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.
Category: Transgenderism
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’
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.
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.
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.”
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’