Monday, August 22, 2022
"California has been reported to use Child Protective Service to threaten parents of trans-identified teens who would like to explore alternatives to 'affirming' care before transitioning their kids."
This day in Herstory: Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild), born August 22, 1893 (died June 7, 1967), was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in magazines, such as The New Yorker, and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed when her involvement in left-wing politics resulted in her being placed on the Hollywood blacklist. (more)
US - World’s Youngest Trans Model Has Two Trans Parents, Will Have “Gender Surgery” At 16
From Reduxx (USA)
By Anna Slatz
August 22, 2022
A 10-year-old child is making headlines as the world’s youngest trans model to walk the runway at New York Fashion Week after representing the Trans* Clothing Company brand.
Noella McMaher was a model at New York Fashion Week in February, but the child’s story has begun to receive additional media attention after it was announced that the 10-year-old had been signed on for modeling gigs until November.
According to Noella’s parents, the child began expressing gender dysphoria around age 2. … read full article
US - American Academy of Pediatrics president backtracks on policy of medicalizing 'trans' youth
"Gender-affirming care can be lifesaving. It doesn’t push medical treatments or surgery; for the vast majority of children, it recommends the opposite," the AAP president said.
From The Post Millennial (Canada)
By Christina Buttons
August 22, 2022
The President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) now acknowledges that "the vast majority of children" subject to "gender-affirming care" should not be medicalized, a complete reversal of the AAP's official 2018 policy.
Moira Szilagyi responded in an open letter to an op-ed by Leor Sapir and Julia Mason in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday that criticized the AAP's suppression of debate regarding their policy to "affirm" children and teens in their transgender identities with drugs, hormones and surgeries. … read full article
US - Trans Extremism and the Weak American State
From Genspect (UK)
By Leor Sapir
August 19, 2022
As Europe’s progressive welfare states are reversing course on pediatric gender medicine, the American Democratic party is circling the wagon around the controversial practice. Democrat lawmakers in California recently proposed a bill that would turn it into a “sanctuary state” for minors seeking puberty blockers. The law instructs state authorities to disregard not only the laws of other states but even court rulings on child custody if the custodial parent happens to be unapproving of medical transition.
California has been reported to use Child Protective Service to threaten parents of trans-identified teens who would like to explore alternatives to “affirming” care before transitioning their kids. … read full article
US - Scientific journals tout achievement of medicalized gender transition of minors, including surgeries
"Of the 11 surgeons who had performed vaginoplasty on a transgender female minor, 10 were in private practice. Reported ages of minors undergoing surgery ranged from 15 to 'a day before 18' years."
From The Post Millennial (USA)
By Christina Buttons
August 22, 2022
A range of scientific papers published in reputable academic journals have emerged that provide evidence to contradict the activist-held claim that genital surgeries are not performed on minors.
Media uproar over Boston Children's Hospital boasting of having the first pediatric transgender surgery center in the country offering a "full suite of surgical options for transgender teens" has put trans activists and the hospitals providing these services on the defensive. … read full article
US - Florida Christian school staff face death threats for barring LGBT 'lifestyles'
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Jeremiah Poff
August 22, 2022
Administrators at a Florida Christian school are reportedly receiving death threats following the circulation of an internal email delineating the school's prohibition on students "participating" in gay and transgender "lifestyles."
Barry McKeen, an administrator at Grace Christian School in Valrico, Florida, sent an email to the school's parents in June explaining that, per the school's policy, students who engage in gay and transgender "lifestyles" would be "asked to leave the school immediately." … read full article
US - Port Townsend chief discusses police response to protest
All seven officers at rally had to manage crowd of 300, he says
From Peninsula Daily News (USA)
By Peter Segall
August 22, 2022
PORT TOWNSEND — Police Chief Thomas Olson responded to criticism last week, saying that the Port Townsend Police Department lacked sufficient notice to prepare for the Aug. 15 protest in the downtown.
Olson said all seven of the department’s officers were at the rally, including himself, and that police were faced with attempting to manage a crowd he estimated at about 300 people. … read full article
US - Biden Admin Forces Professors to Fall in Line With Radical Gender Ideology
From Townhall (UK)
By Christiana Kiefer
August 22, 2022
In American public colleges and universities, faculty are supposed to be able to guide their students towards a better understanding of truth, reality, and the world around them freely and in accordance with their own convictions. But as part of its effort to redefine “sex” in Title IX, the Biden administration is seeking to compel faculty and administrators at public schools to speak and act in violation of their deeply held beliefs about gender and sexuality. … read full article
US - Chicago children's hospital admits reliance on 'anecdotal evidence' for treatment of 'trans' youth
"There is there is not a full range of evidence to support the treatments that we're using, but there was a lot of anecdotal evidence to support it," said Dr. Robert Garofalo.
From The Post Millennial (USA)
By Christina Buttons
August 22, 2022
A children's hospital in Chicago has admitted that they do not have substantial evidence upholding the treatments they provide in their transgender healthcare program, relying instead on "anecdotal evidence."
In a webinar hosted by Amaze, a website geared towards educating children about sex, porn and gender ideology, Dr. Robert Garofalo, Division Head of the Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Lurie Children's Hospital Chicago, was interviewed in 2020. … read full article
US - Germantown Schools Under Fire Over ‘Gender Identity Journals’
Memphis parents are furious after they say some students at Germantown Municipal Schools (GMSD) were assigned a gender identity journal.
From KWAM News (USA)
August 21, 2022
KWAM learned about the controversial assignment after a concerned parent of a 7th grade student at Riverdale K-8 School brought it to our attention Sunday.
Michelle, the angry mother who’s last name we are not sharing, told Wake Up Memphis Monday a Riverdale teacher asked the entire 7th grade history class to write in a journal how they identify: male, female or both. … read full article
US - What John Money Thought About the ‘Sexological Ills’ of Pedophiles and Violent Men
On the subjectivity of diagnosis and treatment
From The Distance (USA)
By Donovan Cleckley
August 22, 2022
On September 9, 1993, Sol Wachtler, New York State’s former Chief Judge, received sentencing for 15 months in Federal prison over his threats to kidnap the 14-year-old daughter of American socialite Joy A. Silverman, Wachtler’s former lover. While he did plead guilty to threats of kidnapping Silverman’s daughter, Wachtler had engaged in far more. As reported by Diana Jean Schemo in The New York Times, such threats “grew out of a 13-month campaign of hang-up calls and anonymous, obscene letters.” Wachtler hoped that staging danger for Silverman would lead her to turn to him for help, potentially rekindling their ended four-year affair. … read full article
US - Opposing biological males in women's sports cost me my job as Austin's fire chaplain, now I'm suing
I was let go from a fire chaplain program I founded because I wouldn't embrace woke religious views
From Fox News (USA)
By Dr. Andrew Fox
August 22, 2022
When the alarm sounds, they transform into Marvel superheroes. They’re out the door in a flash, often the first on the scene of car crashes, medical emergencies, and of course, fires. But after the adrenaline rush of saving a life subsides, they are men and women who need counsel, prayer, and a listening ear as they survive in the high-stress, hazardous profession of firefighting.
In times of crisis, firefighters are trained to rescue and mitigate loss of life. But who responds to their cries for help? … read full article
US - Trans activists demand Biden include athletics in Title IX revisions
On Aug.11, 50 activist groups implored the Biden administration to unveil a separate Title IX ruling to protect transgender athletes.
The Biden administration insinuated that Title IX revisions would not apply to athletics.
From Campus Reform (USA)
By Alexa Schwerha
August 22, 2022
In response to the Biden administration's insistence that its revised Title IX would not impact athletics, 50 women’s rights activist groups are advocating for the inclusion of transgender athletes.
The current proposal to alter Title IX extends protection to transgender students by protecting “sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics,” but the Department of Education (DOEd) stated it would "engage in a separate rulemaking to address Title IX's application to athletics." … read full article
US - Trans golfer Hailey Davidson fights to join LPGA amid backlash
From New York Post (USA)
By Snejana Farberov
August 22, 2022
Hailey Davidson is vying to become the first transgender golfer to earn a Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour card — despite facing a furious backlash from critics who believe that she has an unfair biological advantage.
Davidson, 29, played two strong rounds at the LPGA Qualifying School in Palm Springs, California, over the weekend, shooting a 70 on Thursday, followed by a 76 the next day, Fox News Digital reported. … read full article
US - To the future Dr. Freemans
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
August 22, 2022
Today we remember Egas Moniz, the first Portuguese national to receive a Nobel Prize. He won this honor in 1949 for this work in neurology, specifically as the developer of a procedure called cerebral angiography. He is also regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery. He was a great man in his time.
Yet he was feted around the world and, of course, was a Nobel laureate, awarded to “those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.” What was his contribution to science and mankind?
The lobotomy. … read full article
UK - Parents launch legal fight over gender classes for three-year-olds as campaigners say they are 'inappropriate' for primary school pupils
Compulsory 'sexuality and gender' classes are due to start in schools in Wales
The Labour-run Cardiff government will embed it into day-to-day teaching
Campaigners say the Relationships and Sex Education topics are inappropriate
The guidance has no mentions of the words 'boy', 'girl', 'man' or 'woman'
From Daily Mail (UK)
By SAM GREENHILL
August 21, 2022
Parents have launched emergency legal action against compulsory 'sexuality and gender' classes for pupils as young as three.
They asked the High Court last Friday to intervene to block lessons due to start in schools in Wales after the summer holidays.
Ministers in the Labour-run Cardiff government insist the new curriculum will embed sex and gender themes into day-to-day teaching in all subjects. … read full article
UK - The trouble with Tavistock
Abuse is heaped on anyone who has questioned the trend toward carelessness in youth gender medicine
From Spectator World (UK)
By Jesse Singal
August 21, 2022
“In July, Britain’s National Health Service announced a major revamp of its gender identity services for young people. The famed Tavistock clinic — officially named the Gender Identity Development Service, operated by the Tavistock and Portman Trust and a flashpoint for the country’s debate about gender, trans issues and hormone treatments — would be shuttered. As the New York Times reported, it would be replaced by “a more distributed and comprehensive network of medical care for adolescents seeking hormones and other gender treatments.” … read full article
UK - Dancing police are in thrall to the trans lobby
From Reaction (UK)
By Noel Yaxley
August 22, 2022
A few weeks ago, I attended Norwich Pride. I was there to support my girlfriend. Much to my chagrin, she is very much in the progressive camp. As people gathered on Theatre Street for the start of the long march past Chapelfield Gardens, I noticed something. It wasn’t the sight of fired-up men (is that offensive?) in leather gimp suits or the non-binary dildo-adorned masses chanting “trans rights are human rights” in unison. No, it was something far more ordinary. Among the many merchandise stalls lining the streets, I noticed few catering to homosexual people. Then it dawned on me. The trans-lobby has totally captured this once proud gay and lesbian festival.
This weekend it was Lincoln’s turn to host the event.
Footage was posted to social media showing a number of police officers dancing at the city’s Pride festival. For those wondering, it was the Macarena. … read full article
UK - Family Planning Criticized For A Poster With A Pregnant Transgender Man, Minister Isabelle Rome Supports The Association
From Globe World News Echo (UK)
By David Sadler
August 22, 2022
The Minister Delegate for Equality between Women and Men, Isabelle Rome, on Monday gave her support to Family Planning, the target of strong criticism from right-wing and far-right elected officials, for having used the image of a pregnant transgender man in a communication campaign.
“Family planning is an essential historic association for women’s rights and access to contraception and abortion. I fully support the action,” said the minister, according to her words sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). “Let’s not let the far right stir up hatred by instrumentalizing a communication campaign which I can understand does not achieve consensus” she adds. … read full article
Scotland - Joanna Cherry says she was 'cancelled' by SNP leadership over trans views
One of the SNP's most high-profile MPs has said she was effectively "cancelled" and erased from party history over her views on trans issues.
From The Scotsman (Scotland)
By Alistair Grant
August 22, 2022
Joanna Cherry, who has received online abuse and threats, said she was “very upset” the SNP's former chief whip in Westminster, Patrick Grady, received more internal support after a Commons investigation found he had sexually harassed a teenage staffer.
Ms Cherry has long been at odds with the SNP’s leadership, including Nicola Sturgeon, over her views on transgender issues and their impact on women’s rights.
She is critical of moves to allow Scots to self-identify their sex, fearing this will impact on women’s safety. … read full article
UK - SNP MP Joanna Cherry claims Nicola Sturgeon gave her 'no support' after rape threat
The MP criticised the silence from the SNP leadership over the abuse she has received
From Daily Record (UK)
By Paul Hutcheon
August 22, 2022
An SNP MP has said she received no support “whatsoever” from SNP leaders Nicola Sturgeon and Ian Blackford after receiving rape threats.
Joanna Cherry also claimed the manner of her sacking from a front bench post at Westminster was like being "cancelled".
Cherry, first elected in 2015, has clashed with the SNP leadership over the strategy for independence and trans rights. … read full article
France - "Men Can Get Pregnant Too" Poster Sparks Controversy
From 4W (USA)
By Dana Vitalosova
Aug 22, 2022
Government-funded organization under fire for publishing "trans-inclusive" materials
Le Planning Familial (PF), the country's biggest network of organizations that provide reproductive services and sex education, has drawn criticism for its newly published poster.
The image shows a pregnant trans-identified female ("trans man"), with a caption that reads "At Planning, we know that men can get pregnant too." … read full article
US - Why The Left Needs Free Speech
From Plebity (USA)
By Mark White
August 17, 2022
“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game..Free speech is life itself.”
– Salman Rushdie
“I’m neither left or right. I’m just staying home tonight,” – Leonard Cohen
The Stepford Wives was a movie that came out in 1972 and might not be very well remembered today but which nonetheless contributed a useful metaphor for describing certain aspects of our society. Briefly, the Stepford Wives were the possessed and submissive versions of their original human selves, surreptitiously transformed one by one and reappearing as empty husks of what they had once been.
Stepford Wife also describes what is commonly referred to as ‘the left’ in today’s discourse. This left has been hijacked by power; it’s the Stepford Wife of political ideologies, a possessed husk of what it once was. … read full article
Thank you, MothersforMother, for the work you’ve done! We’re sorry to say good-bye, but we applaud you for your courage, integrity, and efforts. - Eds.
Farewell
From MothersforMother
August 21, 2022
It’s been the dedicated goal of MothersforMother to try to save La Leche League International by highlighting the damaging effects of the language changes put forward by the Board of Directors. We’ve also shared much about the misogynistic billionaires behind the movement to erase mothers. In time, it will become evident to most people that the transgender industrial complex is a destructive force and then there will be a tsunami of grief and lawsuits.
We ask that all Leaders please vote in the next Board election to remove the interlopers who have taken over our organization. Why would those who prioritize the needs of trans identifying adults become involved in a group that was set up to serve mothers and babies? … read full article
The story about transgender model is so heart-breaking. It fills my heart with rage. It's another proof that trans movement is a cult, with the parents indoctrinating and harming their kids. It's eerily similar to a castration cult in 18th century Russia.