Category: Global

New Analysis Finds Exaggerated Benefits in Youth Gender Transition Studies

A newly published review in a prestigious medical journal has found that many studies on hormonal treatments for children with gender dysphoria have exaggerated their benefits. The analysis, led by Kathleen McDeavitt from the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, revealed that many studies presented positive conclusions about hormonal interventions even when the findings were insignificant, small, or even negative.

Proponents of early medical transition argue it can reduce suicide risk, often describing hormonal interventions as “life-saving care.” However, McDeavitt’s review of 14 long-term studies reveals that the majority did not find improvements in depression or suicidality.

Source: New Analysis Finds Exaggerated Benefits in Youth Gender Transition Studies

3 More Kids Murdered Despite “Safe Child” Laws Being Enacted | US

Two fathers have murdered their children in less than two weeks—despite “Safe Child” laws in both states where the murders occurred. And a third father attempted to murder his son, but the boy miraculously survived.

On May 28th, 2-year-old Little Melody was murdered by her father in Florida.

On May 20th, 7-year-old Alex and 6-year-old Lydia were murdered by their father in Arizona.

On May 17th, 7-month-old baby Jaxson was shot multiple times by his father, also in Arizona, but survived.

Both Arizona and Florida have “Safe Child” laws. These laws are being widely promoted as the solution to the Custody Crisis. However, they made no difference in these recent rash of cases and have made little, if any, in the Custody Crisis overall.

The basis for all of these Safe Child laws is that children’s safety should be prioritized. That is ridiculous and redundant. That universal consensus is already embodied in the “best interests of the child” doctrine. Just the fact something so basic and universally accepted needs to be re-stated in the first place shows the real problem is with the system itself.

Another precept of these laws is that judges should be trained in domestic violence and child abuse. This is also ridiculous. However could these supposedly wise and highly educated beings recognize abuse if they did not have a three hour course on it? The proof that lack of judicial training is not the problem lies in the fact that judges routinely, deliberately disregard, minimize, and cover up abuse by fathers while falsely finding mothers to be abusive.

Related to that reform is part stating court-appointees should also be trained. But they, like judges, deliberately spin cases to the father and against the mother so as to abet in the custody switch. It has nothing to do with training or lack thereof.

Another tenet is that judges are supposed to make protective orders for children when necessary. Right. The problem with that is they make orders to match their false findings that the father is not abusive and the mother is.

These laws sound good, which is why they are so popular with mothers.

But just think about it. Dive a bit deeper.

Do you really think the OBN [old boy network] is going to allow laws to be passed that would deprive men of their #1 most coveted entitlement post women’s lib: power over their ex and children after separation—and specifically the power to use kids as leverage to get revenge on her for leaving?

Of course not.

Women need to understand that basic truth underlies all cases if we are to get anywhere in ending the Custody Crisis. Being misled into thinking Child Safety laws will make a difference in children murdered or abused just diverts from the real cause of the crisis and an effective solution.

The real problem is Family Court judges having near-absolute power: the power to ignore and violate laws; the power to disregard, deny, and conceal abuse by fathers; and the power to falsely find women some version of “mad or bad”—all in order to facilitate the Great Custody Switch.

Source: 3 More Kids Murdered Despite “Safe Child” Laws Being Enacted

Doctors Protecting Children

\As physicians, together with nurses, psychotherapists and behavioral health clinicians, other health professionals, scientists, researchers, and public health and policy professionals, we have serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects of the current protocols promoted for the care of children and adolescents in the United States who express discomfort with their biological sex.

Therefore, given the recent research and the revelations of the harmful approach advocated by WPATH and its followers in the United States, we, the undersigned, call upon the medical professional organizations of the United States, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the  Endocrine Society, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex.  Instead, these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological co-morbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria. We also encourage the physicians who are members of these professional organizations to contact their leadership and urge them to adhere to the evidence-based research now available.”

Source: Doctors Protecting Children

Is gender-affirming care evidence-based and ethical? | Australian Doctors Federation

A peer-reviewed research paper by Dr George Halasz and Andrew Amos published in Australasian Psychiatry has been brought to ADF’s attention. The authors examine the treatment of gender dysphoria described in Bell v Tavistock (UK 2020) and find “concerning lapses of clinical governance influenced by activists and linked to patient harm“. The authors conclude, “In our opinion, the Bell case documents harms directly arising from the subordination of clinical governance to social and political goals… We believe that advocates for those experiencing gender dysphoria want them to receive the best care. However, the Tavistock case shows this drive has risked patients’ health and family wellbeing on clinical frameworks unbacked by evidence. As the Cass Review makes clear, the certainty associated with gender affirming care is not backed by any strong evidence about the natural history of gender dysphoria or the efficacy/sequelae of the treatment alternatives, particularly over the long term.“
Read the full article here.

Source: Is gender-affirming care evidence-based and ethical? | Australian Doctors Federation

‘My husband assaulted me countless times – now he’s taken my kids away’ | Kidspot

A decade after she met her now estranged husband, *Simon, *Faye struggles to comprehend just how he was able to control her from the very beginning.

Faye and Simon would go on to have three children together, with Faye having left her husband for extended periods of time on several occasions – and pressed charges against him for physical violence more than once.

In the end, however, Simon was never punished, and Faye would be lured back with threats and guilt.

After a decade of abuse and coercive control – and a horrifying incident where Simon deliberately drove heavily intoxicated with the children in the car – Faye could take no more.

While Simon was away from the house, she spent all the money she had hidden to flee with all three kids from the US to Sydney, where her only family members were now living.

“When we landed, I finally stopped shaking and the relief was overwhelming,” Faye remembers.

Tragically, Faye’s newfound freedom for her and the children was cruelly short lived.

Under the Hague Convention, an international law that allows courts to order a child’s physical return to their country of birth or residence, Simon petitioned for his children to be sent back to him in the US.

Despite Faye providing the court with no less than 150 statements of abuse – and information that Simon had refused to ever care for his offspring alone – the children were ordered back to the US.

The memory of her eldest child being forced into the car by Simon on the last day she would see them causes the loving mother heart-wrenching pain.

“He wouldn’t go to the car and started shaking and vomiting, he begged not to go with his dad,” Faye says emotionally.

It has been six months since Faye lost her children, and she has so far remained resolute in remaining in Australia – where she is not under Simon’s control and is employed full time while she prepares another legal battle for the return of her beloved kids.

“I try to call them every day but I’ve spoken with them three times in that whole time and they are crying every time wanting to come back to me,” she cries.

Source: ‘My husband assaulted me countless times – now he’s taken my kids away’ | Kidspot

Threatened to kill Harry Potter author JK Rowling: He is not going to jail

A man has now appeared in court after threatening J.K. Rowling, or in other words, Harry Potter’s ‘mother’.

According to the Scottish Daily Express, a 31-year-old man named Glenn Mullen uploaded audio clips in which he threatened to kill Ms. Rowling.

The man, who currently lives in Manchester in Great Britain, had uploaded audio clips in Gaelic, where he uttered several threatening words.

He was quoted as saying things such as he would kill J.K. Rowling with a big hammer in one of the audio clips.

J.K. Rowling’s statements were read aloud in court, and they revealed that Ms. Rowling believed the threats appeared calculated and made her look over her shoulder.

The judge sentenced Glenn Mullen to two eight-week prison sentences.

Besides that, he was suspended for two years.

The two sentences were to be served concurrently.

Mullen was also ordered to complete a 12-month community order.

This would include both 20 days of rehabilitation activity requirement and 150 hours of unpaid work.

Source: Threatened to kill Harry Potter author JK Rowling: He is not going to jail

How Patriarchal Pronatalism Dominates the Conversation About the Human Future

Governments worldwide are in a race to see which one can encourage the most women to have the most babies. Hungary is slashing income tax for women with four or more children. Russia is offering women with 10 or more children a “Mother-Heroine” award. Greece, Italy, and South Korea are bribing women with attractive baby bonuses. China has instituted a three-child policy. Iran has outlawed free contraceptives and vasectomies. Japan has joined forces with the fertility industry to infiltrate schools to promote early childbearing. A leading UK demographer has proposed taxing the childless. Religious myths are preventing African men from getting vasectomies. A eugenics-inspired Natal conference just took place in the U.S., a nation leading the way in taking away reproductive rights.

The push for more babies to increase our numbers is hardly a new phenomenon. Longstanding forces of reproductive control have always favored population growth. These go back 5,000 years to the institutionalized male domination and patriarchy that emerged upon the rise of early states and empires centered in cities. Societies at the vanguard of civilization had two main goals: population expansion and seizure of resources. These were realized by coercing women to have as many children as possible and by pressuring men to become soldiers. Because of the dangers of both childbirth and war, birthing and soldiering had to be exalted and reinforced through social controls. To this day, pronatalism and militarism remain among patriarchy’s key features.

Source: https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/how-patriarchal-pronatalism-dominates?

Prostitution and violence against women and girls | Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences – Quotes

[Ed: Some highlights are extracted here but please read this excellent report in full. Link at bottom of page.]

The Special Rapporteur does not use the terms “sex work” and “sex worker” in the
report. A number of organizations and individuals stated that, in their view, the
aforementioned terms were more appropriate as they were more respectful and dignified for prostituted women; recognized their agency, and underlined that “sex work” was a “legitimate” form of work. While acknowledging these arguments, the Special Rapporteur considers that the term is neither recognized nor defined in international law. In addition, the term wrongly depicts prostitution as an activity as worthy and dignified as any other work; it fails to take into account the serious human rights violations that characterize the prostitution system and “gaslights” victims and their experiences. The Special Rapporteur therefore uses the terms “victims” and “prostituted women and girls” rather than “sex worker”, in
recognition of the scale of the harm experienced and the impairment of fundamental rights and the rights to protection, assistance, compensation and reparations.

. . .

The perceived right of men to purchase a sex act normalizes the systematic violence inflicted on women through prostitution, including in pornography, as it erases the boundaries between what counts as sex and what counts as sexual violence. The violence enacted against women in pornography, such as strangulation and defecation, is often re-enacted against girls and women by those who consume pornography in the physical world, such as
strangulation and defecation. The increase in rape, including gang rape, can be linked to the increased male consumption of pornography. Studies also show that men who pay for sexual acts have a low level of empathy for women in prostitution and feel that they are different from other women. Sexual act buyers are well aware that women in prostitution do not engage voluntarily, but they believe that absolves them of responsibility. A meta-analysis conducted in 2015 found that exposure to non-violent and violent pornography resulted in increases in both attitudes and supporting aggression and actual aggression against women and children. More frequent users of pornography were also the most frequent users of women in prostitution. Many adolescent boys seek out prostituted women and girls to be
“sexually initiated”.

. . .

It is frequently observed that women in prostitution in rich countries are
disproportionately from minority ethnic groups, while sexual act buyers are from majority groups, reinforcing the racist dynamics at work. In the United States of America, for example, Black, latino, Indigenous and native women and girls are overrepresented in the prostitution system, and white men are overrepresented among sexual act buyers.94 Racist fetishization and stereotyping of women in prostitution by sexual act buyers is frequently observed and used as a criterion in the choice of prostituted women.

. . .

The equal participation of women in society is impossible to achieve when
prostitution is normalized and fundamentally based on an inequality between women and men. Women almost exclusively represent “the supply” in the prostitution system, while men represent almost exclusively the demand for prostitution. Prostitution therefore bears a deeply archaic and sexist vision of the role of women and of the relations between women and men, as women are reduced to receptacles for men’s sexual “needs”; as such, there has also been a strong correlation between men’s use of prostitution and rape. The existence
and normalization of prostitution is also a fundamental obstacle to sexuality based on equality.

. . .

Despite its prevalence, legal systems often overlook or inadequately address online prostitution. Cross-border prostitution presents a complex challenge, with criminal networks exploiting differences in legislation between countries to traffic victims across borders. At the core of the pornography business model is the facilitation of video uploads by users. Given minimum regulation, it contains a high percentage of prostitution and trafficking victims, rape, sexual violence, non-consensual
filming and sharing of images, deepfake material, and child sexual abuse material.

. . .

Both the regulation and decriminalization approaches view prostitution as inevitable and the elimination of male demand for sexual acts impossible. Researchers have discovered that, in 150 countries, demand increased when prostitution was legal. Countries that have legalized or decriminalized prostitution have recorded higher rates of sex trafficking, violence, abuse and rape and increased prospects for money laundering and drug trafficking.

. . .

The abolition approach, also known as the “Nordic” or “equality model”, adopted in
Sweden,France,Ireland and Canada, maintains the international standard on the sexual exploitation of the prostitution of others and trafficking in persons by criminalizing third parties and decriminalizing prostituted persons, but adds the criminalization of buyers as the main actors who drive the demand and fuel the commercial sex industry. By shifting the criminal responsibility to the buyer and considering prostituted persons as victims of systemic discrimination, as well as violence against women, it offers prevention, protection and exiting alternatives to them. This approach has demonstrated concrete positive results by improving the situation of persons in or at risk of exploitation; deterring buyers and third
parties; and reducing harmful gender stereotypes.

. . .

International law has established the issue of “irrelevance of consent” within the
framework of trafficking crimes and the exploitation of the prostitution of others. Moreover, there is now a universal trend towards regarding lack of consent as the essential element of rape and sexual abuse. These principles have not, however, been applied to prostitution. The payment and/or promise of payment is the most visible sign of a person being purchased rather than freely giving consent. Survivors frequently attest that, without payment, they would not engage in sexual activities with unknown men; many describe prostitution as “paid rape.” Furthermore, the consent obtained in the context of prostitution is often coerced
through abuse of power by pimps and buyers, as well as by the dire social and economic circumstances faced by prostituted women, where equal economic and social power, physical and mental safety, and real alternatives, are missing for true consent to be possible. Lastly, testimonies of many individuals who report that they had agreed to engage in prostitution on their own reveal patterns of abuse of vulnerability and power, manipulation or coerced prostitution or trafficking while in it, or have been enticed through “lover boy” or other “romantic” relationships.

Source: g2407881.pdf

Prostitution and violence against women and girls | Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, *Reem Alsalem – Feminist Legal Clinic

Prostitution and violence against women and girls | Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, *Reem Alsalem

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Council of Europe – Gender Equality Strategy (2024-29)

THE NEW GENDER EQUALITY STRATEGY 2024-2029: ITS MISSION AND
STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Strategic Objective 1 – Preventing and combating gender stereotypes
and sexism

Strategic Objective 2 – Preventing and combating violence
against women and girls and domestic violence

Strategic Objective 3 – Ensuring equal access to justice
for women and girls

Strategic Objective 4 – Achieving balanced participation
of women and men in political, public, social and economic life

Strategic Objective 5 – Ensuring women’s empowerment
and gender equality in relation to global and geopolitical challenges

Strategic Objective 6 – Achieving gender mainstreaming
and including an intersectional approach in all policies and measures

[Ed: The words prostitution and surrogacy are strangely absent from this important document. ‘Gender identity’ is acknowledged as an attribute worthy of protection by discrimination laws. Repeated reference is also made to ‘women in all their diversity’ which is a popular euphemism signaling the inclusion of males who claim to be women. Unfortunately, these concessions effectively undercut all the other stated objectives.]

Source: PREMS 073024 GBR 2573 Gender Equality Strategy (2024-29) TXT Web A5 2756-3175-9113.1.pdf