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Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Links - 1st July 2025 (1 - Trans Mania)

Meme - Leanne: "Having access to healthcare for trans people is also very important, which China and Thailand do a much better job at than the West"
Readers added context: "Transgender health care in China is severely lacking in resources and social acceptance:"

Meme - MaryCate Delvey @marycatedelvey: "Jail for all men who involve INFANTS in their disgusting womanface f3tishes"
"THE QUEER ISSUE
My First Time Breastfeeding My Daughter
Breastfeeding is freaky. Not the sucking bit. You're reading The Stranger, so odds are you've had a titty sucked at some point in your life. No, it's because when my baby attached to my breast, there was an incredible chemical cascade that ran through my entire body like lightning. Imagine the most electric thing a partner has ever done to you, then multiply it by 10. I could feel my brain rewiring, creating pathways that would permanently connect me to my child (And yeah, I kind of got off on it. Don't judge.)"
Venice allan @roseveniceallan: "Never mind the dolls, PROTECT THE BABIES" *MTF breastfeeding*

Kimberly Klacik on X - "Why aren’t kids in the hood transitioning to the opposite sex? I know the answer, just wanted to see if you knew. Comment below…"
Sara Higdon on X - "Well because the typical demographic is upper middle class white kids of progressive parents. for two reasons. They have time and money to worry about such things, and have been conditioned to believe through Critical Theory that they are an oppressor and there is no way they can ever escape that status, so they see this as a way to join an oppressed class for which they are celebrated for instead of condemned. It’s the relationship between CRT and Queer theory."

Transgenders in the Military? Please stop the Hyperbole - It's Not About Equality. - "In the past, the US military had one purpose: To defend our nation. The individual voluntarily succumbed to the greater national good. If the individual benefitted, it was secondary to the cause of the nation. Now, certain individuals have eclipsed the purpose for serving, and the military has assumed a secondary role of some cultural touchstone whereby serving is an individual right.  Why should someone be allowed to enlist, knowing that the enlistment will entail medical costs due to mental health management, hormone treatments, and other procedures up to and including gender reassignment surgery – not to mention the lost work productivity for all of the above? Why is that fair to the millions of others who wish to serve who also have a medical condition? Or even a non-medical condition, such as being a single parent or having a wrong tattoo? Why is it fair to allow a transgender to enlist – knowing the medical costs on the other side from the time of enlistment – when someone with high blood pressure cannot? That’s treatable. If he or she is otherwise fit to serve, why not enlist him or her, and begin treatment?  In an extreme example, why not let someone in with cancer? Why couldn’t John McCain, in an earlier life, have shown up to Annapolis with a brain tumor? After all, in hindsight, we know what he’s capable of. Why not treat it, and let him serve? Going further, as the military is looking for the best and the brightest, what if Lance Armstrong had enlisted right after winning the Tour de France? He takes his entrance physical and finds he has testicular cancer. Why should that be disqualifying? We know on the face that he’s capable of serving. Let him in, treat the cancer, and let him serve. That’s hyperbole, of course, but it makes my point. There is no overwhelming reason to incur the costs of medical care for any individual, and because of it, the military has a cut-line of medical restrictions for enlistment. In the words of Spock – the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Unless, of course, you have a vocal lobby in congress. Then the military mission becomes secondary to an individual’s “right” to serve.  I hear a lot of talking heads saying “we need whoever can best serve. We’re cutting our recruitment base when we discriminate”, but that misses a banal truth: The military is built on medical discrimination, and that discrimination is based on its mission. There is a reason you don’t see any soldiers taking the oath of enlistment from a wheel chair, and it’s not because the military hates handicapped persons. It’s because the military is not a social construct. It is a war machine, and it is designed to close with and kill the enemy, period. There are hundreds of different medical conditions that prevent one from serving, and saying we’re losing out on recruits by banning transgender personnel is a red herring. Why not say the same about flat feet, like they did in 1941?...  emotion has taken sway over common sense. It is not the military’s job to create a position for the individual to self-actualize – especially if that self-actualization entails medical treatment at taxpayer expense. I feel for the transgender community, but no more than I do for the person with a hyperthyroid disorder or asthma. Neither can enter the military, but one has a political lobby that treats this as a civil rights issue. It is not.   Yes, there are transgender personnel who have served honorably while hiding their condition, just as there are thousands of soldiers who hide other medical conditions to serve, but that is not an argument to alter the enlistment standards. I know of a soldier who wanted to be a pilot, but found out he was color blind, which was a disqualifying condition for pilot training. He joined the Army instead of the Air Force, and then, after joining Special Forces, he learned that color blindness was also disqualifying for becoming a free-fall parachutist. He decided to hide it, ripping out any reference to colorblindness from his medical records and going to extraordinary lengths to pass the color vision tests over and over again. He succeeded for over a twenty-five year military career, but he would be the first to tell you that we shouldn’t drop color vision as a discriminator for HALO status. It’s there for a reason, as he discovered on a harrowing night jump.   The fact remains that gender dysphoria is a medical condition, and that diagnosis requires medical treatment the same as a host of other disqualifying medical ailments. A recent RAND study is routinely held up as showing that the medical costs incurred by transgender enlistments is negligible – a veritable drop in the bucket to the overall defense budget – and that may be true, but it’s also irrelevant. The same could be said of the majority of ailments currently proscribing one from serving. (Which also begs the question, if it’s so negligible, it’s proof that so few transgender are serving that the recruitment argument is meaningless. Why are we pole-vaulting over mouse turds for such a small minority?) Should we now simply drop all medical discriminators? Or is it just the LGBT community that gets the benefit? Why can’t someone with high cholesterol get in? Sure, they’re at risk for heart disease, but it’s treatable – and the cost would be negligible when compared to the overall defense budget. What about vision tests? A person disqualified from serving due to poor eyesight that could be fixed simply by a Lasik procedure? Why don’t we let all of them in, and give them the procedure – something that’s a hell of a lot cheaper than gender reassignment surgery? That, too, would be a drop in the bucket when compared to the overall defense budget, but do we really want the military to be in the business of fixing every problematic medical condition so that every single person who wishes to serve gets the ability to do so? Sooner or later, it’s no longer a drop in the bucket, and it’s a Pandora’s box that doesn’t need to be opened for the simple fact that it is unnecessary. A single day lost or a single dollar spent due to gender dysphoria is one too many, and it’s patently unfair to others who wish to serve but are denied that ability due to a medical condition outside of their control.  At the end of the day, we need to remember the mission of the military. The LGBT community has turned this into a crusade, but it doesn’t alter the facts. The military is not built to serve the individual, but the other way around. The individual serves the military – and by extension, the nation... The transgender community is estimated at 0.6 percent of the US population. The rate of disqualifying high blood pressure in the typical age for enlistment, per the American Heart Association, is 9 percent. Where is the outrage over the nine percent with hypertension? A completely treatable condition? Why does the fraction of a percentage of the transgender community have a cudgel to pound, as if that population somehow holds greater sway than the millions of others with treatable medical conditions?"

James Esses on X - "A concerned trainee therapist has leaked an advertisement for a student placement at the NHS Sussex Gender Service. Successful candidates must “understand gender diversity” and must be “affirming” and “anti-oppressive”. Dangerous ideology continues to infect the NHS."

James Esses on X - "A Green Party that doesn’t understand the basic and irrefutable science of biological reality cannot be trusted on the complex science of climate change."

Independent Women's Forum on X - "“Is there a biological difference between men & women?” -@RepLisaMcClain
“The answer is NO.”
WHAT⁉️"

Meme - Gay Not Queer @Gaynotqueer1: "Some dads would much prefer to pretend that they have a straight daughter than a gay son."
LIEV SCHREIBER: ""Kai was always who Kai is" ...But I suppose the most profound moment was her asking us to change her pronouns. To be honest with you, it didn't feel like that big of a deal to me only because Kai had been so feminine for os long"

Meme - Sall Grover @salltweets: "“Men assault people in bathrooms” isn’t the argument to make when you want women to accept men in their bathrooms.  Why is this so hard to understand?"
Machine Pun Kelly @KellySc...: "Trans women don't want to invade women's bathrooms. They're just women who want to be able to pee. Over 50% of trans women are assaulted in the men's room EVERY YEAR. ACTUAL trans women assaulting women in the women's room doesn't even happen. Why is this so hard to understand?"
This never happens, of course.

Meme - pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism: "Copeland killed himself after he was outed as a secret crossdresser who had sick fantasies of "feminizing" little boys for sex and murdering women in his town.  Esquire does not mention this at all in their article and blames his suicide on “right wing media.”  won a Pulitzer."
Esquire @esquire: "It's an incredible honor to take home the @PulitzerPrizes  award in Feature Writing for Mark Warren's portrait of Bubba Copeland in our April/May 2024 issue.   Revisit the vital story:"
"Right-Wing Media and the Death of an Alabama Pastor: An American Tragedy"
Readers added context: "The article that was awarded a Pulitzer prize trivializes the fact that former mayor "Bubba" Copeland used photos of women and children to create transgender fetish content, and even wrote a sexual fantasy about murdering a woman in order to steal her identity."

Meme - slsyckes:  "Yesterday a 69 year old man known as Robert his entire life walked out on a balcony and self identified as Leo. The entire world now calls him Leo without question. See how easy it is to accept and respect what an individual identifies as. Oh, and he was wearing a dress."
nycgingerguy: "No one's ever had a problem calling someone by a chosen name. A name is not an identity, however. "Hi. What's your name?" "I identify as Jim." You're trying to say the tradition of a man taking a name as Pope (which British Royalty do, also) is the same as choosing your own pronouns, something he's not doing. He also doesn't identify as The Pope. He actually is the Pope. Same difference as identifying as woman and actually being a woman. Lastly, a vestment is not a dress anymore than a wedding dress train is a rug."
I identify as The Pope. If you disagree, you're a bad person
When you think the left has hit peak stupidity, they outdo themselves

Meme - Michigan UNCENSORED Residents Group: Amelia Loupe: "If you're sooo deadset on stopping me, a trans woman, from using the women's restroom I hope you're also deadset on tasting the first round in my chamber Seconds, thirds, and even fourths are available if you really enjoy the first serving too! Bon appetit!"
Brianna Emirie: "Thank you for proving our point, women aren't safe with males in our spaces"

Meme - James Esses @JamesEsses: "Dear @carla_denyer ,  Could you kindly explain why you have compared the majority of the population, who believe in biological reality, to racists, anti-Semites, and male supremacists?"
Carla Denyer @carla_denyer: ""Overlaps can commonly be found between anti-gender [anti-trans] movements and: a) racist, anti-migrant, anti-Semitic, white nationalist, &/or pro-imperialism groups b) male supremacist, misogynistic, &/or men's rights groups" From @GATEOrg's report:"

Trans Community Feeling Unsafe Knowing There’s A Hockey Player Somewhere Out There Not Wearing A Pride Jersey | Babylon Bee - ""In order for us to feel safe, it's essential that every person on earth agree with our opinions and openly celebrate them in public at all times," said Trans Community Safety Liaison Bertha Glamqueen. "The knowledge that even one hockey player somewhere in the world is maybe not fully endorsing our beliefs is literal genocide." The distressing news comes after player Ivan Provorov refused to wear a shirt with rainbows on it and the NHL's Blackhawks announced they will not wear pride jerseys on pride night. Experts are warning this may cause trans people to die from being unsafe.  "What kind of fascist would let someone feel unsafe?" said Glamqueen as a 5-year-old stuffed a $20 in his G-string. "This groundswell of anti-LGBTQ hatred is absolutely terrifying."  At publishing time, the entire trans community had been led to feel even more unsafe after hearing that a guy named Steve from Peoria attends a non-queer-affirming church."

Being a man was too much hard work, so I became a woman: Inside the transmaxxing trend where men swap gender to get 'female' benefits like cheaper car insurance, free meals and sex - "if you were to believe everything you read on internet forums, modern-day womanhood can simply be defined by its perks.  They include cheaper car insurance, free meals and an all-round 'easier' life once you've bagged a 'high-value' man - i.e. someone who is wealthy and attractive, thereby making them 'deeply desirable'.  So it's perhaps unsurprising that men who fear they don't meet this criterion are growing increasingly envious of women's position in the dating sphere - and going to extreme lengths to achieve it.  Welcome to the world of transmaxxing: where 'low-value' males, who are struggling with their gender identity or former incels, are transitioning to females to cash in on on the benefits of womanhood.   The 'Transmaxxing Manifesto', which was written by the movement's anonymous Swedish leader Vintologi, outlines how one of the biggest advantages of becoming a woman is the 'superiority of female aesthetics' and how this can be used to 'extract resources from males'. On top of this, the document, which is readily available on transmaxxing forums, also highlights how the transition gives them 'access to female spaces' that are 'cleaner and generally more pleasant' - arguing that 'males are disgusting'...  'transmaxxer' Sammy appeared in the Channel 4 documentary Transmaxxer Life Uncovered - where she defined a man as 'dominant, successful, outgoing, confident and resilient'.  She then added that none of these stereotypical attributes could be used to describe her before her transition - as she went on to characterise her old life as 'slightly incel-esque' and 'isolated'... Since being on hormone replacement therapy, Sammy revealed she had been offered 'a lot' of free meals and drinks from men - and now has a steady boyfriend.   She added: 'I don’t want to spend 70 hours a week working or get a personal trainer to become a “true man”.'... transmaxxing has also become intertwined with the incel movement - as transitioning to a woman is deemed preferable to being a 'low value' man... Following their break-up, Tina was inspired to research how much success women have in dating versus men - adding: 'What we can observe across the board is that women, by literally every metric, are somewhat more successful in terms of dating an sexual things than men.'...  'The incel communities, I realised, have fundamentally misidentified the problem.   'Most incels that I came across think that their problem is women and the lack of attraction women feel towards them.  '[But I told them] the problem isn't that women aren't attracted to you, the problem is you're attracted to women'.  Following this, Tina tried a series of medications to try and suppress their desire - and discovered transmaxxing after fellow incel began scrutinising the movement... 'I had very strong evidence that a woman's life would be socially advantageous as well as sexually and possibly even attracting a girlfriend [...]...  a fellow 'transmaxxer' posted on the Reddit forum - where they revealed they had similarly been 'rejected by girls and bullied by the alphas for being a virgin loser'.  Sharing before-and-after photos of their transition, they claimed: 'Now the very same alpha males that bullied me bend on their knees just to have a chance of kissing my feet, my [direct messages] are full of thirsty men begging for my attention, and I'm having more sex than any alpha male ever.'... Vintologi, from southern Sweden, began working on the first Transmaxxing Manifesto in 2016 - having graduated from university with a degree in mathematics.   The 28-year-old, who has never revealed his full name, said the purpose was to 'reduce the surplus of males' who were growing increasingly angry over not being able to find a partner."
How foolish. Don't they know about Male Privilege?

Jennifer Sey on X - "This pitcher -- who goes by "Marissa" -- is a boy named Charlie. He is 6' tall and his Batting Against Average is .128. When boys compete in girls' high school sports, they win."

Thread by @_CryMiaRiver on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "There are now stacks of systematic reviews conducted independently all over the world showing there is precisely zero evidence to support youth gender medicine and the evidence of harm is undeniable.  Nova Scotia’s response?  Let’s open more paediatric gender clinics!...  Earlier this year, I wrote about the appalling failure of Canadian media covering the scandal of paediatric gender medicine. CBC, unsurprisingly, completely ignored my plea for balanced coverage"

Meme - Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver: "This is atrocious journalism. There is no excuse for spreading this dangerous misinformation at this point in the medical scandal. Shame on you, CBC."
"Puberty blockers are a reversible treatment that temporarily stop the progression of puberty, providing a child with more time to explore their identity - for example through clothing - without the distress that can come with going through developmental changes."

Jonathan Kay on X - "Yet another Andrew Lam CBC “news report” celebrating the sterilization of depressed children in Atlantic Canada"

How gender activists stole the media, distorted medicine, and hurt Canadian kids - "There is a major medical scandal unfolding in Canada, and our media is fuelling it. In gender clinics across the country, doctors put healthy adolescents on invasive medical procedures that can impair fertility, sexual function, and bone density, damage bodily systems, and result in the removal of healthy organs. Teenage girls are being put into menopause, and young men are being chemically and surgically castrated. This is all done without a clear diagnosis or solid scientific evidence that these treatments are safe or beneficial.  Yet Canada’s mainstream media portrays these interventions, euphemistically called “gender-affirming care,” as evidence-based, medically necessary, and lifesaving. Top outlets such as CBC, CTV, and Global present paediatric gender medicine as uncontroversial.   The scandal of paediatric gender medicine contains all the elements of a sensational news story – conspiracy, intrigue, deception, and blackmail. It involves powerful institutions suppressing dissent, whistleblowers risking their careers to speak out, and innocent young people being harmed in the crossfire. There are medical professionals ignoring basic ethical principles, activists influencing policy under the guise of science, and victims being vilified and silenced. All this should prove irresistible to the inquisitive journalistic mind. Which makes it all the more puzzling that, aside from the National Post, Canada’s mainstream media has opted to ignore the story and instead act as a mouthpiece for extremist trans activists, uncritically echoing their talking points... before Dutch researchers introduced puberty suppression for trans-identified adolescents, studies showed that 63 per cent to 98 per cent of youth eventually outgrew their gender distress. However, once puberty blockers were implemented, nearly all adolescents progressed to irreversible cross-sex hormones, with persistence rates of 98 per cent to 100 per cent. The explanation for this striking reversal of persistence rates is that the cognitive and sexual development that occurs during puberty naturally resolves gender dysphoria in most cases. Blocking puberty, therefore, means blocking the natural cure for gender-related distress.  Yet our mainstream media continues to call puberty blockers reversible because Canada’s “experts” in “gender-affirming care” continue to cling to this belief, despite the mounds of scientific evidence to the contrary. It is the same for the claim that affirming a young person’s transgender identity and providing access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries amounts to “life-saving care.” The most pernicious of all trans activist misinformation, the transition-or-suicide narrative is ubiquitous in Canada’s mainstream coverage of this controversial medical treatment... a young trans-identified person is quoted as saying, “If I wasn’t able to start this therapy, honestly, I probably wouldn’t be here anymore.” This content directly contradicts suicide prevention guidelines, which emphasize that the media must never oversimplify or attribute suicide to a single cause because suicide is known to be socially contagious.   The truth is the transition-or-suicide claim rests on exceptionally flimsy scientific evidence. Surveys of trans-identified youth do show increased risk of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, but completed suicide in this population is rare. The elevated risk is likely due to co-existing mental health issues that are extremely common in youth who identify as transgender. All systematic reviews to date have found no good quality evidence to support the transition-or-suicide narrative, and the Cass Report and a recent robust study out of Finland reached the same conclusion. The final most common falsehood repeated by our top news outlets is that very few people regret undergoing these hormonal and surgical procedures... (the review cited by CBC is among the most poorly conducted study in a field already known for exceptionally low standards, leading one exasperated critic of the paper to ask, “where exactly is the line between incompetence and fraud?”)   These falsehoods remain ever-present in Canada’s reporting on paediatric gender medicine because our journalists have misplaced trust in medical associations, most notably the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). WPATH, an activist group masquerading as a medical association, has been thoroughly discredited in recent years, but these revelations have failed to penetrate the Canadian media landscape.  Even more remarkably, it is not only the media who were duped by WPATH. Almost every major medical association in North America, including the Canadian Paediatric Society, follows the lead of this fraudulent activist group that sets standards of care based on flimsy science, buries evidence that does not align with its political goals, and believes “eunuch” is a valid gender identity even children can possess.   The WPATH Files, released in March 2024, revealed professionals within WPATH, including a prominent Canadian endocrinologist, are aware that children and adolescents are not capable of understanding the lifelong implications of puberty suppression, that there is significant regret among this cohort, and that gender-affirming clinicians are conducting an unregulated experiment on people who identify as transgender... what journalism is meant to do: present the full picture. But in a media landscape dominated by trans activists, news outlets abandoned balanced reporting. In May 1941, the Saturday Evening Post published an article with the headline “Turning the Mind Inside Out.” In it, Waldemar Kaempffert, an editor of the New York Times, described a miraculous new brain surgery called a lobotomy that cut “worries, persecution complexes, suicidal intentions, obsessions, indecisiveness and nervous tensions” out of the mind... Kaempffert’s article was just one of many glowing media endorsements of what would become one of medicine’s greatest atrocities...   The misleading coverage of “gender-affirming care” has a similarly dangerous impact...   In February 2024, Radio-Canada’s EnquĂȘte team produced a stunning piece of investigative journalism in which an actress posing as a trans-identified 14-year-old obtained a prescription for testosterone after just a nine-minute appointment at a private gender clinic in Quebec. In response, local trans activists smashed the windows of the Radio-Canada headquarters in Montreal...   One of the greatest challenges in exposing the scandal of paediatric gender medicine is that the truth is so shocking it defies belief... It sounds like a wild conspiracy theory. Yet every word is true. Which means now more than ever, journalists must do their job"
This is why left wingers hate the National Post so much - it accurately reports the truth
With lobotomies, the state didn't lobotomise kids against parents' will, so trans mania is even worse

Gays Against Groomers on X - "Here she is—a smug 'Transhausen' mom, casually sipping coffee & gleefully singing after abducting her own child from his father. She trafficked him to Colorado, all so she could strip the father of his rights and rush to sterilize & mutilate her son—with a smile & song. DEPRAVED"

Boy 'quizzed by counter-extremist officers' for saying 'there are only two genders' - "A 12-year-old boy has allegedly been referred to counter-terrorism authorities after posting an online video saying "there's no such thing as non-binary".  The child, who remains unnamed, reportedly created the video to counter bullies who had mistakenly assumed he supported transgender rights. In the footage, he reportedly declares: "[I'm] gay not queer."  According to the boy's mother, school officials informed her that the video had prompted them to report her son to Prevent, the Home Office programme aimed at thwarting potential terrorists.  It is understood that authorities may have linked the boy's expressed views to right-wing ideology, leading to the controversial referral. The incident has raised questions about the interpretation and application of anti-radicalisation measures in schools, particularly concerning young children expressing opinions on complex social issues. Concerns were also reportedly raised that the boy, who is Jewish, said he wanted Hamas to be “wiped out” and told bullies he would “exterminate” them... 'We think that he was targeted as the children believe gay people agree with trans ideology.  “He made a video which I uploaded to YouTube where he said 'there are only two genders' and 'I'm gay not queer'.  “The school phoned up and were incensed by it. They said that they would refer him to Prevent for that video.  “They said that he was at risk of radicalisation - not that he had been, but was a risk when he gets to 13 and is entitled to his own social media accounts.  “There was a risk he would fall in with far right groups.”  She did not identify the far right groups that he is considered to be at risk of joining and the boy’s secondary school has not been made known.   The authorities were also said to be curious about a toy crossbow that had been bought from an English Heritage.  The mother added that bullies had attacked the boy’s Jewish heritage by making Nazi salutes and it was said that they forced him to drink another child’s urine.  “We sat down with the Prevent officers and there was an interrogation - they had an attitude of 'we'll ask the questions'.  “We were asked if we monitored his social media and what songs he listens to.  “They said there was a whole series of things he had been accused of.”"
Time to detain the "Far Right" to keep Jews safe
CLearly PREVENT is Islamophobic and oppresses minorities

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