Those following the transgender movement will already be aware of the excellent research Jennifer Bilek has done to follow the money back to Big Pharma. Beginning with her 2018 piece in the Federalist, “Who Are the Rich, White Men Institutionalizing Transgender Ideology?”, Bilek’s 11^th Hour Blog, has been amassing the evidence to show that the trans movement is nothing like the spontaneous, grass-roots, minority-centred social justice movement that many believe it to be. She explains it is rather a corporate affair, funded significantly by a tiny group of “rich white men” with some grandiose ideas about shaping the future of humanity and significant financial interests in the biomedical and pharmaceutical markets opened up by gender theory.

This month, a brave Australian paediatrician penned a powerful open letter to Australia’s doctors about the harms of ‘gender affirmation treatments’ and the problems with the gender affirmative pathway for children.

While the spotlight of media and social media is directed at all the good news stories of happily transitioned children who feel “seen” and “loved for who they really are”, there is a growing number of detransitioners whose stories are only now beginning to be heard. Just a few years ago, these women were too few and too traumatised to speak publicly about their experiences. Now, they are beginning to organise, growing in confidence and finding their voice.

This week, Leiden hospital in the Netherlands revealed the latest chapter in an ever-expanding corpus of scandal surrounding the historical operation of fertility clinics.

Do transwomen (i.e. biological males) have a right to become pregnant? This somewhat dystopic question continues to be explored, most recently in a Letter to the Editor published in peer reviewed journal Acta Biomedica. Its authors are two Italian academics from the Sapienza University of Rome, who say that the speed of scientific innovation requires us to address this question.

In Australia, the relatively recent phenomenon of ‘tele-abortions’ is being promoted to women as a safe and affordable alternative to surgical abortion, especially for women who live in regional or remote parts of the country. Women are able to access online telehealth consultations with physicians, obtain referrals for ultrasounds and blood tests if required, and then receive the required medications by way of courier to their home or pharmacies in close proximity to where they live.

Australia funds foreign abortions through its long-standing partnerships with leading sexual and reproductive health organisations, including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Marie Stopes International Australia (MSIA). In November 2020, an e-petition (which garnered only two signatures) requested the Australian government to “substantially increase foreign aid to reputable family planning organisations”.