AgainstBacklash

[Genspect @genspect]

🇩🇪 Germany’s data tell a shocking story: genital surgeries rose from 150 in 2005 to 4,184 in 2025. Since 2005, 272 procedures were performed on minors.

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[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

It’s been over five years since a law came into effect allowing biological men into women’s prisons in California if they identify as transgender, and the consequences have been devastating, says Amie Ichikawa, an advocate for female inmates and founder of Woman II Woman.

“These are men that are tattooed from head to toe. 33.8 percent are registered sex offenders.”

“They were advertised as delicate flowers who needed a safe place to do their time, and they sent the exact people that they said they wouldn't send.”

“They said: there would be no sex offenders; there would be no woman beaters; there would be no one with a long history of violence against women. And that's exactly who they sent.”

“I can't think of any worse demographic of people to send into the women's prison, knowing that 92 percent of that population are survivors of some kind of sexual abuse.”

“These people don't even have to present as female.”

“When they started to install the condom machines into the women's prisons after the transfers started, I thought there's nothing lower than this. Nothing.”

@ichinita310 @womaniiwomaninc @IWF

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The thing that never happens and could never happen and that only evil people predicted would happen has happened again.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

This will be any parent who tries to stop their distressed or gay child from destroying their bodies! In years to come people will look back & say how was this not stopped? And when that happens, whenever that eventually is… if you’ve promoted & encouraged it … own the damage!

[Jonny Bell @Jonnywsbell]

Dr Jamie Agapoff: WPATH-certified psychiatrist.

He diagnosed himself as a eunuch at 11. At 15 he emailed the “Doctor of Eunuchs,” was prescribed hormones, and was told he was a good candidate for castration.

Men like this should be nowhere near children.

[Jonny Bell @Jonnywsbell]

This is "Marci" Bowers. He’s a man. He ran WPATH and has done a vaginoplasty on a 16-year-old.

He says blockers leave boys with “teeny tiny” genitals, so there isn't enough tissue to build a vagina.

This is gender affirming care.

[marcus evans @marcuse99903226]

A new report makes a compelling case that the proposed Conversion Practices Bill would undermine legitimate clinical exploration and make it harder for children with complex psychological difficulties to access experienced care. Working with these children is demanding clinical work. It requires experienced clinicians.

The exceptionalism in this area is striking. Clinicians routinely explore patients’ beliefs, how they developed and what they mean to them. Why should beliefs about gender be placed beyond exploration? It is already against professional ethics to impose your own beliefs or values on a patient. Exploring someone’s experience does not mean deciding in advance what conclusion they should reach.

Whatever assurances the government gives, this unnecessary bill will further discourage experienced clinicians, who are hardly short of work, from taking on these cases. That will make it harder for these children to get the help they need.

@SexMattersOrg @matildagosling @ThoughtfulTs @CanSG_org @Transgendertrd @RosieDuffield1 @KemiBadenoch @sueevansprotect @segm_ebm

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (@segm_ebm) recently published a very helpful spotlight critically analyzing ten common claims about youth gender medicine.

The analysis includes relevant citations from the medical literature.

The ten claims:

1. "Puberty blockers are fully reversible."

2. "Puberty blockers have been proven safe."

3. "Gender-affirming hormones improve mental health — and treatment restrictions increase the risk of suicide."

4. "Undergoing endogenous (natal) puberty causes harm."

5. "High quantity of individual studies claiming benefits overrides low quality of the evidence."

6.  "Pediatric gender medicine should be excused from the requirement to generate reliable evidence because randomized controlled trials are challenging."

7. "There is international consensus that hormonal interventions for minors are beneficial, with WPATH, the Endocrine Society, and even the Cass Review all objecting to the restrictions."

8. "Detransition and regret are rare and usually stem from external pressures and unsupportive environments."

9. "The high burden of psychiatric problems found in gender dysphoric youth is due to 'minority stress' and should not present a barrier to medically transitioning a minor."

10. "When gender dysphoria intensifies during puberty, it is likely to become a lifelong, permanent condition."

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

This is absolutely mental. When will this madness end?

The censorious Green Party is back to policing what we can and cannot say.

This time, rather than turning its sights on the press, it has published an Orwellian language guide telling delegates which words and phrases are “unacceptable” at its conference in Brighton this weekend.

The new Inclusive Terminology Guide advises members against using terms including “elderly”, “female politician”, “mothers and fathers”, “able-bodied”, “sex change”, “homosexual”, “youngster” and “sexual preference”.

It also recommends replacing gendered job titles with gender-neutral alternatives: “chair”, not “chairman”; “police officer”, not “policeman”; and “parents and carers”, not “mothers and fathers”.

When discussing race, members are encouraged to use “global majority”, which the guide describes as an umbrella term for people of Black, Asian, Brown, Indigenous and Latin American heritage. It says the phrase reflects the fact that these groups make up most of the world’s population, while often being minoritised in countries such as the UK.

The guide says “Brown” should be “used with caution” and encourages the term “racially minoritised”, which it says emphasises that minority status is created by social and power structures rather than being inherent.

Responding to the guide, Conservative Party Chairman @kevinhollinrake said: “The Greens are obsessed with policing people’s language and thoughts in the name of their increasingly bizarre crusade against ordinary Brits. Last week they were dictating who people spend time with and what jokes they make. Now they’re attempting to prohibit perfectly normal words like ‘mother’ and ‘father’. This extraordinary obsession with censoring how people speak and behave in their everyday lives is made even more nonsensical by Polanski’s inability to get a grip of the vile antisemitism within his own party.”

This is completely bizarre and a blatant attack on free speech. The Greens are becoming increasingly censorious.

Read more below from @hoffman_noa in @spectator👇

[Henrik Dahl @SociologenHD]

With its new “Strategy for Equal Rights for LGBTI People (2027–2032)”, the Council of Europe has chosen to do right-wing parties across Europe a considerable favour. They are no doubt pleased, and grateful.

If citizens around Europe were actually to hear what the Council of Europe is proposing, it could easily be worth an extra five to ten percentage points in support.

What is truly astonishing, however, is the poverty of thought on display. Had the document been written in 2018, or at the latest in 2020, it would have made a certain kind of sense.

It would not have been original or reflective. But six or eight years ago one could at least have said that its authors had been carried away by the mood of the moment.

Since 2018–2020, the British Supreme Court has ruled that British equality law is to be based on a biological understanding of sex. Does that mean the judgment should be criminalised, as the Council of Europe’s approach would suggest?

Hilary Cass’s report on the medical basis of so-called “gender-affirming care” has exposed serious weaknesses in the underlying evidence. Should she be criminalised?

A large number of sports federations around the world have recognised that allowing biological males to compete against women threatens both fairness and women’s safety. Should they be criminalised?

There is a growing recognition that the interests of biological women must also carry real weight. For reasons of both privacy and safety, they ought to have a right to single-sex spaces from which biological males are excluded. Should they be criminalised by the Council of Europe?

A large Finnish study of more than 2,000 participants has shown that the need for psychiatric treatment does not fall after gender-affirming care. Should that finding be criminalised by the Council of Europe?

I take very seriously the carelessness shown by the failure to distinguish legitimate criticism from those cases in which it may be justified for the courts to intervene.

There are good reasons to oppose racism and discrimination against Muslims. But non-white people and Muslims must be open to warranted criticism to the same extent as everyone else. Criticism should not be dismissible by false accusations of “racism” or “Islamophobia”. When it is, democratic conversation dies.

Yet it is precisely this sloppy approach to the difference between legitimate criticism and illegitimate attack that the Council of Europe continues in its new strategy.

I would strongly recommend that the Council of Europe’s strategy be consigned to the circular file.

It is, in any case, out of date by at least six to eight years.

[Carilyn Johnson @CarilynJohnson]

Johns Hopkins. Women are now simply “non men”. But, yes, we are the ones overreacting.

We are being erased in real time, but we should simply sit down and shut up.

No.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ @sappholives83]

This is Wolfgang “Beate” Schmidt, a German rapist and serial killer who murdered six people during a rampage that lasted from 1989 - 1991. Schmidt is not the only trans serial killer — not even close — but he is one of the most notorious.

Born in 1966, Schmidt began crossdressing at age 6, and enjoyed defecating in the garments. He originally stole clothing from his mother, but after she found some of the soiled items, she began locking her clothing up, which drove Schmidt to source his lingerie from local landfills.

By the time he was a teenager, Schmidt was 6’3. He was also neglecting school, work, and social activities in favor of his fetishistic behavior. By tenth grade, he’d dropped out of school altogether.

In 1985, Schmidt joined the Volkspolizei, but was fired along with three other officers in May of 1989 for holding a 100th birthday celebration in honor of Adolf Hitler.

In October of that same year, Schmidt began killing. He originally broke into the home of Edeltraut Nixdorf in order to steal her underwear, but when she confronted him, he choked her and bludgeoned her to death with a hammer. Afterwards he raped her corpse before fleeing the scene.

In May of 1990, Schmidt fatally garroted Christa Naujocks with an electrical cord. This victim was also raped after death. Soiled pink lingerie was found at the scene, and police received reports of a tall man harassing women in the area. A search
by police found several stashes of women’s lingerie and pornographic magazines buried in nearby ditches.

On 13 March 1991, Inge Fischer was attacked while walking home through a forest. She was beaten and kicked before being dragged off the main path, where she was raped and stabbed to death. When the body was found, it was discovered that the killer had replaced the victims underwear with pink ones, and defecated in them. Again, a sweep of the area by police found stashes of lingerie and pornographic material buried nearby, alerting police to the fact that the cases were connected.

Just eight days later, Schmidt attacked Tamara Petrowskaja and her 3 month old son Stanislaw while Tamara was walking through the woods. Schmidt tied her up and gagged her with underwear before crushing her baby’s skull against a tree stump, then stomping and kicking his body. He then raped Tamara before strangling her to death with a bra and switching her panties for soiled pink ones. A search again found several caches of hidden lingerie nearby — enough to fill five trash bags.

Fifteen days after killing Tamara and Stanislaw, Schmidt struck again. This time he attacked two 12 year old girls with a knife, but fled after the victims fought back, scratching his face. Both girls were seriously injured, but survived.

Later that day, Schmidt broke into the apartment of Talita Bremer, whom he strangled to death before raping her corpse, putting soiled pink panties on her body, and rummaging through her underwear drawer.

That July, Schmidt was camped illegally, publicly masturbating while wearing a bra over his shirt. A passing jogger, alerted by underwear Schmidt had draped over nearby branches, recognized him from the police sketch which was circulating and alerted authorities. Schmidt was overpowered and arrested, then taken to a Potsdam police station, where he confessed to all six murders, as well as three non-fatal assaults.

In December of 1992, Schmidt was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by indefinite confinement in a psychiatric unit. During his imprisonment, he began identifying as transgender, and was allowed to take hormone therapy so that he could grow breasts.

In 2010 he was investigated for raping another trans-identifying inmate. The victim had committed suicide. In spite of this, by 2013, Schmidt was being allowed unsupervised day trips into town — trips that were halted after the press caught him buying porn at a gas station.

This has been “Get to Know a Trans Person.”

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ @sappholives83]

A trans person in the UK is almost 2x more likely to commit murder than to be murdered.

From 2000-2025, eleven trans people were murdered in the UK, most by a partner or a john.

In the same 25 years, there were 20 separate homicides committed in Britain by people who identified as transgender.

[Denise Ward @DeniseEllen7]

Former U.S. Australian Football League national champion Carly Smolak said she began speaking out about biological men participating in women's sports after learning a registered child sex offender had been on her team.

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

I don't think the New York Times coverage of gender clinic closures is that bad. What's missing, however, is genuine curiosity about why the hospitals agreed to settle.

This was not a decision taken lightly. It's fair to assume that gender clinicians and their allies within these hospitals, especially those located in blue states, face little-to-no opposition from other doctors or administrators.

It's also known that hospitals went to the mat to fight closure efforts previously. That's Exhibit A. So, what's changed? Why the seeming capitulation now?

Enter Exhibit B: mounting evidence of billing fraud, which comes from 3 sources.

(1) Inferentially, from billing of puberty blockers for treatment of central precocious (abnormally early) puberty in 14- and 15-year-olds.

(2) From gender clinicians and quasi-medical groups like WPATH, which has openly and explicitly recommended using "endocrine disorder" when billing for medical interventions in minors without an endocrine disorder (although they are likely to develop such a disorder as a result of treatment).

(3) From court records in resolved qui tam lawsuits (e.g., in Texas) that show evidence of False Claims Act violations.

The combination of these easily verifiable sources, together with the unexpected willingness of blue state hospitals to settle with the DOJ, should trigger curiosity about the leverage the DOJ actually had over NYU, Mt. Sinai, and other hospitals.

It seems highly implausible that hospitals in New York, with Letitia James and Mamdani paying close attention, would shutter their clinics and pay out millions of $ unless the DOJ had court-proof evidence of billing fraud.

Also, it's September 2026, and the New York Times still hasn't done an investigative report on how major medical associations and scientific journals have promoted misinformation and stifled debate on youth gender medicine.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

The Boston Globe has just published a shockingly sober article about the nonexistent genocide supposedly targeting the transgender community.

In it, they cite a report I coauthored showing that the murder rate is actually lower for trans-identifying people than the general population. Our report was responding to the HRC's annual reports pushing the narrative that there is an ongoing "Epidemic of Violence" against the transgender community.

The reporter says he "offered the Human Rights Campaign's key researcher, the transgender woman Charleigh Flohr, or anyone else with the organization an opportunity to rebut the Manhattan Institute finding, but they didn't reply to me."

That's unsurprising because the HRC is engaging in fundraising propaganda. They don't care about the truth, only promoting the narrative.

Our report presenting the actual data is irrefutable. That's why they have nothing to say in response.

You can read our report summary in @CityJournal here:
🔗https://t.co/59VQbpDJYV

Or explore our comprehensive report here:
🔗https://t.co/riV2m6zZ60

Read the Boston Globe article here:
🔗https://t.co/rSGgRfe2kj

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

2020: "No one's transitioning minors!"

2026: "OK fine we'll stop transitioning minors"

[Jamie Reed Whistleblower @JamieWhistle]

Yes, six major hospital systems — NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, UPMC, Texas Children's, Cleveland Clinic, Connecticut Children's — are closing.

We knew we were hiding behind the legitimacy of major respected hospitals— we had access to surgical suites, and the ability to calm a nervous parent or grandparent just because of where we were. We knew it.

There will always be adults willing to split their own tongues or tattoo their faces, and there will always be someone willing to sell it to them. But when institutions like these are forced out of that business, it tells you where it belonged all along.

The people furious about these closures aren't really mourning access to care- they will move to private clinics— they're mourning the loss of borrowed legitimacy, and they're being sent back to the sideshow, which is exactly where snake oil salesmen always belonged

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Just one or two they said 😡