Warning on blocker imports – by Bernard Lane

A prominent gender doctor, who serves on the board of gender medicine lobby the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health (AusPATH), has set up an online clinic where his legal advice on access to hormonal treatment for minors has been challenged as inaccurate.

Dr Darren Russell’s new Australia-wide clinic, Prism Health, also highlights savings of almost $1,000 a year if puberty blockers are imported from overseas suppliers, which his website says is legal with a doctor’s prescription.

Last month, Queensland became the first Australian state to pause new treatment of gender-distressed minors with puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones in the public health sector, pending an independent review of the evidence. In the UK, routine use of blocker drugs has been restricted in both public and private health.2

The advice from Dr Russell’s Australian online clinic is that under the law, puberty blockers can go ahead in the state of Victoria with only one parent’s consent, and that cross-sex hormone treatment in Queensland does not require parental approval if the minor is mature enough.

Emeritus professor of law Patrick Parkinson said both those claims, which favour easier access to these contested treatments, are incorrect.

“In all cases, and in all states and territories, the consent of both parents must be given for any child or young person under 18, or in the alternative, the [federal Family Court] must give its approval,” Professor Parkinson told GCN.

“I am rather surprised that a doctor is purporting to give legal information on a public website.”

Dr Russell’s new website says that he was Cairns sexual health director until late 2024, when he moved to Victoria to establish the private provider Prism Health, which is promoted as an “online gender-affirming healthcare service.”3

Source: Warning on blocker imports – by Bernard Lane

GERMANY: Trans-Identified Male On Welfare Sues Over 240 Employers For “Discrimination” After Being Continuously Rejected From Jobs He Is Not Qualified For – Reduxx

A trans-identified male in Dortmund, Germany, is facing scrutiny after winning over €250,000 over the course of 240 separate discrimination lawsuits. Many have accused the man, who has been unemployed for 12 years, of using Germany’s strict protections for those who self-identify as transgender to enrich himself.

Source: GERMANY: Trans-Identified Male On Welfare Sues Over 240 Employers For “Discrimination” After Being Continuously Rejected From Jobs He Is Not Qualified For – Reduxx

Appeal frees insurer from costs of compensating Knox Grammar’s sexual abuse victims – Lawyers Weekly

Under a landmark appeal, the Uniting Church can no longer rely on its insurance with Allianz Australia to cover the costs of settlements and litigation to resolve historic claims of sexual abuse made by former students of its elite Sydney school, Knox Grammar.

Source: Appeal frees insurer from costs of compensating Knox Grammar’s sexual abuse victims – Lawyers Weekly

Revealed: More than 1,000 patients sent for NHS trans ‘top surgery’ every year | The Telegraph

More than 1,000 patients a year are sent for transgender “top surgery” on the NHS.
Data obtained by The Telegraph show for the first time the number of referrals for taxpayer-funded “masculinising” mastectomies from specialised gender clinics.
As many as 80 per cent of people using those services are females between the ages of 17 and 25.
The 1,000-plus referrals could be the tip of the iceberg, because many people have transgender surgery privately to bypass long NHS waiting lists.
The NHS faces calls to halt the surgeries. Experts warn there is no evidence that removing healthy breasts is beneficial for those with gender dysphoria – but there is evidence of harm.
A number of detransitioners have spoken publicly about their regret at rushing to have irreversible surgery, and the pain caused.
Over three years, it also sent more than 780 women for “masculinising genital gender reassignment surgery”, also known as “bottom surgery”.

Source: Revealed: More than 1,000 patients sent for NHS trans ‘top surgery’ every year

No woman should be forced to change her clothes in front of a male colleague | Sonia Sodha | The Guardian

Some things are plain common sense. Female employees should not be expected to share changing rooms with male colleagues. They shouldn’t be socially shamed into undressing around them, or being in spaces where male colleagues get undressed in front of them.

There is a host of principles and evidence around women’s privacy, dignity and safety to be marshalled in support of this – the charity Sex Matters lays them out – but most people don’t need to read accounts of how uncomfortable mixed-sex changing facilities make some women feel, or statistics showing that voyeurism and exposure are two of the most common male sex crimes, to understand how wrong this would be.

But not managers at NHS Fife, it would seem. Despite the law of the land enshrining that commonsense insight – that employers are obliged to provide separate changing facilities for their male and female employees – female staff working for this Scottish health board have been expected to share changing rooms with a male doctor who identifies as female. One nurse, Sandie Peggie, has brought an employment tribunal claim for harassment, sex discrimination and victimisation against the board, following her suspension after she raised concerns.

Given the bravery required to take a legal case, this is likely to be the tip of the iceberg. A group of nurses in Darlington are also suing their trust as a result of having to share facilities with a male colleague. In a Sheffield hospital, female staff worried about sharing a changing room with one of their male colleagues were told, incorrectly, that the colleague in question had a right to be there. Outside the NHS, there have been many cases where employers have unlawfully elevated a male desire to be treated as female above women’s established workplace rights.

The idea that a man who identifies as female is literally a woman, and must without fail be treated as such, has become a cherished principle for some progressives. Politicians and women’s rights activists speaking against this have been excommunicated from the left. Slowly, but surely, this is starting to change in the UK: take health secretary Wes Streeting’s admirably principled defence of the Darlington nurses, for example.

Not before time. There is a cautionary tale from across the Atlantic, where Democrats’ stubborn and unpopular defence of men’s rights to self-identify into women’s sport has dropped the unlikeliest of moral victories into President Donald Trump’s lap, allowing a man accused of serious sexual assault to somehow position himself as a defender of women’s rights. Abandoning basic common sense for unpopular policies that put women at risk does not go well for the left.

Source: No woman should be forced to change her clothes in front of a male colleague | Sonia Sodha | The Guardian

Not Just a Lawsuit—a Revolution! | Women’s Coalition

“It’s Not Just a Lawsuit—It’s a Revolution!” is the rallying cry of thousands of women joining together to file lawsuits claiming they are being discriminated against in family courts. The legal battle comes within the larger context of making revolutionary change.

But first—Great news: We are filing in New York! If your case is or was in a NY family court, make sure you sign up and tell your NY mama friends.

The filing of each discrimination lawsuit can be seen as a metaphorical Storming of the Bastille.

Family courts everywhere exist as despotic mini-monarchies. Judges rule autocratically, rarely impartially when it comes to a man wanting to take his children, his property, away from the mother. Women have been giving everything they have in the battle for their children but are still losing custody in the dictatorial regime.

This filing of discrimination lawsuits is the first step in this multifaceted Revolution, just as the Bastille uprising, and it is an important one. Women coming together to make the legal and constitutional claim that they are being discriminated against gives credence and power to our cause.

Even if some cases are dismissed, the act of rebelling gives women power. You can dismiss a lawsuit, but you can’t dismiss a Revolution! Further, any dismissals will further fuel women’s outrage and rebellion.

Women have had enough. Women are revolting against the tyranny of family courts. The filing of discrimination lawsuits is just the first instrument of our revolt.

It’s not just a lawsuit—it’s a Revolution.

Join the Women’s Revolution!

Source: (1) Not Just a Lawsuit—a Revolution!

Democratic states sue Trump administration over order to halt funding for gender-affirming care | NBC News

SEATTLE — Three Democratic states sued the Trump administration on Friday over its order to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender people under 19.

Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown filed the federal lawsuit in the Western District of Washington. The attorneys general of Oregon and Minnesota, and three doctors, also joined as plaintiffs. The complaint argues that the order discriminates against transgender people.

Trump signed an executive order last month directing federally run insurance programs, including Medicaid and TRICARE for military families, to exclude coverage for such care. It also calls on the Department of Justice to pursue litigation and legislation to oppose it.

The complaint comes after families with transgender or nonbinary children filed a separate lawsuit in a Baltimore federal court earlier this week.

Trump also signed an executive order on Wednesday intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.

Legal challenges have already been filed on the military order and a plan to move transgender women in federal prisons to men’s facilities. Others are likely to be filed, just as there have been challenges to a variety of Trump’s policies.

As transgender people have gained visibility and acceptance in some ways, there’s been vehement pushback. At least 26 states have passed laws to restrict or ban the care for minors. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last year but has not yet ruled on whether Tennessee’s ban on the care is constitutional.

Source: Democratic states sue Trump administration over order to halt funding for gender-affirming care

The eSafety Commissioner’s Latest Fail – Quadrant

The case is Baumgarten and eSafety Commissioner (Guidance and Appeals Panel) , and as dressings down go this one’s beaut. But for some reason, despite being posted three days ago, a search of Google News turns up no recent coverage in the legacy media. This is astonishing, as not only has Ms Inman Grant had her ears pinned back yet again, the evidence quoted by Justice Emilios Kyrou AO lays bare, often in an unintentionally comic manner, what happens when arrogance and entitlement are indulged with large sums of public money and taxpayer-funded conference rooms in which to hold lots and lots of meetings.

As might be gathered from her delivery, Celine Baumgartner is a feisty sort, and she didn’t take kindly to her X post being geoblocked — hidden from Australian eyes, although not the rest of the world — at the suggestion of the eSafety Commissioner’s officious gnomes, so with the backing of Free Speech Australia she went after Ms Inman Grant’s censorship operation. And do notice, as the AAT opinion makes quite clear, that it was not a lawful order duly issued and subject to enforcement, rather a back channel communication of utter gas from deep within eSafety’s bureaucratic bowels.

Source: The eSafety Commissioner’s Latest Fail – Quadrant

Stop using trans pronouns in sex crime cases, judges told | The Telegrap | UK

Judges have been warned that it is “extremely inappropriate” to refer to male rapists who say they identify as women by their preferred pronouns.

The guidance from the Judicial Office comes amid growing outrage among campaigners over transgender defendants who are biologically male and have committed sex attacks against women being referred to as “she” in court.
Judges have also been told that they must avoid addressing defendants as the opposite sex in cases involving violent offences such as domestic violence.
[Ed: Lets hope Australian courts follow suit shortly].

Source: Stop using trans pronouns in sex crime cases, judges told

Women kept as slaves on HUMAN egg farm: 100 victims are fed hormones and treated like cattle, with eggs removed and sold each month by gangsters | Daily Mail Online

Around 100 women were kept as slaves on a human egg farm in Georgia where they were fed hormones and treated like cattle.

Their horrifying ordeal has been revealed by three Thai women who were freed from the clutches of the ‘egg mafia’ on January 30 after being exploited for half a year, tabloid Bild reports.

The woman said they were held captive on a ‘human farm’ in the eastern European country of Georgia by a criminal organisation led by Chinese criminals, who sold their eggs on the black market.

One former slave who worked on the egg cell farm bought her freedom and alerted Pavena Hongsakula, founder of a Thai foundation for children and women.

The woman told Ms Pavena that several other Thai women were still held as slaves at the farm as they could not afford to pay for their release.

The eggs collected from the women are understood to have been sold, trafficked in other countries for use in in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), Ms Pavena said at this week’s press conference, according to the Bangkok Post.

Source: Women kept as slaves on HUMAN egg farm: 100 victims are fed hormones and treated like cattle, with eggs removed and sold each month by gangsters | Daily Mail Online