Monday, October 31, 2022
"U.S. Health and Human Services' transgender policies toward children are under scrutiny, ... Congressional questions over how taxpayer dollars may be pushing the issue and even funding surgeries."
This day in Herstory: Ethel Waters, born October 31, 1896 (died September 1, 1977), was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award, the first African American to star on her own television show, and the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. (more)
US - Fury as the CDC quietly replaces 'pregnant women' with 'pregnant people' in flu vaccine advice to be inclusive to trans groups
Last month CDC was slammed for scratching 'women' from monkeypox advice
But now it has emerged term has also been grabbed from flu shots infomation
Experts blasted the update as 'absurd' and a 'clearly political move'
From Daily Mail (UK)
By LUKE ANDREWS
October 31, 2022
The terms 'women' and 'woman' have been quietly scrubbed from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance on flu vaccines during pregnancy.
DailyMail.com found all gender-specific terms — also including 'she', 'her' and 'mother' — were wiped from the CDC webpage when it was updated last August.
They have been replaced by the gender-neutral terms 'pregnant people', 'their' or erased entirely. … read full article
Ireland - Trans Pedophile Convicted For “Depraved” Child Sexual Abuse Materials Released From Prison Early
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Shay Woulahan
October 31, 2022
A trans-identified male who was convicted for the possession, production, and distribution of horrific child abuse materials has been released from prison early in Ireland, despite not being legally allowed to even be in the country.
Bruno Binda De Souza, who also uses the name Bruna Meirelles, was released from prison on October 26 after being caught with “thousands of depraved child abuse images.”
De Souza, 32, had previously pleaded guilty to four counts of possession of child pornography, five counts of production of child pornography, and one count of distribution of child pornography on three dates between December 2017 and July 2020. The materials were found on all of his electronic devices, including his phones and computer. … read full article
US - HHS taxpayer-funded transgender surgery policies under scrutiny
From The Center Square (USA)
By Casey Harper
October 30, 2022
(The Center Square) – U.S. Health and Human Services' transgender policies toward children are under scrutiny, the latest federal agency to face Congressional questions over how taxpayer dollars may be pushing the issue and even funding surgeries.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., ranking member on the Subcommittee on Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra raising concerns about the agency’s work to “promote life altering changes to young children.”
“I write to conduct oversight of the federal government’s use of taxpayer funds to promote radical gender ideology and the medical transition of children using pharmaceutical or surgical interventions,” the letter said. “The Biden Administration appears to be encouraging any child, who does not conform to perceptions of masculine or feminine stereotypes, to alter his or her body through potentially irreversible medical or surgical intervention. Instead of funding these life-altering drugs and procedures, our government should be promoting policies to protect vulnerable children – who cannot consent.” … read full article
UK - From Affirmation to Moderation: The U.K.’s new approach to treating gender dysphoric youth
From Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (USA)
By Lisa Selin Davis
October 31, 2022
Last week, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) delivered long-awaited suggestions for the kind of treatment children with gender dysphoria should receive. They’ve moved from a model in which children’s transgender identities are automatically affirmed to a cautious, multidisciplinary, evaluation-heavy approach to assisting kids navigating gender issues—a model similar to those of countries like Sweden and Finland.
The shift comes after pediatrician Hilary Cass released an Interim Report earlier this year on the UK’s only state-funded pediatric gender clinic, the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) for children and adolescents at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London. It had a waitlist 5,000 kids deep and a pile of whistleblowing complaints against it. The report noted multiple problems, from children’s complicated mental health issues being overlooked in the wake of gender issues—known as diagnostic overshadowing—to clinicians feeling pressured to affirm and send the child down a medical path, rather than investigate the source of gender dysphoria. The report specifically called out the "affirmative model” of gender healthcare “that originated in the USA.” … read full article
Analysis - Minors Continue With Trans Treatments After Starting Puberty Blockers, Study Finds
From The Daily Signal (USA)
By Dan Hart
October 31, 2022
As a study from the Netherlands revealed that the vast majority of minors who took puberty-blocking drugs continued taking treatments to advance gender transition, another highly publicized study purporting to show improved mental health outcomes for minors who undergo transition treatments now has been “appended.”
A study out of a gender clinic in Amsterdam, published in October, found that 98% of minors who started the suppression of puberty through the use of drugs went on to pursue further gender transition treatments into young adulthood.
Chloe Cole, a young woman who detransitioned out of a male identity and since has become a prominent spokesperson for the detransitioner movement, quickly responded to the study on Twitter, writing: “I thought the argument was that it was just a ‘pause’ so that kids can make the decision once they’re older?” … read full article
US - Strong majority of Americans see elements of Trans agenda as child abuse
From Hot Air (USA)
By JAZZ SHAW
October 31, 2022
A new poll conducted by Scott Rasmussen for America’s New Majority Project indicates yet another area where progressive activists in the United States and the Democrats who seek to support that agenda through legislative means are seriously misreading the room. The survey collected responses from voters on the subject of transgender (“gender-affirming”) medical treatments of various sorts for minors and parental rights in that regard. Not only were large majorities strongly opposed to most of these procedures, but most felt that these “treatments” amounted to child abuse. The procedures and practices in question involved everything from mastectomies and genital mutilation to the administration of puberty blockers and changes in names and pronouns. And unlike the policies being pushed by the nation’s teachers’ unions and activists in the medical community, almost nobody believes that parents should be shut out of such decisions as they are applied to their children.
… read full article
US - The Silent Majority Opposes Transgender Activism in Schools, Supports Parents’ Rights
From The Daily Signal (USA)
By Tyler O'Neil
October 31, 2022
Americans are waking up to the threat of transgender activism in schools. While President Joe Biden tries to tie school lunch money to transgender policies and California Gov. Gavin Newsom threatens to remove kids from their parents if the parents refuse to treat their boys like girls or vice versa, Americans know that schools should not indoctrinate kids with the noxious idea that biology means nothing.
Many on the Left support transgender lessons in school, oppose any idea of parental opt-outs, and vocally push unfettered childhood access to “treatments” that will leave kids stunted, scarred, and infertile. Yet new polling suggests that vast majorities of registered voters—in both parties—oppose transgender lessons in school and support parents’ rights to opt their kids out of any such lessons. Many also oppose transgender “treatments” for kids. … read full article
Spain - Spain to pass world’s most radical “trans law” allowing minors to undergo “sex change” without parental consent
Contrary to Hungary’s child protection law, Spain’s Trans Law will not lead to any withholding of EU funds from Brussels as it is in line with the European Commission’s professed ideology
From Remix News (Hungary)
By Olivier Bault
October 31, 2022
Spain’s main mental health specialists’ organizations published a stark warning in the El Mundo newspaper on Oct. 17 against the governing coalition’s draft “Trans Law” which is about to be passed in the Spanish parliament. The “Law for Real and Effective Equality of Trans People and for the Guarantee of LGBTI Rights” will introduce the right to “gender” self-determination in Spain at a time when other countries are backtracking on their own laws based on gender ideology.
“It ‘jeopardizes the comprehensive medical care to which all children are entitled. It ignores that ‘in all judicial decisions relevant to the life of the minor, the best interests of the minor must prevail.’ And it ignores that countries such as ‘Finland and the United Kingdom have moved from quick and invasive models to others that are more reflective and linked to Mental Health’,” wrote El Mundo on Oct. 23 quoting Luisa Lázaro, the president of the Spanish Association of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry (AEPNyA).
AEPNyA is the country’s main pediatric psychiatrists’ organization.
In other words, the law is being protested by the country’s own medical professionals.
… read full article
Netherlands - Dutch increasingly critical about transgender law
From CNE News (EU)
October 31, 2022
This year, Dutch citizens have become more critical of a transgender proposal that should make it easier for people to change their gender on birth certificates and identity papers.
The initiators of the proposal want to remove the minimum age and the need for an expert opinion in the case of gender reassignment. Yet, most Dutch think an expert opinion is crucial when someone desires legal gender change. Two-thirds of the population say there must be a minimum age for legal gender reassignment on birth certificates. The study, carried out by the Dutch Christian patient association NPV, shows no support for the proposal among the general population. That is reported by the NPV in a press release. … read full article
US - ‘Detransitioners’ Testify as Florida Medical Boards Protect Children From Harmful ‘Gender Affirming’ Procedures
From Daily Citizen (USA)
By Jeff Johnston
October 31, 2022
Florida medical boards approved a rule to protect minors from harmful, body-disfiguring “transgender” drugs, hormones and surgeries.
After a five-hour meeting, the Joint Rules/Legislative Committee of the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine voted to draft a rule safeguarding minors suffering from sexual identity confusion from the experimental procedures. The rule now goes to the full boards for approval. … read full article
Analysis - Going Dutch
The small study that launched a big experiment in gender change
From Gender Clinic News (Australia)
By Bernard Lane
October 31, 2022
Tens of thousands of teenagers around the world are undergoing medicalised gender change on the strength of one questionable Dutch study with only 70 patients, the internationally renowned psychiatrist Professor Riittakerttu Kaltiala has warned.
“70 patients as a model for treatment for tens of thousands of patients — I find that really lousy,” Professor Kaltiala told a Florida Board of Medicine committee, which met last Friday to consider a new, more cautious standard of care for treating minors with gender dysphoria. … read full article
Analysis - Generation Indoctrination: Inside the roots of the trans movement
From The Christian Post (USA)
By Brandon Showalter
October 31, 2022
As the public become increasingly aware of what's happening to children in gender clinics, many are bewildered, asking: How did this happen so quickly?
While many social changes have occurred quickly in recent years, given shifts in politics and biomedical ethics, the philosophical roots of gender ideology that the world is experiencing today have a long history that has evolved over time, according to Dr. Abigail Favale, author of The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory a professor at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
In the third installment of The Christian Post’s investigative podcast series “Generation Indoctrination: Inside the Transgender Battle,” Favale explained that much of what is now seen within the gender dogma of today can be traced back to the early 20th century. Two revolutions, the conceptual and the contraceptual, have indelibly shaped how people have thought about what it means to be male and female, particularly with the introduction of reproductive technologies such as hormonal birth control. … read full article
Analysis - Cult recruitment in progress
From gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
October 31, 2022
This Reddit post has been on my mind (cross-posted to r/ftm and r/FTMover30) all weekend:
Currently, I'm a 30-something, very masculine/male passing person that ID's publicly as a gay woman (so I guess butch? like... very butch). I've been describing to her how a large portion of my social anxiety comes from first meeting folks, and that very awkward, cringe part when the other person learns I'm AFAB (like someone I know introducing me), and I feel like I can see the thoughts in their head trying to reconcile my femaleness with how I look and how the thought that runs through my head all the time is "This person thinks I'm weird. I'm so f*ing weird." … read full article
Ed. Note - This article, as one would expect from the name of the publication, has a specifically Christian slant on the news story it presents. From an entirely secular perspective, I find this story very disturbing. When the police are screened for GC views, that effectively ensures that they will treat people holding GC opinions with suspicion. This is tantamount to requiring that the police hold a religious belief that’s inherently hostile to us “heretics.”
US - Newsom pushing Christians from police
Psychological tests of “bias” against transgenderism
From California Catholic Daily (USA)
October 31, 2022
Christians who reject transgender ideology could virtually be barred from serving as police officers in the nation’s largest state, thanks to a series of laws and guidelines rolled out under California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) — policies that experts say may lead officers to make more dangerous decisions and would chill free speech. State officials have said police departments should scour applicants’ social media profiles for “disqualifying bias,” such as calling a man who identifies as female a male.
Late last month, Newsom signed a bill (AB 2229) requiring all police applicants to undergo a psychological evaluation to test “bias” based on “gender” or “sexual orientation.” A companion bill currently under consideration (AB 2547) would ask police departments to search “applicant social media profiles” for “content indicative of potential biases, such as affiliation with hate groups” — yet both measures merely build on existing laws and guidelines. … read full article
Scotland - The SNP assault on women’s rights shames Scotland
From The Herald (Scotland)
By Kevin McKenna
October 30, 2022
AS the Gender Recognition Reform Bill continues its progress through the Scottish Parliament, it’s worth recalling JK Rowling’s tweet from 2019: “Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?”
The author’s words expressed reasonable concerns in a responsible manner, yet she has since become the object of an orchestrated, three-year campaign of hate. Scots who have concerns about self-ID, removing the need for medical experts and lowering the applicable age to 16 have been branded transphobic bigots by their own government. It’s a lie. … read full article
US - Today on National Predator Radio...
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
October 31, 2022
On October 6th, I listened to Melissa Block on NPR report that “Courts have blocked a number of the anti-LGBTQ laws from going into effect” and, as usual with NPR’s reporting on this issue, my blood began to boil. From start to finish, the gender ideology movement turns language upside down and NPR, amongst many others, including journalists, is fully participating in the lies to support the trans movement’s agenda. In order to win and save our children we must retake language. I will start.
These “anti-LGBTQ” laws discussed in Block’s broadcasst are not laws enacted to be “anti” anyone or their “rights” as these LGBTQWTF fanatics insist—but to protect children like ours. These laws, which are a good start, are more accurately described as “anti-Radical Gender Theory.” And, let's be clear, the RGT agenda is evil. If you still think that the RGT or LGBTQ Agenda™ has anything to do with Gay Rights, please put that out of your mind right now. This is the first place where words are corrupted. Many of the people behind this movement are not even gay, but fetishist hetero men or women and men who suffer from personality disorders. The T is really just a cover for radical gender theory, a movement that many LGBs reject. It doesn’t even protect homosexual boys and men.Andrew Sullivan rejected it years ago when he said that trans threatens gay people young and old. Why does NPR not interview the LGB Alliance? They lost the T, so should we. Or, why doesn’t NPR interview Gays Against Groomers? That was rhetorical because I know why—these groups get silenced, not featured. The media is one of the many institutions which have been co-opted and corrupted by this nefarious movement. … read full article