Monday, September 26, 2022
"A transgender children’s charity is giving potentially dangerous chest-flattening devices to 14-year-olds against their parents’ wishes, an investigation by The Telegraph has found."
This day in Herstory: Serena Jameka Williams, born September 26, 1981, is an American inactive professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, including a joint-record 186 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. She won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time. (more)
Ed. Note - Today, GC News is launching a (frankly, fairly unscientific) experiment. Over the past couple of months, we’ve more or less grouped articles according to country or region. By doing it that way, one group (country) must be first and, for no very good reason at all, it’s usually been the U.S. Not everyone has been thoroughly delighted with that arrangement. So, today we’ll return to the previous practice of not grouping stories by country. We’ll still endeavor to label them by country, so readers can easily ignore certain countries if they wish. Here’s the experiment part: we’ll do this for a few days and watch the replies. So, please let us know if you have a preference. Many thanks in advance!
US - New York Times defends surgeon who mutilates children in the name of gender transition
That this doctor is using social media as a way to find patients and remove their healthy breasts does not seem to be a problem for The New York Times, rather they appear to endorse it and praise her acumen at finding this unique marketing strategy for her surgical practice.
From The Post Millennial (Canada)
By Mia Ashton
September 26, 2022
“More Teens are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’,” announces the headline of an article published in The New York Times on Monday, which also features a photograph of Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher, the Miami surgeon who refers to performing bilateral mastectomies on girls and young women who believe themselves to be men with the catchy phrase "yeet the teets."
Dr. Gallagher, the article notes, has taken the unusual approach of embracing social media platforms such as TikTok to promote her services to impressionable teenage minds, which has made her something of a celebrity in the world of medical professionals who chop healthy body parts off distressed teens and young adults. She performed 13 top surgeries on minors last year, up from a handful a few years ago. …
That this doctor is using social media as a way to find patients and remove their healthy breasts does not seem to be a problem for The New York Times, rather they appear to endorse it and praise her acumen at finding this unique marketing strategy for her surgical practice. … read full article
UK - Trans charity Mermaids giving breast binders to children behind parents’ backs
‘Massive safeguarding red flags’ over the taxpayer-funded group lead to calls for an immediate investigation by the Charity Commission
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Hayley Dixon
September 25, 2022
A transgender children’s charity is giving potentially dangerous chest-flattening devices to 14-year-olds against their parents’ wishes, an investigation by The Telegraph has found.
Mermaids, which receives funding from the taxpayer and runs training for schools and the NHS, offered to send a breast binder discreetly to a girl they believed was only 14, even after they were told that she was not allowed to use one by her mother.
Evidence obtained by The Telegraph shows that the charity’s staff have offered binders to children as young as 13 who say that their parents oppose the practice.
… read full article
UK - Trans charity faces watchdog scrutiny amid child chest-binding revelations
Charity Commission to assess ‘allegations involving young people’ as Telegraph reveals Mermaids sends teenagers chest-flattening devices
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Hayley Dixon
September 26, 2022
Concerns over the trans charity Mermaids are to be assessed by the charities watchdog after a Telegraph investigation found that it was sending chest-flattening devices to children.
The Charity Commission said on Monday night that “allegations involving vulnerable young people” are “serious” and safeguarding must be a “core priority” for organisations. … read full article
Scotland - “Beat the F*ck Out of Some TERFs”: Trans Activist Hired as Equalities Officer for SNP
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Shay Woulahan
September 25, 2022
The London Branch of the Scottish National Party (SNP) has hired a radical trans activist as an Equalities Officer, prompting backlash and concern from feminists who have uncovered violent statements he has made against women critical of gender ideology.
Cameron Downing, 23, was quietly elected as an Equalities Officer for the SNP’s London Branch at the party’s most recent Annual General Meeting. Downing also works as the Media and Communications Officer for the party’s official LGBTQ group — Out for Independence, where he previously served as the gender identity and expression officer. … read full article
Ireland - Libraries in trouble for following JK Rowling on Twitter
From The Sunday Times (UK)
By Julieanne Corr
September 25, 2022
Fingal county council has launched an internal investigation after a councillor complained that its libraries’ Twitter account was following prominent people with known gender-critical views.
The account — which was following the bestselling author JK Rowling, the barrister Allison Bailey and Maya Forstater, a British business and international development researcher — has been temporarily suspended. … read full article
Canada - 'Expert' witness testifies that being a lesbian is transphobic in trial against BC nurse
“I do know,” the WPATH-affiliated 'expert' witness said, “in a lot of the research we’ve done, that there are lesbian-identified women who do have sex with people who have penises.”
From The Post Millennial (Canada)
By Mia Ashton
September 24, 2022
On day two of the seven-day disciplinary hearing of British Columbia nurse Amy Hamm, under investigation for allegedly transphobic “off-duty” activity, the cross-examination of Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc, witness for the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) continued.
Saewyc, who is Director of the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Nursing and the head of the Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Center was called as an expert witness by the BCCNM. … read full article
US - Child mutilation is good business
From Hot Air (USA)
By DAVID STROM
September 26, 2022
TikTok is a great place to drum up business for gender reassignment surgery. As anybody who has followed the growing controversy surrounding radical gender ideology already knows, the teen oriented video platform is a “safe space” for confused and depressed teens to join a “community” and find validation. More importantly, it turns out to be a great place to exploit confused teens to make a buck.
And as anyone who has been a teen knows, confused and depressed is the default setting for any teen who is not part of the “in crowd” in school. Junior High and High Schools are a breeding ground for self-doubt and self-loathing, and puberty is a time when confusion about and discomfort with your body is about as common as needing to breathe. And because transgenderism is all the rage, and the media and educational establishment is pushing kids to embrace transgender ideology, kids are flocking to join the trend. … read full article
Canada - So I went to WPATH
From gender:hacked by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
September 26, 2022
There’s a lot to say about it and I’m still processing. But one of the things that fascinated me about the World Professional Association for Transgender Health conference was how persuasive the feeling that you're making progress is. The language is always changing and so you're Always Learning. The frontiers of identity are always expanding. Everything can always be made more 'inclusive.' Techniques can always be refined.
It's easy to lose sight of what you're progressing toward: sterilizing more kids, earlier, on thinner and thinner pretexts, regardless of comorbidities, despite mounting evidence of both social contagion as a driver and medical harm as the outcome.
… read full article
UK - Low standards
Institutions should reject WPATH advice
From The Critic (UK)
By Debbie Hayton
September 25, 2022
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) claims to be a non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organisation devoted to transgender health. It is seemingly credible, and UK clinicians — both NHS and private — proudly trumpet their links to it.
We should therefore take notice when WPATH publishes updated Standards of Care “for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People”. Last week, WPATH released Version 8. My concerns began with the press release. … read full article
US - The Medical Leash of Hormone Replacement Therapy
Gender medicine isn’t ‘experimental,’ because in an experiment someone is collecting data.
From Reality’s Last Stand (USA)
By Corinna Cohn
September 26, 2022
Nearly everyone is born with healthy and functioning endocrine systems. The cells in our bodies depend on both testosterone and estrogen to some degree. Of course, men's bodies depend more on the former and women's on the latter. When a child is put on to puberty blockers, also called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH), the child’s natural endocrine system is stopped. For a child about to enter puberty, this causes an indefinite delay.
According to WPATH SOC8, gender clinicians may exercise the judgment to start hormone blockers in children at Tanner Stage 2 in their development (i.e. the first signs of puberty). For girls, this may be age 9. For boys, age 11. Most children who start puberty blockers then proceed on to be prescribed cross-sex hormones, also called gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT). This whole protocol replaces and works in contradiction to the child’s natural endocrine system. At this point, irreversible changes have occurred. … read full article
US - Gender ideology promises young adults relief but leaves them with mental anguish
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Kaylee McGhee White
September 26, 2022
Gender ideology’s rapid spread among adolescents and young adults makes much more sense when you realize that it’s a form of escapism. It gives awkward and impressionable teenagers an explanation for the social and physical discomfort they naturally feel. It promises them a solution.
This promise, however, is based on a lie. It is no more possible for a girl to become a boy than it is for a white person to become black. Changing one’s clothes, pronouns, and given name will not change that reality — it will only delay the inevitable anguish that young girl is bound to experience when she realizes she’s been conned.
This cannot be said enough: Gender ideologues are setting these young adults up for a lifetime of confusion and regret. … read full article
US - Austin Fire Chaplain Sues After Getting Fired Over Trans Athletes Blog Post
From Newsweek (USA)
By JULIA DUIN
September 26, 2022
Dismissed last year for writing a blog post critical of the participation of transgender athletes in women's sports, an Assemblies of God minister is now suing the city of Austin, Texas.
The Rev. Andrew Fox, 54, who was a volunteer fire department chaplain from 2013 to 2021, accuses the city of violating his free speech and religious rights over a comment on his blog. He is seeking reinstatement, damages and legal fees as well as a promise from Austin not to take actions against private citizens expressing "constitutionally protected messages" related to concerns over gender-identity and women's sports.
Fox's suit has opened another battle in America's culture wars between conservatives who say they face unfair discrimination for voicing traditional views rooted in their religion and those who say expressing such views can amount to offensive prejudice and harassment against LGBTQ people or other minorities. … read full article
UK - Maths teacher sacked after refusing to use teen pupil's preferred pronouns without parental permission
From LBC (UK)
By Emma Soteriou
September 24, 2022
Kevin Lister, 59, is understood to be taking legal action against his employers for unfair dismissal, claiming he is a victim of a "witch-hunt".
He was dismissed from a Swindon school for "gross misconduct" after refusing to refer to a biologically female student by their preferred male name and he/him pronouns, according to the Mail on Sunday.
He told the paper he was concerned that the social transition could lead to the teen later getting irreversible medical treatments. … read full article
US - Democratic Trans Hypocrisy Is Cynical and Dishonest
The Kansas gubernatorial race showcases a Democratic vulnerability.
From National Review (USA)
By RICH LOWRY
September 26, 2022
Sometimes all you need to know about how an issue is playing is how a candidate reacts.
Kansas governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, released an ad last week saying, “You have seen my opponent’s attacks. So let me just say it: Of course men should not play girls sports. Okay, we all agree there.”
The ad is an attempt at defensive culture-war politics — and also brazenly dishonest and cynical. ... read full article
US - New bill would defund schools that hide students' chosen gender identity from their parents
From The Christian Post (USA)
By Samantha Kamman
September 26, 2022
A new bill in U.S. Congress seeks to prevent government-funded public schools from allowing students to change their gender identity or pronouns without their parents' knowledge or consent.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., introduced the Parental Rights Over the Education and Care of Their (PROTECT) Kids Act last Tuesday. But with Democratic control over the U.S. House of Representatives and slight control over the U.S. Senate, the bill is not likely to pass. … read full article
US - When You Fear Communicating with Your Child's Educators
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
September 26, 2022
My daughter has an IEP and has a new case manager this school year. I responded to an email from the case manager to check in and provide some info. Knowing they had recently met, I also asked what name and pronouns my daughter used when introducing herself. The case manager responded and said my daughter used a different name (I know what it is but am not going to use it here) and he/him pronouns, and then said she would be using that name and pronouns in her communications with me "if that was ok."
In trying to decide how to respond, I was struck by how fearful and completely devoid of confidence I felt in responding. I am very knowledgeable of my daughter and her needs and have never before felt this way in communicating with her educators.
… read full article
US - Inside Pennsylvania’s proposed ‘Parental Bill of Rights,’ which critics are calling homophobic
From City and State Pennsylvania (USA)
By Justin Sweitzer
September 26, 2022
The education culture wars have reached Pennsylvania.
Pledging to give parents more power over the type of content taught in schools, Republican state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would prohibit teachings about sexual orientation and gender identity in certain grades – an effort that mirrors and builds upon actions in other GOP-led states to limit the teaching of certain subjects, particularly among younger students.
The “Parental Bill of Rights” legislation, as proponents call it, would prohibit schools in Pennsylvania – including public schools, charter schools and cyber charter schools – from teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity to students in kindergarten through fifth grade. … read full article
Australia - Young woman in brief clothing shares her disbelief after man 'barges' into female-only sauna and refuses to budge: 'Am I the a**hole for asking him to leave?'
A Sydney influencer has recounted an 'uncomfortable' situation with a stranger
Milly Bannister, 25, and her friend were enjoying sitting in a female-only sauna
But 25-year-old claims a man 'barged' in to use the facility
When she him to leave she claims the man got angry and refused
From Daily Mail (UK)
By CARINA STATHIS
September 24, 2022
A woman has recounted the moment she felt 'uncomfortable' after a man 'barged' into a female-only sauna.
Milly Bannister, from Sydney, posted a video explaining how in her building there's both male and female saunas for 'safety and privacy'.
But on this occasion when Milly and her friend were in the women-only sauna wearing 'brief clothing', she claims a man 'barged' in to use the facility. … read full article
UK - Women Call for Primark Boycott Following Latest Gender Neutral Changing Room Violation
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Jennifer Seiland
September 26, 2022
A young woman is going viral for her TikTok in which she details having been violated in a Primark gender neutral changing room, renewing discussions about the dangers that come with a lack of single-sex spaces.
On September 24, a TikTok began to circulate across social media of a young woman tearfully recounting a distressing experience in a Primark mixed-sex changing room.
Primark, a popular fast fashion retailer, introduced their first “gender neutral” changing rooms at two UK branches in 2019, and slowly expanded their availability to all stores over the years. But even prior to the introduction of the official policy, staff had reportedly been encouraged to let customers choose whatever changing room they wanted to use. … read full article
Scotland - Male Stripper to Read to Children at Scottish Museum
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Anna Slatz
September 26, 2022
A male stripper will be hosting a children’s event at a museum in Scotland, prompting concern from parents as debates around child safeguarding continue to get more heated.
The Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery in Stirling, Scotland has announced a “sing-along cabaret” targeted at children under the age 12. But the show, which promises “mesmerizing storytelling” and fun-filled Disney tunes, is being hosted by a performer who is usually seen at venues that are anything but child-friendly. … read full article
UK - Why has Starmer banished feminists?
Gender ideologues have captured his party conference
From UnHerd (UK)
BY JOAN SMITH
September 26, 2022
Are feminists welcome in the Labour Party? I mean the old-fashioned kind of feminist, who knows the difference between men and women. The answer appears to be that we’re not. Delegates to this year’s party conference in Liverpool will be able to browse stalls outside the main hall, talking to activists about everything from climate change to animal welfare. What they won’t be able to do is speak to representatives of the Labour Women’s Declaration, an organisation that advocates for women’s sex-based rights and single-sex spaces. It has been denied a stall at conference along with FiLiA, which last year organised the largest feminist conference in this country for decades. … read full article
Spain - Spanish Community Apologizes to Parents for Sexually-Charged Youth Summer Games
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Anna Slatz
September 24, 2022
A small community in Spain has issued a formal apology to parents for hosting a disturbing summer event in which children were exposed to highly sexual “games.”
The event, which took place on July 22 in Vilassar de Mar, a small municipality in Catalonia, included activities in which children were instructed to imitate sexual positions taken from the Kama-sutra with each other, form genitals from play-dough, and learn about hardcore drugs. … read full article
US - From the Rejection Archives
A never-accepted pitch
From BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis (USA)
By Lisa Selin Davis
September 26, 2022
Dear readers,
My HOUSEWIFE manuscript is due Friday (!) and I have many half-written pieces I look forward to finishing and sharing with you after. In the meantime, please head on over to the Boston Globe and celebrate a little opening in the mainstream/left media’s bulwark against nuance and accurate science reporting; they decided to adapt and publish a [much better] version of an earlier Broadview post. It was a fantastic editing experience and they deserve kudos for going against the grain—even though we should hold the media accountable for consistently misreporting this story. … read full article
Canada - Kayla Lemieux and the cult of validation
How the West’s crisis of moral judgement is inflaming the insanity of identity politics.
From spiked (UK)
By Brendan O’Neill
September 25, 2022
For me, the most disturbing thing about the Canadian teacher with the fake boobs is not the prosthetics themselves, ridiculous as they are. It isn’t the huge sexualised nipples, which all but confirm that the bloke is getting some kind of thrill from parading around in front of his teenage charges dolled up like a Halloween porn freak. It isn’t even the fact that there are men out there who are happy to behave in such a depraved way – we’ve known that for quite some time. No, it’s the fact that his school defended him, and what’s more that it defended him on the grounds of respecting ‘gender identity and gender expression’. There have always been weirdos in society – what’s new in the 21st century is the willingness of so many institutions to validate weirdos. … read full article
Canada - Was the fake boobs teacher a hoax?
Whether or not it was satire, it shows where the power lies
From The Post By UnHerd (UK)
By Mary Harrington
September 26, 2022
Last week there was internet uproar at the discovery that a male teacher in Ontario goes to work wearing breasts so huge they’d be absurd by the standards of a seaside postcard.
Photographs of this individual, known as “Kayla Lemieux”, were reportedly leaked by students uncomfortable with the situation. The fake breasts are indeed so gargantuan, and the nipples so prominent, that it’s difficult to see how anyone could wear them except as either fetish gear or a prank. In Ontario, though, the Human Rights Code forbids discrimination against anyone on the grounds of ‘gender expression’, a category of such seemingly infinite flexibility that it appears to cover wearing absurdly enormous prosthetic breasts to your teaching job in a secondary school. Accordingly, the school has defended Lemieux. … read full article
Canada - How “Gender Identity” Protections Are Being Used to Shield Predators
The Cautionary Tale of a High School Shop Teacher
From Gays Against Groomers Substack (Canada)
By Eva Kurilova and Gays Against Groomers
September 26, 2022
On September 16, feminist website Reduxx broke the story of a male Ontario high school shop teacher wearing massive prosthetic breasts at school. What should have been a clear-cut case of predatory behavior has instead revealed that human rights laws are being used to protect groomers.
And yes, what is happening here is grooming, make no mistake. Minors are being exposed to an extremely sexualized and pornified caricature of a woman and having their sexual boundaries not only flagrantly disregarded but actively pushed. They have been trapped as participants in an adult’s sexual foreplay. … read full article
Canada - Jamie Sarkonak: Defence of teacher with oversized prosthetic breasts the logical conclusion of gender ideology
The lack of guardrails allowing this in the classroom is a natural result of our institutional embrace of postmodern gender ideology
From National Post (Canada)
By Jamie Sarkonak
September 26, 2022
You’ve probably seen the photos of the trans shop teacher at Trafalgar High School in Oakville, Ont., wearing a blonde wig and, more noticeably, massive prosthetic breasts under a tight shirt.
At this point, it’s hard to tell if this is a ruse or if the teacher is acting genuinely. I’m leaning towards the latter, because a TikTok video from August 2021 appears to show the same person in similar atire. Regardless, donning fetish wear in the classroom is very bad, but the school fully supports it. … read full article
UK - CPS seeks public’s views on draft 'Deception as to Gender' legal guidance
From CPS (UK)
September 26, 2022
A public consultation on updated legal guidance regarding deception as to gender in rape and serious sexual assault cases has been launched by the Crown Prosecution Service today.
The draft guidance reflects the case law on deception as to gender and whether it could affect consent and addresses the issue where a suspect’s gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.
Siobhan Blake, CPS lead for rape and serious sexual assault said: “Cases where the issue of deception as to gender is a factor are rare, but they involve complex and sensitive decision-making. It is important that our prosecutors have access to the latest case law when considering whether the threshold for criminal charges has been met. While every case must be decided on its own specific facts, we want to be transparent in setting out the factors that should be considered. … read full article
Poland - Did the Woke Movement Hijack Feminism in Poland?
From Illiberalism (USA)
By Magdalena Grzyb
September 23, 2022
The current anti-abortion law in Poland is one of the harshest not only in Europe, but also in the world. Since 2020, when the Constitutional Court ruled abortion on the basis of fetal defect unconstitutional, it has been illegal to terminate a pregnancy in any situation except for when a pregnancy resulted from a crime or represents a threat to a woman’s health and life. Nevertheless, the main axis of the culture war and ideological dispute in Poland is not about women’s rights but about LGBTQ+ rights. This situation has partly hijacked feminist claims—especially in relation to abortion, a critical issue in Poland—subordinating the latter to the LGBTQ+ agenda. That same LGBTQ+ agenda has largely focused on the issue of gender self-identification, pushing the question of equal rights for Polish gay citizens (for instance, the right to marriage) onto the back burner. … read full article
UK - Fruits of sex
Rediscovering the telos of gender
From The Critic (UK)
By Samuel Negus
September 26, 2022
Several recent books from avowedly feminist writers invite readers to reconsider “hook-up culture” and its philosophical priors, including British journalist Louise Perry’s The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. Perry rejects the premise of sexual intercourse as purely physical, non-mystical and even transactional. This “disenchanted” view of sex, she defiantly writes, “isn’t actually true, and we all know it”.
Perry’s credentials are unimpeachable. Schooled in liberal-feminist thought as an undergraduate, and later working as an advocate for rape victims, she challenges the sexual revolution’s creed because, not in spite, of her training and experience.
Perry offers some thoroughly unorthodox prescriptions and unambiguously defies numerous sacred liberal-feminist dogma: “Sex must be taken seriously. Men and women are different. Some desires are bad. Consent is not enough.” The central purpose of her book is to ask “why so many women desire a kind of sexual freedom that so obviously serves male interests? What if our bodies and minds aren’t as malleable as we might think?” … read full article
It was good to see that the comments on the NYT article were overwhelmingly negative on the practice of radical double masectomy on children (I refuse to use the euphemisms like "top surgery" that the gender ideologues want to force on us), and that the Times is now publishing more extreme language. I wrote a comment that began "The mutilation of children is a crime against humanity." This got approved. Not that long ago, I had much milder comments on articles on "trans" issues routinely rejected.
Great bunch of articles again; particularly enjoyed the one by Lisa Davis. ICYMI, an archive that I had found of her Boston Globe article which that she had linked to in that one:
https://archive.ph/ifcVX
Nice that, as Davis had argued, its publication gives some cause to "celebrate a little opening in the mainstream/left media’s bulwark against nuance and accurate science reporting". However, for all the good points she makes in the Globe article, one can not help but get the impression that she's trying to have her cake and eat it too, that she's engaging in the same sort of "imposition of a belief system" that she justifiably decries.
For examples, she has said:
"... every culture we know of has gender — which I define as ideas about how women and men 'should' behave ....
While some male-typical and female-typical behavior has biological roots, much of gender as I and other feminists define it — culturally based expectations of how men and women should behave — 'is' socially constructed. And gender can indeed be used as an instrument of power. ...."
While it's nice that she acknowledges that "some ... behaviour has biological roots", she then more or less denies that fact and then goes on to insist - somewhat dogmatically, as an article of faith - that "gender IS socially constructed". Which flies in the face of arguments by others that how men (sex) and women (sex) DO behave is largely what they mean by gender. There's a fundamental sticking point there, a contradiction between SHOULD and DO which causes any number of problems - which she is contributing to.
Seems to me that far too many feminists - Davis for example - seem to think that "gender expectations of how people should behave" are cut from whole cloth - the result of the nefarious "Patriarchy!!11!!", that they aren't, to some significant degree, the result of how people DO behave. Which tends to motivate such feminists towards the "abolition of gender" - which is, as Kathleen Stock once pithily put it, "barking (mad)":
https://kathleenstock.substack.com/p/lets-abolish-the-dream-of-gender
Might just as well try commanding the tide to not come in. No doubt there are many such behaviour patterns and tendencies that society might reasonably deprecate or anathematize. But there are many other such tendencies that are rather exemplary and that society would do, and generally does well to promote and endorse.
Failing to understand the biological roots of those "expectations", failing to understand that stereotypes - positive and negative - are often solidly based on brute facts, is probably one of the main reasons why the transgender issue is such a clusterfuck:
https://spsp.org/news-center/character-context-blog/stereotype-accuracy-one-largest-and-most-replicable-effects-all