Friday, September 30, 2022
"Female puberty is like being bundled into a runaway car. Let’s put aside periods, the shock of blood, the tsunami of emotions. Let’s concentrate on a girl of 12 or so ... suddenly acquiring breasts."
This day in Herstory: Nora Stanton Barney (née Blatch), born September 30, 1883 (died January 18, 1971), was an English-born American civil engineer, and suffragist. Barney was among the first women to graduate with an engineering degree in United States. Given an ultimatum to either stay a wife or practice engineering she chose engineering. She was the granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (more)
US - ‘Aligned With Our Mission’: Seattle Children’s Promises To Keep Operating On Trans Children
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Mary Rooke
September 29, 2022
Seattle Children’s Hospital doubled down on its “mission” to operate on children with sexuality and gender identity issues in a statement to the Daily Caller on Wednesday, even as pressure mounts on health systems to quit pushing irreversible surgeries on adolescent patients.
The hospital website boasts it is “the only pediatric academic medical center with fellowship-trained plastic surgeons who provide gender-affirming surgery in our region — Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.” The hospital told the Daily Caller that despite increased tension, it plans to continue performing “gender-affirming care” on its pediatric patients. … read full article
US - Biden partnered with organization which questioned parents' rights to be notified about their kids' transition
Biden Foundation partnered with an organization that offers 'Gender Support Plans' which rated parents' support on a scale of 1-10
From Fox News (USA)
By Hannah Grossman
September 30, 2022
FIRST ON FOX – The Biden Foundation partnered with an organization that provided gender plans that schools can use to conceal a child's social transition from their parents.
In 2019, the Biden Foundation – which said it would champion "progress and prosperity for American families" – launched the "Advance Acceptance" campaign and partnered with Gender Spectrum, an organization involved in promoting gender ideology in the medical field and in K-12 education through professional development.
The Biden Foundation was a 501(c)3 organization active from approximately 2017 until it suspended operations "effective immediately" in 2019, when Joe Biden announced he was running for president. Biden, Dr. Jill Biden and close associates of the commander-in-chief held positions on its board. … read full article
UK - Time to change the world, not girls’ bodies
Rather than a charity that pushes insecure teens towards breast surgery we need a movement celebrating young women
From The Times (UK)
By Janice Turner
September 30, 2022
Female puberty is like being bundled into a runaway car. Let’s put aside periods, the shock of blood, the tsunami of emotions. Let’s concentrate on a girl of 12 or so, who until now has wandered the world thinking little about her body, suddenly acquiring breasts.
Ownership of these most fetishised organs changes everything. It brings self-doubt: how do I compare with girls in my class? (Or on TikTok or Pornhub.) It attracts a new, wolfish attention: cars slow, boys snigger, adult men stare. It can feel powerful but also terrifying, and those things on your chest, which jiggle during games, prompt smutty jokes, may give you backache or a sense of inadequacy, cannot be escaped.
… read full article
US - How 1 Small European Study Changed Transgender Medicine in US
From The Daily Signal (USA)
By Katrina Trinko
September 30, 2022
What is the basis for the current aggressive transgender treatment for kids? Dr. Miriam Grossman, a child psychiatrist and author, says it’s rooted in a study done of 55 children in the Netherlands who suffered from gender dysphoria, and were given puberty blockers.
But there are problems with how American doctors are using that study, and Grossman explains why. She also discusses what psychiatrists think behind closed doors about the current transgender treatment, and resources for parents with a child with gender dysphoria. … read full article
US - Newsom signs bill to allow minors from other states to receive medical gender transitions without parental consent
Newsom’s signature on the the bill, SB 107, comes nearly a month after the California legislature passed State Senator Scott Wiener’s bill, which was introduced in 2021.
From The Post Millennial (USA)
By Hannah Nightingale
September 30, 2022
On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a piece of legislation that will designate the state as a sanctuary for children and teens seeking medicalized gender transitions.
Newsom’s signature on the bill, SB 107, comes nearly a month after the California legislature passed State Senator Scott Wiener’s bill, which was introduced in 2021.
The bill allows families or individual minors who traveled to the state for the purpose of these medical procedures to be safe from out-of-state authorities acting on subpoenas, warrants, and child custody issues if the minor was brought into the state for procedures like surgical gender reassignments or the prescribing of cross-sex hormones. … read full article
UK - Claims Council’s Trans Rights Motion Is ‘Unlawful’
From B24/7 (UK)
By Betty Woolerton
September 30, 2022
A motion passed by Bristol City Council to pledge a commitment to trans rights has been branded “unlawful” and a “sham” by critics.
The cross-party motion recognised trans rights as human rights and was passed with an overwhelming majority in July, with 40 voting in favour.
But some are urging councillors to rethink it over concerns it “undermines the legal rights of women and children”. … read full article
Canada - Whose cause is it, anyway?
From gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
September 30, 2022
Against my better judgment (and even against some of the things I write just a few paragraphs down)—I’ll blame the fever I’ve been running—I’ve got some thoughts about the last few weeks…
This has all the makings of a frozen conflict. On one side are women whose minds and contributions I greatly respect, who are saying, in effect, ‘just make a statement distancing yourself and our cause from [objectionable groups].’ I get why the refusal to issue such a statement feels like a slap in the face to these women. It seems like such a small ask. And even if the request started out somewhat pro forma, when the women it’s asked of balk, suddenly everything feels much more dire: why is it so hard for you to do this one thing? … read full article
US - Trans activists behind new sex-ed curriculum for Wisconsin kindergarteners
In crafting their standards, committee members considered a number of sources, including the YouTube channel Amaze, which teaches kids about pornography, abortion, and sex.
From The Post Millennial (USA)
By Hannah Nightingale
September 29, 2022
A public school district in Wisconsin has been teaching kindergarteners about gender identity and sexual orientation, including genitalia, thanks if part to the efforts of a Planned Parenthood activist and a doctor who promotes the medicalized gender transitions of children.
According to the Daily Caller, the Wauwatosa School District just outside of Milwaukee proposed its new Human Growth and Development Curriculum Revision in early August, with the proposal passing in a vote later that month. … read full article
US - Students demand USM replace professor for allegedly saying there are only 2 sexes
From Bangor Daily News (USA)
By Troy R. Bennett
September 29, 2022
PORTLAND, Maine — Nearly two dozen graduate students at the University of Southern Maine are demanding their education professor be replaced after the professor allegedly said only two biological sexes exist.
The students said professor Christy Hammer’s remarks were inaccurate and transphobic.
After all but one student walked out of Hammer’s class on Sept. 14 in protest, they demanded a facilitated restorative justice meeting between the 22 students and their professor. … read full article
Canada - On Noticing the Obvious
From Hold That Thought by Sarah Haider (USA)
By Sarah Haider
September 30, 2022
It requires considerable credulity—even, naïveté—to imagine that self-identity as the main criteria of establishing transgender status is anything but a disaster waiting to happen. However, it is fast becoming the sole criteria: corporations and institutions are implementing it within their company policies, while activists strong-arm clinicians to adopt it indirectly by maligning “gatekeeping” and “non-affirming” therapies.
Today, for all intents and purposes, one is trans if they say they are trans.
In the coming years, we will be increasingly forced to face the repercussions of the refusal to consider the obvious drawbacks and risks of self-ID—many of which will, in the end, also damage transgender acceptance. … read full article
UK - Who’s to blame for our censorious students?
From The Spectator (UK)
By Tom Slater
September 30, 2022
Without freedom of speech, you do not have a university. More than any other value, it is freedom of speech that most defines the university, that makes it a special place in society set aside for debate and inquiry in which speech and thought should be freer than in practically any other workplace or institution.
And yet an alarming proportion of students seem not to have got the memo. A new study by the Policy Institute at King’s College London confirms what has been clear for some time: that today’s students, far from being rebellious free-thinkers, are if anything more supportive of censorship than the general population. … read full article
US - Medical Safety: Risk Study of Gender Medicine, Part 2
From 4W (USA)
By Elizabeth Jensen
September 30, 2022
In the previous part of this two-part series, I discussed how Gender Medicine was being conducted without any safety controls for this type of experimentation. This conduct would not necessarily meet the definition of “experiment”, because no results are being systematically collected to modify the hypotheses (Jensen, 2022). This part examines the claim for why this approach is appropriate: suicide (WPATH, 2022). The claim that this is necessary includes the term “life-saving” as well (Becerra, 2022).
Recall from Part 1 that I listed ways in which the Institutional Review Board safety practice could be subverted, including the misrepresentation of current research. Herein we evaluate the relevance of the claim that Gender Medicine improves suicide rates by comparing the citations in two overarching sources: (1) Levine et al. (2022) “Reconsidering Informed Consent for Trans-Identified Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults” and (2) WPATH (2022) “Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8”. … read full article
UK - Library blasted for swapping reading bear mascot with gender-neutral alien
From New York Post (USA)
By Brooke Steinberg
September 30, 2022
Parents in the UK are debating over the right time to tell children about the birds and the bees — and whether aliens are gendered.
England’s Hertfordshire Council is being blasted for swapping out its storytime library bear with a colorful, gender-neutral extraterrestrial.
Campaigners incorrectly stated that Tala — an alien who uses they/them pronouns and is nonbinary — was transgender, as well as claimed that the policy was an effort to “push gender ideology.” … read full article
UK - The left’s suicidal pact with Silicon Valley
Supporting corporate censorship is a folly of historic proportions.
From spiked (UK)
By Brendan O’Neill
September 30, 2022
The British comedian Jack Dee was the target of last week’s Two Minute Hate. The online left pointed its bony finger of judgement at the famously dour funnyman and accused him of the sin of bigotry. He’s far right, they screeched. He sides with fascists. Yet another cis white hetero dude spraying his prejudice everywhere. What offence did Mr Dee commit to attract such florid denunciations? He defended freedom of speech against the arbitrary power of unaccountable corporations. … read full article
UK - Incels waging 'war against women' and pose 'emerging threat to children', study finds
Users in the world's leading incel forum post about rape every 29 minutes and its rules were changed six months ago to accommodate paedophilia.
From Sky News (UK)
September 30, 2022
The incel movement is waging a "war against women" and poses a growing threat to children, according to a report that calls on tech companies to intervene to stop the radicalisation of lonely men and boys online.
The incel - or "involuntarily celibate" - movement is an online subculture involving men who feel unable to have sex or find love and express hostility and extreme resentment towards women. … read full article
Germany - “Trans-Muslima” Profiled In German News After Accusing Domestic Violence Shelter of Transphobia
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Reduxx Team
September 30, 2022
A German trans-identified male was sympathetically profiled in local news after he accused a women’s domestic violence shelter of “transphobia” for not having the space to accommodate him.
Joyce van den Brink-Böhm, a white male who identifies as a Muslim woman, was featured in Ruhr Nachrichten on September 28 after he accused a women’s crisis shelter in Dortmund of “transphobia.” … read full article
UK - The transgender paedophile who Sussex police insisted be called a woman had to move prison wings after starting a relationship with a ‘vulnerable’ female inmate
Serial paedophile Sally Anne Dixon, 58, identifies as a woman but is legally male
Despite controversy Dixon was sentenced as a woman and sent to female prison
Shortly after arriving she had to be transferred to a different wing, after starting a relationship with a ‘vulnerable’ inmate with 'learning disabilities'
From Daily Mail (UK)
By DAVID JONES and IZZY LYONS
September 30, 2022
The girl was just seven years old when she fell into a monster’s clutches.
Invited to stay in a caravan on the Sussex coast with a friend, that day had started so enjoyably. She had entered a hula-hoop competition at the campsite and been encouraged to drink some lemonade — although it later turned out this was alcoholic.
During the evening, the true purpose of her seaside break became hideously apparent. Back at the caravan, the bewildered child was made to watch a pornographic video — the prelude to playing a ‘game’ devised by her host, the details of which are too sordid to recount. … read full article
Austria - Lesbian Politician Barred from Lesbian Conference For Gender Critical Views
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Róisín Michaux
September 29, 2022
An Austrian politician has been uninvited from a lesbian conference after organizers claimed her views on women’s sex-based rights went against their values. Member of Parliament Faika El-Nagashi was told her position did not align with the conference’s “trans inclusive” policy.
Organizers behind the EU-funded European Lesbian* Conference (EL*C) sent an email to El-Nagashi just a few hours before the event was due to start, informing her that she was no longer welcome. The email was titled “EL*C is a trans inclusive space.” … read full article
Canada - Kamloops school trustee candidate running to end sexual indoctrination in schools calls out media for 'manipulation of words'
Despite such explicit books in schools raising concerns about the potential for them to be used as tools for child grooming, Rowse says 'the leftist woke mob is coming' for her.
From Rebel News (Canada)
By Drea Humphrey
September 30, 2022
The city of Kamloops, British Columbia has 11 people running to become one of District 73’s school trustees this October. Jennifer Rowse, a mother of two boys, one of whom is autistic, is one of the 11 hopefuls running, and has been making headlines for her hard stance against what she refers to as the sexual indoctrination of kids in school.
Traditionally, such a vision for a school board wouldn’t be too controversial. But in a country where terms like “inclusiveness” and “sexual education” are used to justify a biologically male shop teacher strapping on gigantic fake breasts with protruding nipples daily, and kindergartners being sent home with masturbation assignments, I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised that it is. … read full article
US - A year later, battle over parental rights defines partisan local and national political divide
From Fairfax County Times (USA)
By Asra Nomani
September 30, 2022
Last year, on Sept. 28, 2021, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, stood on a debate stage and said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” catalyzing a viral moment that, political analysts say, not only galvanized parents to elect Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin but also sparked a national political debate with ripples to this day.
The debate, a year later, is marked with 33,535 comments posted in just two days since Sept. 26 when the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) opened an online forum that seeks the view of the public on a proposed policy that schools do not have the right to keep secrets from parents about the gender pronouns, bathrooms and locker rooms their children want to use. The comment period is open for 30 days. … read full article
UK - Male performing arts teacher, 41, who was caught wearing a BRA while performing a sex act in an unlocked female toilet at a BP garage by a horrified mother and her five-year-old daughter is spared jail
School tutor Steven Ballantyne was caught performing a sex act in a bra
He was discovered by a mother and her daughter in female toilet at BP garage
The 41-year-old has been spared jail but ordered to sign Sex Offenders Register
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JACK WRIGHT
September 30, 2022
A male performing arts teacher who was caught wearing a bra while performing a sex act in an unlocked female toilet at a BP garage by a horrified mother and her young daughter has been spared jail.
School tutor Steven Ballantyne was in the toilet in the garage in Alnwick, Northumberland in January this year when he was seen by the shocked woman and her distraught five-year-old daughter.
A jury at Newcastle Crown Court has now convicted Ballantyne, who was employed by Northumberland County Council and worked in numerous schools on a supply basis, of outraging public decency. The council later confirmed that his employment has been terminated. … read full article
US - Cardinals Cupich and Dolan call on Biden for some slack
On forcing Catholic hospitals to perform gender surgery
From California Catholic Daily (USA)
September 30, 2022
The Biden administration’s proposal to force hospitals and doctors to perform gender-transition surgeries is “misguided” and should be reconsidered, two cardinals wrote Monday in an article published in America Magazine.
“Under this new proposed rule, it would be considered discrimination for a health care facility or worker to object to performing gender transition procedures, regardless of whether that objection is a matter of sincerely held religious belief or clinical judgment,” Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago and Timothy Dolan of New York wrote in a Sept. 26 statement.
“This is government coercion that intrudes on the religious freedom of faith-based health care facilities. Such a mandate threatens the conscience rights of all health care providers and workers who have discerned that participating in, or facilitating, gender transition procedures is contrary to their own beliefs.” … read full article