🇨🇦 The Middle 🇨🇦

[🇨🇦 The Middle 🇨🇦 @themiddle1970]

@Ascennsion416 @nationalpost Huh? People are worried about the cost of living … taxes are what everyone pays the most for and spending beyond your means results in higher taxes. Anyone not worried about is doesn’t even have a grade 2 understanding about economics.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Cutting off the healthy, functional body parts of children will accurately go down as the biggest medical scandal in history

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

I don't approve of or support everything the Trump Administration is doing -- but its efforts on gender medicine have been 100 percent on point: conceptually sound, aligned with the science, morally and practically correct, and highly effective. On this issue, this administration is right and its critics and opponents are wrong. Any successor administration of either party seeking to do the right thing will continue its policies.

[Mary 🦎 @fandaflames]

Shoot out to @AbigailShrier

This book helped save me. Any parent who is going though this or individual read this book.

If not for this book and other brave detransistioner’s stories I followed I might not have come out of this. I thought I was stuck until I saw hope.

[Stella O'Malley @stellaomalley3]

As @wesyang points out:

“It's really not that hard to explain that gender is an inner sense of being male, female, both or neither that may or may not align with one's anatomy or sex assigned at birth (you see, doctors look at a baby and make a guess about what gender they are until the child is ready to let us know who he or she or they really is, at which point, plans to use a repurposed prostate cancer drug also used to chemically castrate adults sex offenders to prevent the child from going through "the wrong puberty," which would be a potentially fatal trauma, are in many cases made to be used on children as young as nine.) “

I can’t imagine what the Deputy Speaker’s difficulty was

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

The evidence that social media is a cause (not just a correlate) of poor mental health keeps piling up. We lay it out in an accessible form here. We also go beyond mental health to review evidence of many other harms, esp. short form videos and cognitive functioning:

https://t.co/Xjleeaq6Bf

[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.

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

When trying to reach normal people about the scandal occurring in gender clinics, the biggest problem we all face is that the truth about WPATH is simply too insane for the average person to believe.

Most people find it impossible to accept that an entire field of medicine could be fueled by ideology and guided by fanatics.

So they write us off as conspiracy theorists.

My second essay in @Genspect’s REPATH series tells the story of those crucial years in the late 1990s and early 2000s when trans activists captured WPATH and how that paved the way for the scandal of gender affirming care.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

In a free country, you are entitled to believe you are a woman with a penis. But not to take it into a female changing room, nor to cheat your way into a female athletic competition, nor in any way to impose your private delusion on the rest of us.
https://t.co/eZdizfnsMs

[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

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every glib, arrogant, virtue-signalling celebrity who’s broadcast the lie that kids will kill themselves if not allowed to transition deserves to have this read aloud to them non-stop through a megaphone for a year.

[🇨🇦 The Middle 🇨🇦 @themiddle1970]

@SophiaMoermond It only makes sense that the movement that supports destroying children physically and emotionally and using them to justify their sexual deviancy are eager to start as early as possible. Utterly shocking that this is where the most evolved species finds themselves.

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

Imagine a group of powerful, well-connected anorexics gather and formulate a plot to reject the psychiatric framing of anorexia and turn their illness into a healthy identity.

They make it discrimination and bigotry to call anorexia a mental disorder and frame access to liposuction and Ozempic as medically necessary and a human right.

The whole world goes along with this.

In the field of anorexia-affirming care, an anorexic receives immediate affirmation of her anorexic identity and unfettered access to the weight-loss medical treatments that her disorder demands.

No psychotherapeutic attempt is made to loosen the grip of the belief.

Then, instead of measuring success by objective outcomes such as physical health and quality of life, researchers in the field opt for self-report: in other words, after giving the anorexic the very treatments that her disorder compels her to seek, the researchers ask her if she is happy.

When she says yes, this confirms that Ozempic and liposuction are beneficial and appropriate treatments for anorexia.

That is the medical world’s current approach to managing the trans phenomenon.

Read how this madness happened in my first essay of @Genspect’s REPATH series

[Meg Brock @MegEBrock]

🧵If you’re shocked to learn families are losing custody of their children for refusing to affirm their “transgender identity” and want to learn more about this issue, here’s a thread of reporting I’ve done this year for @realDailyWire on this horrifying issue:

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

I’ve been following @JenniferSey for years. What she does is point out that men shouldn’t be competing in women’s athletic leagues. If acknowledging human biology counts as “stoking the flames,” it means you’re in a cult and need help.

[Patrick Lappert, MD @pwlappert61901]

The transgender treatment industry is now crumbling quickly, and in full view of the voting public.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Canada has now admitted what gender activists spent years demanding “evidence” of: trans-identified male prisoners placed in women’s jails have raped female inmates. Ottawa incredibly still says the policy does NOT violate women’s rights.

I wrote about this issue in December 2022, when Scotland had already transferred 24 men into women’s prisons. Six were sex offenders — including convicted pedophiles and serial rapists — moved solely because of a Self-ID declaration. None of the six had taken hormones or had surgery.

I wrote about it again in 2024 in California. The Transgender Respect, Agency and Dignity Act, signed by Gavin Newsom in 2021, requires NO medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Anyone can declare a different gender on a questionnaire. Similar laws exist in Washington, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York City.

At the time, gender activists who wanted men in female-only prisons kept asking for proof the men might be predators.

Why do women have to be victimized before those zealots finally admit this is terrible policy?

[Amy Eileen Hamm @preta_6]

94% of transwomen sex offenders in Canadian prisons decided to transition *after* committing said sex crimes. It really makes you think, doesn’t it?

[Eithan Haim MD @EithanDHaimMD]

Over three weeks ago HHS published our report, Wolves In White Coats where we make the case that gender clinics across the country are flagrantly committing criminal healthcare fraud.

The only critical coverage has come from the Amarillo Sod Poodles of left-wing "journalism." (Baptist Global News?)

Except for NPR, which buried the report in an article about CMS' Medicaid exclusion, there has been zero coverage from any mainstream outlet.

Maybe nationwide syndicates of criminal fraudsters selling snake oil in major children's hospitals isn't that interesting of a story.

Must have been interesting to the criminal grand jury that heard evidence about healthcare fraud in the gender clinic at Mount Sinai Health System in NYC, which led to yesterday's DOJ settlement.

Based on this information alone, I imagine many more criminal grand juries are about to find this story very, very interesting.

[National Post @nationalpost]

Federal government admits two trans inmates charged with sexual assault after transfer to women's prisons https://t.co/TxzWnkUwfH