What actually happened is Levine was repeatedly asked whether Levine was for or against **minors** receiving hormones and/or surgeries without parental consent. Levine refused to answer the question. Repeatedly.
Senator Rand Paul began his questioning at Dr. Rachel Levine’s confirmation hearing by asking pointedly about “genital mutilation.” Levine replied that she’d be happy to discuss the “complex and nuanced field” of transgender medicine with him.
Big news: Susan Bradley founded the Toronto pediatric gender clinic in 1975.
"We were wrong. They’re not as reversible as we always thought, & they have longer term effects on kids’ growth & development, including making them sterile."
Thread:
Our source in one of the "affirming" parent groups thought we'd like to see the latest news. Top post: Moms discuss sex toys for their "trans girls" so they'll know how to orgasm before vaginoplasty. Author sterilized her child at 13. (blocked at 11, estrogen at 13) 1/
Wow: The hair-on-fire reaction from trans activists as the backlash over child transition steadily intensifies. Did they REALLY think no one would object, when a formerly adult decision to undergo irreversible, sterilizing procedures was marketed to minors & their parents?
Here's the interview w/ Dr. Blair Peters, in full. He & his interviewer admit--quite openly--how little gender docs know about the outcomes for medically-transitioned minors
"We'll know more in 5-10 years." It will be "fascinating" to see how these young people fare.
"Minors don't get genital surgery."
Save this one for the deniers, posted 8 hours ago in the "Parents of Transgender Children" Facebook group.
Dr. Connelly at Oregon Health Sciences University does vulvoplasty and orchiectomy on high school students. 🧵
Woman journalist for
@USATODAY
going after a woman athlete who dares to stand up for herself. But the reporter is too cowardly to interview Gaines herself.
Mainstream journalism is dead.
@nrarmour
Right-wing? I'd love to be interviewed by you, Nancy. Anytime! You know where to find me as does CNN, MSNBC, and every other left leaning outlet that has failed to reach out and consider the perspective of those who are actually impacted by this.
Let’s be clear. The
#DisneyWalkout
isn’t happening to support gay (or trans for that matter) employees. It’s to protest legislation in Florida that would prohibit teachers from promulgating gender identity doctrine in K-3rd grade classrooms. Read the damn bill.
The significance of what these people are saying cannot be overstated: Openly & honestly, they state these underage patients can't give consent, they may be anorgasmic and sterile--and we will only know the true outcomes many years later. And yet, and yet...they continue apace.
1. THREAD. We've been sent another batch of screen grabs from the online parent support group we tweeted about recently (vis-a-vis fake penises for children). The new batch of posts pertain to undergarments & other strategies parents use to conceal their children's male genitalia
Watching parents of “trans kids” testify at the Florida medical board hearing, they all to some degree tried to force their kids to conform to gender norms before the child “came out” as the opposite sex. The parents were told their child would commit suicide if not transitioned.
Johanna Olson-Kennedy, one of the most famous pediatric gender doctors in the world, posted 3 hours ago in the [public] International Transgender Health Facebook page that "so many of us worked hard to dissuade"
@60Minutes
from airing the show on detransition.
@CBSNews
And....we're back.
FOR THE RECORD
--We deleted the tweet, but we stand by it.
--Referring to birth (aka natal) sex is not hateful, intimidating or threatening to anyone.
--We did not and do not engage in "abusive behavior."
--By accusing us of those things, Twitter defamed us.
Must-watch clip from the Netherlands. Apart from the fact that brain studies have never been carried out on puberty-blocked youth, evidence from animal studies has revealed something huge: Blockers impair emotional and social development and behavior. In particular ...1/n 🧵
Ray
@BlanchardPhD
has his account locked--for tweeting his opinions, based on decades of peer-reviewed research and clinical observation.
"Hateful conduct"? The
#WrongThink
police at Twitter are on a rampage now.
It's hard to believe Turban isn't being deliberately misleading. He KNOWS nearly all puberty-blocked kids go on to cross hormones, and that protocol does result in infertility. And immature gametes can't be frozen for later use; natural puberty is required for that.
As a growing number of people start to notice and then push back against pediatric “affirm only” gender identity doctrine, activists are escalating their rhetoric. It will continue to escalate. Be aware of what some very determined activists promote & add your own to this thread:
This interview is mind boggling. Gender surgeon Blair Peters admits how much he doesn't know about outcomes (e.g. sexual function) for puberty-blocked males he operates on; we'll "know more" in 5 to 10 years after more teens undergo genital surgeries.
@EmmaWatson
It's not about being "constantly questioned" Emma. It's about the extremism of some trans activists. Please stop virtue signaling long enough to actually understand why J.K. Rowling has taken the stand she has. Maybe start by reading this w/ an open mind.
@JenniferSey
Federal lawsuits needed.
People who aren't familiar with US law won't understand how radical this is. If implemented, it will guarantee preference for trans over women in many situations.
4. Not dysphoric at age 6, no problem with penis. Mom got the tucking underwear. This is not an uncommon thing that some parents report. Why are such children considered the opposite sex by their parents? Who has encouraged them to think this way?
Knox gets invited to speak to hospital personnel. First she was a "cis" straight woman, then a "lesbian" who was "so gay" for her MTF spouse, then "nonbinary," now "transmasc they/he" & "polyamorous." And doctors should take her expert advice on irreversible treatments on KIDS?
Trans surgeon Marci Bowers: “Every single child or adolescent who was blocked at Tanner stage 2…has never experienced orgasm. I mean, it's really about zero."
Should be headline news in every news outlet: Pediatric transition obliterates sexual function
No, they don't.
It's called a "cycle" for a reason, and it's absolutely tied to having a uterus and ovaries. Why do we have to waste time even typing this?
It's as if a bunch of people managed to convince the world that Earth actually IS flat...
These moms didn't pull this idea out of thin air. Oh no. In fact, SRS surgeon Marci Bowers told a group of clinicians that every blocked kid s/he's known hasn't been able to orgasm. The answer? Practice practice practice! 4/
In contrast a mom named January LittleJohn just testified. She supported her dysphoric daughter in choosing clothes, hairstyle, & activities she wanted, while helping her address underlying issues. Her daughter desisted.
The “suicide or transition” narrative needs to stop NOW.
The fact that Levine fathered 3 kids & somehow got through puberty without killing himself is all you need to know. That Levine peddles sterilizing & destroying the sexual function of tweens (else suicide!) is disgraceful.
Levine
@HHS_ASH
has no business advising families on
Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Levine — who transitioned *as an adult* — dismisses the question of why children can’t wait until they turn 18 to pursue sex change surgeries:
“Adolescence is hard and puberty is hard. What if you’re going through the wrong puberty?”
This
They could have built a movement focused on civil rights…nondiscrimination in housing & employment. They could have done the hard work without cannibalizing the gay rights movement. Instead they chose to bring other people’s kids/teens into it, as if those kids belong to them.
6. None of this was happening in the US before 2007, when Dr. Norman Spack introduced puberty blockers at his Boston clinic. No 8000-member online groups of mothers sharing taping tips, or fretting over their kids' genitals.
Twelve years later: The US is Trans Kid Central.
Tons of praise in the long thread for "how amazing" this mom is for her "next-level parental support." (Thought experiment: Imagine a mom of any other teen discussing, in detail, sex toys and techniques for her teen son or daughter). 2/
From the
@TranshoodFilm
documentary on
@HBO
, mother of a young child she once claimed was transgender: "In restrospect I can't believe it happened. It was a huge mistake. Children are not transgender. He's a boy, he was born a boy, he's always been a boy, he'll always be a boy."
The President of the United States
@POTUS
should listen & try to understand why the controversy around pediatric transition has exploded in the last year. Instead, he doubles down on "affirmation," further inflaming the polarization in our country. Shame on him and this
1/ THREAD: Families with multiple trans kids.
New leaked post (dated 4 days ago) from the affirming-parent Facebook group. Contrary to the original poster's conjecture ("rare breed"), a whole slew have 2, 3 or more trans kids.
What are the odds?
Presumably "us" refers to the community of "affirmative-care" gender clinicians. Why are these providers so hell-bent on suppressing information and personal experiences from people who did not benefit from their services?
Please, detransitioners, if you do not want your writings/videos shared, DO NOT share anything on the public Internet. Anything you post publicly can go viral.
Younger people, in particular, seem to think public Internet postings are somehow private until they give permission.
Remember when they said puberty blockers were to "buy time" for a child to decide if they are trans or not? That's so 20th century. As our source in the Parents of Transgender Children FB group reveals in the leaked thread below (2 hrs ago), get them on cross hormones ASAP. /1
1. Thread: Among many other things, Stanford pediatric endocrinologist Tandy Aye says it's good to perform genital surgery on under-18 adolescents because they've already been sterilized by puberty blockers followed by cross-sex hormones.
Gender clinicians KNOW their interventions interfere w/ sexual function. But instead of then considering that maybe, just maybe, this pediatric transition thing should end....they decide the answer is getting adults to train kids how to masturbate. 7/
This post is from 2016. They knew then that they were experimenting with the future sexual lives (as well as the fertility) of children. Six years later it’s admitted publicly. Better late than never?
The most striking thing about the massive trans-activist criticism of Pamela Paul's
@nytimes
piece is their utter lack of empathy for the people she interviewed--people wrongly diagnosed and in some cases seriously damaged by medical transition. Zero, zip, nada compassion.
They chose to threaten women’s sports, destroying dreams & scholarships of girl athletes. They call us “bigots” for having a sexual orientation. They treat gay & autistic minors as acceptable collateral damage. It didn’t have to be this way, but now they reap what they sowed.
Evidently the interview w/ gender surgeon Blair Peters -- discussing the experimental nature of interventions on minors-- garnered too much attention. It's now "private". (Why do they always hide what they do after people notice?)
Archived version here:
This interview is mind boggling. Gender surgeon Blair Peters admits how much he doesn't know about outcomes (e.g. sexual function) for puberty-blocked males he operates on; we'll "know more" in 5 to 10 years after more teens undergo genital surgeries.
"Woman."
Does anyone care about the ongoing skewing of crime statistics? How will future historians (if there are any) explain the strange uptick in violent crime committed by women starting around the turn of the 21st century?
Thank you, J.K., for this article; for caring about young women like my daughter (one of your biggest fans). She, like many others, once believed she was trans but realized the desire to transition was driven by other issues she came to resolve.
--Denise, 4thWaveNow founder
It's disgraceful that only Fox News and other more conservative outlets are covering the SECOND brave teammate of Lia Thomas to speak out.
The MSM are lying by omission and if the
@TheDemocrats
think liberal and moderate women aren't taking notice...
Remember when Saturday morning cartoons were zany and fun, when kids got to be kids? Not anymore. Cartoon Network has been working for quite awhile to make sure the tots get a heaping spoonful of gender theory with their breakfast cereal…
The sub Reddit r/detrans has now been BANNED.
This is now all-out war by Big Tech. The detrans sub Reddit supported people who detransitioned, one of the very few places on the Internet they had.
What is the way forward?
@jk_rowling
@HeatherEHeying
@jessesingal
@sullydish
@life_naturalis
This was also my approach, with essentially the same outcome. Branding those of us who don’t immediately affirm as “bigots” or “abusive” obscures how many of us simply provide space for our teens to desist.
@basictaurus
@cats_owl
Nobody cares about what these young girls feel. Watching her fight back tears at the end, you can see how defeated she feels. Her feelings simply do not count. At all.
@PurpleSneakers3
@LuciT00405829
Yes. Imagine if this were a mom discussing her "cis" teen's masturbation habits and how she is planning to help the teen with devices and techniques! Inappropriate, but because it's a "trans teen" they all act like this is normal behavior.
"Exactly my mission!" crows mom, when a commenter points out that practice makes perfect if you hope your kid will have a chance at sexual function after genital surgery. 3/
About the
@libsoftiktok
doxxing controversy: Apart from everything else, why would
@TaylorLorenz
think it appropriate to make a point of mentioning the account holder’s religion?
Knox's kaleidoscope of changing "identities" puts the lie to her "advocacy" work. If a 45-yr-old mother is this unstable in her sense of self, clearly a tween can't consent to wrecked sexual function/infertility. This is lost on Knox, preening in her filtered-selfie echo chamber
@FondOfBeetles
Thank you for this, and for all your spectacular tweeting about material reality. In honor of Magdalen, 4thWaveNow founder (and frequent tweeter) Denise says
#fuckfear
back.
1. Thread: Among many other things, Stanford pediatric endocrinologist Tandy Aye says it's good to perform genital surgery on under-18 adolescents because they've already been sterilized by puberty blockers followed by cross-sex hormones.
“I forgot that my crotch doesn’t look like other women’s crotches sometimes because mine doesn’t look like a little Barbie Pocket” -Dylan Mulvaney
#boycottulta
9. Group tells mom to seek transgender support groups for 8-yr-old (trans since 6) who is distraught about having to undergo surgery later. Serious question: What is the impact on the mental health of a young child when adults point to a future of injections & genital surgeries?
Law firms/advocacy orgs which previously defended gays & lesbians against discrimination now spend their fortunes on MTF transgender prisoners who demand access to women’s quarters—even career murderers & rapists who suddenly became ”trans” behind bars.
@LeorSapir
Recommend saving in multiple formats, & make sure you have local copies (not just in the cloud). Individuals/orgs have also been known to (successfully) pressure the Wayback machine () & other archive sites (e.g. ) to remove material.
Adult-transitioning MTF pushes idea that "3 or 4 year olds" can and should be identified as trans.
Periodic reminder: Adult gay & lesbian people *never* made slick TV commercials pushing the idea that future sexual orientation should be detected in toddlers.
Someone asked yesterday "how widespread" early medical transition is. To take just one example: In the US, a parent of an 8-yr-old "AMAB" blithely accepting her child's decision on permanent infertility is totally de rigeur. "It's her body and her journey." Tip of the iceberg.
"GREAT MOM!" gets more praise, then more talk about masturbation sleeves, cups, "pocket pussies," fleshlights, & devices made of Pyrex (?) so your teen can "rock harder, faster, or slower pace." Mom of a 10-yr-old is grateful to have all these new "tools" to share w/ her kid. 6/
1. HEADS-UP to anyone who cares about free speech and the hounding of academics who won't toe the line: US feminist studies PhD. candidate/teaching assistant Laura Tanner
@saltyfemst
is the target of an escalating coordinated smear campaign at
@ucsantabarbara
. Please share.
You "feminists" carrying water for the monsters who did this and so many more atrocities: This could have been you, innocently enjoying a music festival. The both-sider useful idiocy on display since October 7 is appalling. Unfollow us if you disagree.
Shani Louk 🕯️
Shani’s family learned today that the 23-year-old-who was believed to be held captive did not survive.
Her mother had seen her daughter in Hamas videos circulating online. The videos showed a half-naked woman lying face-down in the back of a pickup truck in Gaza
"Our surgeon let us know." Looks like the 15-yr-old is already on the SRS schedule.
Next we learn dildos must have a wide base for trans girls, lest they become "unretrievable" in the anus. The author's "daughter" already knows this mom says. (She knows a LOT about her teen!) 5/
This letter--remember it is a LETTER--was published in the UK journal Therapy Today. Under pressure from trans activists, the organisation APOLOGISED for publishing it. The implications of this are ominous. /1
Things are changing for the better in the US. When we started 7 years ago, we were a lone voice screaming into the void about child/teen transition. Now it’s impossible to keep up with all the orgs & individuals who will no longer stand for the “affirmation only” madness.
#Onward
One mom specifically talked about trying to force her 3 year old son to have short hair and play with boy toys before “realizing” her child was a girl.
Affirmative gender clinicians have created this situation.
@EllieAyla
@jack_turban
My kid had her puberty blocked age 10 due to cancer treatment. It had a profoundly devastating impact on her social, physical and academic development that she will never fully recover from, even with HRT. Your suggestion is monstrous. Be grateful for physically healthy kids.
8. Six-year-old asks what balls are, mom reassures that child is a "girl in a boy's body" and in a couple years there will be meds to take care of that.
🧵
There are at least two prominent parent-activists who publicly claimed their natal boys were unequivocally girls from a young age; the high-school age males now say they are "nonbinary."
Many such providers have given public lip service to "caring" about detransitioners in the past; but if they "care" why do they "work hard" to intimidate journalists who dare to interview them?
Stanford University School of Medicine is looking to hire a "gender confirmation" surgeon. Note the candidate will also operate on pediatric patients, and locales include Stanford's Children's Hospital.
Activists keep saying no one operates on minors.
Support/acceptance for gay people was at an all-time high (including w/moderates and conservatives) before kiddie transition, grown males (a la Lia Thomas) overtaking women's sport, and sexually-suggestive family brunches became the norm.
Wake the eff up.
This is big. Very big.
Thomas Steensma is one of the original Dutch researcher-clinicians who pioneered the use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria children.
One of the most well-known Dutch child gender professionals no longer treats children.
He said: "In the Netherlands we conduct structural research. But the rest of the world is blindly adopting our research."
When Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, director of the Yale Human Nature Lab and author of several papers and a book about social influences on human behavior, says the outbreak of gender dysphoria among youth shows signs of social contagion, maybe it's time to stop denying it?
@GabrielRossman
@Cridmo
@SwipeWright
I am an expert in social contagion, and I endorse these examples too. Also peanut allergy, autism (mild form -- see work by Peter Bearman), and gender dysphoria (our second outbreak in a generation). What they all have in common is core of actual cases, with social overlay.
@michaelshermer
The two causes are synergistic and co-amplifying. The Internet, like no other technology in history, has allowed instantaneous spreading (via handheld smartphones/social media) of the endogenous problems you point to. Contagion.
@realchrisrufo
There are private Facebook groups with 1000s of members, which include parents who claim to have multiple trans kids. Has been going on for years.
1/ THREAD: Families with multiple trans kids.
New leaked post (dated 4 days ago) from the affirming-parent Facebook group. Contrary to the original poster's conjecture ("rare breed"), a whole slew have 2, 3 or more trans kids.
What are the odds?
If adult trans people cared about trans youth as much as they claim, they'd do everything in their power to warn them of the dangers of things like phalloplasty. They'd stop making desistance a dirty word. They'd CELEBRATE when a trans-ID'ed youth found peace in their own skin.
The dam continues to break in the mainstream media.
”Mosley wishes her doctors had focused more on her mental health instead of endorsing her desire to change her body. ‘I just took the cure that was handed to me‘ she said, ‘and I ruined my life’.”
One example: the (now wrongly named) National Center for Lesbian Rights. As they litigate for prisoners to be housed according to “gender identity,” what do they do for an incarcerated lesbian whose life became more unsafe when a dangerous male criminal entered her cell block?
@michaelshermer
At a 2017 WPATH conference, one of the clinicians featured in yesterday's
#WPATHFiles
release, psychiatrist Dan Karasic, discussed how to deal with trans "alters" who don't all agree on treatment protocols. Audio recordings included here:
Canadian journalism professor
@Katja_Thieme
called
@Riley_Gaines_
and her teammates "transphobes" because they don't want male genitalia in their showers and locker rooms. Thieme's "solution" (part of a thread which has now gone private) is in this screenshot.
Previously, Thieme
Many of our followers will know who this person is. Knox changes identities like a chameleon on steroids, medically transitioned her (oops! "their/his") child, and is part of a "polycule" with her MTF spouse & several other MTFs. Some make fun of her, but .
As we've seen before, "top surgery" (double mastectomy) on teens is fairly common. Sometimes covered by insurance, sometimes it's private pay. But how many know that gender surgeons are removing teen testicles and crafting fake vulvas out of micropenises for 15-16 year olds?
Senator Paul: "Let the record show that the witness refused to answer the question. The question is a very specific one, should minors be making these momentous decisions."
Why was this clip (from an interview w/ Dr. Eric Vilain in 2017) removed from the NBC Bay Area website?
"I'm actually wondering what are we trying to accomplish here? Are we trying to reduce the number of gay & lesbian adults?"
Whatever your opinion of Walsh, he’s just the messenger here. The entire clip (well worth watching) is about how much money trans surgeries will bring into the hospital this person works for.
Vanderbilt opened its trans clinic in 2018. During a lecture the same year, Dr. Shayne Taylor explained how she convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game. She emphasized that it's a "big money maker," especially because the surgeries require a lot of "follow ups"
"Bradley, who is now in her early eighties, expressed regret that the clinic had participated in the administration of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria, which she now believes can cement a child’s sense of confusion out of which they would likely otherwise grow."
For anyone who cares, the extreme trans activists are watching (and benefiting from) the current nuclear infighting war with absolute glee.
No further comment.
"It's MA'AM! It's MA'AM! You called me sir! Take it outside and I'll show you sir!"
Just watch this. It's no anomaly. Everyone needs to wake up. This crap is getting worse, and sane human beings need to work together to stop it.
Someone explain how a 6-yr-old girl who prefers mud to fairies, trousers to dresses, could read this & NOT wonder if she's "really" a boy.
This is indoctrination pure and simple, and it (and the rest of the lavishly funded Trans Child Industry) is damaging a whole generation.
Interviewer (a physiotherapist) says many of her ADULT post-surgery patients can't orgasm (or don't experience it at the intensity they used to). So how the hell can a TEEN patient, blocked at puberty onset, never had an orgasm, be able to consent to this future consequence?
Jack Turban admits to pressuring
@60Minutes
and
@CBSNews
about last night's episode, evidently for the sin of allowing interviews with some detransitioners to be aired (less than 10 minutes airtime).