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National Health Service (NHS) England has defended giving hormone blockers to children aged just 10-years-old, as an IT worker sues the public health service’s gender identity clinic for “rushing” young people into sex changes.

A Minnesota appeals court ruled Monday a school district cannot bar students who claim to identify as the opposite sex from using bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has signed a bill into law that allows individuals to pick their “gender identity” before their incarceration in a men’s or women’s prison.

Senators Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), James Lankford (R-OK), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) recently introduced a bill that will protect female athletes of all ages from being forced to complete against biological men.

Connecticut could lose federal funding for its policy to allow biological males to compete against biological females in sports competitions.

The Women’s Liberation Front has launched a petition to urge CA. Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto a bill allowing gender identity incarceration.

A parent with a gender studies degree wrote at Time her decision to allow her child to create a gender identity is a “gift” for both of them.

Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health, is still a man regardless of any claim to be a “transgender woman,” says Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.

A Catholic hospital is being sued by a transgender man who claims he was discriminated against because they would not perform a hysterectomy.

A style guide released by the Trans Journalists Association advises journalists to avoid common phrases such as “biological gender” or “opposite sex” in the name of inclusivity, urges them to generally avoid “narratives of detransition,” and encourages them to describe critical feminists as “transphobic” and “anti-trans.”

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Hungary must recognise the gender of an Iranian refugee who fled the country over their transgender identity.

Handprints on the streets of Edinburgh honouring Harry Potter author Joanne ‘JK’ Rowling have been vandalised following her comments against the “medicalisation” of trans kids. 

The Vatican delegation to the United Nations registered its dissent this week for a decision to smuggle the category of “gender identity” into a U.N. statement on refugees.

People’s “gender identity” is given to them by God and is directly tied to their biological sex, the Vatican has declared in a major catechetical text published this week.

Sen. Josh Hawley called the Supreme Court’s LGBT decision a “historic piece of legislation” that “marks a turning point for every conservative.”

The Supreme Court’s ruling on “gender identity” will lead to lawfare against religious schools, warned Hans von Spakovsky.

Proponents of liberty say the Supreme Court’s ruling on sex discrimination in employment settings usurped the powers of Congress and could pose a threat to religious liberty.

The Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of employment discrimination law to include sexual orientation and “gender identity” will create a wave of litigation, said Carrie Severino.

Franklin Graham said the Supreme Court overstepped its authority in a ruling making sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes.

The Trump administration released its final rule Friday that reversed the Obama administration’s definition of sex discrimination by eliminating both “gender identity” and “termination of pregnancy,” or abortion.

Lawmakers in Idaho last year passed the Idaho Vital Statistics Act, which does not allow people to change the sex identification on their birth certificate just because they “identify” as something other than their biological sex.

Activists have become angered after a German court ruled that citizens would not be able to change their gender to “non-binary” without medical and other supporting documents.

Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) office this week announced that the state’s health department, under transgender Health Secretary Rachel Levine, is focusing on gender identity and sexual orientation or expression in the state’s collection of coronavirus data.

The attorneys representing three female high school track and field athletes who are challenging rules allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports, said the judge in the case should recuse himself after he said transgender athletes cold not be referred to as “males.”

Hungary’s parliament has passed a declaration against signing the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women because it smuggles in provisions declaring gender a “social construct” and allowing “gender-based asylum claims”.

The Christian Institute has slammed World Health Organization (WHO) sexuality education guidance recommending that children under four should receive information about masturbation and their “right to explore gender identities”.

A London court ruled that a female-to-male transgender man, who gave up hormone therapy in order to conceive a baby, does not have the right to be listed as a father on the child’s birth certificate.

A group of individuals who say they don’t “identify” as male or female sued Brooklyn, New York, Democratic Party to end gender designations.

London mayoral candidate and former government minister responsible for prisons Rory Stewart has revealed that trans inmates raped female staff during his time in office. 

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department (DOJ) is backing a lawsuit by three female athletes who say their sex-based Title IX rights are violated by the forced inclusion of “transgender” males in their high school competitions.

The Idaho Senate voted Monday to approve the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (HB 500a), which would ban biological males who identify as female from competing on girls’ and women’s athletic teams.

Ben Carson told the House Appropriations Committee the rights of transgender individuals do not trump those of abused women in federally-funded homeless shelters.

An 18-year-old Wisconsin high school student was arrested Thursday for fourth-degree sexual assault, child enticement, and exposing his genitals to a child in the school’s gender-neutral bathroom.

A woman given gender reassignment therapy as a teen is suing the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust for having “rushed” her into the treatment.

Parents in Madison, Wisconsin are suing the school district over a policy that lets children change gender identity without parental consent.

The UK is expected to drop planned changes to the Gender Recognition Act that would have made it easier for children to change their gender.