Category: Transgenderism

House of Commons apologises after trans barrister used women’s lavatory | MSN

The House of Commons has apologised after allowing a trans woman to use female-only lavatories.

Robin Moira White, a trans barrister who is a biological male, was told to use the ladies’ lavatories in Portcullis House last week before being questioned outside by two women’s rights campaigners.

It follows a Supreme Court ruling in April that trans women are not women under the Equality Act. The judgment led to the Government saying trans women should use lavatories according to their biological sex.

Source: House of Commons apologises after trans barrister used women’s lavatory

NORWAY: Two Trans-Identified Males Convicted For Gang Rape Of Young Girl Claim Transgender Status And Erectile Dysfunction In Defense | Genevieve Gluck

Three Norwegian men, two of whom claim to identify as transgender, have been convicted on charges relating to the ongoing sexual assault and rape of a girl while she was between the ages of 12 and 14.

According to the verdict, handed down last Wednesday at the Hordaland Court, attorneys were instructed to refer to the two trans-identified men as “women.”

During a police interrogation, Baar admitted to having raped the girl “several times” on the night of May 31, 2024, when she was thirteen years old. Baar was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison, and has been ordered to pay a 350,000 Norwegian kroner ($34,600 USD) fine.

According to the judgement, Seberg’s attempts to penetrate the girl had failed because “she [Seberg] lost her erection.” Seberg was therefore given a reduced sentence of one year and six months on the charge of aggravated sexual conduct, as attorneys had maintained that he was unable to maintain an erection when attempting to rape the young girl. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 200,00 Norwegian kroner.

While Aakre was also charged with sexual activity with a child, he has not been accused of participating in the rape or gang rape of the girl. Aakre was sentenced to sixty days imprisonment with a reduction for time detained, and was ordered to pay a fine of 30,000 Norwegian kroner.

Baar and Seberg were additionally charged and found guilty of producing images of child sexual abuse involving the victim.

Among the fetishes listed on Seberg’s profile are bondage, BDSM, and abduction play. He participates in multiple crossdresser and trans-related groups on the fetish site, as well as one group dedicated to “gang bangs.”

Baar describes himself as a voyeur, exhibitionist, sadist, and “brat tamer,” and lists “group sex” as one of his fetishes. Other fetishes listed by Baar include “pain,” “screaming,” and “tearing off clothing.” On Instagram, Baar has shared photos of himself edited with FaceApp to resemble a young girl.

Source: NORWAY: Two Trans-Identified Males Convicted For Gang Rape Of Young Girl Claim Transgender Status And Erectile Dysfunction In Defense

The British Invasion and the Sex n’ Gender Outlaws | Inspecting Gender | Daniel Howard James

In this series so far, I have written about Gnostics, Jungian alchemists, and mystical orgy and castration cults.

How did these fringe ideas become commonplace in Western societies today? I believe that the ‘British Invasion’ of popular music from the 1960’s onwards helped spread esoteric notions of sex and gender around the world.

Living at a time when male homosexuality was criminalised and racial segregation was still an everyday reality, American rock n’ roll artists were truly breaking the boundaries of social convention. However, musicians weren’t all great role models when it came to sexual politics.

[F]rom the mid 1960’s onwards, as the musicians’ drug of choice changed from speed to weed and LSD, pop took a darker turn. John Lennon confused young Americans with his infamous ‘butcher’ cover concept for the ‘Yesterday and Today’ album in 1966.

The following year, while the band promoted the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s transcendental cult, it opted to include Aleister Crowley’s face on the ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ artwork.

Jagger’s Crowleyesque phase lasted into the following year, when the track ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ was released, and filming began on his gender-swapped role in ‘Performance’. David Bowie conveyed his disturbed mental state via the song ‘Quicksand’ in 1971, managing to cram references to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, Holocaust architect Heinrich Himmler, Friedrich Nietzsche and Buddha into one short tune.

Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page purchased Aleister Crowley’s house overlooking Loch Ness in the Scottish highlands during the 1970’s. The property where Crowley attempted to create a portal to Hell has since burned down twice, in 2015 and 2019.

In 1973, Richard O’Brien created musical ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’, which Mick Jagger reportedly tried to buy the rights to after its stage debut in the USA.

Former Beatle George Harrison, the most invested in Eastern religion of the group, funded 1979 Monty Python movie ‘The Life of Brian’ giving us the classic ‘Loretta’ scene, in which Stan changes his pronouns. “It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression…”, the comrades agree, for Stan to have the right to become a woman, even though he can’t.

But it wasn’t all sing-along fun. Ozzy Osbourne’s 1980 track ‘Mr. Crowley’ was cited as an evil influence on impressionable children during the ‘Satanic Panic’ therapeutic recovered memory episode. Ozzy claimed that he was not a competent Satanist, and just like his bat-eating stunt, the track referencing Crowley had been created for attention. British rock musicians were accused of ‘backwards masking’ subliminal messages into their recordings. Both Ozzy Osbourne and the band Judas Priest were sued by parents of American fans who had committed suicide. There have been countless copycat heavy metal devil worshippers to this day.

During the Satanic Panic, recovered memory therapists discredited victims of actual abuse, by encouraging accusations without evidence.

Some British musicians went beyond mere performativity to fully emulate Aleister Crowley’s methods. Founder of the band Psychic TV, Neil Megson, had renamed himself ‘Genesis P. Orridge’ in 1971. Ten years later he created ‘Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth’ cult, which posed in Charles Manson T-shirts.

In 1993, ‘Orridge’ embarked on a feminised gender transition with his dominatrix Jacqueline Breyer. ‘Trans widows’ who believe their partner is trying to become them in every respect will note that ‘Orridge’ explicitly stated this was his transition goal, copying Jacqueline’s appearance down to her eye make-up. While the pair were supposedly creating a singular ‘pandrogeny’, Breyer did not masculinise, but also underwent a series of cosmetic surgery revisions. The link between elective cosmetic surgery and masochism was never clearer.

Genesis was quoted in 2004 as saying “We both went and got breast implants on the same day, on our 10th anniversary, and we woke up in hospital holding hands. By chance, we have the same size shoes, but now we can also share lingerie as well!” While Genesis lived to be 70 years old, Jacqueline was dead at 38.

Canadian indie band and Bowie worshippers ‘Arcade Fire’ released the track ‘My Body Is A Cage’ on their 2007 album ‘Neon Bible’. With its blasting church organ part, this song is an anthem for neo-Gnostics everywhere. It is a regular live favourite for the band, and was used in the soundtrack of HBO’s queer teen drama series ‘Euphoria’ which debuted in 2019.

When the Beatles were awarded medals by the Queen in 1965, this was primarily for boosting the nation’s export revenue. But when musicians began to dabble in psychedelics, esoteric religion and dilettante Satanism, they became a vector for the export of fringe ideas about sex and gender which had previously been confined to syphilitic madmen and their female devotees in mystery cults.

Source: The British Invasion and the Sex n’ Gender Outlaws

Academics lose discrimination case over trans-critical film | MSN

Two academics have failed in their attempt to sue their union for stopping their trans-critical film from being shown to students at the University of Edinburgh.

Deirdre O’Neill, a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, and Michael Wayne, a professor at Brunel University, argued that they suffered unlawful discrimination when the University and College Union (UCU) opposed their film, Adult Human Female, which challenges claims made by trans rights activists.

On Monday, Employment Judge Laidler, sitting with two side members, concluded the claimants were not treated detrimentally contrary to the Equality Act 2010, and were not subjected to harassment.

The tribunal noted that UCU Edinburgh was not objecting to the beliefs of the claimants but was protesting against a film which it believed presented misinformation about trans and non-binary people and that was damaging to trans and non-binary staff and students.

Source: Academics lose discrimination case over trans-critical film

The Idiot’s Guide to Gendergeddon – by Campaign Club – WNN

They’re not Gay.

Men who pretend they’re not men, are 5x more dangerous than other men.

There is No Third Gamete.

Source: The Idiot’s Guide to Gendergeddon – by Campaign Club – WNN

Full article: The Cass Review; Distinguishing Fact from Fiction

Medical history is littered with disagreements over science, evidence and the appropriate management of a range of clinical conditions. However, the care of young people with gender incongruence or dysphoria has been characterized by polarized social and political debate overshadowing the scientific process. This has led to a neglect of the basic tenet of evidence-based medicine that serves as a research and practice lodestar to maximize benefit and avoid harm.

Some of the views are more aggressively voiced than in any other area of clinical care, such that many people are afraid to express an opinion; this is a dangerous situation for both doctors and patients. This problem is exacerbated by modern communication technologies which provide easily accessible tools and routes for the targeted dissemination of dangerously misleading statements and misinformation.

Most people’s instinct is “live and let live”—they believe trans people should be respected, supported and given the space to make their own choices. However, a majority of Britons believed medical interventions toward transition should not start below the age of 18. In the UK, there is a sense of social justice, but also an instinct to protect young people during a vulnerable period in their development.

Source: Full article: The Cass Review; Distinguishing Fact from Fiction

Trans Women are Men, Supreme Court Win – Maya Forstater, CEO – Sex Matters – YouTube

EHRC commissioner calls for ‘period of correction’ on trans rights after legal ruling | Transgender | The Guardian

Speaking at a debate about the repercussions of April’s ruling that “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman, Akua Reindorf said trans people had been misled about their rights and there “has to be a period of correction, because other people have rights”.

Reindorf, a barrister who is one of eight commissioners at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), who was speaking in a personal capacity, said she believes the fault lay with trans lobbyists.

Asked by an audience member about worries the ruling could reduce the rights of trans people, another panellist, the barrister Naomi Cunningham, said trans people “will have to give way”, adding: “It can’t be helped, I’m afraid.”

Reindorf, speaking next, agreed: “Unfortunately, young people and trans people have been lied to over many years about what their rights are. It’s like Naomi said – I just can’t say it in a more diplomatic way than that. They have been lied to, and there has to be a period of correction, because other people have rights.”

Source: EHRC commissioner calls for ‘period of correction’ on trans rights after legal ruling | Transgender | The Guardian

‘Public interest’: gender clinic’s practices should be open to scrutiny, judge rules | The Australian

Michelle Telfer was a young paediatrician at The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne in 2012 when she was asked to make what would become a life-changing ­decision.

A colleague heading into retirement approached her to take on his small number of young transgender patients requiring support for medical transition. It was a tempting offer to work in this developing branch of medicine. “I really didn’t have much experience working with trans and gender diverse young people. I didn’t have any actually,’’ Telfer, a Perth-born former Olympic gymnast and Commonwealth Games medallist, told the Emerging Minds podcast in 2019.

Back in 2012, the service received just 18 referrals and Telfer was advised these patients would be a small part of her clinical practice. How wrong that prediction would prove.

Each year since 2012, referrals have rapidly grown (to 473 by 2020) and the cause of trans and gender diverse young people has “actually taken over my life’’, Telfer, now one of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts, told The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.

Telfer’s advocacy led to young people gaining access to hormone and surgical treatment without approval from the Family Court and as her profile soared, she was hailed as a lifesaving advocate for trans youth and profiled on the ABC’s Australian Story and on the cover of Nine’s Good Weekend magazine.

In those stories, her work and courage were supported by a number of patients, their families, colleagues and the Victorian govern­ment, and any questions or criticism around the direction of child gender affirming treatment were largely downplayed.

The court case before Justice Strum centred on a biologically male child. The mother believed the child to be gender dysphoric and, as a result, should have access to puberty blockers. The father wanted to hold off on treatment and “let the child be the child”.

Justice Strum said that according to the evidence from Telfer and another doctor, the gender clinic had a “single approach”. Gender dysphoria was treated with puberty blockers. “No alternative treatment options are offered by the CHGS for gender dysphoria diagnosed there,” he said.

Justice Strum said the mother’s case, supported by the evidence of Telfer and another expert was that gender identity was internal and immutable and not open to external influence.

“However, neither of those experts was able to point to any empirical or substantive basis for their opinion, but, rather, only to anecdotal reports from transgender adults about their experience of gender identity,” he said.

Justice Strum voiced concern that the child’s mother, along with Telfer and the expert for the mother’s case, seemed to dismiss the possible relevance of other factors, such as maternal influence or underlying neurodivergence playing any part in the child’s presentation. “I consider that prudence would have dictated that such an investigation be undertaken … and certainly before puberty blockers were contemplated, given the gravity of the issue,’’ he said.

While noting the diversity of views on best practice healthcare for transgender or gender diverse children and adolescents, Justice Strum said there was limited evidence on the long-term effects of some of the healthcare options promoted by Telfer, the Children’s Hospital and its Gender Service.

He said the evidence of the mother’s experts were, in many respects, at odds with the UK Cass report, which was tendered to the court by the mother’s team.

Notwithstanding that she was called as an expert witness for the mother, Justice Strum noted that an expert’s duty to provide objective and unbiased opinion to the court prevailed over obligations to the party that engaged them.

He then listed the occasions when Telfer described herself as or agreed she was an advocate for transgender healthcare who was involved in the push to remove the legal requirement for trans and gender diverse adolescents to obtain court authorisation to access gender affirming hormone treatment. “Advocacy in a court is for lawyers, not witnesses, neither lay nor expert,’’ he said.

Telfer was the first author of the inaugural Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents and approved the final draft.

However Justice Strum said he approached her evidence in this regard “with caution”.

“As I observed during the hearing … she is akin to being the proverbial ‘judge, jury and exe­cution­er.’ Indeed, in cross-examination [she] conceded that her opinion that the ASCTG is best practice was essentially tantamount to her agreeing with herself,’’ he said.

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Judge critical of Michelle Telfer over gender guidelines, evidence | The Australian

Judge Andrew Strum has criticised the evidence of gender medicine expert Dr Michelle Telfer and allowed publication of her name and of the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne following a landmark case.

Justice Strum also questioned the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents, authored by Professor Telfer, for not recognising that children may not be capable of making life-altering medical decisions about their gender identity. “It is concerning that an oddly binary approach is adopted in relation to children, especially of the age of the child the subject of these proceedings; that is, to affirm unreservedly those who present with concerns regarding their gender, brooking no questioning thereof,” he wrote in the judgment.

The case marked the first time a sitting judge has directly questioned the nation’s guidelines on gender-affirming care. While Justice Strum did not offer general comment on the treatment model adopted by the RCH, he said the impact of that model on a child was of relevance.

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