Today I offer a new proposal on how the rights of theologically conservative faith-based schools can be reconciled with LGB rights. It is possible to have a win-win solution. abc.net.au/religion/patrick-…

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The Giggle case raises a fundamental issue of societal organisation, akin to whether the State will allow private property. Trans rights need to be accommodated where possible, but not at the expense of ignoring basic differences between sexes.@salltweets @aytchellesse @DoNoHarm79

A trans adult says trans issues should not be taught in schools. "All you do is confuse children by essentially marketing a way to be special and get attention." The marketing of trans-identification in primary schools must stop.

Singapore is the latest jurisdiction to examine the evidence and to ban puberty blockers and hormones for minors. Yet Australian gender clinicians persist in denying there is an issue. open.substack.com/pub/gender…

The tragic account of a young gay boy who was told with certainty by his medical specialists and others that he was 'born in the wrong body'. Now he is in a body that doesn't function the way that either a male or female body should. thefp.com/p/i-de-transitione…

This is a fascinating article by Michael Biggs and a colleague. Michael has done so much to expose falsehoods and misunderstandings about transgender issues in Britain. What this article shows clearly is that, while numbers are fortunately low, rather more transgender persons are perpetrators of homicide than are the victims of it. Yet you would not know this from media reporting, which has bought the line that transgender people are disproportionately murder victims. A must -read article correcting yet another misunderstanding.

If you want to teach at the University of Auckland, you’ll be pleased to know that it provides a safe, inclusive, and equitable environment for LGBTQIATakatāpuiMVPFAFF . Any suggestions what this stands for?

UPDATE ON IMPORTANT NEW FINLAND STUDY | Professor Kaltiala has responded to criticism of the Finnish study, which found that mental health may get worse after young people undergo medical gender transition. One critique of the study argues that psychiatric appointments are part and parcel of the gender-transition process in Finland and therefore may not point to serious psychiatric morbidity. In their paper, Professor Kaltiala and her colleagues acknowledged the limitation that their study could not analyse in detail why these patients needed psychiatric services. Asked about this issue, she told me that the healthcare register data used for the study included diagnoses and in-patient periods but not treatment nor information about a patient’s problems related to family life, romantic relationships or work. However, Professor Kaltiala said the young people seen by specialised psychiatric services in her country would have “severe disorders”. These services were focused on “those really in need”, consistent with national criteria for health equity. “In Finland, you do not get admitted to specialist-level services if you don’t have mental disorders at all or [have only] mild disorders and problems,” she said. “Primary-level services are available for needs related to milder disorders and psychosocial difficulties.” She said the gender-referred youth in the new study were much more likely than matched controls to have a history of severe mental disorders, often dating back some years before they reached the gender clinic. “Thus, many developed feelings of gender dysphoria in the context of severe disorders,” she said. “Severe mental disorders during adolescence generally have potential to complicate identity development. It rather seems that feelings of gender dysphoria are sometimes secondary to severe mental disorders.” If it were the other way around, and the mental disorders were secondary to the dysphoria, those disorders would be “expected to subside with medical gender reassignment”, according to the Dutch treatment protocol adopted internationally, she said. But this did not happen in the new Finnish study. Instead, the need for specialist psychiatric services—and therefore the scale of serious mental disorders—increased after medical transition, as the study by Professor Kaltiala and her colleagues reported. Updated news report ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/gender…

I guess they didn't teach these people about control groups in their gender studies degree.

In a world where true forgiveness is all too rare, the message of Easter is that we can be forgiven for the worst of sins, if only we accept that forgiveness from the crucified and risen Lord Jesus.

WPATH leader acknowledges that children are in the driving seat in being allowed to choose irreversible medical interventions. open.substack.com/pub/benrya…

It is about time those of us in progressive politics owned up to our failures. ·       We argued for social justice for all and ended up arguing it should only be for a favoured few identity groups. ·       We argued for women’s rights and ended up arguing men could be women and could occupy women’s spaces. ·       We argued for same-sex marriage and ended up with saying there are no sex-based rights. ·       We argued for renewable energy and ended up allowing giant, multinational energy companies to bulldoze thousands of hectares of our precious, high biodiversity forests for wind farms. ·       We argued for free speech and ended up by practising cancel culture. ·       We argued for multiculturalism and ended up believing that criticism of the practices of a minority culture is, necessarily, racism. ·       We argued that imperialism should be combated and ended up believing only US imperialism causes authoritarianism and repression.