Undermining the Family
A recent study has found that the majority of children who felt unhappy with their birth sex at age 11 had outgrown these feelings by the time they reached 25. The Mail has the details.
Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands followed the lives of 2,772 young people, assessing them at the ages of 11, 13, 16, 19, 22 and 25.
At the age of 11, the start of the study, 11% of participants were unhappy with their birth sex.
This number dropped at each assessment until, by the age of 25, it was just 4%.
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Read MoreSocial media giant Meta has lowered the minimum age to use WhatsApp in the UK and EU. Critics have accused Meta of “putting shareholder profits first and children’s safety second”.
Meta has lowered the minimum age to use the popular messaging platform WhatsApp.
The move, which came into effect on Thursday, reduces the age limit from 16 down to 13 in the UK and EU.
It has been criticised by a number of campaign groups who have urged the company to reverse the decision.
Smartphone Free Childhood told Sky News that it was an example of “a tech giant putting shareholder profits first and children’s safety second”.
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Read More‘I was told to never bring my child back again in front of my son which caused him to have a meltdown’, one reviewer claimed
A hair salon has sparked outrage after images appeared online of its price list – which appeared to charge customers extra if they had “special needs”.
Leanne Caffrey, from Sutton, South London, posted photos to social media of Rayna Unisex Salon’s price list after she had brought her children there to have their hair cut.
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Read More“Problematic” is a euphemism for “things I would like to ban for narrow ideological reasons”, a Free Speech Union spokesman said
An “Inclusive Language Guide” produced by a taxpayer-funded foreign aid group has been slammed as “radical progressive dogma” after it labelled words like mother, father, girls and guys “problematic”.
The guide is published by Scotland’s International Development Alliance (Sida) – a charity which “inclusively champions global sustainable development in Scotland” and benefits from an annual grant from the Scottish Government.
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Read MoreNikolas Ferreira said Brazil’s socialist president Lula da Silva ‘should be in jail’ and blasted LGBT ideology and ‘genocidal’ abortion in a powerful speech promoted by Elon Musk.
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Read MoreTrans activists are still trying to prevent Abigail Shrier’s gender critical ‘Irreversible Damage’ from being published. This time they’ve threatened to burn down bookstores. As the transgender consensus collapses, trans activists are amping up their censorious tactics in a desperate attempt to shore up their tattered narrative. As I noted earlier in this space, the Cass Report, just published by the UK’s NHS, has demolished the flimsy foundations of so-called “gender medicine.” The WPATH files earlier this year revealed that many of the doctors pushing these interventions knew that the evidence was faulty or flawed. In my vie
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Read MoreWhy was gender ideology allowed to run amok for so long?
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Just like that, a trickle becomes a flood. After years of gender-critical voices being dismissed or ignored by mainstream media, they can be dismissed and ignored no longer.
The landmark Cass Review into gender-identity services in England, published today, has laid bare the scandal of the NHS’s treatment of ‘gender confused’ kids. There was never any evidence for subjecting troubled, often gay, often autistic, youngsters to life-altering hormones, drugs and treatments. But clinicians did it anyway, in thrall as they were to gender ideology.
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Read MoreChildren given NHS transgender treatment have been set on a path of irreversible change despite scant medical data, a report has concluded.
NHS gender identity services for children and young people have been based on ‘remarkably weak evidence’, the independent review by leading paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass warned.
Her study, commissioned nearly four years ago, makes 32 recommendations to overhaul NHS trans services to improve the care that children receive.
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Read MoreThe Government of Alberta is intervening in support of the Saskatchewan government in the legal dispute over its student pronoun policy.
Saskatchewan’s Parents’ Bill of Rights requires parental consent for students under 16 who want to change their names or pronouns.
In a statement on Tuesday, which included justice ministers Mickey Amery, of Alberta and Bronwyn Eyre of Saskatchewan, Alberta said it was seeking intervener status in the Parents’ Bill of Rights case before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.
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Read MoreA queer-identified Jewish teacher in BC, Canada, who claims that her pedagogy is “about intersectional empowerment for all,” went to mainstream media for support after receiving criticism over her highly politicized classroom. Annie Ohana claimed she received “hundreds” of “horrific” homophobic, Islamophobic, and antisemitic messages online – and that she, her colleagues, and her students are “in danger” as a result of the criticism.
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