News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Over three months, ten Republican-led states have passed laws prohibiting puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery for youngsters. Indiana and Idaho are the latest. Opponents call the legislation “anti-trans”.
Is London's Newham really home to a higher proportion of trans people than Brighton? That’s what the latest ONS data suggest. Prof. Michael Briggs checked the Government’s maths and finds this “scarcely credible”.
The appalling attacks on Kellie-Jay Keen in New Zealand by gender ideologues resemble the Salem witch trials, says Brendan O'Neil.
This week has been a watershed moment in the trans debate, sparked by the landmark decision from The World Athletics Council to bans trans athletes from women's sport.
Christian street preacher David McConnell was arrested, held in a cell for 14 hours, charged with 80 hours community service and a £700 fine, and reported to Prevent. His crime? ‘Misgendering’ someone.
Yesterday's largely favourable profile of Graham Linehan in the Times could be another sign that the tide is turning on the trans debate, though it also reveals we still have a long way to go to defeat cancel culture.
Increasingly, Scotland looks captured by woke activists, preaching a new religion of progressive madness that is at odds with most of its population. Just how did Scotland become the wokest country in the world?
Sussex Police has threatened a women right's group founder with a hate crime arrest after a rally two months ago where her group was attacked by pro-trans activists.
Children who believe they are transgender are probably just going through a short-lived phase and 'social transitioning' should be discouraged, the NHS has told doctors.
J.K. Rowling has branded Nicola Sturgeon a "destroyer of women’s rights" over Scotland's transgender 'self-ID' law as the SNP leader implied Rowling was not a "real feminist".
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