State-backed gender medicine, now, in the US – A Doctor Told the Truth. The Feds Showed Up at His Door: Eithan Haim, 34, is at the beginning of his career as a surgeon. He and his wife are expecting their first child in the fall. And now he is facing a four-count federal felony indictment…

Jake Wallis Simons in the JC – Hamas’s strategy relies on complicity of western media: The disgrace of all this is that Hamas has never hidden its evil – in fact, it has revelled in it, videoed it and beamed it out to the world – and makes no secret of its strategy. The terror…

Epitome of the patronising politician mouthing vacuous pieties when he's after your vote. Keir Starmer has pledged to end the Tory culture wars if he becomes prime minister. In an exclusive interview, the Labour leader told HuffPost UK that people are “exhausted” by the political battles over issues such as trans rights. And he said…

As I noted yesterday, the BBC is happy to place casualty figures supplied by Hamas as front-page news. The Beeb, of course, is far from alone in pushing a Hamas line: across western media it's generally the same story. And never more so than with the latest hostage rescue… From Honest Reporting – Biased Coverage…

Sometimes it takes a young person with bravery and a moral compass to shame a society. Well done Akiva for standing tall and facing down the mob pic.twitter.com/nIYzTEwAn3 — Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) June 10, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

From the Daily NK: In 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, the women serving life sentences in Kaechon Prison Camp had to focus on producing export goods such as knitwear, wigs and false eyelashes, even though they were suffering from hunger and illness. The workshop of the prison camp urged the women inmates to…

File under "brave but foolish". A Pakistani man who tried to set up the nation's first gay club has been thrown into a mental hospital, after religious conservatives claimed he only did so after coming back from the UK. The man, who was not identified by the Telegraph, filed an application to set the club…

From the Mail: Police chiefs are under fire for failing to stop transgender officers being allowed to strip-search women. After an outcry earlier this year, the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) withdrew guidance permitting biological males identifying as female to intimately search women. It said it was launching a 'thorough' review of the rules, while…

May 9, 1913. "Detroit City Gas Company, north end of gas holder." [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Company] With Erection Car no.9 helping to put the pieces together.

David Walsh in today's Sunday Times has been reading Doriane Coleman’s new book On Sex and Gender — A Commonsense Approach, with her discussion of the old East European tradition of doping female athletes. Coleman had some experience of the difficulties. On a July afternoon in Munich in 1983, she competed in an international 800m…