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Banning gay conversion therapy is a minefield Janice Turner in The Times 15.05.21
The original article is here. Young men were forced to sit through slideshows strapped with electrodes, receiving vicious shocks if they dwelled on images of men. Lesbians were “cured” of their urges via “corrective” rape. Aged 17, the US writer An ...
Dogma is destroying women’s safe havens Janice Turner in The Times 27.02.21
The original article is here. The term “luxury beliefs” was coined in the US to describe opinions that confer status upon the holder at no personal cost. Calls to defund the police or legalise hard drugs seldom come from poor communities who fear lawle ...
War of words risks wiping women from our language Janice Turner in The Times 22.01.21
The original article is here. 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 removed from Ho ...
Keira Bell: ‘I couldn’t sit by while so many others made the same mistake’ Janice Turner in The Times 01.12.20
The original article is here. Standing outside the High Court yesterday, Keira Bell said that she hoped the judgment marked the end of gender clinics “playing God with our bodies [by] experimenting on the young and vulnerable with untested, harmful drugs ...
Can life-changing decisions be left to children? Janice Turner in The Times 10.10.20
The original article is here. When Victoria Gillick, a Roman Catholic mother of ten, came across a government circular advocating under-16s be prescribed contraception without parental consent, she was outraged. In 1983, her battle to stop doctors “encou ...
There’s no bigotry in trying to protect children Janice Turner in The Times 12.09.20
The original article is here. In the film Cuties, a bunch of misfit girls in a Paris banlieue form a dance troupe and enter a contest where, in sexy costumes, they perform a twerking, crotch-fingering routine. The problem is these characters, and the actr ...
The woke left is the new Ministry of Truth Janice Turner in The Times 11.07.20
The original article is here. It was strange to win the Orwell Prize for journalism via a Zoom call, unshowered, in sweaty gym gear, alone in my garden shed. Stranger still to do so as socialist musician Billy Bragg wrote in The Guardian that George Orwe ...
Now GRA reform is dead, let this toxic debate end Janice Turner in The Times 15.06.20
The original article is here. Publicly-funded trans lobby groups like Stonewall expected that changing the 2004 Gender Recognition Act to a system of gender “self-identity” would sail through. They persuaded Tory MP Maria Miller, then chairwoman of the ...
Coronavirus exposes gulf between the sexes Janice Turner in The Times 10.04.20
The original article is here. How can a strong, healthy man be taken so quickly? Not an overweight or an elderly guy, but a Park Run regular, a lycra-clad cyclist, the bloke you ask to shift that heavy table or open a stubborn jar. How are men with years, ...
The battle over gender has turned bloody Janice Turner in The Times 16.03.20
The original article is here. When is it OK to punch a woman? I’ve pondered this question since Wednesday evening when I watched a 60-year-old in specs and sensible shoes called Maria being smacked in the face. Yet I learn from her assailant’s defender ...
It’s time to stop giving in to gender lobby bullies Janice Turner in The Times 05.03.20
The original article is here; this is just the relevant section. If you want to see well-meaning liberals self-destruct in real-time, watch organisers of an Oxford feminist conference explain why they capitulated to threats and “cancelled” the historia ...
Giving puberty blocker to ‘trans’ children is a leap into the unknown by Janice Turner in The Times 21.02.20
The original article is here. An 11-year-old child is probably years from his or her first kiss. Yet the drug they are about to take will almost certainly lead to a medical pathway which will leave them sterile. Since their gametes will never be allowed to ...
Labour’s trans pledge turns into a witch-hunt Janice Turner in The Times 15.12.20
The original article is here. Lisa Nandy brands herself as Labour’s truth-speaker. Rational, grounded, fearless of factions, the only leadership candidate prepared to tackle the self-delusion and disconnection that lost four elections, she’d won many p ...
Stonewall has lost its way on the trans issue Janice Turner The Times 24.10.19
The original article is here. For several years now a schism has been building within the LGBT community between Stonewall and those alarmed by its trajectory. This reached its logical end on Tuesday night with the birth of a breakaway group, provisionally ...
Cult of gender identity is harming children Janice Turner in The Times 22.09.19
The original article is here. How do I know I’m a woman? Because I have female biology: a uterus and ovaries? Or because I like “feminine” things: sparkly clothes, make-up, vamping about. What if they appeal less than “masculine” stuff: muddy s ...
Lesbians face a fight for their very existence Janice Turner 13.07.19
The original article is here. If I were a teenage girl, I’d have a poster of a purple-haired American footballer on my bedroom wall. It’s odd how Megan Rapinoe’s arms-outstretched celebration is now as famous as Farah’s Mobot or Usain’s lightni ...
Can’t we all have a view on spaces for women? Janice Turner, The Times 30.05.19
The original article is here. What if a local council held a public consultation asking people to fill in questionnaires on a controversial policy but, when results were counted, it declared almost half the responses were “invalid”. Wouldn’t politici ...
Male bodies don’t belong in women’s sport by Janice Turner in The Times 23.02.19
The original article is here. In 1990, after trouncing Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-1 to win her ninth Wimbledon singles title, Martina Navratilova hurtled into the stands to embrace her lover Judy Nelson. A generation before gay marriage, two years after Clause ...
Trans ideologists are spreading cod science by Janice Turner in The Times 22.12.18
The original article is here. Are you a Princess Barbie jelly-baby who likes frilly dresses, high heels and takes ages to get ready? Or a GI Joe jelly-baby who wears boots and functional clothing? Did you know that your preference for pink sparkles or mu ...
If identity politics win, a man of 69 can be 49 by Janice Turner in The Times 10.11.18
The original article is here. When self-identification trumps biology, men can be women, white can be black and age really will be just a number Emile Ratelband is 69 but feels like a “young god” of 49. His doctors agree he has the constitution of a mu ...
Suicide should never be a political weapon by Janice Turner in The Times 20.10.18
... printing such [transphobic] pieces, starting with one by Turner in September 2017, I have heard of more trans suicides than at any point ...
Slip on a frock chaps, and be a top 100 woman by Janice Turner in the Times 27.09.18
The original article is here. What is a woman? The dictionary definition, “adult human female”, was deemed hate speech when posted on a Liverpool billboard and taken down. Perhaps the Financial Times might offer a new one: “Person of either sex who d ...
Trans rapists are a danger in women’s jails by Janice Turner in the Times 08.09.18
The original article is here. The prison authorities knew a great deal about Karen White. That under her birth name Stephen Wood she’d served 18 months for gross indecency against a child; that she was on remand for three rapes also committed as a man; t ...
Article by Janice Turner in the Times 18.8.18
The original article is here. Trans teenagers have become an experiment An academic has risked her career by highlighting troubling parallels with false memory syndrome of the 1990s A new film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, is set in God’s P ...
Article by Janice Turner in The Times 30.6.18
The original article is here. This gender battle is harder to solve than Brexit If Brexit is the most divisive issue in British politics, requiring a talent for squaring ideological circles and cajoling compromises from bitter enemies, reform of the 2004 G ...