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  HADLEY FREEMAN Will the trans activists ever accept they lost? It’s 100 days since the Cass report, and the ideologues still won’t see sense Hadley Freeman Sunday July 21 2024, 12.01am BST, The Sunday Times O n Friday it was exactly 100 days since the Cass report was published, that careful, four-years-in-the-making study by the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, which was supposed to end, at long last, the arguments over how best to treat a child with gender dysphoria. Should adults say, yes, you were born in the wrong body, and start them on a lifetime of medical treatments, as gender activists insist? Or should young people be told that altering their physical appearance is never a guarantee of happiness, and their present unhappiness is likely to be a symptom of something else, such as autism or anxiety? Dr Hilary Cass’s recommendations to NHS England were careful and compassionate and they strongly urged against  overmedicalising youn...

  Debbie Hayton The hounding of  Rosie Duffield 27 July 2021, 2:40pm I  grew up in 1980s County Durham; it felt at the time  like a People’s Democratic Republic. When the miners went on strike in 1984, Labour held 53 of the 72 seats on the county council. But whatever impression southerners might get from watching   Billy Elliot,  boys like me did not engage in ballet. Labour may have been in charge, but attitudes were socially conservative. We played football and supported the Toon, or Newcastle United to give them their official name. Allegiance to Sunderland raised eyebrows — in my town at least — while Manchester United was beyond the pale. If boys were ostracised for supporting the wrong football teams, teenagers struggling with sexuality or gender learnt to keep those things very close to their chests. In a society where ‘poof’ and ‘queer’ were insults of choice — terms of abuse hurled at victims to soften them up for a beating — coming out would have...