Monday, May 23, 2022
This day in Herstory: Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, born May 23, 1810 (died July 19, 1850), was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. (more)
NHS creates new service to offer female-to-male transgender surgery for free
The new service will target females, at a vulnerable age, who want to be male
The NHS currently offers surgery to women over 17 who want to become men
People can have expensive surgery for male genitalia and wombs removed
Chelsea and Westminster hospital will provide thenew service later this year
NHS backlog of six million patients and waiting times stretching into 2024
Budget for over 1000 operations upped by 38 percent in 2020-21 to £19million
From The Daily Mail (UK)
By SUE REID
May 23, 2022
Female-to-male transgender surgery is to be offered for free by a new national medical service, it can be revealed.
A leading London hospital has been signed up by NHS England to provide ‘masculinising surgical treatment’ to transgender patients born as women, some still teenagers, who believe they are living ‘in the wrong body’. … read full article
In plain English, it's wrong to drug, cut up, and sterilize kids
The language of gender ideology lets adherents signal to one another without communicating. Restore language to a tool of communication and the ideology falls apart.
From Writing behavior by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
May 23, 2022
Sometimes, people surprise you. The other day, I had a conversation with one of my wokest classmates. …
She started out using a lot of the language—talking about “trans boys" (adolescent females) and “gender-affirming care”—and we ended by talking about men, women, boys, girls, mastectomies, sterilization. No qualifiers. In other words, the language came back down to earth. … read full article
Should 'Non Binary' be recognised in law as a gender identity?
From HOUSE OF COMMONS (UK)
May 23, 2022
By Miriam Cates MP
I spoke in a debate in Parliament about whether 'Non Binary' should be a legally recognised option on Gender Recognition Certificates.
Lesbian Magazine Features Male Cyclist On Cover of Pride Issue
From REDUXX (USA)
By Bryndís Blackadder
May 23, 2022
A lesbian magazine is under fire after announcing a trans-identified male would be their cover star for the June 2022 “Pride” Edition of their monthly circulation.
On May 20, DIVA magazine announced on Twitter that transgender cyclist Emily Bridges would be featured on the cover of its next issue, interviewed by the publication’s head Linda Riley. … read full article
Transsexual pioneer criticizes modern trans activists, says they’re indoctrinating kids: ‘This isn’t a game’
From Fox Wilmington (USA)
By TENY SAHAKIAN
May 23, 2022
A transsexual pioneer and human rights activist criticized modern trans activists and said children are facing “indoctrination.”
Buck Angel, a 59-year-old with gender dysphoria who identified himself as “a transsexual man,” told Fox News that when he began transitioning 30 years ago, there was a system and structure that ensured he was certain about his gender identity. He said that process, to children’s detriment, has since deteriorated. … read full article
If it's not a social contagion, what is it?
A Twitter thread
By Mia Ashton
May 23, 2022
It astounds me that there are still so many people out there who refuse to believe we're dealing with a social contagion of gender dysphoria. Surely there's never been a more obvious one in all of history.
I mean, if it's not a social contagion, how do we explain this sudden, dramatic surge in numbers? Isn't it at least possible that something occurred in our culture in the second decade of the 21st century that triggered a contagion of gender dysphoria in teenagers?
What could it be? Let's have a look. In 2014 the cover of Time magazine heralded the next civil rights movement with The Transgender Tipping Point. I Am Jazz first aired in 2015, as did Louis Theroux's Transgender Kids. The concept of the trans child had now entered the lexicon
Also around the mid-2010s, materials like this were added to school curricula all over the western world. All of a sudden, our children were taught that a non-existent gendered soul - a gender identity - is what makes them a boy or a girl, not the material reality of their body
Then we have the rise in popularity of smartphones and the perfect super-spreading environment of social media. First it was "transition bloggers" on Tumblr, then the culture spilled out onto YouTube and TikTok. Teens are just one click away from thousands of trans influencers.
Politicians also embraced this new civil rights movement with zeal, dutifully parroting the mantras to show what good, progressive people they are. Corporations spotted a cost-free marketing strategy and began rainbow-washing.
There's also something strange about the demographics. If it truly were just that our society is more accepting, why are almost all the referrals teen girls? And why are so many of these teen girls lesbians? Also why is there a hugely disproportionate number of autistic kids?
Consider for a moment what it's like to be a teenage girl in the 21st century. She's bombarded with photoshopped images of femininity, beauty standards she could never dream of living up to, while at the same time likely being exposed to hardcore pornography, which terrifies her.
Isn't it at least a possibility that all these girls don't think they are boys, that they don't want to be boys, but that they just don't want to be girls? And our culture and an ideologically captured medical world has given them an out. The tantalising promise of an escape.
Imagine if, all of a sudden, we saw a 5000% increase in teenage boys suffering from anorexia. Most of those boys were gay, and at least a third of them were on the autism spectrum. Wouldn't we at least question why it was happening? Or would we shrug it off as no big deal?
I know it's a difficult thing to admit you're wrong. Especially when admitting that means also admitting you have supported monstrous crimes against vulnerable children. But consider the cost of your denial. Consider what a life of impotence and sterility means for these kids.
If you're still skeptical in the face of all this evidence, perhaps ask yourself why? Are you really looking at this with an open mind? Or is it possible your blind support of the trans rights movement and your desperate desire to be a good person are clouding your vision?
No Longer Free to Be You and Me
From BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis (USA)
By Lisa Selin Davis
May 23, 2022
One of the first voices I became intimately familiar with, after my parents’, was Mel Brooks’. That wasn’t just because his comedy album with Carl Reiner, The 2,000-Year-Old Man, was a family favorite, introducing me to lines (“I’d rather eat a rotten nectarine than a fine plum”) that have been branded into my brain. … read full article
'Trans' children given puberty blockers prior to medical consultation due to high demand
The pre-pubescent girls who are injected with the drug designed to treat prostate cancer may, additionally, experience menopause after use.
From The Post Millennial (Canada)
By Libby Emmons
May 23, 2022
A new directive from the Gender Pathways Service (GPS) at the Children's Hospital in London, Ontario, instructs doctors that, due to high demand, puberty blockers may be prescribed to children prior to even being seen by a doctor.
The letter, shared by Billboard Chris, reads: "There is an extended wait time for an initial assessment through GPS. Given the distress that can be associated with Gender Dysphoria, we have also included information on puberty blockers that can be started prior to their initial appointment." … read full article
States Should Protect Women’s and Girls’ Sports
From Corinna Cohn (USA)
Corinna Cohn
May 23, 2022
I am a transsexual. That is, I was born male and have undergone feminizing medical procedures. Earlier this year I testified before the Indiana legislature to support HB 1041, a bill that affirms the right for girls to compete in same-sex sports. The Indiana legislature passed the bill, but Gov. Eric Holcomb vetoed it. Because of my transsexual “identity,” my testimony made headlines in conservative media. Local media (which leans left in Indianapolis) largely ignored it. … read full article
Gender Borg libel Dr. Az with hilarious results
From Kavanagh's Substack (UK)
By Dennis Noel Kavanagh
May 23, 2022
Must be an interesting gig being Stonewall’s lawyer, certainly not one where lacking in excitement or “challenges” as they say. That was my reaction, at least, to this statement from the CEO on Sunday. It’s the gender borg queen in full cancellation mode attacking a (surprise surprise) homosexual man on the basis of an article that conveniently appears just at the point where it might serve her political interests. As will become clear, this amateur hour defamation is dubious in the extreme and one doesn’t have to dabble in conspiracies to regard the timing as deeply suspicious. As I’ll demonstrate, this has the appearance of a coordinated hatchet job and for Her Majesty here to describe it in the terms she has done is what us lawyers would describe as “unwise”. … read full article
Cheshire West councillor claims women's right debate was blocked
From Northwich Guardian (UK)
By Mark Smith
May 23, 2022
A CHESHIRE West councillor who quit the Labour Party after claiming she was bullied over her stance on women's safety and transgender issues, has again hit out after her efforts to bring a debate on women's rights at full council were blocked.
Independent councillor Mandy Clare, who represents Winsford Dene, had wanted to table an emergency motion at a meeting of full council last Thursday, for a discussion on ‘women’s rights, free speech and respectful debate’. … read full article
Will feminists join Christopher Rufo in the gender wars?
The activist highlighted crucial fissures in the coalition opposed to trans ideology
From The Post by UnHerd (UK)
By Mary Harrington
May 23, 2022
Having your (female) idea repeated to much greater effect by a (male) colleague in meetings is, for office-working women, such a familiar occurrence it’s become a weary stereotype. So the sight of a man, campaigner Chris Rufo, denouncing ‘gender ideology’ to another man on The Tucker Carlson Show, ruffled many gender-critical feminist feathers — not least when Carlson blamed ‘feminists’ for pushing this ideology, asked: “where are the men to stop this?” … read full article
Should a trans woman inherit a peerage over their older sister?
From The Spectator (UK)
By Sam Leith
May 23, 2022
It’s House of Lords reform, Jim, but not as we know it. Matilda Simon has applied to contest the next by-election for hereditary peers, in the hope of taking her hereditary seat as Baron Simon of Wythenshawe. Matilda, Lord Simon? Here, in one story, is a positively combustible mix of the 21st and 11th centuries. … read full article
I am not the Same Teacher
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT)
May 23, 2022
Early in the school year I attended a meeting. I entered the room not knowing that this year, after over a quarter century in education, was to be markedly different for me. That day, I chatted easily with my fellow educators, all of us refreshed from the summer break. Looking back, I vividly remember how sunshine streamed in from the windows, how excited everyone was to meet in person, and how many were dressed in new professional attire. I had no idea at that time that the content of the meeting and events in my family life would leave me contemplating a career change. … read full article