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Laura Kenny ‘never been so relieved’ as she shares baby’s gender after heartbreaking loss

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Dame Laura Kenny has revealed her baby's gender

Dame Laura Kenny has revealed her baby’s gender (Image: GETTY)

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, 30, has revealed the gender of the baby she is expecting with her husband, fellow gold medallist Sir Jason Kenny, 34. The sports star, who admitted she has “never felt more relieved” by the news, previously faced heartbreak when she suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy within three months of each other.

The cycling legend has revealed that their new arrival will be a baby boy – and she seems to be thrilled by the news.

Their son, who is due to arrive in July, will be their second child after the pair’s five-year-old son, Albie.

Dame Laura suffered two devastating losses back in 2021, including a miscarriage followed by an ectopic pregnancy just two months later.

The latter even required the athlete to undergo lifesaving surgery to remove a fallopian tube.

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Dame Laura Kenny has revealed her baby's gender

Dame Laura and Sir Jason Kenny are expecting their second child (Image: GETTY)

Following the harrowing ordeal, Dame Laura and Sir Jason are now overjoyed to announce the gender of their second child.

“We didn’t have a preference, as we’ve been through so much trauma we just wanted a baby that was well,” Laura explained.

However, she admitted she felt relieved after their son Albie made it perfectly clear what he would prefer.

“We asked Albie what he wanted and he kept saying a little boy. I said to him, ‘What happens if we get a baby sister?’ And he was like, ‘I don’t want it’,” she said.

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Dame Laura and Sir Jason Kenny are Olympic gold medallists (Image: GETTY)

Dame Laura and Sir Jason Kenny

Dame Laura is a record-breaking athlete (Image: GETTY)

“I’ve never felt so relieved as when we got the result,” she admitted in her interview with OK! . “We showed him the scan and he said, ‘I hope he grows up quickly.’ He wants the baby to be born aged five!”

The star went on to add that she and her husband had already picked out a name, but remained tight-lipped except to say that she likes a moniker that “can be shortened”.

Dame Laura previously opened up to Express.co.uk about how receiving her damehood last year had been “one of the best days of her life” despite experiencing the “worst year of her life” in 2022 due to the difficult time she had following her terrible loss.

Speaking about meeting Prince William , she revealed the royal addressed her ordeal and provided words of comfort.

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“Honestly, I would say it was just one of the best days of my life. Just the whole experience from start to finish,” she revealed.

When the time came to step forward and receive her honour from the royal, she remembered how considerate he had been about the tough year her family had endured.

“He was actually brilliant,” the Olympic cyclist recalled fondly. “It hadn’t been long – it had maybe been two weeks since I’d said about having the ectopic (pregnancy) and the miscarriage.”

“And he just said, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry to hear what you and your family have been through.’

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“And then he also said he would see us again at the Commonwealth Games,” she added.

“Just the fact that he’d even brought up what had gone on with our family just felt so personal.

“I just thought, ‘I’m so happy.’ Because then it also gave me an opportunity to say, ‘Thanks for caring!’

“Because obviously it’s a difficult subject, but I was just glad and, I guess, happy that he had brought it up.”

Signs of autism in women as Christine McGuinness highlights gender gap in early diagnosis

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Autism is neither an illness nor a disease. It merely means your brain works in a different way compared to others. Worryingly, many women with this condition tend to be misdiagnosed and misunderstood. This disparity has been also highlighted by Christine McGuinness in a new documentary. Fortunately, awareness of signs that can appear in women could be the first step in seeking help.

Contrary to popular opinion that autism overwhelmingly targets men and boys, autistic people also include women and girls.

Christine McGuinness, 34, opened up about her life with autism in a new BBC One documentary titled Christine McGuinness: Unmasking My Autism .

The presenter and television personality also highlighted the gender gap in early diagnosis of autism .

Speaking in the documentary, McGuinness said: “I was really nervous about doing a documentary based on autistic women and girls because there are boys and men out there who are autistic too and I didn’t want it to come across as sexist.

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Christine McGuinness highlights gender gap in early diagnosis of autism.

Christine McGuinness highlights gender gap in early diagnosis of autism. (Image: BBC/Christine McGuinness)

“But there are so many women being diagnosed later in life because it is misunderstood and they’re masking or not showing it.

“It’s so important that it changes because those women probably needed help and support when they were girls at school.

“I remember it being the worst time of my life to the point where I didn’t want to learn.

“There was just so much going on in my head. It’s sad to think there are teenage girls who are feeling exactly the same.”

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Data suggests that around 42 percent of women and girls with autism receive at least one misdiagnosis before finding out they have autism, according to Psychology Today .

Furthermore, the National Library of Medicine reports that on average girls, who have mild signs of autism , are diagnosed two years later than boys.

The National Autistic Society explains that the gender gap in diagnosis exists because of stereotypical ideas about what autism looks like.

In school, autistic girls may be more likely to be part of a friendship group, so teachers may not notice their differences.

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Women are often better at masking the signs of autism.

Women are often better at masking the signs of autism. (Image: GETTY)

Their academic achievements may also mask that they are facing difficulties in other areas.

The charity states: “Some of the core characteristics of autism are having ‘repetitive behaviours’ and highly-focused interests.

“Stereotyped examples of these include rocking backwards and forwards, and a fascination with trains.

“However, in autistic women and girls these behaviours and interests may be similar to those of non-autistic women and girls , such as twirling hair and reading books, and as such may go unnoticed despite the greater intensity or focus typical for autistic people.”

Rehearsing possible conversations could be a sign of autism in women.

Rehearsing possible conversations could be a sign of autism in women. (Image: GETTY)

According to experts and charities, other signs of autism in women may include:

  • Copying people who don’t have autism as a means to fit in and hide signs
  • Being quieter and hiding feelings
  • Working “extra hard” to fit in and preparing for social situations in advance (for example, rehearsing possible conversations).

The NHS advises seeing a GP if you think you might be autistic.

For more information and advice about autism in women and girls, visit the National Autistic Society here .

‘He looks beautiful as a woman’: Annie Yi and Harlem Yu’s son dons dress and long hair for 21st birthday, sparks discussion

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Instead of just being a handsome man or a beautiful woman, why not be both?

Harrison Yu, son of divorced celeb couple Harlem Yu and Annie Yi, celebrated his 21st birthday on March 16 and posted photos on his Instagram page on March 19.

He shared one of himself dressed in a pale yellow tassel dress with high heels and curly hair and wrote the caption: “21! in Lisbon.” Due to his crossdressing, he came in top for Weibo’s top searches, dividing netizens in their views .

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Some netizens praised him for looking stunning: “He looks handsome as a man and beautiful as a woman.”

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Another wrote: “How do you have everything, it’s unfair.”

One user had a cheeky compliment: “Doesn’t he look like Lin Chi-ling (Chen Han-dian version)?”

Chen Han-dian is a Taiwanese comedian and host best known for his stint on Taiwanese talk show Kangsi Coming from 2007 to 2016.

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Some users were supportive, leaving comments such as: “As long as he’s happy” and “I respect and wish him well! How he dresses doesn’t affect anybody”.

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Other netizens disapproved, commenting: “I can’t appreciate this” and “He is a Westernised son”.

They also questioned if his parents are really okay with it, saying: “On the surface they seem okay, but all parents know how painful it truly is!”

Harlem, 61, and Annie, 55, have openly supported their son’s fashion choices. Harlem shared that he has seen Harrison crossdress before and just wants him to be happy.

Anniei said: “I love him very, very much, and I love every side of him. He doesn’t need clothes to define himself as a man or woman. He likes dressing up as a man too, and feels that he looks handsome. He feels that he is a free person, and dressing up as both genders completes and does not impede him.”

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In ‘Lord of the Flies’ Remake, Girls Survive Instead

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A planned film adaptation of “Lord of the Flies,” the 1954 novel that examined the inherent evil of humanity through an island of boys without adult supervision, will have a provocative twist: This time, the island will be full of girls.

The concept alone invited immediate scrutiny on social media. But skepticism was inflamed by a fairly common Hollywood story : The film about girls will be written and directed by two men, Scott McGehee and David Siegel.

The two men have reportedly made a deal with Warner Bros. to create the movie. Mr. Siegel told Deadline, which reported the news , that they intended to do “a very faithful but contemporized adaptation of the book.”

Using girls “might help people see the story anew,” Mr. McGehee said.

“It breaks away from some of the conventions, the ways we think of boys and aggression,” he said. “People still talk about the movie and the book from the standpoint of pure storytelling. It is a great adventure story, real entertainment, but it has a lot of meaning embedded in it as well.”

Together, the two directed the films “ The Deep End ” in 2001 and “ What Maisie Knew ” in 2013. Theirs would be at least the third adaptation of “Lord of the Flies,” after a 1963 version and another one in 1990 . Warner Bros. did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

In the book — spoiler alert — things go badly for the preteen boys, classmates from an English boarding school who become stranded on an island without adults. They first try to work together to survive, but their new society quickly unravels as distrust and violence set in. A favorite of high school English classes, the story has for decades been seen as a cautionary look at how members of mankind can treat one another poorly.

But is it about mankind or about men? Flipping the gender dynamics would lead to an entirely different story, several people argued.

In an undated interview , the author of the book, William Golding, who died in 1993, said he was often asked why he wrote about boys instead of girls. He said that it was partly because he grew up as one, but that gender was also crucial to the larger point of the novel.

“If you land with a group of little boys, they are more like scaled-down society than a group of little girls would be. Don’t ask me why, and this is a terrible thing to say, because I’m going to be chased from hell to breakfast by all the women who talk about equality. This has nothing to do with equality at all. I mean, I think women are foolish to pretend they’re equal to men — they’re far superior and always have been. But one thing you cannot do with them is take a bunch of them and boil them down, so to speak, into a set of little girls who would then become a kind of image of civilization, of society.”

Gender reversals in reboots are not new for Hollywood: A “ Ghostbusters ” with a cast of women was a critical and box office success last year, and women will be the outlaws in the upcoming “ Ocean’s 8 .” And teenage girls have long been awful to one another on screen, as seen in “ Mean Girls ” and “ Heathers .”

What remains to be seen is whether the new “Lord of the Flies” will offer largely a mirror image of the novel, subbing in girls without changing the central plot points and behavior of the characters, or if it will wrestle with how girls would approach their fate differently.

“It could be problematic if all they’re doing is switching out girls for boys and saying, ‘Well, girls would do this too,’” said Pamela Davis-Kean, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan who studies children and families.

Though many differences between boys and girls tend to be overstated, boys do tend to be more physically aggressive, she said. Some of the novel’s scenes of physical violence probably wouldn’t align with how girls would settle their issues, especially in the era of the book, she said.

The depth of collaboration could be another departure, she said. While the boys in the book did try to set up effective communication methods, like only speaking when holding a conch shell, they largely ended up deferring to leaders. Girls would be more likely to hear more ideas and deliberate, Ms. Davis-Kean said.

“My guess would be a lot more time in the shell circle trying to figure out what to do,” she said.

Meghan and Harry Throw Weight Behind Child Transgenderism NGO

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Wayward royals Harry and Meghan have “partnered” with an organisation that, reports note, promotes childhood transgenderism.

Harry and Meghan’s Archewell charity has teamed up with the Global Boyhood Initiative, an NGO that has publicly backed teaching transgender ideology to children. The partnership is prominently displayed on the NGO’s own website.

The Global Boyhood Initiative, which aims to crush “toxic manhood” and stop parents from pushing “gender roles” on their children, is primarily backed by Equimundo, an NGO aimed at achieving gender equality worldwide.

Equimundo in turn receives funding from both the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, as well as a variety of other corporations, NGOs and government organisations.

As a report by the UK’s Telegraph notes, the organisation has pushed ideas wrapped up in transgender ideology, attacking parents for “ gendering ” before their birth, instead backing the idea that “gender is not tied to sex organs, hormones or biological traits”.

It also criticises parents for being “factories” of “gender and heterosexuality”, attacks the phrase “boys will be boys” as being “problematic”, and even describes “brainbased, essential and natural gender differences” as being “popular pseudoscience”.

The organisation is ultimately formulating an education plan it hopes will be rolled out in UK schools in the hopes of getting children to “internalise… new gender attitudes and norms”.

Such an education programme appears to be in service of the group’s end goal, which is described by the group’s UK head as building “a generation of boys who are not influenced by restrictive gender stereotypes”.

Harry claims his brother “grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor” during an argument over his “rude” wife Meghan.

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Such re-education plans have rubbed some the wrong way, with Conservative Party MP lashing out at the suggestion while speaking to The Telegraph .

“Attempting to ‘re-educate’ small children for reasons of political activism is indoctrination and an abuse of the trust that children place in teachers and parents place in schools,” she reportedly said.

“It is also concerning that the Global Boyhood Initiative says they have widened their net to include ‘children of all genders’, which suggests they hold to an extreme position on gender ideology,” the politician added.

While it is unclear whether Harry and Meghan support the project’s aim of seeing such gender ideology taught in schools, their partnership with the programme does certainly show they support its aim of fighting male gender stereotypes.

In material published by both the Global Boyhood Initiative and Archewell, both groups advocate for men to be a “good ally” to women, as well as “reflect” on their “power and privilege as a man”.

The two groups also instruct men to “ smash stereotypes ” while raising their own male children.

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