Category: Safeguarding
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Men in Scottish Women’s Prisons Unlawful
“We are thrilled with the result, but it should never have come to this.” The Scottish government’s policy of putting men in women’s prisons has today been ruled unlawful. A judicial review found in favour of the campaign group For Women Scotland, who argued the current Scottish Prison Service policy of taking into account a…
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NHS: Gender Doctors Harmed Children
An NHS investigation into the activities of WellBN – a Brighton GP surgery which prescribed cross-sex hormones to children – has found it caused “actual potential harm” to its young patients and “fell substantially below” the professional standards of care required. A Patient Safety Investigation Report, completed on 8 May, but published on the NHS…
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Gender Clinic Investigation Stays Secret
A parent taking the WellBN gender clinic in Brighton to court over the treatment of his child has lost his bid to see the results of a recently completed investigation into potential malpractice at the clinic. The report was commissioned in June last year. As part of its scope, investigators were asked to: Their report…
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FTC boss to detransitioners: Your Voice is Heard
It’s quite a coup to get one serving member of any government to a Genspect event let alone two. I have written up the views of Admiral Christine, Donald Trump’s Assistant Health Secretary, who gave the keynote speech at this year’s Life Beyond Transition conference in Washington DC. The second member of the Trump administration…
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US Health Admiral: gender surgery must be ‘eradicated like the plague it is’
Donald Trump’s Assistant Secretary for Health today vowed he would “not stop” until the “barbaric practice” of gender surgery for children in the United States is “eradicated like the plague it is.” Admiral Brian Christine was speaking on Thursday at Life Beyond Transition 2026 – a one-day conference bringing together the largest ever gathering of…
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Let’s All Go To The Lobby
I could not attend the Women’s Rights Network’s “Do No Harm” lobby day in Parliament on Tuesday, but my friend Susi could, and did. I am grateful to her for writing up the experience for the GenderBlog: “10 March 2026, and an unfamiliar ball of fire was hanging in the sky above Westminster Palace. A…
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Puberty blocker JR stayed till July
The government’s attempt to stay James Esses, Keira Bell and the Bayswater Group’s judicial review (JR) of the Pathways Puberty Blocker trial has succeeded. There will now be an eight week pause in proceedings to give the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and King’s College London (KCL) a chance to discuss the issues…
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All the Red Flags
I am grateful to an Aussie correspondent for drawing my attention to the work of Minus 18, a state-sponsored LGBTQIA+ concern, which exists to create an “Australia where all young people are safe, empowered, and surrounded by people that support them”. Minus 18 was founded by a man called Colin Roland Billings who, at the…
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Mandy Clare: V for Victory
On the day I speak to her, Mandy Clare should have been in court, standing trial for assault by beating and criminal damage. Instead she is reflecting on a horrendous few months which saw her arrested, charged and suspended from her job simply for – in her view – doing her job as a local…