Fyona de Jong

'Ik geloof alleen in wat ook werkt als je er niet in gelooft.'

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

If your country wants to control social media algorithms to force people to watch state approved content, then you don't live in a free country anymore.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Possibly, as Minister for Health, James Murray could compel the adult gender clinics to hand over the data they refused to give to Cass. We might then find out just how much benefit these interventions confer long term, without needing to perform experiments on children too young to give meaningful consent.

Read the testimony of the ever-expanding numbers of detransitioners. Grasp that these young people, many of them extremely vulnerable - autistic, care-experienced, abuse survivors, same-sex attracted in unsupportive families - have been irreparably harmed, left with their fertility destroyed, unending medical complications and profound psychological damage.

This is a medical scandal of epic proportions and people of power and influence are still too frightened of trans activists and trans lobby groups to do the right thing and put an end to the insanity. Kids are being sacrificed to ideology and cowardice.

[Marieke Hoogwout @mariekehoogwout]

BNNVARA's Joop punt nl plaatst een stuk vol grove, feitelijke onjuistheden; martelende verdraaiingen van rapporten, en laster [aan het adres van een groep artsen, biologen, psychologen die oproepen tot voorzichtigheid alvorens *medisch onomkeerbaar* in te grijpen bij kinderen]

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

We’ve all had a few days to sit with @JuliaGillard’s declaration of whoops and as the minutes go by, the angrier I get. Not just at the admission that, basically, it was a “regret” to open up the legal category of women to men, but at the reluctance to admit it was wrong.

And the fact that it’s only now, after amazing UK women & men are putting on pressure by turning up to her events to remind of her of the whooosy, that she dares to say anything.

Not when @jk_rowling was getting countless r*pe & d*ath threat from the very men these kind of laws were changed to include.

Not when a man in his 50s took a pregnant woman (🙋‍♀️) to federal court, using that very specific Australian law change & institutional capture to his advantage.

Not when @ActiveLesbians were told by the Australian Human Rights Commission that heterosexual men who claim to be lesbians must be included in lesbian events.

Not when @martina came under attack for defending women’s sport, years after already battling for LGB rights.

Not when @KirralieS was dragged through courts for bringing attention to MEN who claim to be women in womens sport.

Not when that very league told the women in that sport if they so much as walk off the field because men are on it *they* will be punished.

Not when media started reporting on school girls not drinking WATER at school because boys were in the only unisex bathroom available to them & no adults would help them.

Not when women prisoners finally got word to the outside that they were in cells with MALE SEX OFFENDERS, locked up with them only because the Gillard amendments to the sex discrimination act (arguably) allowed it.

Not when Jasmine Sussex’s life was turned upside down for stating the fact that men cannot breastfeed infants, and because men can be women in law suddenly she’s the bad guy.

Not when the sex discrimination commissioner told senate estimates that men who claim to be women can have pregnancy protections in law but women can’t have single sex spaces, thereby interpreting the Gillard amendments to give men protections they don’t need while taking away women’s protections we do need.

Not when countless women in Australia and around the world were and are being punished for saying NO to this absolute bullsh-t that men can be women in law.

She said nothing until it started to interrupt her day in the mildest of ways. It’s pathetic.

[chris rutenfrans @chrisrutenfrans]

Uitmuntend stuk van @AmandaKluveld over de zorgwekkende uitspraak van het gerechtshof Amsterdam inzake de column van @nausicaamarbe. #kommazaak

[Chantelle Alicia @ChantelleA33696]

👇🎯

[Mona Keijzer @MonaKeijzer]

Een groot artikel in @FD_Nieuws over vooringenomenheid van rechters in de VS langs partijpolitieke lijnen. Als je dit zou schrijven over Nederland en dan over de links-progressieve vooringenomenheid ben je een gevaar voor de rechtsstaat. Zouden ze het zien op de redactie?

[Hanneke Kouwenberg @HKouwenberg78]

Het platform dat van “scherpe discussie” en “debat” pretendeert te zijn heeft me geblokkeerd omdat ik “vermoedelijk” een overtreding van de spelregels heb begaan, maar wil daarover natuurlijk niet concreet worden. Dan zouden ze intellectueel immers nat gaan.

Ondertussen mogen lieden er wel lasterlijke stukken vol onwaarheden schrijven.

Goed dat zo’n pareltje gesubsidieerd wordt met belastinggeld.

#LinkseOnderbuik #Populisme #Demagogie

[Marieke Hoogwout @mariekehoogwout]

Ook in België stevige kritiek op het rapport van de Gezondheidsraad over puberteitsremmers en hormonen voor kinderen met gevoelens van genderdysforie

Directeur Centrum voor Evidence Based Medicine verwijt de Belgische overheid *schuldig verzuim*.

https://t.co/KNoSSnkNyz

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

🧵I've been in Europe for 2 months (Poland, Estonia, France, next Hungary, Belgium, Germany). I'd like to share a few observations before @NATO summit in Ankara. BLUF: Most of Euro policy elites don't understand current US politics--and often refuse to understand their own. 1/11

[Geert-Jan Edelenbosch @EdelGeertje]

The Dutch Health Council has just defended the Dutch Protocol for youth gender medicine, and the international community needs to pay attention.

The Netherlands created and exported this model. It is now trying to present itself as the careful exception, while avoiding the deeper scientific and ethical questions being asked in the UK, Finland, Sweden, and elsewhere.

Last week, an unusually broad Dutch coalition sounded the alarm in a national newspaper. It included Pieter Omtzigt, one of the Netherlands’ most prominent former MPs and institutional watchdogs; Dorine Sellenraad, a clinical psychologist formerly affiliated with a gender clinic; emeritus professor Armand Girbes; former politicians; clinicians; writers; people with lived experience; and myself, a former long-time staff member at COC Netherlands, the Dutch LGBT organisation.

Our concern was simple: the Netherlands must finally ask whether this model of youth gender medicine is scientifically and ethically justified.

Now the Health Council of the Netherlands has issued its advice.

And after thirty years of offering a medical pathway to minors that can involve infertility, loss of sexual function, effects on bone development, and lifelong dependence on hormones, the central conclusion is essentially: the Dutch system is careful...

That is a remarkably weak answer to a much more serious question.

The issue is not whether the process is tidy, professionally organised, or takes longer than in some other countries. The real question is whether the treatment model itself is justified in the first place.

That is the elephant in the room, and much of the Dutch media is now refusing to confront it.

Instead, the international criticism is being reframed as a misunderstanding. One Dutch media report even repeated this claim almost verbatim:

“The Health Council also wants to clear up a misunderstanding. In the United Kingdom, the ‘real’ Dutch method was never applied. Whereas British children with doubts about their gender identity could receive puberty blockers after only a few consultations, in the Netherlands this takes years.”

This is deeply misleading.

The Cass Review did not merely criticise poor implementation in the UK. It asked the fundamental questions the Dutch debate is still avoiding:

What is the evidence?
Who truly benefits?
What are the long-term outcomes?
What happens to young people who are not medicalised?
And are the assumptions behind this model of care actually sound?

The Dutch Health Council has not seriously answered these questions. It has assessed the process around the Dutch model, but it has not truly examined whether the underlying model itself is justified.

Likewise, Riittakerttu Kaltiala and colleagues in Finland, using the best available national data, have shown that many of these young people present with serious co-occurring psychiatric difficulties and that medical transition does not make those underlying problems disappear.

Dutch media and institutions are closing ranks around the status quo. External correction may now be the only way to break through this framing.

If you are a scientist, clinician, journalist or policymaker outside the Netherlands: please pay attention.

Read the Dutch Health Council’s advice. Share what is happening. Alert colleagues in your country. Ask whether the Council has truly answered the central questions, or merely defended the process around a model whose evidence base remains deeply contested.
https://t.co/BF9l3LMOjj

The Netherlands exported the Dutch Protocol. It must not now be allowed to evade international scrutiny by saying: “we do it carefully.”

Please share! And help ensure the Health Council of the Netherlands is challenged by those who understand the international evidence.

[Marieke Hoogwout @mariekehoogwout]

"Stop dit experiment op ongelukkige jonge mensen"

Zweedse hoogleraar waarschuwt tegen het Dutch Protocol en de daarop gebaseerde medisch-onomkeerbare behandeling van kinderen met genderdysforie.

"The treatment is ethically unjustifiable. It is high time to end the experiment"

[Athena Forum @AthenaForumEU]

Excellent exposé by Swedish medical professor @AgnesWold about the medical experiment on gender-distressed children and adolescents that is known as the Dutch protocol, and has been allowed to continue for decades despite the lack of scientific evidence. A clear, accessible and much-needed read: Stop the experiment on unhappy young people.

"The great experiment has been going on for a quarter of a century in Sweden and the Western world. It was started without proof of efficacy and harmlessness. Once the clinics opened, they attracted various groups of lost young people who believed that their problems could be cured by gender reassignment. At the group level, no benefit can be demonstrated with the treatment, but there are abundant side effects; at the individual level, it is not possible to identify who could be helped. The treatment is therefore ethically unjustifiable. It is high time to end the experiment."
https://t.co/lnS0NkVfdb

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Justice Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor ruled against women having equal protection under the law.

Liberal women, yet again, prove to be the biggest hurdle women face.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Justice Thomas dropped a TRUTH BOMB 🔥

"Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable 'biological' characteristic"

[Marieke Hoogwout @mariekehoogwout]

De Telegraaf moet een volledig correcte zin rectificeren om -- wat de aanklagers denken dat de lezer zou kunnen lezen??

Een zo ver hellend vlak dat het bijna een steile wand is

[Elise Steilberg @EliseSteilberg]

Wat een naar oordeel, niet alleen voor @nausicaamarbe maar voor iedereen die publiceert. Op deze manier mag iemand een zin begrijpen zoals het diegene uitkomt en zich vervolgens aangevallen of beschuldigd voelen waar de auteur die intentie niet had. 1/2 https://t.co/VHm2rrgQGE

[Marieke Hoogwout @mariekehoogwout]

6 van de 12 commissieleden zijn *direct betrokken* bij de behandeling die onderzocht wordt. En oordeelt:
- pb-remmers remmen de puberteit ✅
- we eh weten niet of en hoeveel het helpt
- en ook niet welke schade het doet
- maar het proces is echt zorgvuldig!
- dus doe maar voort

[Suzy Eeckelaerts @SEeckelaerts]

Hoe zijn we in de situatie beland dat naar een man verwijzen als een man hier door sommigen als een misdrijf wordt gezien, maar een man in een vrouwenkleedkamer of op een vrouwenpodium blijkbaar helemaal OK is?

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

SCOTUS Update:
The court holds that schools can determine eligibility for women's sports teams based on biological sex. 27 states with laws protecting women's sports can keep them.

We won. But we're not done. 23 more states to go.

All girls deserve fair competition.