I thought this was going to be a quiet day this morning!!!
Hopefully most if not all of you will have caught up with JL’s list of horror stories today on the Glinner Update:
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/a-week-in-the-war-on-women-monday-aef
One of those stories involved an odious character called Gretchen Felker-Martin, a trans identified male and author of tawdry horror and sci-fi fiction. Last year he released a book called Manhunt .The book is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and involves two trans-identified males hunting down and killing women described as ‘the knights of JK Rowling’ and ‘TERF soldiers’. The ‘Queen TERF’ militant leader is described with a reference to MichFest, the women-only music festival that was shut down by trans activists, and the death of JK Rowling is treated as a subject for entertainment. It also transpires that, on more than one occasion, this delightful character has expressed support for the actions of Osama Bin Laden.
This led me straight to the 2012 film based on the hunt for Bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty. The film was controversial at the time due to disputes about factual accuracy which included the central role given to a (fictional) CIA officer, Maya Harris ( played by Jessica Chastain). However, if you can bear in mind that not all the ‘facts’ may be correct, it rolls along nicely like a kind of militarised detective film and we do like a strong female lead, don’t we!? 😎
Spoiler alert: The clip below is virtually the last scene.
BTW the title relates to half past midnight, the time when the raid on the compound takes place.
Portland Let Women Speak
Horrible news from Portland that a rally organised yesterday by Women’s Declaration International in Portland at the Public Library was attacked and broken up by the notorious Rose City Antifa. The police failed to turn up. Attendees were pepper sprayed and assaulted. Thankfully I believe nobody has been seriously injured.
The information is a bit sparse at present since several body cameras were stolen by the anti-women activists.
The first tweet refers to all the tyres on the WDI cars having been let down on the morning of the rally.
The second tweet is Kara Dansky attempting to start her speech - I believe she didn’t get very far.
The third tweet is a young woman who has been pepper sprayed.
The final tweet is one of the women, Lierre Keith showing her bruises from being punched.
Well done these brave women. The police need to be held accountable for this! Hopefully more information will be forthcoming on precisely what happened.
Many readers will recall that Kellie-Jay Keen had to cancel her LWS rally in Portland due to serious threats that were made. Thanks to my wife for digging out the tweets for me.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1726287050239037551
https://twitter.com/WDI_USA/status/1726324587347280114
https://twitter.com/WDI_USA/status/1726337918942503162
https://twitter.com/lierrekeith/status/1726637838601756981
Bravura Performance
Well done Kellie-Jay and the Mum she accompanied to a meeting at the Mum’s daughter’s school ( recording below) to complain about the teaching from No Outsiders ( see my last update re No Outsiders and see JL’s update today). This is followed by a phone in discussion. Get complaining, parents ( sorry, I am aware we didn’t have to worry about this when our daughter was at school in the 1990s!!) and let’s get these external providers out of schools altogether.
Feminist Legal Clinic
I am indebted to wonderful FLC tonight and using four of their pieces.
The first report is FFS territory. The figures are shocking if correct.
The second report takes FFS to a new level!! Well done to FLC for taking a case on behalf of a detransitioner.
The third report concerns Moira Deeming MP being on the verge of lodging her defamation action against John Pesutto, the Liberal Party leader. It seems to me that Mr Pesutto is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot because he looks like he has a snowball in hell’s chance of defending this!
The fourth report indicates how unprofessional and dangerous the branches of WPATH around the word are. Plus I hate the phrase ‘lived experience’!! Roll on the Michael Shellenberger report:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/gladiator
Health department to consider funding gender-affirming surgery under Medicare (20 November)
Gender-affirming procedures such as chest surgery and genital reconfiguration would be subsidised by Medicare under a push to improve mental health and quality of life for transgender people.
The federal health department will consider an application from the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons that seeks to establish 21 Medicare items for gender-affirming surgeries for people who have gender incongruence, in which a person’s experience of gender does not align with how they were born.
The application to the Medical Services Advisory Committee says gender-affirming surgery – a catch-all term for procedures that align a person’s body with their gender identity – is already being performed in Australia but that the system is fragmented and can have high out-of-pocket costs.
It estimated there would be 64,101 transgender people who were born male and 64,044 transgender people who were born female who could be candidates for the procedures in Australia.
Source: Health department to consider funding gender-affirming surgery under Medicare
Girls ‘as young as 13’ are having their breasts surgically removed to become boys (20 November)
Inside the world of teenage transitions in Australia where 13-year-olds are having their breasts removed after one letter from a psychiatrist – which teens can’t even do in Thailand – and mums humblebrag with before and after pics on Facebook.
A 15-year-old with gender dysphoria who had a double mastectomy has encouraged other teens who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth to undergo the operation.
Senior child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Jillian Spencer said there were Australian psychiatrists and surgeons who were recommending and performing such operations.
Dr Spencer said young people requested approval letters from a psychiatrist and if they did not get what they wanted would post negative reviews on social media and go elsewhere.
Adjunct Associate Professor Karleen Gribble from Western Sydney University School of Midwifery was a researcher on the first study of a detransitioned woman who shared her pain at not being able to breastfeed her baby.
Professor Gribble said she had spoken to women who did not understand the complexity of breast structure when they had chest masculinisation mastectomies.
It had not been made clear to them that surgery would mean they would not be able to breastfeed.
Anna Kerr, a lawyer from Feminist Legal Clinic, was involved in the first case against a psychiatrist who approved the removal of a 21-year-old’s breasts after just one appointment.
Jay Langadinos later regretted the procedure, no longer identifies as a man, and is suing the psychiatrist for professional negligence.
The Feminist Legal Clinic provided support and legal referrals for a number of detransitioners including Ms Langadinos.
Ms Kerr said protections for vulnerable young people from such medical treatments were inadequate and varied from state to state.
Source: Girls ‘as young as 13’ are having their breasts surgically removed to become boys
Moira Deeming defamation action against Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto (20 November)
Exiled MP Moira Deeming is demanding up to $1m in her claim against Opposition Leader John Pesutto sources have revealed.
Mrs Deeming is planning to lodge formal defamation acion in court this week after a final attempt at private mediation failed on Sunday.
It has now been revealed as part of her claim Mrs Deeming had demanded up to $1m in compensation and legal costs.
She also wants a motion to expel her from the parliamentary party rescinded, reinstatement to the party, and a public apology.
In a statement on Monday Mrs Deeming said she would stop at nothing to clear her name.
“Both during and after our rally, I and the organisers publicly condemned the Neo-Nazis, Nazism, antisemitism and bigotry of any kind. I did not know those neo-Nazis and did not arrange for them to gatecrash our event,” she said.
Source: Moira Deeming defamation action against Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto | Herald Sun
Lived expertise – Gender Clinic News ( 20 November)
This is a report from a discreet delegate to the November 2-4 conference of the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health (AusPATH), which is a hybrid professional-trans activist organisation.
The conference was attended by medical professionals, but the majority of those present were people who considered themselves part of the trans community and identified as trans or gender diverse. The field is now dominated by workers with “lived experience”—workers with professional and research degrees focused on their lived experience and workers without professional qualifications relying on their “lived expertise”.
The quality of research presented at the AusPATH conference was surprisingly poor.
Most papers, panels and workshops, however, focused on personal, emotional and subjective accounts of lived experience and/or superficial accounts of studies with poor research bases, methods and analysis.
The toilets at the conference were made gender neutral. This news was delivered as an important announcement at the outset. One bathroom was labelled “toilets” and the other was “toilets and urinals”. The entrances were next to each other. Amusingly, at every break across the three days, there was a line for the “toilets” bathroom. Waiting in that line were women, men in dresses who identified as women, and women in suits who identified as men.
The only people I never saw in line were men wearing pants.
At the conference, the phenomenon of detransitioners was minimised—they were fleetingly mentioned, but glossed over in a way that suggested that denying them acknowledgment would stop them from existing.
Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria was derided as disinformation spread by malicious forces against the trans community.
Young people were presented as fully informed by gender-affirming healthcare workers of the risk to fertility—and as entirely unconcerned by it.
Neither funding sources for the conference, nor connections with government or industry were addressed at any point.
It was recommended that health professionals tell parents that 48 per cent of trans youth have attempted suicide—a statistic from a low-quality online survey—and that the single biggest risk to their child would be a lack of parental support in transition. This approach was described as “empowering” parents to effectively stop their child committing suicide, and not acknowledged as emotional blackmail.
AusPATH did not present as a healthcare professionals’ organisation using its expertise for advocacy; it presented as an advocacy organisation using its healthcare credentials for ideology.
Source: Lived expertise – Gender Clinic News
Endpiece
We need some light relief - enter ‘service dog’ Samson…
What a depressing epistle Dusty. Thanks for the update.
Well that was a really FFS update Dusty.
I hope the Portland ladies are ok. 🤬
That school 😳. I’m speechless. And to think that this is happening up and down the country. However you look at it - lying or ignorance, those teachers should be ashamed of themselves. They are a disgrace to the profession and a danger to children. I despair.
Thank goodness for animals. I had a dog and cat that played together like that, sadly now gone……they’re on my avatar picture or whatever the thing is called 😁