UK media - Attempts to replace "sex" with "gender identity"

More than 250,000 people identify as transgender in England and Wales, according to census data that reveals the truest picture of gender identity to date. The

Labour leader’s vow to update rules on gender self-identification emerges in wake of controversial changes passed by Scottish Parliament

Nearly 8,000 public sector workers are focused solely on equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives, an analysis supported by 40 Tory MPs has found.The repor

Five years ago I would have supported the Bill but I’ve listened to concerns of lesbian, bisexual and heterosexual women and changed my mind

A leading UN official has condemned the SNP’s gender recognition reforms as posing a danger to women and urged Scottish ministers to postpone the legislation. R

Thousands of staff received email for ‘transgender awareness week’ containing list of banned terms such as ‘gender critical’

A flasher who hurled pizza and a skateboard during a series of public order offences has broken new legal ground by appearing in court as both a man and a woma

There are concerns that third-party companies are exposing schoolchildren to explicit content and contentious ideas about gender

Hundreds of respondents used the national census to protest against the Scottish government’s decision to allow people to self-identify their sex in the survey.

A speech to Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project My speech today is about equality and rights, and I’ve titled it, “conflict and the need for clarity”. Despite what our critics might say…

Women are being failed by the criminal justice system because it is too focused on transgender rights, a report claims.The work for the Policy Exchange think ta

Self-declaration of ‘gender identity’ rather than biological sex has been adopted by all key criminal justice institutions, think tank says

The government agency Disclosure Scotland has been accused of putting the rights of transgender people before public safety amid fresh warnings that gender refo

Scottish parents completing census forms are being advised they can assign the sex of their children, including toddlers, according to “what describes them better”.

A friend believes people divide into sheep and goats. The sheep will never stray too far from their flock’s received wisdom because lone dissenters are picked o

Police have been criticised for saying they will record rapes by offenders with male genitalia as being committed by a woman

Hundreds of nurses have called on their regulatory body to withdraw from a diversity scheme run by Stonewall, warning that affiliation with the charity risk

Nicola Sturgeon faces a court challenge over her plans to allow people to choose their gender in next year’s census.The Fair Play for Women organisation has op

Scottish ministers are being threatened with legal action over trans-inclusive guidance that would allow individuals to choose their gender for the national ce

Officials have been told to state their preferred gender pronouns in meetings at the Ministry of Defence, where a civil servant acts as a trustee of Stonewall.Dunni Alao was described as a “fierce proponent” of Stonewall’s agenda when she was announced as a trustee of the lobby group in June.She is

The Department of Health has quit Stonewall’s controversial diversity scheme, the latest high-profile organisation to distance itself from the lobby group whic

Girlguiding has been criticised for promoting asexuality awareness, causing some parents to threaten to withdraw their daughters from the group.The organisatio

BARRIERS to transgender people in Northern Ireland securing official acknowledgment of their preferred identity are to be removed by a settlement reached in a High Court challenge.

Plans to allow trans people to self-identify their gender in the Scottish census for the first time have been questioned by the statistics watchdog.Guidelines

Shon Faye’s book confirms that transgenderism is about control, not autonomy.

Scottish authorities are being urged to record suspected rapists by their natal gender amid claims that allowing male offenders to identify as women would “sign

Perhaps unsurprisingly, we find many promoters of trans identities are linked to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries

People will for the first time be able to self-identify their gender in the Scottish census next year — a change that critics insist “seriously harms” the quali

People in Scotland will be able to self-identify their sex in next year’s census, official guidance has said.

From the age of 11, Shon Faye was bullied for being a gay boy. On a school trip she woke to find a porn magazine open on her face. “I have had to learn,” she sa

When conceiving Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, Helen Joyce anticipated a rough ride. Sure enough, an initially interested literary agent who considered her

Scottish Government backing proposals to ask 8,000 workers to take a ‘pronoun pledge’ under transgender inclusivity plans

Helen Joyce’s new book, Trans, is a jaw-dropping look at a world gone mad

Helen Joyce, author, journalist and editor at The Economist, joins the FiLiA podcast to discuss her newly-released book Trans. An in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of gender identity theory, Helen writes about how these ideas impact our ability to speak about biological sex and what these devel

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Dr Helen Joyce, author, journalist and editor at The Economist, joins the FiLiA podcast to discuss her newly-released book Trans. An in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of gender identity theory, Helen writes about how these ideas impact our ability to speak about biological sex and what these de…

In this episode of The Critic Podcast, Jo Bartosch is joined by Helen Joyce to talk about her new book: Trans. Bartosch and Joyce discuss the ideology of the Trans movement, the influences behind this…

When the great trans wars hit town a few years ago the reaction of many good liberals was bewilderment. Why were there sudden bitter disputes about changing rooms and public loos? Why was Germaine

Britons should be allowed to state their gender as X on their passports instead of just male or female, the Supreme Court will hear today.Lawyers for Christie Elan-Cane, who identifies as non-gendered

Ofsted’s report on the use of overtly political teaching materials is welcome, but when will ministers intervene to stop indoctrination?

Woman claims her son was ‘groomed’ into taking hormone treatment by guidance from charities and media

Stonewall has been accused of using a workplace equality scheme to “coerce” publicly-funded organisations and companies to lobby for changes to the law.Documents show how the charity seeks to control

A police force has defended its use of public money after it emerged it had spent thousands of pounds sending its staff on a one-day training course on “what it means to be a more effective and

I was working at American Express in the heyday of Stonewall’s brilliant campaign for LGB equality at work. As a “Stonewall ambassador”, I was pleased and proud to support the Diversity Champions

Little more than 50 years ago, homosexual relations between men were a criminal offence. Such harsh legislation blighted lives and spread misery. Thankfully, British society has advanced a long way

Stonewall, the gay rights charity, has failed to stop a lesbian lawyer from suing it over allegations that it tried to silence her opposition to its policy on transgender rights.The campaign group

Free to Be? Only if you agree with Stonewall. In reality it has become single-mindedly focused on a particular and by no means universally accepted ap...

A Belfast court judgment has been hailed by as a “landmark” moment in UK transgender rights by influential campaign group Stonewall.

A row over transgender rights has prompted warnings that private and public organisations in Scotland are at risk of breaching equality laws.Stonewall promotes a “champions” scheme that helps hundreds

Imagine (in my case the effort is minimal) you are a gay man, and open about it. Thirty years ago this would have brought huge difficulties, attracted hostility, excluded you from many careers, and

Dr Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie of MurrayBlackburnMackenzie cast a critical eye over the Yogyakarta principles. Launched last week, the Scottish Green Party manifesto sets out a commitment to “enshrining the Yogyakarta human rights principles into Scots law”, as part of its…

A fortnight before President Biden took office, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that “mother”, “father”, “daughter”, “brother” and other gendered words to describe familial relationships would be

Questions about a person’s biology “should not be asked” according to draft guidelines from Scotland’s chief statistician, in a paper that has fuelled concern that sex is being increasingly erased