Category: Transgenderism
Medical conference in Canberra under pressure as activists threaten to derail the event – YouTube
Tickle v Giggle: What is the difference between gender and gender identity? – Law Society Journal
To what extent does the Sex Discrimination Act (Act) protect a person from discrimination on the basis of their gender identity? It is a question that has taken centre stage in the Federal Court recently. In the matter of Tickle v Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd, a transgender woman commenced proceedings launched court action against a women’s only platform and its CEO, for allegedly being blocked from the app due to her gender identity.
The case is significant because it is the first time since the Act was amended in 2013 that the changes are being tested in court.
Section 22 of the Act states that it is unlawful for a person to discriminate against another person on the ground of the other person’s “sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status …”. Gender identity is also referenced in Section 5B of the Act.
Despite the seemingly wide ambit, “sex” is not defined in the legislation.
The respondents, Giggle for Girls, claim that the app constitutes a “special measure” designed to achieve substantive equality between men and women and the app’s exclusion of males is reasonable in the circumstances. That is, the exclusion of males from the app fell within the exceptions under sections 7N, 7D and 32 of the Act.
Given what is at stake, there is a lot of public interest in the outcome of the case. The Federal Court has the difficult task of interpreting the law and ruling on the question of what is a “woman”?
Source: Tickle v Giggle: What is the difference between gender and gender identity? – Law Society Journal
Student activists threaten to derail Canberra medical conference over detransitioning talk that promotes ‘anti-trans rhetoric’ | Sky News Australia
The presentation, called “Detransition and regret following gender affirming treatment for gender dysphoria: what psychiatrists need to know”, is scheduled to take place on the first day of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) 2024 Congress in Canberra on May 20.
But an online petition by the Australian National University’s Queer* Department, a representative body for LGBTQIA+ students, demands the College scrap the session, accusing it of “promoting anti-trans rhetoric”.
The petition, which has been signed more than 600 times, directs people to the group’s social media posts, which claim the speakers Dr Alison Clayton, Dr Robert D’Angelo and Dr Patrick Clarke, have “known links to transphobic organisations and publish fearmongering academic articles”.
Dr D’Angelo, a psychiatrist based in NSW’s Byron Bay and the president of the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine, told Sky News that the attempt to “cancel” the presentation was disheartening.
He says he has received abuse since the petition was launched.
“Ultimately, the best way we can ensure our patients receive the best possible healthcare is to have open discussion – about when your treatments are successful, when they are not, and when they do harm.
National Association of Practising Psychiatrists president Dr Philip Morris said the petition and threats of protest were ‘intimidation’ tactics the College had a duty to address publicly.
Dr Morris has emailed the College’s president Dr Elizabeth Moore, urging her to make a public statement making it clear the activist pressure would not be tolerated, but had not received a response.
Arc International — – felicia rembrandt comments
The Yogyakarta Principles continue to be invoked by governments around the world. What are they? Who created them? And why are governments adopting them? Find out in this repost.
In 2008 the Arcus Foundation, which bills itself as an American philanthropic organization, gave its first large donation to ARC International, a Canadian corporation located in the tourist town of Dartmouth, NS (pop 92,000).
ARC’s official name is Allied Rainbow Communities International and it is registered in Canada as a tax-exempt private corporation. Its executive director is Kim Vance Mubanga, who founded ARC in 2003 with John Fisher (now Geneva Director of Human Rights Watch) to promote “LGBT” rights. Its website states that it:
played a key role in the various phases of the Yogyakarta Principles. We initiated the project, convened a coalition of NGOs to implement it, facilitated meetings of the coalition, worked closely on the preparations for and conduct of the experts’ meeting, worked with partners to successfully launch the Principles, prepared backgrounders and advocacy materials to support regional launch initiatives, developed a website, track the ongoing use of the Principles, are participating in the development of an activists’ guide, and conduct ongoing training and support for organizations using the Principles.
ARC International’s mission, its sole mission, is to spread the document’s influence around the world by targeting top level institutions — policy makers, institutions, courts, parliaments, constitution makers, law enforcement, justice departments as well as influential NGOs.
The company has been wildly successful in its mission.
But who is behind this? The Arcus Foundation is owned by Jon Stryker, heir to the American medical device company, the Stryker Corporation. Its money comes from the Stryker Corporation. Four years ago the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that Stryker had donated “at least $336.3 million” primarily to his foundation. InfluenceWatch reports that he has given more than $500 million to Arcus.
Arcus donates up to half its money to projects in support of great apes; the rest – 100% of the money it donates to human causes — goes to the sorts of organizations that might provide a market for the family business – LGBTQ centres and charities. This leads to a question that sounds like the start of a very bad joke – what do trans-identified people and apes have in common?
A scroll through the information provided on the Arcus Grantee site for grants given to members of humanity’s closest living relatives — gorillas, gibbons, bonobos and chimpanzees — reveals repeated references to diseases, including human diseases and covid-19.
The bad joke, then, is that both the ape and human populations served by Arcus require ongoing medical interventions and pharmaceuticals. To regard Arcus as anything other than a marketing organization for the American medical industrial complex – tasked with sustaining and creating markets — is clearly naïve.
UK: Implementation of ‘Cass report’ key to protecting girls from serious harm, says UN expert | OHCHR
GENEVA (24 April 2024) – The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, today welcomed the recent commitment by the UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to implement recommendations contained in the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people (Cass Review), and announcements by NHS Scotland and the Welsh Government that they would suspend the prescription of puberty blockers to children in the wake of the report’s findings.
A PODCAST ABOUT GENDER & MEDICINE
Desexing Society is the first podcast to critically examine the youth gender dysphoria epidemic in Australia.
Over the last decade, hundreds of thousands of young people around the world have started identifying as transgender. Healthcare professionals working with gender dysphoric children and adolescents have adopted a controversial treatment model known as “gender affirming care.” It involves agreeing with the patient that they’re meant to be the opposite sex. Medical interventions attempting to change a child’s sex begin at the onset of puberty, which for girls can be as early as 9 years old. Can doctors really predict which children are going to be transsexual in adulthood?
In this 8-part series, we’ll explore the origins of gender affirming care, how it became embedded in Australia’s public health system and the tragic consequences of misdiagnosis. We’ll also look at how public schools are contributing to the youth gender dysphoria epidemic, and more.
Source: Home – Home
Lib ban on trans drugs just the start |The Australian
A pledge by Western Australia’s Liberal leader to ban the use of puberty blockers in children could be the start of a nationwide political battle on the issue, with party leaders in other states confirming they were scrutinising practices in the wake of a landmark United Kingdom review.
Libby Mettam on Monday declared that the Liberal Party, if elected, would ban the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone treatments and surgical intervention for children under 16 for the purpose of gender transition.
She said her decision was based on the recent findings of the UK Cass Review – handed down this month – which recommended the National Health Service exercise “extreme caution” in prescribing masculinising or feminising hormones to under-18s.
Around 100 children a year are treated by WA’s Gender Diversity Service, according to data tabled in state parliament, and the youngest child to receive treatment last year was 10.
A spokesman for Queensland’s Liberal National Party said the party was very cognisant of the concerns around the “questionable practices” around gender services in the state.
The Queensland government earlier this year launched a review into the state’s Children’s Gender Service, which treats around 1000 patients a year, after several pediatricians called for a moratorium on gender treatments on children.
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Brisbane State High School: Girls are left too scared to go to the toilet after female-only bathrooms are converted into a unisex block – with boys ‘loitering outside and urinating in sanitary bins’ | Daily Mail Online
Prestigious co-ed Brisbane State High School recently converted its P Block of female-only toilets to accommodate for either sex.
Since then, male students have been accused of intimidating female classmates outside the unisex block and urinating over toilet seats and sanitary bins, the Courier Mail reported.
The decision to change the bathroom’s gender restrictions is required by the state’s Department of Education and Queensland Human Rights Commission.
U.S. court sides with transgender school athlete against West Virginia ban | Reuters
April 16 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that a transgender middle-school girl (sic) in West Virginia can compete in her (sic) school’s girls’ track and cross-country teams, blocking enforcement of a state law against her.In a 2-1 ruling the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law, which prohibits any transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams, would illegally discriminate against Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old who has publicly identified as transgender for around five years and takes puberty-blocking medication.U.S. Circuit Judge Toby Heytens, an appointee of Democratic President Joe Biden, said requiring Pepper-Jackson to compete on boys’ teams was “no real choice at all” and would “directly contradict the treatment protocols for gender dysphoria.”He said enforcing the law against her violated Title IX, a federal law against sex discrimination in schools. Heytens’ opinion was joined by Circuit Judge Pamela Harris, who was appointed by former Democratic President Barack Obama.
Source: U.S. court sides with transgender school athlete against West Virginia ban | Reuters