Monday, October 17, 2022
"None of these organizations have done systematic reviews of the evidence [on 'gender-affirming care'], a method of review designed to prevent cherry-picking of studies and biased analysis."
This day in Herstory: Marina Núñez del Prado, born October 17, 1910 (died September 9, 1995), was a celebrated Bolivian sculptor. Marina Núñez del Prado was one of the most respected sculptors from Latin America. Núñez del Prado based many of her sculptures off of the female form as well as taking inspiration from animals and landscapes native to Bolivia. Her work is highly sensuous, with rolling curves. She carved from native Bolivian woods, as well as black granite, alabaster, basalt and white onyx. Perhaps one of her most famous works is "White Venus" (1960), a stylized female body in white onyx. Another celebrated work is "Mother and Child," sculpted in white onyx. Indigenous Bolivian cultures inspired much of her work. (more)
US - ‘Trust the Experts’ Is Not Enough: U.S. Medical Groups Get the Science Wrong on Pediatric ‘Gender Affirming’ Care
From Manhattan Institute (USA)
By Leor Sapir
October 17, 2022
The Claim: Most major American medical organizations support “gender affirming care.”
The Response: Guidelines Based on No Solid Evidence
The three main organizations to have released guidelines are the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Endocrine Society, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Other organizations, including the American Medical Association, have either made public statements in support of “affirming” medicine without citing evidence, or have deferred to one or more of these three.
None of these organizations have done systematic reviews of the evidence, a method of review designed to prevent cherry-picking of studies and biased analysis.
WPATH is an explicitly ideological organization that now includes “eunuch” as a valid “gender identity” that children can supposedly know they have at a very early age.
Sweden, Finland, the U.K., and Florida have done systematic reviews, and all four reached the same conclusion: there is no evidence that the benefits of hormones for treating gender-related distress in youth outweighs the risks. … read full article
UK - Drag Queen Charged On Three Counts Related to Child Sexual Abuse Materials
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Anna Slatz
October 17, 2022
A drag queen who performed under the name ‘Miss Rachel Rear’ has appeared in court on charges related to the possession and production of indecent and prohibited images of children.
Andrew Duncan, 24, is facing multiple counts related to 17 pieces of child sexual abuse materials he was found with. Some of the materials were media of real children, and others were illegal fantasy depictions of children engaged in obscene, pornographic acts.
Among the photographs found on Duncan’s devices were some classified as ‘Category A’ — the most serious type. Images and video in this category can depict penetrative sexual activity, bestiality, and/or sexual sadism involving children. … read full article
UK - Ulta Beauty faces BOYCOTT from angry female customers after inviting transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney onto podcast called The Joy of Girlhood where she vowed to become a mom
Beauty company Ulta is facing a fierce backlash following a company podcast in which a trans TikTok influencer appeared to use 'femininity' as a costume
Dylan Mulvaney was interviewed by gender-fluid hairdresser David Lopez about 'all things girlhood'
Dylan explained how she wants to be a mom and to find love as a trans person
Biological women have criticized the company for using a trans person to speak about their experience of 'womanhood'
Some have accused the company of hiding replies to postings on social media
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JAMES GORDON
October 17, 2022
A beauty giant has faced calls for a boycott after inviting a controversial transgender influencer on a podcast about 'girlhood'.
Ulta Beauty, which has more than 1,200 salons across the country, was slammed by furious women for hosting Dylan Mulvaney on The Joy Of Girlhood.
The firm had tried to showcase the diversity of women that use the brand, but the clip was quickly seized on by customers for the controversial clip. … read full article
UK - Sex Matters launches survey
Sex Matters is launching a survey about being gender-critical at work in the UK. Please take the survey and share your experiences
From Sex Matters (UK)
October 17, 2022
We have all heard of high-profile cases such as Kathleen Stock, Maya Forstater and Allison Bailey, but we know that many more people are experiencing harassment and discrimination at work for being gender-critical.
To gather evidence about the nature and scale of the problem Sex Matters is launching a survey about being gender-critical at work in the UK.
We would like to hear about your experience – has your employer adopted policies which make the workplace hostile for people with your views? What has been the impact on you? What happens if you raise concerns? What is the attitude of your managers, your trade union and your professional body? Have you been discriminated against or harassed?
The survey takes about 20 minutes – it is mainly multiple-choice questions, but there is also a section where you can tell your story in your own words. … take the survey
UK - How do the police not know the law?
They should stop investigating non-crimes
From The Critic (UK)
By Tony Dowson
October 17, 2022
Other than perhaps barristers, judges and solicitors, the police above all people should be expected to have a vague grasp of the basics of criminal law and an ability to give reasonably accurate summaries of it to the public. Over the last few months, however, official police accounts on social media have been posting wildly incorrect legal explainers, implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) threatening criminal investigation against those who decline to follow the police’s view of the law.
On 27 September, Sussex Police referred to a convicted trans sex offender Sally Anne Dixon (who was responsible for several historical indecent assaults on children) as a woman. A number of gender critical accounts (accounts sceptical of trans activism) asserted on Twitter that Sally Anne Dixon was, in fact, a man, and that Dixon was known as John Stephen Dixon when committing the offences. Sussex Police then admonished the accounts, pointing to hate crime guidance and saying that hateful comments would not be “tolerated”. They later deleted these tweets after the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, objected. … read full article
UK - The Cass Review and its Implications: Psychologically Informed Considerations for the Future
From ACP UK (UK)
Association of Clinical Psychologists
October 2022
The interim findings of The Cass Review are likely to have significant consequences for children with gender dysphoria and for their families, as well as for those who commission and run gender identity development services. It is the view of the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP-UK) that an evidence-based framework will be required to ensure that regional services are able to offer appropriate and timely care to this vulnerable group. We offer a number of reflections which we believe are crucial to that process. … read full article
US - No Laughing Matter
John Oliver badly botches the “gender-affirming care” debate.
From City Journal (USA)
By Leor Sapir
October 17, 2022
Yesterday, John Oliver devoted an episode of Last Week Tonight to transgender rights, specifically the controversy over “gender-affirming care” for minors. Along with Jon Stewart, who recently aired a similar episode, Oliver appears uninterested in doing actual investigative reporting. The timing is no coincidence: a two-week trial in federal court begins today over Arkansas’s Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, and the left-leaning comedians possess immense power to shape public opinion. But Oliver’s argument, like Stewart’s, was little more than a misinformed genuflection to activists.
Oliver demonstrates his lack of critical thinking at the outset, when he informs his audience that he is about to discuss “LGBTQ rights.” Other than a 1967 CBS clip on homosexuality, which Oliver opens with in order to plant in his viewers’ mind the tenuous analogy, the entire episode is devoted to the trans issue. This is yet another example of activists using “LGB” as a cover for the “T”—exploiting public sympathy for the former to conceal the radical nature of the latter. … read full article
UK - Sorry Graham Norton, but cancel culture is all too real
It's not an attempt by the Right to get attention, but a devastating push to make certain views un-sayable
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Zoe Strimpel
October 16, 2022
A few years ago, when the pushback against wokeness first began in earnest, I went along to a comedy night billed as Right wing. I had hoped that, freed from the need to be politically correct, it would be side-splittingly funny. It wasn’t. It was very bad indeed.
Perhaps things have improved since then, and if they haven’t, perhaps they will now that John Cleese, a vocal critic of the deadening effects of wokeness on entertainment, has announced that he’ll be hosting a new show on GB News alongside Andrew Doyle. As Cleese pointed out on the Today programme last week, he “wouldn’t get five minutes into the first show” on the BBC before being “cancelled or censored”. … read full article
UK - Mermaids: What you need to know
From The Glinner Update (UK)
By ripx4nutmeg
October 17, 2022
The UK charity Mermaids has been hitting headlines recently, particularly after an MP called for a police investigation into the charity, but the vast majority of people are unaware of the charity’s history, the scandals in which it has been involved and the influence it has had.
Mermaids is probably the world's biggest organisation devoted solely to ‘supporting’ children who are confused about their gender. The charity was established in 1995 simply as a support group and helpline for parents of children who suffered from gender dysphoria. In its formative years, it seemed untouched by gender ideology - for example, it stated on its website as recently as 2009 that most children who believe they are transgender will grow out of it and become gay adults. … read full article
UK - A response to Gender-GP's take on Detransitioners
Detrans male examines Gender-GP's article "Detransition Facts and Statistics 2022: Exploding the Myths Around Detransitioning"
From TullipR - Detrans Man (UK)
By @TullipR Detrans Male
October 17, 2022
Disgraced organisation Gender GP, decided to further dig themselves in deeper by spreading misinformation regarding detransition and detransitioners in a recent article (Detransition Facts and Statistics 2022: Exploding the Myths Around Detransitioning) posted to their website on June 21st 2022. In this piece, I’m going to examine the claims as they’ve been presented, along with my observations of the underlying messages at play.
In August, Alex, head moderator of the discussion subreddit /r/detrans posted a comprehensive Twitter thread debunking the article, however, an important point to note is that the links used in the article have changed multiple times. Thankfully, this has been captured in archives taken at regular intervals since the original posting in June. … read full article
Australia - Men in women’s prisons is a human rights violation
From Spectator | Australia (Australia)
By Stassja Frei
October 17, 2022
On Sunday September 11, I – and around 30 other Victorian women – gathered on Parliament steps in Melbourne to protest one of the most abhorrent consequences of Victoria’s transgender laws: the housing of violent male sex offenders in women’s prisons.
A trans-identified male attacked a woman in broad daylight in the inner-city suburb of Richmond, demanding that she ‘lie down and have sex’ with him. He put his hands down her pants, attempting to remove the woman’s jeans, but she was able to fight him off as passersby came to her aid. When confronted, the perpetrator said, ‘I didn’t do anything, it was her fault.’
I will not use female pronouns for this man. … read full article
US - Estée Lauder Is Slammed For Promoting A Transgender Person On TikTok Who Says His Favorite Part Of Being A Woman "Is Living In Full Color"
Major beauty brand Estée Lauder is under fire for promoting a man pretending to be a woman on its TikTok page. The hashtag #BoycottEsteeLauder has gained traction on Twitter and countless women are critical of the brand propping up the trans movement.
From Evie Magazine (USA)
By GINA FLORIO
October 16, 2022
Over the weekend, Ulta Beauty was heavily criticized for posting a podcast clip of a man named Dylan Mulvaney, who claimed that he "absolutely can" become a mother one day because he now identifies as a woman. He has documented his "journey of girlhood" on social media for everyone to see, and companies like Forbes and Ulta are promoting him in public in order to celebrate his appropriation of womanhood. Estée Lauder is the latest brand to fall in line with the trans propaganda. They posted a TikTok featuring a scientist who goes by Cricket Temple who works for The Estee Lauder Companies; he is a man who identifies as transgender. … read full article
Canada - Once a Man, Never a Woman
In an extraordinary new book, Shannon Thrace describes her disintegrating marriage to a man consumed by narcissism and gender dysphoria.
From Quillette (Australia)
By Jonathan Kay
October 16, 2022
I’ve never been big on personal memoirs, let alone memoirs about intimate relationships. And so 18 Months: A Memoir of a Marriage Lost to Gender Identity isn’t a book I expected to like. But the author sent me a personalized review copy last month, and then nudged me a few times by email to check if I’d read it. Feeling duty-bound to get through at least a chapter or two, I cracked the cover on Thursday night. By Friday afternoon, I’d torn through the whole thing.
To sum up the story—and yes, this whole article will be full of spoilers—author Shannon Thrace and her spouse Jamie (both pseudonyms) enter the narrative as a loving couple, inhabiting a rural hipster idyll outside of Indianapolis. Husband and wife are software experts in their early 40s, with no kids, a great sex life, and lots of time for antiquing, gardening, and esoteric art-house interests such as kintsugi (look it up). Dinners consist largely of vegetables hand-picked from their own garden. They’ve been together for 14 years, yet sprinkle their playful conversations with ambitious literary allusions, like young lovebirds still trying to impress one another. … read full article
US - ‘Dysconnected’ Documentary Takes Powerful Look At Social Machine Behind Gender Transitions
The film interviews several people who regret their gender transition.
From Daily Wire (USA)
By Mairead Elordi (USA)
October 17, 2022
A new documentary takes a powerful look at the gender transition phenomenon and the forces behind it.
“Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion” scrutinizes the complex social machine driving the popular but experimental practice of medically and socially transitioning gender dysphoric people, especially children. … read full article
US - If DBT is the best tool for teens, why make an exception for "trans" identifying teens?
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
October 17, 2022
New York Times correspondent Matt Richtel has spent the last two years doing a deep dive into the youth mental health crisis—the crisis that has escalated to the point that, in December 2021, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murphy issued a Surgeon General’s Advisory to highlight the urgent need to address it. In the last days of August 2022, Richtel had two articles published that immediately rose to the top of the New York Times most-read list. Neither article mentions the rapid increase in the number of teens with multiple mental health diagnoses identifying as transgender—but, for parents and professionals concerned about this population of kids, the relevance is easy to see. … read full article