Transgender

Culture Secretary calls for ban on transgender athletes in elite-level women’s sport

Sports
Olivia Martin

Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has urged sporting chiefs to ban transgender athletes from elite women’s sporting events. Writing in the Mail, Frazer ...

SNP accused of allowing trans activists to infiltrate Scottish NHS

U.K.
William Turner

A National Gender Identity Healthcare Reference Group, set up in 2022, includes four trans rights activists while the National Gender Identity Clinical ...

Top NHS adviser on trans health failed to cooperate with Cass Review

U.K.
William Turner

The NHS’s most senior adviser on transgender health refused to share data about his clinic’s patients with the Cass Review. Dr Hilary ...

NHS bosses ordered to reveal fate of 9,000 young transgender Tavistock patients

U.K.
William Turner

Dr Cass told the NHS it was “hugely disappointing” that the clinics would not engage in research that would help to inform ...

Hate crime complaints to Scottish police on course to outnumber total for other crimes

U.K.
William Turner

It comes amid growing criticism of the Scottish Government’s crime policies, which have seen officer numbers fall to their lowest level in 15 years, the ...

Children allowed to ‘socially transition’ face grave psychological risks, review concludes

Health
Sarah Carter

Transgender children face grave psychological consequences if they are allowed to “socially transition”, a landmark review is expected to say this week. ...

Teaching union to oppose schools having to tell parents if child changes gender

U.K.
William Turner

A teaching union will campaign against government plans to force schools to tell parents if their child changes gender. Members of the ...

Rishi Sunak backs JK Rowling in trans arrest row with Scottish police

U.K.
William Turner

Siobhian Brown, the SNP’s community safety minister, initially stated that misgendering would “not at all” fall foul of the legislation but then ...

JK Rowling’s ‘come and get me’ retort to Hate Crime Act is direct challenge to Yousaf

U.K.
William Turner

Any thought that JK Rowling would sit back quietly and wait to be threatened with jail and arrested under the SNP’s latest ...

JK Rowling dares police to arrest her over SNP’s new hate crime law

U.K.
William Turner

The law creates a criminal offence of “stirring up of hatred”, expanding on a similar offence based on racist abuse that has been ...