Mario Zelaya on X - "For anyone questioning Danielle Smith, invoking the notwithstanding clause, that protects minors, needs to be reminded that a Doctor withheld a study showing that "puberty blockers did not improve the mental health" of children. Weirdos only seem to listen to science and facts when it's most convenient for them."
Chris Berthelot 🇨🇦 on X - "Puberty blockers do not sterilize anyone. Trans kids & their parents can make informed decisions about their medical treatments. Smith, Anderson & the UCP need to lie because they have nothing else. This will be overturned. The UCP will lose. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli"
Rob Anderson on X - "So let me get this straight…your position is that if a 12 year old male goes on a puberty blocker for, let’s say, 3 years — and then stops taking those blockers at 15, you are of the actual view that their natural teenage puberty and growth (including to their reproductive organs) would **checks notes** not be affected? Is that some kind of newly discovered biology you’ve uncovered? *Hint* you’re the one that’s been lied to and you ought to go and figure out what other woke pseudo science you’ve been lied to about."
Danielle Smith on X - "New Zealand has now stopped the use of puberty blockers on minors, acknowledging the lack of credible evidence and the growing concerns over long-term harm. They’ve joined Alberta, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United States in taking these kinds of important steps to protect children. This is the right direction and Alberta applauds their decision."
Trans: New Zealand halts new puberty blockers for young people - "Health Minister Simeon Brown said doctors would no longer be able to prescribe gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs for gender dysphoria or incongruence to those seeking treatment for the conditions and not already on the drugs. The decision resulted from a health ministry finding of a lack of “high-quality evidence that demonstrates the benefits or risks,” Brown added in a statement... The drugs will still be available in New Zealand for those with early onset puberty, endometriosis or prostate cancer, as well as for current users."
TRAs claim that it's discrimination to allow puberty blockers for early onset puberty but not for "trans" kids when they are two different conditions. They really have terrible comprehension skills as usual
Stats For Gender on X - "A cohort study of people who received puberty blockers then cross sex hormones found that bone mineral density fell during puberty blockade and did not fully recover after cross-sex hormones, especially for the lumbar spine of males receiving estrogen."
Linda Blade on X - "THIS is critical!! ⚠️ Bone mineral density (BMD) is like a bank account. It builds up and, then, during middle age starts to decline towards (eventual) osteoporosis. The bigger the bank account the longer it takes into old age for the bones to break down. KEY POINT: 👉🏼25% of that “bank account” is deposited during the teen years. Puberty blockers & hormones shut down the ATM 🏧 to valuable, time-critical deposits 💸. These kids will NEVER get that BMD “money” back!! These “gender affirming” medical folks have robbed kids for this foundational investment in their bones 🦴! This is also why #Alberta legislation is so important.⚠️"
Children cannot consent to puberty blocker trial, Streeting admits - "Wes Streeting has admitted that children cannot give consent to take part in the puberty blocker trial. The Health Secretary told MPs that participants in the trial instead need to give “informed assent” to receive puberty blockers. Mr Streeting also revealed that the decision to approve the trial was one he “wrestles with every day” and reiterated he was “not comfortable” with it... “no child under the age of 13 can consent to sexual activity because they don’t have capacity”, and asked: “How can children under 13 consent to body altering drugs, drugs that will change or even block their sexual development, potentially? “How can they possibly have capacity to understand what that means? Will you consider a lower age limit by which no child can receive those drugs because they cannot consent?”... Research commissioned by Transgender Trend, a campaign group, and undertaken by Whitestone Insight, found that 63 per cent of more than 2,000 adults surveyed thought the trial should be stopped."
No more experiments on children - spiked - "Last year, the Cass Review's scathing findings led to the closure of the discredited Tavistock gender clinic and to a ban on puberty blockers. Yet despite all this, the NHS is now throwing &10million at a study that will dole out puberty blockers to gender-distressed kids - again. Yes, even after all we've learned, the medical establishment is still flirting with the idea that we can chemically freeze children in time and expect no consequences. Effectively, UK health secretary Wes Streeting has banned puberty blockers with one hand and reintroduced them with the other - dressing up the same failed experiment as 'research'. Distinguished clinicians such as David Bell, Marcus and Susan Evans, Az Hakeem, Stephen Levine and others have also added their names to the accompanying 'Statement of concern' opposing the proposed NHS puberty-blocker trial. But where is the public outrage? Let's be clear: puberty is not just about pubic hair and hormones. It's a profound metamorphosis - physically, cognitively, emotionally. It's what makes adults out of children. Strip that away, and you're left with something chilling: children suspended in a twilight state, medically sterilised and emotionally stalled, with no path back to normality. And yet, we're told this is 'progress'. We're told it's 'affirming' to block puberty in a 12-year-old girl because she doesn't like her body. We're told it's compassionate to drug children into stasis while their peers grow, mature and explore first love, heartbreak and rebellion - the messy business of becoming an adult. This isn't medicine. It's experimentation. It's social engineering with scalpels and syringes. There's no long- term outcome data. No rigorous follow-ups. Just ideology in a lab coat. Through Genspect's Beyond Trans programme, I run weekly online support groups for detransitioners and others dealing with the fallout of medical transition. What I hear is often devastating: fear, regret and a haunting sense that a point of no return has been crossed. Many have undergone major surgeries - ovary or testicle removal - and now live with the irreversible consequences of decisions made when they were too young to understand them. Though they've psychologically detransitioned, they're left in medical limbo. Some are terrified to restart hormones that match their biological sex. Why? Because there's no roadmap. No one knows what happens next - least of all the clinicians who set them on this path. Should a woman who never went through natural puberty, but now regrets her transition, start pumping synthetic oestrogen into a body that's been shaped entirely by testosterone? What happens to a female body that never developed breasts, never menstruated, had a hysterectomy, and was medically masculinised from adolescence? What does it do not just to the body, but also to the mind and metabolism, when the most fundamental stages of human development have been bypassed in the name of 'affirmation'? These experimentally constructed adults have reached adulthood having bypassed puberty. This is not a healthcare model. It's dystopian. It tramples over ethics, evidence and common sense, echoing the darkest chapters of medical history, when vulnerable people were used as guinea pigs in experiments dressed up as 'care'. The silence from the medical profession on this upcoming trial is deafening. Too many clinicians still hedge, clinging to the idea that puberty blockers 'might help some kids'. But the evidence doesn't back it up, and if you can't say no to harmful interventions out of fear of online backlash, you shouldn't be in healthcare. I was once one of those gender-nonconforming kids - a tomboy and a misfit. Thankfully, no one tried to 'affırm' me with drugs. I was allowed to go through puberty, develop sexually, and to slowly grow into myself. Why can't today's kids be given the same freedom?... Puberty is not an error to be corrected. It's the bridge between who we were and who we're becoming. Blocking it doesn't hit pause. It derails the individual onto a pathway of lifelong medicalisation."
Levi Pay on X - "I can’t believe the shift from “gender dysphoria” to “gender incongruence” for this clinical trial. The definition of “gender dysphoria” was ludicrous enough. But, with “gender incongruence”, there doesn’t seem to be any requirement for distress, or even unhappiness. Instead, the focus is on whether the child has a “desire” to change gender (whatever that’s supposed to mean) and a “dislike” of their body. Without any requirement for distress, this means that the @KingsCollegeLon clinical trial will be free to administer live-changing drugs to children who have no physical health problems *and* no mental health problems whatsoever. Just a desire and a dislike. Children who are healthy, physically and mentally, will be placed on a medical pathway towards sterility and almost certain cross-sex hormones. What on earth are these people thinking? If I hadn’t already left my job as a service director at King’s College London, I’d be walking out the door over this. I would want no association whatsoever with such a disgusting experiment on healthy children who, disproportionately, if left alone to go through their normal process of development, would grow up to be lesbian or gay. Shame."
Progressive Misogyny on X - "“We’re testing a treatment with no established basis, for a condition with no defined mechanism, by comparing two groups of children who both receive the treatment, using an outcome measure unrelated to the condition, over a timeframe too short to observe the effects that actually matter, and one group is primed to feel better simply because they get what they wanted and the other is primed to feel worse because they’re forced to wait.”"
Dr P: Puberty is not an illness on X - "These are the IQ scores of a child on PBs. IQ is a stable construct. It should not change significantly over the lifespan. (Your IQ at four should be pretty much the same as your IQ at, say 90). But the scores here are all over the place because PBs cause brain damage. That's how they work. They hit the brain to switch off puberty. The designers of the PB trial know this, which is why they are including measures of IQ and neurocognitive functioning as part of their clinical outcomes. Again:
1. They already know PBs cause a drop in IQ.
2. They are going ahead anyway."
Wes Streeting should reject NHS puberty blocker trial - "Shortly after the trial was announced, campaigner James Esses and detransitioner Keira Bell threatened legal action, demanding that the Health Research Authority (HRA) shut it down. Parents’ groups and clinicians quickly pointed out glaring flaws in the study’s design. Campaign group Transgender Trend nailed the core issue: in most drug trials, the potential benefits of a treatment must outweigh the risks. But in this case, “the treatment IS the harm.” The very purpose of puberty blockers is to interfere with natural development, turning healthy children into lifelong patients. “Arrested growth is the desired outcome,” Transgender Trend pointed out, “so gender ideologues view this as a ‘success’.” This is the problem politicians like Streeting face: transgender ideology doesn’t allow for a cozy middle ground. Either you accept biological reality — that sex is binary, and that no amount of medication or strongly held beliefs can change that — or you deny it entirely. Streeting likely views approving the trial as a convenient way to shift responsibility onto Cass, sidestepping the tough decisions that come with his role as Health Secretary. On the surface, more research sounds sensible. Who could argue against gathering more data? But when it comes to gender identity treatments which are based on ideology rather than evidence, another trial means more children subjected to harmful and unnecessary medical intervention."
Transition Justice on X - "When Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy's study on puberty blockers didn't deliver the desired results, she intentionally suppressed it - while thousands of children continued to be prescribed these powerful medications off-label. Erin Friday (@ErinFriday75490) exposes the crimes of JOK, urging the @FTC to investigate her. @BrandonMShow"
Viva Frei on X - "Meanwhile in Canada… Vancouver Park Board “apologizes” for hosting Harry Potter event. “Members of the city’s transgender, gender diverse and Two Spirit communities had expressed concerns about the decision to partner with the event this holiday season due to its association with J.K. Rowling, author of the seven Harry Potter novels.” Canada has gone full retard."
Amy Eileen Hamm on X - "These people are insane. The park board of Vancouver crying together, issuing a public denouncement of @jk_rowling, and promising to “rebuild” public trust. Because of a Harry Potter forest walk for kids. None of these people are okay. 😂"
Andy Lee on X - "Oh, you should be proud. You have druggies overdosing on taxpayer-funded safe supply everywhere, but Vancouver is obsessed with owning JK Rowling by trying to ban a Harry Potter exhibit for kids that planted more trees for free than our federal government ever did"
Amy Eileen Hamm on X - "Vancouver: where it’s “hate speech” to say “I ❤️ JK Rowling” but it’s just a regular day when a city councillor says that all police officers must die, or endorses the rape and murder of women."
Mary 🦎 on X - "This is what my gender confusion took away from me. My ability to have penetrative sex, my breasts, my nipple sensation. I lost hair on my head. It took away my lovely speaking voice. It left me a shell of a woman. The gender cult will take everything f
rom you and spew hate when you leave."
Rep. Josh Williams on X - "🚨 WATCH: We just passed a bill in the Ohio House that requires 5th grade
rs to view a video in their sex education classes of a baby forming in the womb. One of my Democrat colleagues, with no self awareness, said that 5th grade is an "inappropriate age" to see this video. These are the same people who think 5th graders are mature enough to choose their gender."
Timothy Caulfield on X - "Hard not to be both depressed & infuriated about these regressive, science-free, & cruel actions. AB to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges https://t.co/W1uGaiozRB Very obviously, NO evidence these MAGA are laws needed."
Jonathan Kay on X - "“Science-free,” you say? Gee, if only an acclaimed paediatric expert with a mandate from a G7 govt spent years doing a massive review of all the literature in the field, & then published her analysis… Oh wait. That happened It’s called the Cass Review Have u read it, Tim ?"
David Aaronovitch on X - "Why? What does it cost you to have Jan Morris called a woman?"
Levi Pay on X - "This is like asking “What does it cost you to have this other individual over here say that they believe 1+1=3?” On one level, very little. But the problem lies not in that one person’s mind or their mistaken belief. The problem comes when our institutions believe, affirm, entrench and enforce that incorrect belief. This question about Morris is what happens when we don’t nip the inversion of language in the bud. “What does it cost you to have Jan Morris called a woman?” In one sense, very little - and certainly a lot less than it cost Morris’ wife and children. But, in another sense, that single belief, in the mind of one person, costs society the entire concept of girlhood and the concept of womanhood, together with all of the rights, protections, safeguards and freedoms that flow from those two concepts. It costs society its sanity. It costs society the truth. “What does it cost you to have Jan Morris called a woman?” I used to wonder things like this myself. I know that asking this question is a stopover on the way to answering the question fully. And so, I try to be patient with the question. But, blimey, it is frustrating to hear the question being asked."
We're scientists who study sex and gender. Here's what Trump gets wrong about trans people
Christina Buttons on X - "This is why people are losing trust in scientists and institutions. These two trans-identified authors who tout their authority as “scientists who have studied sex and gender for many years,” claim that “transgender people are a natural part of the human species” who have existed “across cultures and through time.” This is revisionist history. What has always existed are feminine boys and masculine girls, ordinary variation within each sex. This doesn’t require a magical belief in an “innate gender identity” or medical interventions to alter a perfectly healthy body into a crude imitation of the opposite sex. Despite what the authors would like readers to believe, “transgender” is not a distinct biological type supported by scientific evidence. It is an ideological framework overlaid on top of normal sex variation, on the paraphilia called autogynephilia in heterosexual men, and, more recently, on psychological distress in teenagers."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on X - "This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter, and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable. We stand with you today and every day🏳️⚧️"
Zachary Elliott on X - "The irony here is that trans-identified people do not live authentically. The entire belief system is based on denying the biology of one’s body. This lie leads to the harm of the body through the use of cross-sex hormones and irreversible surgeries."
Wesley Yang on X - "The Department of Health and Human Services has published the final, peer-reviewed edition of its systematic review of the evidence on pediatric gender medicine. The Washington Post Editorial Board notes that the review "has withstood scrutiny." "Their core finding — that the evidence for these interventions is highly uncertain — echoes the results of systematic reviews in other countries. None of the peer reviews of the HHS report ultimately rebut that conclusion." None of this has been in serious dispute by informed observers since 2021, when Sweden reversed course on giving puberty blockers to children because the risks outweighed the benefits. US based medical trade associations continue to persist in the false claim that chemically castrating children and dosing them with hormones has been proved to be medically necessary and lifesaving. It is an ongoing scandal that the HHS report is the latest in a long series of authoritative documents to demonstrate."
Jamie Reed Whistleblower on X - "This is fraud, simple, dirty, corporate fraud. “The billing codes and data show that between 2017 and 2024, CHOP providers diagnosed 250 minors with central precocious puberty at age 10 or older, “including numerous teenagers aged 14 to 18.”"
Meg Brock on X - "The federal government is aware of “evidence of fraudulent billing practices to secure insurance coverage/payment” for child sex change medical interventions “because they know that certain insurance plans may not cover the off-label prescription of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for gender-related treatment,” Lisa Hsiao, acting director of the DOJ’s Enforcement & Affirmative Litigation Branch, stated in an affidavit filed Tuesday."
Wesley Yang on X - "The gender clinics did not even attempt to hide routine billing fraud because they did not contemplate anyone in power would ever hold them to account. Such was their arrogant complacency, grounded in the fact that the Democratic Party was happy to be accomplice to any abuse done in the name of transgenderism."
Eithan Haim MD on X - "Over the last few years we learned that entire gender industry relied on fraudulent medicine. Now we are discovering it gets even worse. They relied on fraudulent billing practices! They submitted insurance claims for the treatment of diseases that did not exist in order to ensure reimbursement for gender interventions that would not have otherwise been covered. This is what they used to maintain the financial solvency of their clinics and conceal their activity from legislative prohibitions in Red States. This topic is painfully confusing but really quite simple once you take the time to understand it. I'm very thankful that @sometherapist for having me on to go through the issue."
Meme - Reddit Lies: "Statistically trans women don't commit sexual assault."
>Gets proven wrong
"So?"
Reddit Moment"
""Ethical problem allowing a male body in the women's locker increases risk of sexual assault on women. Planet Fitness should reconsider their policy."
"Statistically trans women don't. it's primarily and statistically creepy straight men. tired of all these straight people cosplaying as queer in this community. just lke you. you're not part of the community if you don't support the T in LGBT."
"Trans women commit sexual crimes against women at the same rate as cis men. *source*"
"So?"
Rachel Reeves’s moan about ‘mansplaining’ is proof that she’s out of her depth - "Glamour magazine – whose strapline is “Beauty, Fashion, Trends & Empowerment” – named no fewer than nine biological males among its “Women of the Year”. So readers will hardly have been surprised, this week, to see it run an article about how awful it is that the FA has “banned transgender women from playing women’s football”. Some of us may feel it’s actually quite reasonable to ban males from playing on female teams, for the sake of both fairness and women’s physical safety. Even if we disagree with the article’s content, though, we should be grateful for one of the photos used to illustrate it. Because it depicts a female footballer, on her knees, enthusiastically kissing the muddy boot of a male trans teammate. I for one am delighted that Glamour published this photo, because, quite unwittingly, it has provided us with the perfect visual metaphor for trans activism... Incidentally: imagine if a publication ran a photo of a female player kissing the muddy boot of a male player who isn’t trans. What do we think the reaction would be? I’m only guessing, but I suspect there would be an ear-splitting eruption of fury about how misogynistic and degrading it was. Not least from magazines that boast of their belief in “empowerment”."
Meme - Sam Morgan @CrunchAlias: "When you allow a porn-addled man to falsify his birth certificate, it means no birth certificate can be trusted any more. They cease to be records of historical fact, and become nothing more than validation tools for fantasists."
ultrakawaHD 🏳️⚧️ @ultrakawaHD: "I am officially born as a woman"
Weird. We're told that sex and gender are different and only ignorant people don't know that
Meme - Irene BritUSA @irenebritusa: "Black women aren't men! Get outta here with that racist rhetoric! I don't have to accept male genit*lia in my locker room because I’m black. I don't have to support women being terrorized and having opportunities stolen from them because I’m a black woman. Sod off!"
Comrade @RantingComrade: "Black women were historically denied recognition as 'real women.' Saying trans women aren't real women is the same kind of non-sense with different reasons for "why they're not""
