As El Salvador's state of emergency turns four years old, families warn of the toll of the mass arrests on children. Rubidia Hernandez and her six-year-old granddaughter hug as they sit in their home on the outskirts of Nahuizalco, El Salvador [Euan Wallace/Al Jazeera] In a quiet church courtyard in El Rosario, El Salvador, 16-year-old Sarita sits beside her grandmother. From her neck hangs a medallion, its golden face flashing against the starchy white fabric of her school u

QueerAF December 2025 TL;DR: Within one day of each other, the Women's Institute and Girl Guiding both announced they would reverse their trans-inclusive approaches with the “utmost regret and sadness”, citing communications with "references to legal challenge" as one of the reasons as their response to the Supreme Court decision on the definition of a woman under the Equality Act 2010. Two culturally significant women's organisations have reversed long-standing trans-inclusi

Exposing the truth: The real children behind the headlines and the outrage Photograph: Medium 2025 Whenever trans inclusion in Girlguiding comes up, social media fills with dramatic claims about “masses” of trans girls joining, supposedly threatening the very fabric of the organisation. As a parent who has actually looked at the numbers, I wanted to understand the basic question: how many trans girls are we really talking about? The short answer: very few . The long answer: e