Tuesday, August 30, 2022
"Many of us parents in the trenches with a trans-identified child compare gender-affirming (GA) doctors—who mutilate children with drugs and surgeries—to Nazi doctors like Josef Mengele."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin), born August 30, 1797 (died February 1, 1851), was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft. (more)
Ed. Note: A lot has changed in the six years (exactly) since the following article was published. Back then, Dr. David C. Page’s research showed that the genetic differences between men and women is “15 times greater than the difference between any two human males, who are about as genetically similar to a male chimpanzee as to a human female.”
But according to the new science of gender, that difference has since entirely vanished! Poof!
US - Every Cell Has a Sex: X and Y and the Future of Health Care
From Yale School of Medicine (USA)
August 30, 2016
All males are about 99.9 percent identical when it comes to their genomes, the biological entities that carry the codes for traits passed down through generations of parents and their children. That means that any two males differ by only 0.1 percent at the genetic level, and these differences account for all of the variety preset in males before they begin to develop in their mothers and then the outside world. …
[Women share] only 98.5 percent of their genetic makeup with men. That’s 15 times greater than the difference between any two human males, who are about as genetically similar to a male chimpanzee as to a human female. … read full article
US - Far-left transgender activism is the greatest threat to free speech in the Western world. If the line is not held, we will not have free speech online anywhere. - a thread
From Twitter (USA)
By HeterodorxPodcast
August 27, 2022
Far-left transgender activism is the greatest threat to free speech in the Western world. If the line is not held, we will not have free speech online anywhere.
This may sound hyperbolic, but it isn’t. There is an encroaching list of topics which we are forbidden from discussing online, including: * Human sex and sexuality * The grooming of children * Historical facts of public figures * Naming abuse and abusers * Criticizing capital
One example of this is the current campaign against @libsoftiktok. I don’t endorse LoTT. However, there’s currently a serious pressure campaign to try to banish the account as a form of “stochastic terrorism”. The operator’s crime? Exposing leftist indoctrination of children.
Every single time speech has been limited on Twitter, it is to “protect trans people”. We are at the point where transsexuals are banned from this platform for speaking honestly about the details of transsexualism. The details are too revealing.
A couple of weeks ago I teased @ConceptualJames for having his account banned. However, I myself am constantly aware of the line and limit my own speech. I almost never directly confront activists any longer. They have free reign to lie, distort, and defame. My speech is chilled.
Years ago, edgy atheists would promote “Draw Muhammad Day”. One consequence of this type of bear-poking was the assassination of cartoonists. The transgender activists have learned the strategy and tactics of prior successful pressure groups.
The transgender activists are much more technically savvy, so instead of using violence first they instead go after every single layer of Internet infrastructure and capital to freeze out anyone who says anything directly critical of transgender activism.
The result of this is not only are some people banned from Twitter (honestly, not a big deal), but some are banned from every service, Internet provider, domain name management, flood protection, and access to any form of finance which enables “hate speech”.
In prior decades, groups like @ACLU and @Eff might care about threats to speech (and therefore, democracy itself), but these organizations have become captured by the very ideology that seeks to clamp down on critics.
At one point, forums like Reddit and Twitter hosted a wide and diverse group of users. Attacks on individuals was always moderated, but attacking ideas (ideologies) was always fair game. Now, principally through the mechanism of transgender activism, these forums are not free.
As a result, speakers have moved in to ever-less regulated spaces like Ovarit (feminists), Gab and Truth (conservatives), and Kiwi Farms (dairy farmers). The activists claim that all of these spaces are harboring “stochastic terrorism” which is code for “criticism”.
I have been exposed on Kiwi Farms by a transgender activist (as revenge for me criticizing the Trans Lifeline years ago) and I have had at least one thread on their site where I was roasted as a “troon”. I would be a hypocrite for demanding this website’s expulsion from the web.
The owner of Kiwi Farms is a man with few moral compunctions. He takes glee at the misfortune of others. But his forum is one of the last places online where people may speak honestly and fearlessly. It is the ultimate transgender activist goal to remove KW from existence.
The “right” fix is not to use economic (and criminal) coercion to silence criticism. It is to elevate criticism into the public forum where good-faith arguments can occur fearlessly and honestly. Let speech be met with more speech, not less.
Rather than chilling speech (and therefore democratic participation), make spaces that are safe for speech itself. We cannot survive for long if we cannot talk about challenging ideas in the public sphere. We need to have the resilience to say and hear challenging ideas.
As a transsexual, I’m mortified that this ideology is doing so much damage to Western culture (to say nothing of the damage being done to children). I wish I could unplug this machine run amok. - republished with the kind permission of the author
US - The NY Times suddenly discovered we’re giving kids dangerous drugs
From New York Post (USA)
By Karol Markowicz
August 29, 2022
Why does obvious damage to children go ignored for so long?
Over the weekend, The New York Times had a splashy story about the overmedication of children. It was only 20 years late.
Writer Matt Richtel tells the story of Renae Smith, a high-school freshman who was prescribed ever more psychiatric drugs for her anxiety and depression until she was taking 10 different medications. … read full article
US - Echoes of Eugenics: What the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg Means for Us in the US
On the 75th anniversary of the trial of Nazi doctors at Nuremberg we examine Nazi medicine and gender-affirming care
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
August 30, 2022
Many of us parents in the trenches with a trans-identified child compare gender-affirming (GA) doctors—who mutilate children with drugs and surgeries—to Nazi doctors like Josef Mengele. (And not only GA doctors but the GA takeover of all institutions like schools, judges, health care and biopharma corporations, media, and politicians.)
It’s satisfying. But is it fair? Is it accurate? Study the evolution of Nazi medical practice and its roots in American eugenics and you’ll find, as Mark Twain said, that history may not repeat itself – but it does rhyme. Gender affirming medicine in the early 21st century echoes the international Eugenics movement of the early 20th century. And the depth of institutional capture is shockingly similar. We who ask How will we defeat Trans? and How will we get justice and repair society after we defeat Trans? could learn a lot from studying this era. Now, the 75th anniversary of the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg, is a good time to start. … read full article
US - REPORT: Children’s Hospital CEO Doubles Down On Trans Surgeries For Minors In Letter To Employees
From Daily Caller (USA)
By Sarah Weaver
August 29, 2022
The president and CEO of Boston Children’s Hospital is doubling down on his hospital’s policy of offering transgender surgeries to underage children, according to emails obtained by independent journalist Chris Elston, also known as Billboard Chris.
Boston Children’s Hospital came under fire in August when publicly available video circulated in which the hospital advertised “gender-affirming” hysterectomies for underage children. The hospital also offered vaginoplasties to underage girls as young as 17, a policy they reversed after receiving backlash. An analysis from the Daily Caller News Foundation found that doctors performed 65 chest surgeries on transgender minors between 2017 and 2020. … read full article
US - Gender clinic co-founder at Boston Children's pioneered early use of cross-sex hormones for trans kids
Dr. Spack explained that he administers puberty blockers and estrogen at an earlier than recommended age to his patients, so that young boys can grow up to be "beautiful."
From The Post Millennial (USA)
By Christina Buttons
August 30, 2022
The co-founder of the pediatric gender clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital boasts of being a pioneer for the medicalized gender transition of extremely young children. An investigation into Dr. Norman Spack by Reduxx magazine found that he and Boston Children’s Hospital have bragged about lowering the ages for children to transition.
On halting puberty of children aged 10 to 14 years old, Dr. Spack said, “I brought some kids in… and this now became the standard of care, and [Boston] Children’s Hospital was behind it. We started a program in 2007. It became the first program of its kind in North America.” … read full article
US - As education unions go woke with ‘intersectionality,’ real learning suffers
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Quin Hillyer
August 30, 2022
Lest anyone doubt that the national education unions are a major cause of the current crisis of learning, a new report from the Defense of Freedom Institute removes all uncertainty.
Written by DFI President Bob Eitel, a former senior counselor to the secretary of education, and DFI Policy Counsel Paul Zimmerman, the report is aptly called The AFT’s and the NEA’s Summer of Woke. (The acronyms stand for the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.) Referring to the two unions, the DFI report indicates that “the policy statements and resolutions adopted by their leadership at national meetings last month demonstrate how little they care for the average student or teacher and classroom learning.” … read full article
US - Defense of Freedom Institute sounds off on teachers unions' 'summer of woke'
DFI wrote that the unions promoted and prioritized 'racialized school policies' and gender ideology
From Fox News (USA)
By Cortney O’Brien
August 30, 2022
The Defense of Freedom Institute's (DFI) study of the nation's two largest teachers unions concluded that their "summer of woke" was a "disaster" for the next generation.
In its "Summer of Woke" study, a product of DFI’s Teacher Union Accountability Project, Robert S. Eitel and Paul Zimmerman wrote that students suffered at the hands of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) because the pair of unions were preoccupied with political agendas.
Nowhere was this more prevalent, the authors said, than at the unions' 2022 annual conventions. At the assemblies, the unions voted on measures relating to gender ideology, abortion, climate, race, and more. … read full article
US - ‘Gender support’ plans at school: Here’s what parents need to know
From Catholic News Agency (USA)
By Edie Heipel
August 30, 2022
A series of stories with the same theme has cropped up across the nation: School administrators are using “gender support plans” to help young children transition into the gender identity of their choice, without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
Last year, independent journalist Abigail Shrier reported on how one New York mother’s local middle school district started her 12-year-old daughter’s gender change behind her back — including a new name, pronouns, and referrals to a clinic that prescribes puberty blockers. … read full article
US - Fairfax schools orientation instructs students on gender identity 'non-disclosure'
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Jeremiah Poff
August 30, 2022
EXCLUSIVE — Middle and high school students in Fairfax County Public Schools were subjected to an orientation presentation this year informing them that they had a "right" of "non-disclosure" for their gender identity .
The presentation, obtained by the Washington Examiner, detailed to students the requirements of the school district's "Student Rights and Responsibilities," which govern student conduct, and is required viewing in middle and high school grades.
… read full article
US - Undercover Mom Discovers ‘Pandora’s Box’ of Depravity in Trans Youth Organization’s Chat Room
From National Review (USA)
By Caroline Downey
August 30, 2022
“I have been looking for a binder, but I have no clue where to get one? Does anyone know where I could get a reliable binder?” a gender-confused adolescent asked on TrevorSpace, the anonymous online forum for LGBT youth hosted by the well-funded and influential Trevor Project. …
This is the startling scene Rachel, a Brooklyn mom with a gender-dysphoric child, discovered when she went undercover as a pre-teen in the chat, searching for resources for detransitioners. She found none. … read full article
US - California may act as US refuge for transgender youth
From AP News (USA)
By Don Thompson
August 29, 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would present itself as a haven for transgender youth facing discrimination in other states under a bill that advanced Monday, much as it is positioning itself as a sanctuary for those seeking abortions.
The Assembly approved the measure without debate, 48-16, sending it to the Senate for a final vote before lawmakers adjourn at month’s end. … read full article
US - How to treat gender dysphoria
Affirmation is not necessarily the right approach
From UnHerd (UK)
By LISA SELIN DAVIS
August 30, 2022
Annie’s parents had spent so much time tending to her autistic brother in Southern Florida, that they hadn’t realised their daughter developed similar traits: a high IQ, a tendency to obsess, discomfort with her body.
Annie was diagnosed with epilepsy aged five. After puberty, she started to have “autistic meltdowns“. When the pandemic hit, she became obsessed with her weight and was eventually diagnosed with an atypical eating disorder. … read full article
UK - The Welsh government has betrayed gender critical women
In England politicians are finally pushing back against transgender lobby groups. But in Wales it's a different story
From The Telegraph (UK)
By JOSEPHINE BARTOSCH
August 30, 2022
“Lesbians don’t have penises” shouted the self-declared “proud dykes” protesting last Saturday at the head of Pride Cymru, Wales’ largest LGBTQ+ Pride march. After around thirty minutes, the activists from the group Get the L Out (GTLO), were escorted away by the police, apparently for their own safety. Spectators jeered, seemingly unconcerned that a factually correct statement should be deemed so offensive as to be unspeakable at an event to celebrate inclusion. … read full article
UK - BuzzFeed quietly removes defamatory claims about JK Rowling
Larry Fitzmaurice's original BuzzFeed piece accused JK Rowlling of having 'hateful' and 'dangerous' beliefs.
From Reporting by Stephen Knight (UK)
By Stephen Knight
August 30, 2022
I recently wrote about a Buzzfeed article that described JK Rowling as ‘anti-trans’ with ‘hateful’ and ‘dangerous’ beliefs.
When I challenged the writer responsible to point me to where I could find these ‘dangerous, hateful anti-trans beliefs’, they blocked me on Twitter. … read full article
UK - Hands off the Hampstead ladies’ pond
Women will no longer put up with the trans assault on single-sex spaces.
From Spiked (UK)
By Jo Bartosch
August 30, 2022
The sign on the gate at Kenwood Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath reads, ‘Women only – men not allowed beyond this point’. For decades, the pond enforced this rule, making it a sanctuary for women of all faiths and backgrounds in London. That is, until 2018, when the City of London Corporation, which runs the site, announced it would be moving to a policy of ‘gender self-identification’. And so, today, any fella who fancies scrunching up his scrotum and cramming his cock into a cossie is welcome at the female-only pond. All he needs to do is utter the magic words: ‘I identify as a woman.’ What exhibitionist could resist? … read full article
Ireland - Injunction after suspended teacher who opposed 'they' pronoun turns up at school
From RTE (Ireland)
August 30, 2022
A secondary school has secured a temporary High Court injunction preventing a teacher who opposes addressing a student with the pronoun "they" from either attending at its premises or from teaching any classes at the school while he remains suspended from his position.
The injunction was secured, on an ex-parte basis, by the Board of Management of Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath against Enoch Burke, who the court was told is currently on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an ongoing disciplinary process. … read full article
EU - New Dutch campaign warns society for new trans law
Large billboards decorate about 150 bus stations. “The new transgender law affects everybody”, the message reads. According to the people behind the billboards, the transgender law, which the Dutch parliament is discussing, pushes youngsters towards gender reassignment.
From CNE News (EU)
August 30, 2022
The campaign was started by Dutch people who are concerned about the new transgender law that is in the making. The new legislation should make it easier for people to change their legal gender. Even minors would be able to do so without the consent of their parents.
According to Bart Jan Spruyt, one of the people behind the billboards, the consequences of the trans law are “extensive”. He said so in an interview with the Dutch daily Reformatorisch Dagblad. “Every man can choose to become a woman, and vice versa.” … read full article
EU - Trans Pedophile Convicted “As a Woman” in Germany After Abusing 2 Children
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Reduxx Team
August 30, 2022
A man in Germany who abused two young children, including his own granddaughter, was quietly convicted “as a woman” during his trial this year and has likely been sent to a women’s prison, according to German women’s rights advocates.
Known only by his first name and last initial due to strict privacy laws, Klaus T., 63, appeared in court for the first time in April on charges of sexually abusing two girls — aged 9 and 10. The 9-year-old was his own granddaughter, while the latter was a child who lived in his apartment complex. … read full article
Australia - Affirmation
From Spectator | Australia
By James Macpherson
August 30, 2022
The rise of the gender affirmation industry and its relationship with children is one of the most important stories of our time.
Under the guise of science, we are being told that toddlers can know with certainty that they have been ‘born in the wrong bodies’.
Under the guise of healthcare, we are being told that it is harmful and cruel to do anything other than affirm a child’s belief that they are a different gender. … read full article