Crocodile Dundee
Update 444. Erasure Of Women Special. #BeMorePorcupine
Lord Justice Sedley in Redmond-Bate v Director of Public Prosecutions [1999] EWHC Admin 733:
'Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having. What Speakers' Corner (where the law applies as fully as anywhere else) demonstrates is the tolerance which is both extended by the law to opinion of every kind and expected by the law in the conduct of those who disagree, even strongly, with what they hear.
From the condemnation of Socrates to the persecution of modern writers and journalists, our world has seen too many examples of state control of unofficial ideas.'
This is a long one, dear readers!
Well, I was about to stop the Heroes season and then I thought that I had done a Kiwi heroes season ( care of Rex Landy), so I really should do an Aussie heroes season. So here we go!
OK, I know he is Mr Machismo but it is worth it, if just for the clip below.
Paul Hogan is Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee and Linda Kozlowski is Sue Charlton.
OK, OK ( SPOILER ALERT) , for all you diehard romantics, here is the final scene:
Thanks to four wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
More Gender Madness at the NHS
James Esses on Matt Goodwin’s substack reports:
"Childbearing people" --how the NHS is ideologically CAPTURED.
Sep 23, 2024
Each Monday, our new columnist James Esses is fearlessly exposing how major institutions have been ideologically captured —including his trilogy on the Financial Times, John Lewis, and BBC. You can support his work by upgrading now. Today, he looks at an NHS Trust.
Despite the recent Cass Review demonstrating that there’s insufficient evidence for pushing children down dangerous medical “gender transition” pathways, despite official government guidance warning against doing so, and despite a mass of evidence now demonstrating the destructive impact radical gender ideology is having on the health and wellbeing of vulnerable people, the National Health Service (NHS) —as I reveal today—remains ideologically captured by this dogma.
And do you know the scariest thing of all?
It’s happening behind closed doors.
As usual, my work is wholly reliant on the courage and integrity of whistleblowers to enable me to shed light on what is taking place in our institutions.
A few months ago, I was provided with a copy of an internal policy document from Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, entitled ‘Perinatal Care for Trans and Non-Binary People’.
It was first introduced in December 2020.
As will become apparent, the painful irony of this document is that it came into being after being approved by the ‘Women’s Services Safety and Quality Committee’ within the Trust. But this policy does nothing whatsoever to protect the safety of women.
In the Introduction, readers are told the document applies to “all childbearing people who self-identify as transgender (trans), non-binary, or any other non-cisgender (non-cis) identity”.
Within this virtue-signalling gobbledegook that is now very popular among the elite class is the erasure of the concept of womanhood.
The policy goes on to state that wards should be labelled ‘Birth People Only’, rather than ‘Women Only’ and emphasises that those who desire access to women’s wards should be granted such access.
The midwives and obstetricians to whom this policy is aimed at are told unequivocally that they must “read, understand and follow”.
The policy also creates a new branch of midwives, known as ‘gender inclusion midwives’, whose primary purpose is to supply midwifery to ‘trans and non-binary’ patients. Seriously.
The policy laments the fact that “maternity services have typically been designed as a cisgender (cis) women-only service”.
Yes, what a crying shame it is that a service for pregnancy has been designed to support the only cohort of people who can get pregnant – women.
The full piece is here and is behind a paywall:
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/childbearing-people-how-the-nhs-is
UK - The National Curriculum
My friend Siobhan Spencer of Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group (DGLG) has helped to set up a new group (details below). This group is not just for Gypsies and Travellers but welcomes everyone who has concerns over the influence of gender ideology on the education system. You will note the call for evidence from the curriculum review panel. I last reported on this panel here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/my-wedding-and-other-secrets?utm_source=publication-search
The National Women, Children, Education and Safeguarding Group (hosted by DGLG) will be holding consultations in relation to the review of the National Curriculum.
Spanning from key stages 1 to 4 and 16 to 19 education, the review will look closely at the key challenges to attainment for young people, and the barriers which hold children back from the opportunities and life chances they deserve – in particular those who are socio-economically disadvantaged, or with special educational needs or disability (SEND). DGLG was able to ask questions of Becky Francis at the Westminster Policy event September 19th and we were encouraged that this will also cover evidence in relation to PHSE ( Personal, Social, Health, and Economic education). Anyone who would like to give evidence in light of the present PHSE and or other issues please e- mail Claire at Evans7772024@hotmail.com or ring the office phone 07799 443830 and leave a message with your phone number and you will be contacted shortly. We will go through consultation questions either face to face or on the phone. Everyone who takes part in the Call for Evidence will go into a draw for a prize. The call for evidence runs from 25th September - 22nd November.
The Call for Evidence from the Department for Education is here and please note the deadline above:
https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/improving-the-curriculum-and-assessment-system
Lies
I last reported on the extremely concerning proposals from the Bar Standards Board in England and Wales and their EDI proposals here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/buffalo-bill?utm_source=publication-search
Excellent piece arising from this from barrister Sarah Phillimore on her substack:
Lies, damned lies and statistics
Why do so many react to an argument they don't like with accusations of lies and worse?
Sep 25, 2024
The recent proposals of the Bar Standards Board to introduce a positive obligation upon barristers to ‘advance’ equality, diversity and inclusion in their legal practice - or else! - has reminded me that in spite of many encouraging signs of late, we are not yet out of the deep dark woods of EDI. This illuminating podcast on the subject gave me the troubling news that 2 out of the 4 barristers who advise the BSB on such issues are from Garden Court Chambers - who were found to have unlawfully discriminated against one of their own because she did not ‘toe the line’ when it came to gender identity ideology.
Another illuminating and even more alarming podcast which inquired into why we were seeing so many legal actions regarding discrimination in the workplace, suggested that less than 10% of HR professionals understand the Equality Act and staff networks are out of control.
There are three main reasons why I am repulsed by and furious about this drive to ‘enforce’ EDI.
First and invariably, any person or group who wants to impose it, has in mind only their own subjective determination of what it all means. They see such issues through the lens of a very particular ideology, their own pet ‘vampire squid’ of Queer Theory and its noxious tentacles of Critical Race Theory and Gender Identity. They don’t have any genuine commitment to actual inclusion or diversity of course - anyone who thinks differently is ‘far right’ or full of ‘hatred’ and must be stamped out.
The second reason is there is no evidence whatsoever that this focus on ‘EDI’ has had any positive benefit at all. Quite the reverse. The Inclusion at Work Panel final report of March 2024, appointed by the then Business and Trade Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch MP, found that
‘…many employers want to ‘do the right thing’ but are implementing EDI initiatives without an evidence base, and many don’t know the impact these initiatives are having or whether they represent value for money. In a growing number of cases, particularly relating to positive discrimination and protected beliefs, the report finds that EDI interventions are proving to be counterproductive or even unlawful.’
The third, and the one that infuses me with the most rage, is that subjective performative posturing becomes the end in itself. You can show what a good person and effective ally you are to the LGBTQIA++ community, with very little effort - a badge here, a lanyard there, sprinkle with some pious social media postings, marinade awhile in a warm glow of moral superiority.
But the protected characteristic of disability requires more than performance. To allow disabled people any chance to live in the world, we need equipment and we need access. This costs money and thought. In a world where rights are definitely pie and where resources are definitely finite, there needs to be care as to how we approach the allocation of our time, attention and money.
I make on social media what I think is the relatively obvious point that celebration of trans identities is given far more attention than the actual needs of disabled people and that this risks causing division and resentment, quite apart from diverting resources that would better directed at those with conditions they cannot identify into or out of at will.
My most recent post on September 24th dealt with my visit to Truro Family Court. Its an interesting and imposing building but sadly for me at the top of a very steep hill. I usually resign myself to (slowly) walking up Edward Street and then very carefully down, in a sideways crab motion as I find this a very steep slope.
Dusty - I have visited many, many county courts throughout the length and breadth of England and Wales and can confirm that Truro Court has the (amazingly) longest and steepest flight of steps to the entrance that I have ever seen in such a building. I think the steps must be where the trees are in the aerial photo below.
On the day my phone map suggested I go another way which took me past the council buildings. I was exasperated to see this would mean at least four flights of steps so I tweeted sarcastically that at least I could be cheered up when I got to court by all the colourful Progress Pride flags.
The response to this post was interesting. I was accused multiple times of being a liar from those who seemed to think I was trying to go to the council buildings. I was called a ‘hate monger’. A man continually sent me messages peppered with crying/laughing emojis about how I didn’t seem to know what a hill was. I asked him what he found so funny about disability but he doesn’t appear to as yet have an answer to that. I was called an ‘attention seeker’ and using my disability to get clicks.
I think the reason behind this negativity is that my point has power - and they know it. When I google, I see various accounts of the numbers of disabled people - Scope says its 16 million in the UK including 23% of working age adults. The ONS counted 9.8 million in England in 2021. Disability was identified by the ONS using the following questions,
"Do you have any physical or mental health conditions or illnesses lasting or expected to last 12 months or more?". If they answered yes, a further question "Do any of your conditions or illnesses reduce your ability to carry out day-to-day activities?"
Data from the NHS in 2021 showed that there are approximately 1.2 million wheelchair users, two thirds of which are regular users.
In my entire career, now spanning 30 years, I have met precisely two people in wheelchairs in a quasi professional capacity- one was a student at Bar School in 1994, the other a McKenzie Friend (non legally qualified supporter of a person attending court) at the Bristol Civil Justice Centre in 2012. On the South East and Western Circuits I have never seen a barrister in a wheelchair or met another barrister with an above knee amputation.
The answer to that is obvious. Because it would be very, very difficult for them to access the courts on circuit. ‘Equality, diversity and inclusion’ ring very hollow when we are asking for substantive action to make buildings accessible.
People with a trans identity numbered about 260,000 in the last census. There has been recent serious concern that the census for England and Wales asked a confusing question which led those with English as a second language to be more ready to identify themselves as ‘transgender’ - apparently 1 in 12 people in Burgess Park in Southwark are trans! That statistic has been downgraded as unreliable but the Scottish census results appear to support a similar finding, that trans identifying people represent about 1 in 200 people. One source from 2022 says there are a further 1.8 million people who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual in the UK, which mirrors the ONS 2021 statistics of about 1.5 million in England and Wales.
But on any metric we can see that the numbers of disabled people considerably outweigh the members of the LGBTQAI++++ community. Despite our numerical advantage, I have never seen a flag at any train station or any public building ‘celebrating’ disabled people. I have never seen a march for us. I have never seen a public official wearing a lanyard in disabled colours. I have never seen a corporation change its logo for Disability Pride Month. But I have read frequent horrific reports from Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson about how she has to repeatedly drag herself off trains because there are no staff members to help her. I am sure that the colourful Pride liveries of much of our train stock is a comfort to her at these difficult times.
At my local hospital, at every crossing there is a Progress Pride Flag telling me I may ‘cross with Pride’. Sadly on the last occasion I was too busy wheezing to feel very prideful. The (tiny) disabled car park is always full, I have to park down the road and then find the lift to my appointment on the second floor is not working.
I feel very strongly that the focus on one minority group above all others is fostering division and resentment. I would like to see a dedicated effort to moving away from performance and into substance. I think it was a big mistake to subsume disability discrimination legislation into the Equality Act and get rid of the Disability Rights Commission, which was replaced by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2007. This has led to the inevitable overshadowing of the immutable, costly and unsexy protected characteristic of disability, by the rather more fluid and glittery ‘gender re-assignment’. This is now apparently to be applied to any fleeting or changeable assertion of ‘gender identity’ and which can be ‘celebrated’ without the need for any pesky actual adjustments to any buildings.
You may of course disagree with what I say. But I struggle to see how this makes me a ‘liar’ - least of all about my own experiences in trying to navigate often very difficult terrain, with an artificial leg, a wheely bag and only 2/3rds of functioning lungs.
And I absolutely deny it makes me ‘hateful’. If you really understand what the words ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ mean then you will have to accept my right to have, and to express a different view point from yours. The fact that you disagree with what I am saying is insufficient to make me ‘hateful’.
I wish for all to have the best possible life. Any society worth living in has to take into account the needs of its more vulnerable members and provide for them as best as possible. Just don’t wave a Progress Pride Flag at me when what I need is a lift and then tell me I am a hateful, lying bigot if I get exasperated.
Thanks, Sarah, lots of food for thought there! I think they need one of those cliff railways for Truro Court!
Police Scotland
I last reported on this matter here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/in-my-fathers-den?utm_source=publication-search
Watch out, everyone! Ferrets reversing!! 😁
Shannon Mcguigan in The Mail Online ( Scottish police in 'major U-turn' as it insists male rapists will not be recorded as female even if they claim to identify as a woman 25 September) reports:
Scottish police have said male rapists and sex offenders will not be officially recorded as female even if they self-identify as woman.
On Wednesday, Deputy Chief Constable Alan Spiers told Scottish politicians male sex offenders would always be categorised as men whilst in the system.
His letter to Holyrood's justice committee has caused some to accuse the force of 'institutional gaslighting' as it implied this had been its policy the entire time.
The recent move has been described as a 'major U-turn', as the police force previously released public statements saying suspects could self-identify as female.
In March, Police Scotland had said the gender identity of any individual in contact with the authorities would be based how an individual 'present[s]' or 'self-declare[s]'
Police Scotland have made a 'major U-turn' as they announce male prisoners will not be officially recorded as women regardless of how they self-identify (Pictured: Isla Bryson)
Deputy Chief Constable Speirs said the policy came with certain exceptions, including if biological sex was 'pertinent to any investigation with which they are linked as a victim, witness or accused'.
However, an Edinburgh based policy analysis group - Murray Blackburn Mackenzie - noted several times the force protected gender self identification.
'This is a major U-turn by Police Scotland,' Lucy Hunter-Blackburn, a former senior civil servant who is part of MBM, told The Telegraph.
'We welcome that Police Scotland has at last recognised that allowing sex offenders to self-identify their sex is indefensible.
'It is, however, an extraordinary act of institutional gaslighting to pretend that this is not a significant policy change from their position over almost five years.'
The full article is here:
Irish Hate Speech Bill
I reported on the latest apparently very positive development here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-skywalker?utm_source=publication-search
It seems that the Irish Government are being somewhat underhand!
Pat Leahy in The Irish Times ( Hate Crime Bill to retain special protections for transgender and non-binary people 25 September) reports:
The slimmed-down hate crime Bill will retain special protections for transgender and non-binary people, the Department of Justice has said.
The Government has confirmed that it intends to shelve the controversial hate speech elements of the Bill but the hate crime legislation – which provides for tougher sentences for crimes such as assault that are motivated by hatred – is expected to be brought to the Dáil in the coming weeks.
A spokeswoman for Minister for Justice Helen McEntee confirmed to The Irish Times on Tuesday that the definitions of gender contained in the original Bill would remain.
Unease over these aspects of the Bill among backbenchers was one of the things that caused the Government to rethink its approach.
Anti-discrimination laws have established “protected characteristics” – race, colour, nationality, religion, national or ethnic origin, descent, gender, sex characteristics, sexual orientation and disability – and those protections are extended in the hate crime legislation.
The legislation provides for tougher sentences for crimes which show hatred motivated by these protected characteristics.
The proposed law extends the definition of gender to include, “the gender of a person or the gender which a person expresses as the person’s preferred gender, or with which the person identifies, and includes transgender and a gender other than those of male and female”.
Leading a revolt against the legislation in the Seanad last year, Senator Michael McDowell asked “what is intended by the term ‘transgender’ and the phrase ‘a gender other than those of male and female’?”. The Department of Justice supplied no response.
There is some disquiet among Government TDs about being pitched into a debate about how many genders there are.
However, confirming that these definitions would remain in the Bill, the department said on Tuesday: “If someone is assaulted because they are transgender, that is a hate crime.”
“People identify as non-binary. That’s a fact. If someone follows a non-binary person after they leave a gay nightclub, and then assaults them while shouting homophobic abuse, they would likely be charged with assault causing harm aggravated by hatred (carrying a max sentence of 12 years, instead of 10 years because of the aggravating factor). If it’s not found that it has been aggravated by hatred, then the person could still be charged with assault causing harm,” it said. [ Dusty - what has shouting ‘homophobic abuse’ got anything to do with the nonsense category of non-binary? Can someone give me an example of non-binary abuse? “You bloody non-existent person!”].
“A definition is required to protect that person. It has absolutely no implications outside of this law.”
In my books, putting the word ‘gender’ or the phrase ‘gender identity’ into a statute is always going to be potentially disastrous. Law needs to be about reality not fiction!
The full article is here:
The Return Of The Sausages
EDI has great fun with Keir Starmer’s slip 😂
Barry asked for suggested films so I came up with:
For A Few Sausages More.
A Fistful of Sausages.
The Good, the Bad and the Sausage.
Saving Private Sausage.
My Fair Sausage.
In The Heat of the Oven.
The Dark Sausage Rises.
However I am referring to his video here mainly for the information about potential legal cases with regard to totally misleading information about the efficacy of puberty blockers. It sounds like these could be very important!
The Willy Institute
A while back I reported on the Women’s Institute allowing larping men to join!
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-war-of-the-scones?utm_source=publication-search
Nothing has changed it seems. Over to EDI Jester again:
New Zealand - The Midwifery Council
In the last update I reported on an excellent discussion on Katrina Biggs’ channel which included the nonsense coming from the Midwifery Council.
From Mana Wāhine Kōrero on Substack:
What's Going On??!
More Shenanigans at the Midwifery Council of New Zealand
Sep 25, 2024
Pānui, Pānui, Pānui!
The Parliament Petitions Select Committee have declined to upload our 12th of September video submission about the Midwifery Council’s (mis)use of Te Reo Māori in their Revised Scope of Practice.
Effectively, the public record will show that we were never there.
When we asked why our submission was not allowed to be viewed, we were brusquely informed that no reason why or when it might be available could be shared with us.
So we will be reading it out loud on Reality Check Radio instead, on Monday morning, on Paul Brennan’s Breakfast Show. Join us and find out what’s going on! Click Here for RCR.
This is not the first time that we have been ignored or denied a chance to enter our objections about the Midwifery Council into the public record without a proper explanation.
The Petitions Committee did accept our written submission, but suddenly they don’t want to upload our video.
The Regulations Review Committee were very polite, but of all the groups who made complaints, the only group whose complaint was rejected was ours; the only dedicated Māori organisation speaking about the use of ‘whānau’ among them.
Every sitting member of the 53rd Parliament ignored our email outlining our concerns.
Why doesn’t the Petitions Committee or other unknown persons in the Government now want anyone to hear or see us? What question did we ask that hit a little too close to home? Who or what is being protected?
To get the clearest picture of what is happening, we recommend listening to the submissions in the order we appeared:
Petitioner & midwife Deb Hayes (whose video we’re relieved is available and linked below).
On Monday 30th, on Paul Brennan’s Breakfast Show (available by replay if you miss it) MWK co-founder Di Landy and member Sarah Henderson will read our submissions on air and discuss events.
Then watch the Midwifery Council’s response and consider their reasoning for doing what they’re doing. Their video is linked below on the same page as Deb’s.
To get to Deb and the Midwifery Council’s video submissions, Click Here
We look forward to this issue becoming a matter of open, public discussion - the hallmark of free societies.
“He Wāhine, He Whenua ka ora Te Tangata - It is by Women and by Land, that the People are given Life”.
Noho tūturu, noho tangata! [ Dusty - translates as ‘Stay Real, Stay Human’].
Hormones And Chronic Pain
Thanks as ever to Feminist Legal Clinic.
The burden of chronic pain in transgender and gender diverse populations: Evidence from a large US clinical database (26 September)
This study demonstrates a significant burden of chronic pain in transgender individuals, with an increased risk among those receiving hormone therapy. Our study, the first to assess chronic pain in a large cohort of transgender patients, provides support for a potential association between hormone therapy and risk of chronic pain diagnosis. Further research is required to understand causal mechanisms and to develop improved screening and management of chronic pain in transgender populations.
Don’t Affirm
Interesting piece by Pear Davis on the site Wrongspeak Publishing:
Not Being Affirmed Saved My Life
Sep 25, 2024
I was around five years old when I first told my mother I was a “girl trapped in a boy’s body.” Some of my earliest memories are of me talking to a therapist about why I felt that way. This was around the year 2000, long before there was much acceptance in society for men dressing or acting in a gender non-conforming way.
Of course, the only reason I thought I was a girl is because I was naturally drawn to “girl things.” I was told every article of clothing I wanted to put on was “girl clothes” and every toy I selected from the toy aisle was a “girl toy.” In my young mind I thought the explanation was simple- well, I must be a girl then!
I grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s, and I now feel more grateful than ever for being born when I was. Any bullying I dealt with for my femininity taught me how to stand up for myself and because gender ideology was not the widespread belief system it is today, I was able to grow up to realize I was in fact a boy instead of being affirmed and encouraged to transition.
In February of this year, the Free Press published an article about therapist Tamara Pietze’s experience being forced to affirm all children’s claims of having gender dysphoria. While working at Mary Bridge Children’s Gender Health Clinic, Tamara and over 100 other therapists went through mandatory training on “gender-affirming care” during which they were taught to diagnose gender dysphoria in young patients when they met six of the eight characteristics listed below:
A strong desire/insistence on being another gender
Strong preference for clothing typically associated with the opposite gender
Strong preference for toys and games typically associated with the opposite gender
Strong preference for playmates of the opposite gender
Strong preference for cross-gender roles during make believe play
Strong rejection of toys more typically associated with assigned gender
Strong dislike of one’s sexual anatomy
Strong desire for the secondary sex characteristics of the opposite gender
This article horrified me, as did the lack of a response it got from gay men and “LGBT activists.” I am a man, not a transgender woman, and yet I met six of the eight characteristics listed here when I was a child. In fact, I would guess around 90% of adult gay men would say those characteristics describe what they were like as a child.
We now have proof that the medical and mental health industries are pushing young gay boys to transition and almost nobody is talking about it. Apparently the fear of being called “transphobic” by a stranger online is so great that even gay men who know they also would have been misdiagnosed as transgender based on this criteria are remaining silent.
The most common fear-mongering tactic used against anyone questioning the growing acceptance of minors transitioning is to tell them the child will commit suicide if they are not affirmed and allowed to transition. Not only is this claim completely baseless, but I believe the only reason I did not end up committing suicide is thanks to my mother’s refusal to validate my delusions that I was a girl. If I had socially transitioned as a child, gone on puberty blockers as a pre-teen, and gotten permanent surgeries as a teenager or young adult, I would have ruined my life.
I would have eventually realized the mistake I had made and been stuck with breasts, numerous side effects from the puberty blockers, and possibly even a surgically-made “vagina” that I would have to dilate for the rest of my life to keep from closing. I would not be in the loving relationship I’ve been in for the last four years, as my partner is a gay man and not attracted to transgender women. I would be stuck as a life-long medical patient, suffering emotionally, physically, and financially from the never-ending hormones, surgeries, and doctor visits. This would ultimately lead me to a state of deep depression and possibly suicide.
While the word transgender was once used to describe men or women who suffered from gender dysphoria and chose to medically transition in order to live their lives as the opposite sex, radical left activists have since changed its definition so that it is now a vague “umbrella term.” Underneath this supposed “umbrella” is an endless list of other vague terms such as nonbinary, gender fluid, and agender.
These labels are just a small part of the convoluted beliefs of gender ideology, which is currently being taught in public schools throughout the country. It is no wonder so many children and young adults are suddenly believing they are trans or nonbinary, as they are being told that if you are not 100% stereotypically masculine or feminine, you are not really a man or a woman. Despite being promoted by so-called “progressives,” gender ideology is in fact blatantly sexist and homophobic.
As far as I’m concerned, there are really only two different ways a person can think about gender:
Option 1 is the belief that there are very strict roles & behaviors that men and women must abide by. (Men must be stereotypically masculine and women must be stereotypically feminine.)
Option 2 is the belief that there are infinite ways to be a man or a woman and all are acceptable. (Men can wear makeup and show their emotions, women can have short hair and have “masculine” qualities.)
If you believe option one, you have a very sexist and regressive way of thinking. If you believe option two- which most leftists would say they do- then that completely eliminates any need for the term “non-binary,” because you can’t “not feel like a man or a woman” if you believe there is an infinite number of ways to be a man or a woman. In order to follow this ideology, you must ignore the constant contradictions and circular thinking within its teachings.
I am deeply concerned for young lesbians, gay men, and gender-nonconforming people who are falling victim to this mindset. I know I would have ended up a victim of it if my parents and doctors had blindly affirmed my claims of being a girl when I was a child. Those who decide to latch onto the “non-binary” label most likely won’t deal with extreme consequences since the non-binary identity is essentially meaningless and requires no changes other than adding the words “they/them” to your social media bios.
However, children and young adults who incorrectly believe they are transgender despite not suffering from gender dysphoria are often not so lucky. As the trendiness of being trans continues to grow, so does the number of detransitioners struggling with the effects of the medical decisions their parents allowed them to make as minors. Adults should feel a moral obligation to help these misguided children, especially if they were once a confused, gender nonconforming child themselves.
https://www.wrongspeakpublishing.com/p/not-being-affirmed-saved-my-life?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
Parents of Desisters
News of an important new resource and website from Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans.
Announcing Our New Website: For and About Desisters
Parents of Desisters- there are more of us out there than you think.
Sep 26, 2024
Please visit us at: Parentsofdesisters.info
Contact us at: Pitt@parentsofdesisters.info
Desisters- People who previously identified as transgender but who came to terms with and learned to accept their biological sex before subjecting their bodies to hormonal or surgical interventions.
Kathleen’s story:
Our son announced that he was trans in 2019. I was irritated when he told us. I figured it was something he picked up from the internet. Then I realized he was serious because of all the information he had about it. I had never heard of gender dysphoria or puberty blockers, or the claim that sex was just a social construct. My husband and I had to google these terms to educate ourselves. I thought something about this was off but, when I tried to search for answers to what my gut was telling me, I came up with nothing.
I recalled seeing Debra Soh on Bill Maher saying no child should transition before 18, and I agreed with her. Kids change their minds, was what I thought. I searched for other podcasts she had done and, through this research, I found Parentsofrogdkids.com. It was there that I discovered the truth and learned about ROGD, which explained my son’s thoughts and behavior. I now had the information I needed to discuss this with my son but, by then, he was completely immersed in gender ideology. He was 15 at the time, so I was unable to make any headway. He started becoming a different person, unrecognizable to the boy I had raised.
He espoused gender ideology all through high school. But with this belief there was also doubt. After years of planting seeds on our part and some maturity on his part, he changed his mind.
He was “transgender,” until he wasn’t.
The full piece is here:
https://www.pittparents.com/p/announcing-our-new-website-for-and?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
The Truthful Therapist
Interesting interview on the Christian podcast Self Evident with Pamela Garfield-Jaeger aka ‘The Truthful Therapist’ and author of A Practical Response to Gender Distress (March 2024).
Trans, The New Goth!
Good interview on Spectator TV with Julie Bindel and Dr Az Hakeem. I liked the idea that, back in the day, all these kids who are saying they are ‘trans’ would just be Goths!!
Endpieces by Dusty and Liz
Mine is chosen to celebrate the start of the Aussies heroes season!
Liz (thinks): ‘OK, he’s got Waltzing Matilda and Liam Clancy! Damn! OK, bring out the big guns!’
#BeMore Porcupine
#LetWomenSpeak
Well done to Siobhan for setting up the child safeguarding group. There’s a piece in the Mail today about a child who has been disciplined for misgendering a teacher…in the UK.
Shocking piece by Sarah Phillimore but it illustrates how the stating of facts gets you abused and how much society is in thrall to a made up belief system whilst ignoring the real difficulties faced by disabled people.
Excellent Spectator video and I love the audio blog from The Truthful Therapist….in fact, as ever Dusty, so many fantastic pieces to thank you for. 😁
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