Sex is real. Gender is in your head.

Sex is real. Gender is in your head. Please leave it there.

[Sex is real. Gender is in your head. @FloatOrSwim]

"When we raised concerns about mixed sex sleeping arrangements for the trip, the safeguarding officer told us that ‘Under the policy, normal safeguarding rules do not apply to transgender students.’" #SexMatters
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[Robert Jessel @robjessel16]

"Dad, why did you let me do it? I was a CHILD!!"

Because the government said they'd lock me up for five years if I warned you not to.

[Merched Cymru @MerchedCymru]

Cass's report critical of gender services: largely ignored by the BBC for years. Cass's support for the PATHWAYS trial: front page within hours. The selective interest tells you everything about where the institutional sympathies actually lie. https://t.co/KRCbKRpc04

[Sex is real. Gender is in your head. @FloatOrSwim]

@wesyang It is unconscionable to go ahead with this trial while we still haven't assessed the outcomes for the 1000s who were already given these drugs. We need the data linkage study.

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

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[Merched Cymru @MerchedCymru]

Currently over 9,900. One last push!

[Darlington Nursing Union @DarlingtonUnion]

Damages, formal apology and commitments on single-sex spaces

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[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

9000 GIDS patients 2000 given puberty blockers yet when these clinics were asked for the data & follow up info they refused to supply it. This is a scandal of epic malpractice proportions. It’s why the Tavistock was closed down after whistleblowers spoke out. Don’t do new experiments, find that data

[Carrie Clark @cwestonclark]

I am begging critics of the puberty blocker trial to stop getting lost in the weeds arguing about research ethics, Gillick competence, informed consent, fertility preservation and the like. The NHS’s refusal to complete the Data Linkage Study (DLS) before proceeding with a new trial is the ONLY argument worth making on this issue. Everything else is a distraction.
The DLS would find out what has happened to all the children who have already taken puberty blockers. There is NO justification for proceeding with a puberty blocker trial before the DLS is complete. The entire programme of future research in this area should be informed by its results. The fact that the NHS is getting ready to run a live experiment on vulnerable children before it has even established the fate of those it has already experimented on is utterly damning.
The deeply disappointing Dr Cass should be widely derided for her ridiculous comments on ‘harm reduction’. The DLS IS harm reduction. Critics of the trial must stop fighting on their opponents turf by quibbling over technical details. We need to relentlessly force the DLS onto the agenda and expose the shameful hypocrisy of the NHS. DO THE DLS.
#DotheDLS
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[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

Aggrieved Former Patients Object to Appointment of Canadian Pediatric Society’s New President

The founder of a pediatric gender clinic in Ontario, Dr. Natasha Johnson, who now leads the nation’s association of pediatricians, has said that parents’ objections to gender-transition treatment should be ‘deprioritized,' I report for The @NewYorkSun.

A prominent Canadian pediatrician, Natasha Johnson, has staked her career on the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Accordingly, a decade ago she established a pediatric gender clinic at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, to serve the needs of the fast-growing population of youth who are distressed about their gender or have otherwise adopted a transgender identity.

So when the Canadian Pediatric Society announced last month that it had appointed Dr. Johnson as its next president, this was widely interpreted by Canadian physicians as the medical association burnishing its own DEI bona fides and squaring itself against the Trump administration’s aggressive opposition to medicalized gender transitions for minors.

Amid roiling political conflicts south of the border about the safety, efficacy, ethics, and wisdom of providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-transition surgeries to treat gender-related distress in adolescents, Dr. Johnson has maintained in public statements that young people’s satisfaction with these interventions in Canada is extraordinarily high.

And yet, while Dr. Johnson is on record pointing to at least some verifiable research to back up that assertion, The New York Sun spoke with three families who offered detailed accounts of their experiences at her gender clinic that sharply conflict with such a rosy portrayal of patient outcomes. It is, of course, entirely possible these families’ negative experiences with Dr. Johnson and her colleagues reflect only a small minority of those who have attended the McMaster gender clinic. Rare is the doctor with a 100 percent satisfaction rate. Nevertheless, the families collectively told the Sun they remained outraged that they did not receive from Dr. Johnson what they consider to be equitable and inclusive care for their particular needs.

One former patient of Dr. Johnson’s, Faith Groleau said she was fast-tracked for testosterone treatment by Dr. Johnson as a teenager despite serious mental health conditions, proper attention to which Ms. Groleau later concluded should have overridden the impulse to medicalize her adolescent detour into a masculine identity. Ms. Groleau, 26, eventually stopped taking the powerful cross-sex hormone and detransitioned, meaning she reverted to presenting and identifying as her birth sex. Saddled, most noticeably, with a permanently masculinized voice as a consequence of her treatment, Ms. Groleau came to fault Dr. Johnson for what she characterized as “extreme negligence.”

“She didn’t do her job of vetting me at all,” said Ms. Groleau of Dr. Johnson’s care. “She just sent me onto a pipeline of destruction.”

The Sun also conducted interviews with two other families who asked to have their identities shielded — including a mother and daughter who requested to be known by first-name pseudonyms and a husband and wife who agreed for their child’s story only to be used as background reference for this article. All three families shared medical records, and in some cases email exchanges and other documents, that detailed their experiences at the McMaster gender clinic.

Centrally, the families all faulted Dr. Johnson, who is not a trained mental health professional, for engaging in what is known as diagnostic overshadowing: focusing myopically on a gender-related diagnosis at the expense of attention to what the families argued to the Sun were more pressing mental health concerns. Dr. Johnson, the families said, egregiously put these three adolescent patients on a fast track to receive gender-transition interventions. This included approving a biological girl, who at the time identified as male, for a double mastectomy just as she turned 16, even as her mental health rapidly deteriorated. The girl later detransitioned and came to bitterly regret the surgery.

Their stories offer testimony to the ongoing debate within the pediatric gender medicine discipline over whether minors seeking gender-transition interventions should undergo a comprehensive psychosocial assessment by a mental-health professional before being approved for irreversible modifications to their sex characteristics.

Dr. Johnson has made conflicting statements on the matter. All three families who spoke with the Sun about her gender clinic said that while a social worker was on staff, the adolescents in these families were not provided a formal assessment by a mental health professional before being approved for gender-transition medications.

The parents who spoke with the Sun uniformly expressed alarm and offense that, as they reported, their expressed concerns about the prudence of providing gender-transition interventions to their seriously mentally ill children were essentially dismissed and even stigmatized by Dr. Johnson. All three families reported that Dr. Johnson did not take kindly to having her authority challenged, and that in the face of pushback about her proposed or past gender-care plans, her typically pleasant demeanor could turn on a dime and become intimidatingly hostile and defensive.

In some cases, these families said, Dr. Johnson pitted children against their parents, and in one case, pitted divorced parents against one another when it came to fraught decision-making about initiating gender transition interventions. Her office even called child protection services to report one mother for merely expressing concerns about her daughter undergoing a mastectomy, the mother reported.

Dr. Johnson, who along with communications representatives from McMaster did not respond to repeated requests for comment, is on the record asserting that, as a matter of course, parents’ objections to their children receiving gender-transition drugs should at least generally not interfere with a child’s expressed desire for such medications. In a presentation she gave at the 2022 conference of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, a video of which the Sun obtained, Dr. Johnson said that such feelings on the part of parents “should not be prioritized.”

Ms. Groleau said she took great offense to the suggestion. “My mother was absolutely correct in being concerned because I did detransition,” she said.

[Nick Wallis @nickwallis]

I love the BBC. It gave me everything I have (well, them and ITN who have been amazing as well). But there is an internal civil war going on and this article tells you everything you need to know:

"... we apologise for the failures in our reporting."

https://t.co/A19fuBGoFp

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

A fantastically clear judgment. I won't be the only woman feeling tearful right now.

I am prouder than I can say to know @ForWomenScot.

I have no words for all those who promoted and defended putting any men in women's prisons.

1/3

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

It is unbelievable that the puberty blockers trial is going ahead despite the serious concerns raised by MHRA.

Emergency injunction sought to protect children from being recruited into this unethical medical experiment.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Just over 200 years after Elizabeth Fry won rights for women in prison, we have established that the Scottish Government's cruel policy of incarcerating women with violent male prisoners was never lawful. We are thrilled with the result, but it should never have come to this.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

📢📢 Judgement Day!📢📢
FWS wins in the Outer House of the Court of Session

For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers
Judicial Review of the Scottish Prison Service Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody Operational Guidance.
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[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Lina Haaga, a male HS athlete pretending to be a girl, just wrote an article for The Guardian where he claims his transition wasn't meant to help him "gain an advantage or take something from someone else."

Here's a picture of him after taking 1st place at a girls' 400m race, where he even beat out his older sister.

He literally stole medals from not just other girls, but his own sister.

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

🧵They truly are the most entitled group of people on the planet. Here's the latest edition of "How dare you criticize me. I should be above reproach. Waaaaaa" from Lina Haaga, a boy who stole a championship track and field title from his own sister. Here we go:

"For as long as I can remember, I have known I am a girl. That certainty is as instinctive as knowing I am right-handed."

In order to know that you are a "girl," you need to understand what a "girl" actually is. A girl is not a male individual, so it was impossible for you to "know" that you were a girl. You were and are a boy who wrongly believed he was a girl.

"It is difficult to explain to someone who has never been transgender or loved someone who is, but I have never lived this way to gain an advantage or take something from someone else. I live this way to honor what I know is true."

It really isn't that difficult to explain. You were a typical young child who was at the stage where you were trying to make sense of the world around you, not yet in control of abstract thinking or knowledge of reproduction and internal organs, and you associated being a girl, as almost all children do, with stereotypes.

You're continuing to live "this way" because your parents indulged you in it and continued to reinforce sexism in your home.

[SEEN in Publishing @SEENPublishing]

Easier to read on x 11 key takeaways from Through the Looking Glass 🧵

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

139 MPs want this man to use women’s toilets. Their names are linked in next post.

[Wales-Women’s Rights Network 💜🤍💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WRNWales]

Nurses were subjected to this horror and made to watch this man masturbate.

And the state of this report 👇- as the @barrydistrict news refer to this man as a ‘woman’ and utter the ridiculously offensive words ‘her penis’. 🤡

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[Sex is real. Gender is in your head. @FloatOrSwim]

#NotAWoman #NotOurCrimes

[gender is harmful @genderisharmful]

Cardiff, UK:

62-yr-old man masturbated in front of nurses in hospital.

In a weird article, he is referred to as "she" & "her" in some sections & then as "he & him" in others.

Cut the crap @barrydistrict! Refer to him as a man. That's what he is. A man.
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