Parents could be charged with domestic abuse for not using their child’s preferred pronoun under controversial guidelines|UK

A fresh row erupted yesterday over controversial guidelines from the Crown Prosecution Service that could allegedly lead to parents being charged with domestic abuse for not using their child’s preferred pronoun.

The CPS faced claims it was ‘losing the plot’ over guidance that could also mean someone who refuses to fund their partner’s transitioning process could be committing a serious offence.

However, The Mail on Sunday was told the CPS was now reviewing its controversial ‘Impacts of Domestic Abuse’ advice.

Source: Parents could be charged with domestic abuse for not using their child’s preferred pronoun under controversial guidelines

JK Rowling slams SA courts over new gender rules | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

Children’s author JK Rowling has lashed out at new gender rules set to govern one state’s court system, saying they could re-traumatise women who are the victims of male violence.
The outspoken Harry Potter author took to X this week to slam a ruling from South Australian Chief Justice Chris Kourakis that states “the use of preferred gender pronoun is a matter of respect and is an important component of ensuring public confidence in the proper administration of justice.”

Ms Rowling said it could serve as a form of “state-sanctioned abuse”.

“Asking a woman to refer to her male rapist or violent assaulter as ‘she’ in court is a form of state-sanctioned abuse,” she said.
“Female victims of male violence are further traumatised by being forced to speak a lie.”

Source: JK Rowling slams SA courts over new gender rules | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

Sunak urged to change law after Scottish court says definition of woman ‘not limited to birth sex’

Rishi Sunak has been urged to change the law to protect biological women after a Scottish court appeared to widen the definition of “woman”.
The Court of Session in Edinburgh decided on Wednesday that the legal definition of woman is “not limited to biological or birth sex”, and includes those who have a gender recognition certificate (GRC) .
Gender-critical campaigners, who emphasise the importance of biological sex, said this could make it harder to stop biological men entering female-only spaces such as changing rooms, as long as they have a GRC.
In a joint letter to the Prime Minister and Kemi Badenoch, equalities minister, the groups said: “Politicians say they know what a woman is.
“But these are cheap words when those politicians do not step up and protect women’s rights, and the clarity of language, rules and laws that are needed to defend those rights.”
The letter said: “The court declared that in the law about sex discrimination and single-sex services, the terms ‘man’ and ‘woman’ do not mean actual sex, but only whether a person has a certificate declaring them to be male or female.
“Being a pregnant woman is no bar to getting a certificate as a ‘man’ and being a rapist is no barrier to getting a certificate as a ‘woman’.
“It means that a fully intact man who obtains a certificate can apply to join a women’s association such as a self-help group of survivors of sexual violence, or an association of lesbians, and if he is turned away he can sue for discrimination.”

Source: Sunak urged to change law after Scottish court says definition of woman ‘not limited to birth sex’

NSW #ThisIsNotEquality Tell your MP: Lobby Groups Make Bad Policy

Key points to tell your MP this week

  • The so-called Equality Bill is one-sided because it was drafted by lobby groups
  • Women’s groups were not consulted
  • Lesbians will be worse off
  • Equality Australia claims the Equality Bill will deliver equal access to health care & legal equality, but it has far-reaching negative impacts for women, lesbians, gays and bisexual people
  • The Equality Bill will remove women’s rights to
    • Single-sex sports
    • Protection against pimping
    • Protection from exploitation by commercial surrogacy
    • Call a male person a man (in person and online)
    • Single-sex spaces
  • Laws drafted by lobby groups are unbalanced and do not work

Source: NSW #ThisIsNotEquality Tell your MP: Lobby Groups Make Bad Policy

UKCP guidance regarding gender critical views

Following recent case law, and the publication of the interim Cass Review report, the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is today issuing a statement on the law regarding gender-critical views and its implications for the practice of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling. This statement is also being made to highlight the fact that exploratory therapy must not be conflated with conversion therapy.

Case law has confirmed that gender-critical beliefs (which include the belief that sex is biological and immutable, people cannot change their sex and sex is distinct from gender-identity) are protected under the Equality Act 2010. Individuals who hold such beliefs must therefore not be discriminated against.

Psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors who hold such views are likely to believe that the clinically most appropriate approach to working therapeutically with individuals who present with gender dysphoria, particularly children and young people, is exploratory therapy, rather than medicalised interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or reassignment surgery.

The exploratory approach can, of course, be taken whether or not the practitioner has sympathy with gender-critical views, with effective UKCP practitioners not allowing their own personal views to impede or bias an open, genuinely exploratory approach.

Source: UKCP guidance regarding gender critical views

South Australia court calls for use of preferred gender pronouns | The Australian

South Australia is the latest state to endorse the use of preferred gender pronouns in the courtroom, saying it is a “matter of respect” to address parties by their chosen pronouns, and integral to “ensuring public confidence in the proper administration of justice”.

SA follows the lead of Victoria and Queensland as jurisdictions that this year released edicts requiring court attendees to refer to parties by the pronouns they indicate being most comfortable with, such as they/them.

Source: South Australia court calls for use of preferred gender pronouns | The Australian

Barbie Kardashian’s behaviour ‘improved dramatically’ since move to same men’s prison wing as Jonathan Dowdall – Irish Mirror Online

Trans inmate Barbie Kardashian’s behaviour behind bars has improved dramatically since being placed into a men’s prison. Sources say there “isn’t a peep” out of Kardashian as the lag lives within a strict and disciplined regime in Limerick prison.

The Irish Mirror revealed in August that the 21-year-old had been transferred there from the women’s wing of the jail. Prison officers in the female wing were struggling to keep her(sic) under control, as she(sic) threatened staff and fellow lags.

Kardashian, who identifies as a trans woman after she(sic) secured a gender recognition certificate, is serving a four-and-a-half year term for threatening to rape, torture and murder her mother.

She(sic) also remains under a garda investigation over allegations that she(sic) threatened female prison officers after she(sic) refused orders to clean up the shower area when she(sic) had used it.

Female staff at the prison did not feel safe with her(sic) presence either. Kardashian was born a male named Gabrielle Alejandro Gentile and has not had transition surgery.

Source: Barbie Kardashian’s behaviour ‘improved dramatically’ since move to same men’s prison wing as Jonathan Dowdall – Irish Mirror Online

Biden Administration Gives Universities and Children’s Hospitals $100 Million to Prop Up Transgenderism

As the number of children identifying themselves as transgender quickly rises, the Biden administration has assured Americans that it is both safe and normal for kids to undergo medical “transition” procedures. Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine, for example, has taken to social media to say that “gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth” and has called chemical and surgical transitioning a “life-saving” and “critical tool” for pediatricians.

Capital Research Center combed through over 600 individual federal grants and contracts featuring keywords and phrases like “transgender” or “gender affirming” and identified over $104 million in payments to initiatives mostly or exclusively promoting, subsidizing, or studying transgenderism.

The Biden administration has already directed millions of dollars toward researching the health problems that plague transgender adults.

Millions were also spent on programs to study, treat, and reduce the staggering rates of HIV/AIDS infection in transgender people.

This indicates transgender people (at least in the seven cities) experience HIV at a rate over 100 times higher than the rest of America.

Emory University for example, received $172,316 to study why pumping biological males with estrogen as part of “gender affirming hormone therapy” makes the rectal mucus of transwomen more susceptible to HIV infection. On the other side of that coin, the University of Alabama at Birmingham received $222,750 to study why pumping biological women with testosterone makes the vaginal and cervical tissue of transmen much more susceptible to severe tearing and HIV infection.

A bombshell study by the American Medical Association published this week revealed that an estimated 3,600 minors have undergone gender-affirming surgeries in the U.S. since 2016. It directly refuted the claims of transgender activists that such procedures are never performed on children.

In August 2022, months before President Joe Biden publicly endorsed hormone replacement therapy as safe for minors, HHS pledged $1.1 million to Childrens Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati to study “thrombosis risk in transgender adolescents and young adults starting gender-affirming hormone therapy.”

[A]ccording to Princeton, no satisfactory evidence suggests gender-affirming care confers a psychological benefit to kids and young people. Despite this, Princeton University Health services continue to offer gender-affirming hormones and surgeries to students.

Other grants even focused on supporting behavior that many in right-leaning political circles have dubbed “grooming,” though the use of the term is considered highly controversial. The Seattle Children’s Hospital, for example, received $143,057 to develop a telehealth clinic for “gender diverse youth” and another $216,453 for programs to help promote healthy sexual relationships among “transgender and gender expansive youth.”

One particularly troubling $161,192 grant to the University of Wisconsin funded a study to determine how social media influencers can encourage kids to explore their gender identity without their parents’ knowledge. Another $203,050 was paid to the University of Nebraska to create an experimental “online mentoring program” in which transgender children could be paired up with a transgender “adult mentor” to discuss, among other things, “self-harm, alcohol and drug-use, [and] sexual risk-taking.”

Source: Biden Administration Gives Universities and Children’s Hospitals $100 Million to Prop Up Transgenderism -Capital Research Center

About 30 kids between the age of 12 and 17 have changed the gender on their birth certificates. | The Australian

In 2020, ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury introduced legislation overhauling the births, deaths and marriage registration act to allow children under the age of 18 to officially change their gender identity and their name.
The reforms – which came into effect on August 20, 2021 – established a pathway for a child as young as 12 to change their name and gender without parental consent.
The ACT government told The Australian that since the changes entered into force, “approximately 30 young people between 12 and 17 have registered a change of sex.”
A child under the age of 12 may also apply in “exceptional circumstances” but only with the consent of one person with parental responsibility.
For a child aged 16 and over, the process is relaxed and they are able to amend their birth certificate by applying to the Registrar-General for a change of given name and recorded sex.
Mr Rattenbury said no parental consent was needed in these cases but young people would still need to satisfy the usual requirements for seeking a change of registered sex, including the provision of a statement from a doctor or a psychologist.
The ACT Liberals have opted not to make an issue of the reforms, with Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee telling The Australian: “I think the issues that resonate broadly in the community are the practical issues.”

Source: About 30 kids between the age of 12 and 17 have changed the gender on their birth certificates. | The Australian

Feminist campaign group loses legal battle over definition of word ‘woman’

A feminist group has lost a court appeal over the legal definition of the word woman.

Campaigners For Women Scotland (FWS) raised concerns over the definition of the word “women” in the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act 2018, saying that the use of the term was an attempt to override the Equality Act 2010 back in 2021.

The legislation, which was passed two years ago, aimed to increase the number of women on public boards.

In the Act, they used the term “woman” to represent both born women and trans women, or those who “live as women”, which FWS says was legally incompetent.

For Women Scotland argues that trans women are biologically male, and should be recognised as such in the equality act.

But the inner house of the Court of Session has thrown out the challenge, arguing that a person with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) is legally their acquired gender and possesses both the protected characteristic of gender reassignment and of sex.

[A] statement on the For Women Scotland website read: “Naturally, we are hugely disappointed in today’s judgment, which has ruled that women’s protections under law may – in some cases – include men who have obtained a GRC.

“We are obviously still analysing the decision and will be speaking to our legal team in due course to consider the possibility of a further challenge.

Source: Feminist campaign group loses legal battle over definition of word ‘woman’