Wednesday, October 19, 2022
"A London hospital has cancelled a woman's life-saving operation at the last minute because it doesn't 'share her values'. That 'value' she had was that she wanted the aftercare nurses to be female."
This day in Herstory: Abigail Jillian Sunderland, born October 19, 1993, is an American former sailor who, in 2010, attempted to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. A lifelong sailor, Sunderland said she had been preparing for her journey since age 13. … Sunderland started her solo circumnavigation from Marina del Rey, California, on January 23, 2010, at the age of 16. (more)
US - International Pronouns Day Is A Gross Celebration Of Radial Gender Ideology
From Independent Women’s Forum (USA)
Kaylee McGhee White
October 19, 2022
Over the past several years, our culture has become obsessed with pronouns. From social media to corporate offices to college campuses to the U.S. military, a growing number of people have become convinced that their pronouns are just as important as their names. “She/Her,” “He/Him,” “They/Them,” and even ridiculous options like “Ze/Hir,” “Fae/Faer,” and “Bun/Bunself” litter email signatures and social media profiles, serving as both an identifier and as a warning. This is how I identify, the pronouns say, and you best not misgender me. ... read full article
UK - Hospital refuses to operate on sex attack victim after she requests all-female care because she fears mixed sex facilities are unsafe for women
The patient - a sex assault victim - had requested all-female facilities due to concerns over mixed areas
She was stunned when someone she believed to be a transgender male opened door in pre-op assessment
It prompted her to complain and make a request for all-female nursing care at Princess Grace Hospital
The hospital then cancelled the surgery, claiming it was 'protecting staff from discrimination and harassment'
Women's rights campaigners have savaged the hospital's act, branding it 'a movement of misogyny in heels'
Hospital said requests for 'single sex care' were particularly challenging, citing the 'diversity of colleagues'
From Daily Mail (UK)
By DAN SALES
October 19, 2022
A hospital banned a sex assault victim from having an operation after she asked for all-female nursing care because of safety concerns over mixed facilities.
The patient - a feminist retired lawyer MailOnline is calling Emma - was told by London's Princess Grace Hospital it had to 'protect staff from unacceptable distress'.
She had been due to have complex colorectal surgery at the Marylebone premises on October 10 and had filled in a pre-admission form detailing her requirements.
Emma, who lives in north London, asked for single sex accommodation and - as per her beliefs - did not wish to 'use pronouns or engage with such manifestations of gender ideology'. … read full article
Ed. Note: Here’s another account of the horrific events described in the previous article
UK - Beyond belief
If you want the dignity that comes with sex-segregated spaces, prepare to die for it.
From The Glinner Update (UK)
By ripx4nutmeg
October 19, 2022
In one of the most shocking stories yet, a London hospital has cancelled a woman's life-saving operation at the last minute because it doesn't 'share her values'. That 'value' she had was that she wanted the aftercare nurses to be female.
Former solicitor Teresa needs urgent, rare and highly complex, colorectal surgery. She selected the private Princess Grace Hospital, which specialises in women's healthcare, for it specifically because she didn't want to be in a mixed-sex facility.
… read full article
US - Georgetown University's med school promotes puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones for minors: report
Gender dysphoric patients without such treatment might commit suicide, Georgetown students were told
From Fox News (USA)
By Jon Brown
October 19, 2022
First-year medical students at Georgetown University's School of Medicine were required to take a class last year teaching that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and irreversible surgery are the preferred treatments for gender dysphoria.
In a requisite 2021 pre-clinical course about human sexuality and the reproductive system, medical students at the oldest Roman Catholic medical school in the U.S. were instructed that such interventions are the "only way to help" many transgender people "‘fix’ their bodies," according to material from the class obtained by The Spectator World. … read full article
Dd. Note: The thread includes several links with more information. Space constraints required me to exclude the links, so I encourage you to read the full thread on Twitter.
EU -Three European Countries Have Reviewed the Evidence Supporting Medical Transition of Children and Found It to Be Inadequate
A thread from Twitter (USA)
By justdad7
October 18, 2022
It is true that last month Sweden elected a new government with support from far right parties but the policy changes on gender transition all happened while a Social Democrat / Green coalition was in power.
The former government was quite trans friendly and back in 2018 was actually considering legislation to reduce the age for gender reassignment surgery from 18 to 15 and remove the requirement for parental consent.
Then push back started from professionals such as child psychiatrists Christopher Gilberg and Avi Ring and the airing to the TV documentary The Trans Train. The government shelved its new law and instead commissioned three government agencies to review treatment practices.
The result of these reviews was that the gender clinics at the six largest hospitals halted hormonal treatment of children.
All of these changes occurred under a Social Democrat government which actually had a transgender cabinet minister. They were the result of unbiased review of scientific evidence and open debate.
The Finnish guidelines were issued in 2020 by the Council for Choices in Health Care. The government in power at the time was also a coalition led by the Social Democratic party.
Finland has been less supportive of transgender people than Sweden but the current government is proposing change. Before the new guidelines were issued Finland had active child gender clinics and the pressure for change came from concerned clinicians.
The United Kingdom has had a Conservative government since 2010 but unlike the Republican party in the U.S. the British Conservatives have not, in recent years, been opponents of LGBT rights. Change has come about through lobbying by non-partisan groups such as @Transgendertrd.
Concern about the practices at the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service started with whistleblowers within the organization such as David Bell and Marcus Evans.
The decision to close the clinic reflected the recommendations of an independent review which was evidence based and non-partisan. (cass.independent-review.uk)
The bottom line is that three countries which are all mature democracies but, in other respects have very different political cultures, have reviewed the evidence supporting medical transition of children and found it to be inadequate.
I checked the political situation in Norway, which has been the most extreme of the Scandinavian countries in promoting the transgender agenda and found that a conservative led coalition was in power from 2013 to 2021 when much of the pro-trans legislation was passed. - republished with permission of the author
Spain - The experts revolt
An unprecedented alliance of Spain's medical societies warns of danger in self-declared gender change
From Gender Clinic News (Australia)
By Bernard Lane
October 19, 2022
Expert medical societies in Spain are in open revolt against the national government’s draft Trans Law that allows legal sex change for minors, predicting it will cause harm to vulnerable young people.
On Tuesday, the country’s mass market newspaper El Mundo splashed the story on its front page with the headline: “Psychiatrists and Endocrinologists warn: the Trans Law will bring pain and many will regret it”. … read full article
UK - Ex-barrister wins right to sue after he was kicked off his degree course 'for raising his fears about "potentially irreversible" medical treatment given to children questioning their gender'
James Esses will have his claims that he was treated unlawfully tested at tribunal
The former barrister will sue the UK Council for Psychotherapy for discrimination
He alleges he was kicked off degree course for expressing gender critical views
From Daily Mail (UK)
By DANYA BAZARAA
October 19, 2022
A former barrister has won the right to sue the UK Council for Psychotherapy for discrimination over allegations he was kicked off his degree course for expressing gender critical views.
James Esses has been given permission by a judge to have his claims - that he was treated unlawfully due to his beliefs - tested at a full employment tribunal. … read full article
US - The Gay Rights Movement Has Been Hijacked by a Radical Transhumanist Agenda
“Transgenderism” is a word acting as a social bridge between transsexualism and transhumanism.
From Reality's Last Stand (USA)
By Jennifer Bilek
October 19, 2022
Western societies are in the vortex of Transhumanism. We are being sucked in because this radical transhumanist agenda and its eugenicist underpinnings are being obscured by a popular LGB human rights veneer.
“Transgenderism” is a word acting as a social bridge between transsexualism and transhumanism. It is an umbrella term with weak borders that allows this bridging quality to transhumanism to nimbly evade scrutiny. Transsexualism is largely an adult male fetish that compulsively objectifies and covets womanhood. … read full article
UK - The silence of women
Shouldn’t a talk show host be good at listening?
From The Critic (UK)
By Victoria Smith
October 19, 2022
Self-censorship is like housework: the vast majority of it is done by women, and men only notice when they think we’ve missed a bit.
A recent example of this was provided by Graham Norton, in conversation with Mariella Frostrup at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. Asked about cancel culture, Norton resorted to the all-too-familiar cop-out of suggesting that people who’ve always been able to say what they like just don’t appreciate being held accountable.
When Frostrup responded with the example of JK Rowling, pointing out that for her, being held “accountable” for expressing views on sex and gender has meant a deluge of rape and death threats, Norton was unrepentant. … read full article
UK - Graham Norton gets a taste of ‘accountability culture’
Norton will live to regret his failure to offer solidarity to JK Rowling.
From spiked (UK)
By Brendan O’Neill
October 18, 2022
So Graham Norton has been held to account. That’s what he’d call it, right? He’s left Twitter, apparently after getting a load of flak for comments on the trans issue that he made last week. His allies are outraged. He’s been ‘hounded off Twitter’, they say. He was subjected to a ‘barrage of abuse’, says Pink News. He’s been ‘forced off Twitter’ and that’s ‘desperately sad’, says India Willoughby. What are these people talking about? Didn’t they listen to Graham? Don’t they know that this is just accountability culture and that it’s a very good thing? Live by accountability, die by accountability, right Mr Norton? … read full article
US - Christian physician assistant sues Michigan Health for being fired after objecting to trans procedures
'Nobody has to compromise their faith to do their job,' Valerie Kloosterman told Fox News Digital
From Fox News (USA)
By Jon Brown
October 19, 2022
A Christian woman in Michigan who served 17 years as a physician assistant for Michigan Health filed a lawsuit against her former employer last week after they allegedly terminated her because of her "sincerely held religious beliefs" regarding gender.
"I'm heartbroken," Valerie Kloosterman told Fox News Digital. "I had 17 years that I spent with patients and families, coworkers who sometimes I spent more time with than I did with my own family. And they took that away. They took away the relationships that I had built up, and the people who trusted me for their care."
"It was over something that could have easily been accommodated based on the University of Michigan's focus on being inclusive," Kloosterman added. … read full article
UK - On feminist causes, alliances, and free speech. Letter one
Can feminist causes be furthered by working with right wing or religious people and groups? And should we support and defend blanket free speech?
From Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing (UK)
By Julie Bindel
October 19, 2022
This is part 1 in a 6-part correspondence series between writer Meghan Murphy and me, Julie Bindel. I will be writing parts 1, 3, and 5 here at Misogyny: what is it and why won't it die? Meghan will be writing parts 2, 4, and 6 on her Substack, The Same Drugs.
Dear Meghan,
You and I have been friends and sisters-in-struggle for years. We met in Vancouver, capital of what we now call Tranada, in 2015, when I was researching my book on the global sex trade. I had read Feminist Current, the brilliant blog you had founded, and been interviewed by you about Nevada’s grotesque legal brothels, back in 2012.
… read full article
SPAIN - Man Avoids Abuse Charges After Changing Legal Gender Identity
From Reduxx (Canada)
By Nuria Muíña García
October 19, 2022
A man in Spain who beat his female partner for opposing his transition has avoided charges of gender-based violence by legally changing his identification to “female” and adopting a woman’s name.
As legal proceedings are ongoing, the names of those involved cannot be released, and pseudonyms Carmen and Manolo are being used for the purposes of this article.
The couple, who are in their 60s, had been together for 11 years, but it wasn’t until 2020, according to Carmen, that Manolo began pressuring her to participate in his sexual fetish. … read full article
Ireland - HSE suspends Transgender Equality Network funding for failing to produce financial accounts despite getting tens of thousands in grants from the State
From Independend.ie (Ireland)
By Eoghan Moloney and Mark Tighe
October 19, 2022
The HSE has suspended Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) funding over its failure to produce complete financial accounts.
The HSE confirmed to the Irish Independent that TENI’s funding would remain suspended until it received “signed audited accounts” from the non-profit.
It followed a meeting with TENI on Wednesday.
TENI failed to produce complete financial accounts by May 31, as is required by their grant aid agreement with the HSE. … read full article
US - The Pussy-Lickin'est Lesbian You Ever Saw
The institutional capture of America's therapists
From Redford Greene (USA)
By Redford Greene
October 19, 2022
A few hours before my initial therapy appointment with Dr. Meg* I got a call from Julie Weinstein*, a local clinical psychologist a neighbor recommended. It had been almost three weeks since I’d reached out to her.
I could tell immediately Julie was a Nope. The cadence of her speech suggested she was running late for an important appointment. Her words caught on each other, like bubblegum in your hair. She spoke over me and asked questions that had nothing to do with anything I’d started to say. I didn’t complete a single sentence, not at first anyway. … read full article…
US - Beyond WPATH: Leading Transgender Medical Organization "Fatally Undermined"
Sign the Declaration
From Women’s Voices (Canada)
By Genevieve Gluck
October 19, 2022
A group of “mental health professionals, public health scientists, and allied organizations and individuals” have coordinated a public denunciation of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), citing “grave concerns” about the medical protocols recommended by the organization’s Standards of Care.
Beyond WPATH invites the public to sign on to an open letter declaring that WPATH is no longer fit for purpose and has “discredited itself”.
Explaining that WPATH’s authority has been “fatally undermined”, the declaration cites the group’s refusal to heed research involving drugs euphemistically referred to as “puberty blockers”, and measures that have been taken to restrict their distribution to children. … read full article
US - Puberty isn't optional: How gender ideology harms children
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Steven A. Richards
October 19, 2022
Puberty is optional. That’s the message transgender rights activists and gender clinicians are communicating to children. If you’re going through puberty and you don’t like it, they say, just take puberty blockers and it’ll stop!
Puberty blockers, the experts tell us, are perfectly safe. The St. Louis Children’s Hospital informs children and parents that taking puberty blockers, which have not been FDA-approved for use in gender dysphoric patients, is “like hitting a pause button” on puberty. Likewise, the Boston Children’s Hospital calls puberty blockers “temporary” and “completely reversible.” … read full article
US - Another California School District Is Concealing Students’ Gender Transitions From Parents
From Townhall (USA)
Madeline Leesman
October 19, 2022
A California school district is reportedly instructing teachers to conceal students’ gender identities from parents. Teachers are instructed to not share this information without permission from the student.
Documents shared with parental rights organization Parents Defending Education show that junior high teachers at the Chino Valley Unified School District in San Bernardino County, California were told that “revealing a student’s gender identity to parents without permission violates a student’s privacy rights.” … read full article
US - The Gender-Obsessed Left Will Have to Pry My Children From My Cold, Dead Hands
From The Daily Signal (USA)
Tyler O'Neil
October 19, 2022
As a father, it is my responsibility to watch out for my children and to protect them from demonic lies and from medical interventions that would leave them scarred, stunted, and infertile.
Yet a growing chorus of activists and legislators seem intent on taking children away from parents like me, not because we would harm our children but because we would protect them from harm.
Naturally, these activists don’t admit the truth of what they plan to do. They couch the language in Orwellian terms like “gender-affirming care,” in order to make it seem like they, not parents, have the children’s best interests at heart. … read full article
US - Synagogue Disinvited Me for My Alleged Views on LGBTQIA People
My lecture on antisemitism and feminism at NY West End Synagogue was cancelled for my "unacceptable views."
From 4W (USA)
By Phyllis Chesler
October 19, 2022
As we know, a virulent, often vicious and increasingly intolerant “cancel culture” has permeated our campuses and much of the media—but it has also infested some of our synagogues. I now have firsthand experience of what this means.
Being disinvited is not a new experience for me. I’ve been disinvited from engagements before because my radically feminist views were not politically correct; because I dared to expose feminist hypocrisy among the sisterhood; and because I defended the truth, and thus defended Jews, Judaism, Israel, and post-Enlightenment values. I’ve also been disinvited because my academic studies about and activism against honor killing, face-veiling, female genital mutilation, Islamist terrorism, and an Islamist version of cancel culture (think Salman Rushdie) was seen as “Islamophobic.” … read full article