Saturday, August 27, 2022
"A detransitioner has told how he was 'brainwashed' into having gender reassignment surgery after believing himself to be a woman trapped in the wrong body."
This day in Herstory: Katharine Dexter McCormick, born August 27, 1875 (died December 28, 1967), was a U.S. suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She funded most of the research necessary to develop the first birth control pill. (more)
US - LETTER: Let Julie swim
From Peninsula Daily News (USA)
By Julie Jaman
August 27, 2022
Since many are accusing, headlining, and asking, I am, indeed, the 80-year old woman who was kicked out of Mountain View Pool by the YMCA management.
I was accused of discrimination for speaking up, seeing a man dressed in a woman’s swimsuit in the women’s shower/dressing room watching little girls pull down their swim suits to use the toilets.
I am not anti-transgender.
I am pro-female human, all women and all children.
I am not a presser or a poseur.
I am not young, male, christian or a member of the eponymous YMCA.
I am for privacy and safety for women and children.
I do not belong to any cult or promote any ideology.
I am not a bigot, transphobe, racist or abuser of others.
YMCA administrators has said I abused staff and patrons in the past but I have yet to see the documentation.
I live in a community and therefore have a responsibility to step up for humans and other living things that do not have a voice; humans and animals being mistreated, left without shelter, food, or safety, often justified by ill-conceived policies and laws.
My concerns now are that in Port Townsend the management and elected have embraced and promoted through legislation the rights of one group over another.
Let Julie swim.
Julie Jaman
Port Townsend
US - REVEALED: Hidden complications of transgender 'bottom surgeries'
1 in 4 transgender and "nonbinary" people seek "gender affirmation" surgery, and about 9,000 transgender surgeries are performed annually across the United States.
From The Post Millennial (Canada)
By Christina Buttons
August 27, 2022
Media coverage of scientific studies—and sometimes the studies themselves— downplay the severity and frequency of complications for those who identify as transgender and seek surgery to give their genitals the appearance and functionality of those of the opposite sex.
A cursory Google search for "transgender surgery" reveals a "featured snippet" from a top search result from the Cleveland Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic site for sex reassignment surgery lists just three common complications. "With any surgery, there is a small risk of complications, including: bleeding, infection, side effects of anesthesia." (emphasis added).
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the largest plastic surgery organization in the world, includes a single sentence on the risks of vaginoplasty on their website, "Risks from vaginoplasty include infection, bleeding, pain, along with rare complications." … read full article
US - 'I was brainwashed by the trans community': Detransitioner reveals he regrets having his penis removed and says woke doctors didn't warn him of negative consequences because it would be 'bad for business'
The detransitioner, known as Shape Shifter, 32, was born male, transitioned to female but then reverted back
The surgeries have left him without a penis, while his 'neo-vagina' has brought a host of medical problems
Shape Shifter continues to have long hair and wear makeup, because he says he enjoys sporting a feminine appearance
Speaking to Blaire White, 28, herself transgender, Shape warns others who may be considering transitioning to think carefully of their options beforehand
He believes that those who are now detransitioning are being shunned by the medical community and often dismissed as 'difficult patients'
Shape believes a lot of people would reconsider having surgery in the first place if they knew of the possible complications and regret that can follow
But he believes it would be 'bad for business' if surgeons alluded to such realities
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JAMES GORDON
August 2022
A detransitioner has told how he was 'brainwashed' into having gender reassignment surgery after believing himself to be a woman trapped in the wrong body.
Going by the name Shape Shifter, the 32-years-old who lives in Massachusetts grew up in a Muslim country in the Balkans where even being gay was frowned upon, but he believed that if he transitioned to female he would finally feel happy with himself.
He was given a referral letter by Fenway Health in Massachusetts, which he claims has been taken over by biased pro-trans activists. … read full article
US - Children’s hospital threatened after Libs of TikTok recording on trans hysterectomies
From The Washington Post (USA)
By Peter Jamison
August 26, 2022
Children’s National Hospital has been inundated with threatening emails and phone calls after an influential right-wing Twitter account published a recording that falsely suggested the hospital is performing hysterectomies on transgender children, a hospital spokeswoman said. The torrent of harassment was accompanied by social media posts suggesting that Children’s be bombed and its doctors placed in a woodchipper.
The recording, made by Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik, features two telephone operators at the renowned D.C. medical facility stating — in response to Raichik’s questions — that a 16-year-old trans boy would be eligible for a hysterectomy at the hospital’s gender development clinic. Children’s has not disputed the authenticity of the recording but said the employees provided inaccurate information. … read full article
US - Federal court rules against HHS requiring religious doctors to perform gender transitions
From The Washington Times (USA)
By Alex Swoyer
August 27, 2022
A federal appeals court on Friday blocked President Biden’s Health and Human Services mandate that would have forced religious doctors and hospitals to perform transgender procedures — including on children.
In a unanimous ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the three-judge panel said the lower court was right to issue a permanent injunction that protects a healthcare network of nearly 20,000 religious doctors and medical providers from performing abortions and transgender care. … read full article
Ed. Note: If anyone would like to invest in my gender-affirming virtual care startup, I’m open. I will affirm anyone’s gender as identical to the one they were born into. Using a simple, state-of-the-art web consultation, the entire procedure is typically completed in under 2 minutes.
US - Gender-affirming virtual care startup Plume raises $24M
From Becker’s Hospital Review (USA)
By Giles Bruce
Plume, a telehealth startup that focuses on the transgender community, landed $24 million in a series B funding round to expand nationwide and grow into virtual primary care.
"As a trans woman and physician, I started Plume to offer a supportive space for trans Americans as they navigate our nation's broken healthcare system," stated Jerrica Kirkley, MD, Plume's co-founder and chief medical officer, in an Aug. 23 company news release. "We are on track to reach our goal of increasing access to high-quality, gender-affirming care to patients across the U.S. in both urban areas and coverage deserts." … read full article
US - Is the right about to backslide on gay rights?
It’s been dismaying to see anti-gay sentiment bubbling up
From The Spectator World (USA)
By Bruce Bawer
August 26, 2022
In a speech to August’s CPAC gathering in Dallas, Hungarian president Viktor Orbán said a good many admirable things about the importance of liberty and the tyranny of the globalist left, and the audience was gratifyingly receptive. But the biggest cheers and the most prolonged applause came in response to Orbán’s citation of a line from the Hungarian constitution: “Hungary shall protect the institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”
Not so long ago, that enthusiasm might have raised eyebrows. To be sure, the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling caused widespread rancor: at a moment in history when the fifty states and DC were struggling over — and making their own decisions about — the question of same-sex marriage, many conservatives were furious at the Supreme Court for claiming to find a constitutional basis for it and thereby taking the issue suddenly and dramatically off the table. … read full article
US - American Academy of Pediatrics denies accusations it pushes disfiguring surgeries for gender-distressed kids
From The Christian Post (USA)
By Ryan Foley
August 27, 2022
The American Academy of Pediatrics claims that accusations it has embraced “dubious transgender science” are false, insisting that it doesn't recommend body mutilating surgeries to most youth.
AAP President Dr. Moira Szilagyi wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, responding to an earlier op-ed piece titled “The American Academy of Pediatrics’ Dubious Transgender Science.” … read full article
US - Meet the world's youngest transgender model: Born to a mother who is now male, Noella became a girl aged four and is now tipped to make MILLIONS of dollars on the catwalk. But her biological father who raised questions has been airbrushed from her life
Noella McMaher, 10, identified as transgender at ‘two-and-a-half, nearing three’
Proud biological mother Dee, 35, now identifies as a ‘trans masculine male’
She recently became youngest transgender model to walk runway in New York
One Hollywood agent said she could make 'a million or two in the next year’
From Daily Mail (UK)
By CAROLINE GRAHAM
August 27, 2022
Her parents say she was born with a ‘fierce and confident sense of identity’. And that self-assurance can clearly be seen on the catwalk, where ten-year-old Noella McMaher has become the world’s youngest transgender model.
Noella – who fashion insiders say could make her first million in the next year – first identified as transgender at ‘two-and-a-half nearing three’, according to her biological mother Dee, 35, who now identifies as a ‘trans masculine male’ and cites Noella as an inspiration. … read full article
US - How ‘gender confirmation’ surgery confirms there are only 2 genders
From The Christian Post (USA)
By Michael Brown
August 27, 2022
It used to be called "sex-change surgery," even though it’s impossible to change your sex. Then it was "gender reassignment surgery." Now it’s "gender confirmation surgery." But whatever you call it, a simple tweet made an important observation, asking, “Why does everyone that ‘transitions’ pick male or female to transition to, when there are supposedly many other genders?”
That’s a great question. And it’s a fair question. Why only “transition” from male to female or female to male?
The answer is ridiculously obvious. … read full article
US - A Forbidden Conversation about Gender Identity with Colin Wright
From Random Minds by Katherine Brodsky (USA)
By Katherine Brodsky
August 27, 2022
In this podcast-style interview, I chat with Colin Wright about one of the topics that probably scares me most to talk about publicly. And that’s exactly why I’m talking about it.
How did we get to a place where it can be so terrifying to speak on certain topics, and especially so when my own point of view isn’t even particularly controversial? What does that mean for society to find ourselves in this place? How does it harm us and the people that this shutting down of discourse purports to be protecting? How do we dig ourselves out of it?
As you may have guessed, in this video, we discuss the various issues around gender identity. The most dangerous topic on the Internet. … read full article
US - Highway to Hell
Another series of batshit retweets
From felice j. killer (USA)
By felice
August 27, 2022
Here is the second edition of “Roadmap to Misery,” a collection of retweets from Jamie’s Twitter timeline. Interestingly, it’s from the same account as last time. TJ, whose account has since evaporated, is one of many trans-identifying kids like mine who loves to wear her Jewishness as an oppression shawl, while at the same time—and with limited knowledge of the situation—be fiercely anti-zionist. Thoughts on this phenomenon? Comment below.
I wish I’d screenshot more of TJ’s ludicrous Tweets before her account went pfft… Like the photo of her with three of her trans buddies holding their syringes of T for the camera before a dosing party. Or the one where she lamented dumping her boyfriend for misgendering her, and called him a manipulative, deceptive predator. THAT was a loopy ride. … read full article
UK - Lesbians Removed from Pride Event for Criticizing Gender Ideology
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Reduxx Team
August 27, 2022
A group of lesbian women were removed by law enforcement during a Pride march in Cardiff, Wales for “causing confrontation” after they were verbally attacked by trans activists. The organization, Get the L Out UK, opposes the addition of transgenderism to the LGB category, and carried banners which read “lesbians don’t like penises,” and “trans activism erases lesbians.”
Videos uploaded to Get the L Out’s Twitter account depict an exchange between Get the L Out organizer Angela Wild and a police officer.
“I want to make sure I understand. You are removing lesbians from an LGBT march. Is that what you’re doing?” Wild asked the officer. … read full article
UK - Massive 50 per cent rise in number of children seeking NHS gender reassignment could cost taxpayers £72m
From The Sun (UK)
By Matt Acton
August 27, 2022
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is the UK’s only dedicated gender identity clinic for under-18s.
Latest figures show from April 2021 to April 2022, the specialist mental health trust’s clinic received 3,585 gender help referrals for children — some under five — from doctors in England and Wales.
During the previous 12 months, the figure was 2,401. And there is currently a two-year waiting list to be seen. … read full article
UK - 'My mum refuses to get rid of her offensive tattoo - it's dividing the family'
A teen, who recently transitioned from female to male, has expressed his hurt after his mum refused to get rid of a tattoo with his dead name in it - others think he’s unreasonable.
The tattoo dead-named him.
From Mirror (UK)
By Emma Rosemurgey
August 27, 2022
A transgender teen has sparked a sensitive debate, after asking his mum to remove a tattoo of his dead name, after transitioning from female to male. The 17-year-old recently announced his transition to his family, who have all offered their support, however his mum has admitted she needs a little bit of time to process everything.
Since coming out, the teen has found himself in a difficult row with his mum, over a large but intricate tattoo she got on her arm shortly after he was born. The tattoo was a birthday gift designed by his older sister, and features his sister’s name and his dead name - the name he went by prior to transitioning to male. … read full article
UK - Free speech and feminism:
Why do so many free speech champions support pornographers when porn silences women?
From Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing (USA)
By Julie Bindel
August 27, 2022
In the mid-eighties, I toured a number of cities in England with a slideshow. The pictures started with the sorts of topless models you might see gracing the centrefold of Playboy and ended with the Hustler cover showing an image of a naked woman being pushed headfirst through a meat grinder. The images formed the centrepiece to a talk I gave to feminists who were keen to campaign against pornography and wanted to look at what they were protesting against in a safe environment. … read full article
UK - Rise of the new Puritans: Once it was religious fanatics who sucked all the fun out of life but today it's joyless young social justice warriors, writes JULIE BURCHILL, as she reveals why she refuses to bow at their altar of wokeness
From Daily Mail (UK)
By JULIE BURCHILL
August 27, 2022
The American wit Gore Vidal once observed that, in the 17th century, the Puritans left England for America 'not because they were persecuted for their religious beliefs, but because they were forbidden to persecute others for their beliefs'.
Surveying the ever-growing pile-up that is wokery in Britain, it's hard not to recall these words. For woke is the first alleged social justice movement that seeks not to extend freedoms, but — in the manner of all vicious, bullying cults — to limit them.
The great progressive crusades of the 20th century — from women's liberation to civil rights for black and gay people — sought to increase the span of human dignity by making sure the same rules applied fairly and to everyone. … read full article
UK - The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith review: JK Rowling's Strike faces the social media trolls
Her new thriller sees a female celebrity hounded by self-righteous children's fantasy fans. I wonder where she got the idea from...
From The Telegraph (UK)
By Jake Kerridge
August 27, 2022
If one were to judge from the online reactions to her socio-political views, everybody in the world thinks JK Rowling is either a demigod or the Antichrist. I suspect that beyond the social media bubble, however, the vast majority of her readers, who couldn’t care less what she thinks about anything, are making more complex judgments. Certainly, this sixth instalment in her pseudonymous series – published under the name “Robert Galbraith” – about the brooding private detective Cormoran Strike will have her readers chiding and blessing her simultaneously almost as soon as they open it. … read full article