Thanks to a wonderful reader for suggesting this update’s Terf Month speech at Let Women Speak at Reformer’s Tree on 26 May at about 54 minutes in. This is an American student who left the trans cult and, as a result, has had to flee to Terf Island.
Thanks as ever to two wonderful readers for suggesting pieces.
For Women Scotland
Great work by For Women Scotland!
Autogynephilia
Great analysis of AGPs by Helen Joyce on former deputy Australian Prime Minister, John Anderson’s channel. Mr Anderson seems to me to have a look of shock on his face as Helen explains it all to him.
Times Roundup
Thanks as ever to my mate, Fingers for cuttings from The Times. Just using two of those here.
Will Lloyd (‘Our satirists should have helped me lance the trans boil. Where were they?’ 02 June) reports:
Graham Linehan is explaining how a musical that will probably never see the light of day would have opened. Imagine a curtain rising on a sick bed somewhere deep in the Vatican. The Pope is dying. His final wish is for a worthy successor to step forward and heal the wounds of the church. Enter, after much farce and some show tunes, Father Ted Crilly.
At least that is how the renowned comedy writer-now better known for his gender – critical positions on transgender issues that have cost him much of his career-wanted Father, Ted: The Final Episode, a musical based on his 1990s sitcom, to begin.
“We wanted the show to have a real ending,” he says when we meet in an Italian deli in the east London, Docklands. Linehan wants to talk about his new sitcom, which has obliquely been inspired by his experiences on the front line in the gender wars. “There’s a slight hopeful glimmer on the horizon of something happening.”
A number of episodes have been written but he will not say exactly what the subject is. “We have got a way into the current moment that doesn’t attack it head on. I would never want to write a sitcom that has words like ‘cis‘ in it, because no one understands what those f***ing words mean,” he says, adding that its broader theme is trying to “find the humanity” in people during a time of great social change.
The writing sounds like it is going well. “It’s a solid premise and they are very hard to come by.”
Dusty - looking forward to it already!!! 😊
David Sanderson (Coe defends athletics trans ban but berates culture wars 30 May) reports:
Lord Coe said the “depressing” culture wars must be kept out of the transgender athletics debate and defended banning trans women who had gone through male puberty from elite female events.
The president of World Athletics said that without the ban, “no woman will win another sporting event”, but added that it was “important for their journey” trans women were allowed to compete in, for example, amateur fun runs.
Coe told the Hay Festival: “You can’t have a sport where young girls feel there is going to be a biological ceiling beyond which they can’t move. They have to believe they are capable of going from the playground to podium with some protection.
“If we didn’t do this, no woman will win another sporting event and it is as binary as that.”
Dusty- while I am delighted to see what Lord Coe says I take issue with him on two points:
Us Terfs did not start the ‘culture wars’ so don’t blame us for that;
In, for example, Park Runs there are a number of athletes who are taking it very seriously and looking to record times and do best in their category and larping males should not be allowed in female categories in those events as well.
All thoughts gratefully received.
Life On A Medical Leash
Excellent piece by Eliza Mondegreen on her substack ‘gender-hacked’ commenting on the recent report on the detrimental effects of testosterone. I reported on this here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/good-morning-missouri-part-2?utm_source=publication-search
Putting yourself on a medical leash in the name of bodily autonomy...
... and other half-baked ideas
JUN 03, 2024
New research in the International Urogynecology Journal raises serious concerns about testosterone use among trans-identified female patients. Researchers found that 94% of the patients they studied had developed pelvic floor dysfunction since starting testosterone. What’s more, 87% suffered from issues with bladder control; 53% reported sexual dysfunction, such as pain during intercourse; and 74% reported experiencing issues with bowel movements, such as constipation or faecal incontinence.
In an interview with the Telegraph, physiotherapist Elaine Miller warned that young adult females taking testosterone appear to be on “exactly the same trajectory” as women undergoing menopause — except that they’re encountering these issues 20 or 30 years ahead of schedule. Miller spoke about the toll complications like this can take on a person’s life: “Wetting yourself is something that just is not socially acceptable, and it stops people from exercising, it stops them from having intimate relationships, it stops them from travelling, it has work impacts.”
There’s a serious disconnect between emerging evidence of transition’s risks and harms, and the ways young people view these interventions. In the online spaces that I study, young people talk about their bodies using casual, often dismissive language, as though they were embarking on a do-it-yourself home-remodelling project. They talk about how they prefer their bodies to run on “T” (testosterone), not “E” (oestrogen). They deride puberty as “oestrogen poisoning” or “testosterone poisoning”. They are also startlingly alienated from their bodies’ natural functions, always seeking fresh euphemisms to hide uncomfortable realities, such as the young woman who wrote that she could only cope with the “dysphoria” her period caused by “seeing it in a[n] impersonal and logically [sic], usually thinking ‘The cycle is occurring to this vessel.’”
Young people and gender clinicians alike increasingly speak of detransition as no big deal — just another stop along an edifying journey of self-discovery. Jack Turban and Johanna Olson-Kennedy, two of the leading gender clinicians in the US, refer to “dynamic desires for gender-affirming medical interventions”. Others prefer the term “retransition”, which suggests a kind of equivalence between the initial decision to intervene on a patient’s healthy body and any subsequent interventions on an altered body. Olson-Kennedy has waved away concerns about potential surgical regret among her young female patients: “If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them.”
But transition — and detransition — is nothing like customising an avatar or tearing out a kitchen. What hormonal and surgical interventions can offer to patients struggling with gender dysphoria is severely limited. When these interventions “succeed”, they imperfectly imitate physical features and functions that medical technology cannot, in fact, replicate. When these interventions go wrong, the complications can be life-altering, even fatal. Meanwhile, every intervention takes an unpredictable toll on the body. Over the coming decades, as this mass medical experiment plays out, I worry that we will see growing numbers of young people suffering from the kinds of diseases and disabilities that typically emerge only in old age.
To make matters worse, researchers also expressed concern that patients may avoid seeking help for transition complications, citing fear of encountering discrimination in healthcare settings, as well as discomfort and distress dealing with body parts and functions. Patients may also fear losing access to interventions they have come to believe are not just identity-affirming but life-saving. Discussions in online forums frequently turn to complications patients are reluctant to bring to their doctors’ attention, lest they lose access to hormones.
For all the trans community’s talk about bodily autonomy, there’s little focus on the ways medical complications can strip away the freedom to live one’s life as one pleases. Young people flocking to gender clinics today may not realise what life on a medical leash means. Too many will find out in the course of time.
A Minister for Men’s Behaviour!!!
The bonkers Victoria Government in Australia are proposing a Minister for Men’s Behaviour!! Might make sense if it was looking at Larping Men’s Behaviour!!
In this interview on Spectator TV, Sall Grover (of course) talks sense and Terry Barnes talks less sense. As ever, all thoughts gratefully received.
PITT Parents
The excellent Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) celebrate three years of campaigning.
Three Years and 700+ stories
When will it end?
JUN 03, 2024
Three years ago yesterday, we launched this Substack in the hopes of getting the word out about what was happening to our beloved children. We weren’t sure people would find it and we had no idea of the impact it would have.
As co-founders of this publication we wanted to save our own children from the harms of gender identity ideology and hoped we could help other parents too. We never expected that this medical scandal would continue on this long. But we are here for the long haul! We will continue to publish essays until we can confidently say there is no longer a need. We have published over 700 essays to date. What will it take for the world to wake up and hear our cries — 1000? 2000? Why are people not listening to parents? We now know the truth, and we’ve been right to be skeptical. A comprehensive report published by impartial experts has declared that the evidence base for so-called gender affirming care is “remarkably weak” and “is built on shaky foundations.” Maybe now people will start to listen.
Our children have been and continue to be seriously harmed. This gender madness must end!
Fellow parents and PITT readers - please keep your stories coming. We want them all to be read and shared. It’s working. PITT now has over 12,000 subscribers. In the last 30 days PITT essays have had over 294,000 views.
Writing your family’s story and seeing it published can be cathartic. Documenting the harm done to you and your family will ensure your story lives on and may help to prevent this kind of medical scandal from ever happening again. It can also reach other parents in need or in a similar situation. If nothing else, you will be able to tell a detransistioner (who might be your own child someday) that you fought the good fight.
Thank you to all who have sent us your story and joined the PITT family. Have you sent in your family’s story? Your story is important too. Please email it to us at Pitt@genspect.org.
Drag Race
Could RuPaul’s Drag Race sink any lower? Read on! Malcolm Clark also does a brilliant investigation into the two men at the heart of this vile programme. You have to feel strong to read this!!
The Dystopia of RuPaul's Drag Race
The men behind Drag Race claim to be progressive but they champion a kind of anarcho-capitalism where consumers "liberate" themselves through morbid fantasies rooted in contempt for women.
MAY 30, 2024
Just when you think the gender ghouls can’t sink any lower, RuPaul’s Drag Race comes along to signal we haven’t seen anything yet. Last week’s performance on the spin off series Drag Race All Stars by Kade Gottlieb aka Gottmik, a woman who thinks she’s a man, was genuinely shocking.
If you’d told me even a year ago that an entertainment show would feature a woman sashaying on stage for giggles while waving what was supposed to be her two severed breasts in a “hospital waste” bag, I would not have believed you.
The full piece is here:
https://malcolmrichardclark.substack.com/p/the-dystopia-of-rupauls-drag-race
Detransitioner Blasts Activist
Thanks as ever to Feminist Legal Clinic for this piece.
Detransitioner blasts activist‘s bid to ‘silence’ media as legal complaint fails (04 June)
A transgender rights activist who has repeatedly tried to launch legal action against Australian media outlets has had her latest complaint thrown out of court.
Claire Southey, director of Rainbow Rights Watch, lodged her failed complaint about an article published by the Herald Sun that reported on a petition by female inmates at a women’s prison demanding the removal of a transgender inmate who had a history of violent sexual offending.
Victorian woman Mel Jefferies, who spent 10 years identifying as a man before detransitioning in 2021, slammed the lobby group after the failed vilification claim.
The claim related to a 2022 article that outlined pleas by prisoners at Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre to relocate the inmate on safety grounds.
The trans prisoner had pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in a Richmond street in 2011, and also spent time in a European jail for a child-sex offence.
Ms Southey’s complaint argued the article uncritically repeated claims that the person’s trans status caused other inmates to feel “unsafe”, “threatened” and “traumatised”.
But the tribunal dismissed Ms Southey’s claim, finding the article did not vilify transgender people or link gender identity with criminal behaviour.
In May last year, Ms Southey lost a legal battle against the Australian Press Council over the publication of stories she claimed “perpetuate discrimination” against trans people.
Ms Jefferies told the Herald Sun she was tired of seeing the legal system used to punish those with fair objections.
The fierce campaigner has been pushing back against trans healthcare, particularly the gender affirmation model, after having her breasts surgically removed in 2017 under the advice of medical experts.
Ms Jefferies pointed to a widely distributed document by lobby group the Trans Justice Project urging people to make complaints about “anti-trans media”.
“They’re trying to silence critics of the movement,” she said.
Well done, Ms Jefferies.
Source: Detransitioner blasts activist‘s bid to ‘silence’ media as legal complaint fails
Endpiece
By way of salute to the Australian barrister who was demoted for saying that his preferred pronouns were ‘heehaw heehaw’
…a reader has suggested we should have Donkey Day of Visibility ( especially to even further counteract Pride Month…sorry, no capitals, pride month). I have a lovely photo of my Mum, my cousin and my eldest brother on a donkey and trap in Ireland in the 1940s. Anyway, here you go with The Day of the Donkey ( though personally, I would not let one in the living room - it’s bad enough letting the cat in the living room) 😊:
#BeMorePorcupine
Hooray, Glinner is writing again.
Sal Grover speaks complete sense as ever.
RuPaul Drag Race…if only people could see that this is the logical result of Queer Theory, no binaries, no boundaries, anything goes. If we can see it, why not everyone? Why are so few interested enough to question it? Why are so few seemingly uninterested in protecting society, children, family life from such depravity? Do they not realise that it will affect everyone if left to continue unchecked? It explains perfectly, the push to sexualise children…get them young. And although I do think that the big money pushing GI has been transhumanists and big pharma/ tech, were they aware that they were unleashing a monster? GI is the perfect cloak for predators and paedophiles to insidiously infiltrate society. PIE never went away. It just cloaked itself in glitter and rainbows. A bit like Voldemort’s version of Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility, it moves among us doing evil, while people are blinded by the glitter.
Love the donkeys ❤️ I want one!
John Anderson was a Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, not Prime Minister.