Thursday, October 20, 2022

"Under increasing public scrutiny, hospitals and medical centers that perform controversial “gender-affirming” procedures on minors are now scrambling to purge their digital paper trail."

This day in Herstory: Nellie Letitia McClung (née Mooney), born October 20, 1873 (died September 1, 1951) was a Canadian author, politician, and social activist, who is regarded as one of Canada's most prominent suffragists. She began her career in writing with the 1908 book Sowing Seeds in Danny, and would eventually publish sixteen books, including two autobiographies. She played a leading role in the women's suffrage movement in Canada, helping to grant women the vote in Alberta and Manitoba in 1916. McClung was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1921, where she served until 1926. (more)

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US - Sacrificing health care on the altar of ideology

From The Hill (USA)
By LEIGH ANN O’NEILL and REID NEWTON
October 20, 2022

Medical doctors are among the most highly educated professionals on the planet. Why, then, would the federal government seek to curtail their ability to perform their jobs to the best of their ability? Knee-capping the scientific process in the name of highly contested “gender-affirming” care not only puts patients in a needlessly risky position; it forces physicians to choose between abiding by government edicts and following their own medical judgment.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule titled Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities. It will amend the regulations that govern the Affordable Care Act. Not only does the proposal seek to capture significantly more providers within its control, but it would also force them to provide medical treatment they may disagree with. … read full article

US - Doctor prescribes hormones online so young females can 'try out' testosterone

A gender-affirming doctor who works for Plume, an online telehealth service that offers gender-affirming hormone therapy through a cell phone app, believes that young gender-confused females can “try out” testosterone if they choose to do so.

From The Post Millennial (USA)
By Mia Ashton
October 19, 2022

A gender-affirming doctor who works for Plume, an online telehealth service that offers gender-affirming hormone therapy through a cell phone app, believes that young gender-confused females can “try out” testosterone if they choose to do so.

Dr. Jennifer Wares, an emergency medicine specialist, made the comment on Twitter in reply to a tweet by author Amanda Jette Knox, who was mocking a young woman talking about her transition regret related to the irreversible effects of testosterone.

“Gender medicine doc here and you can in fact “try out” T if you choose to do so, with good informed consent.  Voice lowering takes longer than two days - but if somehow it happens in two days, a person can stop and not wait a year to stop. We have a lot of flexibility.” … read full article

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US - Hospitals and Clinics Erase Evidence of “Gender-Affirming” Sex Change Surgeries

From The Drill Down (USA)
By Steven Richards
October 20, 2022

Under increasing public scrutiny, hospitals and medical centers that perform controversial “gender-affirming” procedures on minors are now scrambling to purge their digital paper trail.

In September, conservative media commentator Matt Walsh and his Daily Wire team exposed Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s transgender clinic for its services to minors, some as young as thirteen years old. These “treatments” include pubertal blocking—using the same drugs used for chemical castration.

The clinic also provides surgeries for minors, including double mastectomies on adolescent girls. Dr. Shayne Taylor, an Assistant Pediatrics professor and physician at the clinic, emphasized in a 2018 lecture that these surgeries are a “big money maker” for the hospital. … read full article

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US - Chest reconstruction surgeries on trans-identified youth increase nearly 400% in 3 years: report

From The Christian Post (USA)
By Ryan Foley
October 20, 2022

A new report suggests that chest reconstruction surgeries performed on adolescents with gender dysphoria increased nearly 400% from 2016 to 2019 as concerns about the ethics and consequences of medical interventions for trans-identified youth persist. 

The Journal of the American Medical Association released the report Monday examining the frequency of gender transition surgeries involving the human chest among adolescents in the United States.

The report, authored by Rishub Karan Das, Dr. Galen Perdikis and Dr. Salam Al Kassis of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, analyzed data from the Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample on youth with gender dysphoria who underwent "top" surgeries between 2016 and 2019. … read full article

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EU - Transgender Teens Seldom Abandon Hormones as Young Adults

— Study found discontinuation of gender-affirming hormones was uncommon

From MedPage Today (USA)
By Kristen Monaco
October 20, 2022

Nearly all individuals with gender dysphoria who initiated hormone treatment as adolescents continued that treatment into adulthood, a Dutch observational study found.

Among 720 people who started puberty suppressing hormones prior to the age of 18, 704 (98%) continued to use gender-affirming hormones after turning 18, reported Chantal Wiepjes, PhD, of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and colleagues. … read full article

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Scotland - Blow for SNP as gender reform bill branded 'unsafe' by science charity

The nationalist government wants to make it easier for transgender people to legally change gender but critics are unhappy at the plans

From Scottish Daily Press (Scotland)
By Rebecca McCurdy & Douglas Dickie
October 20, 2022

The SNP's controversial plans to speed up the process for people to change gender have been dealt a blow after a scientific body called it "unsafe".

The gender reform bill has been widely criticised by women's groups and even within the SNP. Joanna Cherry MP has been targeted by her party's own supporters and members due to her views on the issue. … read full article

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Australia - Trans rights or dangerous ‘agency capture’?

From Spectator | Australia
By Edia Wyatt
October 21, 2022

In a startling development this week, Paul Barry suggested that the ABC should review its relationship with the AIDS Council of New South Wales (ACON) and the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) that ACON run. In what Barry called ‘a difficult conversation we need to have’, he presented a range of points based on research conducted by citizen journalist Kit Kowalski, that cast doubt, brace yourself, on the impartiality of the ABC.

I went to a seminar earlier this year held by Kit Kowalski; you can listen to it here. Her contention is that the Australia Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) run by ACON is being used as a form of ‘agency capture’. Agency or industry capture is a form of corruption ‘where a political entity, policymaker, or regulator is co-opted to serve the interests of an ideological group’. … read full article

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Australia - Activist scholarship risks turning the academy into an echo chamber

Scholarship that does not acknowledge the legitimacy of alternative views is inimical to knowledge generation, says Katy Barnett

From Times Higher Education (UK)
By Katy Barnett
October 20, 2022

When I was a child, I’d regularly get into arguments with my grandfather. So would others in my family. You felt as though you were treading on eggshells. If you expressed doubts about a proposition he made, he would lash out. You would be suspected of disloyalty or, worse, you might be ostracised. He would accuse you of being stupid, bigoted, or ridiculous. He divided people.

My late grandfather has been my mind’s unwelcome guest a lot lately, thanks to a debate among legal academics about the merits (and otherwise) of activist scholarship. I am with the sceptics. Many activist academics display a style of engagement reminiscent of my grandfather’s. I don’t recall learning much from arguments with my grandfather. All I gained was a thick skin, and a resolution not to behave like that if I could possibly help it. … read full article

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US - State Department funding 'drag theater performances' in Ecuador to 'promote diversity and inclusion'

State Dept. awards $20,600 grant for cultural center in Ecuador to host '12 drag theater performances'

From Fox News (USA)
By Jessica Chasmar
October 20, 2022

FIRST ON FOX: The U.S. Department of State has awarded more than $20,000 for a cultural center in Ecuador to host "drag theater performances" in the name of diversity and inclusion. 

The State Department awarded a $20,600 grant on Sept. 23 to the Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano (CEN), a non-profit organization supported by the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Ecuador, to "promote diversity and inclusion" in the region. … read full article

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US - Youth Drag Queen Mentor Facing Child Pornography Charges

From Reduxx (Canada)
By Genevieve Gluck
October 20, 2022

A “drag kid” mentor and a former elementary school teaching assistant is facing child pornography charges following an investigation into exploitative material shared on the internet.

Kelsey Boren, 31, was arrested on August 11 in Lane County, Oregon after law enforcement discovered evidence that she had “utilized the internet on numerous occasions to distribute and exchange pornographic images of children” and “engaged in creating child pornography and uploaded it to the internet.” … read full article

UK - South Shields paedophile 'addicted to' horrific child abuse images including video over an hour long

Marko Istvanic, 35, was found in possession of lengthy videos depicting the sexual abuse of children and was jailed

From Chronicle Live (UK)
By David Huntley
October 20, 2022

A loner paedophile who was found with horrific child abuse images as well as a video which lasted over an hour has been caged.

Marko Istvanic was found in possession of lengthy videos depicting the sexual abuse of children and had distributed six category A videos online. The material he had collected was so bad, a judge at Durham Crown Court described them as some of the worst he'd ever heard of.

Istvanic, of Eglesfield Road, South Shields, appeared at the court on Tuesday to be sentenced for the possession and distribution of indecent images. The 35-year-old had pleaded guilty to the offences at a previous hearing. … read full article

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Scotland - Transgender Pedophile Who Assaulted 10-Year-Old Removed from Home Following Community Protest

From Reduxx (Canada)
By Bryndís Blackadder
October 20, 2022

A notorious transgender pedophile in Scotland was forced out of his house on October 19 following a citizen’s protest against his presence in a public housing complex in which many children resided.

Katie Dolatowski, 22, a trans-identified male, appeared in Kirkcaldy Sheriff’s Court on October 18 after breaching a probation condition which required Dolatowski inform police of his address changes. Dolatowski is a registered sex offender, and his conditions stem from two incidents involving young girls. … read full article

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UK - Child sex abuse: Failing to report it should be made illegal - major inquiry

From BBC News (UK)
By Tom Symonds and Judith Burns
October 20, 2022

Anyone who works with children and does not report child sexual abuse should be prosecuted, the final report of a huge, seven-year inquiry has recommended.

It called the nature and scale of abuse in England and Wales "horrific and deeply disturbing" with children "threatened, beaten and humiliated".

The inquiry began in 2015 and has cost £186m with evidence from 7,000 victims.

Chairwoman Prof Alexis Jay described an "epidemic that leaves thousands of victims in its poisonous wake". … read full article

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UK - Hertfordshire Police officer James Ford found guilty of raping a girl under the age of 13

From ITV News (UK)
October 19, 2022

A "predatory" police officer who raped a child - before wiping his phone to hide evidence - has been told he faces a lengthy prison sentence.

James Ford, 31, was found guilty of 10 counts of sexual abuse against the same girl, including four counts of rape, and four of sexual assault.

The offences - against a child under the age of 13 - took place throughout his three-year career with Hertfordshire Police and came to light after the victim revealed what had happened to her father. … read full article

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Scotland - Parents slam Scottish Government quango as a 'patronising, money grabbing organisation'

A group handing out advice to LGBT youths in Scotland has been slammed for 'patronising' advice after adopting gender ideology in advice for school students.

From Scottish Daily Express (Scotland)
By Jessica North
October 20, 2022

Grassroots campaigners have issued a scathing critique of the government-funded group LGBT Youth Scotland for its advice on how to handle parents.

Parent Scotland has objected to "patronising" advice from the group who have included transgender ideology in sex education for young women.

The inclusion of gender ideology in school information is hotly debated with the latest outrage from a mother whose lesbian daughter was "gaslit" when she was told to use contraception to prevent pregnancy between two women. … read full article

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UK - What Keir Starmer told Pink News is a sign of things to come

The Labour leader's remarks revealed how little he has learned

From The Post By UnHerd (UK)
By Joan Smith
October 20, 2022

Sir Keir Starmer strikes again. At the very moment when the government is falling apart, and thousands of women desperately want to vote Labour, he has reminded us that we can’t trust him or his party. It’s not just that he made an appearance last night at an awards ceremony organised by Pink News, an organ despised by many feminists for its relentless promotion of misogynist gender ideology. That was bad enough, but Starmer also took the opportunity to make a series of wild promises to the adoring audience, including one on ‘hate crime’ that constitutes a direct threat to free expression.

Hate crime legislation is already a problem, allowing individuals to make complaints to the police about things that aren’t even crimes — being ‘misgendered’, for instance. The fastest-growing area of complaints is ‘transgender identity’, which rose by 56% in the year to March 2022. There is ample reason to worry about how the existing law is being used but Starmer wants to double down, saying “it’s time for tougher hate crime laws so every LGBT+ crime is treated as an aggravated offence.” It went down a storm with his audience, but raises the prospect of law-abiding people facing an aggravated sentence for a social media post that uses the ‘wrong’ pronouns. … read full article

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UK - Keir Starmer’s trans dystopia

His speech at the Pink News awards gives us a chilling insight into Labour’s priorities.

From spiked (UK)
By Laurie Wastell
October 20, 2022

Last night, Sir Keir Starmer gave a speech to the Pink News awards 2022, in which he set out his LGBT policy platform. The speech offered a chilling glimpse into the priorities of a future Labour government. Given today’s resignation of prime minister Liz Truss, and the implosion of the Tory Party, there is every chance that Starmer’s vision could soon become a reality.

First there was the Labour leader’s pledge to ‘ban conversion therapy in all its forms’. This sounds reasonable on the surface. But it is hard to overstate the cynicism of such doublespeak. When most people hear the term ‘conversion therapy’, they imagine minors being subjected to chemical castration, physical and psychological aversion techniques, or perhaps a vicar ‘praying away the gay’. Thankfully, such practices are largely confined to the dustbin of history. … read full article

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UK - ‘Unique Threat To Children’: Tulsi Gabbard Vows To Battle Radical Gender Theory With Daily Wire’s Walsh

From The Daily Wire (UK)
By Leif Le Mahieu
October 20, 2022

Tulsi Gabbard is coming to Nashville to stand with The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, and stand up for children confused about their gender.

 Gabbard said she’ll speak her mind at Walsh’s Friday “Rally to End Child Mutilation,” an event aimed at ending the practice of performing irreversible medical procedures on minors. The U.S. Army Reserve officer, who did a 12-month tour in Iraq before serving four terms representing Hawaii in the House of Representatives, said radical gender theory has gone too far and now threatens children. … read full article

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UK - Young Gender Critical Women Are Finding The Courage To Organise...I Am One Of Them

A part-reflective essay, part plea to young women to resist gender ideology in the face of peer pressure

From It's My Room (UK)
By Nina Welsch
October 20, 2022

A month ago I officially started leading a double life.

For about two years, I’d been silently screaming. It wasn’t a hysterical scream exploding out of nowhere, fuelled by blind, fiery anger. It was a scream with a thousand parts, a thousand unuttered questions and comments about gender ideology and its greater role within the culture war. My collective moments of silence (of being silenced) stuck like beads of broken glass in my throat. As my scream force it’s way through, it hurt as much as it anaesthetised.

I had read about Stephen Woods i.e. Karen White.

I had read about women’s shelters in North Lanarkshire being defunded because they refused to become ‘gender neutral’. … read full article

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Ed. Note: Progressives like to chide us in the pro-reality movement with the taunt that we’re allied with the far right. They, on the other hand are allied only with glitter and unicorns …

US - Portland Antifa leader raises money for weapons using CashApp and Venmo

From Patreon (USA)
By Andy Ngo
October 20, 2022

Isabel Rosa Araujo (formerly known as Philip Vincent Haskins-Delici), a trans Antifa leader in Portland, Ore., is organizing a direct action to try and shut down British women's rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen on her speaking visit to Oregon on Oct. 25.

Portland Antifa leader Isabel Rosa Araujo is organizing a direct action to stop a women's rights event. …

Araujo is currently raising money for weapons for Antifa including a knife, pepper spray and a baton using CashApp and Venmo. Those fundraising platforms are popular with Antifa as they allow them to share usernames among their networks to raise cash easily and quickly. Araujo has previously tried to stalk me and threatened to harm me if I was found.

In response, Kellie-Jay Keen, who is currently on a speaking tour in the U.S. released a statement to me: "We know violent misogynist men get very angry when women say no. It may surprise them to know we won’t stop saying no, we will continue to withhold our consent to the theft of our rights and butchering of healthy children’s bodies. Until it stops, we won’t stop. We are making a documentary about this USA tour which will show the incredible fightback women throughout the country are forging to stop the erasure of women’s rights, spaces and language. American women have been ignored for such a long time and have suffered terrible losses."

She asked for those who want to support the documentary and security costs to visit her website. … read post

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US - Standing Together

From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
October 20, 2022

“Wanna plan a protest?” It all started with a small group text on July 29th, 2022. Ten weeks later, after countless hours of phone calls, research, outreach, writing, fact checking, editing, planning, eating, breathing and sleeping the details, we gathered wearing our purple shirts—a color chosen to symbolize Democrats mixed with Republicans—at the Orangewood Ballroom for announcements. We grabbed our beautifully designed banners and signs, and headed out to the streets in front of the Anaheim Convention Center to educate the 10,000 medical providers that were in town for the American Academy of Pediatrics convention.  … read full article