Anti-trans campaigner hit with apprehended violence order over ‘disturbing’ conduct | Australia news | The Guardian
In a December appeal ruling published last week, the NSW district court granted an AVO against Kirralie Smith, the spokesperson for anti-trans group Binary. The court ordered her not to assault, threaten, stalk, harass, intimidate, approach or contact the woman (sic) until December 2026. Smith also must not approach two mid-north coast football clubs for the same period.
Smith has not been charged with any offence.
The decision said the AVO applicant was aware of Smith’s views that trans women should not be allowed into women’s changerooms, and Smith was sharing her image “to incite harm and violence”.
The woman’s AVO application was rejected by the Taree local court in February last year, but was granted on appeal.
Court of appeal Justice Penelope Wass found Smith’s conduct involved “ongoing behaviours which were objectively threatening.”
A spokesperson for Binary said the organisation couldn’t comment due to the restrictions but said Smith intended to appeal the ruling.
Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in Afghanistan | International Criminal Court
After a thorough investigation and on the basis of evidence collected, my Office submits that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Supreme Leader of the Taliban, Haibatullah AKHUNDZADA, and the Chief Justice of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”, Abdul Hakim HAQQANI, bear criminal responsibility for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds, under article 7(1)(h) of the Rome Statute.
My Office has concluded that these two Afghan nationals are criminally responsible for persecuting Afghan girls and women, as well as persons whom the Taliban perceived as not conforming with their ideological expectations of gender identity or expression, and persons whom the Taliban perceived as allies of girls and women. This persecution was committed from at least 15 August 2021 until the present day, across the territory of Afghanistan.
This ongoing persecution entails numerous severe deprivations of victims’ fundamental rights, contrary to international law, including the right to physical integrity and autonomy, to free movement and free expression, to education, to private and family life, and to free assembly.
These are the first applications for arrest warrants in the Situation in Afghanistan. My Office will file further applications for other senior members of the Taliban soon.
These applications recognise that Afghan women and girls as well as the LGBTQI+ community are facing an unprecedented, unconscionable and ongoing persecution by the Taliban. Our action signals that the status quo for women and girls in Afghanistan is not acceptable. Afghan survivors, in particular women and girls, deserve accountability before a court of law.
‘I spent a decade going down the wrong path’: Mel’s regret after transition | Daily Telegraph
After ‘gender affirming’ surgery and cross sex hormones forever changed the shape of her body and the sound of her voice – Mel Jefferies fears she will never be the woman she once was. But she’s not done trying.
The Melbourne woman spent over a decade as ‘Mason’ after she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in her late teens, accessing testosterone to deepen her voice, grow facial hair and form muscles, and undergoing a double mastectomy at 25.
For a time it felt right – but often it didn’t – and for the past three years she’s been ‘detransitioning’ which, she says, is proving harder than her initial transition.
Now 33, she’s one of the detransitioners who added their name to an open letter this week calling for a national independent inquiry into gender-affirming care for children.
In Perth, Courtney Coulson is also detransitioning. She said she’s one of the “lucky ones” – she has no regret over taking hormone therapy but she’s happy she decided five years ago not to continue her transition nor undertake surgery.
She described the government’s medical inquiry as “too little, too late”. “It was entirely unethical to approve any treatment without sufficient evidence for its efficacy and safety,” she said. “It’s only now after countless children have had their lives needlessly ruined by harmful treatment that a medical inquiry is being launched.”
Sydney psychologist Professor Dianna Kenny was one of the more than 100 Australians who signed this week’s letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
Professor Kenny believes there are three groups of young people presenting with gender dysphoria and wishing to transition – those with unresolved trauma; those with learning difficulties or social deficits; and those searching for peer connectedness or struggling with sexual orientation. None of these were best served by medical or surgical transition, she said.
Source: ‘I spent a decade going down the wrong path’: Mel’s regret after transition
Push to ban puberty blockers to protect our kids | Daily Telegraph
‘Do 14-year-olds fully understand the risk of permanent infertility?’: A surge in NSW children on puberty blockers has prompted a senior Liberal to call for a pause.
Exclusive: A senior Liberal has called for a pause on gender hormone therapies as figures show the number of children receiving puberty blockers from NSW government-run clinics had risen from just eight to more than 150 in a decade.
Senior NSW Liberal Damien Tudehope is one of the 100 prominent Australians who have been calling on the federal government to hold a national inquiry into the medical treatment given to teens experiencing gender dysphoria.
Tim Gill and the Elite Gay Men Supporting the Deconstruction of the Sex Binary | Jennifer Bilek
Why would Tim Gill, a gay man, intensely committed to the rights of people who are same sex attracted, spend so much money helping to institutionalize an ideology that undermines the reality of the human sex binary, upon which gay rights depend?
Andy Kroll of Rolling Stone has referred to Gill as “the nation’s most powerful force for LGBTQ+ rights.” Since he left his computer software company, Quark Inc. in 1994, he has spent over half a billion dollars to protect the rights of men and women who are same sex attracted to live gracefully in society, instead of being treated as social outcasts. Gill founded Gill Foundation with revenue from the sale of Quark Inc. He is now invested in AI.
Jon Stryker, the Founder of Arcus Foundation, the second most significant LGBTQI+ NGO in America, is also gay, and driving gender ideology globally. Gender ideology deconstructs the sex boundary between men and women and promotes it as a unique way to be human and deserving of non-discrimination rights in law. Jon Stryker and Gill are friends.
To slow and prevent the harmful spread of what Gill considered misinformation about LGBTQI+ people online, Gill Foundation grantee GLAAD, launched a first-ever baseline industry standard for LGBITQI+ safety on social media in 2021, which found that all platforms are unsafe for LGBTQI+ users and identified 22 policy recommendations for improvement. Leveraging the $4.7 marketing constituency of what has morphed into the LGBTQI+ cartel, GLAAD, directs the media and entertainment industry in what it can and cannot say about gender identity ideology.
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Transgender medicine review throws an inkblot test at a culture war | The Age
Mark Butler’s late-Friday announcement of a review of transgender medicine came apparently out of the blue. Why would a federal health minister, on the eve of a tight election, launch into an area of policy known as one of the touchiest culture-war subjects imaginable?
In an area that Butler himself described “contested and evolving”, the announcement acted like an ink-blot test. Everyone read their own views into it.
When Butler and his assistant minister, Ged Kearney, talked on Friday about people with “lived experience” being involved on the panel, it was designed as a signal to them that transgender people and proponents of “affirming care” will be part of it.
Opponents, on the other hand – including those who’ve regretted their transitions and angry parents of young people who have been through the system – insist their lived experience must also be reflected.
In short, all sides are keenly aware that who staffs this inquiry is crucial. They are watching like hawks.
Spurred on by Queensland’s move this week, Butler’s Friday announcement now means that, to any accusation that Labor is for they/them, the whole issue is in the hands of the scientists. Labor hopes this will kick the can far enough down the road.
Source: Transgender medicine review throws an inkblot test at a culture war
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
Campaigner launches bid to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s | BBC
Health Secretary Wes Streeting is being threatened with legal action if he does not ban the private sale of cross-sex hormones such as testosterone to under 18s.
Lawyers acting for three people – including campaigner Keira Bell – have written to Streeting urging him to introduce a ban as he has done for puberty blockers for children questioning their gender identity.
Ms Bell says her life has been “flipped upside down” by taking the drugs that have some irreversible effects. The other two people involved are parents and wish to remain anonymous.
Cross-sex hormone therapy is used to help people transition to a different gender from the one they were born into.
In December the health secretary announced an indefinite ban on puberty-suppressing drugs for gender dysphoria.
But in a letter sent by Sinclairs Law, Streeting has been told the law firm will seek a judicial review – a way of challenging the lawfulness of a decision by a public body – unless he follows suit with cross-sex hormones.
The lawyers said private clinics are providing these to under 18s, despite the fact that they pose at least an equal risk as puberty blockers.
The letter, seen by the BBC, points to potential health risks to children’s developing brains, bones and reproductive system.
Source: Campaigner launches bid to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s
Trans and gender diverse children’s care guidelines to be reviewed | The Guardian
The health minister, Mark Butler, has announced a review of the Australian standards of care and treatment guidelines for trans and gender diverse children and adolescents.
The National Health and Medical Research Council will undertake the review and develop new national guidelines, with interim advice on the use of puberty blockers to be given in the middle of next year.
Butler says the council will develop the guidelines alongside an expert committee that includes lived experience.
States and territories are responsible for providing and administering services for gender diverse and trans young people.
It comes after the health minister of Queensland this week announced a ban on puberty blockers for all new patients of the state’s only gender clinic at the Royal Brisbane hospital.