The plot to redefine conversion therapy
Unherd
RÓISÍN MICHAUX
A murky history shrouds the erasure of biological sex
The fateful meeting Yogyakarta 16 years ago turned conventional therapy for gender distressed teens into a crime.
The American Academy of Pediatrics sacrifices American children on the altar of gender ideology
Human Events
Erin Friday
For the fourth consecutive year, a group of pediatricians submitted a resolution requesting that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) take an evidence-based approach to treatment recommendations for gender-confused minors. What excuse will the AAP use this year to reject the most fundamental principle of evidence-based medicine?
Anatomy of a medical scandal
The Critic
Victoria Smith
Time To Think is a hugely important book, not just from the perspective of contemporary debates about the medical transitioning of children, but from that of understanding how any scandal can happen in plain sight.
Why Are We Erasing Neurodiversity?
Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans
Our society seemingly worships at the altar of diversity, but gender ideology is bent on erasing the actual diversity in our society. How can we promote diversity while at the same time telling those who are different that they need to be fixed—that they need to medically alter their bodies to be whole?
Switzerland: Minors, Including under 14s Have Undergone Sex-Change Operations
4W
Dana Vitalosova
Official Swiss hospital statistics show girls under 14 got healthy breasts removed and boys under 18 penises amputated.
Affirmation Generation
Panacol Productions Presents
A deep dive into the current medical scandal entangling youth around the globe, this documentary will take you beyond the controversial headlines and into the authentic lives of people with real regrets, but also true hopes for the future
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
The Free Press
Jamie Reed
There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.
The Whole Transgender Industry Is Founded On Two Faulty Studies
The Federalist
Ashley Bateman
The Amsterdam studies from 2011 and 2014 that formed the foundation of the transgender industry should never have been accepted by the professional community, falling “unacceptably” short of modern research standards.
The Trans War on Tomboys
Compact
Nina Power
Today, the boyish girl is in danger of being told she was “born in the wrong body,” and whisked off to a gender clinic. Setting children on this path is an obvious grotesque harm. We have taken a terribly wrong turn in allowing pharmaceutical companies to construct lifelong patients out of healthy children.
Support us against trans laws in the European Parliament
AMANDA
Sign the petition
The Spanish parent group AMANDA has submitted a petition to the European Parliament, asking that young people with gender dysphoria no longer be deprived of the right to psychological counseling, and that they be protected against the current approach to affirmative care, with hormone treatments and surgical interventions.
Switzerland Rejects Gender Ideology, Rules Sex Is Binary
SLAY
Frank Bergman
In a landmark move, Switzerland’s government has rejected gender ideology by ruling that sex is binary and people must be referred to as either male or female, with no exceptions.
Maker of puberty blockers funded original study that led to ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors: Dutch investigative report
The Post Millennial
Mia Ashton
A Dutch investigative report has revealed that the 2006 study upon which the entire medical experiment of child sex changes is based was funded by a maker of puberty blockers.
Trans care too must meet health science standards
NRC
Jan Kuitenbrouwer en Peter Vasterman
The use of puberty blockers – as first launched in the Netherlands – is attracting a growing barrage of international opposition. Jan Kuitenbrouwer and Peter Vasterman urge the need for independent research.
The Cover up of the Biggest Medical Scandal of Our Time
Sasha White’s Newsletter
How have the “experts” gotten away with medically experimenting on children in broad daylight?
The “gender-affirming” care model is built on sand
Sex Matters
New analysis finds serious flaws in every long-term study claiming that puberty blockers and hormone treatment improve teenagers’ mental health.
Is sanity returning to the trans debate?
The Spectator
Julie Bindel
The Charity Commission has launched an investigation into Mermaids, a UK charity for “gender-variant and transgender children”, following investigations by the newspapers “The Telegraph” and “Mail”, as well as demands from critics concerned about child safeguarding.
Britain changes tack in its treatment of trans-identifying children
The Economist
Is britain tiptoeing away from a medical scandal? Until recently, many gender specialists in the National Health Service (nhs) treated trans-identifying children by broadly following an “affirmative” approach. But Britain now appears to be changing tack.
Joyce activated, issue 27
HELEN JOYCE
Joyce activated, issue 27
Helen Joyce talks about the impact of gender identity ideology and social contagion in schools. How the indoctrination of children and the creation of gender inequality results in a veritable epidemic of youth trans-identification.
The NHS is pushing back against trans ideology
Spiked
Last week, in a victory for child safeguarding, reality and common sense, the NHS rammed a stake into the heart of trans ideology.
Beyond WPATH
As mental health professionals, public health scientists, and allied organizations and individuals, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the current Standards of Care released by WPATH (the World Professional Association for Transgender Health). We hold that WPATH has discredited itself.
What I would have told Jon Stewart
Sexology Today!
Jon Stewart recently interviewed Leslie Rutledge, the Attorney General of Arkansas, regarding medicalized treatments of children with gender dysphoria. Unfortunately, they both were missing information that, if brought out, would have led to a very different conversation.
WPATH Explained
Genspect
The eagerly awaited Standards of Care, Version 8 (SOC8) from the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) was recently published to widespread shock and dismay. The new recommendations are based on politics, not science!
How far-Right are you?
Unherd
If you feel the slightest discomfort and question gender issues, or question its moral goodness and cling to the idea that we are born male and female, you will soon be aligned with the far right.
Can children actually consent to gender surgeries?
Washington Examiner
The transgender health organization WPATH will soon publish an update to its guidelines for standards of care. The expected changes include lowering the recommended ages for hormones and surgery in minors. Does anyone truly believe that children understand the long-term implications of these decisions for their bodies and fertility?
How woke is Nietzsche?
Unherd
Where we used to maintain that reality provided us with certain givens, many now argue that we can uncouple ourselves from those givens, and construct ourselves with reference to our will alone. The obvious example is the debate around sex and gender.
This could become the biggest medical scandal of the century
The Daily Mail
The UK’s National Health Service will close the world’s largest pediatric gender clinic. An independent review condemned the clinic as “not a safe or viable long-term option” because its interventions are based on poor evidence and its model of care leaves young people “at considerable risk” of poor mental health.
A european manifesto for objectivity in the media about childhood “gender dysphoria”
140 scientists from eight countries are calling on the media to end one-sided and unscientific reporting on transgenderism. In their “European Manifesto” they demand that “diversity of views” be shown and critical voices be heard.
Doctors & Psychotherapists: Butchers & Liars
We are sacrificing our children on the altar of a brutal, extreme ideology. The medical profession is crumbling in response to radical transgender activists. A line has been crossed from ideological possession to active malevolence.
What is a Woman?
A film by Matt Walsh and the Daily Wire. The question “What is a Woman” – and the apparent inability of highly educated people to answer it – is offered as a gateway into the more general controversy. Walsh is doing a great service in exposing the incoherence of gender advocates and activists in an easy-to-digest form.
‘Sterilisation risk’ from gender medicine
GCN – Bernard Lane
News from France
A French medical organisation has sounded the alarm about an epidemic-like surge in young people seeking hormone drugs and surgery
France cautions on gender youth medicine
News from France
The National Academy of Medicine warns that the increasing number of youth with gender incongruity are often socially mediated and that great caution should be exercised in treatment.
Detrans Awareness Day
Coming home to ourselves www.detransawareness.org Detransitioners have experienced a dramatic journey of self-acceptance and an unpopular trip to transition and back. Upon transitioning, we felt an overwhelming degree of affirmation from doctors, mental health...
Confusion around gender identity versus biological sex
De Nieuwe Wereld - Marlies Dekkers in conversation with philosopher Griet Vandermassen From a social point of view, all questions of gender and sex are today regarded as power discourses, and people want to deconstruct them. This has created a political climate in...
Gender reassignment in children: ‘We can no longer remain silent in the face of a runaway drift’
L' EXPRESS Some 50 psychiatrists, doctors and intellectuals denounce an "ideological grab on children's bodies" done in the name of emancipating "the transgender child". Associated with "L'Observatoire des discours idéologiques sur l'enfant et l'adolescent", a...
Transgender: the new trend among young girls
DOORBRAAK.BE - Rob Lemeire Why is this phenomenon being pushed so hard? Transsexuals get a lot of positive attention these days. A young girl who suddenly, out of the blue, expresses doubts about her gender is immediately encouraged by adults to take further steps....
When hormones and surgery appear to be the wrong answer
De Standaard - Griet Vandermassen A growing group of detransitioners regret their gender transition. Young people who are in anguish, who are struggling with their identity, too quickly end up receiving irreversible medical 'help'. The number of adolescents presenting...
INTERESTING LINKS
GENDER TRANSFORMATION
The Realities About Transgenderism You Are Not Told
Dead Name
Film review – about parents of children claiming a cross-sex identity
WRONG GENDER
A Worldwide Epidemic
Sophie Robert
Lost in TransNation
Miriam Grossman, M.D.
TRAILER
The Detransistion Diaries – Saving Our Sisters
Release fall: Read more
TRAILER
Affirmation Generation – The lies of Transgender Medicine: Read more
Helen Joyce
Gender transition and its impact on society
Where did you get that idea from?
Is it Mass Psychosis?
Lighthouses of Courage
Groundbreaking study by Dr. Lisa Littman.
The Trans Train 4
Another excellent episode!
Thinspo and Gender Goals
A story that convincingly portrays the similarity between anorexia nervosa and gender dysphoria.
Texas Gender Clinic Closure
When the science changes, gender clinics must follow.