Thread by @BlanchardPhD on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Many people seem to think that heterosexual men are relatively recent arrivals to the ranks of biological males who go into public dressed as women or who present to gender identity clinics with the request for hormonal or surgical feminization. The available evidence indicates that the notion of heterosexual men as Johnny-come-latelies is not accurate. The purpose of this post is to present a few samples of such evidence. In my opinion, nearly every man of the foregoing type is an autogynephile (AGP), that is, a man who has, or once had, a strong tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman. I will therefore refer to them simply as AGPs, even though the available objective evidence might simply be that they are heterosexual (or non-homosexual). The first publicized attempt at surgical sex reassignment was carried out on a previously married man named Einar Wegener. He was a Danish artist who had been married to another artist named Gerda Wegener. Wegener adopted the name Lili Elbe when he transitioned to the female role. Wegener/Elbe underwent surgery of an uncertain nature around 1930. Wegener/Elbe was the subject of the 2015 movie, The Danish Girl. I believe that Wegener/Elbe was almost certainly an autogynephile, although this popular movie naturally did not stress that point. Typologies of male-to-female transsexualism (or lesser degrees of gender dysphoria) go back to at least 1918. All of the notable typologies include a heterosexual type or a transvestitic type. Thus, it is clear that clinical researchers have, for over a century, recognized a type of male-to-female transsexual that they alternatively designated as “heterosexual” or “transvestitic.” These are the type that I call AGP. Clinicians’ common knowledge of AGP/hetero/nonhomo trans did not reach the general public. That is probably because the usual conduit for such information, reporters in the popular media, had no appetite to include it in their stories about transsexualism. By 1987, when I first attempted to quantify the matter, there were more heterosexual than homosexual males presenting at the gender clinic where I worked. Male-to-female transsexuals with admitted histories of fetishistic arousal had occasionally been approved for reassignment surgery from before I joined that clinic in 1980. It is true that a few prominent psychoanalytic psychiatrists (who probably spent more time writing about gender patients than seeing them) had opined that patients who acknowledged even one episode of fetishistic arousal in their lives should be excluded from consideration for surgical sex reassignment. Although some psychiatrists paid lip service to this notion, it was possibly honored more often in the breach than in the observance, even going back to the 1970’s. Why do so many people think that AGP transsexuals are a recent phenomenon, and why do so few members of the general public have any awareness of them at all? The first reason is the strong tendency for gender-dysphoric AGPs to deny this phenomenon to themselves and to others. This point has frequently been discussed in my Twitter/X feed and I will not revisit it here. The second reason has to do with the traditional media. Since the enormous news coverage of Christine Jorgensen’s surgery in 1952, reporters have covered stories about sex reassignment as tales of near-miraculous transformation and redemption, stories reminiscent of Cinderella or The Ugly Duckling. Reporters could easily have found out about APG transsexualism without even consulting the relevant literature; all they had to do was listen to a few experienced clinicians. Back in the days when sex reassignment was newsworthy in itself, I was interviewed multiple times on this topic. I was relatively naïve about the media, and I would try to explain about the different types of male-to-female transsexualism. One could see the reporter’s eyes glaze over. This was not what they wanted at all. There was no need to complicate the Cinderella story with tales of the pre-transformation Cinderella masturbating with panties snatched from the family laundry basket. With the advent of the internet, the situation became somewhat different, because the average person now has access to unfiltered (or less filtered) information. Very few people, however, are going to randomly search for “types of transsexualism,” so awareness of AGP and AGP transsexualism still remains rare."
Thread by @jonkay on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "ICYMI: a renowned expert on evidence-based medicine at @McMasterU published data showing the low quality of research used to justify “gender-affirming” surgical disfigurements/drugs. So his colleagues forced him to recant & pledge allegiance to child-sterilizing policies
And yes, @McMasterU is the same university that encouraged a bizarre social panic in 2020, suggesting the psych dept was being run as a criminal sex ring. The school spent millions investigating it, destroyed multiple careers, & it was all nonsense"
Ginny Gentles on X - "When a mother of a 9-year-old girl attending swim lessons at an Arlington Public Schools high school pool complained about a naked man loitering in the locker room, school district staff said there was nothing they could do because he claimed he was a woman. After @usedgov investigated Arlington and four other Northern Virginia school districts, the Office for Civil Rights concluded that their policies allowing self-identification into sex-segregated spaces violate Title IX. Arlington refuses to comply with Title IX and risks losing federal funding. District leaders and activists will claim victim status. They're wrong. The women and girls who were told they have to share locker rooms with this repeat sex offender are the victims."
Oppose Your Kids’ Gender Transition? Spain Wants You Behind Bars - "The bill, supported by all parliamentary groups except VOX (which voted against it) and the Navarrese People’s Union (UPN, which abstained), includes prison and disqualification penalties for parents, doctors, psychologists, or educators who do not support so-called “affirmative therapies.”... One of the bill’s most controversial aspects is that it extends sanctions to parents or legal guardians themselves. They will be penalized if they “promote, consent to, or facilitate” any form of conversion therapy, even if they intend to protect the minor and avoid irreversible medical transition without proper psychological support... With this modification of the Penal Code, Spain has joined the ranks of countries with the most radical gender legislation. It distances itself from European models like Sweden or the UK, which have begun to slow down minors’ access to ‘transgender’ medical treatments. The measure could have a chilling effect on professional practice and freedom of conscience, establishing an ideological punishment regime against those who call for prudence, and poses a direct threat to parental authority"
John Kennedy on X - "Under President Biden, the NIH spent $120,000 on a grant to “develop 3D avatars that help people work through gender dysphoria.” Is that really more important than studying chronic lower respiratory disease?"
Gender-neutral pronouns banned in German civil service : r/europe_sub - "The Travel agent in the UK that my mother works for is currently being sued as a Man who identified as a Woman wanted to have on his travel documents that he was a female. Despite it saying on his passport that he is Male. To start with most countries simply would not allow him access if the gender on his travel documents didn't match. But he was also flying to Saudi Arabia"
Gender-neutral pronouns banned in German civil service - "It comes after Italy banned gender-neutral symbols in schools in a similar move last May, arguing that the practice undermined traditional and correct grammar... Ms Prien has previously called for an end to gender-neutral spellings in schools on similar grounds. “Gender-sensitive language is important, but special characters such as asterisks, colons and underscores should not be taught and used in school,” she said. Five regional governments in the German states — Bavaria, Saxony, Hesse, Schleswig-Holstein, and Saxony-Anhalt — have already banned the use of gender-neutral language in official documents."
Possum Reviews on X - "Remember when the third Fantastic Beasts movie got rid of Johnny Depp over accusations of violence against women, but then they kept Ezra Miller?"
Transgender Treatments Distort the Purpose of Medicine - WSJ - "The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s ban on medical gender interventions for children, reflects a split in the Justices’ views of medicine: Is it about restoring patients’ health or satisfying their wants? The court held last week that the Tennessee law permissibly distinguished between different medical uses of puberty blockers and hormones for children. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts explained that medical treatments are defined not only by the drug used but by the purpose for which it is prescribed. Administering testosterone to a boy with delayed puberty is categorically different from giving it to a girl. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent that the law impermissibly discriminates based on sex: “Male (but not female) adolescents can receive medicines that help them look like boys, and female (but not male) adolescents can receive medicines that help them look like girls.” In her view, the goal of testosterone for boys and girls is the same: it helps them “look more masculine.” Behind the justices’ rift is a fundamental question: What is medicine for? In the traditional view, the purpose of treatment is the patient’s health—the well-working of the body. We don’t decide what health is. We observe health, recognize its goodness, and protect it. Yet the rise of the “patient autonomy” model in the 1960s and ’70s directed physicians to administer treatment at their patients’ behest. This model led to a consumerist approach to medicine, which sees physicians as “providers” instead of healers. Providers of services fulfill customers’ wishes, regardless of whether doing so restores or compromises patient health... Traditionally, medicine treats a mental disorder by helping the patient align perception with reality—like the reality of a healthy body. Medicalized gender transition turns this norm on its head, “affirming” the child’s disordered perception and treating his healthy body as a diseased one... medicine traditionally takes the well-working human body as its standard. Justice Clarence Thomas pointed out in his concurrence that giving testosterone to a girl induces a disease state, hyperandrogenism, which increases her risk of heart disease and characteristically renders her infertile. Justice Thomas’s concurrence aligns with longstanding principles of pediatric ethics that both doctors and parents have a fiduciary duty to promote children’s health-related interests. For pediatric patients, the ethical standard centers on their medical best interests, not their wish to suppress unwanted functions. Medicalized gender transition has another glaring problem. Children can’t comprehend consequences such as sterilization or loss of sexual response. As Justice Thomas noted in his concurrence, members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health have admitted that discussing fertility preservation with a 14-year-old is like “talking to a blank wall.” This problem is compounded by the high prevalence of anxiety, depression and other mental disorders in these children. Gender clinicians also admit that treatment ends when the child no longer wants it—unlike how medicine handles genuinely necessary interventions. Front and center in the debate are the vulnerable children suffering from gender dysphoria. Their healthy bodies and future ability to experience sexual intimacy and have children are at stake, illustrated by stories of irreversible damage done to detransitioners—those who seek treatment and later regret it. The integrity of the medical profession is also at risk. This isn’t the first time vulnerable patients have been harmed by physicians to alleviate mental distress. In the 19th century, thousands of young women had their ovaries removed to treat “menstrual madness” and “lunacy.” Lobotomies were performed in the 20th century on people like Rosemary Kennedy, whose family was told she’d be calmer afterward. Today’s gender interventions for children are disturbingly similar. In trying to relieve mental suffering, they cause permanent harm. The Supreme Court was right to recognize this. It is past time for the medical profession to do the same."
Genevieve Gluck on X - "Transgender ideology is protected by mainstream media, the UN, the World Health Organization, the Open Society - and was ushered in by the American Psychiatric Association. Nothing about transgenderism is grassroots, apart from the massive lobbying campaign undertaken by transvestites who sexually abused their wives. Their campaign kicked off in the 1970's, and was immediately taken up as a cause célèbre by powerful institutions. Transvestites organized multi-nationally in English speaking countries. They were backed by sexologists and psychiatrists, who were told, to the letter - according to a 1965 manual penned by sexologist John Oliven - to gaslight women into accepting a male sexual pathology as an innate identity. Psychiatrists partnered with sexologists at that time and discouraged wives from divorcing husbands who abused them in fetishistic ways, mimicking BDSM pornographic content. This idea and this movement was not created overnight, and for five decades was built up by elite institutions who sided with male fetishists before it became mainstream."
Genevieve Gluck on X - "A history lesson: "The Journal of Male Feminism", originally titled "Hose and Heel", was published from 1980 with the explicit support of Paul Allen Walker, a gay man and early founder of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). The origins of WPATH can be traced directly to the University of Minnesota. During the 1980's, transvestites would send their wives for re-education to sexology programs that groomed the women to accept their husbands' fetish. The same sentiment behind "The Journal of Male Feminism" is what caused the creep into US universities' decision to promote gender identity ideology and rebrand "Women's Studies" to "Gender Studies", as the origin of so-called transgenderism came directly from sexology programs already embedded in those institutions - with universities in California and Minnesota serving as the hubs in the early days."
Meme - Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "This is the secretary of @vancouverpride , and basically the living embodiment of @ZivoAdam ’s argument about why LGB groups are trying to distance themselves from trans extremism"
Morgane Oger @MorganeOgerBC: "I guess @jk_rowling won't be coming for dinner on Sena II then? When should Canadians expect your eagerly-awaited departure, Robert?"
"Trans activist hailed by Justin Trudeau makes VERY sinister post about JK Rowling's yacht after tracking it"
Jill Foster on X - "Clive Lewis MP has over 1500 replies on his X post questioning the Supreme Court ruling. Hundreds of women respectfully replied. He ignored them. Who DID he deign to reply to? A man who started his response with ‘FFS Clive…’ If women - of all political persuasions - can learn one thing from the gender ideology conversation it’s that men like Lewis really do not hear you or listen to you or even like you. Remember that at the ballot box."
Meme - Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "Actually, this religious cult-speak about injecting “lightness” into a sterilized child’s soul explains precisely why politicians *do* need to act. We don’t allow Jehovah’s Witnesses to reject life-saving paediatric blood transfusions, even if it makes them feel blessed by god"
"For the youth who do receive treatment, it's often transformational. Many have carried the fear of rejection and of no longer being loved. Being accepted for who they are is like lifting a weight off them. Their confidence grows and they move forward with a newfound sense of lightness. I have seen over and over again how young people thrive when they are able to live in their full identity."
The Globe and Mail @globeandmail: "Opinion: There's no place for politicians in the medical exam rooms of the nation"
Meme - Angry goose chasing Pride/Trans flag: "Why do you call it a "personal attack" when I tell you to just leave kids alone? Why the fuck is it an attack on you to be told to leave children alone?!?"
Meme - Delusional Takes @DelusionPosting: "PinkNews @PinkNews: Trans artist resells Harry Potter books with JK Rowling's name removed and it's genius"
ClayAnon @Clay_Anon: "This has been going on for a while. The irony, of course, is that changing the book's appearance doesn't actually change what's inside. Just like with trans people."
Fining nurse Amy Hamm $93,000 a grotesque attack on free speech - "These are worrying times for free speech in this country and it is not helped with the persecution of British Columbia nurse Amy Hamm by the province’s College of Nurses and Midwives. Hamm is the nurse who said sex is binary and also helped pay to put up a sign in Vancouver that declared, “I (heart) J K Rowling.” For these and similar crimes, Hamm has now been suspended from nursing for a month and ordered to pay the shocking and unjustified sum of $93,639.80 in legal costs. With its punitive disciplinary decision, the college appears to be saying that you can either shut up or suffer what amounts to a $93,000 fine for exercising your right to free speech. It is a chilling ruling but one that is not surprising given the increasing number of self-important, bloated, authoritarian organizations and professional bodies in Canada that think the Charter right to free speech and free expression is a mere whimsy. What really irked the college — and the very expensive witnesses they called — was that Hamm sometimes identified as a nurse when she used social media to expand on her mainstream views about sex, gender and women’s safe spaces. Hamm first got into trouble with the 2020 billboard supporting the Harry Potter author whose gender critical views have also come under fire. A complaint about the billboard started an investigation by the college’s inquiry committee which resulted in a ridiculous 332-page report about Hamm’s off-duty tweets, articles and other online musings... there was no “direct victim”; complainants were “ideological opponents”; no patients were involved and no trans-identified people came forward to provide evidence of harm. But none of that mattered. What mattered was only the “likelihood that trans-identified people would find her statements to be discriminatory and derogatory.” Thus Hamm was punished, not for any harm, but the risk of harm. It was similar reasoning that saw Christian singer Sean Feucht banned from so many Canadian venues — for safety reasons which were never detailed. Again, the same rationale — security issues — saw the Toronto International Film Festival pull the documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue about one family’s experience in Israel on October 7, 2023. (TIFF has now reversed course.) These things are happening, not because we have turned into a nation of “wee timorous beasties,” but because too many organizations have aggregated to themselves the power to decide what is acceptable or not for Canadians to watch, read and hear. The Hamm case is even more disconcerting when you consider the lengths a professional body will go to in terms of energy, resources, money and punishment dished out, to enforce its own particular censorious ideology. Hamm, a nurse for 13 years with an unblemished record, was terminated by Vancouver Coastal Health without severance after the guilty decision. She has not found another nursing job, writes some opinion columns (including for National Post) and is a single mother who receives no child support. Still, the disciplinary panel considered $93,000 in legal costs was not punitive. Who are they kidding? As noted by Hamm during the hearing, “a significant penalty would convey to professionals that they should not speak up on controversial matters based on conscience.” Part of the costs included $38,197.80 to pay for one of the College’s experts, Dr. Greta Bauer, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Western University, and the Sex and Gender Science Chair for the Canadian Institute of Health Information. It was this very expensive witness (whose fee was cut from $63,663 to $38K) who enlightened the college with profound insights that included: it was proper to call mothers “birthing people” because inclusivity was so important; who disagreed “that there are only two sexes” and that “humans cannot change their sex,” and who thought that Hamm was frivolous for saying, “I don’t think it’s possible for women to defend their legal rights, or even the definition of womanhood if anybody can say they’re a woman and it will be so.” Yet Hamm was only saying years ago what others, including the United Nations, are saying now. In a stunning report last month, Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, wrote a full-throated defence of biological sex... In punishing Hamm, the panel accepted she was sincere in her beliefs."
My girl was preyed on by trans paedo in supermarket toilet - ‘woman’ ruling is breath of fresh air - "Her daughter was only ten when she was pushed into a cubicle by 6ft 5in pervert Katie Dolatowski — who was born a boy named Lennon — and ordered to remove her trousers. The parent, 57, of Fife, spoke out after last week’s landmark judgement that “woman” is defined by biological sex. She told The Scottish Sun: “What a great result from the Supreme Court, a breath of fresh air that common sense has prevailed on this subject for once. "Why anyone thought it was ok, especially governments, to say a biological male who identifies as a female could access female toilets is beyond the comprehension of most people... The mother said the ruling would make women and girls, especially victims of domestic or sexual violence, feel less at risk. She added: “I hope women can feel slightly safer in their own private spaces, whether that is a bathroom or even a prison situation. Women fought too hard for rights to be disregarded.” Her daughter managed to lash out and flee Dolatowski’s attack at a Morrisons in Kirkcaldy in 2018. But the fiend avoided prison, despite also secretly filming another girl, then 12, on the toilet in an Asda in Dunfermline. The pervert was finally caged for 78 days in April 2023 for repeatedly defying court curfews. Dolatowski was sent to the all-male Low Moss jail in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow. It came following outrage that trans double rapist Isla Bryson, previously Adam Graham, was initially remanded in a women’s prison. The furore led to all criminals being jailed according to their birth sex. We told how the UK’s highest court ruled that trans women with self-ID certificates are not legally female in a defeat for SNP ministers to campaign group For Women Scotland."
This never happens. She's just a transphobic bigot
When Skeptics Get Sex Wrong: Debunking the Debunker - "I’ll let the PhD biologist Colin Wright explain:
When biologists say sex is binary, we’re not saying that every human who has ever existed or ever could potentially exist is unambiguously classifiable as 100% either male or female. What we mean when we talk about sex being binary is the fact that there are only two sexes because sexes are defined by the type of gamete your reproductive system is organized to produce. So someone who has ambiguous genitalia who is born without any gonads…that’s not a third sex because there isn’t a third type of gamete that this person has the reproductive capacity to produce. So this binary only refers to the fact that there are only two sexes. It doesn’t talk about whether everyone is classifiably male or female 100% of the time even though the overwhelming vast majority are.
On Dr Steven Novella's falling to trans mania and ignoring the biological definition of sex
Philosophy and the sex and gender debates | Maya Forstater - "I was pleased to find that Julian Baggini had written an article towards the end of last year asking “Is JK Rowling transphobic?” (Answer: no) He tells what happened when he invited a gender critical feminist (in fact, Kathleen Stock) to speak at a Royal Institute of Philosophy debate on diversity. He couldn’t find anyone from the other side of the trans debate to share a stage with “the TERF”.
“If two philosophers cannot discuss these matters, then how can we ever expect anyone else to? If this debate can’t happen then how is any rational discourse possible? We might as well all go home and throw metaphorical Molotov cocktails at each other.”...
We do not define “woman” as someone having “some combination of XX chromosomes, reproductive organs and hormones”, but as someone female (and adult and human). Female is defined by having the type of body with the potential to produce large gametes. Hormones, for example, change over a woman’s life. You can refute the checklist approach by asking people. Going back to my tribunal, there was a long section of cross-examination where the counsel for the other side tried to get me to admit there was something wrong with my definition of woman, because some women (with so called intersex conditions) do not have XX chromosomes. No, I repeated several times. Its not chromosomes. It’s gametes. You can refute the approach with science – for example hens are adult avian females – they don’t have XX chromosomes (they have ZW), roosters are adult avian males – they don’t have a penis. These features are not fundamental to maleness or femaleness. Asparagus plants are either male or female, but don’t have a womb, breasts, penis or a liking for Jimmy Choos (the female ones produce ovules which go onto become fruit, the male ones provide the pollen). In humans a man who loses his penis is still a man, a woman who loses her uterus or breasts is still a woman, just as a person who loses a leg (or is born without one) is a full human being. You can also refute this approach with armchair reasoning. If a woman told you that she has been trying to get pregnant but has found out that she does not have ovaries, you would sympathise with her, not do a mental calculation to count up whether she still has enough of the features of femalehood to be a woman. If a transwoman told you she had been trying to get pregnant but found out she does not have ovaries you would likely assume serious mental health issues... In trying to describe the gender critical position he ends up describing the modular “sex characteristics” approach of the Yogakarta +10 Principles – the manifesto of the movement which seeks to undermine sex based rights in favour of “gender identity”. Law rightly says that biological essentialism about the sexes does not justify essentialism of social roles (‘women should be home-makers’, ‘women should be subservient’), but he falls into the trap of saying “‘man’ and ‘woman’ could lie on a spectrum with “intersex people” in the middle. As both scientists and people with ‘intersex’ conditions will tell you – sex is binary, not a spectrum and having an intersex condition (or disorder of sexual development, DSD) does not mean someone is not a man or a woman. If you keep the gametes definition in focus then it becomes clear why the Kripean definition of sex does in fact rule out sex as a spectrum; there is no spectrum of gametes... Stephen Law wrote a whole book “The War for Children’s Minds” about the risk of ideological authoritarianism in education, and children’s vulnerability to institutionalised psychologically manipulation. Julian Baggini found that most female academic philosophers he spoke to agree with the “TERF” position but are too frightened to speak. This goes too for teachers, academics, clinicians, social workers, civil servants, managers in organisations, many journalists, people in the arts, media, publishing."
