Thank you for the round up, Kate! If you're quoting me regarding the Harvard panel, then yes, it was definitely "holy cow". I wrote to the HSPH Dean that all the panelists seemed to be sticking their fingers in their ears and singing "la la la" (I was angry) about Europe, irreversibility, and detransitioners. She acknowledged my concerns, but punted to the panelists (none of them Harvard faculty). It's alarming to me that this presentation is up there on the public health school's "studio", intended for students, with "the power of pets" and "combatting tuberculosis".
Thanks for another excellent round-up. The Leor Sapir article is truly excellent, including a number of really good links. The article is not only topical, but also provides a terrific overview of the issues discussed. The Endocrinology opinion piece is also excellent, and now available through archive, so without hitting a paywall.
I clicked on the piece about biology texts with more than ordinary interest. I was part of the team that worked to propel Neil Campbell’s Biology to its top best-selling status in the ‘80s and ‘90s. He was an extraordinary man with such great passion for teaching by explaining “why should I care” to students. The resources devoted to developing the book’s text and artwork were huge. I left the publishing company in 1997 and while I am proud that subsequent editions continue to lead the field, I regret that the current lead author and the editors involved bowed to undoubted political pressure on the subject of gender. Neil refused to change a single word regarding the theory of evolution while undergoing intense pressure from conservative areas in Texas, Georgia and Pennsylvania. I would hope he would have stood firm against today’s fashionability.
When I visited the Resistance Memorial in Berlin, I was overwhelmed by the ... what should I call it? ... the INTERSECTIONALISM of the resistance to Nazism. The museum had rooms commemorating the contributions and sacrifices of communists and of business people, of Christians, Jews, and atheists, of Roma, of artists, students, and soldiers. People from every sphere, often fundamentally opposed in their beliefs, nevertheless came together. They understood the unprecedented, pervasive danger they were all facing.
Excellent round up and good work in Edinburgh! I look forward to your review of Sharron Davies’ book.
Leor Sapir is doing super rigorous research in this area. Very glad to see this latest article.
I found it heartening to see the shift in the Gallup survey results. If the % of Democrats identifying as socially conservative has stayed at 10% then my guess is that many of us have already defected and re-registered as Independents (as I have) or Republicans.
So, one of the participants around minute 7:10 says something to the effect that "science overwhelmingly support access to gender affirming care" ......and what I have heard to this point is largely on that level.
Who is this video for? The judges overruling state laws?
There were so many lies, misconceptions, distortions of truth and manipulations in the Harvard talk that I had to stop watching before my blood boiled over. They spoke of "reversible" puberty blockers and even listed hormones as a "reversible" treatment! They noted that the treatments "almost never involve surgery," but many thousands have had double mastectomies as minors. They spoke of this being a long process where nobody ever gets any medical care in one day, even as an adult, but Planned Parenthood routinely provides hormones in one day - to 18-year-olds and up. They said parents are always involved in minors' care, and that may technically be true, but they left out that they browbeat parents into consenting by threatening the death of their children. What the heck did they mean when they said that trans care was not "special care," but that it was just care denied to trans people? Does this mean most kids are given puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and having double mastectomies, but we deny these treatments to "trans kids, or does it mean that "trans kids" don't receive things like insulin if they have diabetes or chemotherapy if they have cancer? Obviously, neither of these things are true. And how loosely can one interpret the term "medically necessary care" in order to fit puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, double mastectomies, castration, etc. into this phrase? The "decades of studies" on which these treatments are based are of low to very low quality and often don't say what they want them to say. There is no real science behind these treatments, as evidenced by the roll-back in Finland, Sweden, Norway and the UK - not mentioned in the part of this that I watched. Lastly, since I stopped after the clip of the kids talking (which was only 14 minutes in), how manipulative is it to ask a confused 12-year-old, put on puberty blockers at only 8 years old, how bad it would be to not get puberty blockers when he has never experienced puberty and have been told by trusted adults that he is a girl and that his natural puberty will drive him to suicide? As a counter to this confused child's statement that every kid on puberty blockers is depressed and suicidal BEFORE receiving them, Jazz Jennings and family have made it clear that there was no mental illness prior to receiving puberty blockers. The mental health issues actually came about a year after starting puberty blockers for this very famous "trans kid." Can the Harvard School of Public Health not stand to have a debate on this subject? Instead, it has to show only one side of the issue? This was extremely disappointing for such a (formerly?) scholarly institution.
Thank you for your response.......I've read/listened to several things like this and it's always the same deception and subterfuge.
I take it you saw this 3 minute video....and my feeling is not that the witness was "unprepared", but that she and her peers think better to appear ignorant than admit the truth.
Trans widows have a great deal to add to this discussion and have been silenced, outside of the half dozen memoirs published by myself, Christine Benvenuto and Shannon Thrace, along with a few others. I expect my interview with Tammy Peterson for her eponymous youtube channel to be out sometime next month. We must engage with those we don't agree with on every political/social detail. The censorship of the webpage called Trans Journalists Association Style Guide makes it very clear that ex-wives' and children's trauma caused by crossdressing fathers who ideate a female persona have already been over-reported, as dull as yesterday's mashed potatoes. Meanwhile I wrote up a 20 question survey for trans widows based on the patterns emerging in 3 dozen women's stories. Too many of us have been physically or sexually assaulted by our "female identified" husbands as they experience the mania estrogen can provoke.
And I’m happy to see these school districts fighting back. It goes to show there are people in the school system who don’t agree with keeping parents in the dark.
Thank you for the round up, Kate! If you're quoting me regarding the Harvard panel, then yes, it was definitely "holy cow". I wrote to the HSPH Dean that all the panelists seemed to be sticking their fingers in their ears and singing "la la la" (I was angry) about Europe, irreversibility, and detransitioners. She acknowledged my concerns, but punted to the panelists (none of them Harvard faculty). It's alarming to me that this presentation is up there on the public health school's "studio", intended for students, with "the power of pets" and "combatting tuberculosis".
I could watch three seconds before gagging
Thanks for another excellent round-up. The Leor Sapir article is truly excellent, including a number of really good links. The article is not only topical, but also provides a terrific overview of the issues discussed. The Endocrinology opinion piece is also excellent, and now available through archive, so without hitting a paywall.
I also want to note, for those who haven’t seen it, Jo Bartosch’s article on the Dana Rivers case in California, which has been all but ignored by mainstream press. https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/06/25/the-shameful-silence-over-dana-rivers/
Finally, with full credit to Coastal Elite for spotting this: here’s a really good fact-filled article about who the AMA actually represents: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/campbells-scoop/80583
Full credit, also, to Lisa, for sounding the alarm early on about what these “medical” associations actually are.
I clicked on the piece about biology texts with more than ordinary interest. I was part of the team that worked to propel Neil Campbell’s Biology to its top best-selling status in the ‘80s and ‘90s. He was an extraordinary man with such great passion for teaching by explaining “why should I care” to students. The resources devoted to developing the book’s text and artwork were huge. I left the publishing company in 1997 and while I am proud that subsequent editions continue to lead the field, I regret that the current lead author and the editors involved bowed to undoubted political pressure on the subject of gender. Neil refused to change a single word regarding the theory of evolution while undergoing intense pressure from conservative areas in Texas, Georgia and Pennsylvania. I would hope he would have stood firm against today’s fashionability.
When I visited the Resistance Memorial in Berlin, I was overwhelmed by the ... what should I call it? ... the INTERSECTIONALISM of the resistance to Nazism. The museum had rooms commemorating the contributions and sacrifices of communists and of business people, of Christians, Jews, and atheists, of Roma, of artists, students, and soldiers. People from every sphere, often fundamentally opposed in their beliefs, nevertheless came together. They understood the unprecedented, pervasive danger they were all facing.
Great round up! Thank you
Excellent round up and good work in Edinburgh! I look forward to your review of Sharron Davies’ book.
Leor Sapir is doing super rigorous research in this area. Very glad to see this latest article.
I found it heartening to see the shift in the Gallup survey results. If the % of Democrats identifying as socially conservative has stayed at 10% then my guess is that many of us have already defected and re-registered as Independents (as I have) or Republicans.
I am watching that Harvard tape.
So, one of the participants around minute 7:10 says something to the effect that "science overwhelmingly support access to gender affirming care" ......and what I have heard to this point is largely on that level.
Who is this video for? The judges overruling state laws?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbroz0CQ0H8
There were so many lies, misconceptions, distortions of truth and manipulations in the Harvard talk that I had to stop watching before my blood boiled over. They spoke of "reversible" puberty blockers and even listed hormones as a "reversible" treatment! They noted that the treatments "almost never involve surgery," but many thousands have had double mastectomies as minors. They spoke of this being a long process where nobody ever gets any medical care in one day, even as an adult, but Planned Parenthood routinely provides hormones in one day - to 18-year-olds and up. They said parents are always involved in minors' care, and that may technically be true, but they left out that they browbeat parents into consenting by threatening the death of their children. What the heck did they mean when they said that trans care was not "special care," but that it was just care denied to trans people? Does this mean most kids are given puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and having double mastectomies, but we deny these treatments to "trans kids, or does it mean that "trans kids" don't receive things like insulin if they have diabetes or chemotherapy if they have cancer? Obviously, neither of these things are true. And how loosely can one interpret the term "medically necessary care" in order to fit puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, double mastectomies, castration, etc. into this phrase? The "decades of studies" on which these treatments are based are of low to very low quality and often don't say what they want them to say. There is no real science behind these treatments, as evidenced by the roll-back in Finland, Sweden, Norway and the UK - not mentioned in the part of this that I watched. Lastly, since I stopped after the clip of the kids talking (which was only 14 minutes in), how manipulative is it to ask a confused 12-year-old, put on puberty blockers at only 8 years old, how bad it would be to not get puberty blockers when he has never experienced puberty and have been told by trusted adults that he is a girl and that his natural puberty will drive him to suicide? As a counter to this confused child's statement that every kid on puberty blockers is depressed and suicidal BEFORE receiving them, Jazz Jennings and family have made it clear that there was no mental illness prior to receiving puberty blockers. The mental health issues actually came about a year after starting puberty blockers for this very famous "trans kid." Can the Harvard School of Public Health not stand to have a debate on this subject? Instead, it has to show only one side of the issue? This was extremely disappointing for such a (formerly?) scholarly institution.
Thank you for your response.......I've read/listened to several things like this and it's always the same deception and subterfuge.
I take it you saw this 3 minute video....and my feeling is not that the witness was "unprepared", but that she and her peers think better to appear ignorant than admit the truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hyXQWmf2r0
I wholeheartedly agree.
Trans widows have a great deal to add to this discussion and have been silenced, outside of the half dozen memoirs published by myself, Christine Benvenuto and Shannon Thrace, along with a few others. I expect my interview with Tammy Peterson for her eponymous youtube channel to be out sometime next month. We must engage with those we don't agree with on every political/social detail. The censorship of the webpage called Trans Journalists Association Style Guide makes it very clear that ex-wives' and children's trauma caused by crossdressing fathers who ideate a female persona have already been over-reported, as dull as yesterday's mashed potatoes. Meanwhile I wrote up a 20 question survey for trans widows based on the patterns emerging in 3 dozen women's stories. Too many of us have been physically or sexually assaulted by our "female identified" husbands as they experience the mania estrogen can provoke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H4aDv-AmMk&t=3s
Great round up! Could you repost the link to the NJ school article? This link isn’t working.
Thank you!
Oops, my fault! Fixed!
Thank you!
And I’m happy to see these school districts fighting back. It goes to show there are people in the school system who don’t agree with keeping parents in the dark.