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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Links - 15th April 2025 (1 - Trans Mania)

J.K. Rowling on X - "This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.   Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.   Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters.   When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was.  Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs.  The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second."
Not to mention left wingers mock those they disagree with for lacking empathy, then ask "why do you care?" or claim that trans women existing doesn't affect your life, so you shouldn't care about those whose lives they affect

Meme - "AITA for asking my trans ex-wife to dress more appropriately?
My former husband (42) came out as a trans woman last year. As a male, he had recently started to get into crossdressing but assured me it was just an interest, so I was taken by surprise when he came out, as he was always a very traditional, masculine guy. She (now Laura) has not started HRT yet but is living full-time as a woman. Laura and I no longer live together, but we share custody of my son (10). Ever since I moved out and Laura has started living on her own, she has started to dress in extreme clothing. She's gone from wearing relatively normal dresses and skirts to microminis, fishnets, big heels, the full nines, and bold makeup too. Laura is a tall woman (6'4 or so), so in the heels, she is very visible, and this is what had brought on my current issue. I am fine with what Laura wants to wear privately, but my son is having an extremely hard time with it, especially when it comes to her picking him up from school or taking him out for food. Recently he had a breakdown over it and told me that it was so bad he didn't even want to go to school anymore and that everyone knew him as the "drag queen's son." I tried to talk 'about this privately with Laura, but she gave me the cold shoulder over the phone. My son asked me to come out with him to the next meeting so we could bring it up together there. The moment she walked in, all eyes were on us because of what she was wearing. People were obviously listening, and when I gently tried to bring up the topic and explain how our son was feeling, Laura became incredibly loud and angry over it and accused me of feeding my son lines because I was jealous of her confidence. To make matters worse, a table of nearby girls decided to join in and hurl abuse at me and tell me that I was a piece of s for saying what I was. My son and I left in tears, but Laura did not seem to give a single care about how distraught he was and seemed to just be loving all the attention. Ever since then I've been torn, wondering if my own personal feelings are getting in the way of things and if I was a bad person for asking Laura to tone things down, especially given she felt she had to repress herself for so many years. I'm extremely shaken by having a group of complete strangers step in and wonder if Ive gotten old and out of touch. It just breaks my heart to see my son becoming so withdrawn and upset over this. AITA for speaking to my ex this way?"
Totally not a fetish

Gerald Posner on X - "There was a time when Hollywood ridiculed the idea of doctors who surgically boasted of changing little boys ‘trapped in the wrong body’ into little girls. This clip from a March 1987 SNL skit even has the reporter (Nora Dunn) telling the doctor he is mutilating children."

Benjamin Ryan on X - "ACLU top litigator Chase Strangio, under pointed questioning from Justice Alito, acknowledged before the Supreme Court in December that there is no research to back the claim that pediatric gender-transition treatment saves lives."
Weird. Why is he so ignorant about the Science?!

REDUXX on X - "🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 A transgender pedophile currently housed in a women's prison in Canada is under investigation for sexually assaulting two female inmates. Carissa Marie Radcliffe is serving a rare indeterminate sentence for raping multiple young girls."
pagliacci the hated 🌝 on X - "so to summarize: serial rapist gets arrested after raping. is told he can’t leave prison ever again bc he raped so much that doctors don’t believe he is capable of not raping. says “np im 🏳️‍⚧️ now lol” gets moved to a women’s prison. keeps raping."

Andy Ngo on X - "A trans activist, "Alice" Michael Attwood, 35, was charged over a Feb. 19 incident where he allegedly brutally attacked two of his children with a knife in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada.   His eight-year-old daughter had her esophagus severed. Despite the severity of the injuries, he was released from custody—but a family member has filed to have him detained in a psychiatric ward.   On social media, Attwood posted about arming trans people with weapons and fighting "fash." He also posted about magic rituals. Screenshots from Attwood's Discord server show that he said he "lost his mind" and stabbed his children."

Thread by @MrAndyNgo on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🧵 Liberal media has been uninterested in investigating the couple involved in shooting dead a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Coventry, Vermont near the Canadian border on inauguration day. Why? Both in the duo are leftist trans militants. One of the deceased armed militants is a German believed to be in the country on an H-1B visa. The duo is allegedly connected to a trans terror cell.  Federal law enforcement had been surveilling German man Felix "Ophelia" Baukholt and Seattle @UW student Teresa "Milo" Youngblut (xe/xem/xyrs) after staff at a Lyndonville, Vt. motel reported seeing them with black tactical clothing, weapons and protective militia-style equipment.  When the duo was pulled over on Jan. 20, Youngblut allegedly shot dead Officer David Maland in a surprise attack. In the returning fire, Baukholt, who was also armed, was killed. Youngblut was injured and survived.  I spoke with Jessica Taylor @jessi_cata, a Berkeley, Calif. woman who had met Baukholt over the years. She confirmed that Baulkholt is trans.
As "Ophelia," Felix Baulkholt's social media and leaked private communications suggest Baulkholt was connected to the violent trans militant cell—or cult—centered around a person who used the alias "Ziz." Members of the trans group have been involved in violence.  Baukholt was a math genius who graduated from @UWaterloo in Canada before getting a job at Tower Research Capital in New York around 2021.  After the shooting, law enforcement found multiple burner mobiles, laptops and weapons in the duo's vehicle.  Surviving trans accomplice Teresa "Milo" Youngblut, who is accused of being the one that fired the shots that killed the veteran/U.S. Border Patrol officer, has been charged over the homicide. Youngblut is a biological female who identifies as trans and uses xe/xem/xyrs pronouns."
On Felix Bauckholt

Claire Lehmann on X - "I've had complaints made about me to the Australian Press Council by a trans coder formerly at Google. This engineer designed an automated system that files complaints whenever articles about trans issues are published--the council has received thousands"

Jill Foster on X - "The judge called this child rapist Mr Wilson. So when the BBC - or any other outlet - tell you that the reason they call child rapists ‘she’ ‘her’ or ‘Miss’ is because they are following ‘the language used in court’. Well, they’re lying."
Alleged paedophile accused of sex offences in Yorkshire has died, court hears - "Judge Rowland, who had not been aware of the defendant's death ahead of the hearing which had been set as a plea and trial preparation hearing, said: "I haven't had any sight of the correspondence concerning Mr Wilson.""
Trans woman Maddison Wilson charged with rape in Southampton dies - "She had also been charged with the sexual assault of a three-year-old boy and causing a boy, aged three, to engage in sexual activity - both of which were alleged to have taken place in Southampton in 2017 and 2020."

Wesley Yang on X - "67 percent of Democrats support a ban on boys competing in girl's sports. But the astroturfed pseudo-consensus that guides American institutions is not in any way deterred by what a supermajority of Democrats want. They are accountable only to their own whims."

James Esses on X - "Preferred pronouns are not a neutral act. They further ingrain dysphoria in a child. If a child with anorexia consistently writes ‘fat’ beside their name, they will become more and more lost in their delusion. It’s no different for a girl who writes ‘he/him’ next to her name."
Gerald Posner on X - ""To avoid putting those children for whom gender dysphoria was a fleeting stage of adolescence, the Dutch discouraged early social transitioning of minors (such as using the child’s new pronouns and names).  However, American clinics, and many U.S. school districts have instead made social transitioning the accepted standard." From my article last year, https://justthefacts.media/p/who-put-the-"

Meme - The Other 98%: "If you can change the name of a body of water after 475 years, you can change a pronoun whenever you want"
Victor Vargas: "He just changed the name. He didn't start calling the body of water a desert then insist everyone else pretend it's a desert and not a gulf and then have a blue haired sphere who majored in "nobody gives af" come over and label you transdesertphobic because you insisted it's a body of water. BIG difference."
On the Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America

Dennis Noel Kavanagh on X - "Saying that you are neither male nor female is a political position akin to claiming that you do not believe in gravity. It is not an identity characteristic and it should not be something the rest of us are expected to indulge. It is a political, not a sexual identity."

Thread by @realchrisrufo on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "EXCLUSIVE: @GrossmanHannah and I have obtained logs from the NSA’s secret transgender sex chatroom, in which NSA, CIA, and DIA employees discuss genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs—all on government time.  This is insane. 🧵
The NSA maintains a chat system for the "intelligence community" called Intelink. The servers are supposed to be used for government work, but gender activists have hijacked at least two channels—LBTQA and IC_Pride_TWG—to discuss fetishes, kink, and sex, all legitimized as "DEI." One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves surgically removing the penis and turning it into an artificial vagina. These male intelligence agents love the feeling of penetration and of peeing with their pseudo-vaginas. These trans employees discuss hair removal, estrogen treatments, and breast implants. "Getting my butthole zapped by a laser was . . . shocking," said one trans-identifying DIA official. "Medical science is gonna give me tits one way or another," said a Navy intel employee. One NSA official claims to use "it/its" pronouns, meaning that this person does not identify as a human, but rather, feels like a sexless, genderless thing. Other intel employees defend the usage of "it/itself" pronouns, claiming that not using them amounts to trans "erasure."
Intel employees used the chatroom to discuss "ethical non-monogamy," or "polyamory." Many claimed to be part of sprawling sexual networks and have a rich slang vocabulary about their sex lives. "Some of our friends are practically poly-mers, with all the connected compounds.""

Thread by @CV_Dalcher on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Democrats in November 2024:  “Anti-transgender political ads are dominating the airwaves!”  Want to talk about dominating the airwaves? Let’s take a stroll through several years of companies pushing genderism down our throats.  🧵
Remember when Nike thought it was a good idea to dress Dylan Mulvaney in a sports bra and film him cavorting around like a lunatic? (2023) How about when Target partnered with TomboyX & started selling chest binders and ‘packing underwear’ — they’re still selling the binders, by the way — they just call them compression tops now. (2022) Athletic gear company Adidas put a man—and his Johnson—into a women’s swimsuit (2023) Ford painted their Ranger Raptors in rainbow colors. Because, apparently, nothing says ‘tough’ quite like a rainbow-painted truck. 🙄 (2022)  The ad is no longer available on Ford’s site, but Wayback Machine tells no lies.
Pantene—yes, the shampoo people—partnered with GLAAD & the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles to make a Christmas-y advert about going home for the holidays. (2019)  I’m sure hair factored into it somehow. Or not. Gillette features a heartwarming “Dad shows daughter with facial hair how to shave” advert. At least it involved the product Gillette sells. (2019) Back to Dylan Mulvaney:  Bud Light lost a bucket (or a keg) of money after putting Mulvaney’s mug on a custom beer can and thinking it would be a good idea to advertise the fact. (2023)
The Mayor of London (Sir) Sadiq Khan supports Pride In London billboards in public places featuring young women who have had their breasts amputated. (2004) Citibank launches ‘True Name’ campaign pandering to customers identifying as ‘trans’ and ‘non-binary.’ (2020) Adidas doubles down and ‘honors women in sports’ with an advert featuring a trans-identifying male. (2022) Hershey’s Canada selects five women to honor with a personalized chocolate bar during Women’s History Month. (2024)  Correction: four women and a man named Fae Johnstone.
Absolut Vodka may have been one of the first—launching an ad where a guy and his old high school buddy Dave (now ‘Darla’) spend all night talking and watch the sunrise together. (2016) As for Balenciaga’s baby girl and bondage teddy bear (2022)—  —I still have no idea what they were thinking.
So, dear Democrats, when you get your knickers (packing variety or not) about a SINGLE advert that said “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you,” have a scroll through time and remind yourselves of what we’ve all had to put up with for the last decade."

marcus evans on X - "NHS to launch £10.7 million trial of puberty blockers
Medicine is at its most dangerous when medics play God. Development is not a switch to be turned on and off at will; it is a deeply interwoven physiological, psychological, & social process. Yet we are now engaged in indulging ourselves in a reckless experiment—pausing puberty as if it were an inconvenience rather than the stage of development that is essential for procreation. But development does not wait. Delaying puberty isolates young people from their peers, severing them from the shared struggles that shape adolescence.  When adults sanction the delay of secondary sex characteristics, they risk undermining a young person’s capacity to cope. The implicit message is: You’re afraid you can’t handle puberty, we agree—you don’t have the resources to manage the identity confusion & uncertainty that accompany the transition from childhood to adulthood. By stopping puberty, medics offer the concrete medical solution these children yearn for—while simultaneously signalling that even adults lack confidence in their ability to find the internal resources to manage. We are also stopping a part of the developmental process that brought them into existence.  This was Dominiqo’s original idea—puberty blockers as a ‘pause for thought’ for adolescents who weren’t ready for puberty. What he didn’t realize was that this approach endorsed an omnipotent belief: that individuals can control the anxiety that comes with developmental change. And that sort of manic psychological defence is difficult to resist—or relinquish.  The GIDS study confirms this. It’s like standing outside a drug rehabilitation service and saying Today, we’re offering psychological support over here, or you can get opium over there. Faced with that choice, the kids didn’t pause puberty and then return to a natural developmental pathway. They continued down the medical route. 95% moved from the allure of puberty blockers to the allure of cross-sex hormones.  And I agree with the article—the consequences won’t be evident in two years, when individuals may still be caught in the euphoria of having seemingly triumphed over their biological development. The real reckoning will come in twenty years, after prolonged use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions. That’s when we’ll see the full impact of this live experiment.  The greatest mental health scandal of our generation is about to be reopened. Instead of addressing psychological distress at its root, we are interfering with normal developmental processes. Having led the world in putting the lid back on Pandora’s box, we are about to open it again. A tragic display of hubris.  Like the lobotomies of the 1950s, future generations will look back in disbelief, asking: What were they thinking? But it won’t be the researchers and their cheerleaders who are left to pick up the pieces of fractured families and individuals who have lost the developmental opportunities that come with the challenges of puberty. That burden will fall on the next generation of psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and psychologists.  And before anyone starts searching for that mythical figure, the true trans child, let’s be clear: there is only one thing with less prognostic reliability than an adult mental health diagnosis—a mental health diagnosis in children. Psychiatry isn’t like medicine. There is no schizococcus—no biological test to confirm a condition. There are only clusters of symptoms and illness behaviour.   After 46 years in psychiatry, I’ve seen every form of delusional thinking & manic denial employed by the profession. That’s why my first book was called Making Room for Madness in Mental Health. Rather than helping people understand & manage the difficulties that come with development, we promise to remove the pain associated with being human-playing god by denying the facts of life."
Sarah Phillimore on X - "I really don’t understand this. This surge of referrals to the Tavistock began 2014/5. So we now have a ten year cohort of at least a few thousand children. Why aren’t they being tracked?   Are they employed? Are they married? Are they suffering mental health problems? There are many ways of measuring a life where one is loved and has a purpose: surely the truest metric of a ‘happy life’.  2 years will tell us nothing we don’t already know. We need to see if the promises of ‘euphoria’ hold up after a decade."

Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national database study | The Journal of Sexual Medicine - "From 107 583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery. Males with surgery showed a higher prevalence of depression (25.4% vs. 11.5%, RR 2.203, P < 0.0001) and anxiety (12.8% vs. 2.6%, RR 4.882, P < 0.0001). Females exhibited similar trends, with elevated depression (22.9% vs. 14.6%, RR 1.563, P < 0.0001) and anxiety (10.5% vs. 7.1%, RR 1.478, P < 0.0001). Feminizing individuals demonstrated particularly high risk for depression (RR 1.783, P = 0.0298) and substance use disorders (RR 1.284, P < 0.0001)."
This won't stop TRAs from lying that "gender affirming surgery" is "literally life saving" and that if you oppose it this is "literally genocide"

Colin Wright on X - "🚨BREAKING: A new study analyzed mental health outcomes in gender dysphoric patients (with no other previous mental health diagnoses) who did and did not receive "gender-affirming surgery."  Those who received surgery had an "elevated risk of mental health disorders—including depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorder" compared to those who did not undergo surgery.  They further report that "the heightened risk of mental health issues post-surgery was particularly pronounced among individuals undergoing feminizing transition compared to masculinizing transition."  Despite these findings, rather than questioning the medical legitimacy of performing "gender-affirming" surgeries given the significantly worse mental health outcomes among recipients, the authors instead suggest that these individuals simply require more post-surgical "gender-sensitive mental health support.""
Time to blame "transphobia", "discrimination" and "stigma" for surgery worsening outcomes

memetic_sisyphus on X - "It’s crazy how every single trans paper that got laundered into “trans surgeries are a settled science” had n<100 and when we start doing major long term studies on 100k plus all of the original findings reverse."

NHS is spending more than £100million a year on transgender treatments - enough to hire 2,500 nurses - "The NHS spends as much on controversial transgender treatments as it does on common anti-depressants, penicillins or beta-blockers... Figures obtained under Freedom of Information legislation show the NHS spent an eye-watering £250 million in the past five years on surgical and non-surgical procedures for trans, non-binary and gender-questioning patients in England.  In the first ten months of 2024/25 alone the figure was £88 million – up a fifth on the previous 12 months. For that sum, the NHS could prescribe almost 30,000 people with weight-loss jabs, or hire around 2,500 nurses.  And data suggests spending on transgender treatments is now more than £100 million a year. The annual NHS bill for standard anti-depressants is £91.5million, for penicillin, it is £83million, and for beta-blockers, it is £73million. The amount spent on transgender treatments is close to what it would cost to supply all 1,000 women in England and Wales who would benefit from Enhertu, a drug that would give women with advanced breast cancer an extra six months of life.  Because it costs about £118,000 per patient, it was turned down by the NHS last year for being too expensive.  The £250 million figure for transgender treatments over the past five years is likely to be much higher because for the first three years of the data, surgical interventions are excluded... Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns at human rights charity Sex Matters, said: '£250 million is an obscene amount for the NHS to spend on experimental and often dangerous surgeries for people who want to look more like the opposite sex.'  Stephanie Davies-Arai, of Transgender Trend, added: 'NHS England's job is to treat medical problems yet they are creating medical problems where none previously existed. To spend so much on damaging people's bodies for no evidenced reason is unacceptable and in the case of children unconscionable.'... FOI data shows more than £130million spent over the five-year period for non-surgical interventions on adults, such as psychological support and speech therapy... More shockingly, the amount spent on treatments for children and young people hiked by 50 per cent in the last year alone, from £17.5 million in 2023/24 to £26.5 million in 2024/25 up to January."
Time to "Tax the 'rich'" to pay for the left wing agenda

Gerald Posner on X - "Want to know how upside down the world of women’s sports is in Washington state? A 15-year-old girl refused to play against an 18-year-old male in a JV basketball game. The result? She’s charged w/ bullying, harassment, and intimidation for MISGENDERING. Crazy. #savewomenssports"

Meme - J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling: "There can't be many stupider ways of keeping a secret hidden than trying to force an entire country to accept a fiction."
"Says the author of Harry Potter."
J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling: "OK, I didn't realise I needed to explain this, but wizards aren't real. In that respect, they greatly resemble women with penises. Hope this helps."
Charles Moore @NWACMoore: "All this time and I thought your stories were historically accurate portrayals based upon real wizards and magical creatures. Way to spoil it for me."
J.K. Rowling: "Look, if that guy can believe women have dicks, you can believe in wizards, and honestly, your delusion would be a damn sight less harmful than his."

Meme - Alex Severan: "When are these fascists going to understand there is no definition for a woman. We know people used to sort humans into two arbitrary groups of male and female but we don't know why or what difference they think they observed between the two. All we know is we have fixed this now and know that a woman is a person who says they're a woman. Period. That's the only thing we know"
Only fascists believe in biological sex

Thread by @mattyglesias on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I'm really confused that people who I *know* happily voted for Obama in 2008 despite his opposition to same-sex marriage are so hostile to making peace with the electorate on the sports issue where opinion is more lopsided and the case on the merits much weaker.   I was there and so was Roberts in 2008 when *everybody* understood why Democrats wouldn't run on a position that was supported by 40 percent of the public.  Now everyone wants to die on a hill that impacts many fewer people and is much less popular. Does it serve the interests of transgender Americans to lose elections to people who want to run them out of all spheres of public life because we are unwilling to adopt a mainstream view of what the purpose of sex-segregated sports teams is?"

Libs of TikTok on X - "CNN’s Van Jones says “it’s not even real“ that we spent $8 million on transgender mice. CNN themselves were forced to issue a correction that it is in fact true. It’s so crazy that CNN thinks Trump made it up…"
This doesn't stop left wingers from continuing to lie about how Trump and MAGAs are stupid for thinking transgenic mice are transgender mice. They keep spamming their retarded memes because they don't question their programming

Ben Domenech on X - "It looks like the trans mice thing is falling into the same category as the taxpayer funded trans surgeries for criminals thing, as in: a thing that sounds so crazy legacy media claims it's false without considering the terrifyingly stupid possibility it is real."

Coddled affluent professional on X - "One reason conservatives have had such a difficult uphill battle is that it’s hard for people to believe just how insane a lot of lib stuff is. Some of it is so crazy libs don’t even believe it and they’ll get angry and insult you if you try to explain to them what’s happening."
"This is not happening, and it's good that it is". I've seen left wingers defend the experiments as important in threads denying they happened

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