The Times – Children as young as 10 to be given puberty blockers in NHS trial. The paper edition this morning has the headline “NHS trial to inject transgender children with puberty blockers” for this article – which, wisely, they’ve decided to change. Transgender children are a social contagion, not a medical category. Anyway… Dozens…

Photographer Anastasia Samoylova made the trip up the US east coast, from Florida to Maine. In 1954, the American photographer Berenice Abbott set out to document the historic US Route 1, predicting seismic changes to small towns and major cities along the road brought by the rapidly expanding Interstate Highway System. Inspired by Abbott’s acute…

Daniel Sugarman at Jewish News catalogues the increasingly febrile state of play within the pro-Palestinian movement, and particularly the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Hard-core antisemite David Miller, long-time friend of Iran and Hezbollah, appears to be gaining more influence, and now even Jeremy Corbyn is branded as a lily-livered friend of the Zionists. Perhaps the clearest…

That Julie Bindel-Helen Webberley debate. Added:

Benjamin Birely at the JC – How Italy became the dark heart of European Israel-hate: Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories and originally from a small town north west of Naples, appears frequently in Italian media, becoming a local “expert” voice on Israel. Her rhetoric, which frames the state of Israel…

Why the idea that you can just “pause” puberty is nonsense… Full lecture here.

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We’ve heard about Ally “Alexandra” Goebert before, back in February 2023. He’s the man who was denied access to the women’s section of a Korean New Jersey sauna and spa, where nudity is the norm, because….well, because he’s a man. Being a law school graduate, Goebert decided to sue. And it looks like he’s won.…

If the government aren’t interested in providing guidance, there are others who can. It is, after all, the law. All you need to know about workplace toilets, from Sex Matters: The Supreme Court judgment therefore means that all employers need to make clear in their policies that whenever a space is marked as being for…