This is an excellent letter and I urge everyone to read it in full.
I also urge my psychological colleagues and my regulatory body, instead of going after me, to also read it.
But, here is the nub:
Gender dysphoria is not a real 'psychological condition'.
It has no empirical or clinical basis.
It has been constructed completely out of thin air.
And even if it were "a real psychological condition", how in God's name is this "psychological condition" supposed to be treated by carrying out what I call 'Permanent, Irreversible, Mutilating Procedures' (PIMPs) on healthy, functional, bodies?
'Psychological conditions' should be treated by psychology.
Not surgery.
I'm not going to go 'ranty pants' on this (a term I first saw yesterday, thanks to @KDansky and @blackbirdpeeja which made me laugh), because those of you who follow me know my views on FNGD, and you're probably fed up of hearing me say the same thing over and over.
Read my attached article for why I call gender dysphoria 'Fake News'.
But, finally this:
We will not defeat gender ideology, or put an end to the horrors described in this excellent and profoundly disturbing tweet by @josephchrysosto (see attached picture), until we break free from our conditioned belief that 'gender dysphoria' is real.
It is not.
And, just because something appears in a big fancy book, does not mean that it should be given any credence whatsover.
The Nazis didn’t just tolerate the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem — they paid him like a rock star.
After fleeing to Berlin, Amin al-Husseini received a monthly salary of 90,000 Reichsmarks (roughly $800,000 in today’s money) plus multiple residences for himself and his entourage.
For context: In 1936, 62% of all German taxpayers earned less than 1,500 Reichsmarks per year. Only the very wealthiest Germans earned anything close to what the Mufti was paid every single month.
This wasn’t charity. It was a calculated investment. The Nazis valued his propaganda reach, his ability to recruit tens of thousands of Muslims for the Waffen-SS, and his usefulness as a bridge to the Arab world.
Al-Husseini wasn’t a minor collaborator. He was on the Nazi payroll at the highest level — living in luxury while broadcasting calls to “kill the Jews wherever you find them” and working to extend the Holocaust into the Middle East.
Some alliances were very well funded.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan says he can debunk Israel's defenders in under 60 seconds.
His method? Reading a list of names really fast.
That's not an argument. That's a filibuster with a bibliography.
Fine. Start the clock.
Here's the problem with his fifty sources: it's one source wearing fifty costumes.
The UN cites Amnesty. Amnesty cites a different UN report. That one cites the BBC. The BBC cites UNRWA. UNRWA cites the Gaza Ministry of Health. The Gaza Ministry of Health is Hamas.
Even a member of his own genocide scholars association has a name for this: "citation washing."
Congratulations. You just traced fifty "independent" voices back to one terrorist press office.
Now, a few of his star witnesses.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars? $30 and you're in. Emperor Palpatine is a member. So is Cookie Monster.
Amnesty? Their own report — page 101 — calls the established legal standard too "cramped" to reach a genocide finding. The law as written wouldn't convict Israel, so they loosened the law.
B'Tselem said the quiet part louder — their report openly adopts "a broader analytical framework" than the legal definition. That's lawyer-speak for "we changed the rules."
The UN? The General Assembly passed 17 resolutions against Israel in 2024. Seven against the entire rest of the planet combined. North Korea, Iran, Syria, Russia — one each. Sudan, where actual mass slaughter is happening right now? Zero.
And here's a name Mehdi will never read off his list: Alice Wairimu Nderitu.
The UN's own Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. Their in-house expert. The one person whose entire job was answering this exact question. She looked at the evidence, looked at the law, and refused to call Gaza a genocide.
Her reward? "Hounded, day in, day out. Bullied, hounded, with protection from nobody." Her words. Then her contract quietly wasn't renewed.
She said the pressure to declare a genocide "never happened for any other war. Not for Ukraine, not for Sudan, not for Democratic Republic of Congo."
The UN's genocide expert said no — so the UN got a new genocide expert.
Oh, and one more name he forgot: the jihadist terrorist group Hamas. The original proponent of the genocide libel — the source his fifty sources trace back to. Somehow they didn't make the list. Neither did any of the scholars, military experts, former hostages, survivors, and millions of common-sense humans united in rejecting the claim.
Instead of rattling off a list of "because they said so," how about evidence? Millions of warning leaflets. Humanitarian corridors. Polio vaccines. 130 babies born a day. The Jewish birth rate during the Holocaust was statistically zero. That's what genocide looks like.
Fifty sources quoting each other isn't fifty sources. It's an echo chamber with footnotes.
So, Mehdi's big question: Who do I believe?
Wrong question. It's not about Who. It's about What.
I believe incontrovertible evidence. Population data. Millions of tons of aid. Hard casualty numbers. Weighed against the actual legal definition — not a list of people and organizations quoting each other.
Because I fact-check.
Time.
This is not good enough.
In fact, it is frankly bizarre.
The Dutch are essentially saying, "we take longer to get around to destroying children's physical, mental and psychosocial functioning than you Brits. We do it carefully. So that makes it OK".
But normally-timed puberty is not an illness.
And disrupting, derailing, or delaying healthy puberty can never be done "carefully".
It's like trying to slide down Mt Everest "carefully".
Or injecting crystal meth "carefully".
And it is based on a false premise.
Children do not have a 'gender identity' to which their bodies can be 'aligned' by slicing and dicing them and cutting bits off, and injecting them with toxic chemicals.
This is sheer, unalloyed superstition pretending to be medicine.
It is not based in empirical fact and it does not meet the scientific method.
Ergo there is no such flipping thing as "youth gender medicine".
The andoyne, indeed benign-sounding title of this paper: 'Transgender Care for Young People', is in fact a coy euphemism for continuing to carry out illegal human medical experiments that break every one of the 10 Nuremberg Codes.
No "care" is being delivered to these 'young people' (ie children), in any way, shape, or form.
These are instead, 'Permanent, Irreversible, Mutilating Procedures' (PIMPs).
And any professional involved in PIMPing out children should face prison.
There's enough evidence now that these "medically necessary" procedures do not work.
The Finns have shown us this.
(Not that anyone sensible needed an 24-year study of over 2000 destroyed bodies and shattered minds to tell them that disrupting normal development and functioning in already mentally unwell youngsters was not going to end well!.)
This has gone beyond any pretence of carrying out medical "care" on susceptible kids.
It is rigid, unbending and ruthless ideological adherence to a belief system that flatly refuses to take in and respond to new information.
But, instead of hanging their heads in shame at having unleashed a catastrophe on humanity, the Dutch have come out with yet more madness.
They can't admit they've done a profound wrong to their own children and to countless others around the world.
They can't handle their own cognitive dissonance, so they are compounding their first error by throwing yet more fuel (ie young bodies), into the blazing, devouring furnace that is so-called 'gender medicine'.
This is malicious, nefarious, and wholly immoral.
These so-called 'gender doctors' won't stop until they are stopped.
We did it once before and we can do it again.
It is the only way.
No one is forcing the nun to become a nun or to wear her habit, but I was forced to wear the hijab at age 7, otherwise, they wouldn’t let me into elementary school.
So yeah… screw your savage religion.
Most movie tough guys only played heroes. This one actually was one.
He served as a B-29 aerial gunner, flew 25 combat missions in the Pacific, and was wounded in action, earning a Purple Heart.
Hint: Death Wish 1, 2, 3.
Who is he?
@DrBonsallBasel@UN_PGA@grok can you provide a list of countries in the middle east where in the last century non Muslim minority is prospering and growing with full human rights while being protected from prosecutions and harassments, under Muslim majority?
@UN_PGA 5.9 million refugees from a conflict the Arabs started 80 years ago resulting in 700,000 refugees, and which their leaders have subsequently turned down peace / statehood with Israel on several occasions? Screw @UNRWA - they perpetuate the conflict.
"This means that almost all Western media outlets have unflinchingly disseminated Hamas propaganda to their tens of millions of viewers, while disregarding Israeli figures almost entirely. The world’s journalists have taken the word of jihadi butchers above the evidence-based testimony of a friendly democracy and shared this narrative with the world.
It is no exaggeration to say that this comprises one of the gravest failures of journalistic scepticism in modern times. The uncomfortable truth is that we have been living through the most intense age of propaganda since Soviet times, made only more appalling by the fact that it has been spread voluntarily within supposedly free societies."
https://t.co/J3Lme482HL
@moeva18 Ja, net als mijn opa, die met 14 jaar de fabriek in ging.
6 daagse werkweek, 5 uur op. 2 oorlogen meegemaakt en op z'n 72e nog een krantenwijk lopen voor bijverdienste.
In zijn 90 jaar meer werk verzet dan een hele straat/flatblok van die ketikoti-"slachtoffers" (=uitvreters).
Yasser Arafat was Egyptian. He literally invented the “Palestinian people” in the late 1960s.
Now we’re supposed to believe this 60-year-old political invention is an ancient indigenous population.
The historical illiteracy is actually embarrassing.
@wiepau De hersenen van een homo sapiens zijn pas rond hun 25ste dusdanig volgroeid dat ze belangrijke beslisingen kunnen doordenken.
Iedereen die wil klooien met de geslachtsorganen van tieners, is een perverse psychopaat en zou zwaar bestraft moeten worden.
Dame Penelope Keith has sadly passed away.
This stairway sketch from the 1977 Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special is still one of the funniest things ever shown on TV. You can see all three trying (and failing) to keep it together. An absolute classic.