Monday, September 5, 2022
"Chicago’s largest children’s hospital has partnered with local school districts to promote radical gender theory, 'kink,' 'BDSM' and 'trans-friendly' sex toys for children."
This day in Herstory: Cathy Lee Guisewite, born September 5, 1950, is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run. The strip focused on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, work, relationships, and having a mother—or as the character put it in one strip, "the four basic guilt groups." (more)
It’s Labor Day in the U.S. and Canada and the news has been relatively quiet, so this is a relatively light edition of GC News. - Ed.
US - Chicago hospital teams with schools to promote trans-friendly sex toys to kids
From New York Post (USA)
By Christopher F. Rufo
September 5, 2022
Chicago’s largest children’s hospital has partnered with local school districts to promote radical gender theory, “kink,” “BDSM” and “trans-friendly” sex toys for children.
Insider documents I’ve obtained reveal this troubling collaboration between gender activists at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and school administrators throughout the Chicago area.
These documents, and a review of school-district websites, show Lurie Children’s Hospital has provided materials to school leaders promoting radical gender theory, trans activism and sexually explicit materials in at least four Chicago-area public-school systems: districts 75, 120, 181 and 204. … read full article
US - The Transgender Movement Isn’t Just Targeting Kids, It’s Targeting Families
The point isn’t just to break down the ‘gender binary.’ It’s to break down the family in order to reshape society.
From The Federalist (USA)
By JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON
September 5, 2022
Evidence continues to mount that a concerted effort is underway between major hospitals and public school systems to indoctrinate children with transgender ideology and push harmful, sometimes irreversible, medical procedures on minors — sometimes without the knowledge or consent of parents.
The point of the indoctrination, though, isn’t only to create more “gender-nonconforming” students. It’s to break down family structures and parental authority. The goal isn’t simply to teach and encourage transgenderism in our schools. It’s to lay claim to the students themselves, over and against their parents and families, for purposes that go far beyond the promotion of gender identity. After all, you can’t very well reshape society according to your utopian vision if something as solid as a family is standing in the way. … read full article
US - My ‘I Would Have Been Trans’ Story
I have a lot of opinions about transgenderism and I’m often asked ‘why?’
From Reality's Last Stand (USA)
By Christina Buttons
September 5, 2022
For the past year I’ve been working tirelessly to expose the pseudoscience of transgender ideology that has corrupted our medical institutions. I’ve been called a “radical anti-LGBTQ far-right journalist” by leftwing media outlets, despite the fact that not long ago, I was a “social justice warrior” and have voted Democrat in every election thus far. I am frequently—daily—accused of being a transphobic bigot and I’m often asked, “Why do you care so much about trans issues?”
I care because at the root of “trans issues” are deeply unhappy people desperate to relieve their unhappiness, and I know exactly how that feels. From adolescence on, I was socially awkward, self-conscious about my body, obsessed with finding an identity, and severely depressed. Throughout my teens, I was in and out of treatment centers for self-harm and suicidality. If gender ideology were in vogue in the early 2000s, I would have been one of the hundreds of thousands of young girls seeking to escape their bodily reality by undergoing a gender-transition. … read full article
US - Democrats embrace LGBT policy recommended by a convicted ‘trans’ child rapist
From The Jewish Voice (USA)
By Olivia Murray
September 5, 2022
Do you remember recent headlines that reported on Biden’s plan to withhold federally funded school lunches from institutions that refused to bow to the Democrats’ radical “transgender” ideology? Speaking to the policy change, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton said in a press release:
The Biden Administration is attempting to force every state and local entity to adopt its sexual orientation and gender identity agenda — or suffer massive financial consequences[.]
Well, this may come as a shock (although it shouldn’t), but back in 2019, the LBGTQ Policy Journal — a Harvard Kennedy school student publication — printed an article with this very suggestion. … read full article
US - Social Media Can Influence Young Girls To Become Transgender. Here’s How
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Laurel Duggan
September 5, 2022
Troubled adolescent girls are being exposed to messaging on social media that encourages adopting a transgender identity and undergoing medicalization including hormones and surgeries, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.
TikTok is flooded with content promoting the adoption of transgender identities as well as medical procedures for young people with gender dysphoria, and some of this content is promoted by medical doctors.
“When teenagers look at trans kids on social media medical transition seems edgy, cool, and interesting. In reality this is a difficult pathway that is littered with complicated problems that come about because of difficulties with medicalizing our bodies,” Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist and director of the gender-critical organization Genspect, told the DCNF.
The social media site TikTok is teeming with videos promoting “top surgeries,” double mastectomies performed on women — and in some cases on adolescents — in order to help them present as male.
The website contains countless videos of young people, most of whom appear to be in their teen years, showing off their mastectomy scars, lying in hospital beds after operations and trying to raise money for the procedure, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the site’s content. Young people also share videos showing the impact cross-sex hormones have on their voice and appearance, with a consistent subtext of encouragement and the promotion of medicalization. … read full article
US - Tennessee schools told not to implement Biden's Title IX changes protecting 'gender identity' instead of biological sex
Tennessee is among those states that prohibit biological males from playing on women's sports teams, and using women's locker rooms and bathroom facilities, despite their gender identity.
From The Post Millennial (Canada)
By Libby Emmons
September 5, 2022
After the Biden administration proposed changes to Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to interpret the Act as protecting people against discrimination on the basis of gender identity as well as biological sex, universities across the country took it upon themselves to make changes to their own programs to reflect that proposal. Tennessee schools were put on notice by a local lawmaker.
In response, State Representative John Ragan of Oak Ridge sent a letter to state schools letting them know that these changes conflating biological sex with gender identity, which are two drastically different things, were merely proposed and have not yet been enacted under federal law. Tennessee is one of 20 states that have filed suit against the Department of Education to prevent the changes from going into effect. … read full article
US - Post From ‘Gender Affirming’ Surgeon With Patient Sparks Backlash: ‘A Picture With the Child She Just Mutilated’
From Resist the Mainstream (USA)
By Gary Ray
September 5, 2022
In a shocking post that many allege shows child abuse, a medical doctor glorifies her gender reassignment surgeries, emphasizes how easy it is to arrange for these surgeries and shows a picture of a minor standing next to her mother shortly after she removed the minor’s breasts.
The so-called “top surgery” involves a double mastectomy on healthy breasts. Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher, a Miami-based plastic surgeon, claims the surgeries make her teen patients happier, posting on Instagram, [Look at] “That smile 🙌🏼. Congratulations!”
The doctor’s promotional video can be viewed here. … read full article
US - We Are Living the Fall of Rome
From Trish Wood is Critical (USA)
By Trish Wood
September 5, 2022
Time has run out. The shape of our new reality has revealed itself. We must witness and respond, soberly, with clear heads. We are now ruled by mentally ill conformity activists who brook no dissent against their irrational and dangerous rules, talking points and groupthink. It’s as if the believing-you-are-Napoleon delusion has taken hold and we must play along or be punished. We are all exiled to Elba — awaiting instructions from our insane leader.
Many of us see through the delusion, the normalizing of abhorrent behaviour, the race baiting and censorship, the cruelty and banishment of anyone who objects to the bizarre carnival unfolding in our streets. We tamp down our revulsion because so many of our friends and neighbours are going along with it. Therefore, it can’t be that bad, even though our nervous systems are on high alert. … read full article
UK - London Review of Books claims men who identify as women have higher sexual assault rate than women
Gender-critical feminists, who promote primacy of biological sex, demand evidence for essayist's claim.
From Just the News (USA)
By Greg Piper
September 5, 2022
The London Review of Books waded into a cultural minefield by publishing an essay that claims men who identify as women have a higher sexual assault rate than biological women, without providing substantiating evidence.
The essay by Arianne Shahvisi, who is writing a book on the philosophy of social justice, claims that gender is a more definitive reality than sex. She tars gender-critical feminists, who promote the primacy of biological sex, as embracing a "sort of fairy-tale fear-mongering that puts them in league with the far right."
Without citing a source, Shahvisi claims: "Trans women are more likely to be sexually assaulted than cis women, and vulnerability to violence is, for most women, a more concrete definition of what unites and constrains us." … read full article
UK - What Is Gender-Critical Feminism?
A review of Holly-Lawford Smith's "Gender-Critical Feminism" (Oxford U Press, 2022)
From 4W (USA)
Alison McCulloch
September 4, 2022
I’d never heard of gender-critical feminism until a few years ago. I came across it on the now banned subreddit r/GenderCritical where it was often used interchangeably with radical feminism.
Radical or gender critical, I figured I must be one of these kinds of feminists since my heretical view on gender identity ideology meant I no longer had a home in my old tribe, let’s call it some version of liberal feminism. One minute, I was happily campaigning for a woman’s right to choose, the next I was being reprimanded for using the word ‘woman’. It was dizzying. It still is.
But since ‘feminism’ and ‘the Left’ have drifted off to places I no longer recognise, I’ve become wary of adopting any political label, especially when I’m not sure what it stands for. Finding out what this new feminism is, and where it fits in the pantheon of feminisms is what motivated me to read and write about Holly Lawford-Smith’s new book, Gender-Critical Feminism (OUP, 2022). … read full article
Scotland - SNP have 'ignored evidence' of bullying in schools due to gender guidance say teachers
EXCLUSIVE: Teachers, education professionals and parents say the Scottish Government has ignored the impact of official school guidance on gender identity and pronouns with one instance of a 10-year-old girl turning to self-harming
From Scottish Daily Express (Scotland)
By Jessica North
September 5, 2022
Bullying in some schools stemming from the "incorrect" use of pronouns has been so serious it led to one 10-year-old girl refusing to go to classes and eventually harming herself.
A grassroots collective of teaching professionals and parents say Scottish Government guidance is failing teachers and creating an environment that harms children; both those who struggle with their gender identity and those attempting to navigate the controversial topic.
After a video surfaced of 17-year-old Murray Allan being punished for saying he didn't agree that there were more than two genders, Save Our Schools Scotland (SOSS) told the Scottish Daily Express that this was an extreme example of what was happening at other schools. … read full article
Taiwan - Meet Taiwan's Feminists Fighting against Gender Self-ID
Grassroots activists are beginning to undermine Taiwanese institutional messaging about gender identity.
From 4W (USA)
By Josephine Bartosch
Sep 5, 2022
As with Mumsnet in the UK, “Vicky” (not her real name) and the other members of NoSelfID Taiwan (NSIDT) found each other on a female-focused social media site called Plurk. The group are anonymous, translator and spokeswoman Vicky tells me that they are “careful to guard their personal data” in order to avoid being targeted by transgender activists. It seems wherever one is, to fight against the might of transgenderism is to face censorship and endure threats.
The group formed in October last year, after members were horrified to discover that “like Stonewall in the UK” trans lobby groups had “secretly arranged training for schools, courts, and other governmental institutions.” Slogans from trans lobby groups compare women-only spaces to racial segregation, and push the idea that “everyone could be the offenders and victims of sexual violence” in an attempt to obfuscate the fact that it is men who commit rape. … read full article
Germany - Three Females Attacked, One Killed by Man at German Pride Parade – Activists Blame ‘TERFs’
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Shay Woulahan
September 5, 2022
A 25-year-old female was murdered at a Pride Parade in Germany last week. The woman, who identified as a transgender man, was targeted after intervening in a lesbophobic attack.
On August 27, the victim, who has been identified only as “Malte C.” by the German press, witnessed a man verbally abusing two lesbian women and hurling lesbophobic slurs at them, including calling them “lesbian whores.” When Malte intervened to defend the women, the suspect punched her in the face several times, causing her to fall back. Malte was rushed to hospital and was placed in a medically-induced coma, but tragically passed away on September 2. … read full article