Friday, October 21, 2022
"The majority of Americans say transgender surgeries for minors should be illegal, newly released polling data shows, backing up a movement to ban the practice in states around the country."
This day in Herstory: Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, born October 21, 1929 (died January 22, 2018), was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin herself said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist". (more)
US - Poll: Americans support banning transgender surgeries, drugs for minors
From The Center Square (USA)
By Casey Harper
October 21, 2022
The majority of Americans say transgender surgeries for minors should be illegal, newly released polling data shows, backing up a movement to ban the practice in states around the country.
Convention of States Action, along with the Trafalgar Group, released the data, which showed that “78.7 percent of voters believe underage minors should be required to wait until they are adults to legally use puberty blockers and undergo permanent sex-change procedures.”
Notably, 84.6% of Independents and even 53.2% of Democrats say the same. … read full article
Norway - Transgender Programmer Designs Game About Slaughtering Women Critical of Gender Ideology
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Genevieve Gluck
October 21, 2022
A Norwegian programmer has revealed a conceptual design for a video game centered around slaughtering women that he refers to as “gender fascists” for being critical of gender ideology.
Moen first began posting images from his project “Terfenstein 3D” in July and has since shared over a dozen updates on Twitter, including videos of game play.
Advertising his concept on Twitter, Moen encourages players to “put blood on the walls” and refers to the enemy characters in the game as “gender fascists.” In his tweets, he incorporates hashtags such as #TERFs, #AdultHumanFemale, and #TERFIsland, which is used as a derogatory nickname for the United Kingdom, known internationally for having a strong feminist presence opposing gender identity ideology. … read full article
UK - Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use preferred pronouns or dress as opposite sex under NHS guidelines
NHS to consider risks of social transition in youth questioning gender identity
Social transitioning can include changing name, pronouns, and crossdressing
New guidelines say it can have significant effects it on a child's psychology
They also say most children will not commit to gender changes in their teens
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JOHN ELY
October 21, 2022
Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use the pronouns of their preferred identity.
New NHS draft guidelines will also discourage the act of children dressing in clothes of the opposite sex.
Health chiefs say 'social transitioning' should be no longer be viewed as a 'neutral act' due to the significant effects it may have on a child's psychology. … read full article
US - Portland Antifa vows to silence women's rights activist, raises money for weapons
A trans-identified male Antifa member is organizing a counter-protest and fundraising to buy weapons to shut down a women’s rights event scheduled to take place in Portland on Oct 25.
From The Post Millennial (Canada)
By Mia Ashton
October 21, 2022
A trans-identified male Antifa leader is organizing a counter-protest and fundraising to buy weapons to shut down a women’s rights event scheduled to take place in Portland on Oct 25. The event is held by British women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen.
Post Millennial editor-at-large Andy Ngo tweeted that Isabel R. Araujo, a trans Antifa leader in Portland, is organizing a direct action to try and shut down Keen on her speaking visit in Oregon, and that Araujo is currently raising money for weapons.
… read full article
At least 15 under-FOURS were referred to NHS Tavistock clinic to undergo gender care services
Half of children referred to Tavistock's gender ID clinic were under the age of 15
Shockingly, this figure included over a dozen children aged 4-years-old or less
The NHS is proposing a crackdown on how children are referred to gender care
Current system means teachers and volunteers can refer even young children
But the new guidelines would restrict referrals to just GPs and other health staff
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JOHN ELY
October 21, 2022
At least 15 children under the age of four were directed to the NHS's transgender health service in England in the past two years.
A similar number of five-year-olds were referred between 2021-2022 to the highly-controversial Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock clinic, the country's only gender identity service for children.
NHS documents state that, in total, over 5,000 children were referred to Tavistock's service in the past two years, over concerns they were suffering from their gender identity not matching their biological sex. … read full article
US - The falsehood at the heart of the trans movement
From The Freethinker (USA)
By ELIZA MONDEGREEN
October 21, 2022
The new politics of marginalised identities, now marching across the West, frequently clashes with classical liberal values like freedom of speech and association. Nowhere, however, is this clash and its consequences for civic life more obvious – and dire – than when it comes to the trans movement.
What began as an informal social and economic pressure campaign has crossed over into a formal effort by coercive state agencies to restrict freedom of expression, assembly, and conscience. In Norway, a feminist organiser named Christina Ellingsen could face up to three years in prison for tweeting that males who identify as women cannot be lesbians or mothers, because this statement violates Norway’s newly expanded hate crime laws. In Canada, a human rights tribunal entertained the complaints of a trans-identified male against religious-minority women who refused to provide intimate hair-removal services. Professors like Selina Todd and Kathleen Stock have needed security to accompany them on their own university campuses after voicing concerns about proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act. In England, police have investigated ordinary citizens for tweeting salty limericks or displaying ‘transphobic’ stickers. … read full article
UK - Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use preferred pronouns or dress as opposite sex under NHS guidelines
NHS to consider risks of social transition in youth questioning gender identity
Social transitioning can include changing name, pronouns, and crossdressing
New guidelines say it can have significant effects it on a child's psychology
They also say most children will not commit to gender changes in their teens
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JOHN ELY
October 21, 2022
Doctors will no longer encourage gender-curious children to use the pronouns of their preferred identity.
New NHS draft guidelines will also discourage the act of children dressing in clothes of the opposite sex.
Health chiefs say 'social transitioning' should be no longer be viewed as a 'neutral act' due to the significant effects it may have on a child's psychology. … read full article
US - Medically trans-ing children is a media-backed scandal, doctors warn
From The Christian Post (USA)
By Brandon Showalter
October 21, 2022
Medical scandals are particularly difficult to expose when academia, the corporate press, and the entertainment industry further them, according to doctors and investigative journalists raising the alarm about experimental transgender medicalization.
In the second episode of “Generation Indoctrination: Inside The Transgender Battle,” The Christian Post’s new documentary-style investigative podcast series, released Friday, Dr. Quentin Van Meter explains that the brewing catastrophe of trans-ing minors has occurred with the speed that it has due to nefarious institutional pressures. The Atlanta-based pediatric endocrinologist, who's also president of the American College of Pediatricians, noted that the main tactic used by activists in the medical field is to classify anyone who dares to express caution or an opinion that contravenes the socially-approved narrative on these issues as narrow-minded and discriminatory. … read full article
US - AG Marshall: Conforming to 'gender ideology' instead of biology an 'attack on common sense'
From 1819 News (USA)
By Erica Thomas
October 21, 2022
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed an amicus brief Thursday in support of Indiana’s law prohibiting boys from playing on girls’ sports teams. Attorneys general from 18 other states joined in the brief.
Indiana’s law dismisses the idea that sex is based on “gender identity” rather than biology. The science behind the law has led to it being challenged in federal district court.
Marshall's brief states that Indiana has fallen victim to a proliferating litigation strategy targeting the definition of sex. … read full article
UK - Professor Kathleen Stock says she will never teach in Britain again due to lack of free speech after she was hounded out of Sussex University in trans rights row
Professor Kathleen Stock, 50, is at the centre of a row about trans rights
The academic was hounded out of her Sussex University position last year
At a debate in London today she said institutions treat students like customers
From Daily Mail (UK)
By SARAH HARRIS
October 21, 2022
An academic at the centre of a row about trans rights says she will never work again in a British university due to a lack of free speech.
Professor Kathleen Stock, 50, was hounded out of her position at Sussex University by activists last October because she questioned transgender ideology.
The professor of philosophy today claimed academic institutions treat students like customers and the ‘grown-ups’ do not tell young people that hearing differing views will not harm them. … read full article
US - ‘Affirmation Generation’: Interview with joey brite and Vera Lindner, Filmmakers Documenting the ‘Lies of Transgender Medicine’
From Women Are Human (USA)
By Donovan Cleckley
October 21, 2022
As increasing scrutiny has fallen on what has been called ‘gender medicine,’ documentaries have aided in raising public awareness. Among these, we must note Dysphoric: Fleeing Womanhood Like a House on Fire by Vaishnavi Sundar and Trans Mission: What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender? by Kallie Fell and Jennifer Lahl, both from 2021. More recently, Fell and Lahl have released their documentary entitled The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters, featuring three young women named Helena, Cat, and Grace, all harmed by what Jennifer Bilek terms “synthetic sex identities.” What has become increasingly evident has been harm disguised as help, driven, to no small extent, by medical profiteering that results in medical violence. A new addition to the aforementioned works will be the upcoming Affirmation Generation: The Lies of Transgender Medicine. … read full article
US - Summer of 2022 ROGD Survey Results
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
October 21, 2022
From August through September 2022, a survey was circulated within private forums to parents of sons with Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. These private groups were formed to provide support for parents who are skeptical of their son’s sudden self-diagnosis as “trans,” and generally cautious about the popular model of “affirmation” offered by therapists, schools, and medical practitioners.
As the forums were created for parents whose sons fit a Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria profile, the sons do not represent typical childhood-onset gender dysphoria patterns. Two earlier surveys in 2021 confirmed that these boys were “typically boyish” in childhood, showing interest in masculine activities and behaviors, and no interest in “girl” activities or behaviors. … read full article
US - Don't blame the kids for channeling demons
Parents are up in arms at a 'queer Satanic' mural painted by a Michigan 15-year-old
From Reactionary Feminist (UK)
By Mary Harrington
October 21, 2022
Queer Satanism in Michigan schools?
A teenage mural painter in Michigan retired in tears from a school board meeting after incensed parents denounced the work she’d created as queer and satanic propaganda, according to NPR.
The mural, above, is one of the most profoundly ugly things I’ve seen in a while and includes many details I find conceptually as well as aesthetically troubling. In particular the figure wearing the t-shirt in trans colours, whose smile appears to be a sticking-plaster, strikes me as a vivid metaphor for the sense that medical interventions in gender-confused children’s bodies work as a sticking-plaster substitute for happiness in many young people with complex mental and social difficulties. … read full article
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