Tag: gender

UK Supreme Court Upholds Policy of No Gender-Neutral Passports

A campaigner has lost a Supreme Court challenge against the UK government over its policy of not allowing gender-neutral passports. Christie Elan-Cane, who has campaigned for more than 25 years to achieve legal and social recognition for non-gendered identity, brought a case to the UK’s highest court in the latest round of a legal battle…


Identity Politics

In this episode of “Counterculture” with Danielle D’Souza Gill, we explore the problems with the Left’s paradigm of identity politics. Are we are more than simply our race or gender, or are we are defined by our values and actions? D’Souza Gill compares America to the rest of the world, showing the differences between how…


UK Court Ruling Limiting Puberty Blockers for Children Overturned

Britain’s Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court ruling which limited the use of puberty-blocking drugs for children. The High Court ruled in December 2020 that children under the age of 16 lacked capacity to give informed consent to medical treatment which delays the onset of puberty. The ruling said it was “highly unlikely”…


Taliban: Women Can Study in Gender-Segregated Universities

KABUL, Afghanistan—Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the higher education minister for the ruling Taliban terrorist group said Sunday. The minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, laid out the new policies at a news conference, several days after Afghanistan’s new…


Multiple Amicus Briefs Support College’s Challenge of Biden Administration’s Order to Have Unisex Living Quarters

Attorneys representing College of the Ozarks’ challenge of a Biden administration order that students share unisex living quarters are cheered by something that doesn’t often happen. “By far, in nearly any case, any appeal at any level of court in the federal and state system, it’s very rare to have any amicus briefs at all,”…


Facts Matter (Aug 6): 2-Year-Long Investigation Results in 205,000 People Removed from Voter Rolls in Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, the election commission there just removed 205,000 people from their voter rolls. This was something that a conservative group was suing for a full year ago. Meanwhile, the American Medical Association just released a recommendation, suggesting that birth certificates should no longer list the gender of the baby. And lastly, in Florida, a…


American Medical Association Faces Backlash for Calling to Remove Sex From Birth Certificates

The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest organization of physicians and medical students in the United States, came under fire over the weekend for a recent proposal calling to end the designation of sex on birth certificates. The proposal (pdf), which was adopted by the by the AMA’s board of trustees in June, states that…


Today’s Youth Are Captivated by Dissociation

Commentary In less than a decade, what has been called a “transgender human rights movement” has morphed from stories about children and young people being born in the wrong body, to kids with “gender identity disorder” to “gender incongruence,” and now to “gender expression,” complete with its own line of make-up, fashion models, body scars…


You Have a Right to Be Transgender. You Don’t Have a Right to Expose Yourself to Women.

Commentary How many examples could one give to show what a sick world left-wing activists, the media, and the Democrats—the left’s political party—have wrought? The number is equal to the number of policies they advocate. There is no more obvious example than their position on the display of a penis in front of girls and…


Appeals Court Overturns Anti-Misgendering Law in California on First Amendment Grounds

A California appeals court struck down as unconstitutional a state law that penalized elder care workers for using pronouns inconsistent with elderly long-term care patients’ claimed gender identity. Gender identity is a disputed concept. A lack of linguistic clarity has clouded the issue in recent years as the concepts of sex and sexual identity, or gender,…