Monday, October 10, 2022
"Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., is pausing gender affirmation surgeries on patients under age 18 while it completes an internal clinical review"
This day in Herstory: The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was founded as an independent women's movement on 10 October 1903 at 62 Nelson Street, Manchester, home of the Pankhurst family. Emmeline Pankhurst, along with two of her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, and her husband, Richard, before his death in 1898, had been active in the Independent Labour Party (ILP), founded in 1893 by former Scottish miner Keir Hardie, a family friend.
The WSPU was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom from 1903 to 1918. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia; Sylvia was eventually expelled. (more)
US - Vanderbilt pauses gender-affirming surgeries for minors
From Becker’s Hospital Review (USA)
By Kelly Gooch
October 10, 2022
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., is pausing gender affirmation surgeries on patients under age 18 while it completes an internal clinical review of recently released guidance related to the treatment of transgender people.
VUMC said it will halt the surgeries while it reviews a new version of recommendations from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and seek advice from local and national clinical experts.
VUMC announced the news in an Oct. 7 letter to Tennessee Rep. Jason Zachary, R-Knoxville, who, along with other Republican members of the Tennessee House of Representatives, had raised concerns about gender-affirming care provided at the Clinic for Transgender Health at VUMC. … read full article
UK - Children and gender distress
Modish answers may not be the best
From The Critic (UK)
By Stella O’Malley and Matilda Gosling
October 10, 2022
When Bella started year 9, she was the target of a persistent bullying campaign and felt isolated from her peers. She had undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder and her mum, Sally, says Bella didn’t fit into any of the usual boxes. Many of the children in her school were identifying out of their birth sex, the school promoted ideas about gender and she was caught up in narratives about it online. Bella told the school that she wanted to be called Ben, to use he/him pronouns and to be treated to all intents and purposes as a boy. The school agreed. They didn’t tell Bella’s parents, though, who found out accidentally a few months later through another parent.
Sally was blindsided. Kids are told online that their parents will hate them and disown them for questioning their gender, she says, so their distress remains hidden. “Bella was basically, at the age of only just 13, terrified that we’d kick her out, which would never, ever, ever, ever happen.” … read full article
UK - Web pharmacies sell trans hormone drugs to children
Online pharmacies are selling 'DIY' hormone transitions to children with gender dysphoria, it has emerged
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Berny Torre
October 10, 2022
Online pharmacies are selling "DIY" hormone transitions to children with gender dysphoria, it has emerged.
Dangerous prescription-only drugs that increase or decrease testosterone or oestrogen levels are being routinely sold without checks, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society warned young people were risking "serious harm" to their health as politicians have called for a crackdown. … read full article
UK - Trans ideology has spread far beyond Mermaids
Mad ideas about gender identity are now entrenched across our public institutions.
From spiked (UK)
By Jo Bartosch
October 10, 2022
A cry of ‘I bloody told you so’ rang out last month, when Mermaids, the UK’s leading charity for ‘transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children’, was put under investigation by the Charity Commission. Allegations have surfaced of multiple safeguarding failures, the most recent of which concerns the appointment of Dr Jacob Breslow as a trustee – an academic who has written extensively about the ‘queer life of children’s desires’ and has spoken at a conference organised by a paedophile support group. Breslow resigned last week when the allegations came to light. Mermaids’ chair of trustees, Belinda Bell, says the organisation wishes to ‘apologise for shaking’ the ‘faith’ of its supporters. … read full article
UK - Transgender schools guidance says discussing women's rights could be offensive
Outcry as draft policy by the National Education Union proposes a change in the definition of transphobia
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Louisa Clarence-Smith
October 10, 2022
Teachers who discuss sex-based women’s rights with transgender colleagues would be considered “transphobic” under a policy proposed by members of Britain’s largest teaching union.
The National Education Union’s trans and non-binary network has proposed that anyone who expects trans people “to participate in discussion or debate about their rights and/or identities” is transphobic.
The draft proposal of a transphobia definition, seen by The Telegraph, also cited “propagating ideas, concepts and misinformation harmful to trans people and which erase and ignore trans history, such as trans as an ideology or contagion”, as an example of transphobic behaviour. … read full article
US - New Jersey teacher interviews 4th graders on 'they/them' pronouns on TikTok: 'Indoctrinating my students'
The New Jersey teacher also said that 'pronouns have everything to do with academic education'
From Fox News (USA)
By Hannah Grossman
October 10, 2022
A New Jersey teacher interviewed and recorded 4th-grade students on the educator's "non-binary" "they/them" pronouns and posted the videos on a public TikTok account over the course of several months.
Nairobi Colon, an art teacher who works in the KIPP charter school system in The Garden State, posted videos responding to critical comments from users who accused the educator of "grooming" students with gender ideology. The teacher has racked up over 600,000 followers on her TikTok.
One of the videos of Colon discussing pronouns with students was shared to the official KIPP Facebook page. The post said Colon worked for KIPP Whittier Middle School in Camden. … read full article
UK - Backlash at trans guidance for schools: Campaigners hit out at suggestions including separate gender neutral toilets as DfE officials draw up 'common sense' proposals
The Department for Education is considering guidance on trans pupils in school
Kit Malthouse could issue paper advising gender-neutral toilets should be built
Another idea could see trans children use changing rooms before same sex kids
But the proposals were savaged by gender and women's rights campaigners
From Daily Mail (UK)
By DAN SALES
October 10, 2022
Women's rights campaigners have hit out at government proposals to let trans pupils use school changing rooms first and to introduce gender neutral toilets, branding the plans as unsafe and 'regressive misogyny'.
The suggested measures – among a raft of ideas being considered – also include letting children that do not identify with their biological sex wear the uniform of their choice.
But this afternoon campaigners said the new guidance, which is being mulled over by Department for Education advisers, was a dangerous misstep. … read full article
US - U.S. State Department pushes 'gender transition' for kids as states consider bans
From The Center Square (USA)
By Casey Harper
Oct 10, 2022
The U.S. State Department’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan has sparked controversy for including taxpayer-funded “gender transition care” for employees and their children.
The policy comes as some states have begun banning those very same transgender surgeries and drugs from use on children, labeling them “child abuse.”
"The State Department might not just be paying for their employee’s kids to receive these damaging surgeries, they’re penalizing foreign service officers who disagree and pressuring countries to perform these procedures on children," U.S. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told the Free Beacon. … read full article
UK - Anger as elite Bird College in London - once attended by Spice Girl Mel C - asks staff to declare their pronouns on email in solidarity with trans people
The college is asking employees to display the rainbow and BLM flag on emails
The historic institution has trained many stars including Melanie Chisholm
The email caused disquiet among some staff, who said they were uncomfortable
From Daily Mail (UK)
By ELEANOR HARDING
October 10, 2022
An elite performing arts college which trained Spice Girl Mel C has asked staff to declare their pronouns on email in solidarity with trans people.
Bird College in south London is also asking employees to display the transgender rainbow flag and Black Lives Matter (BLM) logo in written correspondence.
The historic institution, founded in 1946, has trained many stars including Melanie Chisholm, who later formed the Spice Girls. … read full article
US - WATCH: Director of Boston Children’s Gender Clinic Says Puberty Blockers Cause Infertility, Are Given Out ‘Like Candy’
Puberty blockers can cause infertility yet they are given out to children “like candy,” a director of the Boston Children’s Hospital gender clinic admitted in an October 2020 presentation obtained by Breitbart News.
From Breitbart (USA)
By Spencer Lindquist
October 10, 2022
Jeremi Carswell, the director of the hospital’s Gender Multispeciality Service, also admitted that she does not always consult mental health professionals before providing the drugs to children.
“If you are giving something that shuts down your estrogen or shuts down testosterone entirely, you’re going to stop … producing sperm or eggs,” Carswell admitted at the 2020 Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health (AETH) conference.
“If you never started you’re not going to … advance the gonads to be able to do that,” Carswell added. … read full article
US - Jack Turban’s Research Is Incapable of Answering the Questions It Attempts to Address
Jack Turban’s papers are peer ‘affirmed’ instead of peer ‘reviewed.’
From Reality's Last Stand (USA)
By Abigail Reed
October 10, 2022
In the ongoing scientific debate regarding transgender identification among children and adolescents—and the corresponding debate about how medical and psychological services can best meet the needs of these young people—a major point of contention is over what’s referred to as “gender affirming care.” This model of care directs clinicians to avoid questioning a minor’s self-declared gender identity and desire to medically transition, which often includes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.
One of the leading proponents of this controversial protocol is Dr. Jack Turban, a researcher whose work is frequently published in popular mainstream media outlets as well as high-impact medical journals. Although his articles receive glowing praise among gender activists and clinicians who are strongly biased in favor of gender affirmation, his work is widely viewed as over-sold, sloppy, and highly misleading by his critics. … read full article
Scotland - SNP officer condemned over 'violent and misogynistic' tweets about 'terfs'
From The National (Scotland)
By Hamish Morrison
October 10, 2022
SENIOR figures within the SNP have condemned comments from a member of the party who said he wanted to “beat the f***” out of transphobes.
Cameron Downing, an equalities officer in the party’s London branch, expressed fury with transphobes and "Terfs” – which stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, meaning a feminist who denies that people born male can identify as women.
The 23-year old’s comments were revealed by the Sunday Mail and were branded “abhorrent” by SNP president Michael Russell.
In the now-deleted tweets, he said: “I’m in the mood to beat the f*** out of some terfs and transphobes today [smiley face].” … read full article
Scotland - JK Rowling hits out at Nicola Sturgeon after SNP equality officer's abusive tweets revealed
SNP officer Cameron Downing, 23, said he wanted to "beat the f*** out of some terfs and transphobes" in a series of now-deleted messages.
From Daily Record (Scotland)
By Jon Brady
October 10, 2022
JK Rowling has hit out at Nicola Sturgeon after an SNP equality officer's abusive tweets threatening violence against women were made public.
The Harry Potter author, attacked the First Minister following the revelations of Cameron Downing's tweets where he claimed he wanted to "beat the f*** out of some terfs and transphobes" in a series of now-deleted messages. SNP equalities officer Downing, who also said he "f****** hate[d] terfs and transphobes with such a passion", has since apologised for the tweets.
'Terf' is an acronym that stands for 'trans-exclusionary radical feminist' that has been applied by trans rights activists to those they see as opposing legislation on gender issues. … read full article
US - Nancy Mace accuses Dem opponent of 'ducking' past support for gender reassignment surgery for minors
Democrat Annie Andrews says she does not support 'gender affirming care for minors'
From Fox News (USA)
By Brandon Gillespie
October 10, 2022
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is accusing her Democratic opponent, Annie Andrews, of "ducking" what she says was her past support for gender reassignment surgery for minors, citing the latter's opposition to a bill in the South Carolina legislature that would have banned such procedures.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Mace expressed shock that, as a mother, someone would, according to her, support things like castrations and double mastectomies being performed on children, as well as allowing biological boys to participate in girls' sports. … read full article
UK - What detransitioners are up against
An army of trolls, and Jon Stewart.
From The Glinner Update (UK)
By Graham Linehan
October 10, 2022
Earlier I posted this heartbreaking video of a 21 year old female detransitioner. …
Here is a selection of replies from trans rights activists. This is who detransitioners are up against —some of the cruellest people on earth. … read full article
US - The silence is killing us
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
October 10, 2022
I was born into an activist family. I am not afraid of standing up for my views and being in the minority. For many years, I have fought for LGBTQIA rights and been dismissed or attacked for it but I have always openly fought for what I believe in.
Until now...
I find myself in an insidious position. I want to toyi toyi in the streets and scream from the rooftops about the dangers of gender ideology, the affirmative approach and men in women's spaces but, if I do, I will push my adult daughter further into her trans identity and more medicalisation. … read full article
Canada - Kids and gender: It's not complicated
From gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
October 10, 2022
There's no excuse for threats and acts of violence against ‘gender-affirming’ medical providers. And we should not confuse targeted harassment campaigns with scrutiny of what organizations like the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and their membership are doing, even if these organizations desperately want to shut us up.
This letter paints exposés on child medical transition as "disinformation," even when those exposés archive and share medical systems' own promotional materials, even when they quote medical providers at length in their own words. … read full article