Monday, August 15, 2022
"Several videos from Boston Children’s Hospital on transgender children are making the rounds. Two of the videos claim that children can know that they are transgender from birth..."
This day in Herstory: Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland), born August 15, 1858 (died May 4, 1924), was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children, as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. Among Nesbit's best-known books are The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) and The Wouldbegoods (1901), and The Railway Children. Nesbit has been cited as the creator of modern children's fantasy and influenced directly or indirectly many later writers, including P. L. Travers (of Mary Poppins), Edward Eager, Diana Wynne Jones and J. K. Rowling. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party. (more)
US - At Boston Children's Hospital, illogical and destructive gender ideology reigns
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Zachary Faria
August 15, 2022
Several videos from Boston Children’s Hospital on transgender children are making the rounds. They highlight how destructive the transgender medical agenda is for children and how illogical transgender activists are.
Two of the videos claim that children can know that they are transgender from birth or even while still in utero. The hospital boasts that it regularly sees transgender children as young as 2 or 3 years old, when they meet with a psychologist who pushes them down the road of social gender transitioning. Concerned parents are told that beginning an irreversible process based on the word of a 2-year-old is just being “supportive.”
How do children know they are the wrong gender from birth or in the womb? That is not clear. In fact, it's hard even to imagine what that means. But we do apparently have metrics for when they are around 2 or 3. According to the hospital, a child refusing to get a haircut or playing with “opposite gender” toys can only mean that the child is transgender and must begin the gender transition process. … read full article
US - Gender Activists Don’t Want Reform, They Want a Revolution
Revolutionaries keep moving their goalposts and, in the process, they eat their children.
From Reality’s Last Stand (USA)
By Barbara Kay
August 15, 2022
On July 26, showering after her weekly swim at the YMCA-operated Mountain View Pool in Port Townsend, Washington, Julie Jaman heard a male voice. Looking past the shower curtain, Jaman saw, “very close to me,” a male in a female bathing suit who, she said, was “watching maybe four or five little girls pulling down their suits in order to use the toilet.”
The male-bodied individual was a YMCA staff member who identifies as a woman. Jaman asked him, “Do you have a penis?” He replied, “That’s none of your business.” Jaman told him, “Get out of here, right now.” Another YMCA staffer present then berated her for discrimination, and after a reportedly testy exchange, both parties called the police. The upshot was that Jaman was barred from the pool for life. … read full article
US - Why is this Man Allowed to Watch Girls Pee, Women Shower at the YMCA Pool?
Meet Clementine Adams, a man
From The Distance (USA)
By Matt Osborne
August 15, 2022
Here at The Distance, we do not recognize any difference between a man watching your elderly mother shower and a man named Clementine Adams (seen above) watching your elderly mother shower, so we are not using his preferred pronouns.
If this is too much for you to bear, stop reading now, go get your elederly mother, and take a group shower with him together at the YMCA. … read full article
US - Is the Transgender Cult in Trouble Now?
From PJ Media (USA)
By MATT MARGOLIS
August 15, 2022
The transgender cult has been targeting our children for some time now, and as long as this has been going on, many of us have been wondering why more people in the gay community weren’t speaking out about these dangerous grooming practices. Drag queen readings, transgender closets in schools, graphic sex ed, gender transitions for little children… you don’t have to be heterosexual to see these are dangerous.
The transgender movement doesn’t just harm kids; it harms society as a whole, particularly women. The erasure of biological sex robs women of opportunities as biological males are allowed to compete against them in sports, despite their physical and biological advantages. It also robs women and girls of their privacy and dignity as men are increasingly given the okay to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms.
… read full article
US - The School Board Director
Inclusion is for everyone, right?
From felice j. killer (USA)
By felice
August 15, 2022
I just sent that letter to the school board. Within the hour I received a response, from the school board director, Sonia Robertson*:
Dear Felice,
Thank you for your email, which I have shared with my colleagues on the Board of School Directors. Administrative Regulations are developed by the District Administration, in consultation with the District Solicitor, to guide implementation of District Policies. …
My first thought was not a thought at all but a feeling—blind rage. Not that I didn’t foresee pushback. I suppose I’m surprised I got a response at all, especially since the initial emails I sent to Sonia went unanswered. A month ago I’d asked who wrote Administrative Regulation 259 and who advised on it. She was like, crickets. … read full article
US - Mothers Pushing Transgenderism on Children Seek ‘Mama Bear Crusade
From Breitbart (USA)
By Katherine Hamilton
August 14, 2022
Many parents are running for school boards, homeschooling, and even pushing for a legislative crackdown to defend their children from transgender, queer, and other sexual activists in the classroom.
But some parents, particularly mothers, seem to be whole-heartedly embracing the idea that their children are fully capable of deciding what sex they are — and some even encourage such behavior, as evidenced by recent news stories. … read full article
US - Texas Child Welfare Employee Fired After Encouraging Teen to Consider “Sex Work”
From Reduxx (USA)
By Reduxx Team
August 15, 2022
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has fired a support worker after a video emerged of her encouraging a vulnerable 14-year-old girl to consider becoming a prostitute to survive.
The shocking conversation was caught on film by the teen, who had begun recording her interactions with the worker after she had started to make similar suggestions on other occasions. … read full article
US - Trans Teen Blasted for Demanding Mom Remove Tattoo With 'Dead Name' in It
From Newsweek (USA)
By Jack Beresford
August 15, 2022
A transgender teen who is demanding his mom remove a tattoo featuring his "dead name" has been met with strong opposition online.
According to data published by Statista in 2021, an estimated 12 percent of Americans who got a tattoo said they regretted having it done. However, in the case of one mom who is the subject of a post shared to Reddit by her 17-year-old transgender son, it's a slightly different story. … read full article
US - Opening the Black Box of Online Influence and the Social Contagion of Transgenderism
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
August 15, 2022
Announcing: An Artificial Intelligence Research Project into Peer-Mediated Adolescent-Onset Gender Dysphoria …
If you’re like me, a parent of a trans-identified child, and you’ve been following the rapid developments related to what’s happening with the explosion of cross-sex identification in children over these very recent years, you have unsettled feelings and a desire to understand the simple question: How could this be happening? … read full article
US - REVEALED: Leading trans health group recommends lowering ages for medical gender transition
A recently unearthed, early draft of guidance from WPATH reveals that their minimum age recommendations for children to start the process of medicalized gender transition have been lowered.
From The Post Millennial (USA)
By Christina Buttons
August 14, 2022
A confidential document obtained by The Post Millennial from the leading transgender health association shows they plan to lower the recommended age for minors to obtain cross-sex hormones that cause permanent changes to the body and irreversible chest, genital and face surgeries. This health association is one that countless doctors and hospitals rely on to create their guidance for medicalized gender transition for minors and adults.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is set to release the 8th edition of their Standards of Care this year, but a recently unearthed, early draft reveals that their minimum age recommendations for children to start the process of medicalized gender transition have been lowered. … read full article
US - Woman Who Was A Tomboy Thanks God She Didn't Grow Up Today When Her Boobs Would Get Hacked Off
From The Babylon Bee (USA)
August 15, 2022
LOS ANGELES, CA — According to sources, local woman Carli Bamkins — who was a tomboy in the '90s — is thanking God she didn't grow up today when her boobs would get hacked off by a gender surgeon.
"When I was a little girl, I loved Nerf guns and BMX bikes and wearing boyish clothes. As I grew up I became more feminine and now I'm married with 3 beautiful kids," said Bamkins. "If I had grown up today, they would've chopped me up, drugged me, put me in a GSA club, and tried to turn me into a boy! Bullet dodged!"
Gender theorists disagreed with her assessment, suggesting she may be missing out on her true calling as a man. "It's a pity our society wasn't as enlightened about transgenderism a quarter century ago," said Dr. Joe Mengele, clinical psychologist and gender studies expert at Johns Hopkins University. … read full article
US - The quest to show that biological sex matters in the immune system
A handful of immunologists are pushing the field to take attributes such as sex chromosomes, sex hormones, and reproductive tissues into account.
From MIT Technology Review (USA)
By Sandeep Ravindran
August 15, 2022
Sabra Klein is deeply aware that sex matters. During her PhD research at Johns Hopkins University, Klein learned how sex hormones can influence the brain and behavior. “I naively thought: Everybody knows hormones can affect lots of physiological processes—our metabolism, our heart, our bone density. It must be affecting the immune system,” she says.
But when she graduated in 1998, she struggled to convince others that sex differences in the immune system were a worthy topic for her postdoctoral research. “I wasn’t able to find a microbiologist or an immunologist who was going to let me study sex differences,” she says. ... read full article
UK - Robin Harper and Joanna Cherry condemn Sandyford children’s gender services
From The Times (UK)
By Helen Puttick
August 15, 2022
A former leader of the Scottish Green Party and a prominent SNP MP have defied party lines to raise fears about the treatment of children at Scotland’s young person gender identity clinic.
Robin Harper, who was the first Green Party parliamentarian elected in Britain, and Joanna Cherry of the SNP have called for the Sandyford service to close and said that young people “expressing distress about their sex must be treated like any other children with psychological problems”. … read full article
UK - Tavistock Clinic fallout: what the courts would consider in litigation by former patients
From The Conversation (USA)
August 15, 2022
Clinical judgements and the clinical counselling at the Tavistock Centre, which since 1989 has provided the UK’s only gender identity clinic for children and young people, now seem set to be examined by the courts in clinical negligence claims brought by some former patients.
The NHS trust that runs the clinic, already set to close following the February 2022 interim review by Hilary Cass, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, is reportedly facing a mass action lawsuit, with a particular focus on the use of so-called puberty blocker drugs. … read full article
UK - DAN WOOTTON: The intolerant left belittles the death threats against JK Rowling at its peril. It’s now or never for the woke literary world to stand up for free speech following the despicable attack on Salman Rushdie
From Daily Mail (UK)
By DAN WOOTTON
August 15, 2022
There should have been only one response from the literary world when JK Rowling was threatened with death by a terrorist supporter after tweeting her support for Sir Salman Rushdie: Unity against such obviously dangerous criminal behaviour.
But the ugliness and intolerance of the left today is driving previously sane folk to the edge of madness.
So, the Harry Potter author, who has been waging a brave war to stand up for the rights of women by stating biological realities, instead found herself belittled and mocked by her craven critics who should know better. … read full article
UK - "In this country we have never had a Cheka, a Gestapo or a Stasi. We have never lived in an Orwellian society”
Women are now being harassed in their homes by an ideological police force. Dennis Kavanagh looks at the legal side of the recent incident
From The Glinner Update (USA)
By Dennis Noel Kavanagh
August 15, 2022
Mr Justice Knowles giving judgment in the case of Miller v College of Policing memorably dealt with the submission that a visit from police officers to “check your thinking” was not some trivial matter holding:
“In my judgment these submissions impermissibly minimise what occurred and do not properly reflect the value of free speech in a democracy. There was not a shred of evidence that the Claimant was at risk of committing a criminal offence. The effect of the police turning up at his place of work because of his political opinions must not be underestimated. To do so would be to undervalue a cardinal democratic freedom. In this country we have never had a Cheka, a Gestapo or a Stasi. We have never lived in an Orwellian society”
Those words seem particular apt today with the news that a woman was visited, (apparently in her own home), by a police functionary who objected to her displaying a sticker on her own property reading “Trans ideology erases women” … read full article
UK - Drag Queen Story Hour
Is it suitable for children?
From @STILLTish’s Newsletter (USA)
By @STILLTish
August 15, 2022
I come to men dressing up as women from the affectionate portrayals of Northern Matriarchs, a la Les Dawson. I am a huge fan of Les Dawson and I happen to think he was a genius. His pairing, with Roy Barraclough, as Cissie and Ada, was hugely enjoyable, especially for those of us in the North of England who recognised many of our relatives in the pair. Cissie is “a cut above” Ada and despairs of her more vulgar friend. Women with curlers under their headscarf’s, constantly adjusting their ample bosom; while “kalling” (chatting) with a neighbour. … read full article
UK - Truth in a Time of Deceit (Part 1): Stella O’Malley’s Statement on Conversion Therapy
From Genspect (UK)
By Stella O'Malley
August 14, 2022
Certain trans activists have engaged in an extended campaign of online bullying against me and have inaccurately labelled me as a “conversion therapist” (see below). They have carried out this campaign because I chose to speak out about my serious concerns that vulnerable children are not receiving quality care for their gender-related distress. Ad hominem attacks are common in the digital world and I usually ignore them. However, now that trans activists have redefined what “conversion therapy” actually means, I decided it would be appropriate for me to clearly set out my stall so that anybody who wants to can figure out my position on this issue.
I’m not a conversion therapist as I think conversion therapy is abhorrent. Indeed I have made my position on conversion therapy very clear many times. Just recently I wrote an analysis of conversion therapy to try to shed some light on this issue. Last summer I was a signatory for an article that asked some questions about the proposed Prohibition to Conversion Therapy Bill in Ireland. … read full article
Ivory Coast - African Feminist Women are Being Targeted by Trans Activists
Artist from the Ivory Coast called “transphobic” for wishing a happy birthday to JK Rowling
From 4W (USA)
By Andreia Nobre
Aug 15, 2022
A 26 year old female artist from the Ivory Coast, Laetitia Ky, is being targeted online by trans activists for having wished “Happy birthday” to J.K. Rowling on Twitter in July, 2022. A week later, she found out about several TikTok videos calling her “transphobic” and telling users to report or unfollow her.
Ky told 4W that several users on Twitter were calling her names or insulting her while quote tweeting her “happy birthday” message. She was called a “nigger” and a “piece of shit” by some. Another user told her they hoped she would get ovarian cancer. Still others hoped that she would lose everything she built or that someone would steal her art. … read full article
Canada - Nothing to see here!
The year that hasn't gone quite according to plan
From gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
August 15, 2022
I have to confess I’ve been having a tough time of it lately. At the turning of the year, something turned inside me, too, and not for the better.
When I was in my teens and twenties, I often missed school or work for a day or two when my period struck. Somehow I always ended up crumpled on the floor, running fevers, sometimes blacking out. But over the past couple of years, my once-nightmarish periods calmed down, a reprieve I hadn’t expected. I even started to take it for granted. … read full article