Category: Sexual Orientation

The majority-Republican South Carolina General Assembly has passed a bill to ban sex-change surgeries and treatments on minors.

“Utah’s new law, which the governor signed in January, prohibits trans-identifying people from using the bathroom of the opposite sex in government buildings like public schools. Schools and government agencies that fail to enforce the new rules can be fined up to $10,000 per day for each violation.”

“Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona declined to answer questions about whether he would let boys fight his daughter in sports or undress in front of her in bathrooms at a Tuesday hearing.”

A female darts legend forfeited a match in which she was set to compete against a transgender player and said she wasn’t willing to play against a man in a women’s event. Deta Hedman, a British darts player who has defended women in her sport in recent months, refused to participate in a match against male competitor Noa-Lynn van Leuven in the Denmark Open tournament.

New non-residential buildings in England will be required to provide separate-gender bathrooms, according to proposed legislation that supporters say is aimed at protecting the “safety, privacy and dignity” of both women and men. The legislation, which will be proposed to Parliament in the coming weeks for implementation later this year, applies to any new or rebuilt building, such as restaurants, shopping malls, offices or public toilets, according to the BBC.

A major European psychiatric organization has warned doctors against promoting “experimental” transgender “treatments” to gender-confused children and adolescents. The European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) published a policy statement urging healthcare providers “not to promote experimental and unnecessarily invasive treatments with unproven psycho-social effects and, therefore, to adhere to the ‘primum-nil-nocere’ (first, do no harm) principle.”