Transgender medicine comes under fire in human rights challenge | The Australian

A doctor’s right to object on medical grounds to the unquestioning affirmation of children as the opposite gender faces a human rights test in Queensland, with a suspended psychiatrist filing a complaint against the state’s children’s hospital over transgender health policies.
Jillian Spencer alleges she was prevented from adopting a neutral therapeutic approach and instead forced to comply with gender-­affirming polices that risked causing substantial harm to young ­people, during the course of her employment as a senior staff specialist in the consultation liaison psychiatry team at the Queensland Children’s Hospital.
In a complaint lodged with the Queensland Human Rights ­Commission, Dr Spencer, who is openly critical of gender-affirming policies, reveals that she was subject to lawful employment directions that required her to use gender-­affirming pronouns at all times in her practise of medicine and ­refrain from dissuading any child and their family from seeking a ­referral to the hospital’s children’s gender clinic, which frequently prescribes puberty blockers and cross sex hormones to young teenagers.

Tension within the hospital over transgender healthcare policies boiled over when management hung a large trans pride flag in the youth mental health unit waiting room, which Dr Spencer took down on the basis the area needed to be a neutral space.
Dr Spencer later began using the pronoun “adult human female” in her email signature in protest at the pronouns and was reprimanded.

Source: Transgender medicine comes under fire in human rights challenge | The Australian

High street banks’ partnerships with Stonewall exposed after accounts of customers shut down

High Street banks have sparked concern over links to diversity schemes run by controversial charity Stonewall.

It has emerged that the majority of high street lenders are members of the schemes amid a backlash over the closure of bank accounts of some people with gender-critical views.

Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme includes guidance for employers on gender-neutral spaces and the use of pronouns.

The charity also hosts a top 100 index which keep tabs on employers and their diversity and inclusion.

It comes after a vicar who queried his building society’s Pride branding had his account closed and a Scottish blogger claims his account was shut due to his opinions on gender issues.

Source: High street banks’ partnerships with Stonewall exposed after accounts of customers shut down

Gender-critical campaigners slam trans woman activist over breastfeeding photo | Daily Mail Online

Mika Minio-Paluello – a former Labour special adviser – was seen during Wednesday night’s News At Ten doing the washing up while she spoke of how the soaring water bills.

Gender critical campaigners today criticised a trans woman activist after she (sic) posted an image of her (sic) breastfeeding on a bus.

Mika Minio-Paluello – a former Labour special adviser – was seen during Wednesday night’s News At Ten programme doing the washing up while she (sic) spoke of how the soaring water bills were ‘tough if you’re a mum’.

Afterwards, Ms Minio-Paluello, who was born male, complained about viewers ‘obsessing’ over a breast pump that could be seen in the footage and said it belonged to a housemate. She (sic) added that ‘trans women can breastfeed’ before sharing a photo of herself (sic) doing so on a bus.

Trans women can make themselves lactate by taking a combination of medicines that tricks the body into making milk. In 2018, a 30-year-old transgender woman became the first officially recorded to breastfeed her baby and was able to produce 227 grams of milk a day.

Trans women can make themselves lactate by taking a combination of medicines called the Newman-Goldfarb protocol. It was originally developed for biological women who adopted or had a child via surrogacy and wanted to breastfeed.

However, the regimen is not completely risk free. The drug can pass into breast milk in small amounts and can sometimes give babies an irregular heartbeat as a result.

Experts have urged caution about transwomen using the Newman-Goldfarb protocol to lactate. They have warned that long-term health implications from using the treatment, for both adult and baby, are unknown.

There are also very few studies and no scientific consensus about the nutritional quality of the breastmilk produced.

Source: Gender-critical campaigners slam trans woman activist over breastfeeding photo | Daily Mail Online

Brexiteers and gender-critical vicar have bank accounts pulled

Urgent calls to change financial regulations are growing as more people find themselves the victim of banking “cancel culture”, due to their political and social beliefs.

Reverend Richard Fothergill, a customer of Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) for 17 years, had his account closed days after writing to the bank to complain about its public messaging during Pride month.

“I wrote to them on their feedback portal making two points: one was ‘is this really a good use of your time, you’re not here for social engineering’ and [secondly] said I have serious ethical problems with the transsexual element, and the implications of broadcasting that to young children”.

In a letter he received last week, he said he was told his relationship with YBS had “irrevocably broken down” and that the company holds a “zero tolerance approach to discrimination”.

“They didn’t justify it – they said ‘your comments will not stand’. I think its fairly sinister and we’re in very dangerous water when banks can pick and choose who they’re going to do business with based on prejudicial whims”.

A spokesman for YBS said the company never closes savings accounts based on different opinions or beliefs, adding an account was only ever closed if a customer is “rude, abusive, violent or discriminates in any way”.

Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, said the withdrawal of banking services from people for purely political reasons is “a new and sinister form of cancel culture”.

In June, Barclays Bank was forced to pay over £20,000 compensation to Christian ministry groups, after closing their accounts due to pressure from LGBTQ+ groups, who were concerned about conversion therapy practices.

Source: Brexiteers and gender-critical vicar have bank accounts pulled

Genital Mutilation for the Masses – The American Mind

ender identity ideology, the worldview surrounding the core belief that sometimes men are women and other times women are men, has gotten the foothold that it has because people naturally trust that medical authorities, especially surgeons, know what they are doing. We believe that if patients were being harmed, those patients would certainly speak up first. Proponents of gender ideology claim that fewer than one percent of people regret surgical sexual transition, often contrasted with the 20 percent regret rate for knee surgery. But is this purportedly low regret rate reflective of reality? Rather than prove that sex-organ origami is wildly successful, what this reflects is that patients who are subjected to these highly-experimental procedures are unable, for whatever reason, to express levels of regret one would reasonably expect from an evidence-based surgical intervention.

Could it be that other factors, including withdrawal of community support and loss of reputation and standing, once one becomes known as a “transphobe” who was “never really trans,” are discouraging patients from being open about their regret? Could mental illness or emotional immaturity be preventing these individuals from rationally evaluating their situation or acknowledging and naming their emotions?

Gender-affirming surgery patients face community scorn if they discuss the harm being done to them, their bodies, their pain levels, their wallets, their career or educational advancement, and their sexual-urologic function. The opportunity cost of the time spent dilating, tending to a colostomy bag, or financing a revision, is significant. And yet, patients who discuss the cost are cast as contributing to the zeitgeist that is “taking life-saving healthcare away from trans kids.” A predictable comment on any such surgical narrative is, “Be careful! Your story might be used by a transphobe to hurt trans people.” “Regretters,” as some term them, detransitioned or not, are accused of being “cis” because only “true trans” benefit from these interventions (making them tests of faith). The same network which “doxxes” (publicizes documents containing identifying information about) activists pushing back against gender identity ideology is ready and willing to subject even members of the trans community who have given their literal pound of flesh to this same mistreatment. For a movement so focused on the importance of inclusivity and tolerance, they are quick to scorn and shirk those branded non-believers.

Source: Genital Mutilation for the Masses – The American Mind

Maya Forstater wins more than £100,000 in compensation from think-tank | Daily Mail Online

Maya Forstater has won more than £100,000 in compensation from a think-tank that dropped her over her view that people cannot change their biological sex.

The Center for Global Development did not renew the researcher and tax expert’s contract after she tweeted ‘gender critical’ beliefs – that ‘male people are not women’ – in 2018.

Yesterday an Employment Tribunal ordered that Ms Forstater, 49, should be paid a total of £106,404 by her former employer, including £27,000 for injury to feelings and £64,000 for loss of earnings.

Last night Ms Forstater said: ‘I would like to thank everyone who has supported my case, above all my family, who have been put through hell over the past four years.

‘Seeing their mother smeared as a bigot and a potential harasser across international media is something that my sons should never have had to experience.’

She added: ‘My case has exposed institutionalised discrimination against, and the routine abuse and smearing of, people with perfectly ordinary beliefs about the material reality of sex.’

Source: Maya Forstater wins more than £100,000 in compensation from think-tank | Daily Mail Online

The disgrace of Dana Rivers

The multiple murderer who stabbed two lesbians and their son to death before setting fire to their house was a trans activist. But the mainstream & ‘gay press’ largely ignored these horrendous crimes.

Sentencing triple murderer Dana Rivers to life without parole earlier this month, Judge Scott Patton called it, ‘the most depraved crime I ever handled in the criminal justice system in 33 years’.

Yet you could be forgiven for knowing nothing about it, because the court case has gone almost unreported. The reason is truly disturbing: Rivers is a transwoman, formerly a male teacher called David Warfield. Charlotte Reed and Patricia Wright were a lesbian couple.

As a trans activist, Rivers pursued a campaign of intimidation to protest against the right of women to have safe spaces of their own where men were excluded.

Source: The disgrace of Dana Rivers

Trans activists complaints could cost professor her job

Holly Lawford-Smith, who is facing a student-led boycott campaign over transgender rights, says her unit and future could be at risk.

Gender-critical feminist Holly Lawford-Smith, who has been a target of vandalismand a student-led poster campaign, is walked to and from her office by a security guard to be able to safely teach her feminism class.

The academic fears the university’s new LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Action Plan could threaten the ­future of her unit and tenure.

The policy, which is still being rolled out, would give students the chance to air grievances against curriculums they don’t like.

“My question is whether they are introducing it in order to have formal processes to get rid of my course or me,” Dr Lawford-Smith told The Australian.

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Gender-critical woman wins Arts Council England harassment claim after trans row

A senior Arts Council England (ACE) official who said transgender people cannot change sex has won her claim of harassment over her gender-critical beliefs.

Denise Fahmy took Britain’s biggest arts funding quango to an employment tribunal after she resigned as a grants officer having challenged a decision to withdraw funding for LGB Alliance, a group that represent gays and lesbians.

Source: Gender-critical woman wins Arts Council England harassment claim after trans row

‘There’s gotta be a reckoning’: Labor MP speaks at event alongside Moira Deeming and Katherine Deves | 6NewsAU

Greg Donnelly said he was ‘disappointed’ more of his colleagues didn’t attend the ‘war on women’ event.

“I am more than happy to be publicly associated with this and to be recognised as a co-conveyor,” Donnelly said

“I am, dare I say it, a little bit disappointed that more of my Labor colleagues wouldn’t join me.”

Donnelly, a Labor Right member, praised the women that spoke as “standing up to something which in fact…is in its essence, quite authoritarian and totalitarian.”

He invited his “male colleagues, in this parliament and all around Australia” to push back and say “this is not acceptable,” and “you will not treat people…women in particular, this way”

Last year, he clashed with then-NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard as he raised concerns over puberty-blocking treatment at a Newcastle gender clinic.

Source:‘There’s gotta be a reckoning’: Labor MP speaks at event alongside Moira Deeming and Katherine Deves | 6NewsAU