‘More than 50 percent of both registered and likely voters surveyed by the group in January said they would oppose a candidate who “speaks frequently about restricting access to health care and participation in sports for transgender youth.”’ - How about a candidate who speaks frequently about protecting vulnerable young people from irreversible medical procedures and protecting girls' sports? As with most polls, it's all in how you phrase the question. No candidate wants to deny necessary health care to any child just because she calls herself he or they.
I get the challenge of putting this review together, and I'm thankful for it. Just try to make sure to either make it clear you're quoting the source or that you leave source editorializing out of it.
I'm looking at you CNN ... "saying, without evidence,"
I actually have a problem with the North Dakota judge saying Christian employers and healthcare workers do not have to perform certain surgeries due to their religious beliefs. I don't think that, if a surgery were life-saving, it would be a legitimate excuse for a healthcare worker to say "I don't have to do this because of my religion." What if, for example, someone refused to take care of a dangerous ectopic pregnancy where the fallopian tube was about to burst and endanger the mother's life on the grounds of religious belief? I think a healthcare worker has to take care of their patients' medical needs.
However, I do agree that no healthcare worker should have to perform purely cosmetic risky surgeries, particularly on young vulnerable people who are given misinformation about their necessity - on the grounds that performing such surgeries would violate their Hippocratic Oath.
Reading this, I can’t help but think of the title of Kate Atkinson’s book, “When Will There Be Good News?”
This year, I think it’s critically important to spend time contacting candidates for office and those in elected office with our concerns (ongoing applause for the Protect Our Kids initiative in California). I am of the view that Biden absolutely must win in November, and that the Democrats must take over Congress. I get that there are some here who don’t share this view, but for those who do, it is going to be really important to get through to the Democrats that they must revise the language of the Equality Act (along with the mini version New York State will have on the ballot this fall). The fix is straightforward for both. Here is the logic, and a resource, for anyone who wishes to pursue this with their elected and candidates:
Issue: If the federal Equality Act passes as currently written, gender identity (self-identification) will supersede sex for all formerly sex-based rights, without exception.
Proposed Democratic Position: Rather than, as now proposed, redefining sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity (self-identification), amend the Equality Act to protect sexual orientation and gender identity as two new, separate protected classes, alongside sex and other existing protected categories.
Resource: “Sex, Gender, and Equality in the United States: Confusion, Conflict, and Consequences,” by Callie H. Burt, in Sex and Gender, A Contemporary Reader.
You are wasting your breath with the Dems. They are all in on gender ideology and do not care that it is in direct conflict with women’s rights. They are in full support of policies that result in girls being forced to change in locker rooms with male onlookers without their consent. They are putting violent men in women’s prisons despite nearly 90% of incarcerated women being survivors of sexual assault according to the Vera Institute. These aren’t things they don’t know about unless one more constituent writes a letter. They know, but they care more about keeping campaign money from groups pushing gender ideology like the ACLU, HRC, etc. They live in fear of being targeted by groups like that.
Meanwhile, when Trump came into office he shelved the Obama rule putting men in women’s federal prisons. Biden restored it almost immediately after his inauguration. If this doesn’t affect you because you and everyone in your life isn’t a women in prison, then choosing to support Dems is an admission of privilege, and having the choice to throw those women under the bus because Trump can be crass. I was a Biden voter, an Obama voter x2. Realizing Trump did something good was incredibly hard to admit, but condemning vulnerable women without a choice to be locked up with men is a cruelty and can’t support.
The Democrats are no friends of women. Blue states are pushing referendums on abortion to drive turnout. It works. Bad news for them is that when enough blue states enshrine abortion rights into state law it will mean Dems can’t hold it over our heads to make us vote for politicians who pretend not to know the difference between the sexes.
You are free to have your opinion, which I made clear, but to state that choosing to support Dems is an admission of privilege is completely out of line. Indeed, one of the things I believe it is incumbent upon those of us who are Dems is to push them on precisely the kinds of issues you raise here, as it is the most vulnerable among us who are on the front lines of the horrible impacts of gender ideology. I have done and continue to do so and I encourage others to do so. In one instance, I sent out an alarm to 90 people I know, alerting them to a D sponsored piece of legislation that would allow men in my state to be housed with women. I cited existing cases, including that of imprisoned women who have been sexually assaulted by self-ID men housed with them. I have lost friends over this, but I remain firm in my commitment to women and children, and particularly those who are most vulnerable.
It will break through to the main stream. The WPATH Files dovetails with the malpractice cases of Chloe Cole and others. I suggest these cases are delayed for political reasons. There is no such thing as true trans. Men like my ex, Neddy, will have to adjust to that fact. They were running away from trauma, grief and stereotypes. Blanchard and his ilk were running after fame and fortune. Stop fawning after them. Start listening to trans widows. transwidowsvoices.org, as well as my early analysis of WPATH Files:
Re: Letitia James. I hope the Nassau administrator’s lawsuit is successful, because the pussyhat wearing women suffering from TDS who cheer on James need to see that their side is pushing policies that are in conflict with what women have achieved with Title IX.
The GLAAD poll mentioned — if you look at the PDF — is of ppl who identify themselves as “LGBTQ voters,” which heavily leans left. Many gays and lesbians I’ve met online who lean conservative might not respond to such a survey, however it was arranged, as that term has been politicized as letters were added to the acronym.
All of this to say: we shouldn’t be too chastened by its results, or infer that people should not be critical of the ways “trans” issues can be addressed by politicians.
Ruby Corado, of Casa Ruby in Washington DC, embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I would like to make a Victim Impact Statement after her criminal trial. Is there any lawyer or organization on this list that can help me do that? My psychologically fragile and vulnerable child was sent to Casa Ruby by city officials. I had reported my child missing. The police lied to me, stating they didn't know where my child was, when in fact my child was being harbored by a criminal (Ruby) in a building that was not up to residential code and among adults, where alcohol,, drugs and prostitution were known to be present. The city had, it seems, warning that Ruby was a criminal but kept the funding stream open and also referred my fragile and vulnerable 19 year old to live with this criminal.
Does anyone know what lawyer or law firm would represent me in making a victim impact statement or more?
I'm not sure what other people think "multiple personality disorder" means, but it has been a useful concept for me and for several people I've known, and helped others understand us. Please, Lisa, don't dismiss it as a joke.
From my Fedi bio:
"The kids I grew up with knew I was "different", but my parents and school insisted I was normal. Now I've explored #Autism #Prosopagnosia #Alexithymia and #Aphantasia and have an idea what was going on, but then I thought everyone saw the world like I did, just coped better. I coped by becoming a #PluralSystem by age three when I realized my girl self would have to be hidden. After six "guy" IDs, I'm now back being that girl. Still running the system, but with more E and less T..."
The left is no different from the right in this regard: Men's rights are ALWAYS more important that women's rights, and women should just shut up and do what they're told. Everything in the universe is angled toward the most powerful force in the world, according to Helen Joyce: The power and desire of the boner.
Well let's see...how did feminism come to pass? Black civil rights and white liberal social movements treated women as coffee-schleppers and dick servicers. Black feminists realized white feminists were too much of a pain in the ass to deal with and lesbians realized that het women were too much of a PITA as well...and so were gay men, who tended to mansplain and monopolize the conversation. La plus ca change...
‘More than 50 percent of both registered and likely voters surveyed by the group in January said they would oppose a candidate who “speaks frequently about restricting access to health care and participation in sports for transgender youth.”’ - How about a candidate who speaks frequently about protecting vulnerable young people from irreversible medical procedures and protecting girls' sports? As with most polls, it's all in how you phrase the question. No candidate wants to deny necessary health care to any child just because she calls herself he or they.
Of course, the “poll” was under the auspices of GLAAD, which tells you all you need to know. Completely untrustworthy.
Exactly, Ava. How about a candidate who "speaks about the necessity to protect homosexual youth from ideologically-motivated surgical castration?"
I get the challenge of putting this review together, and I'm thankful for it. Just try to make sure to either make it clear you're quoting the source or that you leave source editorializing out of it.
I'm looking at you CNN ... "saying, without evidence,"
I actually have a problem with the North Dakota judge saying Christian employers and healthcare workers do not have to perform certain surgeries due to their religious beliefs. I don't think that, if a surgery were life-saving, it would be a legitimate excuse for a healthcare worker to say "I don't have to do this because of my religion." What if, for example, someone refused to take care of a dangerous ectopic pregnancy where the fallopian tube was about to burst and endanger the mother's life on the grounds of religious belief? I think a healthcare worker has to take care of their patients' medical needs.
However, I do agree that no healthcare worker should have to perform purely cosmetic risky surgeries, particularly on young vulnerable people who are given misinformation about their necessity - on the grounds that performing such surgeries would violate their Hippocratic Oath.
It's important how we frame things. Right?
Agree with you completely.
Reading this, I can’t help but think of the title of Kate Atkinson’s book, “When Will There Be Good News?”
This year, I think it’s critically important to spend time contacting candidates for office and those in elected office with our concerns (ongoing applause for the Protect Our Kids initiative in California). I am of the view that Biden absolutely must win in November, and that the Democrats must take over Congress. I get that there are some here who don’t share this view, but for those who do, it is going to be really important to get through to the Democrats that they must revise the language of the Equality Act (along with the mini version New York State will have on the ballot this fall). The fix is straightforward for both. Here is the logic, and a resource, for anyone who wishes to pursue this with their elected and candidates:
Issue: If the federal Equality Act passes as currently written, gender identity (self-identification) will supersede sex for all formerly sex-based rights, without exception.
Proposed Democratic Position: Rather than, as now proposed, redefining sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity (self-identification), amend the Equality Act to protect sexual orientation and gender identity as two new, separate protected classes, alongside sex and other existing protected categories.
Resource: “Sex, Gender, and Equality in the United States: Confusion, Conflict, and Consequences,” by Callie H. Burt, in Sex and Gender, A Contemporary Reader.
You are wasting your breath with the Dems. They are all in on gender ideology and do not care that it is in direct conflict with women’s rights. They are in full support of policies that result in girls being forced to change in locker rooms with male onlookers without their consent. They are putting violent men in women’s prisons despite nearly 90% of incarcerated women being survivors of sexual assault according to the Vera Institute. These aren’t things they don’t know about unless one more constituent writes a letter. They know, but they care more about keeping campaign money from groups pushing gender ideology like the ACLU, HRC, etc. They live in fear of being targeted by groups like that.
Meanwhile, when Trump came into office he shelved the Obama rule putting men in women’s federal prisons. Biden restored it almost immediately after his inauguration. If this doesn’t affect you because you and everyone in your life isn’t a women in prison, then choosing to support Dems is an admission of privilege, and having the choice to throw those women under the bus because Trump can be crass. I was a Biden voter, an Obama voter x2. Realizing Trump did something good was incredibly hard to admit, but condemning vulnerable women without a choice to be locked up with men is a cruelty and can’t support.
The Democrats are no friends of women. Blue states are pushing referendums on abortion to drive turnout. It works. Bad news for them is that when enough blue states enshrine abortion rights into state law it will mean Dems can’t hold it over our heads to make us vote for politicians who pretend not to know the difference between the sexes.
You are free to have your opinion, which I made clear, but to state that choosing to support Dems is an admission of privilege is completely out of line. Indeed, one of the things I believe it is incumbent upon those of us who are Dems is to push them on precisely the kinds of issues you raise here, as it is the most vulnerable among us who are on the front lines of the horrible impacts of gender ideology. I have done and continue to do so and I encourage others to do so. In one instance, I sent out an alarm to 90 people I know, alerting them to a D sponsored piece of legislation that would allow men in my state to be housed with women. I cited existing cases, including that of imprisoned women who have been sexually assaulted by self-ID men housed with them. I have lost friends over this, but I remain firm in my commitment to women and children, and particularly those who are most vulnerable.
It will break through to the main stream. The WPATH Files dovetails with the malpractice cases of Chloe Cole and others. I suggest these cases are delayed for political reasons. There is no such thing as true trans. Men like my ex, Neddy, will have to adjust to that fact. They were running away from trauma, grief and stereotypes. Blanchard and his ilk were running after fame and fortune. Stop fawning after them. Start listening to trans widows. transwidowsvoices.org, as well as my early analysis of WPATH Files:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9txiuvJ3M4&t=11s
Excellent article from Hannah Barnes in the Guardian Observer on the WPath files: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/09/disturbing-leaks-from-us-gender-group-wpath-ring-alarm-bells-in-nhs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The WPath files have hit WaPo. Very good piece: https://web.archive.org/web/20240308222014/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/08/transgender-medicine-report-evidence/
WPATH is trash. That's all you have to understand.
Hi Lisa, the link to the Swedish Systematic Review editiorial seems not to be working. Thanks.
Sorry about that! I'm doing this in my car during alternate side parking. Fixed the link and here it is: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apa.17189
Great, thank you.
Re: Letitia James. I hope the Nassau administrator’s lawsuit is successful, because the pussyhat wearing women suffering from TDS who cheer on James need to see that their side is pushing policies that are in conflict with what women have achieved with Title IX.
The GLAAD poll mentioned — if you look at the PDF — is of ppl who identify themselves as “LGBTQ voters,” which heavily leans left. Many gays and lesbians I’ve met online who lean conservative might not respond to such a survey, however it was arranged, as that term has been politicized as letters were added to the acronym.
All of this to say: we shouldn’t be too chastened by its results, or infer that people should not be critical of the ways “trans” issues can be addressed by politicians.
They polled people who are being trained to see themselves as victims.
Ruby Corado, of Casa Ruby in Washington DC, embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I would like to make a Victim Impact Statement after her criminal trial. Is there any lawyer or organization on this list that can help me do that? My psychologically fragile and vulnerable child was sent to Casa Ruby by city officials. I had reported my child missing. The police lied to me, stating they didn't know where my child was, when in fact my child was being harbored by a criminal (Ruby) in a building that was not up to residential code and among adults, where alcohol,, drugs and prostitution were known to be present. The city had, it seems, warning that Ruby was a criminal but kept the funding stream open and also referred my fragile and vulnerable 19 year old to live with this criminal.
Does anyone know what lawyer or law firm would represent me in making a victim impact statement or more?
On the weekly briefing front, Lisa: perhaps you knew this, or maybe it’s new, but Leor Sapir has one, and it looks quite good. So maybe, to give your self more time for your writing, broadview in brief could be retired? https://mailchi.mp/manhattan.institute/recent-gender-legislation-developments-and-challenges-990132
I'm not sure what other people think "multiple personality disorder" means, but it has been a useful concept for me and for several people I've known, and helped others understand us. Please, Lisa, don't dismiss it as a joke.
From my Fedi bio:
"The kids I grew up with knew I was "different", but my parents and school insisted I was normal. Now I've explored #Autism #Prosopagnosia #Alexithymia and #Aphantasia and have an idea what was going on, but then I thought everyone saw the world like I did, just coped better. I coped by becoming a #PluralSystem by age three when I realized my girl self would have to be hidden. After six "guy" IDs, I'm now back being that girl. Still running the system, but with more E and less T..."
Mens Rights Forever.
right?
The left is no different from the right in this regard: Men's rights are ALWAYS more important that women's rights, and women should just shut up and do what they're told. Everything in the universe is angled toward the most powerful force in the world, according to Helen Joyce: The power and desire of the boner.
So true. We should remember how the "left" was truly vicious toward the 1970s feminists.
Well let's see...how did feminism come to pass? Black civil rights and white liberal social movements treated women as coffee-schleppers and dick servicers. Black feminists realized white feminists were too much of a pain in the ass to deal with and lesbians realized that het women were too much of a PITA as well...and so were gay men, who tended to mansplain and monopolize the conversation. La plus ca change...