A Week in the War on Women: Monday 26th July - Sunday 1st August GOOD NEWS SUPPLEMENT

South Korean Women’s Olympic Archery Team With Their Gold Medals

Women Won’t Wheesht Down Under

The Australian Liberal Party has endorsed women’s sex-based rights at both state and national level.

Finland’s U-Turn On Puberty Blockers

Last year the Finnish Health Authority issued guidelines which back psychotherapy, rather than puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, as the first-line of treatment for children with dysphoria. The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine has just published a review of this important about-turn in policy.

Genspect @genspect

bioedge.org/bioethics/poli… Finland's U-turn on the "gender affirmative" model of care.

bioedge.orgBioEdge: Policy shift in Finland for gender dysphoria treatmentExperts are sceptical about the evidence base for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones

”The Finnish gender identity services program is a worldwide leader in paediatric gender medicine. The 2020 Finnish guidelines represent a strong signal that the pioneers of paediatric medical transition are concerned about unintended harm to the growing number of gender dysphoric adolescents presenting for care.”

Auntie On The Naughty Step

The BBC has upheld a complaint about an article on the treatment of dysphoric kids.

Genspect @genspect

This is an important decision from the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit, finding a lack of balance in the BBC's reporting on the Keira Bell case, and also criticising the repeated reference to suicide in such reports.

spectator.co.ukBBC (finally) upholds complaint on gender-transitioning article | The SpectatorThe BBC has had its fair share of reporting controversies in recent years. But transgender issues have been a particularly difficult issue for the Corporation, with one video being lampooned (and then quickly retired) in January for telling children there are ‘over 100 genders.’ One article that ca…

In December 2020 the BBC published an online article about the High Court ruling over prescribing puberty blockers to minors in the Keira Bell case. It was written by the then LGBT correspondent (and friend of Stonewall), Ben Hunte. The article contained a number of glaring untruths about the use of puberty blockers and claimed that the High Court’s decision could cause dysphoric children to commit suicide.

After seven months and two attempts to deny the charge, the BBC has (finally!) upheld the complaint. It has amended the article, excising quotes from Helen Webberley and Adrian Harrop, and admitted that the piece was one-sided and risked endangering vulnerable people.

The Bleedin’ Obvious

The IOC has admitted that its guidelines on the inclusion of trans-identified athletes are not fit for purpose.

The IOC’s medical and science director, Dr Richard Budgett, has acknowledged the current regulations, devised in 2015, ‘were no longer backed by science’. A new framework is to be put in place within the next two months.

That Money Was Just Resting In My Account

TENI, Ireland’s powerful trans lobby group, has lost substantial funding thanks to its financial irregularities.

The Burkean @TheBurkeanIE

"In an email seen by The Burkean, officials from the HSE expressed concern over growing controversy at TENI’s failure to file orderly financial accounts"

theburkean.ieTENI’s Troubles: Ireland’s Largest Trans NGO Has Funding Suspended Over Accounting Irregularities | The BurkeanDark clouds have appeared over the nation’s most vociferous trans advocates TENI Ireland, with a decision by the HSE to terminate public funding over flawed accounting. In emails seen by The Burkean, TENI, a regular feature on the NGO circuit, …

TENI (Transgender Equality Network Ireland) failed to file its accounts for 2019. As a result, the Health Service Executive, which has gifted TENI €1.3 million since 2014, has suspended its funding. Similarly, philanthropic organisation, Rethink Ireland, has rethought its €40,000 worth of grant money this year.

The Witch They Cannot Burn

Another belter from Sandy.

Sandy Draws Badly @SandyDrawsBadly

We’re going on a witch hunt, we’re going to catch a big one, it’s such a beautiful day...

And Finally…

Andrew R @ExcelPope

I don't know about the rest of you, but this is a guide to how I read TRA arguments on here.