GC Review: September 24, 2022
This is the first of a new weekly feature by GC News, in which we return to important articles from the war to date. You might have already seen some of them, but we think they all warrant revisiting.
This day in Herstory: Victoria Louise Pendleton, CBE, born September 24, 1980, is a British jockey and former track cyclist who specialised in the sprint, team sprint and keirin disciplines. She is a former Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth champion. With two Olympic gold medals and one silver, Pendleton is one of Great Britain's most successful female Olympians. (more)
About our new weekly feature, GC Review
What it is, why we’re doing it, and what you can expect
Every day, there are more relevant news and opinion pieces from around the world than we can include. Some days, particularly important news occurs, gets written about by everyone who writes, then gets submerged in the torrent and disappears, quickly swallowed by what, in retrospect, was merely another eddy in this rushing river of rage, regret, and reinvention.
Some of these stories are worth revisiting. Not everyone saw them when they came out. Or, if you’re like me, you might have read it but can no longer remember it. And in many cases, they were simply so relevant, beautifully expressed, or seminal that they deserve rereading.
With that in mind, we’ve decided to devote every Saturday’s issue of GC News to stories that have already been published. They might be from the past week, month, year, or twenty years. They’re all relevant to the central theme of GC News: rejecting the current cultish adulation of gender ideology. And we will choose them carefully, looking for the ones that we personally want to reread and, hopefully, remember.
An invitation to subscribers: if there’s a really important article from the past few years that you’d like us to include in an upcoming Saturday GC Review issue of GC News, please include your suggestion in a reply, or send us email at gcnews@substack.com.
What I wish I’d known when I was 19 and had sex reassignment surgery
From The Washington Post (USA)
By Corinna Cohn
April 11, 2022
Corinna Cohn, a software developer in Indianapolis, is an officer in the Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network.
When I was 19, I had surgery for sex reassignment, or what is now called gender affirmation surgery. The callow young man who was obsessed with transitioning to womanhood could not have imagined reaching middle age. But now I’m closer to 50, keeping a watchful eye on my 401(k), and dieting and exercising in the hope that I’ll have a healthy retirement.
In terms of my priorities and interests today, that younger incarnation of myself might as well have been a different person — yet that was the person who committed me to a lifetime set apart from my peers.
There is much debate today about transgender treatment, especially for young people. Others might feel differently about their choices, but I know now that I wasn’t old enough to make that decision. Given the strong cultural forces today casting a benign light on these matters, I thought it might be helpful for young people, and their parents, to hear what I wish I had known. … read full article
Top Trans Doctors Blow the Whistle on ‘Sloppy’ Care
In exclusive interviews, two prominent providers sound off on puberty blockers, 'affirmative' care, the inhibition of sexual pleasure, and the suppression of dissent in their field.
From Common Sense (USA)
By Abigail Shrier
October 4, 2021
For nearly a decade, the vanguard of the transgender-rights movement — doctors, activists, celebrities and transgender influencers — has defined the boundaries of the new orthodoxy surrounding transgender medical care: What’s true, what’s false, which questions can and cannot be asked.
They said it was perfectly safe to give children as young as nine puberty blockers and insisted that the effects of those blockers were “fully reversible.” They said that it was the job of medical professionals to help minors to transition. They said it was not their job to question the wisdom of transitioning, and that anyone who did — including parents — was probably transphobic. They said that any worries about a social contagion among teen girls was nonsense. And they never said anything about the distinct possibility that blocking puberty, coupled with cross-sex hormones, could inhibit a normal sex life. … read full article
Top Academic Behind Fetish Site Hosting Child Sexual Abuse Fantasy, Push To Revise WPATH Guidelines
From REDUXX (USA)
By Genevieve Gluck
May 21, 2022
A Professor Emeritus at California State University who has given academic talks on “expanding the transgender umbrella” has for over two decades participated in a fetish forum that hosts and produces extreme sadomasochistic written pornography involving the castration and torture of children.
Thomas W. Johnson, a retired Professor at California State University in Chico (CSUC), is a formative member of the body modification fetish site The Eunuch Archives, which was the subject of a months-long investigation by Reduxx released on May 17. At the time, Johnson’s identity had not yet been confirmed as an anonymous user who goes by the handle “Jesus.” … read full article
The following, more recent article, shows how Genevieve Gluck’s important reporting continues to resonate (Ed.):
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
Sex Is Not a Spectrum
From Reality’s Last Stand (USA)
By Colin Wright
February 1, 2021
As more and more people refer to themselves as trans, nonbinary, and gender-non-conforming, activists have been adamantly pushing the narrative that our common understanding of males and females existing as real biological entities is obsolete. Instead of male and female, some argue there are only varying degrees of “male-ness” and “female-ness.” Because of this, they assert that segregating any space or sports using binary sex categories is illegitimate, since if no definitive line can be drawn who’s to say a purported “male” isn’t really female? Many even go so far as to claim that we should let people decide for themselves what sex they are, as though this were a matter of personal choice.
The view that sex is a spectrum is no longer confined to university humanities departments and hermetic internet communities. It has now made considerable inroads into mainstream culture, thanks in part to a highly sympathetic media environment. Even prestigious scientific journals such as Nature have given space to authors who argue that “the idea of two sexes is simplistic” and that “biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.” Another Nature editorial insisted that attempts to classify an individual’s sex using any combination of anatomy and genetics “has no basis in science.” A recent book, The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex, argues this position from cover to cover. Its publisher, a Canadian academic press, gushes that “this transformative guide completely breaks down our current understanding of biological sex.” … read full article
Suella Braverman is right about trans ideology in schools
We are plunging younger generations into an identity crisis.
From Spiked (UK)
By Frank Furedi
June 1, 2022
Suella Braverman, attorney general for England and Wales, should be commended. In an interview for The Times on Friday, she had the courage to say what so many of her parliamentary colleagues have been reluctant to – namely, that schools should not pander to the demands of children who believe themselves to be trans.
She told The Times that schools are under no legal obligation to address children by a new pronoun or allow them to wear the school uniform of a different gender. And she pointed out that girls’ toilets and changing rooms have special legal protections as safe spaces. … read full article
Great resource archive 💖 thank you
good idea. thanks