While on the exterior they might present as a beautiful, quiet family living their lives in quaint English parish, they have recently been the target of a seemingly limitless campaign of harassment.
Why? Because Caroline Farrow misgendered someone.
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While on the exterior they might present as a beautiful, quiet family living their lives in quaint English parish, they have recently been the target of a seemingly limitless campaign of harassment.
Why? Because Caroline Farrow misgendered someone.
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Nothing has happened so far this weekend, though I stated from the start that if the police were going to move in. the most likely time would be 4am on Monday morning. There is a thought that the massive media presence occasioned by Wikileaks' announcement may have succeeded in deterring President Moreno from the expulsion. Let us hope that will prove the case.
Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic in London.
The clinicians from the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic based in London and Leeds left over concerns children were being incorrectly diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
It was feared some gay children struggling with their sexual identity are being incorrectly diagnosed as transgender.
Specialists also worried that some of the youngsters were being referred and pressured into having gender change treatment after suffering homophobic bullying.
All five former staff members were part of the team deciding if youngsters should be given hormone blockers to stop their development before puberty, according to the Times.
The patients then take a course of cross-sex hormones at the age of 16 depending on whether they want to develop as male or female.
At least 18 staff have reportedly quit the controversial clinic over the past three years, citing fears not enough checks are being done to correctly diagnose child patients.
One of the five whistleblowers even said the only reason many stayed in their post was to prevent more children from having the treatment.
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Qingdao port in Shandong province, China
Qingdao port in Shandong province, China
IMF said in its latest World Economic Outlook report that China is projected to grow by 6.3 percent this year, higher than the fund's previous forecast of 6.2 percent. The latest report, released Tuesday, is widely read globally for the IMF's assessment of the world economy.
China's economy, the second-largest in the world, grew by 6.6. percent last year - its worst performance in 28 years.
"China has ramped up its fiscal and monetary stimulus to counter the negative effect of trade tariffs. Furthermore, the outlook for US-China trade tensions has improved as the prospects of a trade agreement take shape," Gita Gopinath, IMF's economic counselor, wrote in the report.
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Boeing 737 Max 8 jets
Boeing 737 Max 8 jets
Deliveries of finished Max jets also tumbled, to 11 from 26 in February. That was not surprising - Boeing suspended deliveries in mid-March after regulators around the world ordered the plane grounded.
Boeing's report Tuesday on orders and deliveries came just three days after the company announced that it will cut production of 737s from 52 a month to 42. Meanwhile, airlines that own the nearly 400 grounded Max jets are canceling flights.
The damage to Boeing could be temporary, however, if the company can complete a fix to key software on the Max and reassure regulators and passengers that it is a safe plane.
WikiLeaks said video, audio, photographs, copies of private legal documents and even a medical report turned up in Spain, where a group threatened to start publishing unless they were paid three million euros ($3.4 million).
Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, said he met members of the group who were selling the material and that Spanish police are now investigating the case.
"Extortion is a very serious matter but of much greater concern to me is this material-gathering and spying on Julian Assange by the (Ecuadorean) government ... against an individual who was granted asylum," Hrafnsson told reporters.
The reasons PetroLMI lists for the job losses expected for this year contain few surprises, and include "low commodity prices, a decline in capital spending and uncertainty over market access."
"Many exploration and production and oil sands companies reported only limited capital and production guidance for 2019 because of the uncertain market conditions," said PetroLMI's vice president, Carol Howes, in a comment on the report's findings.
Comment: The oil and gas industry in Canada can thank the West's economic war on Russia for this situation.
The fire broke out at the Centara Grand hotel and Centralworld shopping plaza at around 6pm local time on Wednesday. Plumes of black smoke spewed out of the building, and three jumped to their deaths from the horrific blaze, local media reported.
Shocking footage shared on social media shows the smoke pouring out of the burning skyscraper.
According to Sgt. Tommy Thompson with Phoenix police, the suspect approached the girl from behind, grabbed her arm and pulled it behind her back and put his arm over her face while she was walking to school near 19th Avenue and Bell Road on April 3.
When the suspect started talking to the girl, a witness knocked him down and told him to leave the girl alone.
The witness then pointed a handgun at the suspect and told him to leave.
The suspect ran westbound on Morningside Drive.
Dr. Christopher Liang, a counseling psychology professor at Lehigh University's College of Education, recently came out in support of a Philadelphia area "Men's Therapeutic Cuddle Group," a function advertised by Lehigh University in a news release. The Meetup.com page for the group currently has 69 members and the group has held 46 events so far. The meetups are held once every other week.
Organizers have established quite an expansive set of guidelines for attendees. The men attending must be "hygienically sound" and "remain fully clothed at all times." The group's organizers state that all cuddling is "non-sexual." However, they do note that participants may become aroused during cuddling and that if that occurs, it should be treated as a normal thing.
Liang believes that "these types of groups can be healthy and helpful for men and women," according to the news release.
Comment: Strange that contemporary masculinity (as the left defines it) is starting to look more and more like homoeroticism.
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