World swimming authority takes conservative stand on gender inclusion
Swimming's world governing body, FINA, has backed a new policy on gender inclusion which will stop most trans women swimmers from competing in international events....
US report slams fears of trans youth suicide
The most powerful argument for gender-affirming care for children with gender dysphoria is the threat of suicide. “Would you rather have a live son or...
Indian surgeon seeks to make transwoman pregnant
A New Delhi surgeon plans to transplant a uterus into a transwoman – a biological man – to enable him to give birth to a...
Transwomen don’t belong in women’s sports, say scientists
Three Australian sports scientists have complained that women are being disadvantaged by the participation of transwomen in women’s sports. In two articles in the International...
Trans narrative under fire in Sweden
The Swedish national broadcaster SVT has produced a series of programs which are sceptical of transgender medicine. The latest, Transbarnen (The Trans Children), examines the...
Transgender medicine in the US accelerates
The cause of transgender rights received a moral boost this week when US President Joe Biden again proclaimed March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility....
France slams on transgender brakes
While the Biden Administration has uncritically embraced the necessity of “gender-affirmative” medicine for American adolescents, other countries are slamming on the brakes. In France the...
Transgender wars
The right to transition to a different gender dominates coverage of transgender issues in the media. Less well known is a growing movement of “detransitioners”,...
Biden backs abortion rights and transgender treatment for minors in his State of the Union address
President Joe Biden dug in his heels over two controversial bioethical issues in his State of the Union address on Wednesday. He began by giving...
Texas will treat transgender treatments as ‘child abuse’
Texas could prosecute parents who allow their children to change their gender as child abusers, says its governor, Greg Abbott. In a letter sent this...
Trans kids are using GoFundMe to pay for their transitions
The internet crowdfunding site GoFundMe does not hesitate to cancel fund-raising efforts which it deems objectionable. It froze millions of dollars in an account supporting...
Does transgender medicine have a sound philosophical foundation?
There are many angles from which to study the phenomenon of the transgender movement – psychological, sociological, historical, medical, political … -- but surely the...