“This is a change of tune from AAP leadership, which has spent years resisting calls from within its own ranks for just such a review, going to extraordinary lengths to shut down dissent.
“But this is how organisations start to walk back from a medical scandal. Quietly, slowly — ideally so quietly and so slowly that no one notices they’ve retreated from shaky to solid ground at all.”
- The Democrats were predictably outrageous in their unquestioning support of GAC during the hearing. I'd encourage Americans here, particularly if you've got a Democrat Rep on the committee, but anyone really, to write in with your disappointment and a question along the lines of: are you really encouraging your young constituents (contrary to the policies in European countries like Sweden, Finland, Norway, France and England) to believe that they were "born in the wrong body" and require life-long medication to survive and thrive?
-I am grateful to Azeen Ghoryashi for - finally! - the phrase "critics across the political spectrum"...
- Lisa has a great interview here (https://connorsforum.substack.com/p/controversies-surrounding-gender), in which she brilliantly, imho, flips on its head the word "bans": do we ban driver's licenses from children? alcohol? and in which she also outlines a great kids' book for gender non-conforming kids that someone really should write. Thank you, Lisa.
Kate: I, for one, would be very interested in a longer form piece by you about this: “The experts she interviews hold some of the same positions I’ve seen in the past, namely that RCTA is not legitimate the way being transgender is (or should I call it sex change to another/SCTA?) because people have suffered trauma and oppression due to racism but apparently not due to sexism. The rebranding current RCTA/transracial practitioners are attempting is fascinating, as are the unusual rituals Tran brings to light, particularly the use of subliminals.”
Love this edition of Broadview in Brief, not only action packed with the latest news, but also displaying moments of delightfully acid wit. Here’s a favorite: “Perhaps Rose was influenced by American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s May interview with sports journalist Stephen Smith. . . “. Enjoy your weekend!
Let's hope that the AAP follows guidelines for evidence review and that they withstand the onslaught of pressure they will surely get. May it also lead to updating their amici briefs to reflect the evidence. FYI link for endrocrine society goes to an evidence grading system citation.
Maybe it's this 2021 review from the Journal of the Endocrine Society, which concluded: "Future studies should investigate the psychological benefits of hormone therapy among larger and more diverse groups of transgender people using study designs that more effectively isolate the effects of hormone treatment." https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/5/4/bvab011/6126016
Yes, I think that's it! Has "Certainty in this conclusion is limited by high risk of bias in study designs, small sample sizes, and confounding with other interventions. We could not draw any conclusions about death by suicide. "
Thank you for this update!
I should note the NYT article has Dr. Bowers, whose livelihood depends on doing gender surgeries, I believe, saying that anecdotally people do great with medical intervention. I'm sure many readers here and certainly Kids Selin Davis can point out what happens to any articles or reports otherwise!
I believe the whole gender ideology is as authoritarian as it gets. The suicide rate of children who exhibit “ gender dysphoria” is highly exaggerated to scare parents. The increase in gender “ affirming” care is pushed on social media . It’s a medical scandal of vast proportions, more than the malpractice of lobotomy.
States need to pass laws outlawing puberty blockers for all but children suffering from genuine precocious puberty , a rare condition. States also need to prohibit mastectomies on healthy girls and any “sex change” surgeries on boys.
The bans and prohibitions should become federal laws protecting minors.
Finally. Barbie Kardashian is being put where he belongs!
In corporate news, Doc Martens has advertised a pair of customized boots featuring art of a "trans man" with mastectomy scars. They're lucky I love my DMs, otherwise I'd have thrown them away a long time ago
Yikes - same week as Costa Coffee also featured a van-side "trans man with mastectomy scars" artwork. Clearly, the culture wars are still raging TERF Island...
The British library association recommendations thing is so stupidly infuriating. And I read Helen Joyce's really great book.
The whole bit with the costumed mock women story hour as something that is pushed is so obviously offensive.
I think Ms. Davis is a NYCer. We older NYCer sometimes still listen to the the radio (it was an appliance that got the data in magical waves from big towers, sorta like wifi but not. Magical squiggles not 1-0-1-0-1-0 Digital). Being old myself I still listen to WBAI and there is a man even older that I who has a long running radio program on Saturday mornings. His name is David Rothenberg and he is a great activist. He created The Fortune Society which helps assist the formerly incarcerated to integrate with the world outside prison, the world of simply being under the invisible yoke of hardcore capitalism. A vital organization and there should be more such services.
Anyway, he was chattering on his show one day about this drag queen story hour thing. I sent him an email that is was all obviously minstrel show type mockery by men of an other that has been held in our patriarchal structures to be lower. (Punching down!) He insists it nothing to be concerned about after all we all laughed at Milton Berle!!! when he did it on TV. (Milton Berle's show when off TV in 1953 and even I'm not old enough to have laughed at him in drag back then. I've since seen kinescopes of the act and forgot to laugh.)
But. . . but , I say, fine for theatrical adult stuff in the cabaret I guess. But, would these men show up to read to kids if not for their costumes? Why don't they dress in costumes that would interest kids more in reading, like fucking superhero shit that they've been preconditioned to like?
And why doesn't the brilliant British library association recommend Drag Queen Story Hour!
I have a suspicion: This entire trans movement is a male backlash to the progress of second wave feminism. It is clearly a testosterone driven, male anti-women movement. Of course there are trans-men. But being born female they do have the ruthlessness of the unbridled testosterone boys which represent the DOMINATE tone of the trans movement,
Well, I love your rant. I guess I’m even a little older, as Uncle Miltie was a fixture of our household TV watching. I don’t think he’d cut it as a drag queen today: https://youtu.be/yfemsVOgSFU
This is a terrific article from Eliza Mondegreen on the AAP announcement: https://unherd.com/?post_type=thepost&p=481727
“This is a change of tune from AAP leadership, which has spent years resisting calls from within its own ranks for just such a review, going to extraordinary lengths to shut down dissent.
“But this is how organisations start to walk back from a medical scandal. Quietly, slowly — ideally so quietly and so slowly that no one notices they’ve retreated from shaky to solid ground at all.”
We've lied to you, so now we'll lie to you about lying to you.
Perfectly stated!
Thank you, Kate, as always! A fantastic round up.
- The Democrats were predictably outrageous in their unquestioning support of GAC during the hearing. I'd encourage Americans here, particularly if you've got a Democrat Rep on the committee, but anyone really, to write in with your disappointment and a question along the lines of: are you really encouraging your young constituents (contrary to the policies in European countries like Sweden, Finland, Norway, France and England) to believe that they were "born in the wrong body" and require life-long medication to survive and thrive?
-I am grateful to Azeen Ghoryashi for - finally! - the phrase "critics across the political spectrum"...
- Lisa has a great interview here (https://connorsforum.substack.com/p/controversies-surrounding-gender), in which she brilliantly, imho, flips on its head the word "bans": do we ban driver's licenses from children? alcohol? and in which she also outlines a great kids' book for gender non-conforming kids that someone really should write. Thank you, Lisa.
Kate: I, for one, would be very interested in a longer form piece by you about this: “The experts she interviews hold some of the same positions I’ve seen in the past, namely that RCTA is not legitimate the way being transgender is (or should I call it sex change to another/SCTA?) because people have suffered trauma and oppression due to racism but apparently not due to sexism. The rebranding current RCTA/transracial practitioners are attempting is fascinating, as are the unusual rituals Tran brings to light, particularly the use of subliminals.”
Love this edition of Broadview in Brief, not only action packed with the latest news, but also displaying moments of delightfully acid wit. Here’s a favorite: “Perhaps Rose was influenced by American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s May interview with sports journalist Stephen Smith. . . “. Enjoy your weekend!
Let's hope that the AAP follows guidelines for evidence review and that they withstand the onslaught of pressure they will surely get. May it also lead to updating their amici briefs to reflect the evidence. FYI link for endrocrine society goes to an evidence grading system citation.
Thank you for the heads up! I've corrected the text. It was supposed to go here: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558 but the one Ava links below is also helpful!
Maybe it's this 2021 review from the Journal of the Endocrine Society, which concluded: "Future studies should investigate the psychological benefits of hormone therapy among larger and more diverse groups of transgender people using study designs that more effectively isolate the effects of hormone treatment." https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/5/4/bvab011/6126016
Yes, I think that's it! Has "Certainty in this conclusion is limited by high risk of bias in study designs, small sample sizes, and confounding with other interventions. We could not draw any conclusions about death by suicide. "
Thank you for this update!
I should note the NYT article has Dr. Bowers, whose livelihood depends on doing gender surgeries, I believe, saying that anecdotally people do great with medical intervention. I'm sure many readers here and certainly Kids Selin Davis can point out what happens to any articles or reports otherwise!
Thanks for spotting that link.
I believe the whole gender ideology is as authoritarian as it gets. The suicide rate of children who exhibit “ gender dysphoria” is highly exaggerated to scare parents. The increase in gender “ affirming” care is pushed on social media . It’s a medical scandal of vast proportions, more than the malpractice of lobotomy.
States need to pass laws outlawing puberty blockers for all but children suffering from genuine precocious puberty , a rare condition. States also need to prohibit mastectomies on healthy girls and any “sex change” surgeries on boys.
The bans and prohibitions should become federal laws protecting minors.
WPATH quietly wants to remove puberty, blockers from their list of treatments because the amount of bad outcomes are mounting.
So why do they not spread the information to others?
Finally. Barbie Kardashian is being put where he belongs!
In corporate news, Doc Martens has advertised a pair of customized boots featuring art of a "trans man" with mastectomy scars. They're lucky I love my DMs, otherwise I'd have thrown them away a long time ago
Yikes - same week as Costa Coffee also featured a van-side "trans man with mastectomy scars" artwork. Clearly, the culture wars are still raging TERF Island...
Excuse me while I rant on a moment:
The British library association recommendations thing is so stupidly infuriating. And I read Helen Joyce's really great book.
The whole bit with the costumed mock women story hour as something that is pushed is so obviously offensive.
I think Ms. Davis is a NYCer. We older NYCer sometimes still listen to the the radio (it was an appliance that got the data in magical waves from big towers, sorta like wifi but not. Magical squiggles not 1-0-1-0-1-0 Digital). Being old myself I still listen to WBAI and there is a man even older that I who has a long running radio program on Saturday mornings. His name is David Rothenberg and he is a great activist. He created The Fortune Society which helps assist the formerly incarcerated to integrate with the world outside prison, the world of simply being under the invisible yoke of hardcore capitalism. A vital organization and there should be more such services.
Anyway, he was chattering on his show one day about this drag queen story hour thing. I sent him an email that is was all obviously minstrel show type mockery by men of an other that has been held in our patriarchal structures to be lower. (Punching down!) He insists it nothing to be concerned about after all we all laughed at Milton Berle!!! when he did it on TV. (Milton Berle's show when off TV in 1953 and even I'm not old enough to have laughed at him in drag back then. I've since seen kinescopes of the act and forgot to laugh.)
But. . . but , I say, fine for theatrical adult stuff in the cabaret I guess. But, would these men show up to read to kids if not for their costumes? Why don't they dress in costumes that would interest kids more in reading, like fucking superhero shit that they've been preconditioned to like?
And why doesn't the brilliant British library association recommend Drag Queen Story Hour!
I have a suspicion: This entire trans movement is a male backlash to the progress of second wave feminism. It is clearly a testosterone driven, male anti-women movement. Of course there are trans-men. But being born female they do have the ruthlessness of the unbridled testosterone boys which represent the DOMINATE tone of the trans movement,
Why not Murray Hill story hour!!!!
Well, I love your rant. I guess I’m even a little older, as Uncle Miltie was a fixture of our household TV watching. I don’t think he’d cut it as a drag queen today: https://youtu.be/yfemsVOgSFU
I probably saw that I love Lucy.
But I was only 2ish when NBC's Texaco Star Theatre (1948–1953) went off the air. I don't even know if my young parents had at TV then.
David Rothenberg is late 80s by now I think. Time keeps chugging along.
So, how will it be known if that systematic review will be conducted fairly and thoroughly and not just a Potemkin event?