You can kill nan, unless she identifies as a man – Vikki Campion

Calling someone the wrong pronoun now triggers tears, but you will be sneered at if you think killing grandma is cruel.  . . .

The City of Sydney has found Glebe’s Feminist Legal Clinic, a pro bono service that hleps the most vulnerable women, hasn’t met its performance critieria because the Clinic’s “affiliation with women’s sex-based rights movement” have “the potential for generating discrimination and negative attitudes towards the transgender community” . . .   Suddenly, championing biological women’s rights is considered by the slow march of the state as discrimination against people born male.

Tasmania’s lesbian have just been told they can no longer exclude people with penises from events , as Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Sarah Bolt, determined lesbian events that exclude trans women carry a “signficant risk” of breaching equality laws. What about women only attracted to the same sex?

. . .

Stay in lock-step, let the state decide, just as they have that biological men are lesbians, standing up for the legal rights of women is to discriminate against others and there is a permanent solution to the temporary inconvenience of age.

Source: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/vikki-campion-nsw-euthanasia-bill-shows-governments-warped-priorities/news-story/a90c62fbf2907af504fc09d450edf901

 

Plastic Surgeons Advertise Procedures to Free ‘Non-Binary’ People of All Genitals | Women Are Human

US — . According to data from The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, those who claim a non-binary identity make up 11% of the LGBTQ+ population in the United States. These individuals often indicate that they embrace the non-binary identity due to feeling that their personalities do not fit into the male nor female categories.
Plastic surgeons in the US, primarily in California, are advertising to this rapidly growing market “gender-affirming” surgeries designed to remove their “genital structures” so that their bodies “neither resembles a natal male nor female.”
MoZaic Care, a cosmetic surgery provider in San Francisco, California, offers a “nullification” procedure that “removes external genitalia while preserving a urethral opening and anal opening.”
“We are enabling people with severe mental health issues to chop up their bodies,” another concerned Twitter user said. “What has happened to us as a society?”

Source: Plastic Surgeons Advertise Procedures to Free ‘Non-Binary’ People of All Genitals | Women Are Human

‘I was sexually assaulted in a women’s prison by a fellow inmate with male genitalia’ | Daily Mail Online

The prisoner who sexually assaulted Amy — we cannot legally identify her, so we shall call her J — is a transgender woman, with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), and therefore referred to by the female pronoun, but still had male genitalia.

Amy was equally well aware that ‘J’ still had male genitalia because she often intimidated her and fellow female prisoners at HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Middlesex, by exposing them.

Moreover, J was serving time for a serious sexual assault on a child and was clearly a danger to other inmates. Yet she had secured a coveted job as a cleaner at the prison gym where Amy also worked. And it was while she was in the gym’s lavatory block that J assaulted her in 2017.

Amy adds: ‘Sex offenders are master manipulators, and if they sniff vulnerability they target it. At the same time, they are going on about their human rights and scaring the prison officers into looking the other way. After J assaulted me, I’d see her around the prison on a regular basis. She would leer at me and smirk.’

Amy and a number of other women heard that J had been sent to the segregation unit as punishment for not taking the medication that prevented her penis from getting erect, ‘which begs the question: ‘Why was she still allowed around us?’

Source: ‘I was sexually assaulted in a women’s prison by a fellow inmate with male genitalia’ | Daily Mail Online

J.K. Rowling says she faces threats by ‘hundreds’ of trans activists amid controversy

While the writer has been under scrutiny by trans activists since 2019, this week she revealed that things have escalated into death threats.

On Monday, Rowling, 55, retweeted a threat from a since-deleted Twitter account that said, “I wish you a very nice pipebomb in mailbox.”

“To be fair, when you can’t get a woman sacked, arrested or dropped by her publisher, and cancelling her only made her book sales go up, there’s really only one place to go,” she wrote.

When a user asked if the threat was, in part, because of comments she made about the trans community, Rowling confirmed “yes.”

“Hundreds of trans activists have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb me,” she said, saying that she’s since “realised that this movement poses no risk to women whatsoever.”

Source: J.K. Rowling says she faces threats by ‘hundreds’ of trans activists amid controversy

Women’s beach handball players fined for not wearing bikini bottoms

The Norwegian women’s beach handball team has been fined for wearing shorts, and not bikini bottoms, at a European championship match.

A fine of $1,770 was given to the women’s team after their shorts were ruled “a case of improper clothing”.

Tonje Lerstad and Julie Berg, two of the players in the women’s national beach handball team, appeared on tevevison following the event, and agreed that the sport’s uniform rules were sexist and prevented many women from taking up the sport.

“We’ve just been told that this is the rule,” Lerstad said. “We want to grow this sport so everyone can feel they want to participate. Because of body insecurities, a lot of women just say, ‘No, I don’t want to do this,’ and that’s really sad.”

Berg said the support the handball team has received since has been overwhelming.

Source: Women’s beach handball players fined for not wearing bikini bottoms

COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on the Tokyo Games but female athletes are being hit hardest

There’s no excuse for sidelining the needs of athletes with disabilities and women at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

Source: COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on the Tokyo Games but female athletes are being hit hardest

Employer-sponsored egg freezing: bane or benefit? – Women’s Forum Australia

The question is whether any such policy would in reality be able to achieve the kind of informed consent the study’s authors speak of when it comes to employer-sponsored egg freezing. The benefits of egg freezing are already overstated and the risks and limitations downplayed by an industry that is ultimately seeking to maximise its bottom line. While the chances that egg freezing will actually result in a baby are low and the health risks associated with the hormones and fertility drugs can be significant, the marketing of the practice often tells a different, much rosier story of empowerment and safeguarding one’s future.The mere existence and more recent aggressive online marketing of egg-freezing procedures has already exacerbated the pressures and fears women have about their future fertility, with some feminist scholars criticising the marketing of the procedure as “ultimately generating an atmosphere of increased reproductive anxiety”.By normalising and incorporating the practice as an employee benefit into workplace culture, it is not unreasonable to expect that this could create a more subtle pressu

Source: Employer-sponsored egg freezing: bane or benefit? – Women’s Forum Australia

Pornhub sued by 34 women for allegedly profiting from videos of rape, sexual exploitation of minors – ABC News

Nearly three dozen women are suing the adult video website Pornhub and its parent company alleging they knowingly profited from footage depicting rape and sexual exploitation, including of minors.

Source: Pornhub sued by 34 women for allegedly profiting from videos of rape, sexual exploitation of minors – ABC News

More research is urgently needed into transgender care for young people: “Where does the large increase of children come from?” – Voorzij

More research on sex changes in young people under the age of 18 is urgently needed. Doctors who provide transgender care in Nijmegen and Amsterdam say they know too little about the target group and the long-term effects. In the meantime, they feel pressured by the long waiting lists. “All the research out there comes from ourselves.”

Source: More research is urgently needed into transgender care for young people: “Where does the large increase of children come from?” – Voorzij

Dutch puberty-blocker pioneer:  Stop “blindly adopting our research” | 4thWaveNow

On February 27, Algemeen Dagblad, the second-most widely read newspaper in the Netherlands, published an astonishing article. Written by Berendien Teteleptal, the author reports that “more research on sex changes in young people under the age of 18 is urgently needed. Doctors who provide transgender care in Nijmegen and Amsterdam say they know too little about the target group and the long-term effects.” (See here for an English translation of the article.)

What makes this article surprising is that it was a Dutch team of researcher-clinicians (one of whom is extensively quoted in the piece) who pioneered the use of puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria; this practice is now widespread in the western world.

Quoted in the aforementioned article by Tetelaptal, Thomas Steensma, one of the lead researcher-clinicians at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria in Amsterdam, asks some critical questions that U.S. “affirmative” clinicians largely ignore.

Because what is behind the large increase of children who have suddenly registered for transgender care since 2013? And what is the quality of life for this group long after the sex change? There is no answer to those questions. And that must happen, think Steensma and colleagues from Nijmegen.

Steensma is not alone amongst Dutch clinicians. Annelou L.C. de Vries   a psychiatrist with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Amsterdam University Medical Centers, who, like her colleagues, has published widely on pediatric gender issues for many years. In a commentary published in the October 2020 issue of Pediatrics, de Vries writes:

According to the original Dutch protocol, one of the criteria to start puberty suppression was “a presence of gender dysphoria from early childhood on.” Prospective follow-up studies evaluating these Dutch transgender adolescents showed improved psychological functioning. However, authors of case histories and a parent-report study warrant that gender identity development is diverse, and a new developmental pathway is proposed involving youth with post puberty adolescent-onset transgender histories. These youth did not yet participate in the early evaluation studies. This raises the question whether the positive outcomes of early medical interventions also apply to adolescents who more recently present in overwhelming large numbers for transgender care, including those that come at an older age, possibly without a childhood history of GI [gender incongruence]. It also asks for caution because some case histories illustrate the complexities that may be associated with later-presenting transgender adolescents and describe that some eventually detransition.

Source: Dutch puberty-blocker pioneer:  Stop “blindly adopting our research” | 4thWaveNow