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UK Court Decides Kids Under 16 Can Take Puberty Blocking Drugs Without Court Approval
Doctors can now prescribe puberty blocking medication to children under the age of 16 without a judge’s approval, Britain’s Court of Appeal ruled on Friday. The decision reverses last year’s ruling that children seeking gender reassignment aren’t mature enough to give informed consent to take puberty blocking medicine, The Associated Press reported. The decision said that doctors should seek court approval before… -
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Never Forget That US and UK Saved World From Tyranny
Was the Soviet Union the real “winner” of World War II? This idea came up earlier this month, as it increasingly seems to be in recent years, around V-E Day commemorations. We now see tributes to Victory in Europe Day mixed with attempts to rewrite history and diminish the role played by the United States… -
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An American Defense of Britain’s Constitutional Monarchy
Historians may puzzle for many years over why a rambling, emotional interview between members of the British royal family and an American media tycoon-cum-billionaire became a rallying cry to destroy the British monarchy. But so it has: The radical left has seized upon Oprah Winfrey’s televised spectacle with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in a crusade to invalidate one… -
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‘Transition’ Treatment Harms Kids, Veteran Psychiatrist at UK Gender Clinic Says
Children “have been very seriously damaged” in receiving treatment at the United Kingdom’s premier gender identity facility, a former psychiatrist there says in a bombshell interview. Dr. David Bell faced disciplinary action after writing an internal report in 2018 raising concerns about procedures at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which operates the U.K.’s… -
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Biden’s Eviction of Churchill Bust Signals Weakening Ties With UK
In his inaugural address, President Joe Biden pledged to “repair alliances.” Yet one of his first moves in power was to remove a bust of the late British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, as President Barack Obama did in January 2009. This was a slap in the face for Great Britain on Day… -
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Problematic Women: America’s Transgender Craze Should Take a Cue From UK
The United Kingdom long has been on the progressive end of the transgender issue, so when it pumps the brakes, America should pay attention, says Nicole Russell, a contributor to The Daily Signal. A high court in the United Kingdom recently ruled that children 16 years old and younger cannot be treated with puberty-blocking hormone… -
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UK Issues Landmark Ruling Protecting Kids From Life-Altering Puberty Blockers
This article has been corrected to reflect that the U.K. panel of judges have ruled that children 16 and under are unable to give informed consent to hormone replacement therapies and that for children 16 and 17, medical professionals may wish to involve the courts. It has been updated to reflect that the judges ruled… -
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UK High Court Rules Children Under 16 ‘Unlikely to Be Able to Give Informed Consent’ to Puberty Blockers
A United Kingdom high court ruled Tuesday that children under the age of 16 are “unlikely” to be mature enough “to be able to give informed consent” to puberty-blocking drugs. “It is highly unlikely that a child aged 13 or under would be competent to give consent to the administration of puberty blockers,” three senior judges said, according… -
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UK’s Commitment to Boost Defense Spending Shows Britain Still a Major Power
The British government, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced a major step forward Thursday in modernizing Britain’s armed forces by committing to increase defense spending by 24.1 billion pounds over the next four years. The British armed forces needed this help badly. Since 2000, when the world looked a lot less dangerous, British defense… -
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How the UK and US Can Stand Up to China Together
Even though he was removed from 21st-century geopolitics by two centuries, the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte prophetically foretold of modern China’s rise on the world stage with his clairvoyant observation, “Let China sleep! For when he wakes, he will shake the world.” In the aftermath of the giant’s awakening, an ineffectual and befuddled West has… -
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Why This Detransitioning UK Woman Sued a Gender Clinic
A female information technology engineer in London, for whom doctors prescribed testosterone injections and a double mastectomy for her gender dysphoria, had her day in court this month against the gender clinic where she received treatment. At age 16, Keira Bell, now 23, went to Tavistock and Portman National Health Service Trust for help with… -
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How Edmund Burke Pressed for Trade Between America and Britain in the 18th Century
As Edmund Burke explained in his famous speech on Anglo-American relations, “Speech on Conciliation with America,” the interests of Britain and those of the Americans were connected together by the harmonizing chords of commerce. He rests this position on his belief, as discussed in “Thoughts and Details on Scarcity” (his primary economic tract) and demonstrated… -
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UK Rightly Pushes Back on Gender Transitioning for Minors
On both sides of the Atlantic, advocates for transgender rights are increasingly substituting ideology for biological reality. But while here in the U.S. the Supreme Court last month was writing into Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act legal protections for people who identify as transgender that the authors of the law never intended,… -
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Britain Bans a Chinese Tech Giant From Building Out 5G Technology
Britain will ban Huawei from deploying equipment designed to build out the country’s fifth generation mobile service, delivering a blow to the Chinese tech giant. Britain Digital and Media Minister Oliver Dowden announced the decision Tuesday in the House of Commons, noting that the move will take effect in January. Unplugging from Huawei will likely… -
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US-UK Trade Talks an Opportunity to Revitalize Global Free Trade Agenda
The first round of trade agreement talks between the U.S. and the United Kingdom took place online last month, with negotiators engaged in “positive and constructive” discussions in nearly 30 different groups, covering all aspects of a comprehensive trade agreement. Negotiators concurred that the envisioned Free Trade Agreement—which has become more critical as the two… -
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UK Reverses Course on Huawei on 5G and Stands Up to China
It’s been a bad few days for the Communist Party-led government in Beijing in its efforts to gain economic and strategic influence in the United Kingdom and Europe. China’s flagship technology company, Huawei, is finding that its welcome mat is being taken away in London, the world’s biggest financial center, with major implications for its… -
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Banned in Britain: Franklin Graham’s Tour Dates Canceled Over Christian Beliefs
Evangelist and missionary Franklin Graham’s seven-city tour of the United Kingdom is now a trial, as all seven venues have dropped him. Graham’s canceled dates likely are due to an “an outcry over his homophobic and Islamophobic comments,” CNN reports. Although I don’t agree with everything Graham has said by any means, it’s disheartening to… -
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In UK, Starbucks Ad Celebrates Gender Transition
Starbucks UK has partnered with Mermaids, a nonprofit group that provides support for transgender youth, on an advertising campaign, #WhatsYourName, celebrating gender transition. Starbucks said in a press release that learning each customer’s name and calling it out with his or her order “creates a moment of connection between our baristas and customers,” and that… -
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Britain’s Brexit Delay Is Foolish for Free Trade
Britain’s House of Commons has voted to request a delay in Britain’s exit from the European Union. It’s like a kid who removes a Band-Aid slowly hoping it’ll hurt less. Far better to rip it off and be done with it. The people of the United Kingdom voted in June 2016 to leave the EU…. -
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The Several Meanings of the Conservative Victory in the UK
The socialist gamble in Great Britain failed miserably. That’s the main takeaway of the Labour Party’s stunning defeat Thursday in the British general election, with some polls suggesting it has won its fewest seats in Parliament since 1935. The socialists thought they could win a majority in Parliament by leaning far left and promising to…