Violent domestic abusers exploiting Spain's "progressive" gender identity laws – a familiar tale: Spain’s Minister of Family, Youth, and Social Affairs in Madrid is raising alarm bells after locating multiple cases in which men convicted of domestic violence changed their legal gender identity. In a letter issued to the Minister of Equality, Ana Dávila-Ponce de…

In which the discussion on Lebanese TV reaches new levels of idiocy: "The [Israeli] army has been depleted, and they need [new] active forces. Would you believe it that in the year 2000…  A friend who used to live in Brazil has told me that in Brazil, as you know, there are three phenomena the…

Why, asks Patrick West at Spiked, did it take so long to ban puberty blockers? The trick, from groups like Stonewall and Mermaids, was to persuade people that trans liberation was the next step in a narrative of liberation: The thinking among many has been that, ever since the Enlightenment, we have been on an…

From the Telegraph: A teenage mental health service funded by the NHS is being investigated by health officials, amid accusations it is promoting the trans agenda and allowing the spread of dangerous anorexia advice. The Kooth website, which is aimed at children aged 11 to 18, describes itself as an “online mental wellbeing community”. But officials are…

The fuss over Justin Webb rumbles on. Last year the Today presenter, talking about trans players in chess, said "trans women, in other words males”. You might think it was a useful clarification since a lot of people are never quite sure which way round it is – are trans women men presenting as women,…

When a relative turns out to be a defector living in South Korea. From the Daily NK: A family in the Sosong District of Pyongyang was banished from the city in early March after it came out that a family member had defected to South Korea, Daily NK has learned. “The family was banished after…

Well now. A BBC report from November 2014 – The gay people pushed to change their gender: Iran is one of a handful of countries where homosexual acts are punishable by death. Clerics do, however accept the idea that a person may be trapped in a body of the wrong sex. So homosexuals can be…

Astonishing. The police in Scotland, it seems, are getting themselves all fired up on trans ideology, ready for the draconian new hate crime law. From the Telegraph: Scottish police have been accused of targeting JK Rowling by inventing a fictional character called “Jo” who thinks that sex is binary and bizarrely calls for transgender people to be…

From the Times: A lawyer and the government department she works with are being sued after she made gender-critical statements at work, including expressing the belief that only women menstruate. Elspeth Duemmer Wrigley works at an arm’s-length body affiliated to the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) and is a chairwoman of a…

Joan Smith on the case of Amy Hamm and the ideologically captured polity of Canada: Amy Hamm is a Canadian nurse. Yesterday was the final day of hearings into a disciplinary case against her, which has dragged on for 18 months. It’s been a nightmare for Hamm, but it’s also a test case of how…