Friday, September 16, 2022
Friday, September 16, 2022
"WPATH prefers specifying no age limits whatsoever to going on the record by endorsing cross-sex hormones at 14; double mastectomies at 15; breast augmentation and facial surgery at 16; ... "
This day in Herstory: Lauren Bacall, born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924 (died August 12, 2014) was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures. She was known initially for her alluring, sultry presence and her distinctive, husky voice. Bacall was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. (more)
US - Michigan Education Department pushed transgender agenda in teacher trainings: Report
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Jeremiah Poff
September 16, 2022
The Michigan Department of Education's training program for public school employees includes an expansive program on gender and sexual identities along with instructions for facilitating student gender transitions without parental notice.
Materials from the training were obtained by Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo, who shared several videos from the trainings on Twitter.
… read full article
US - Twitter Suspends Daily Caller’s Chrissy Clark Over Her Article On Promoting Transgenderism To Preschoolers
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Nicole Silverio
September 16, 2022
Twitter suspended Daily Caller education reporter Chrissy Clark on Thursday evening for exposing a state agency promoting transgenderism to preschool aged children.
The article, “Wisconsin Education Department Promotes ‘Gender Expansive’ Resources For Three-Year-Olds,” describes the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction promoting transgender video resources and books for three to five-year-olds. One video showed parents transitioning their daughter into a boy. Clark co-wrote Tuesday’s article with Daily Caller senior congressional correspondent Henry Rodgers. … read full article
US - Trans health group claims 'eunuch' is a gender identity, says it can be identified in teens
WPATH recommends a website for more information, where a person can view a selection of “adult fiction”, including stories about “the castration of males of various ages”, in other words: child-castration pornography.
From The Post Millennial (Canada)
By Mia Ashton
September 16, 2022
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has released its Standards of Care Version 8 (SOC8).
The widely-cited international body, which sets the guidelines for treating children and adolescents who believe themselves to be transgender, has added a whole chapter on the latest gender identity: Eunuch.
“Among the many people who benefit from gender-affirming medical care, those who identify as eunuchs are among the least visible” reads the opening line of chapter 9.
… read full article
US - Hysterectomies for 17-year-olds? WPATH tries to scrub the record
From gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
September 16, 2022
I’m guessing this interesting set of ‘corrections’ is the reason for WPATH’s strange, last-minute delay releasing releasing the eighth standards of care. Just as I predicted last week, when I mentioned that it’s a terribly inconvenient time for WPATH to recommend lowering the age limit for “gender-affirming” surgeries. …
The authors had to list the ‘corrections’ they made after the final publication was approved. The corrections are all age-related. WPATH prefers specifying no age limits whatsoever to going on the record by endorsing cross-sex hormones at 14; double mastectomies at 15; breast augmentation and facial surgery at 16; metoidioplasty, orchiectomy, and vaginoplasty, hysterectomy at 17; and phalloplasty at 18. … read full article
US - The Gender Oracles and Their Holy Children
The radical gender theorists see a potential holy child in every crib.
From Reality’s Last Stand (USA)
By Barbara Kay
September 16, 2022
Billions of people believe in reincarnation. I can see that if one lived in a society where this belief was the norm, it would make perfect sense, a year or two after the spiritual leader of this vast community died, to assume the new leader might well be a toddler—“assigned at birth” as ordinary—but who was in fact hiding in plain sight as the reincarnated new leader.
That’s how it works for Tibetan Buddhists. A state oracle is consulted to guide the search party to the most likely district. They visit many homes. Once they get a strong vibe about a particular child, they present him with possessions from the former Dalai Lama, along with other unrelated objects. If the boy chooses the non-sacred objects to play with, he is ruled out as the former leader’s reincarnation. If he chooses the former Dalai Lama’s possessions, his world is turned upside down. … read full article
US - Youngkin administration overhauls policy for Virginia transgender students
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Jeremiah Poff
September 16, 2022
The Virginia Department of Education released new policies Friday detailing how school districts should handle students who identify as transgender with a heavy emphasis on parental rights.
The new policies direct schools to only recognize "transgender students" if the child's parent has requested in writing that the school address their child by a different gender identity.
"Parents have the right to make decisions with respect to their children," the guidance states. "Policies shall be drafted to safeguard parents’ rights with respect to their child, and to facilitate the exercise of those rights." … read full article
US - Lawmakers, Parents Vow to Stop Infiltration of LGBT Gender Ideology in Schools
From The Daily Signal (USA)
Douglas Blair
September 16, 2022
As parents become more aware of what radical activists are teaching their kids in school, a group of House Republicans held a “Back-to-School Roundtable” on Capitol Hill aimed at protecting children from LGBT ideology.
“We have seen school boards, teachers unions, and even the Department of Justice attempt to hijack parental rights. But these people do not have our kids’ and grandkids’ best interests at heart,” Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., said in her opening remarks. … read full article
US - Nightmares: A Child Torn Apart by Ideology
As the transgender trend sweeps the world, young children are suffering, too…
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
September 16, 2022
Most people cannot fathom what it’s like to live in fear of losing your child to an ideology. It is a place where you wake up in the middle of the night with a feeling in your chest that feels as if it could stop your breath cold. A terror as heavy and unyielding as stone. It is the stuff of nightmares and silent screams.
My story started with a divorce from a terribly toxic and damaged woman. We had joint legal and physical custody, but my ex did everything in her power to undermine me and to take complete control over our only child. Our son, only 4 at the time, was attending a progressive preschool in our small New England town. The director of the school had a young trans-identified child and took every opportunity to talk about gender to the 3 and 4 year olds in her care. The children were taught that they could “switch” genders and that doctors were only guessing at the sex of a baby when it was born. Of course, I learned about all of this much later. … read full article
US - What to Teach Young Kids About Gender
Schools should tell children to be themselves. But some districts say too much—and mistake progressive dogma for established fact.
From The Atlantic (USA)
By Conor Friedersdorf
September 16, 2022
For the foreseeable future, parents and educators will be grappling with this polarizing question: What, if anything, should prepubescent public-school students be taught about gender identity?
“Resources and lesson plans for those who want to teach about gender identity are becoming much more common,” The Washington Post reported in June. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics. The National Sex Education Standards, developed by experts and advocacy groups, name gender identity as one of seven essential topics, alongside puberty, consent, sexual orientation and other subjects. And the federal government recommends that schools include gender identity in their sex education programs.” … read full article
Canada - Ontario High School Teacher Seen Wearing Massive Prosthetic Bust to Class
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Anna Slatz
September 16, 2022
Photos and videos out of a Canadian High School are going viral as they show a male teacher wearing what appears to be large, prosthetic breasts in full view of young students.
Shocking media first began to circulate on Twitter earlier this week, with multiple accounts sharing a mobile phone video and stills of a shop teacher demonstrating how to use a circular saw.
The teacher is seen wearing an extremely prominent prosthetic bust, one which clearly outlines the nipples through his tight shirt. He is also donning a bright blonde wig and short-shorts. … read full article
Canada - Biological male who murdered woman, raped her corpse to be housed in Canadian women's prison
A 68-year-old biological male that identifies as a woman who is serving a life sentence for murdering a woman and then raping her corpse has been approved for transfer to a women’s prison in Ontario
From The Post Millennial (Canada)
By Mia Ashton
September 16, 2022
A 68-year-old biological male that identifies as a woman who is serving a life sentence for murdering a woman and then raping her corpse has been approved for transfer to a women’s prison in Ontario, Canada, according to Heather Mason.
Mason is a former federal prisoner and advocate for women in prison, and a founding member of the Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar) group.
In a thread on Twitter, Mason shared a series of screenshots from the individual’s parole documents, which she says she obtained via a request made to the Parole Board of Canada (PBC). … read full article
UK - JK Rowling 'was right' as LGB Alliance breaks down after being asked to define lesbian
JK Rowling once said we are living through one of the most "misogynistic periods of recent modern history" and after shock events at a hearing, women say she is right.
From Scottish Daily Express (Scotland)
By Jessica North
September 16, 2022
Critics say JK Rowling was right when she said women were facing historic levels of "misogyny" after Kate Harris from a gay rights charity broke down when she was asked to define what a lesbian was.
A clash hearing between gay rights advocates LGB Alliance and trans charity Mermaids has shocked onlookers who say it has revealed the "homophobia & abuse behind gender identity ideology".
Ms Harris's reaction to being asked whether a man who goes through the process of changing his sex can identify as a lesbian paused proceedings and sparked outrage from gender-critical women, including Ms Rowling. … read full article
UK - The moment that showed the madness of gender ideology
From The Spectator (UK)
By Debbie Hayton
September 16, 2022
Homosexuality was legalised in England and Wales 55 years ago. The Sexual Offences Act 1967 permitted homosexual acts between two consenting adults over the age of 21. Arguably that – and subsequent liberalisations – really only benefited men; sex acts between women were never criminalised.
But what does it mean to be a lesbian in 2022? This week Kate Harris – a lesbian and co-founder of the charity LGB Alliance – broke down in court under cross-examination from a male barrister. Michael Gibbon KC, counsel for the charity Mermaids, put it to her that ‘lesbians can include someone who is a woman as a result of gender reassignment.’ … read full article
UK - Stonewall’s cop coup backfires
How an institution betrayed its own ideals
From The Critic (UK)
By Malcolm Clark
September 15, 2022
It wasn’t supposed to be like this, was it? Lesbians being thrown off Pride — by rainbow flag-waving cops.
The events in Cardiff in which gays were excluded from a march which historically was set up by and for gay people was only the most startling recent example of how the police are taking sides on a dispute within the gay community. The cops almost universally back the new super woke LGBTQ+ crowd who think gender identity rules supreme against the old skool gays and lesbians who argue that biological sex matters. The lesbians in Cardiff who had their collars felt believe there’s a clue to the importance of sex in the words “same-sex attraction”. … read full article
UK - Researchers are wounded in academia’s gender wars
The toxic dispute over the rights of transgender people and how freely these matters should be discussed remains academia’s most divisive issue. Laura Favaro explains what she learned from speaking to both sides
From Times Higher Education
By Laura Favaro
September 15, 2022
“Are you not terrified? Everybody is going to hate you.” This response was not unusual as I interviewed those caught up in the so-called gender wars that have divided Western academia so deeply in recent years.
Warnings that the field was risky for an early career researcher to investigate came from scholars on all sides – from “gender-critical” feminists, who described being vilified and ostracised for stating that sex is binary and immutable, to those who saw that position as callous bigotry, or, moreover, “a genocidal project” (including journal editors thus endorsing censorship). Certain doors in academia may quietly close if I went further; invitations to speak would disappear and online abuse would follow, they warned. … read full article
UK - Calls for calm as anti-trans speaker comes to Brighton
From Brighton & Hove News (UK)
By Jo Wadsworth
September 16, 2022
Campaigners are calling for calm as a controversial anti-trans speaker is due to come to Brighton this weekend.
Kellie Jay Keen, aka Posie Parker, is due at Victoria Gardens on Sunday at 1pm as part of her Let Women Speak speaking tour.
Previous events in Bristol and Manchester have attracted vocal pro-trans activists and allegations of assault. … read full article
Australia - Divorcing the TQ from LGB
From Spectator | Australia
By Edie Wyatt
September 16, 2022
The LGB is divorcing the TQ and there is a court case. While the world’s eyes are on Britain changing monarchs, those of us who are interested in gender politics are again looking to the British courts for another battle at the business end of what is known as the Culture Wars.
In 2019, a group of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people set up a charity in Britain to forward the interests of same-sex attracted people. The charity, LGB Alliance, is different from the mainstream LGBTQ+ charities because it rejects gender identity ideology at the core of almost all other former gay rights charities. … read full article
Australia - Europe detransitions
Australia left behind as Europe distances itself from extreme gender affirmation
From Spactator | Australia
By Katherine Deves
September 17, 2022
An Australian obstetrician first warned the world of the dangers posed to unborn babies by the (then) widely prescribed maternal anti-nausea drug Thalidomide. Australia was relatively slow to halt its use – with devastating consequences still being felt decades on.
Today, despite warnings from clinicians in Australia and abroad, Australia risks repeating the same mistake over the medical treatment of children questioning their gender identity or suffering from gender dysphoria. … read full article