Just stuck an "i" in his name and he was ready to go. Kylie Small took 🥇in the women's 3/4 today at the Maverick Classic Crit in Grand Junction, CO. Kylie was born a male named Kyle and – against all odds – has managed to become a women's cycling champion. (Remember everyone: this is…

Tom Gross at Sapir: A few months before I graduated from Oxford, I was interviewed for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s prestigious two-year journalist trainee course. This was the best way at the time to secure a job at Britain’s most respected news broadcaster. A committee of five interviewed me. The chair asked whether there was…

The French are waking up: French Senators want to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, after a report described sex reassignment in minors as potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine”. The report, commissioned by the opposition centre-Right Les Republicains (LR) party, documents various practices by health professionals, which it…

It's one step forward – banning puberty blockers – then one step back – making it easier to get cross-sex hormones. From today's Sunday Times: The Tavistock Centre’s Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) is closing this month after a review by Dr Hilary Cass said it was “not safe”. Seventeen-year-olds who were on its 6,000-strong…

An interesting coda to yesterday's violent demo outside the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender conference. From the Mail: A CBBC presenter has been accused of leading a transgender rights mob that yesterday set off smoke bombs and tried to storm a conference on gender issues. Dr Ronx Ikharia, who presents Operation Ouch!, was…

Matt Ridley at The Critic reviews Dali Lang's new book Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control, which argues that the pandemic could probably have been prevented had the Wuhan authorities acted differently in the last days of 2019 and the first week of 2020. The authorities, as well as punishing…

Photographer Barry Lewis at Café Royal Books: [Photos © Cafe Royal Books/Barry Lewis] Barry Lewis previously – Butlins 1982.

A conference on child healthcare ambushed by violent protestors, shouting and letting off smoke bombs. London, today: Doctors at a gender-critical conference were ambushed by “aggressive” masked protesters who let off a smoke bomb and had to be held back by police. Dozens of officers were required to prevent the demonstrators gaining entrance to the…

And in Wales: Women’s rights charity FiLiA had booked a stand at Plaid Cymru Conference, hoping to use the opportunity to talk to delegates and Plaid Cymru politicians about a range of grass roots campaigns they support. With less than 48 hours to go, the charity was told that they would not be welcome, and…

At least that obscene Police Scotland event, where the assembled McPlods were confronted with the scenario of an activist called "Jo" who thought trans people should be sent to the gas chambers, is getting some attention. From the Telegraph: A fictional trans-hating character called “Jo”, who women’s groups claim is an offensive parody of JK…