Category: Transgenderism
Trans women retain 12% edge in tests two years after transitioning, study finds | Sport | The Guardian
A groundbreaking new study on transgender athletes has found trans women retain a 12% advantage in running tests even after taking hormones for two years to suppress their testosterone. The results, researchers suggest, indicate the current International Olympic Committee guidelines may give trans women an “unfair competitive advantage” over biological women.
The sex binary is not a ‘Western construct,’ gender identity is
Arguments in favour of gender identity ideology often include assertions that the sex binary is a “white supremacist colonialist construct” and that ancient/indigenous/colonized cultures acknowledge and recognize “transgender people.” This is generally accompanied by the claim that this proves “transgender people have existed for thousands of years,” followed by throw away citations of the Indian subcontinent’s Hijras, two-spirit people in Native American cultures, the Fa’afafine of Samoa, or the “ladyboys” of Thailand. According to trans activists, these examples demonstrate that sex is a Western/white supremacist construct, that older cultures recognized the authenticity of “transgender people” and that, therefore, categorizing people only as either male or female is wrong and should be junked (along with legal systems built on such identities).
The incoherent ideology of “gender identity” and its attendant legal and social implications should not be forced onto other cultures, certainly not with the effect of harming women and girls.
If anything, it is the Westerncentric notions forced onto other cultures that are “colonial.” Academics, writers, and trans activists might be better off looking at their own ideologies, and seeking coherency in those, rather than altering non-Western cultures and histories to suit their desires and political purposes.
Source: The sex binary is not a ‘Western construct,’ gender identity is
Dr. Holly Lawford-Smith on Inside the News – YouTube
Court Calls Parents “Dangerous” for Denying “Trans” Teen Cross-Sex Hormones | Women Are Human
AU — . The parents of a teen girl are appealing a protection order that led to their child being seized by authorities and placed in care. Last October, a magistrate declared the parents abusive and dangerous for not validating the child’s “feelings and expression of gender identity.” “[The authorities say] we will not allow her to change gender, so it’s dangerous for told her to come back to our house because we will mentally abuse her,” the father told the Australian. “They want us to consent to testosterone treatment.”
Long-term studies in Sweden and the UK have found that hormones and surgery do not reduce the rate of suicide attempts or successfully completed suicides in transgender-identifying individuals.
A 17-year-old girl in the United States was seized from her parents’ Ohio home in 2018 after they refused to call her by the masculine name she had chosen, or to allow her to start testosterone therapy to appear more male. At the time, transgender activists like Julie Rei Goldstein openly celebrated the judge’s decision, and threatened that more parents’ custody of their children would be removed by the government for refusal to allow their children to undergo medical intervention into their feelings of gender dysphoria.
Source: Court Calls Parents “Dangerous” for Denying “Trans” Teen Cross-Sex Hormones | Women Are Human
‘Massive pause button’: UK case resets the rules on children’s gender transition
Last week England’s High Court of Justice delivered a verdict that has delighted critics of gender transition around the world but alarmed the trans community and its advocates, and has potential implications for future legal cases in Australia.
While the decision has no immediate bearing on Australian law, activists want to use the case to advance their cause. Anna Kerr, who runs the Feminist Legal Clinic in Sydney, says the Tavistock judgment is “very significant” and could potentially persuade judges not to approve treatment.
For example, Gillick competence was the crux of a significant Family Court case this year, known as Re: Imogen, which approved stage two hormonal treatment for a now 16-year-old against the mother’s wishes. The judge also clarified that if one parent or guardian disputes a child’s Gillick competency, their diagnosis or desired treatment, the case must go to court for a ruling.
“In a similar case to Re:Imogen, you’d now be able to say the tide is turning internationally,” Kerr says. “That might be helpful to some extent.”
Source: ‘Massive pause button’: UK case resets the rules on children’s gender transition
Parents’ grief as ‘trans teen’ taken into care| The Australian
A transgender-identifying teenager has been taken into care after parents resisted the push for irreversible hormone treatment.
A landmark victory against hormone blockers for children | The Spectator Australia
Briton Keira Bell has won her legal case against the NHS’s only gender identity development service (GIDS) for under-18s, after the High Court found that children are unlikely to be able to give informed consent for taking puberty-blocking drugs.
The crux of Keira’s case was that she could not have possibly given informed consent to take the blockers, stating that,
‘I made a brash decision as a teenager, (as a lot of teenagers do) trying to find confidence and happiness, except now the rest of my life will be negatively affected.’
Today, three High Court judges agreed. Their judgment, deferred from October, concludes that it is ‘highly unlikely’ that a child aged 13 or under would ever be able to give informed consent to being treated with puberty blockers. It also states that it is ‘very doubtful’ that children aged 14 and 15 can understand the long-term risks and consequences of treatment in such a way as to have sufficient understanding to give consent.
In September this year the NHS launched an independent review of GIDS, which is part of the Tavistock and Portman Trust, and recently the Care Quality Commission carried out a separate inspection.
It was also revealed that 35 psychologists had resigned from GIDS in the space of three years, with many concerned about the service ‘over-diagnosing’ young people with gender dysphoria.
Source: A landmark victory against hormone blockers for children | The Spectator Australia
Puberty blockers: Under-16s ‘unlikely’ to be able to give informed consent – BBC News
Children under 16 with gender dysphoria are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to undergo treatment with puberty-blocking drugs, three High Court judges have ruled.
The case was brought against Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which said it was “disappointed” but immediately suspended such referrals for under-16s.
The NHS said it “welcomed the clarity” the ruling would bring.
At a High Court hearing in October, lawyers representing the claimants said there was “a very high likelihood” children who start taking hormone blockers will later begin taking cross-sex hormones, which they say cause “irreversible changes”.
Source: Puberty blockers: Under-16s ‘unlikely’ to be able to give informed consent – BBC News
Landmark Case in the Fight to Protect Nonconforming Youth – The Velvet Chronicle
On October 7, 2020, Keira Bell went to court in London to fight against a system that pathologizes and medicalizes youth nonconformity. At 16 years old, after just three appointments, doctors began the process of transitioning Bell, medically, to ‘change’ her sex. Tomorrow morning, the judgement on her case comes in.
Bell is a former patient of Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service for under 18’s, where she was given puberty blockers at age 16, and prescribed testosterone at age 17. She was later sent to the adult Gender Identity Clinic in London, and by the age of 20, surgeons had performed a double mastectomy on her.
Bell raised £50,491 (over $67k) to bring this case to court. She isn’t looking for compensation. She’s looking to change the policies that currently work against kids like her.
Young people do not reach full cognitive brain development till around the age of 25, a fact that the medical field collectively decided to either forget, or ignore, when it came to medicalizing and performing surgeries on kids like Bell. In the US, toddlers, as young as 1, are labeled “transgender,” children, as young as 8, are medicalized, and double mastectomies are performed on kids as young as 13.
Statistically, the majority of kids like Bell would grow out of ‘gender dysphoria,’ if allowed to grow up, without interference.
Medical malpractice has been committed on a global scale, because no one will challenge the foundational lie, that this is a biological condition.
This shift from a psychological condition to a biological one happened when activists and patients got involved with WPATH and APA, changing definitions from Gender Identity Disorder to Gender Dysphoria.
If the court rules in Bell’s favor, young people will have a better chance of growing up before life-altering decisions are made. This case doesn’t just represent Bell, it represents thousands of young people who’ve come forward with similar stories, despite a powerful campaign to silence them.
Source: Landmark Case in the Fight to Protect Nonconforming Youth – The Velvet Chronicle