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“The current model is not sustainable and another model is needed”: Interim Report of Cass Review welcomed by families with transgender-identified children, reports Gary Powell
The independent Cass Review of gender identity services for children and young people this morning published its interim report to...
The Government’s Conversion Therapy consultation ends this Friday and Sex Matters – a great ally to lesbian and gay people – have made it easy to respond, reports Gary Powell
In October 2020 there was a development that has proved to be a game-changer in the battle to defend sex-based...
Claire Heuchan: How do we find more lesbian spaces?
How do we find more lesbian spaces? For the duration of my twenties, this question has weighed on me more...
Shereen Benjamin on Stonewall: “It is alarming that City of Edinburgh councillors would affiliate their council to this increasingly discredited organisation.”
In a spectacular failure to read the room, Edinburgh City Council voted last week to join Stonewall’s Diversity Champions Scheme...
Gary Powell: Why Conservative backbench MPs should demand that Boris Johnson cancel the “Safe To Be Me” international LGBT conference
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is up against the ropes. "Partygate" has been the last straw for many Conservative MPs, and...
Lesbians United on taking back the narrative
Lesbians United have today announced their 2022 Messaging Guide which lays out a strategy for combating sexism and homophobia with...
The accidental step mum by Deborah Evans: “Here’s the strange thing, children allow you to heal those childhood wounds. In parenting them, I parent myself.”
There are moments – usually early in the morning at weekends, when groggily watching a TV programme about felt hamsters...
“Don’t feed the trolls, engage more with the lesbian community and remember to switch off!”: Kat Howard reveals her New Year’s Resolutions for 2022
2021 has been an eventful year, I think we can all agree. I’d hate to be the person who’d have...
A gay man’s long battle to clear his name after 1995 arrest for ‘importuning’ as government expands official pardons, reports Jo Bartosch
The word ‘importuning’ sounds faintly ridiculous; an obscure term from an era when table legs were covered lest they elicit...
Professional Judy: “Why are you wearing a boy’s uniform?” That question has stayed with me since it was first asked by my chemistry teacher in front of a packed class when I was just 13 years old.
“Why are you wearing a boy’s uniform?” That question has stayed with me since it was first asked by my...
US rapper Kurtis Tripp talks to Dennis Kavanagh about conversion therapy at 13, the pressure to identify as trans and his journey back as a gender critical gay rights activist
American rapper and musician Kurtis Tripp has been on a journey from trans rights advocate to gender critical gay rights...
“Voters don’t want a situation where women can’t talk about being women,” says Tony Blair as MP Rosie Duffield talks about lack of support from Labour leadership
Sir Tony Blair has urged the Labour Party to respond to voters and rethink its position on women and transgender...
Gary Powell: Why Conservative backbench MPs should demand that Boris Johnson cancel the “Safe To Be Me” international LGBT conference
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is up against the ropes. "Partygate" has been the last straw for many Conservative MPs, and...
Neale Hanvey MP: “What these polls tell us is that Nicola Sturgeon can’t wish away public opinion and suggest she could face a serious public backlash for her self-ID crusade.”
You would need to have been living under a rock not to know that Scotland has been engaged in a...
Kay Knight on the death of subtext in LGB films: “We have an industry often so beholden to checkbox ‘representation’ that it has overlooked the need to tell real stories.”
The first film I ever saw where a lesbian relationship was depicted openly was Desert Hearts. The film was released...
Gary Powell speaks to Jennifer Lahl about her new film “Trans Mission: What’s The Rush to Reassign Gender?” which is released today
"Bad ideas create victims. Our job at the CBC is to question and challenge bad ideas before people get hurt." This...
Dysphoric – Fleeing Womanhood Like a House on Fire: An interview with documentary film-maker Vaishnavi Sundar
Cancel culture is contagious. Spreading from the US and across Europe, it seems the latest to be infected are the...
“I was surprised thinking I’d been writing a thriller to discover I’d actually been writing a love story too!” Adam Macqueen on his new novel The Enemy Within set in 1980s radical politics
The Enemy Within is Adam Macqueen's second thriller in his Tommy Wildeblood series. The Piccadilly rent boy turned detective is...
Claire Heuchan: 2022 – My year of reading books by lesbian and bisexual women
2022 just might be the time I manage to keep a New Year’s Resolution. This year I’m reading books by...
Critiquing transgender theology: A review of Janice Raymond’s ‘Doublethink’ by Robert Jensen, Emeritus Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas
There’s a sad irony at the heart of Janice Raymond’s new book on transgenderism and feminism. After decades of research...
