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The IOC handed down its decision on Thursday.

Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics

The International Olympic Committee’s eligibility policy will apply from the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

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Olivia Donaghy is a psychologist, researcher and the Clinical Director of Gender Health Australia. She helped establish Queensland’s first gender clinic for trans kids in 2016, and is currently employed as the statewide coordinator of the service.

Top gender clinic psychologist ready to quit over trans ban

The psychologist behind Queensland’s first children’s gender clinic fears she can no longer provide evidence-based healthcare or fulfil her professional duties.

  • Courtney Kruk
The cast of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, season 4.

Right-wing tradwives have some advice for women – do what they say, not what they do

The stars of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives – who rose to fame by peddling the traditionalist lifestyle to a new generation – are living a very different reality.

  • Katy Hall
Illustration by Simon Letch

The conversation women can’t afford to avoid

It’s a curious thing. Australian women are more educated and active in the workforce than ever, yet we’re still reluctant to chat openly about our finances.

  • Cherelle Murphy
Australian-made babies: just what Matt Canavan ordered.

Matt Canavan wants more Australian babies. But Australian women might just say no

The new Nationals leader wants us to return to the good old days when Australia’s birth rate was much higher. OK, but let’s check what was so good about those times.

  • Virginia Haussegger
Rachel Ward (left) and Rebecca Gibney.

‘Bad news and perfect faces’: Rebecca Gibney calls out youth-obsessed social media

Australian celebrities are coming face to face with social media following the online vitriol Rachel Ward received for presenting an authentic and unapologetic approach to ageing.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
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Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls speaks to media outside state parliament.

Kids’ public hospital gender care ban extended despite ‘inherent risks’

The ban on new patients will continue until the end of a UK trial in 2031, the Crisafulli government says. But a long-awaited review offered other options.

  • Matt Dennien and Courtney Kruk
Trans advocates and supporters addressed media outside Brisbane’s Supreme Court after a judge ruled the government’s ban on gender-services in January was unlawful.

Health Minister still reviewing report on child gender services, as more than 400 sign petition

A review into Queensland’s gender services for young people was finalised a week ago, but the health minister said he is yet to finish reading it.

  • Courtney Kruk
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Why I love the company of naked women – the ones with wobbly arms and dimpled bums

An AI model might look faultless, but you’ll never hear her roar laughing the way women do in surf club bathrooms.

  • Julia Baird
Jana Pittman competing at the 2004 Olympic Games, and as a doctor today.

As an Olympian, mum and doctor, I know our health system fails women

I’ve had patients who’ve been told, and I’ve been told, that pain is “just part of being a woman”.

  • Jana Pittman