Michael Laidlaw, MD: I'm a board-certified endocrinologist, practicing in private practice for the last 16 years. I've been studying and publishing in this area for the last 5 years, including peer reviewed journals such as Journal of of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, and others. I also have a patient who is a detransitioner.
I think it's important to note that studies are shown that desistance, or growing out of this condition, of children by adulthood is very high. It's some 50-98%.
I want to be sure before I give someone a very powerful hormone like Insulin that they in fact have diabetes.
What about cancer? Before we give any powerful agents such as chemotherapeutics or surgeries, we certainly want to have physical evidence of this problem, such as biopsies or imaging.
Now, the gender affirmative therapy treatment proposed by WPATH gives very powerful hormones and surgeries on what basis? Where can we find the gender identity to be certain that these children will not desist by adulthood? Can we use imaging of the brain or blood tests, genetic testing, are there other biomarkers to ensure that we are correct? There is no such thing.
Julia Mason, MD: The Endocrine Society put out guidelines in 2017, and they were very careful in the guidelines. One, to point out that the evidence was of low and very low quality. And they also said in the guidelines that they have no idea how you identify which kids are trans and require this treatment.
And then the American Academy of Pediatrics the next year just leapt into that void and said, oh, oh, we'll tell you how you know which kids. You ask them.
Prior to 2018 I had maybe one trans patient. But then there was another one. And another one. And another one.
It wasn't until later that I started asking questions like, wait, every single kid I send to the gender clinic gets put on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. Just, it was happening immediately.
Patrick Hunter, MD: This affirmative model of care has spread wildly in the last 8 years. Now we have objective, unbiased systematic reviews. These systematic reviews tell us the evidence for youth transition is poor quality, and with very low certainty for benefit.
In JAMA Pediatrics, there was a study reported from Northwestern University in Chicago. Patients ranged in age from 13 to 24 years. The authors concluded that mastectomy was beneficial and should not be delayed in youth. What lead them to that conclusion? The finding that 3 months after surgery, the 36 patients were happy with their flat chests. They lost 9% of their surgical cases to follow-up. Nine percent. In 3 months.
It is absurd, meaningless to draw any conclusions after 3 months.
This paper is indicative of the quality of research we have in this field, published in our most prestigious journals.
The Red Pen Of Justice - YMCA Regina's Campaign to Erase Women
The CBC seems utterly transfixed (ha!) on erasing women from the public sphere. The CBC news headline from cbc.ca.
“YWCA Regina stands by trans woman giving keynote speech at [a Woman’s] award event amid backlash”
We are going to go through the article and highlight what the YWCA aka the Young Women’s Christian Association is saying in an attempt to normalize the notion that males who…
what do you think dros was thinking when he first saw the phasmid? was he experiencing wonder; serenity? did he feel the world was still playing sick tricks on him: did he believe he was going insane from isolation and this was one of the symptoms? was it helplessness - that even though this miracle of nature stood before him, his beliefs prevented him from telling anyone about it? did the phasmid stand over iosef, watching him watch martinaise through his scope? did he feel her eyes on him for hours, until he forgot the eyes and the pheromones burnt a hole in his brain where she used to be? is he in a kind of grief over her absence in his head? is it a coincidence that the character who is most unable to move on from his past is on an island where the only other living being tells the player to turn from the ruin and move forward? that the most self-appraisingly noble and hopeless of causes has looked at the future for too long, and it is destroying him...
The Naruto fandom is so funny cause even a small little line from a female character that can be interpreted as maybe a tiny bit insensitive and people will act as if she’s the worst person ever even though she’s like 12.
While Sasuke can try and get a jinchuriki captured (and murdered) and Sasuke stans will forgive him, and act as if he did nothing wrong, and still think that Sasuke cares about marginalised groups in the Naruto world, even though he tried to get someone from one murdered purely because of what he would gain from it.
i’m not yet fully sure how to annunciate this but satine kyrze in clone wars is written in such a way that the writers misogyny is inextricable from her character for me and it’s very hard to like her or hate her or really cohere what she could have been. like the relationship that damara has to hussie’s racism in homestuck but without the handmaid. maybe it’s my own thing but all portrayal of her positive or negative falls flat to me bc it’s so removed from what her character is or it’s too fucking sexist to stomach
havent rimposted on here in a while. here's the base of my current save
i have ideology+biotech dlcs and im playing as a custom* race of cave dwellers whose ideology resolves around being cave dwellers. lights bad dark good eclipse is perfect their diet is entirely cave grown fungus with occasional meat from a raider** and everyone who isnt a raxdactyl and/or a caveist is fucking miserable here
Apparently being a regular teenager is a disorder requiring medical treatment and the removal of body parts. Not only are you "trans" if you don't fit a 1950s Barbie/G.I. Joe stereotype, you're "trans" if you don't fit a 1950s "golly, gee" soda shoppe "Leave It To Beaver" stereotype.
This is the same tactic psychics use to tell you your fortune, and astrologers use to convince you that distant stars reflect your personality. It's called the Forer Effect, or Barnum Effect.
To really drive home the cult programming, any time you're feeling better, that's how you know you've gotten worse.
For political and ideological reasons - for example, one presenter actually claims that children are being "misdiagnosed" as autistic when they're actually trans - they've flipped the symptom and the cause.
Exciting news! After failing to get through to the D&I lead that I was reporting a reputational issue about hostility towards GC views, not a personal grievance, my manager actually listened to me and was shocked that I wasn’t being taken seriously. He raised it with our HR lead, who was also shocked by the whole saga, and she’s now forming a plan with others in HR. My manager also spoke to someone pretty high up and he’s confident she’s taking it pretty seriously and has said she’s going to do some work to try to resolve it.
When a feminist calls you an idiot, it's projection.
Feminists are the dumbest organized group alive. They are incapable of recognizing when they have spent all of their rhetorical credit.
They just keep on rolling with the same tired old garbage, like you idiots don't think I heard all of this empty shit from my stupid narcissist mother dozens of times already?
Don't you fools realize that most of the people who hate you were raised by one of you? I know your shitty, low-energy, defeatist arguments better than you know them yourselves.
You are infantile utopian thinkers and you will never achieve the world you think you want. Your only choices are to grow up, or go to your grave a failure.
Interested in the fusion of white nationalism and even Nazism with historically anti-racialist fundamentalist Catholicism, as touted by Fuentes and some other America First guys. Joe Brody is genocidally racist and seems to specifically identify as a Nazi in a few places (and where he criticises them, his issues are tactical more than ideological) and yet has also called for Jews to convert. Obviously orthodox national socialists are not remotely interested in saving Jews’ souls nor do they particularly care about Vatican II and so on so it’s a semi-notable development
Canada's top court criticised after referring to female rape victim as 'person with a vagina'
Canada’s top court criticised after referring to female rape victim as ‘person with a vagina’
Vancouver’s rape relief shelter says the ‘blurring of language’ doesn’t serve the fight to end male violence against women
Rozina Sabur,
DEPUTY US EDITOR
16 March 2024 • 2:33pm
Justice Sheilah Martin (bottom right) with other justices of the Supreme Court in Ottawa, Canada
Canada’s Supreme Court has been ridiculed after ruling that referring to a female sexual assault victim as a “woman” was confusing and the term “person with a vagina” should be used instead.
It is believed to be the first time the new terminology has appeared in the country’s judicial rulings and has prompted sharp criticism for “blurring” the language around sexual attacks.
Canada’s oldest rape shelter told The Telegraph it followed a trend of “erasure of the violence that men are committing against women”.
“It definitely doesn’t serve the fight to end male violence against women when you’re blurring the language,” said Hilla Kerner, a spokeswoman for the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter.
Melissa Lantsman, a deputy leader of the Conservative Party, said: “There is nothing confusing about the word ‘woman’, it’s common sense.
“This is just complete nonsense that moves nothing forward. It’s not ‘progress’”.
The Supreme Court ruling, which was published on International Women’s Day, related to a sexual assault case which was overturned on appeal. A man was accused of assaulting a woman; no-one involved in the case identified as transgender.
Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin diverted from the original ruling's terminology
The case involved Christopher James Kruk, a 41-year-old from Maple Ridge, a city in British Columbia, who was convicted of sexual assault in March 2020.
The woman testified at the trial that she woke up in Kruk’s home in May 2017 to find him having sex with her and attempted, unsuccessfully, to push him off.
Kruk denied having sex with her, claiming that the victim had removed her trousers herself and that what she assumed was rape was in fact him startling her awake.
The presiding judge gave numerous reasons for finding Kruk guilty, including that it was “extremely unlikely” that a woman could be mistaken about the sensation.
“She said she felt his penis inside her and she knew what she was feeling,” the judge wrote, finding “it is extremely unlikely that a woman would be mistaken about that feeling”.
The Court of Appeal overturned the ruling in January 2022, finding the judge’s reasoning was “speculative” and ordered a new trial.
Restored Kruk’s conviction
Prosecutors petitioned the Supreme Court, which unanimously found the appeals court had erred and restored Kruk’s conviction.
However, while Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin concurred with the trial judge’s conclusion, she diverted from the original ruling’s terminology.
She wrote: “Where a person with a vagina testifies credibly and with certainty that they felt penile‑vaginal penetration, a trial judge must be entitled to conclude that they are unlikely to be mistaken.”
Justice Martin continued: “While the choice of the trial judge to use the words ‘a woman’ may have been unfortunate and engendered confusion, in context, it is clear the judge was reasoning... people generally, even if intoxicated, are not mistaken about that sensation.”
Later in the ruling, she stated “the fact that the judge relied on a generalised expectation is not itself problematic”, however, she said “this is not to say that this is an incontrovertible fact about all women in all instances”.
The ruling had been seen as a test case for an emerging rule challenging judges’ use of “common-sense assumptions” in rulings which are “not grounded in the evidence”.
The Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (Leaf), said it had intervened in the case to argue around the “lack of clarity” around the rule.
It had warned about the additional barriers to justice “for survivors, who are more likely to be women, girls, trans, and non-binary people”.
Roxana Parsa, one of the lawyers representing Leaf, said in a statement the decision “will have significant impact for all sexual assault survivors”.
Ignited a firestorm online
However the ruling’s use of the term “person with a vagina” ignited a firestorm online, with even US politicians picking up on it.
Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate, said: “You know what’s unfortunate and confusing? What’s happened to Canada.”
Ms Kerner, from Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, said the organisation “appreciated” the restoration of Kruk’s conviction, saying too few assault cases in Canada resulted in “holding rapists accountable”.
But she added: “If we do not name these crimes against women as they are, if we do not understand them in the context of women’s inequality, we are undermining our ability to fight against them”.
Well, well. It looks as though the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab was telling the truth when he stated that the WEF had a number embedded inside of governments. Canada and Justin Trudeau are sorry as hell, for allowing this. And yeah, this does skew statistics on Sexual Assaults BY MEN. This is the same thing happening in Ireland, Britain...Maine, of all places. I'd also not fall for this open red meat throwing that the Conservatives are doing. Klaus Schwab is a pervert and a fucking Nazi and so are the GOP.
The WPATH Files - The Beginning of the End of the Farce of 'Gender Affirming Care'.
Transgender ideology is based on lies and emotional coercion. Very effective lies and coercion mind you – enough to make doctors forget about the “do no harm” part of their medical training and instead take up gender-woo and non evidence based medical practices.
So here it is – the beginning of the unraveling, and more importantly the beginning of the lawsuits for medical malpractice. The…