An Ontario high school student is not allowed to attend his Catholic school for the rest of the year because he expressed the belief that God created only two sexes, with the school arguing his presence would be detrimental to well-being of trans students.
How did we get to denial of biological reality? Richard Dawkins: "It's bullying ... it's very upsetting the way this tiny minority of people has managed to capture the discourse & to really talk arrant nonsense."
What's the answer? RD: "Science.. as a biologist, there are two
Richard Dawkins says JK Rowling and Kathleen Stock have been "bullied" while standing up for themselves over trans issues.
"As a biologist, there are two sexes and that's all there is to it."
@RichardDawkins
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“Using common anti-trans talking points to elaborate, the star said that he felt children were not mature enough to make major decisions about their gender identity.”
500,000 Australians watched
@7NewsSpotlight
's exposé of children's hospital gender clinics. A breakthrough for TV coverage of the debate over child protection & harm inflicted by medicine. What do the hospitals have to say? Nothing, silence
#AusPol
The US administration has issued a series of statements endorsing medicalised gender change for minors, & claims that puberty blocker drugs & cross-sex hormones are "evidence-based".
In other countries, there's a shift to caution about these interventions. Who's got it right? 1/
“Given today’s shift, a man – perhaps a domestic abuser with no history of gender dysphoria – could potentially follow his female victim to a women-only shelter & those tasked with safeguarding would be powerless to deny him entry [as a self-ID woman].”
“We’re watching the denial of the most basic of truths. When you can’t acknowledge what a woman is, there’s a huge problem. This is deeper than just sports. This is a systematic erasure of what a woman is.”
@Riley_Gaines_
“If your 11-year-old daughter tells you she doesn’t want to go through puberty, and you make her go through it anyway, you could be branded ‘abusive’. Simply for ensuring your child experiences the perfectly natural hormonal transition into adulthood.”
NEW LITIGATION: "Two mothers of 'vulnerable' teenage daughters are set to take [England's National Health Service] to court, claiming their girls are being fast-tracked into 'irreversible' gender-change treatments.
"Anna Castle and a second mother are fearful their daughters are
A Norwegian feminist could face up to 3 years' prison for allegedly 'hateful' tweets in reply to a male who claims to be a lesbian. Norway was warned that adding 'gender identity' to hate crime law would see women prosecuted for stating biological facts.
"Plans to allow people to 'self-identify' as a different gender will be formally dropped by the (UK) government this week," The Sunday Times reports, citing a government source. 1/
“The case of a 15-year old child in Queensland having ‘top surgery’ has prompted Mark Ashton, a plastic surgery specialty elected counsellor to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons & Melbourne Uni surgery prof, to question the lack of regulations.”
‘By introducing children to the idea that they may have been “born in the wrong body” and socially transitioning children, schools have played a large part in the creation of the “transgender child”, actively feeding the pipeline to the gender clinic.’
‘A transgender lecturer orchestrated a smear campaign against academics across the UK in which universities were described as dangerous and accused of “hate crime” if they refused to accept activists’ views that biological males can be women.’
“I don’t expect this [male-bodied trans women allowed to compete in female sport] to continue but, if it does, it will mean the end of women’s sports at the elite level.” Olympic swimming coach Dennis Pursley.
#AusPol
#AusVotes
"... we believe that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health can no longer be viewed as a trustworthy source of clinical guidance in this field."
New declaration by physicians, researchers, mental health professionals & others.
“[British] ex-barrister wins right to sue after he was kicked off his psychotherapy degree course for raising his fears about potentially irreversible medical treatment given to children questioning their gender”
“I don’t want to live in a society that gaslights its own citizens. The oft-repeated slogan that ‘trans women are women’ simply isn’t true… everyone knows it isn’t true—including those who shout it the loudest.. it’s an officially sanctioned lie.”
“A detransitioning woman who had a mastectomy at 14 has slammed therapists who told her gender transition and surgery was the 'only solution' to her mental health issues - despite her also struggling with bipolar disorder, autism & sexual assault trauma.”
"There are parents of 7-year-olds asking: When should my daughter get hormones? And when should the ovaries come out?" Munich gender dysphoria expert Dr Alexander Korte speaks about social contagion, puberty blockers that "prevent homosexuality" & law confusing sex & gender. 1/
“The
@washingtonpost
report on the poll is an exercise in struggling with harsh facts, beginning with the headline: ‘Most Americans support anti-trans policies…’ It’s not ‘anti-trans’ to recognize that sex is immutable. It’s pro-reality.”
Editorial
@australian
: “We do not claim to have all the answers, but will continue to present the facts, to encourage debate & to hold to account those whose actions are affecting the lives of vulnerable young people & their families. A culture of silence must not be allowed to
"There's a great irony in that the same people chanting 'protect trans kids' are advocating for [puberty blocker drugs] that could permanently impair [kids'] ability to enjoy sex as adults before they're even able to comprehend what that means." US journo Katie Herzog
#AusPol
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NEW Swedish systematic review of evidence for youth gender medicine.
“Against the background of almost non-existent longterm data, we conclude that [puberty blocker] treatment in children with gender dysphoria should be considered experimental treatment rather than standard
‘A California mother who claims that her daughter was "socially transitioned" to act as a boy without parental consent while at school has reached a $100,000 settlement with the California school district.’
A young man who had his genitals removed during gender surgery is suing UK health authorities & says doctors did not warn him of the drastic outcome of the body-altering surgery which has left him infertile, incontinent & feeling like a ‘sexual eunuch’.
“The editor of a journal on sex and gender is facing calls for his removal because he published an article that undermined claims of the transgender movement.”
“Researchers at the University of Washington found that the use of puberty blockers and hormones didn't improve the mental health of trans-identified teens, but published a study claiming they did.”
“My lecture would have been about three things: to explain why there are only two sexes from a biological point of view; to make it clear that debates about social gender roles are something else; and to justify why I think it’s wrong to mix the two.”
I remember well my editor asking me to write about this absurd decision in 2019 that Barry’s name was too toxic for Melbourne’s Comedy Festival. It was my first encounter with the spiteful authoritarianism of gender ideology.
#BarryHumphries
A leading gender clinician who champions the affirmative treatment model has acknowledged the low-quality evidence base for medicalised gender change with minors & says he no longer regards puberty blockers as a "pause" button for children
#AusPol
“I'm speaking out about this because I'll have to live with my body being mutilated [&] I don't want this to happen to others. I want doctors to know they need to look for underlying health issues & realize there's no nonbinary bio sex to transition to.”
“Does anyone truly believe that children understand the long-term implications of these decisions [hormones at age 14, mastectomy at 15, hysterectomy at 17] on their bodies & fertility, especially if they have yet to experience romantic relationships ..?”
“A renowned transgender horror author who signed a letter last week condemning The New York Times's coverage of trans issues has tweeted that she wants to slit J.K. Rowling's throat.”
“The losers are women who suffer from endometriosis who have to rely on a charity that won’t call them ‘women’ but ‘people’, but who will call a man a woman. This is… an affront to all women who suffer from endometriosis, which is about 10% of women.”
"The nurse then came up to the right side of my body and took my hand in her hand and placed it on her penis."
Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia v AVP 2022
#AusVotes2022
How amazing to hear a voice on Australia's public broadcaster, the ABC ...
1. citing the fact of "growing doubts among doctors in the UK, Scandinavia, France & Spain over the use of puberty blockers &n cross-sex hormones", without the ridiculous claim that this is "far-right
“In a debate where both sides accuse the other of extremism, it’s the media’s duty to be an honest broker, treat both sides with respect, and not be scared into silence.”
#MediaWatch
"Lupron is prescribed as a 'puberty blocker' for children with gender dysphoria. As someone who has taken it [as a cancer patient], I am appalled. I cannot fathom how using Lupron on otherwise healthy bodies, knowing its long-term side effects, isn’t criminal."
"The mother of a 13-year-old with gender dysphoria has abruptly withdrawn an application seeking a Family Court order to allow the child to take puberty blockers, after trying to have the independent children’s lawyer thrown off the case." 1/
"When we wrote this law [banning gender medicine for minors], we looked to the best research for guidance. Our search led us to realize that no one in the U.S. has done a comprehensive review of the effects of medical transition on children. That’s astounding, given the stakes."
Australian politician
@MoiraDeemingMP
: "If you remove the definition of what a woman is, to include men [as has happened under anti-discrimination law] ... if gender identity is more important than biological sex, then we lose all of our sex-based rights -- and to women &
“A panel of medical & legal experts & two women negatively impacted by gender reassignment surgery have told a group of Victorian MPs that the affirmation model of care is causing irreversible harm to children & undermining the parent-child relationship.”
Sweden: "The National Board of Health & Welfare in Sweden has urged 'restraint' in the use of hormonal drug treatments for medicalised gender change with minors, warning that the risks appear to outweigh the benefits."
Referrals to Swedish gender clinics fell 30.7 per cent six months after that country's public broadcaster ran the first part of the Trans Train journalistic exposé of medicalised gender change for young people.
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“Despite being aware that the man had a history of indecent exposure, Planet Fitness employees reportedly stated the man had a ‘right’ to use the women’s facilities as per the gym’s gender self-identification policy.”
#SelfID
"Regret after surgery: hard to describe the pain"--frontpage story online today from Norway's mass circulation newspaper VG.
"The last thing Aleksander thinks before the anaesthetic makes him pass out is: 'Help me, I don't want to do this'."
#Detransition
#GenderClinics
No blockers: A potential test case involving an Australian gender clinic has settled with an expert witness abruptly withdrawing a recommendation of puberty blockers for a child of primary school age.
#AusPol
#health
#gender
#litigation
"Asperger’s expert Tony Attwood calls for a searching inquiry into dramatic overrepresentation of teens with autism in gender clinics. In Australia's busiest clinic, 45 per cent of 383 patients, mostly girls around 14, showed
#autism
features."
@australian
“Unprompted, the doctor informed Elson that her daughter of 25, who had cerebral palsy and spinal bifida, was a good candidate for euthanasia… the doctor chided that not taking up the state’s kindly offer to slay her daughter would be ‘selfish’.”
“So, based on that well-established data, gender dysphoria for most prepubescent boys is best thought of as a temporary mental health condition and an early indicator of homosexuality — not transgenderism.”
#ConversionTherapy
#GenderClinics
Just sat through a hearing of Tickle v Giggle. A simple issue — can someone born male become a woman? — entangled in all the technicality & brain power of a rich-world court process. Emerging into streets thick with males & females of our species, the clocks striking thirteen.
"Women’s sport exists to exclude (biological) males. That is true at the elite level & the recreational one. Without it, half the population would be left struggling against an insurmountable advantage granted by mere biological chance to the other half."
“A Bafta-nominated composer has been suspended from the company he co-founded after expressing his support for JK Rowling and her [unremarkable] views on transgender issues.”
“… when one person transitions, everyone in their life gets recast as supporting characters. They are judged along a single axis: how affirming are you of your loved one’s new identity? How quickly do you reform your speech and rewrite your memories?”
“My name is Chloe Cole and I am a de-transitioner. Another way to put that would be: I used to believe that I was born in the wrong body and the adults in my life, whom I trusted, affirmed my belief, and this caused me lifelong, irreversible harm.”
The World Health Organisation says its new “gender-affirming” healthcare guideline will *not* cover children & adolescents because the evidence base is too weak—
“… on review, the evidence base for children and adolescents is limited and variable regarding the longer-term
“Nearly 150 students lined up to use the nurse’s restroom after being told if they were uncomfortable with the school’s policy that separates bathrooms on the basis of gender identity, then they could use the single-stall unisex bathroom.”
France: " 'Sterilisation risk' from gender medicine | The French National Academy of Medicine has sounded the alarm about an epidemic-like surge in young people seeking hormone drugs and surgery."
“A teenager has been taken into care in Australia’s first known case of parents being judged abusive and potentially harmful for failing to consent to their child’s self-declared transgender identity and wish for irreversible cross-sex hormone treatment.”
“If a child is given hormone blocker drugs at Tanner stage 2 of puberty (roughly age 9-12) and then put on cross-sex hormones, ‘sterility is the expected outcome’, according to the Society for Evidence based Gender Medicine.”
#GenderClinics
Save Women's Sport Australasia launches to challenge "unfair & demoralising" transgender rules. And
@WorldRugby
confirms it will be the first international sport federation to oppose trans players in the elite female game, citing injury & litigation risk.
“Explosive claims that a Missouri children’s transgender clinic was hastily prescribing hormone drugs to some young patients, including those with psychiatric issues, have been corroborated — some seven months [after a whistleblower was branded a liar].”
The UK: "The evidence for using puberty blocking drugs to treat young people struggling with their gender identity is 'very low", an official review has found ... existing studies of the drugs were small and 'subject to bias and confounding'.".
“Newspapers and websites in the UK regularly describe women who hold rallies in support of our legal rights as “anti-trans”, unconcerned about the flagrant inaccuracy. They are repeating the propaganda of trans activists, pure and simple.”
“My inbox is filled with notes from doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, all saying they agree with me, but can’t say it publicly.” Psychiatrist
@Miriam_Grossman
#GenderClinics
“Anger flares at the controversial Tavistock Clinic over a sex change operation for a young person who cannot read or write and has 14 mental health conditions”
@elliotpsych
I can confirm this from speaking to many physicians in various countries who expect activist attacks if they express their concerns about gender medicine and who fear employers/managers will not stand by them.
“… why is a woman [
@MoiraDeemingMP
] being told not to speak about matters important to a group of Australian women, a group of women that is demonstrably a powerful cross-section of ages, faiths, sexualities and political persuasions?”
#AusPol
New coalition policy in New Zealand includes --
"Refocus the curriculum on academic achievement and not ideology, including the removal and replacement of the gender, sexuality, and relationship-based education guidelines" & "Ensure publicly funded sporting bodies support fair
“Calls to ban puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery for under 18 years old” Australian Liberal Party Senator Alex Antic considers a private member’s bill.
@SenatorAntic
#AusPol
“All forms of gender reassignment treatment and surgery would be banned for those aged under 18 [in Australia] – including the controversial and increasing use of puberty blockers – under a bill proposed by conservative Liberal senator Alex Antic.”
“If my child’s coach or pastor was suggesting to keep secrets with my child, that would be a huge (red flag emoji). How is my 5,6,7 year old supposed to make distinction between ‘acceptable secrets’ with teachers and ‘unacceptable secrets’ with people?”
"Psychiatrists have been urged to be very cautious about endorsing gender clinic treatments for under-18s after an international scandal over false claims of mental health benefits for transgender surgery."
@SEGMtweets
@australian
Under new law, gender clinics had a choice: 1) continue hormonal treatment of minors, but with a higher risk of lawsuits from detransitioners, or 2) end all hormonal treatment. They chose 2). Yet we’re told treatment is lifesaving & detransition so rare.
“To punish
@MoiraDeemingMP
for what a bunch of Sieg Heiling men did is cowardly, intolerant & sexist. If the Liberals won’t defend freedom for one of their own women, how can we expect them to defend it for anyone else?”
@JohnPesutto
“…there is no major public figure prepared to say that being pro-women does not make you anti-trans. Trans people deserve respect & consideration. But claiming to be a woman does not make you one & doesn’t give you a right to invade [female-only spaces].”
@thehonestlypod
This week, an Australian paediatrician, Dr Dylan Wilson, wrote an open letter explaining why he would *never* refer a child to the gender clinic at his local children's hospital.
“Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis [Lee] wrote to the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner asking whether she could—under permanent exemptions to the Sex Discrimination Act—advertise for a biologically female personal disability carer.” Nope.
Australia & New Zealand: "Psychiatrists have been alerted to the ethical and legal risks of medicalised gender change for young people and the lack of good evidence on whether it helps or harms."
"Puberty blocking, hormone, and hormone antagonist therapies for the treatment of gender dysphoria are prohibited for patients under 18 years of age."
Florida Department of Health petition for the state Board of Medicine to adopt a rule on paediatric transition.
@HealthyFla
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"Victoria Police officers [in Australia] have searched the force’s Frankston station and interviewed several officers accused of claiming to be non-binary to fraudulently claim more money for civilian clothing allowances."
#EnbyForensics
#NiceDetectiveWork
“My 12-year-old daughter decided she was trans. She informed her school, and the staff immediately started running around like headless chickens to ‘accommodate’ her, changing her pronouns …” Letter to editor. More ⬇️
"Australian media are beginning to wake up to the fact that not all is well on the gender front. Something dangerous is taking place inside medical clinics and school classrooms, such that insurers and courts are now being warned to take stock and reconsider their policies and
“Gender-identity ideology has been allowed to penetrate every facet of civil society and, until today, employees have been forced to keep their mouths shut in order to keep their jobs. Ultimately, today’s ruling signals a return to reality.”
"I've never seen a major mental illness cured by a gender transition. I don't think there's any empirical evidence to suggest depression or anxiety or autism or any other condition is going to be cured by a gender transition." Former prez
@USPATH1
“A large group of researchers and academics is pushing back against moves to ‘desex’ medical language to accommodate trans & gender-diverse people, saying the terms used in the name of inclusion confuse health data & can lead to serious medical errors.”
“The apparent suicides of five people [in the Australian state of Victoria] who were undergoing a gender-affirmation process before they died will be investigated by the Victorian coroner.”
American journalist
@AbigailShrier
continues to file worrying reports on paediatric transition, following her bestselling book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.
"Top Trans Doctors Blow the Whistle on 'Sloppy' Care"
“The satisfaction rates for medicalised gender change may be exaggerated because many regretful young detransitioners never go back to tell gender clinics about their change of mind.” New study by Dr Lisa Littman.
#GenderClinics
And back in the US, top clinicians who *support* gender affirming care -- as long as it involves the safeguard of thorough assessment -- have gone public with concerns about rushed medicalisation of young people.