Thursday, September 22, 2022

"Laws that allow males into women’s prisons are anti-progressive and anti-women. Like women in rape crisis centers, women in prison need single-sex spaces."

Sep 23, 2022

This day in Herstory: Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, DBE, born September 22, 1880 (died February 13, 1958), was a British suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914, she supported the war against Germany. After the war, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement. (more)

US - The Progressive Smoke Bomb

Laws that allow males into women’s prisons are cruel, dangerous, and regressive.

From Reality's Last Stand (USA)
By Elizabeth Hummel
September 22, 2022

“Feminists have long pointed out that right and left have developed their own, differing routes to exploiting women. To suggest feminists who call out left wing bullshit are therefore in support of right wing bullshit is to vastly underestimate how much bullshit there is.”

—Victoria Smith, Twitter 8/6/2022

In February of 2022, I wrote and recorded a song about Tomiekia, an incarcerated plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections in California. A recent California law allows any male, including those who have not had surgery or taken hormones, to be locked up with women in state prisons. In February, I submitted a written declaration and testified publicly to oppose yet another “progressive” bill in Washington state aiming to establish mixed-sex prisons. Since writing my song and testifying, more rapes and assaults have been reported not only in California and Washington, but in prisons throughout the world where these policies have been adopted. …

Laws that allow males into women’s prisons are anti-progressive and anti-women. Like women in rape crisis centers, women in prison need single-sex spaces. If you self-identify as a progressive or a liberal, this is an issue you should care about deeply, because women—right now—are being hurt. This should not be flattened into a one-dimensional Right versus Left debate. These draconian laws are cruel to one of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in our society: incarcerated women.
… read full article

US - Every Tomboy Is Tagged ‘Transgender’

The terminological change behind the push to ‘treat’ sex-role nonconformity with surgery or hormones.

From Wall Street Journal (USA)
By Colin Wright
September 22, 2022

The number of young Americans who describe themselves as “transgender” has exploded over the past decade, increasing by a factor of 20 to 40, according to gender clinic referral data and a recent Williams Institute report based on surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why? Jody Herman, author of the report, calls that a “bewildering question.” Clinical psychologist Erica Anderson tweeted that the surge “defies explanation. … Something is going on that we don’t yet understand.”

The two leading explanations are greater social acceptance and social contagion. Both are likely contributing factors, but I think the main reason is simpler. It comes down to a change in terminology. … read full article

From Reduxx (Canada)
By Shay Woulahan
September 22, 2022

A gender clinic in Nashville, Tennessee is facing backlash after videos were posted to social media showing their top administrators describing gender surgeries as “money makers” and asserting that doctors should be unable to object to carrying out these surgeries.

The videos were first exposed by Matt Walsh, a conservative commentator at the Daily Wire and presenter of the recent hit documentary What is a Woman. Walsh has made multiple Twitter threads on the scandal this week, which has since caused the issue to go viral. … read full article

US - Sen. Marsha Blackburn asks FDA to investigate use of puberty blockers

From WJHL 11 (USA)
By Slater Teague
September 22, 2022

WASHINGTON (WJHL) — Sen. Marsha Blackburn has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate the use of puberty blockers.

In a letter to the FDA, Blackburn asked the agency for information on the administering of hormone blockers to minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria or for transgender care, including what trials or studies have been conducted and how many reports of adverse effects the FDA has received. … read full article

US - Vanderbilt Hospital Cites 'Parental Consent' But Parents Cannot Consent To Emotional Blackmail

'Trans suicide' is extortion

From The Distance (USA)
By Matt Osborne
September 22, 2022

Caught red-handed by conservative journalist Matt Walsh yesterday, Vanderbilt University Hospital has scrubbed their website of everything related to “gender affirming” medicine. Mainstream media is reporting the story as a dangerous example of right wing fanaticism, insisting that nothing is out of the ordinary.

But any opinionator who cites the “parental consent” of children being sterilized and mutilated for profit will come to regret it soon enough. This legal fig leaf will not save Vanderbilt, or the American hospital system, from the consequences of the pediatric transition fad. … read full article

US - Vanderbilt has disgraced itself over trans surgeries

The clinic is turning complex treatments into a money-spinning operation

From The Post By UnHerd (UK)
By Debbie Hayton
September 22, 2022

Healthcare in the United States is big business, and that includes gender clinics. For all their faults — I reported on them recently — NHS Gender identity Clinics are free at point of use. Not so in the US. The patient (or their insurance company) pays.

The Clinic for Transgender Health at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee got on the gravy train in November 2018. Assistant Professor Dr. Shane Taylor explained that “these surgeries make a lot of money” and charged “female to male chest reconstruction” at $40,000, while a patient “just on routine hormone treatment that we’re only seeing a few times a year could bring in several thousand dollars”. … read full article

US - TUCKER CARLSON: Hospitals are mutilating children, and one day we'll look back in shame, horror

Tucker Carlson argues American medicine has become 'transparently a racket'

From Fox News (USA)
By Tucker Carlson
September 21, 2022

For thousands of years, clinical trials have been the center of medicine and the idea is very simple. Before you operate on someone or inject people with some new drug, you run trials first to make certain that what you're doing will help the patient more than it hurts the patient. This is not a new idea.

James Lind did it back in the 18th century with his famous scurvy trials. In fact, medical testing has been going on since at least biblical times because why wouldn't it? Daniel of Judah compared a vegetarian diet with the diet of the royal Babylonians over a 10-day period, so he had a control group, independent observers, the whole thing. It's not complicated, but it is essential. Throughout history, very few have questioned this practice because it makes obvious sense, but now they are. … read full article

US - Rochester-based children's hospital exposed for offering gender transitioning services for children as young as eight

As detailed by Greenberg, who is the chief adolescent medicine doctor at the hospital, the health center offers a number of “gender-affirming” treatments, including cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, fertility services, mental health services, and of course surgeries.

From Rebel News (Canada)
By Ian Miles Cheong
September 22, 2022

As more hospitals in the United States are being exposed for offering gender transitioning services to minors, the Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester is the latest to join the list.

As detailed by Libby Emmons of The Post Millennial, the New York-based hospital has published a promotional video for gender transition, which features a mom who transitioned her child. The video also includes a number of health-care providers who claim trans children are aware of being in the wrong body for “their whole lives.”

The hospital claims to offer services for “families, youth, and young adults who identify as transgender, genderfluid, or have other questions or concerns about their gender.” … read full article

US - NJ would prohibit transgender health care for youth

From New Jersey 101.5 (USA)
By Michael Symons
September 22, 2022

TRENTON – Minors in New Jersey would be prohibited from receiving irreversible treatments and surgeries that would change their sex, prevent or delay puberty or result in sterilization, under a bill proposed Thursday by state Sen. Edward Durr.

Durr, R-Gloucester, said such procedures are “nothing short of child abuse” and that the “Child Protection and Anti-Mutilation Act” would apply in connection with people under the age of 18 years.

“Children do not have the maturity to make life-changing medical decisions that cannot be reversed,” Durr said. … read full article

Ed. Note: We normally avoid linking to articles behind paywalls, but in this case, it has value even if you can only read the portion publicly available. Billboard Chris is a hero.

US - "I have to be like Gandhi out there. I will just take the hits."

From Year Zero (USA)
By Wesley Yang
September 22, 2022

Over the last two years, Billboard Chris has been assaulted twenty times while protesting against the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries on children on the streets of North American cities. The video above, which documents the most dramatic of those assaults, a premeditated ambush by a group of men in Montreal, grabbed my attention when I saw it cross my timeline in August. A few days later I proposed traveling with him. It turned out he was about to embark on the weeklong journey through the outer extremes of America’s political geography at a crucial inflection point in the evolution of the gender ideology on which I wound up joining him. … read full article

US - Forbes Highlights Recently-Transitioned Male at Women’s Summit

From Reduxx (Canada)
By Reduxx Team
September 21, 2022

Forbes is under fire from women’s rights advocates and online commentators after having a male who recently began identifying as a “girl” speak at their Power Women’s Summit, an annual event highlighting female leaders in business and activism.

Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender TikToker who has risen to notoriety for his “days of girlhood” series, spoke on “ushering in a new era of influence” at the Summit, which was held in New York City on September 15. … read full article

US - National Teacher’s Union Provides ‘Safe Space’ Badges That Display Graphic Content

From OutKick (USA)
By Ian Miller
September 22, 2022

The war within education continues to escalate.

The National Education Association, the country’s largest teacher’s union, has repeatedly placed its political activism ahead of parents or appropriate discourse. Now a new report shows their advocacy is only getting worse.

Journalist Christopher Rufo explained the disturbing news that the union’s “LGBTQ+ Caucus” has created a badge for teachers to wear with a QR code linking to a website discussing extremely graphic content, including a “how-to guide for ‘queer sex.'”
… read full article

US - Your Pronoun Badge Tells Me You’re Okay with Sterilizing Autistic Kids

From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
September 22, 2022

Dear teacher, principal, music director, barista, checkout clerk, and bookseller:

I think I know how this happened: you probably had a DEI workshop or a colleague or a woke friend or a passionate niece tell you this was a nice thing to do. I even had one of you tell me directly that “this is a small way to create an inclusive and nourishing community by affirming and supporting students of all genders.” So you put on your pronoun badge and added she/her at the end of your email signature. There, you thought, I’m a kind person. … read full article

Canada - Health 'expert' uses debunked 'multiple personality' junk science to push trans agenda

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health held a panel at their Montreal conference to discuss how a "multiple" could discern how to seek treatment if one of their "personalities" is trans.

From The Post Millennial (Canada)
By Mia Ashton
September 22, 2022

If the World Professional Association for Transgender Health was hoping that their 2022 conference in Montreal would instill confidence in people around the globe regarding their credibility as a scientific organization, the presentation titled "An Exploration of Trans and Plural Experiences" was perhaps not the best way to achieve that aim.

The research team responsible for the study being presented included an individual identifying as a “multiple” which means “many in one body.” The Redwoods, the person said, are in fact “nine people living co-consciously in one body.” … read full article

Canada - Rex Murphy: A classroom is no place for wearing massive prosthetic breasts

Teachers should be free to dress however they like when they are not in class, but have no right to dress in a provocative and inappropriate manner when they are engaged in their professional capacity

From National Post (Canada)
By Rex Murphy
September 22, 2022

The appearance of a transgender teacher from Oakville, Ont., who went viral on social media and has since received international attention, is, to be very kind, perplexing in the extreme. Regardless of one’s psychological or political disposition (identity is very political these days), it cannot be consistent with simple notions of appropriateness and professional dignity to take to a classroom of high school students wearing mammoth prosthetic breasts and a tight-fitting shirt. … read full article

Canada - Trans: a fetishised view of womanhood

What that Canadian teacher with giant breasts reveals about trans identity.

From spiked (UK)
By Jo Bartosch
September 22, 2022

There are some occasions when it is perfectly acceptable for men to don dodgy wigs and strap on comically large plastic boobs – think stag dos and drag nights. But it is generally agreed that such antics ought to be kept out of schools and away from children. As such, when the first photos and videos surfaced of a Canadian school teacher wearing a gargantuan set of fake breasts with protruding nipples, most people assumed it must have been a hoax. It was not. … read full article

UK - Liberals have a fetish problem

There's nothing sexy about castration

From UnHerd (UK)
By KATHLEEN STOCK
September 22, 2022

Under what conditions should a person be free to indulge his sexual fetishes in public? This question was brought into stark relief last week at a school in Ontario, where the attire of a male teacher now identifying as a woman raised a new version of the old question “how many grains of sand make a heap?”: How many cup sizes make a pair of prosthetic breasts wildly inappropriate? Like the existence of the heap, at a certain relatively advanced size the inappropriateness seems blindingly obvious — but it’s hard to say exactly at what point this began. … read full article

UK - Support falls for trans people to change sex on birth certificate

From The Times (UK)
By James Beal
September 22, 2022

Public support for transgender people being allowed to change the sex on their birth certificate has fallen sharply in two years.

The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey found that 39 per cent of people were now opposed to the idea. The proportion supporting the idea has dropped by 21 points in two years, from 53 per cent to only 32 per cent.

Thirty-three per cent feel that transgender equal opportunities have gone too far, as opposed to 32 per cent who think they have not gone far enough, the polling found.
… read full article

UK - The topsy-turvy world of trans activism

How can you scream ‘fascist!’ at a baby and still think you’re one of the good guys?

From spiked (UK)
By Simon Evans
September 22, 2022

‘When people show you who they are’, Maya Angelou once said, ‘believe them the first time’. This hard-won lesson usually has the weight of common law for the unforgiving left. It might even be called the moral foundation or the axiom of cancel culture. So be it.

Last Saturday, in my home town of Brighton, Carly-May Kavanagh, a policy caseworker for Brighton MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, was filmed with an ally, sneering at a man who had brought his baby with him to a women’s rights gathering entitled ‘Let Women Speak’. In the now viral video, Kavanagh and her friend, who were counter-protesting the event, tell the man that the he is ‘not a feminist’, but a fascist, an actual fascist, and he is clearly raising his child to be one, too. … read full article

Increasingly tense stand-offs at Kellie-Jay Keen’s public events are what happens when the gender debate is online-only

From 4W (UK)
By Róisín Michaux
September 22, 2022

Even though the event was billed as in-person, the noise of the trans activists meant that except for a small inner circle, if you wanted to hear gender-critical British activist Kellie-Jay-Keen speak in Brighton last Sunday, you had to tune into her livestream. It quickly made sense why so many women had headphones; they were listening to speeches that were happening only a few feet away.

For those who don’t know the Kellie-Jay Keen (KJK) story, here’s the distilled version: they pulled down her billboard, then they kicked her off Twitter, so she took her opinions to the parks. Her low-tech “Standing for Women” events feature different speakers taking turns to talk about the legal, social, practical and policy changes that result from replacing sex with the nebulous “gender”. … read full article

UK - How can universities promote academic freedom? Insights from the front line of the gender wars

From Impact (UK)
By Judith Suissa, Alice Sullivan
September 18, 2022

Abstract

The UK Government's Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill is currently progressing through Parliament. The bill is designed to strengthen free speech and academic freedom in higher education, in response to what former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson describes as ‘the rise of intolerance and cancel culture upon our campuses’. But is there really a crisis of academic freedom in British universities? … read full article

Scotland - Transgender players in Scottish rugby 'putting females at risk'

Ban male-bodied competitors or risk women suffering serious or life-changing brain injuries, an MP has said

From The Telegraph (UK)
By Daniel Sanderson
September 22, 2022

Scottish rugby chiefs have been accused of putting women and girls in danger after the country became the only part of the UK to allow male-bodied transgender players to compete against females in full-contact matches.

Tonia Antoniazzi, a Labour MP and former women's rugby player who won nine caps for Wales, claimed that female players were being left exposed to serious and potentially life-changing brain injuries and called for the policy to be scrapped. … read full article

New Zealand - On the defensive

The NZ Ministry of Health no longer claims puberty blockers are safe and reversible

From Gender Clinic News (Australia)
By Bernard Lane
September 23, 2022

New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has quietly abandoned its public claim that puberty blocker drugs are a “safe and fully reversible” medicine for children who declare a transgender identity and want to interrupt their normal sexual development.

Since mid-August, there have been two separate breakthrough articles in NZ media by emeritus professor of epidemiology Charlotte Paul and health sociologist Dr Sarah Donovan. … read full article

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