It was announced last week that the Tavistock gender clinic in the United Kingdom is being sued by 1,000 families for medical negligence. The lawsuit alleges that the clinic misdiagnosed children and was reckless in prescribing puberty blockers in treating gender dysphoria. As well, research from the clinic published last year found that pubertal suppression was associated with lower bone mass, as well as little improvement in psychological functioning.
Nature, one of the top-tier scientific journals in the world, published an editorial last week requiring future study authors to consider how their findings "might perpetuate gender stereotypes" as part of the submission process.
Earlier this week, PolitiFact (a self-described “fact-checking website”) published a piece titled “Why it’s not ‘grooming’: What research says about gender and sexuality in schools.” The piece centers on Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed by dishonest critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, and argues that conversations in the classroom about sexuality and gender are not grooming because they are “done without intent to sexually abuse a child.”
Last week, it was announced that Discovery Plus will be launching a new show called Generation Drag, centered on the stories of five teenagers and their families as they prepare for a performance in Denver, Colorado, celebrating "teen queens, kings, and non-binary performers ages 8 to 18." In the trailer (embedded at the bottom of this article), we see the kids primping and posing in brightly colored wigs, skimpy outfits, and winged eyeliner.