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Closing the Department of Education, Promoting a ‘Curriculum of Family’
- Education, Family, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- March 20, 2025
For the latest episode in the Reproductive Revolution, we turn to Scotland. A 16-year-old transgender girl, Ellie Anderson, died last month of “unascertained” causes, not long after commencing hormone therapy to enable him to become her. We mustn’t ignore the sorrow of Ellie’s mother or the sadness of an early death. But asking what constitutes
READ MOREThe popular feminist website Jezebel has a blog with the expressive title of “Barf Bag”. It covers American politics in the age of Trump – but an investigative feature which Jezebel published last week, “When surgeons fail their trans patients” must have had readers reaching for one. The focus of journalist Katelyn Burns’ investigation is a surgeon
READ MOREEarlier this year the coronavirus pandemic caught Bernard-Henri Lévy, France’s rock-star public intellectual, overseas. He had been reporting on the plight of Lesbos, the Aegean island crowded with refugees from Syria, and then of Bangladesh, which was attempting to cope not only with COVID-19 but also Islamic extremism, hundreds of thousands of Royhingya refugees, climate
READ MOREHow many times have you read that transgender individuals need surgery to keep them from slipping into bad mental health or even from committing suicide? “For many trans folks, existing daily in a body that doesn’t match your sense of self isn’t just uncomfortable, it’s traumatic,” Laura A. Jacobs, an LGBT counsellor in New York
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