The Trans Agenda #34 Labour dogwhistles not enough for anti-trans campaigners
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The Trans Agenda #33
[24 June 2024]
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NEWS & POLITICS
Labour plan for changing birth certificate with less evidence [The Times]
Labour still plans to simplify the process for legally changing your birth certificate by removing the need for transgender people to prove they have lived as their correct gender for two years. Instead, a single specialist doctor's diagnosis will suffice, replacing the current requirement for multiple doctors and a panel to sign off before you can get a GRC. The cult are arguing this could weaken protections for women-only spaces despite knowing it does no such thing. Labour reportedly aims to balance reducing bureaucratic hurdles with maintaining a two-year reflection period and safeguarding single-sex spaces as they continue to dog-whistle to people who already hate them.
Attempt to cover up explosion of trans youth suicides on NHS waiting lists [QueerAF] [Good Law Project]
NHS England is accused of concealing a surge in suicides among transgender youth on waiting lists. Whistleblowers report numerous deaths and efforts to suppress this information to protect the NHS's reputation. Calls for transparency and urgent action to address long waiting times for gender-affirming care are growing. The controversy highlights systemic issues within the NHS's handling of trans healthcare needs.
Labour Shadow Education Minister says they will address Tory anti-trans school guidance [BBC]
Top doctor challenged over transgender care [Times]
Sir Gregor Smith, the chief medical officer in Scotland, has said the findings of the Cass Review in England need further scrutiny before any changes are made in Scotland.
Sue Barker comes out as anti-trans
Britain’s much-loved TV presenter and former tennis star, Sue Barker, known for hosting coverage of Wimbledon and A Question of Sport, has backed anti-trans asshat, Martina Navratilova. Buried in an lengthy interview in one of the Sunday papers this weekend, Barker said, “I just think you take away the young girls’ dreams, so I am definitely with Martina.” Nobody ever cares about the actual dreams being denied to trans people, only the imagined dreams of others.
“4 manias in 10 years” [source]
Genspect founder Stella O'Malley describes Covid lockdowns, ‘transgenderism’, #MeToo, and Black Lives Matter as ‘mania’s showing, once again, that they never hold just one bigotry.
Keep an eye out for…
As the UK General Election gets ever nearer (4 July), some politicians and the GC cult are trying to ramp up their attacks on trans people, and on Labour for showing a modicum of decency towards us. The main newspapers, as you can see in the Papers linked below, are still not providing space as they did before the election was called.
READ The Trans Agenda: The papers: 17 June - 23 June
Relatively speaking, it was another quiet week in the papers I monitor. Although they hit 16 articles this week, a 60% increase on last week, most of that was driven by the Mail on Sunday and JK Rowling, political guru that she is, saying she couldn’t vote for Labour. The drop-off in anti-trans opinion is still evident, and any pieces that did appear were from the publication’s own columnists rather than by the likes of Stock, Bindel et al. While they are still going to Sex Matters, For Women Scotland and the others for quotes for ‘news’ stories, space on opinion pages seems to be in short supply these days. See all the clips here.
AROUND THE WORLD
Transgender inmate killed in prison fight in Louisiana [Advocate]
Yella Clark, 45, an incarcerated Black transgender person, was killed in a fight with other inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., in April. Clark’s trans identity is just being widely reported now.
Texas doctor charged for leaking health records of transgender kids to far-right extremist [Advocate]
A Houston-based surgeon stands accused of betraying the privacy of transgender kids who weren’t under his care by stealing their medical information and handing it over to a far-right extremist who vehemently opposes transgender rights.
Federal judge blocks Title IX protections for transgender students in four states [Advocate]
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden Administration’s new Title IX rule banning anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in education in four states.
Research shows trans-inclusive bathroom policies are linked to lower assault rates against transgender students [Psychology Today]
Missouri's largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group is circulating a highly unusual warning, advising trans people and their families not to speak with NYT reporter Azeen Ghorayshi for an upcoming NYT podcast on gender-affirming care for youth. [Assigned Media]
Controversial baker takes his fight against transgender flag cake to Colorado Supreme Court [Pink News]
The Colorado Supreme Court has begun hearing arguments in the case of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who refused to bake a cake for a trans customer because of his religious beliefs. The cake had no words on it, just trans colours.
Emmanuel Macron has claimed that the New Popular Front will do “completely ludicrous things like [allowing trans people]…to change gender in town hall!” [BFMTV]
Sarah McBride will soon make history as the out first transgender congresswoman [Gay Today]
The last remaining challenger to Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride (D) in her race for the state’s lone US House seat dropped out this week, clearing the way for McBride to become the first out transgender person elected to Congress.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
A verdict in the trial against two women accused of defamation for repeatedly claiming that Brigitte Macron was transgender and actually her own brother is expected on September 12.
In a historic move that will align the country with its immediate neighbours, the High Court of Namibia struck down discriminatory laws that criminalised consensual same-sex intimacy.
Get your Ferrets for trans rights stuff here
TRANSWRITES YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
JK Rowling and the 16 dead children on NHS gender waitlists, by Gemma Stone
Trans people are the greatest assault on women in JK Rowling’s life time, apparently, by Gemma Stone
The 32 things The Cass Review recommends and why they are concerning, by Gemma Stone.
NHS & puberty blockers: Former GIDS patients reflect on long wait times, invasive assessments, by Sasha Baker.
The Cass Review: A government-sanctioned attack on trans lives, by Lee Hurley.
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