Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator, on Holocaust remembrance 81 years after the liberation of Auschwitz: How many Jews do you think there are in the world? Out of 8.1 billion people alive today, we are just 0.194 per cent of the world’s population. There are only around 15.7 million of us. The worldwide Jewish population…

Mia Hughes: In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood. This was an entirely new patient population. Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube…

Hannah Barnes in the New Statesman on the puberty blocker trial: Patient information sheets given to parents and children who are considering participating in an NHS-backed puberty blocker trial do not provide a clear or accurate account of the balance of risks and benefits of puberty suppression, a group of healthcare professionals argue. The Clinical Advisory Network on Sex…

The last hostage has been returned.

“….it’s somehow too “normative” to desire a child whose development you haven’t fucked up.” Here’s the 2023 paper – co-authored by Sally Hines. We shouldn’t be so concerned about the “normative” development of babies when the all-important issue of the validation of pregnant woman who take testosterone is concerned. Yes really. It’s over-hyped, this business…

Portraits – closer than your average bird photos – from photographer Marvin Heinzel: [All images © Marvin Heinzel]

Meanwhile, in Clapham: The founder of a women’s society at the University of Cambridge is threatening legal action against a pub in what campaigners say may become a test case on the rights of gender-critical customers. Thea Sewell, a philosophy student, is one of three female students who last October set up the Cambridge University…

Not just the BBC, then….