An Alberta judge has temporarily blocked the province’s ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors, ruling that denying trans-identified youth these interventions would cause “irreparable harm.”
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A Win for Reality at UPenn
The school has reinstated the records of female swimmers who lost their titles to trans-identified male swimmer Lia Thomas.
On Tuesday, the University of Pennsylvania reached an agreement with the Trump administration’s Department of Education regarding trans-identified male swimmer Lia Thomas’s participation on the women’s swim team. Following a federal investigation, the university has agreed to revise records set by Thomas and to restore titles and accolades to the female athletes he displaced. UPenn will also issue personal apologies to the affected swimmers, bar male athletes from competing in women’s sports, and adopt biology-based definitions of “male” and “female” under Title IX.
This correction was inevitable. Reality, in the end, reasserts itself. But the mainstream press hasn’t budged. Instead, they continue to misinform their readers, deploying headlines designed to obscure plain facts.
Transgender teenager’s German chess triumph prompts call for ban
A transgender teenager has caused an upset in German chess circles by winning an under-18 girls’ national tournament, prompting calls for tougher rules even in a sedentary sport that relies on brainpower.
Nora Heidemann’s victory to become German champion in the female category of the youth chess championship in Willingen this month was met with criticism from some players and from the head of the German commission for women’s chess, Nadja Jussupow.
Fry vs. Rowling
I guess I first became aware of Stephen Fry — the Cambridge-educated actor, author, and broadcaster who was knighted this year by King Charles — in the early 1990s, when he starred in a small, charming British film called Peter’s Friends, directed by Kenneth Branagh, and teamed up with Hugh Laurie in the very funny British series Jeeves and Wooster, based on the P.G. Wodehouse stories. I caught him as Oscar Wilde in Wilde (1997) — not bad — and, later, in supporting roles in major films from both sides of the pond.
The eyeroll that spoke for the nation
BBC newsreader Martine Croxall has given ‘trans-inclusive’ language the disrespect it deserves.
It was the eyeroll that spoke for the nation.
BBC newsreader Martine Croxall has gone viral, and earned a special place in our hearts, for giving ‘trans-inclusive’ language the disrespect it deserves.
BBC presenter reads “pregnant people” from the teleprompter and then corrects it to “women”.
Takes a brave, brave lady to do this at the BBC. pic.twitter.com/TXsmO6RHbW
— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) June 22, 2025
Amy Hamm: The rabbit rescue that refused to be cancelled for alleged transphobia
It’s June: the western world’s Holy Month of Pride, and, as such, we must all be on our best behaviour so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of gender activists — you know, the ones that occupy the latter half of the expanding LGBTQ2S+ acronym.
Unfortunately, the United Kingdom’s Carrot Cottage Rabbit Rescue somehow missed this memo. The registered charity drew the ire of Irish comedian and transgender rights activist Aidan Comerford this week, following an online attack by anonymous activists whose work caught Comerford’s attention. Comerford, whose X bio notes that he “generally tweets about what transphobia looks like,” astutely observed that the charity was committing the cardinal sin of following unapproved social media accounts on X.
Stephen Fry could do with a lesson in ‘radicalisation’
Stephen Fry has accused J.K. Rowling of being ‘inflammatory and contemptuous’, ‘mocking’ and adding to ‘a terribly distressing time for trans people’. Fry, who narrated the Harry Potter audiobooks, has damned their author for saying ‘cruel’ and ‘wrong’ things and for failing to ‘disavow some of the more revolting and truly horrible, destructive – violently destructive – things that people say’. He suspects that she’s been ‘radicalised by Terfs’, charged her with kicking up ‘a hornet’s nest of transphobia which has been entirely destructive’, and dismissed her as ‘a lost cause’.
Might I interrupt this lengthy damnatio memoriae to point out that Fry is supposed to be Rowling’s friend and to venture that, if she deserves to be rebuked for anything, it’s her godawful taste in friends. Fry, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson. The woman is like flypaper for airheads, dilettantes, and abject ingrates.
Disney‘s ‘Ironheart‘ Features Drag Queen ‘Robin Hood‘ Character Who Steals from the ‘Privileged‘
Disney’s upcoming super hero streaming series Ironheart, is set to bring a queer drag queen character to the Marvel universe of super heroes shows on the Children-friendly Disney+ platform.
The series, which follows Ri Ri Williams (Dominique Thorne) as she creates her ironman-like supersuit to fight evil, will also feature Marvel’s first drag queen character starring Ru Paul’s Drag Race contestant Shea Couleé, who will portray a computer hacker and drag queen codenamed “Slug.”
Austria’s Left Pushes for Jail Time For Those Opposing Trans Surgeries For Minors
Austria has been shaken by a legislative proposal that, if confirmed, would represent a true authoritarian shift: parents who refuse to allow their underage children to undergo genital modification surgeries (commonly known as “sex-change” procedures) could end up in prison. The measure has sparked a wave of outrage, with many seeing it as a direct attack on parental rights and plain common sense.
US tells states: Follow Cass Review in treatment of ‘trans’ children
The US government is pressuring states to halt funding for puberty blockers for children and follow the UK’s Cass Review.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which provides health coverage to more than 160 million Americans, urged directors to adopt the findings of the report, which concluded children who think they are transgender should not be rushed into treatment they may regret.
In a letter sent to medical directors, seen by The Telegraph, the agency said that Britain has “diverged” from the United States and that the National Health Service’s new approach is more effective.
‘We were forced to change in front of a man’
Eight nurses at the Darlington Memorial Hospital are suing their hospital trust for failing to provide a single-sex changing room. Thanks to the NHS’s transgender policies, the nurses were forced to change alongside a man who identifies as a woman. They claim that ‘Rose’ stared at them as they undressed, would linger for too long and, on one occasion, repeatedly asked a nurse, ‘Are you getting changed yet?’. Yet when the nurses raised concerns for their privacy, dignity and safety, they were chastised by HR for being insufficiently inclusive. Last year, they launched their legal case, supported by the Christian Legal Centre. Earlier this year, they established the Darlington Nursing Union to defend women’s rights in the workplace.
The fall of Pride is upon us
Gender ideology is the enemy of gay and lesbian rights.
The ghoulish, fleshy public spectacle that is Pride Month 2025 has little to say beyond exhibitionism and hedonism. It certainly has nothing to say about the UK Supreme Court ruling in April that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex – a ruling that upheld the lesbian and gay right to single-sex associations. It has nothing to say about the Supreme Court justices observing that, had the judgment gone the other way, the protected characteristic of same-sex orientation would be rendered ‘meaningless’. It offers no praise or thanks to the lesbian interveners in the Supreme Court case for fighting for lesbian and gay rights. In fact, it is angry that they did so.
Amy Hamm: FBI completely justified in targeting ‘gender-affirming’ doctors
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is asking the public for tips on hospitals or practitioners who are performing “gender-affirming” surgeries on minors. It’s illegal, and it’s mutilation, says the FBI.
Is the FBI fibbing about the law? To an extent.
The bureau’s announcement follows President Donald Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order, “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” which attempted to ban childhood medical transition by defunding any federally supported institution that carries out these procedures. The order was challenged in court, in an ongoing case called PFLAG v. Trump, and an injunction prevents its implementation.
Mia Hughes: Canadian Medical Association wants to force Alberta to ignore science on gender care
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has launched a legal challenge to Alberta’s recent ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for youth under 16 who identify as transgender. The CMA argues that Alberta’s Bill 26, enacted in December last year, violates physicians’ Charter right to freedom of conscience. This raises a pertinent question: If a doctor is compelled by conscience to subject vulnerable youth to unproven treatments despite growing evidence of harm, should governments intervene to protect patients?