Another powerful demolition of the puberty blocker trial, here from Andy Lewis at Reality’s Last Stand (via): Ethical trials require a clear intent to answer a scientific and clinical question that can inform future treatment decisions. It is hard to see what that question is. The trial is formally to test a treatment for “gender…

Ben Appel grew up in a cult in Baltimore, the Christian Lamb of God. It was particularly uncomfortable for a somewhat effeminate boy. Later, after realising he was gay, he enrolled at Columbia University to study writing. He found the same problem, in a different guise. Julie Bindel talks to him, in the Telegraph: But…

This morning:

Twisting the yellow star is just the next step in their sick ideology. Weaponizing the Holocaust against Jews and Israel is Holocaust inversion. It is an act of hate, that does nothing for Palestinians. For far too many, “Free Palestine” is an excuse for loud, proud and public antisemitism.

Today, the city of Dublin voted to remove the name Chaim Herzog Park and change it to the Free Palestine Park. There is nothing progressive about the Free Palestine cause. It is an old hate with a new flag. Update: the motion to rename Herzog Park has been withdrawn.

A benefit concert for Jolyon Maugham, no less. Ian McKellen? I wonder how many of these people know what the Good Law Project is really about – ie, wealthy lawyer Maugham’s deranged obsession with trans. And how many are actually booked, and will make an appearance. Probably about the same as the Good Law Project’s…

The Times – Nike criticised for allowing men in night race aimed at women: It was as Mara Hafezi watched the first wave of runners line up for Nike’s latest After Dark race aimed at women that she noticed something wasn’t quite right. The 10km event, held last Sunday evening around the Excel centre in…

Baroness Cass has, regrettably, stated her belief that the puberty blocker trial is vital. Unfortunately the trial as currently conceived will provide no solid evidence one way or the other. In fact it seems to be set up precisely to provide a positive answer: taking children already schooled in gender-speak, asking them soppy questions about…

“…is essentially the Bible for the study.” So… The primary outcome measurement is a screening tool called the KIDSCREEN 10. What is this screener? 10 questions that really get to the heart of whatever gender incongruence is: That’s the primary outcome measure! “Have you felt sad?” Have you had fun with your friends?” Page 77…

A drizzly walk through Queen’s Wood and Highgate Wood this morning – some views, some gnarly hornbeams: