More from the excellent Café Royal Books catalogue – here with photographer Douglas Corrance: [Photos © Cafe Royal Books/Dougls Corrance]

Julie Burchill on good form in the Spectator: Boyish girls, climb the nearest tree and give a Tarzan whoop of victory – girly boys, fashion a floral crown and caper copiously. Thanks to the Cass Report, failing to follow sexist stereotypes (which decree that girls play with dolls and boys play with themselves) will no…

Predictably: Amnesty International responds to the Cass Review, saying, “It’s concerning that sections of the media and many politicians continue to spread moral panic with no regard for the possible consequences for trans people and their families." The statement does not go into specifics. pic.twitter.com/wOO2BdRlmk — Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) April 12, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The big gap in the Cass Report, as Janice Turner in the Times notes, is the lack of data from the gender clinics that refused to cooperate: Imagine if 9,000 children who began treatment at the Tavistock Gids clinic (the NHS Gender Identity Development Service) were interviewed as adults. How did their lives pan out?…

Jack Delano, January 1943. "Nelson, Illinois. Chicago and North Western Railroad freight en route from Clinton, Iowa, to Chicago. Stopping for coal and water to give passenger trains the right of way." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]

BBC News journalist Charlie Walsham in the Spectator – How did the BBC get the trans debate so wrong? Regrettably, I believe there is a straight line between the BBC’s capitulation to extreme trans rights ideologues and the disturbing findings in Dr Hilary Cass’s 388-page report. Crucially, what Dr Cass has exposed was only able…

Meanwhile, in Texas: Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D): The moon is "made up mostly of gases" so we can soon live inside it, unlike the sun which is "almost" too hot to go near. pic.twitter.com/bSd9zXcEPo — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 9, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js More at the New York Post. The former top Democrat on the House…

Kathleen Stock at UnHerd – How a cult captured the NHS: Pity poor Dr Hilary Cass, the eminent paediatrician charged with managing an independent review of NHS gender services for young people, whose final report was published this week. Given the hair-trigger sensibilities of interested parties, she seems to have been unable to state unambiguously…

Remember the "non-binary" Canadian who went to court demanding that the taxpayer fund his visit to Austin Texas, where he'd get a vagina to go with his penis? – a "penile-preserving vaginoplasty". Well, he's won his case: An Ontario resident has successfully secured public funding for a specialized gender-affirming surgery argued to be "experimental" by…

There's Wes Streeting and his welcome volte face on trans issues after the Cass Report. On the other hand: Angela Rayner has declined to apologise for endorsing a charter describing feminist organisations that raised fears about the treatment of trans children as “hate groups”. When Ms Rayner stood to be the deputy Labour leader in…