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Gender ideology suffers defeat after major UK hospital policy shift

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New NHS guidance requires hospital accommodation to be based on biological sex, marking a major reversal after nurses faced disciplinary action for challenging gender-identity policies. The U.K.’s National Health Service has taken another step toward purging transgender ideology from hospitals. According to new guidance published on October 15, trans-identifying patients will now be placed in hospital wards that accord to their sex rather than their self-professed “gender identity.” This is a direct reversal of NHS England’s 2019 guidance, which formally instructed hospitals to place trans-identifying patients in wards that accorded to their “gender identity” rather than their sex. This reversal was not voluntary; the new guidance makes it crystal clear that the NHS was forced to make the changes based on the court rulings: The Equality Act 2010 protects everyone in Britain from discrimination based on 9 protected characteristics . To support providers of single-sex services, includin...

Inter-American Commission Criticized for “Insidious” Push for Sexual Orientation

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Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON, DC , November 18 ( C-FAM )- Legal and human rights experts are criticizing the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Commission) for “overstepping” its authority and advancing a dangerous trend that harms the cause of human rights. The criticism follows the Commissions decision to “strengthen its capacity” to promote sexual orientation by creating a “Unit on the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex ( LGBTI ) Persons.” The Commission, a branch of the Organization of American States (OAS), called the new Unit “part of the comprehensive approach the IACHR has adopted.” A close observer to the Organization of American States and its various bodies called this development part of an “insidious” trend. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, he told the Friday Fax that the “overall trend in human rights to single out particular groups for special attention at the expense of other rights and groups” poses a “threat to the overall integ...