to have another condition: autism. “There were certainly some days where

FIRST PERSON Growing up I wanted to be a boy — I’m glad puberty blockers were not an option One woman describes how, from the age of 5 to 16, she longed to be male — and could have transitioned. She reflects on what it might have cost her GETTY IMAGES (POSED BY MODEL) Anonymous Monday April 15 2024, 11.00pm BST, The Times Puzzles Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword Polygon Sudoku “Gender-related distress” is what Dr Hilary Cass calls it. The term, used in her  landmark review  into gender identity services for children and young people that arrived last week, has resonated. And I can’t think of any better way of describing my feelings growing up. I’m a thirtysomething lesbian and I know in my bones that, if I’d had a chance to pursue transition as a child, I would have gone for it. I was at primary school in Kent in the 1990s when I realised I was attracted to girls, female teachers, actresses and girl group singers. I’d never really seen two women in a relationship toge

INTERVIEW Hilary Cass: I can’t travel on public transport any more new Author of landmark review into transgender treatment tells of online abuse and her dismay at disinformation spread by, among others, a Labour MP Dr Hilary Cass says she is more concerned about people being given the wrong information about her review than about the online abuse she has received TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE James Beal , Social Affairs Editor Friday April 19 2024, 11.00pm BST, The Times Dr Hilary Cass has criticised the spread of “disinformation” around her report, including from a Labour MP, as she revealed she had been told not to travel on public transport over safety fears. In an interview with The Times, the paediatrician behind last week’s landmark review on the treatment of transgender children said that young people were being put “at risk” by the spread of false information. Following publication of her 388-page report, figures including the Labour MP Dawn Butler repeated claims that Cass

Jump to content UK NEWS WEBSITE OF THE YEAR Trans woman who ‘threatened to shoot’ MP acquitted after saying she was only joking Eve Shaw said she would ‘pop’ Joanna Cherry in a tweet that was interpreted as a threat to shoot the SNP MP Daniel Sanderson,   SCOTTISH CORRESPONDENT 10 July 2023 • 8:10pm   10 July 2023 • 8:10pm A trans woman who “threatened to shoot” a prominent gender critical MP has been acquitted after convincing a court she may have been joking. Eve Shaw, previously known as Adam, went on trial on Monday accused of sending a threatening Twitter message about Joanna Cherry, the SNP MP for Edinburgh South West, on Jan 22 last year. The comment said: “STG [meaning swear to God] I am gonna pop Joanna Cherry” in response to a news article about the politician. Ms Cherry and her senior aide told Edinburgh Sheriff Court they interpreted the message as a serious threat against her, interpreting “pop” potentially meaning to shoot. The MP said she deemed the comment to be “a thre

NEWS WEBSITE OF THE YEAR Our worst fears about gender treatment have been confirmed in leaked documents The NHS used controversial guidance from US organisation World Professional Association for Transgender Health to help shape trans policies SUZANNE MOORE 12 March 2024 • 6:00am Sometimes you don’t want to be right. For years, I and many others have been questioning the practice and morality of so-called “gender medicine”, especially as it has been practised in the USA. In 2020, I wrote, “How did we arrive at a situation where there are shocking and rising numbers of teenage girls presenting at specialist clinics with gender dysphoria, while some who have transitioned are now regretful and infertile?” For this, I was  rounded on and deemed “transphobic”  by my then colleagues. Puberty blockers , the inevitable path to cross-sex hormones, double mastectomies and then various genital surgeries had become seen as a cure for gender-confused teenagers. To wonder about the ethics of this, w