Thanks JL, for your sterling and depressing work. This has been a bad week. Again. But the David Bell interview in the Observer is superb, well worth a read. I'm surprised it was even published, tbh. Maybe the tide is turning, just a little? Here's a quote:
[Bell] had long believed a case would be brought against the trust, though he thought the most likely scenario was that a former patient would sue for damages (Keira Bell instigated a judicial review). “It was inevitable,” he says. “I warned the trust of this.” But the Keira Bell judgment has done little to alleviate his concerns. Whatever the outcome of the appeal, he believes more questions must be asked, particularly about the rise in the number of girls presenting at the clinic (three-quarters of patients are now girls; the gender balance used to be closer to 50:50). “We do not know why this is happening.” He worries that too much emphasis is placed on gender and not enough on sexuality – “the children are often gay” – and he continues to be anxious about co-morbidities such as anorexia, autism and history of trauma in its patients. “Some of the children are depressed. It’s said that it’s their gender that is the cause of this, but how do we know? And why don’t we try to treat that first?”
Even at my advanced age I spent a whole year fighting suicide, having to intellectualize my own survival cause I was emotionally completely destroyed. How does a 14 year old survive something so overwhelmingly hideous, sick and disgusting as being recorded and put on porn sites or giving nudes to a boy and having them passed around her school. Daisy Coleman, who eventually took her own life, talked about seeing a girl in her school wearing a t-shirt with one of the rapists' names saying Daisy-0, rapist-1 on it. Girls are being psychologically lynched on a daily basis thanks to the rape culture they live in and these porn tube sites. No wonder so many of them are exiting femaleness. I would too.
I think part of that Frank Furedi quote is bananas though: “the age-old historical distinction between a man and a woman.” In the same vein, we might talk about “the age-old historical distinction between the sea and the sky.”
I read the full article about policing of micro aggressions at the university (still hilarious to me because how do you even get through life this way? Women’s lives are a minefield of constant micro aggressions, micro aggressions which trigger unpleasant stress and memories related to the macro aggressions- rape, medical sexism, DV, overt sexual harassment- we also experience, and somehow we manage to get on with it; furthermore, no one has ever responded as seriously to women’s requests to stop macro aggressions such as workplace sexual harassment as they have to these trans activists’ insane requests for people who aren’t trans-identifying not to talk about our own experiences with gender- it’s absolutely insane and not at all to scale with the level of harm), and of note was that it said that “avoidance of trans people” would also be considered a reportable micro aggression which could get you called in for re-education.
So now we’re not even allowed to *avoid* the eggshells? So we must interact, and interact nicely, in exactly the manner they want us to- or else?
It seemed to me that these “micro aggressions” are framed so that nobody can avoid infringing them somehow at some time. Which effectively hands the power of hiring and firing over to the most active of the activists.
Everybody likes a little power, no? Seems like careers will be made - as well as broken - by this.
it's what needs to happen. everyone everywhere needs to vote with our feet in every way that we possibly can. I feel for the people going through this at schools and universities. I honestly think every one with an education should just teach ESL or something like that. Get out get out get out.
I have reported the petition for Child Abuse: Children are being indoctrinated with Gender Identity Ideology despite the fact that there is no scientific evidence to support a separation of "sex in the mind" from biological sex. You get the drift.....
Just five hours later the "decision maker" at their "Help Centre" (help@change.org) politely rejected my report saying that it didn't infringe their community guidelines. I wrote back - and it went through! - saying:
Change.org should try to see the wider picture: petitions which (1) advocate sacking professionals who hold different views on matters of legitimate interest to the public and/or which (2) effectively advocate child abuse - promoting unethical and unscientific medical practices on children - are not the kind of petitions which Change.org should allow on their platform.
This petition should be removed.
Gender-critical activists will continue to flag up the utterly unscientific, dishonest and harmful beliefs of "gender identity" ideologists including, but not confined to, trans activists.
Change.org will eventually understand why these petitions are very harmful.
Una-Jane Winfield"
Please keep reporting - the penny will drop eventually.
Bloody hell. Really. I was such a creep at school, and I still don't walk on the grass. It has been a long old journey realising that I should not always respect authority. Yet that 13 year old girl is demanding that adults lose their jobs, livelihoods and reputations. What a moron - a gender neutral insult.
Children with little life experience cannot see that they are being used. I am reminded of the Chinese cultural revolution in which young people enforced the party line in the most brutal ways.
agree. When did adults forget how to tell these little twerps to sit down and shut up? They were plenty capable of that when I was in school. This whole generation of kids has got WAY too much social power due to social media, ready to ruin their own lives and everyone else's. Kids don't need to have guns, get tattoos, have sex, change their genitalia surgically, or whatever...they can't vote, can't enlist, can't work, can't drive, or do many of these things at 14 cause THEY ARE FREAKING IDIOTS at that age, something people didn't used to question.
They are freaking idiots empowering sexual predators who are grooming them six ways to sunday. Twitter and facebook have to die. Sorry but that's the truth. Centralized social media platforms caused this nightmare. They have to be regulated and made so unappealing (to where people can only post under their birth name proven with gov't ID and biometric data, with most information being completely invisible to kids under 18) that no one wants to post on them anyway, sexual predators are not posting alongside kids, and the predators go crawling back inside their holes in the deep web which is the only place online the FBI is interested in policing anyway. The brain development disadvantaged, i.e. moronic adolescents, do not need to be dictating their own damn lives, or really, dictating anything at all.
They've done enough damage...part of the misery of this situation is knowing that in five or ten years every talk show will have panels of them slinging snot about how they were led into ruining their lives and 'no one protected them' meanwhile they've ruined so many lives and caused so many to be fired, run offline, tormented, harassed, doxxed, etc, that it's insane. I'm doing all I can do to stop this trainwreck in terms of contacting those in power, but I won't be around for the whining and snot slinging that's inevitable, I'm checking out at that point. I save my correspondence and note my phone calls to politicians, professors, journalists etc, I might just throw that online and be like here's what we did, the people you tried your level best to ruin, the ones who persecuted whilst you were flailing off the cliff with all the other pubescent lemmings, led by the pied perverts of predation on reddit and elsewhere, you sniveling idiots. (no bitterness here...lol)
It seems Anderton Park was not teaching the No Outsiders programme it was a more general LGB content about children having two mums or dads.The nearby Parkfield school did teach No Outsiders. A lot of the protesters outside Anderton Park were just plain homophobic.
Hi Ian. Andrew Moffat who designed No Outsiders was deputy head at Parkfield so it was the "home" of the programme, so to speak. I've read several reports from the time which suggest that Anderton Park's curriculum was the same as No Outsiders, certainly according to the parents, and that kids were being taught about gender woo as well as LGB relationships.
This BBC article, for e.g., mentions Anderton Park's curriculum being the same as the No Outsiders programme. (As does a Pink News piece but I'm not linking to that rag!)
I'm sure some of the protesters were homophobic, sadly. But isn't this exactly the problem of eliding gender identity ideology with sexuality? Kids can miss out on vital education about LGB issues.
In French the name Thomas Lecaque, Literally, means "Dick Shit". I bet he wears a blue and gold striped blazer and is so against 21st century thinking that he owns a barge pulled by horses and rides into town on a penny farthing so he can have a pint while telling the barman his son is a dickhead for not wearing a dress
Jesus it's all so relentless and utterly depressing.
Sorry! But remember I only report the bad news!
My head hurts with it all.
Thanks, JL for keeping us up to date!
I'd say it's my pleasure but... you know what I mean!
Thanks JL, for your sterling and depressing work. This has been a bad week. Again. But the David Bell interview in the Observer is superb, well worth a read. I'm surprised it was even published, tbh. Maybe the tide is turning, just a little? Here's a quote:
[Bell] had long believed a case would be brought against the trust, though he thought the most likely scenario was that a former patient would sue for damages (Keira Bell instigated a judicial review). “It was inevitable,” he says. “I warned the trust of this.” But the Keira Bell judgment has done little to alleviate his concerns. Whatever the outcome of the appeal, he believes more questions must be asked, particularly about the rise in the number of girls presenting at the clinic (three-quarters of patients are now girls; the gender balance used to be closer to 50:50). “We do not know why this is happening.” He worries that too much emphasis is placed on gender and not enough on sexuality – “the children are often gay” – and he continues to be anxious about co-morbidities such as anorexia, autism and history of trauma in its patients. “Some of the children are depressed. It’s said that it’s their gender that is the cause of this, but how do we know? And why don’t we try to treat that first?”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/02/tavistock-trust-whistleblower-david-bell-transgender-children-gids
Yes, such a powerful interview. I hope lots of people read & share it.
it's happening because these girls are growing up in literal rape culture, cyber rape to be more specific. I didn't understand it til it happened to me and I was 51 when I was webcam spied and filmed. I'm a survivor of multiple rapes and this is inducing the trauma of rape without the physical contact. Look how the suicide rate of young girls has jumped three-fold in the last 15 years. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2019/05/20/suicide-rates-sharply-increase-among-young-girls-study-finds/?sh=24aa1b266b20
Even at my advanced age I spent a whole year fighting suicide, having to intellectualize my own survival cause I was emotionally completely destroyed. How does a 14 year old survive something so overwhelmingly hideous, sick and disgusting as being recorded and put on porn sites or giving nudes to a boy and having them passed around her school. Daisy Coleman, who eventually took her own life, talked about seeing a girl in her school wearing a t-shirt with one of the rapists' names saying Daisy-0, rapist-1 on it. Girls are being psychologically lynched on a daily basis thanks to the rape culture they live in and these porn tube sites. No wonder so many of them are exiting femaleness. I would too.
Thanks JL, another grim week.
I think part of that Frank Furedi quote is bananas though: “the age-old historical distinction between a man and a woman.” In the same vein, we might talk about “the age-old historical distinction between the sea and the sky.”
Thanks, Rick!
I read the full article about policing of micro aggressions at the university (still hilarious to me because how do you even get through life this way? Women’s lives are a minefield of constant micro aggressions, micro aggressions which trigger unpleasant stress and memories related to the macro aggressions- rape, medical sexism, DV, overt sexual harassment- we also experience, and somehow we manage to get on with it; furthermore, no one has ever responded as seriously to women’s requests to stop macro aggressions such as workplace sexual harassment as they have to these trans activists’ insane requests for people who aren’t trans-identifying not to talk about our own experiences with gender- it’s absolutely insane and not at all to scale with the level of harm), and of note was that it said that “avoidance of trans people” would also be considered a reportable micro aggression which could get you called in for re-education.
So now we’re not even allowed to *avoid* the eggshells? So we must interact, and interact nicely, in exactly the manner they want us to- or else?
Quite!
It seemed to me that these “micro aggressions” are framed so that nobody can avoid infringing them somehow at some time. Which effectively hands the power of hiring and firing over to the most active of the activists.
Everybody likes a little power, no? Seems like careers will be made - as well as broken - by this.
it's what needs to happen. everyone everywhere needs to vote with our feet in every way that we possibly can. I feel for the people going through this at schools and universities. I honestly think every one with an education should just teach ESL or something like that. Get out get out get out.
I have reported the petition for Child Abuse: Children are being indoctrinated with Gender Identity Ideology despite the fact that there is no scientific evidence to support a separation of "sex in the mind" from biological sex. You get the drift.....
Great idea!
Just five hours later the "decision maker" at their "Help Centre" (help@change.org) politely rejected my report saying that it didn't infringe their community guidelines. I wrote back - and it went through! - saying:
"The petition in question is : https://www.change.org/p/grants-pass-school-district-7-permanently-remove-katie-medart-and-rachel-damiano-from-gp-district-7-staff
Change.org should try to see the wider picture: petitions which (1) advocate sacking professionals who hold different views on matters of legitimate interest to the public and/or which (2) effectively advocate child abuse - promoting unethical and unscientific medical practices on children - are not the kind of petitions which Change.org should allow on their platform.
This petition should be removed.
Gender-critical activists will continue to flag up the utterly unscientific, dishonest and harmful beliefs of "gender identity" ideologists including, but not confined to, trans activists.
Change.org will eventually understand why these petitions are very harmful.
Una-Jane Winfield"
Please keep reporting - the penny will drop eventually.
Next Tuesday Jolyon Maugham QC of the Good Law Project (yes, the same Jolyon Maugham) has organised a webinar on avoiding being sued for libel. I am glad to say that I am not an expert, so I intend to attend this, which might be of interest to all of us trying to get under the skin of our deluded opponents. See https://action.goodlawproject.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=9d9bd19a0d75c634 and https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/defamation-law-for-activists-a-guide-to-speaking-truth-to-power-tickets-153059157059
that's a great idea
Bloody hell. Really. I was such a creep at school, and I still don't walk on the grass. It has been a long old journey realising that I should not always respect authority. Yet that 13 year old girl is demanding that adults lose their jobs, livelihoods and reputations. What a moron - a gender neutral insult.
Children with little life experience cannot see that they are being used. I am reminded of the Chinese cultural revolution in which young people enforced the party line in the most brutal ways.
It is chilling, and fascinating.
only if you are watching it on tv.
agree. When did adults forget how to tell these little twerps to sit down and shut up? They were plenty capable of that when I was in school. This whole generation of kids has got WAY too much social power due to social media, ready to ruin their own lives and everyone else's. Kids don't need to have guns, get tattoos, have sex, change their genitalia surgically, or whatever...they can't vote, can't enlist, can't work, can't drive, or do many of these things at 14 cause THEY ARE FREAKING IDIOTS at that age, something people didn't used to question.
They are freaking idiots empowering sexual predators who are grooming them six ways to sunday. Twitter and facebook have to die. Sorry but that's the truth. Centralized social media platforms caused this nightmare. They have to be regulated and made so unappealing (to where people can only post under their birth name proven with gov't ID and biometric data, with most information being completely invisible to kids under 18) that no one wants to post on them anyway, sexual predators are not posting alongside kids, and the predators go crawling back inside their holes in the deep web which is the only place online the FBI is interested in policing anyway. The brain development disadvantaged, i.e. moronic adolescents, do not need to be dictating their own damn lives, or really, dictating anything at all.
They've done enough damage...part of the misery of this situation is knowing that in five or ten years every talk show will have panels of them slinging snot about how they were led into ruining their lives and 'no one protected them' meanwhile they've ruined so many lives and caused so many to be fired, run offline, tormented, harassed, doxxed, etc, that it's insane. I'm doing all I can do to stop this trainwreck in terms of contacting those in power, but I won't be around for the whining and snot slinging that's inevitable, I'm checking out at that point. I save my correspondence and note my phone calls to politicians, professors, journalists etc, I might just throw that online and be like here's what we did, the people you tried your level best to ruin, the ones who persecuted whilst you were flailing off the cliff with all the other pubescent lemmings, led by the pied perverts of predation on reddit and elsewhere, you sniveling idiots. (no bitterness here...lol)
Ian Hjust now
It seems Anderton Park was not teaching the No Outsiders programme it was a more general LGB content about children having two mums or dads.The nearby Parkfield school did teach No Outsiders. A lot of the protesters outside Anderton Park were just plain homophobic.
Hi Ian. Andrew Moffat who designed No Outsiders was deputy head at Parkfield so it was the "home" of the programme, so to speak. I've read several reports from the time which suggest that Anderton Park's curriculum was the same as No Outsiders, certainly according to the parents, and that kids were being taught about gender woo as well as LGB relationships.
This BBC article, for e.g., mentions Anderton Park's curriculum being the same as the No Outsiders programme. (As does a Pink News piece but I'm not linking to that rag!)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-48382358.amp
And this piece from the Guardian talks about the pupils being taught that "Boys can be girls".
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/21/birmingham-anderton-park-primary-school-row-parents-teachers-demonstrators
I'm sure some of the protesters were homophobic, sadly. But isn't this exactly the problem of eliding gender identity ideology with sexuality? Kids can miss out on vital education about LGB issues.
In French the name Thomas Lecaque, Literally, means "Dick Shit". I bet he wears a blue and gold striped blazer and is so against 21st century thinking that he owns a barge pulled by horses and rides into town on a penny farthing so he can have a pint while telling the barman his son is a dickhead for not wearing a dress