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  LIBBY PURVES Talking up teen suicide risk is sick opportunism Claims that gender-questioning children will take their life if deprived of puberty blockers has no foundation in fact Libby Purves Monday July 22 2024, 12.01am BST, The Times Share D on’t wince away, bored from gender wars and Wes Streeting’s restriction on puberty blockers that suppress hormonal changes in physically normal children. Focus on one serious wickedness: the moral blackmail of troubled parents, a reckless and cruel spreading of lies. As to sexuality and gender itself, its private mysteries offer plenty for philosophical debate, and a civilised country should respect idiosyncrasy and the right to be unusual. As for the privacy of woman’s spaces,  plenty has been written  in these pages in defence of that. Rather, I want to talk about a particularly despicable propaganda foisted on frightened parents of children who, out of the blue, declare themselves “trans”, either spontaneously or pressured by...

Why I changed my mind about trans self-identification There is huge fear in many quarters over speaking out, but debate and dialogue is not just necessary but essential       By   Anne Jenkin ‘Hero of the equal-marriage debate” was the accolade accorded to my father-in-law, Lord (Patrick) Jenkin, by PinkNews when  he died in 2016 . As a family, we were nominated for the Stonewall Politician of the Year Award in 2013. We have always been supportive of gay rights and equality. My husband, Bernard, was one of the small handful of Conservative MPs to support the reduction of the age of consent for gay men back in 1994, as well as voting in favour of civil partnerships and gay marriage. Recently, however, I find myself increasingly at odds with the doctrines from organisations such as Stonewall, with which that I previously had such common cause with. As I have read and looked more closely, I have realised that changes were slipping through without proper scruti...

The Australian Bid to exclude ‘people with penises’ from lesbian events ‘unlawful’ Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt. By  MATTHEW DENHOLM 8:30AM JULY 18, 2021 ( TLDR:  The Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination commissioner has ruled that lesbians in Tasmania cannot have a lesbian meeting, because this would discriminate against males who wish to attend) "Lesbians will be breaking the law if they exclude biological males who are transgender from social events, after a controversial discrimination ruling set to become a national test case. Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination commissioner Sarah Bolt has ruled lesbian events that exclude trans-women carry a “significant risk” of breaching legislation. In a decision earlier this month not yet publicised, Ms Bolt refused to grant an exemption to allow the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance to exclude “biological men” from lesbian events. Launceston lesbian Jessica Hoyle, who made the application on the alliance’s behalf, said ...