Feb 7 - 13, 2025 Alabama defines sex in law, the Trans Empire Strikes Back, World athletics requires non invasive cheek swab test for sex, SNP expands gender neutral toilets, Nurse tribunals ongoing
Children's hospital stops "gender affirming care," States with abortion bans pursue doctors out of state prescribing abortion pills, Utah protects sex segregated housing for college students
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Top News
Feb 12 - Alabama House approves bill defining sex-based terms
It’s unfortunate we need to clarify sex in law but it’s good that we are getting this done.
A bill defining sex-based terms passed the Alabama House 77-12 Wednesday morning. SB 79, commonly known as the What is a Woman Act, would define “sex” as the “state of being male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth” and provide further definitions for male, female, man, woman, boy, girl, mother and father. The bill would define genders as “male” and “female” based on human reproductive system function. Female would be defined as a person “who has, had, will have, or would have, but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, or accident, the reproductive system that at some point produces ova.” Male would be defined as someone “who has, had, will have, or would have, but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, or accident, the reproductive system that at some point produces sperm.”
Sinn Fein, SDLP and Alliance MLAs have criticised the contribution of a women’s rights group at a “tense” Stormont committee on equality law – after they argued for single sex spaces for women and girls. They argued that despite there being no ‘Self-ID’ policy in the province, it had been introduced by public bodies without consultation – a situation they described as unacceptable.
WRN also said that the Executive’s strategy to end violence against women and girls needed a clear definition of the two sexes – and that biological sex should not be confused with someone’s self-selected gender identity.
Ongoing - Livestream of Ireland’s Executive Office Committee.
Feb 10 - World Athletics plans cheek-swab tests for elite athletes in female category
World Athletics is poised to introduce tougher rules for transgender and difference of sex development (DSD) athletes, including a cheek swab test for all elite athletes who want to compete in the female category. The recommendations from the World Athletics council are based on recent scientific research, which it says shows the male advantage exists even before puberty.
Under World Athletics’ existing rules, introduced in March 2023 anyone who has undergone male puberty is barred from the female category – after research reported that trans women retained an advantage in strength, endurance, power and lung capacity, even after taking medication to suppress their testosterone.
However, World Athletics now wants to further toughen its policy because of “new evidence which clarifies there is already an athletically significant performance gap before the onset of puberty”.
Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
Feb 12 - SNP considers plan to allow more mixed-sex school toilets
Ministers’ decision to review 1967 regulations which mandate single-sex bathrooms for pupils has been criticised by women’s rights campaigners. SNP ministers are planning to “refresh and modernise” a 1960s law that mandates school toilets be divided equally between the two genders sexes.
A new consultation will revisit the School Premises (General Requirements and Standards) (Scotland) Regulations 1967, which dictate that half of school toilets must be for girls and the other for boys, because the law has come under scrutiny as schools increasingly adopt gender-neutral bathrooms.
The regulations, which also cover areas such as washbasins, playing fields, recreational areas and acoustic conditions, were last reviewed in 2017 when John Swinney was education secretary. At the time, a proposal was put forward to allow greater flexibility in toilet provision, including the option to replace urinals with toilet cubicles and permit unisex facilities in certain circumstances.
Feb 12 - Daily Echo and other UK news sources continue to call rapist men “women” because they demand it
“Hampshire woman MAN appears in court charged with raping girl” Yet another example of erasure by language.
Feb. 11 - Trans doctor used female changing rooms after row
A nurse, Ms. Peggie, is pursuing a sexual harassment, harassment related to a protected belief, indirect discrimination and victimization complaint against her employer due to a male coworker, Dr. Upton, who uses the women’s changing rooms, claiming to be a woman. Background. The nurse was suspended for alleged bullying and harassment in January 2024, and has now taken NHS Fife and Dr Upton to a tribunal.
Dr. Upton claims to be the victim and admits to continuing to use the women’s facility to provoke Ms. Peggie and make her uncomfortable. The tribunal, now in its seventh day, also heard details of another incident on 18 December, where Ms. Peggie was said to have ignored Dr Upton while discussing a patient, and instead addressed her answers to a third medic.
Follow the Tribunal Tweets for updates on X. Other sources here and here.
Sex Discrimination
Feb 13- Two New Studies Provide Broadest Evidence to Date of Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans
Researchers estimate 22,180 more live births and 478 more infant deaths than expected across 14 states, including Texas, that banned abortion between September 2021 and August 2022.
Feb 13 - Texas judge fines New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas
A Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to pay more than $100,000 in penalties for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, a ruling that could test “shield laws” in Democratic-controlled states where abortion is legal. Louisiana was denied an extradition request of the same doctor to criminally prosecute her for prescribing abortion pills to a minor. States with abortion bans are challenging the legal use of the abortion pills and attempting to create a supreme court challenge. Texas pursued civil fines against the doctor instead of criminal charges.
Feb 13 - Abortion bans in US led to more births and infant deaths, especially among vulnerable groups
In 14 states that implemented complete or 6-week abortion bans after the Supreme Court Dobbs decision revoked the federal right to abortion, the fertility birth rate increased 1.7%, (by force) leading to about 1 additional birth for every 1,000 women of reproductive age, according to a study published Thursday in the medical journal JAMA. A corresponding study from the same research team found that the rise in infant mortality was even more significant, spiking nearly 6% in the states that implemented bans. With about 500 more deaths than expected among the 22,000 additional births, the infant mortality rate for births linked to abortion bans – 24 deaths for every 1,000 births – was about four times higher than expected. Rates of births and deaths were analyzed from 2012 through 2023, using trends from before the restrictions were implemented and from states without restrictions as baseline measures. Black and other minority women saw the largest increases in fertility forced birth rates, along with those of lower socioeconomic status such as Medicaid beneficiaries and those with lower education levels. Infant mortality also surged in these groups, with deaths rising nearly 11% – almost twice the average – among Black babies, more than any other racial or ethnic group.
Feb 12 - Abortion, reproductive rights bills rejected in North Dakota House
Four bills related to abortion and reproductive rights failed Wednesday in the North Dakota House. All failed with significant margins, with the pro-IVF bill garnering the most support. A personhood bill would have allowed women who get abortions to be charged with murder. Two others sought to protect access to contraception and in vitro fertilization, while a fourth bill proposed what the sponsor called a “common-sense” approach to abortion access.
Males in Female Sports
Feb 12 - Imane Khelif Threatens Legal Action Over Gender Controversy
Imane Khelif has said he will take legal action following the fallout over his ‘gender controversy’ at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Basically Khelif still claims to suffer from Hyperandrogenism, rather than the condition named in a medical report that states Khelif is male.
Feb 12 - Male athlete Sadie Schreiner not competing for RIT women's track team after Trump's executive order
Male track and field runner Sadie Schreiner is not competing in future events for Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) women's track and field team amid the NCAA changing its gender eligibility policy. An RIT spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the program is complying with the NCAA's new policy that reflects President Donald Trump's recent executive order that bans male athletes from women's sports.
"We continue to follow the NCAA participation policy for student-athletes following the Trump administration’s executive order. Sadie is not participating in the next meet," the spokesperson said. The NCAA officially changed its gender eligibility policies to ban all males from women's sports on Feb. 6, one day after Trump signed the order.
Feb 11 - Trump Admin Urges NCAA To Strip Women’s Titles From Lia Thomas, Other Trans Athletes
President Donald Trump’s Department of Education (ED) is demanding the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) strip men, such as “transgender” athlete (William) Lia Thomas, of women’s titles and records they previously won while participating in women’s sports, the Daily Caller has learned. President Donald Trump’s Department of Education (ED) is demanding the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) strip biological men, such as transgender athlete Lia Thomas, of women’s titles and records they previously won while participating in women’s sports, the Daily Caller has learned. Letter
All track and field athletes wishing to compete in the elite women’s category will be required to prove they are biologically female via a cheek swab under new rules set to be adopted by the sport. World Athletics is consulting with athletes on the impact of proposed changes to its regulations on the eligibility of transgender women and athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD). The effect of the new proposals would be to treat both transgender and DSD athletes the same, with all athletes wishing to continue – or start – competing in the elite female category required to prove they are biologically female through a cheek swab.
Pornography, Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault
Feb 10 - Rep. Nancy Mace accuses ex-fiancé and associates of assaulting her and raping others in House speech
In a scorching presentation that bared all, on Monday, Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina used a nearly hour-long speech on the U.S. House floor to accuse her ex-fiancé of physically abusing her, recording sex acts with her and others without their consent, and conspiring with business associates in acts of rape and sexual misconduct. Mace said she was speaking out because her home state’s top prosecutor didn’t take action even after she alerted investigators. That same prosecutor is likely to be Mace’s opponent if she runs for governor of South Carolina in 2026, which she is considering.
Saying she was going “scorched earth,” Mace detailed how, in November 2023, she says she “accidentally uncovered some of the most heinous crimes against women imaginable. We’re talking about rape, non-consensual photos, non-consensual videos of women and underage girls, and the premeditated, calculated exploitation of women and girls in my district.” Mace mentioned four men as being involved, including Charleston-area businessman Patrick Bryant, who was her fiancé until 2023 and went door-to-door stumping for her during her 2022 reelection campaign.
Nancy Mace set up a hotline to report similar crimes against women. Call or text at 843.212.7048.
Feb 7 - Federal Office on Violence Against Women removes funding opportunities from website
The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) has removed from its website all information on current funding opportunities and directs visitors not to finalize any applications. This adds to the fear of nonprofits that work to help victims of gender-based violence that a major funding source may dry up. It is unclear whether this pause is temporary. OVW did not return a request for comment on Friday afternoon.
News Impacting Society and Children
Feb 13 - Transgender references removed from Stonewall National Monument website
The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument website on Thursday, which now only refers to those who are lesbian, gay and bisexual. What used to be listed as LGBTQ+, has been changed to LGB. The Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich Village became a national monument in 2016 under former President Barack Obama, creating the country's first national park site dedicated to LGB history.
Feb 13 - Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump order restricting trans care for youths
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to restrict transgender health care for anyone under 19.
Thursday’s decision specifically blocks a section of Trump’s executive order titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” that bars federal funds from being used to “promote gender ideology” and directs federal agencies to “assess grant conditions and grantee preferences and ensure grant funds do not promote gender ideology.”
It also blocks the portion of another Trump order,“ Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” that requires medical institutions receiving federal research or education grants to “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”
Feb 11 - Where does the British public stand on transgender rights in 2024/25?
Here in the UK, the 2024 general election saw the Conservatives pledge to change the Equality Act to rewrite the definition of sex and allow organisations to bar transgender women from single-sex spaces, and that the concept of gender identity would not be taught to children. The increasingly popular Reform UK has criticised transgender “indoctrination” and promised to “ban transgender ideology in primary and secondary schools”. Now a new YouGov study, the fourth in a series reaching back to 2018, shows an increased scepticism towards transgender rights across the board – and particularly in the two and a half years since our previous wave of this study.
Feb 11 - Judge orders HHS, CDC and FDA to restore deleted webpages with health information
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration to restore webpages and data that had been removed in compliance with President Trump's executive order on gender ideology. His order directs the agencies to restore earlier versions of their websites by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday.
Male college students in Utah will be prohibited from living in dorms inconsistent with their sex, regardless of their gender identity, under a bill that cleared its final legislative hurdle Monday. Men and boys will not be allowed to live in the women and girls dormitories based on their claims of being transgender.
The state House, approved it with small tweaks following a heated Senate debate in which one Republican told trans people, “If you don’t fit in, then that’s your own fault.” Under the bill, students at the state’s public colleges and universities can only enter or live in a sex segregated space, such as a dorm building, locker room or bathroom, that corresponds with their sex at birth. Students with a gender identity can otherwise live in single rooms in coed dorm buildings.
Feb 8 - Trans Youth Are Rattled by Efforts to Ban Gender Care. So Are Hospitals.
Fear mongering of children continues while the biggest medical scam in history is being dismantled. Children being the primary victims of this medical scam continue to be told to believe they were born in the wrong body and only cross sex hormones and surgical amputation of healthy body tissue can adequately treat their mental distress. The brainwashing will have to end sooner or later. Meanwhile, some of these children will have a chance to outgrow their gender confusion with their health still intact. Hopefully, the children who have already undergone harmful surgeries and hormone treatments may be able to seek restorative treatments.
Convicted criminals in Germany are endorsing Germany’s new gender self-identification law for allowing them to easily hide their pasts by changing their identities. One violent criminal, Mirko Guth, even spoke to local press about his plans to change his legal sex and name by claiming to be transgender. Guth, who spent several years in prison for violent crimes and aggravated robbery, described using the gender self-identification law to hide his past as a “fuck you to the state,” complaining that he had struggled with difficulties in opening bank accounts and obtaining mobile phone plans due to his lengthy record of serious offenses.
Feb 7 - House Republican introduces transgender lawmaker as 'the gentleman ... Mr. McBride' for floor speech
"The chair recognizes the gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride, for five minutes," Miller said in the House chamber on Thursday. "Thank you, Madam Speaker," McBride replied, before proceeding to deliver a speech.
While McBride did not respond to Miller's comment, when Miller next recognized Rep. Nanette Barragán, D- Calif., to deliver a speech, Barragán began by saying, "Thank you, Mr. Speaker." (As if that is an insult to “mis-gender” someone who doesn’t support gender ideology.) Miller, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, declared in a post on X that she had "refused to deny biological reality" on the chamber floor. "President Trump restored biological truth in the federal government, and I refuse to perpetuate the lie that gender is open to our interpretation. It is not," the Republican added.
Following an executive order from President Donald Trump barring people from updating the sex designation on their passports, seven people have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the State Department’s refusal to issue passports with accurate sex designations. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order attempting to mandate discrimination against transgender people across the federal government and government programs. This included a directive to the Departments of State and Homeland Security “to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards” reflect their sex “at conception.”
Under the ensuing Passport Policy, within 24 hours the State Department began holding some passports and other documents (such as birth certificates and court orders) submitted by transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people who had applied to update the sex designation on their U.S. passports and returning others with their applications rejected and their newly-issued passport marked with their sex assigned at birth.
Children’s Hospital Colorado has stopped giving all sex denial medical experimentation to patients 18 years old and younger. The decision, announced in a memo to all hospital staffers Wednesday, comes in response to the Trump administration’s executive order last week directing hospitals that receive federal research and education grants to “end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”
Children’s Colorado is a safety-net hospital. Because “nearly half” of its young patients are covered by Medicaid, the executive order threatens its “ability to receive federal healthcare funds that support the care of hundreds of thousands of patients.” The hospital’s decision means new gender confused patients will no longer be given sterilizing puberty blockers and other cross-sex hormone-based medical experimentation. Those already on such chemical cocktails will have access only until their prescriptions expire. After that point, Children’s will continue to provide those patients with behavioral and emotional supportive care services, which is what they need, but not medical experimentation toward a gender identity that differs from the sex they were determined at conception.
Beyond the West
Feb 13 - Senegal group finds some success in stopping genital mutilation in African communities
One group in Senegal has had success in getting thousands of communities to abandon the practice. It's a taboo topic and an age-old practice across several countries and religious traditions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. An estimated 230 million women and girls are subjected to genital mutilation.
Feb 12 - Unnatural Sex With Wife Without Consent Not Offence: Chhattisgarh High Court
A court in New Delhi said that a man has a right to rape his wife to death. The court did not address the fact that the wife died due to the direct actions of her husband. Marital rape is not punishable by law in India. The High Court judgment now leaves unnatural sex out of the ambit of punishment as well. The doctor said she had peritonitis and rectal perforation. If he had been waving a bat around and accidently hit her in the head, would he have been held responsible for her death then?
Feb 9 - Every day in 2024 saw 1 crime against women, 365 cases filed
Crime against women in Goa saw a rise in 2024 compared to 2023, with 365 cases of rape, molestation, outraging women’s modesty, and other cases registered in 2024, compared to 288 cases registered in 2023. Goa police completed investigations in most of the cases, and in some cases, chargesheets were filed, while closure reports were filed in some cases due to a lack of evidence.
Op-Eds of Interest
Michael Foran: Patients have a right to know a doctor’s sex
Riley Gaines: Trump's Education Secretary will protect women's sports
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Something to note about the Stonewall National Monument is that it does seem to be factually correct to have information about it not reference trans people. The people involved were primarily gay men. Assertions that "a black trans woman threw the first brick at Stonewall," although popular memes, do not seem to be based in historical fact.
> "It’s unfortunate we need to clarify sex in law but it’s good that we are getting this done."
Indeed. Justice Alito in the Skrmetti case suggested that a "protected class" needs to be based on an "immutable" trait to make that protection work. And the Alabama definition for female, in particular, is based such a trait even if they're rather coy or evasive or unscientific about it.
Alabama Reflector: Female would be defined as a person “who has, had, will have, or would have, but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, or accident, the reproductive system that at some point produces ova.”
https://alabamareflector.com/2025/02/12/alabama-house-approves-bill-defining-sex-based-terms-sends-gov-kay-ivey/
Unfortunately, that definition conflicts with the biological definition for female which is likely to cause some problems down the road.
Why I've argued that they would be wise to change their focus and, instead, define "woman";as "adult human ovary-haver'. Virtually the same "immutable" trait but a definition that doesn't conflict with the biological one.