Our Chair: “The Lib Dems have taken women for granted for too long. Voters deserve a straight, explicit answer: do the Liberal Democrats believe women have a right to single-sex spaces based on their biological sex, or not?” Thank you @Daniel_J_Martin https://t.co/YFW6zS1rkS
🚨BREAKING🚨: Detransitioner Camille Keifel has been awarded $3.5 million after her lawsuit against two Oregon therapists settled days before the trial was set to start last month.
Camille was allegedly approved by these therapists for a double mastectomy in 2020 after two telehealth sessions. One more domino has fallen, and we can’t wait for more to fall!
Last summer we had a visit from a young bloke who's currently at uni.
I said something casually 'terfy' and he tried to pull me up on it. So I just started asking him questions.
He couldn't answer any of them. After about 5 or 6 questions he blurted out "Look, I dunno. We're not allowed to discuss any of this. I just don't want to ruffle feathers."
So fear + ignorance. That's what's being measured.
The BBC’s failure to cover the GIDS scandal has been a serious dereliction of its public duty.
After resigning as a governor of the Tavistock, I was involved behind the scenes in the 2019 Panorama programme on GIDS. The producer warned me I might be disappointed the programme would expose only one part of the scandal, not the whole story. That warning told me everything I needed to know about the BBC’s problem with impartiality on this issue.
When Sue Evans and Keira Bell won the first judicial review, there was no serious follow-up from the BBC News, Woman’s Hour, or other major outlets. Nor was there adequate coverage of one of the most important findings of the Cass Review: the poor quality of the evidence base behind medical interventions for children and adolescents with gender distress.
Instead, the BBC repeatedly broadcast positive stories about transition while failing to investigate the harms, uncertainties, and institutional failures surrounding this field. Sue and I have seen some of the casualties. Parents have been badly let down by professional bodies that lacked the courage or independence to challenge the affirmative model none of which received the scrutiny a public broadcaster exists to provide.
With honourable exceptions in Newsnight and the Today programme, the BBC has failed young people, failed parents, and failed in its most basic public duty.
Not all young women. Not by any means. And any 'consensus' is meaningless when the price of disagreement is harassment and social exile. You're not measuring opinion, you're measuring fear.
🇮🇳🩸👩🏽🌾Les travailleuses de la canne à sucre en Inde SE FONT RETIRER l’utérus pour ne plus manquer une journée de travail.
Dans le district de Beed (Maharashtra), des ouvrières de la canne à sucre subissent des hystérectomies pour ÉVITER LES ABSENCES liées aux règles, aux grossesses ou aux fausses couches. Dans le système de travail « jodi », les couples sont surendettés et TRAVAILLENT jusqu’à 14 HEURES PAR JOUR, sans congés ni protections, poussant certaines femmes à voir cette opération comme une solution pour continuer à travailler.
Malgré des enquêtes menées en 2019 révélant plus de 13 000 HYSTÉRECTOMIES dans le district de Beed et des promesses de réformes, les militants dénoncent un manque de changements concrets. Les conditions de travail extrêmes, le MANQUE D’HYGIÈNE et la pression de certains médecins FAVORISENT ces opérations.
Les autorités locales, sous pression médiatique, ont lancé de nouvelles enquêtes et PROMETTENT DES MESURES, mais les activistes estiment que le système reste inchangé.
(The Guardian)
I assume there is now a high-level police investigation into the Maudsley rape cover-up? Looking into those that aided and abetted a serious crime, and those that perverted the course of justice?
Comedy palate cleanser. Robert Jenrick about to grandstand but reminded of his defection from one party to another this year is gold. The timing. First line great. Second line superb but crowd not recovered from the first to fully appreciate it 😊
@SteveChalke@AudreySuffolk Gender neutral toilets in secondary schools where young girls are coming to terms with periods was always and unwise concept that created social and emotional insecurites; but you still installed them in Oasis schools.
"My speech symbolises the fact that not all students - and not all young women - are willing to going along with this absolute LIE that men and women are, somehow, interchangeable categories."
Watch my interview with @Alexarmstrong on @GBNEWS
I can’t congratulate @RobBurl enough for the work he’s done here. It was a swamp of transactivism, other former BBC news leaders will be looking back over their records nervously, and it’s not over yet. Ppl have receipts.
I will rinse the idea of conversion practices through the child development wash up. Do NOT be surprised if the evidence shows that inserting ideas about the existence and nature of gender identity into children's heads emerges as an abusive conversion practice.
If a man's testosterone dropped to menopausal levels overnight...He'd be hospitalized. But when a woman loses her progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone, has a sluggish thyroid & insulin resistance? She's told to go vegan, do more cardio & take magnesium. Meanwhile, her metabolism tanks, joints ache, and brain fog sets in. This isn't wellness. It's medical gaslighting.
Zack Polanski has claimed "two-party politics is dead", while also saying "the new politics is the Green Party versus Reform", an odd numerical mistake for someone who has 'Head of Quantum Mathematics at NASA' on their CV
Norway might be onto something big.
They lock students’ phones and tablets away on arrival and return them at the end of the day. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre reports kids actually love it: more actual play during breaks, girls no longer afraid to shower after gym, and noticeably better social interaction overall.
A study from Sara Abrahamsson at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health showed the policy cut girls’ need for psychological specialist visits by nearly 60%, improved GPAs, and reduced bullying by 46% for girls and 43% for boys.
Right now in 2026, Norway is expanding mobile-free school guidelines and preparing a full social media ban for under-16s by the end of the year.
This fits a global wave: 114 countries (58% worldwide) now have national phone restrictions in schools, up from just 24% in 2023. France has enforced bans since 2018, the Netherlands saw 75% of secondary schools report better concentration after their 2024-2025 rollout, Poland is implementing primary school bans from September 2026, and similar moves are active in Italy, Belgium, China, South Korea, and Australia.
Giving kids phone-free space during school hours is one of the highest-leverage, lowest-cost interventions we have for attention, social skills, and mental health. The results speak louder than the convenience arguments.
What do you think — should more countries follow Norway’s lead with strict phone-free school policies, or is it too late in our connected world?