🗣️It’s #ROGDAwarenessDay! And this is my beautiful overcomer daughter… Three years ago: she was a quiet, quirky, artistic 12-year-old girl who had just moved to a new state & new school at the height of covid. Unbeknownst to us, my girl was being groomed at school by a… pic.twitter.com/VTj6dZKZtd — Erin for Parental Rights (@Erin4Parents)…

Another sad tale of gender kiddies and their distraught parents who, post-Cass, can't get those lovely puberty blockers. In the Guardian, unsurprisingly. One of the kiddies knew he was trans at the age of three, and was referred to child mental health services at the age of six. Those clever parents, spotting the problem so…

There's a long and depressing read from George Chesterton in the Telegraph today on the Jewish experience here since the Hamas pogrom – ‘Friends no longer speak to me’: How it feels to be a British Jew after October 7: It wasn’t just the world that changed the day Hamas attacked Israel on October 7…

From Human Rights Watch: The Taliban have created the world’s most serious women’s rights crisis since taking power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. Afghanistan is also experiencing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with aid severely underfunded, thousands of Afghans forced back into Afghanistan from Pakistan, and thousands of others expecting to emigrate to…

Jack Delano, March 1943. "Albuquerque, New Mexico. Men working on the firebox of an engine in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]

I gave up on the London Review of Books long ago, and this article on the Olympic boxing row by Mireia Garcés de Marcilla is not about to change my mind. It is no surprise, and certainly not a coincidence, that non-Western athletes have been unfairly and disproportionately targeted by eligibility rules. Compulsory gender testing…

Arezoo Badri, a 31 year old mother of two, has been left paraplegic after being shot by the Islamic regime over hijab. Arezoo was driving in Northern Iran with her sister on July 22, when police flagged her car over a confiscation notice for violating hijab laws. To be clear,… pic.twitter.com/qUqjXcZGRa — Elica Le Bon…

Over the past few years we've seen a number of academics – mostly women, mostly gender critical – having to fight to protect their livelihoods and their right to speak their minds. It's a fraught, expensive business. The last government's Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 was an attempt to put that right, but…

Jo Bartosch at Spiked on the church of trans dogma: The Reverend Dr Bernard Randall didn’t piss in the font or gamble away the collection-plate money. No, he did something far worse in the church’s eyes – he preached traditional Christian views to students at Trent College, a private school in Derbyshire, where he was…

If there was a scandal involving Elon Musk – and, let's face it, the chances are fair to good – would it come to be known as Elongate?