Thread by @wesyang on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "There are no "anti-trans extremists." There is a political party and professional apparatus that put male rapists and murderers in women's prisons, propagandized kindergartners that any of them could change sex, forced taxpayers and insurance customers to fund electrolysis and facial feminization surgeries, put any boy or man who claimed to be female into changing rooms with your daughters, forced you to declare the gender identity of your toddler at the doctor's office, deceived parents about the social transition of their children at school, banned psychological exploration of the mental health comorbidities that manifest as trans-ideation in the midst of an online social contagion generating 5000 percent increases in trans identification among youth, fined all-female nude spas run by immigrants for excluding men with penises who claimed to be women for violating the human rights of those men, imposed men on the athletic playing fields with your daughters, told thousands of parents to submit to the chemical castration of their children to avert imminent suicide risk for which no evidence has ever existed, subjected thousands of children to macabre sex changes procedures while lying about the existence of an evidence base where none ever existed while claiming on the basis of no evidence that the procedures were life-saving, investigated parents who refused to put their children on a pipeline to a lifetime of medicalized self-harm by pretending they had changed sex and sought to seize custody of them, and threatened to unperson you, attack your livelihood and leave you ostracized if you resisted it in any way with the aid of the monopolistic tech platforms that control the circulation of speech and money around the globe in a new surveillance and censorship regime that sought to dismantle biological reality in the name of narcissistic fantasies that it intended to entrench as the only truth while corrupting the truth-seeking apparatus of science itself -- and there is a majority of normal people in both parties who oppose this nonsense and want it stopped. Obviously one can posit the existence of anti-trans extremists who want to put trans people in concentration camps and force them to transition and there may even be individuals who harbor such repressive fantasies. But there is no organized movement anywhere in the world that seeks such outcomes and scarcely any individual with a significant public profile who articulates such a vision. The Trump Administration's EO spells out an agenda with zero overlap with such imaginary anti-trans extremism. It instead seeks to dismantle institutional investment in and coercive state power over those who wish to opt out of compelled obeisance to falsehoods -- it wishes to undo the institutionalization of the pro-trans extremism that seized control of American institutions under Biden. The transgender movement must observe the same limits on the scope of its ambitions that every movement in a liberal, pluralistic, democratic society must observe. If such limits rule out most of the movement's demands, it reflects the illiberal, undemocratic, and authoritarian nature of its demands which therefore must be refused."
Transgender mum who transitioned from male to female SUES expert for discrimination after being mocked online for breastfeeding her baby - "A transgender mother who underwent medical treatment to breastfeed her newborn son is suing a breastfeeding expert who publicly dismissed her experience as a 'delusional queer theory take'. Former Australian Breastfeeding Association volunteer counsellor Jasmine Sussex will face a Queensland tribunal next year over claims she discriminated against Brisbane transgender woman Jennifer Adrian Buckley. The tribunal will decide if Ms Buckley was discriminated against under the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act over a series of social media posts by Ms Sussex. The breastfeeding expert described Ms Buckley as a 'man pretending to be a woman' and referred to transgender male breastfeeding as 'dangerous' and 'experimental'. Buckley is alleging that Ms Sussex's online comments amount to discrimination and vilification, saying that they were 'hurtful'. Ms Sussex told the Daily Mail the case is about protecting the rights of women and preserving the mother-baby relationship. Ms Buckley, who transitioned from male to female, claimed to have successfully induced lactation and breastfed her newborn son in 2019. Her wife, Sandi, had given birth through IVF using sperm Ms Buckley froze before booking sex change surgery. Ms Buckley said her endocrinologist helped her mimic pregnancy to produce milk and used a range of medications to suppress testosterone, boost oestrogen, and trigger the production of the milk-producing hormone prolactin... others warn further evidence is needed to support the practice, with the potential health outcomes for babies still largely unexplored... Ms Sussex conceded she could have delivered the message more delicately but said her intentions were not to discriminate against Ms Buckley. 'My goal was to alert the ABA that they were dealing with a biological male,' she told the Daily Mail. Her comment was soon deleted by the ABA, before she was blocked from the organisation's Facebook page. Within months, the organisation sacked Ms Sussex. The volunteer of 15 years was told it was not related to Ms Buckley's complaint. Behind the scenes, the organisation had been dealing with a dispute over a push to adopt gender-inclusive terminology including 'chestfeeding' and 'pregnant people'. Ms Sussex was among several people who resisted the push, claiming the organisation was made up of 'mothers providing support to other mothers'... Ms Sussex said her defence to the claims of vilification and discrimination would rely on grounds of public interest, human rights and biology. 'Breastfeeding is a sex-specific function,' she said. 'Men can't claim vilification for being told they can't do it.' She plans to call medical experts to challenge the safety of induced lactation in transgender women. 'It's not an issue for me until it affects the wellbeing of babies and mothers… much of my adult life has been about supporting mothers to breastfeed their babies,' she said. 'I just think mothers and babies deserve better than this.'"
Mixed-gender changing rooms becoming a 'magnet' for sexual predators, according to new report - "Police data obtained by the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) showed that 80 sexual assaults, 16 rapes and 65 incidents of voyeurism took place in leisure centres in 2023 – many of them in mixed-gender changing areas. The report follows earlier WRN research which found that one in three councils no longer offers single-sex changing rooms for swimming pool users, amid what it called “a backdrop of shrinking access” to women-only spaces. Olympic and Commonwealth swimming champion Sharron Davies MBE described the findings as “shocking” and “horrendous”, warning that mixed-gender facilities were “proving to be a magnet for sexual predators” and “places where females are uniquely vulnerable”. Although single-sex changing rooms are not mandatory, official guidance states that where they do exist, they must be reserved for biological women. The WRN has said that mixed-gender “village-style” changing areas are now “the default design” in new leisure centres, and that these layouts “design-in harm” by creating opportunities for avoidable abuse."
Sall Grover on X - "Yeah, that’s why they were created as single sex to begin with. That data has long been confirmed."
Wesley Yang on X - "As with all other progressive lunacies that are instantly translated into policy, we needed to spend a decade accruing enough people harmed by it to have data to prove retrospectively what any sane person knew would necessarily happen from the outset -- and even now, the prospect of any reform to end the policy that has been proven to be harmful is uncertain at best."
There's also the Target changing room study, but TRAs will continue to ignore all the evidence
Keywords: sexual assault, unisex changing rooms, unisex toilets, single sex toilets
Over 5,700 children in 5-year period had gender surgeries, most from 5 liberal states: watchdog - "In a five-year span, thousands of minors had gender reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers or hormone treatments at a number of children's hospitals and medical facilities across the country, a medical watchdog is reporting via their new national database. Do No Harm, a national advocacy group of medical professionals against "woke" hospital agendas, shared the database, called "Does My Hospital Transition Kids?", with Fox News Digital this week. In total, the group conservatively identified 5,747 minor patients who received sex-change surgery, and 13,994 received some sort of gender reassignment treatment between 2019 and 2023. The data, de-identified to meet HIPAA compliance rules, shows nearly $120 million total in charges for treatments like sex change surgeries and hormone blockers... "And I think, as you'll hear, we've really been meticulous in trying to make sure that the data are as clear as possible and are as accurate as possible. And because of that, you're going to find that, if anything, we're showing the lower limits of what's going on in this whole arena," he said. "And to be certain that we're not overstating it one iota, we're probably, and almost certainly, understating the nature of the problem," he added... "Adults can do as they wish, but we feel very strongly that the science behind using these treatments in children is extraordinarily flawed and suggests that children are being harmed in that sense. One of the important issues is to develop some quantitative notion of what's really happening in this arena," Goldfarb said. "And there are lots of myths that are out there, lots of ideas that this is a rare event, lots of ideas that this is localized to just a few places." Activist and detransitioner Chloe Cole, who underwent a double mastectomy at 15 years old and put on puberty blockers and testosterone at age 13, said the new database "proves the lies from the medical establishment and radical politicians who argue that cases like mine are rare." "The stats in this database represent thousands of kids who are being treated like Guinea pigs for unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medical experiments. I hope politicians and parents alike use this database to see where these treatments are happening and protect their children from being rushed into irreversible, life-altering treatments," Cole said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital."
"This is not happening, and it's good that it is"
Meme - jess! @jessicobra: "CIS WOMEN STOP SMILING LIKE THAT AT EVERY TRXNNY YOU SEE ON THE STREET
im literally a superior version of you. on my way to get my dick sucked. go home"
MTFs hate women so much
John James on X - "TQ+ have caused so much damage to the gay community. We don’t support castrating kids We don’t support telling boys they’re girls We don’t support telling girls they’re boys We don’t support men in women’s sports We don’t support death threats We don’t support your narcissism"
Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ on X - "Imagine a scenario in which large numbers of white people start saying that they “feel black,” and that because of this feeling, and their enjoyment of stereotypically “black behavior,” they are now not just black themselves, but the most marginalized and vulnerable type of black person. Imagine them insisting that they should be the main focus of all activism meant to help PoC. Imagine them having operations to darken their skin and mimic stereotypically black features. Imagine them walking around in blackface, and saying it’s the exact same thing as actually being black. Imagine them being honored as black citizens by the White House, being summoned to talk to the President about issues facing the black community, being supported by celebrities, and having laws passed to make white people who identify as black a protected class. Imagine these people demanding membership in black organizations, insisting that they receive a share of the reparations that CA is about to pay, and demanding they be given awards created specifically to honor black achievement. Then imagine them getting their way. Now imagine mobs of them showing up to black events that don’t include them, carrying threatening signs and air horns to drown out any speakers with noise. Imagine them coming up with slurs for any black person who doesn’t accept that white people are black if they say they are. Imagine them calling for the rape, torture, and mass murder of any black person who disagrees with them. Imagine them getting black people doxxed, harassed, assaulted, fired from their jobs, and investigated by the police for saying that you have to be born black to be black. Now imagine the government supporting their demands. That’s exactly the position that women are in right now, with a few extras, like being locked in cells with dangerous men, the sexual predation of lesbians via coercion, and the increased risk of sexual assault in what used to be female-only spaces. Our oppressors are now claiming not only the right to oppress us in whole new ways, but the right to erase our identities as women and rewrite the meaning of womanhood in ways that suit - and include - them. If you wouldn’t support this kind of behavior towards black people, you have no business supporting this kind of behavior towards women."
Why Canada could be the last holdout for trans pseudoscience - spiked - "While the US, UK, Sweden, Italy and others are banning puberty blockers and other dangerous procedures, the Great White North remains committed to this increasingly discredited medical fraud. There is only one place in Canada that's resisting the trans othodoxy: Alberta. The province, which is governed by the United Conservative Party, recently took steps to prevent the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on minors, as well as surgeries like mastectomies. 'Alberta introduces Canada's harshest anti-trans policies yet', read the headline in Xtra, a Canadian 'LGBTQ2S+' online magazine. If 'harshest anti-trans policies' means protecting women and children, then that is precisely what Alberta's Conservatives are trying to do. In October, premier Danielle Smith introduced three changes to advance this objective. They include the Fairness and Safety in Sport Act, which bans males from competing against females, and an amendment to the Education Act to ensure that parents are notified if their child uses a different name or pronouns at school. Then there is the Health Statutes Amendment Act, which prohibits sex-reassignment surgery for minors, as well as the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to anyone under the age of 16. This need for each of these laws should be obvious. They follow major, systematic reviews of 'gender-affirming care' in Sweden, Finland, the US, the UK and even Canada - all of which reduced the arguments of trans activists to rubble. Of these investigations, undoubtedly the most significant was last year's Cass Review, commissioned by NHS England... Clearly, the bulk of Canadian doctors either haven't read, or refuse to accept, these reports. This became apparent last month, when the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) announced that it intends to file a constitutional challenge to Alberta's Health Statutes Amendment Act on the basis it undermines 'the freedom of conscience of physicians'. 'This legislation has put me and many of my colleagues in a state of moral crisis', wailed Jake Donaldson, a Calgary-based physician. The CMA's intervention warrants closer scrutiny, not least because of its blatant hypocrisy. In 2020, Canada's then attorney general, David Lametti, tried to make it illegal for doctors to question a child's 'gender identity', doing so under the banner of banning 'conversion therapy'. In the CMA's, this did not apparently violate the 'freedom of conscience' of Canadian doctors. Yet preventing doctors from offering drugs that arrest the natural physical development of minors, render them sterile and permanently disfigure their bodies supposedly does. Go figure. Donaldson was at least right about one thing. 'These patients are a vulnerable group that already face significant and disproportionate discrimination, violence and mental- health challenges', he said. These patients are indeed vulnerable. They are minors who don't understand the very serious repercussions of the path they are being led down by trusted authorities, and are in no position to consent to such drastic, dangerous and permanent measures. Instead of using arguments based on evidence, doctors like Donaldson instead prefer a form of emotional blackmail. Last month, in response to the Alberta bills, he cited a study claiming that US states with restrictive gender laws experienced 'significant increases' in suicide attempts in transgender groups. This is bogus, to put it mildly... In recent years, we have seen this type of argument used repeatedly in the form of accusations that those of us challenging trans ideology have 'blood on our hands'. But it is doctors who offer these treatments to minors who really do have blood on their hands. It is a complete abandonment of medical ethics, and as unscientific as it is unethical. Yet in Canada, doctors are fighting for the right to destroy the bodies and lives of countless youth. Canada's bizzarro world reigns."
Trans row: 'Women-only' block of London flats now accepts men who 'identify as women' - "A "women-only" affordable housing scheme in London has said it will accept male-born transgender women on its waiting list. The 102-flat Brooke House in Ealing will welcome applicants who were born male but now identify as women. However, transgender men, those born female who now identify as male, cannot apply for the development. The Women's Pioneer Housing Association now appears to describe the project as "women-led" rather than women-only. Residents' male family members will be permitted to live at the site... The Supreme Court ruled in July that the terms "sex", "man" and "woman" in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex."
The law is only to be respected when it pushes the left wing agenda
London child protection body scraps ‘gender ideology’ training after legal challenge - "London’s child-protection body has abandoned its gender training programme, which advised frontline professionals to learn neopronouns such as “zirself” and “eirself,” as well as family and relationship titles including “dommy,” “zaza,” “nibling,” “datefriend,” and “loveperson,” following a legal threat. The city-wide child protection partnership — the Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) — which sets training standards for safeguarding professionals across the capital, had included these terms in an online course offered to staff in key safeguarding positions, including teachers, social workers, and NHS staff... A Bayswater spokesperson said: “It’s unacceptable that a publicly funded body failed to check the assertions made by Ms Martinez, especially in this vital area of safeguarding children. "Underlying a trans identity in a child are complex pre-existing factors such as childhood trauma, sexual abuse, bullying, autism, ADHD, and social isolation. In this so-called safeguarding training, Ms Martinez wrongly and dangerously suggested that once a child questions their gender identity, it’s an open-and-shut case: they must be affirmed in their ‘new identity.’ “However, there are significant risks to any social transition or affirmation of identity — not just parental alienation, but also physical harms from binding (of breasts), tucking (of male genitalia), and DIY hormones.” They added: “Indoctrinating safeguarding professionals to act in this way is like instructing the bank manager to rob a bank. We hope this case will highlight the ideological capture of safeguarding training for trans-identifying children and bring some very overdue scrutiny into this area.” Bayswater Support Group is represented by solicitor Paul Conrathe, who said the training conflicted with statutory guidance and the independent Cass Review into gender services. He said: “This training not only completely misrepresented the law but advocated for activism""
Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ on X - "It takes a lot to really shock me. I get pissed off about horrible things, but they don’t really shock me. This does. This paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics draws a comparison between female genital mutilation and “gender affirming” surgeries — and uses the latter as justification for the former. To be clear: after pushing an entire generation of gay and autistic children to volunteer for genital mutilation, these people are using that as an excuse to cut up little girls‘ vulvas with neither consent nor the presence of a medical professional, let alone any kind of pain management. And just like that, gender ideology has become justification for the most barbaric custom on planet Earth."
Trans mania has so many downsides
Stephanie Winn, LMFT | ROGD Repair on X - "After analyzing 2,700 detransitioner stories, @pjamessteven noticed a striking pattern: women transition to escape being sexualized. Men transition to sexualize themselves. Two opposing forces driving the same phenomenon. He has more insights on his platform @DetransAI.
Skate Canada won't host Alberta events due to gender law
deccmate on X - "What you should be wondering is “what is Skate Canada going to do when the Olympics announces the new rules around female participation in female sport in January?” In typical Canadian fashion, trans activists have no idea that the rest of the world has left 2018 behind."
Sam Morgan on X - "“Trans” activism is the idea that the more unstable, mentally ill, perverted or dishonest a man is, the more important it is to give him access to vulnerable women and children."
‘I dared to question gender theory at Cambridge. Students carved Terf into my door’ - " University of Cambridge students allegedly carved the word “Terf” into a fellow undergraduate’s door after she showed interest in gender-critical books. Thea Sewell, 20, says she was ostracised by friends at Christ’s College and condemned as a “bigot” for possessing literature which disputed gender theory – the notion that gender is changeable. The second-year philosophy undergraduate, who is a survivor of childhood sexual assault, says she continues to be shouted at in the street for allegedly holding “reprehensible” beliefs on gender. Ms Sewell has now co-founded the Cambridge University Society of Women (CUSW) with other gender-critical students to fight for the right to express their views. Cambridge has recently come under fire after Newnham, its oldest women-only college, said it would welcome trans women as students despite April’s Supreme Court ruling that the definition of a woman under the Equality Act means someone who was born female. The wider university, however, has banned transgender women from women’s college boat races following the court’s clarification on the legal definition. Ms Sewell said she had bought books by Kathleen Stock, the former University of Sussex professor, Alex Byrne, the philosopher, and Helen Joyce, the gender-critical author, at a talk by the latter in Oxford in April... she was confronted by a different friend in a communal kitchen in the college who asked her, “Are you a Terf?”, an acronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist”. “I actually first said, ‘No, I’m not a Terf’,” she recalled. “And I still actually would stand by that, because I think that that term doesn’t necessarily allow for the nuance that my opinion has. “I asked her why she thought that, and she said she knew that I owned some gender-critical books, and she knew I’d gone to the Helen Joyce talk. I said to her, ‘Okay, what’s the problem with that? I’m a philosophy student. I’m going to own philosophy books. I could also own Mein Kampf. It wouldn’t make me a Nazi.’ “Her response was that buying books from bigots is the same as being a bigot,” she said. Ms Sewell then confronted the friend to whom she originally showed her books. “Her tone was completely different to anything that it had ever been to my face,” she said. “She told me that I was a bigot and that everyone deserved to know my hateful views on trans people.” The friend then ended the call and Ms Sewell had a panic attack. Over the next fortnight, she struggled to sleep and said she was “completely cut off by pretty much all of my friends, bar maybe one or two”. Others told her they “loved” her but could not be seen with her in public because of “social optics”, while her “college wife” – a fellow student with whom she was due to help settle in some of next year’s undergraduates – “divorced” her... the college condemned her treatment and the graffiti as bullying, and the matter was investigated. But Ms Sewell said she was unaware of any disciplinary action being taken... “I think what needs to happen is that academics need to start coming out loudly for free speech. We need a real culture change because people are really, really scared to speak their minds, academics and students alike.” Ms Sewell found her treatment particularly shocking because her fellow students knew she had been abducted and subject to a serious sexual assault in 2019, when she was 14... “My feeling is one of outrage,” she said. “Every single person in my college knew about that, and if I was them, even if I was captivated by gender ideology, I would think, ‘Wait a minute, I’m going to have a chat with Thea, because I’m sure that her views on this matter will be influenced by her experience as a teenager.’ “And it absolutely has informed my beliefs because I know just how important single-sex spaces are for women.” Ms Sewell is continuing her studies at Cambridge but now attends fewer lectures and tutorials in person because she fears how fellow undergraduates will treat her. Her former friends continue to ignore her, while other students stare, surreptitiously take her photograph and shout abuse, she says. But she and other gender-critical students are hopeful that CUSW will change the atmosphere at the university. “Students don’t know that being gender-critical is a protected belief,” she said. “That’s something that I think people are gradually waking up to, because our society has not been shut down. I think they were under the impression that university authorities or even the police would come and shut us down, but obviously that’s not going to happen. Our success will change things.”"
The crowd who are against "banned books" want to ban books that oppose the left wing agenda
‘Transphobic’ Christmas card pulled from Sainsbury’s - "A Christmas card has been removed from Sainsbury’s shelves after being branded transphobic. The card was deemed offensive for featuring a cartoon of Dr Seuss’s Grinch character alongside the caption: “This Christmas, I’m identifying as a Grinch.”"
