Healthcare
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Former UUP leader who backed conversion therapy ban says Alliance proposals go ‘significantly beyond’ original pledge
David Thompson for the News Letter referred to Sex Matters’ warning that the weak evidence underpinning the UK Conversion Practices Bill is no...
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Health Secretary ‘uneasy’ over puberty blockers experiment on kids as MPs raise alarm over lack of support available to patients who detransition
“Mr Murray should differentiate himself from his predecessor Wes Streeting by listening to his conscience... He needs to call a halt to what... - Helen Joyce
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Labour claims of 75,000 conversion therapy victims ‘remarkably weak’
Daniel Martin for The Telegraph quoted analysis by Sex Matters showing that the cases presented by LGBT charity Galop to back its claim...
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Major maternity investigations spark backlash by referring to ‘birthing people’ and ‘birthing population’ rather than simply women
“Only women can become pregnant and give birth…They are mothers, not ‘birthing people’.” - Fiona McAnena
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Major maternity change announced after report on ‘heartbreaking’ NHS failures
“It’s a disgrace... someone decided to shoe-horn ‘birthing people’ into , presumably so as not to offend the... - Fiona McAnena
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NHS hospitals defy trans ruling
“The term ‘legal gender’ has no basis in law or medicine... NHS bosses think they can test the law by writing rules using... - Fiona McAnena
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Parents ‘risk jail’ if they try to talk child out of trans treatment
“Opponents of the bill have long warned the new law could criminalise doctors, teachers and parents for having conversations with children about whether... - Maya Forstater
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Puberty blockers ‘at risk of being treated like sweeties’
“There is no evidence to support Baroness Cass’s claim that the trial would reduce children accessing unregulated drugs.” - Maya Forstater
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Girls as young as 11 set to be handed puberty blockers
“The MHRA’s mission is supposedly to ‘put patients first’ in everything it does, and yet it is signing off on a trial that... - Helen Joyce
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Children as young as 11 to be given puberty blockers in controversial trial as furious campaigners urge courts to completely shut down ‘unethical experiment’
“How can such a young child, who has probably been coached in trans ideology online, possibly consent to such serious harms?” - Helen Joyce
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NHS puberty blocker trial to go ahead for children as young as 11
“It is already clear that puberty blockers are no solution to childhood gender distress, and that they cause unacceptable harm.” - Helen Joyce
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Controversial NHS transgender teens puberty blocker trial given green light despite court challenge
“It appears that gender ideology has broken yet another institution.” - Helen Joyce
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Lush’s trans tiger display ‘glorifies’ mastectomies
“That thousands of girls and young women in the UK have had healthy breasts cut off in an effort to look like men... - Helen Joyce
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NHS clinic withdraws cross-sex drugs for 78 children
“It should be obvious that messing with the healthy endocrine system of immature young people is not healthcare and should be stopped immediately.” - Fiona McAnena
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Labour’s new Health Secretary reverses his past claim that ‘trans women are women’ as he vows to protect single-sex spaces in NHS
“It's great to see that the new Health Secretary now understands he was wrong to unquestioningly repeat the slogan ‘trans women are women’.” - Maya Forstater
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NHS faces thousands of discrimination claims from female staff after tribunal finds it wrongly allowed transgender women to use single-sex toilets
“It’s shameful that it has taken the bravery of individual women such as the claimant in this case to pressure the NHS to... - Maya Forstater
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Labour to introduce long-delayed ‘trans-inclusive’ ban on conversion therapy – despite concerns it could criminalise parents and doctors
“The real targets of the proposed ban are parents, teachers, therapists and spiritual advisors who don’t subscribe to trans ideology, and don’t think... - Helen Joyce
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The decision-dodgers
Helen Joyce wrote for The Critic on how the fallout from the puberty-blocker trial shows what happens when politicians outsource policy choices that... - Helen Joyce
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Mixed-sex wards in NHS hospitals | Helen Joyce on LBC Radio
Helen Joyce joins Nick Ferrari on LBC to talk about Health Secretary Wes Streeting saying the government will introduce “trans-inclusive” spaces in NHS...
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Keir Starmer accused of treating women’s rights as ‘negotiable’ as Government continues to delay rules on single-sex spaces
“Women whose appearance has been altered through hormones and surgery to look like men, many of whom are young and vulnerable, need to... - Maya Forstater
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The woke NHS is obsessed with gender madness – we’re totally sick of it
Fiona McAnena wrote for the Daily Express on the fallout from nurse Jennifer Melle’s case against the NHS for “misgendering”, saying that the... - Fiona McAnena
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Gender-affirming hormone treatment for children halted by NHS
“This pause now needs to be made permanent, as part of the long road back to sanity on gender issues for the NHS.” - Helen Joyce
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Dundee University professor embroiled in puberty blocker storm after ‘support’ for Fife nurse
“We urge you to reinstate Professor George with a full apology in order to clear his name and to reassure your other staff... - Maya Forstater
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Official who halted puberty blocker trial removed over gender-critical views
“This is a scandal that undermines trust in medical regulation in the UK. It is also unlawful, contrary to your legal duty not... - Maya Forstater
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Clinics forced to share data of children who took puberty blockers
“It made no sense to put hundreds more children through the brutality of puberty suppression when no one had followed up the thousands... - Fiona McAnena
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NHS staff told they can use ‘Xey/Xem’ pronouns at work
“This is enforced speech and a ridiculous distraction for NHS staff. This isn’t just harmless virtue-signalling – it could put patients at risk.” - Fiona McAnena
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Puberty-blocker trial put on hold | Helen Joyce on Talk TV
Helen Joyce joins Julia Hartley-Brewer on Talk TV to discuss the decision to pause the Pathways puberty-blocker trial because of safety and ethical...
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Child puberty blocker trials paused after watchdog concerns
“We are delighted and immensely relieved that the MHRA has pressed pause on the puberty blockers trial. This badly designed experiment would have... - Maya Forstater
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Wes Streeting pauses controversial puberty blockers trial over safety concerns
“We sincerely hope that all organisations involved will heed the MHRA's warning and that the trial will ultimately be cancelled. The right way... - Maya Forstater
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NHS spent £600k in taxpayer cash fighting Darlington nurses in trans row
“The outrageous sum of £600,000 spent by NHS Darlington Trust to defend its policy of allowing trans-identifying men into female changing rooms highlights... - Helen Joyce
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NHS Fife accused on claim smear tests are for ‘anyone with a cervix’
“NHS Fife bosses clearly haven’t learnt even the most basic lessons in biology since one of its male doctors claimed he was a... - Fiona McAnena
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Puberty-blocker trial paused pending review | Fiona McAnena on Talkback
Fiona McAnena joins William Crawley on Talkback BBC Radio Ulster to discuss Mike Nesbitt’s decision to suspend Northern Ireland’s participation in the UK-wid...