The Labour government has just announced plans to push forward with a ban on conversion therapy, apparently to protect LGBT+ people from harm. Its proposed bill is unnecessary, unwanted and unhelpful.
Category: Transgender
Transgender issues in the law, politics, sport, and the impact on children
According to some of this morning’s* headlines, from next September children will be allowed to change their gender at school and use different pronouns. No doubt some adults will be horrified by this, while others will be outraged by the restrictions placed on these so-called trans kids.
Conversion practices are in the news again, at least if you listen to the BBC. We woke up to the Today programme on Friday* recounting appalling stories of Electric Shock Aversion Therapy (ESAT) from years past. Further instalments were delivered on the corporation’s Six O’Clock News.
Puberty blockers are powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks. Those were not my words, they came from a statement by Dr Hilary Cass when this off-label use of injectable gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists was banned indefinitely in December 2024.
Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they are perceived by other people according to the Times. The newspaper reports seeing a copy of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s transgender guidance that was handed to ministers in early September.
Martine Croxall’s eyes spoke louder than her words when she corrected the clumsy and unnatural use of ‘pregnant people’ on her autocue earlier this year.
Exasperated by the excesses of the LGBTQIA+ movement and the dominance of trans issues, gays, lesbians and bisexuals have decided to organise and defend their rights.
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Graham Linehan arrested for tweets
Three posts on X were enough for armed police to lock up Graham Linehan on arrival at Heathrow.
Having left the EU, the UK is now threatening to turn its back on the European Court of Human Rights. The McCloud case, which arose from a debate over the definition of the word “woman,” risks adding to tensions that might lead to a “judicial Brexit.”
On April 16, the Supreme Court ruled that the meaning of the terms ‘sex’, ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in the Equality Act refer to biology. More than three months later, you might think that the Youth Hostels Association (YHA) – an organisation that provides single sex dormitories in hostels across England and Wales – would have reviewed their policies to ensure that they were consistent with the law.
Debbie Hayton 