PEOPLE ARE IN DENIAL FOLLOWING THE CASS REPORT – IT’S LIKE DEPROGRAMMING CULT MEMBERS, by Suzanne Moore. “I suppose if I had been cheering on a vast medical experiment on children that was now shown to be extremely harmful, I might be keeping my head down. If I had been interning as a witch hunter, I might say, ‘I only helped with the pyres, I didn’t actually light the fire.’ … Indeed, the reaction to the Cass Review has been notable in that many who have previously intoned trans rights slogans have just changed the subject. Their silence is deafening. … These people, quite frankly, disgust me. One of them, Patrick Harvie, the co-leader of the Scottish Greens, was asked five times on the Today program whether he accepted Cass’s findings and he would not answer.” Read more here.
ACTIVIST-BLOGGER ERIN REED CAN’T STOP TELLING FALSEHOODS ABOUT GENDER MEDICINE, by Benjamin Ryan. “The prominent American transgender activist Erin Reed has repeatedly and insistently made demonstrably false claims about pediatric gender medicine. During the two weeks since the publication of the Cass Review, England’s mammoth report about this controversial and politicized medical field, Reed has emitted a fusillade of false claims about the review, its findings and the systematic literature reviews on which it was partially based. Reed has only doubled down when fact-checked, even when the corrections have come from lead author of the report, pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass, herself.” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT IS LOSING ITS INFLUENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO SHUT DOWN DEBATE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The transgender movement still has not recovered from Elon Musk’s purchase of X (formerly Twitter). While the platform still has obvious flaws — from Musk’s difficulty in policing the posting of pornography to the clearly prevalent practice of shadow-banning primarily conservative-leaning figures — it is possible to tell the truth about gender ideology on one of the world’s largest social media platforms. In a world where the public square has become (unfortunately, in my view) digital, that matters. It is also significant that the transgender movement’s attacks on Elon Musk — like their targeting of J.K. Rowling — appear to have backfired completely.” Read more here.
ILLINOIS SURGICAL ABORTION FACILITY TURNED DOWN AFTER ASKING FOR EXEMPTION FROM HEALTH STANDARDS, by Cassy Fiano-Chesser. “One of the most notorious abortion facilities in Illinois recently petitioned the state to be exempted from health standards regarding ambulatory surgical centers — and was denied. Operation Rescue reported that Erin King, medical director for the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City (which is apparently classified in the state as an ambulatory surgical treatment center, or ASTC), asked the Illinois Department of Public Health to exempt them from several health and safety standards, including the requirements that its providers have admitting privileges at a local hospital, that a licensed physician commit the surgical procedures, and that a pathologist carry out post-mortem tissue examinations and document them in the patient’s medical record. All three requests were rejected.” Read more here.
THE WASHINGTON POST’S 2,600-WORD LOVE LETTER TO A DRAG QUEEN, by Peter Parisi. “Anyone who reads The Washington Post regularly knows that, in its view, the LGBTQ community can do no wrong, that there’s no wretched excess that the fringe elements of that special-interest group can engage in that the Post won’t defend—no matter how flamboyant, distasteful, or outrageous. To the contrary, the Post is more likely than not to showcase, glamorize, and even glorify it. But it surely outdid itself Sunday by devoting four full pages in the print edition of its ‘Arts & Style’ section to a gushing—even sycophantic—biographical profile of a drag queen who goes by the stage name of ‘Sasha Velour.’” Read more here.
‘JUST A DISASTER’: BIDEN’S TITLE IX RULE EMPOWERS LGBTQ MOVEMENT, ERASES WOMEN AND JUSTICE, by Ben Johnson. “The Biden administration’s revision of a civil rights statute designed to protect women’s rights in education erases women’s protections, rewrites landmark civil rights legislation to advance the LGBT agenda by federal fiat, and waters down legal standards for those falsely accused of sexual harassment. The Biden administration obliterates the unique rights intended for women and girls by claiming Title IX’s prohibitions of discrimination against females in education apply to men who identify as women — regardless of their outward appearance — as well as those who identify as homosexual.” Read more here.
THE HOAX OF ‘HOLISTIC’ GENDER MEDICINE, by Bernard Lane. “Urgent concerns raised by the UK Cass report have been roundly dismissed by Australian gender clinicians. After almost four years of work, Dr. Cass’s report reflects a meticulous analysis of all relevant international research including systematic reviews of the weak evidence base for treatment of gender-distressed young people. Yet the best response that gender clinicians in Australia can muster is an eerily identical chorus that ‘Australia is not the UK’ and a hollow refrain that gender dysphoria management is ‘complex and evolving.’ The acknowledgment of this uncertainty does not appear to cause restraint or circumspection as gender clinicians continue to initiate radical hormonal regimes in children; regimes which are, by design, required for the remainder of the child’s life.” Read more here.
