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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...

  What the media gets wrong on gender reassignment The media is guilty of gross negligence on gender reassignment reporting June 20, 2021 | 9:47 pm FROM THE MAGAZINE Written by: Jesse Singal Share Two things can be true at the same time. First, the Republican-backed state laws banning medical gender-transition treatment for youth —  one  has already passed in Arkansas — are a very bad idea. Second, there is a serious dearth of solid evidence in this area of medicine — and some reasons to be genuinely concerned about these treatments. If you’re a consumer of mainstream American media, you’ve likely received a heaping dose of the first message. But the second, if you’ve encountered it at all, has probably been presented to you as a deeply unscientific, bigoted talking point. This is a problem. It’s impossible to unpack what’s going on here without summarizing the recent history of youth medical transition. The basic situation is this: in the mid-1990s, a Dutch gender clinic...