The global authority on transgender care, WPATH, is deliberately misleading vulnerable people. This would appear from internal documents leaked by a US whistleblower and brought out last month.

"Nonsense, you're just a girl." The words are out before you know it. A thousand thoughts shoot through your head as your adolescent daughter reports being a boy. You didn't see this coming. So how can you react wisely nevertheless?

The international doctors' association Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine is "deeply concerned" about gender care guidelines announced by the WHO in December.

Victor Madrigal-Borloz's (53) term as the UN's LGBT rights watchdog is over. He recently submitted his latest report to the UN Human Rights Council. In it, the Costa Rican lawyer clashes with the fundamental rights of freedom of conscience and religion.

More and more countries are tightening guidelines for prescribing puberty blockers for gender problems.

As a girl, Anne loves to romp. A dress makes her "unhappy", even now. At 25, she realises she hais transgender feelings. She does not transition, even though a doctor says that is the best solution. "My life is a successful non-transition," explains the now 28-year-old. "I went through a very tough time, but I came out of it well."

She calls herself liberal, is an atheist and defends transgender rights. Meanwhile, students in Oxford wanted to ban her as a speaker, claiming she is transphobic. Canada's Debra Soh is a striking voice in the debate on gender and sex.

The Norwegian Public Prosecution Service investigates “hate-mongering” tweets by feminist Christina Ellingsen, addressed to a man who claims to be a lesbian woman. If found guilty, Ellingsen could face up to three years in prison.

Around Christmas time, a friend shared with Dr Hanneke Kouwenberg the developments she noticed in the field of transgender ideology. Since that time, the physician has dived deep into the ins and outs of the proposed Dutch Transgender law.