In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration filed subpoenas in June on normally confidential patient data from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and nearly 20 other physicians or clinics that provide gender transition services. This action was justified by Attorney General Pam Bondi as necessary for the investigation of “healthcare fraud.” The information included names, […]
Gender Panic Abounds
Gerika Mudra is a non-trans 18-year-old lesbian woman who is filing a charge of discrimination against a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Minnesota because an employee followed her into the women’s bathroom and tried to prevent her from using it upon suspicion of her being a man. While being harassed Mudra revealed her breasts to […]
Clinical psychologist calls for nuance re: gender-affirming care
Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper opposes both bans on pediatric gender medicine and immediate provision of “gender-affirming” care to any minor who wants it. Instead, she proposes what she calls an “assessment approach” (a term she prefers to “gatekeeping”), involving at least ten hours of meetings with minors and parents, evaluation of other mental health and family […]
Queers are keeping the receipts…
…because someone has to! Journalism of this kind is so important in this here and now. When the time comes for building back, for healing, and for redesigning an American sociopolitical infrastructure that is more productive for more people – and such a time will come my dear sexual subjects, I promise you – detailed […]
Politics continues to interfere with vaccine research
The world’s first gonorrhoea vaccine program was just rolled out in the United Kingdom. Gonorrhea, which is both preventable and treatable, is mostly transmitted through vaginal, oral or anal sex. According to the World Health Organization, in 2020 there were an estimated 82.4 million new infections among adults globally. Aside from increasing the risk of […]
Doubts Surround Media Hype over Jeffrey Epstein
Political actors and media on both the Left and Right are motivated to keep this story going, as it feeds popular anxieties about sinister elites exploiting the innocent with impunity. However, there has been too little scrutiny over the credibility of the claimants who have won millions in civil actions against the Epstein estate and […]
Brazil Stalls Youth Gender Transition Services + Judith Butler’s Latest Treatise
Moves to limit minors’ access to medicalized gender transition are not unique to the U.S. and Europe. Under political pressure and tied up in litigation, even Brazil’s leftist government has announced it is rescinding an earlier proposal to lower the age at which hormones can be obtained from 18 to 16 and the age for […]
Bad Monks and the Woman Who Scammed Them
Wilawan Emsawat was arrested on July 15 in Thailand and has been charged with extortion, money laundering and receiving stolen goods. She is alleged to have blackmailed several senior monks for money and gifts. Thai police have noted that about 385 million baht ($11.9m) was deposited into the accused bank accounts over the past three […]
Is Critical Pedo Theory for the Right What Critical Race Theory Is for the Left?
Although it is becoming increasingly obvious that there is no “there there” in the conspiracy theories surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, who was neither a blackmailer nor a pedophile, but a promiscuous heterosexual ephebophile who took advantage of teenage girls, the populist Right continues to be obsessed with the notion of a globalist pedophile elite. This is […]
Can I choke you?
The increasing normalization of choking as part of sexual play is causing some sexual subjects alarm. We reported on this in a past sex news load, but the United Kingdom has in fact announced that it will ban the depiction of strangulation in pornography, primarily to safeguard women against violence. As BDSM styles of sex […]