It might just be because the NHS banned medical and affirmative gender treatments so people are choosing to go private or travel out of the country to get it instead
I think the fad wearing off - a lot of teenagers are taking the piss out of it now so it doesn't seem as 'stunning and brave' to those vulnerable to the contagion.
More importantly, I think more parents are becoming aware of the facts - their child is caught up in a social contagion, they will most likely grow out of it, 'social transitioning' is a gateway to medical and surgical measures, Mermaids and the gender clinics are zealots and indoctrinators etc.
Idk. Has there been any recent surveys saying less young people are actually identifying as trans? Because it can't be wearing off too much as long as trans identification isn't decreasing.
I'd also like someone to do a study to see if demand for treatments has increased outside of the NHS or if it's only down at the NHS, just to make sure it's not only down there due to their ban.
This is one aspect of this Trojan horse - definitions are so vague, data so sketchy that in essence who knows. I'm sure that robust source of research Pink News has completed some excellent 'survey' to 'prove' whatever they want. That's why we saw such alarming '000% increases for a poorly defined non-medical something essence of a feeling that became an instinctive pathway to medicalisation and lifelong damage. Over some time period. It's been remarkable work by a few to tie these things down and find out what's actually been happening and piece all this together under fire. Then having grasped that, with the proof, then stopping it. Then finding out services and schools are still wanting and being advised to push whatever 'this' is despite the evidence of harm stacking up.
All the words we use here are ill-defined - by their deliberate intent - what is 'identifying', what does that entail, for what purposes, what is 'treatment' and again, what does that entail. And then how to access what and where (NHS or private &/or online access). And who is dispensing 'care' (what care), and why. Who pays. With what follow-up or after care, or 'care'. It's like some 16th Century guessing at epidemiology with too many vested interests screaming that we don't need clean water, it's kids' 'right' to poison themselves.
That's a fair point. We definitely need to improve the wording in surveys as well as follow up care and the other things you mentioned. But even then, there could still be other nuances that could skew the results of a survey in favor of whoever is conducting it.
And there's going to be a long lead time as well to clear this. Hopefully the younger children coming through the system will be given the opportunity to lose interest / receive effective therapy and become part of the vast majority who desist.
But it's more important than ever (especially with Labour forming the new government) to keep up the pressure on schools etc. What is going to happen to the new guidance on gender confused children and the new RSE guidelines?
We all need to be fast off the starting blocks with the new government and not let them drop these things.
Great news, thanks JL, apart from the bloody IOC 🤬 Will there be a channel prepared to tell the truth? I was hoping that the olympics would be a chance to highlight cheating males.
Unfortunately it seems that the IOC like so many international organisations is still heavily captured. I hope that the female athletes will take matters into their own hands by boycotting any event where cheating men are competing.
I doubt it since it’s a once in a lifetime chance for them but let’s hope they make some kind of protest such as holding up a sign saying adult human female/ not a cheater.
There’d have to be a mass movement to have an affect and I can’t see that happening. I’m just hoping that these cheats will be obvious enough to peak people and that there are some protests.
It is disappointing to learn that there will be males in the women's events at the Olympics. I hope that all the journalists will correctly identify them, in opposition to their instructions from the IOC.
I would caution getting too excited about gender treatment referrals for kids being down until we have more info on why. There's a good chance that it's only down because the NHS banned medical and affirmative gender treatments so people could just be either turning to private providers or traveling out of the country to get it instead. Someone should do a study to see if demand has increased outside of the NHS or if it's down in other places too.
With regard to the 'Glimmer of hope', Graham is a grown man and can speak to who he likes, but Joey Barton as far as I'm concerned is a misogynist and no friend to women.
The Joey Barton interview appears to be behind a firewall and I am not funding a bellend like Barton, (nothing personal, Joey). However, "no-platforming" him would be like bringing us back to the dark-ages like when a wannabe firebrand, ill informed, student refused to "share a platform" with Germaine Greer during a debate about feminism... at a University!
A Lake Oswego [Oregon] High School coach says he has been fired from his position over allegations that he antagonized a transgender student-athlete who competed in Oregon’s track and field state championships and rallied coaches and families to protest her participation.
John Parks, who was cross country and track and field coach at Lake Oswego High, reached out to Oregon media outlets on Monday, stating that he had been dismissed after the school district conducted an investigation that was started by a formal complaint sent in by Portland Public Schools Athletic Director Marshall Haskins.
“The basic cause of my dismissal is fighting for females right to compete in sports fairly,” Parks wrote in an email. “I know you are fully aware of the debates on this issue and let me say I had 2 transgender athletes on my team this spring and I support them like all other athletes and only seek a solution that is a win for all as we don’t need any athletes subjected to what happened last month. Instead of a fair and measured investigation I was a victim of my passion for coaching, helping female athletes.”
The dismissal comes just weeks after a transgender girl athlete competed in the Oregon high school state track and field championships, finishing second in the 400-meter dash and winning the 200. Although the athlete was in compliance with OSAA rules, the results became a flashpoint in the debate over transgender athletes’ rights in Oregon and elsewhere.
According to Kristin Binkley, Parks’ attorney, the reason that Parks was given for his dismissal was a violation of school district policy when he sent a letter to the OSAA on May 15 (days before the state championship meet) asking that the state association change its rules, which allow transgender student-athletes to compete in the activity that aligns with their gender identity.
In his letter, Parks notes that the transgender student-athlete was favored to win the 200-meter dash in Class 6A (which she did) and would be strong competition for the 400-meter dash (which was being defended by a two-time state champion who currently holds the state record in the event and was coached by Parks).
Parks added that, based on her current trajectory, the transgender student-athlete would be on pace to break the state records in the 200 and 400 in the coming years since she was just a sophomore in the 2024 season.
“Allowing this travesty to be carried out is making a complete mockery of the meet this weekend and in the future until the rules are altered to protect natural born females,” he wrote in the letter to the OSAA.
The Oregonian/OregonLive is not naming the student-athlete to protect her privacy.
Parks’ letter to the OSAA asked that the OSAA create an “open” category that put transgender student athletes in a separate competition in the state meet, similar to the way the OSAA runs competitions for athletes with disabilities.
“The OSAA already has state meet events for para athletes in wheelchair and Unified competition. The solution to trans athletes is to have an open category like a gender neutral bathroom,” Parks wrote. “Allows competition opportunities but doesn’t make a mockery of the reason females compete in their own category.”
Parks also cited that USA Track & Field requires transgender athletes complete certain benchmarks before competing against opponents that match their gender identity. The World Athletics Council does not allow transgender women to compete in women’s events.
The OSAA’s policy is created through the guidelines that are set by the Oregon Department of Education and the federal government. The policies are made by the OSAA’s executive board, which includes representatives from Oregon schools around the state.
Parks and Binkley both claimed that Parks’ letter to the OSAA had the approval of Lake Oswego Athletic Director Chris Coleman even though it was cited among the reasons for his dismissal. Coleman did not respond to a request for inquiry from The Oregonian/OregonLive. A Lake Oswego School District representative stated that coaches are hired on one-year contracts and the district would not comment on a personnel matter.
Complaint from Portland Public Schools
Haskins sent a letter to the Lake Oswego School District and Salem-Keizer School District, where Parks said he last taught during the 2022-23 school year, on May 24 claiming that Parks made the Portland transgender student-athlete feel “unwelcome and discriminated against” throughout the spring.
“I was appalled, disappointed and embarrassed for Lake Oswego and Salem Keizer School districts because of the behavior of one of your employees,” Haskins’ email to the school districts reads.
The athlete attends McDaniel High School, which is part of Portland Public Schools. It is not clear how Haskins heard about the remarks or Parks’ advocacy.
Haskins claimed that Parks contacted other coaches and parents from around the state, asking them to reach out to the OSAA demanding they bar the transgender athlete from the female competition. He also asked coaches to boycott the medal presentations, Haskins said.
The letter from Haskins also claims that Parks was contacting families and student-athletes before the state meet “forcing them to participate in his personal agenda.” Haskins also claimed that Parks was “riling up” tournament spectators who booed and jeered at the state meet as the transgender athlete competed and received her medals. In a follow-up message sent to The Oregonian/OregonLive, Parks denied this claim.
Haskins alleged that Parks spoke negatively with the transgender student-athlete during her medal presentation.
A person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Oregonian/OregonLive that Parks’ remark to the student athlete was: “It will never be a fair race if you’re in it.”
The Oregonian/OregonLive was not able to verify with the athlete Tuesday about what was said during the presentation. Parks denied that this is what was said.
Parks said that the investigation from Lake Oswego School District found Haskins’ letter to the district to be “hearsay and erroneous.”
Parks has been the head track and field coach at Lake Oswego High School since the 2022-23 school year. The Lakers’ girls team has won the state championship (or tied for first) for three consecutive seasons.
Parks has been a sprints coach at the professional and Olympic level for 20 years even prior to working at Lake Oswego. He coached previously at Auburn, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Oregon State (both in football and in track and field), Portland State and Willamette University.
Portland is the home of biden/child mutilated/cheats. It's a disgrace that a cheating male is allowed into girls sports. Shame on the school district, state reps, sports bodies for allowing cheating in sports. SHAME
I can’t stand that bloody awful Progress Pride flag nor the way that gay men and women who have supported Pride for decades are being bullied and sidelined because they refuse to accept opposite sex partners. God help us all if trans-id men and women’s ‘feelings’ are prioritised over those of LGB people.
Whilst I continue to support your fantastic work. I think Graham has made a misstep appearing on Joey Barton’s podcast. He is a misogynistic bully who treats females with contempt and has a history of violence on and off the football pitch Only this week has had to issue a public apology and pay substantial damages to Jeremy Vine for appalling slurs it does the cause no good being associated with him
As soon as the issue becomes too high profile, that issue is dealt with. Case in point Lia Thomas. Walk down the street in UK or Ireland ask who Lia Thomas is, guarantee small % will know. So in a perverse way its a pity Lia Thomas isn't in the Olympics as a woman. Olympics is the high profile magnification the general public needs to highlight this gender madness
No, Thomas can not be allowed to continue his cheating. And people in the UK and Ireland are actually aware of Thomas and his cheating. And it's getting more and more well known
Really happy to read gender treatment for kids is down so sharply. Maybe the madness is turning to sanity.
It might just be because the NHS banned medical and affirmative gender treatments so people are choosing to go private or travel out of the country to get it instead
I think the fad wearing off - a lot of teenagers are taking the piss out of it now so it doesn't seem as 'stunning and brave' to those vulnerable to the contagion.
More importantly, I think more parents are becoming aware of the facts - their child is caught up in a social contagion, they will most likely grow out of it, 'social transitioning' is a gateway to medical and surgical measures, Mermaids and the gender clinics are zealots and indoctrinators etc.
Idk. Has there been any recent surveys saying less young people are actually identifying as trans? Because it can't be wearing off too much as long as trans identification isn't decreasing.
I'd also like someone to do a study to see if demand for treatments has increased outside of the NHS or if it's only down at the NHS, just to make sure it's not only down there due to their ban.
This is one aspect of this Trojan horse - definitions are so vague, data so sketchy that in essence who knows. I'm sure that robust source of research Pink News has completed some excellent 'survey' to 'prove' whatever they want. That's why we saw such alarming '000% increases for a poorly defined non-medical something essence of a feeling that became an instinctive pathway to medicalisation and lifelong damage. Over some time period. It's been remarkable work by a few to tie these things down and find out what's actually been happening and piece all this together under fire. Then having grasped that, with the proof, then stopping it. Then finding out services and schools are still wanting and being advised to push whatever 'this' is despite the evidence of harm stacking up.
All the words we use here are ill-defined - by their deliberate intent - what is 'identifying', what does that entail, for what purposes, what is 'treatment' and again, what does that entail. And then how to access what and where (NHS or private &/or online access). And who is dispensing 'care' (what care), and why. Who pays. With what follow-up or after care, or 'care'. It's like some 16th Century guessing at epidemiology with too many vested interests screaming that we don't need clean water, it's kids' 'right' to poison themselves.
That's a fair point. We definitely need to improve the wording in surveys as well as follow up care and the other things you mentioned. But even then, there could still be other nuances that could skew the results of a survey in favor of whoever is conducting it.
Anecdotal evidence only I'm afraid.
And there's going to be a long lead time as well to clear this. Hopefully the younger children coming through the system will be given the opportunity to lose interest / receive effective therapy and become part of the vast majority who desist.
But it's more important than ever (especially with Labour forming the new government) to keep up the pressure on schools etc. What is going to happen to the new guidance on gender confused children and the new RSE guidelines?
We all need to be fast off the starting blocks with the new government and not let them drop these things.
Great news, thanks JL, apart from the bloody IOC 🤬 Will there be a channel prepared to tell the truth? I was hoping that the olympics would be a chance to highlight cheating males.
Love the top picture and the bears.
😁
Unfortunately it seems that the IOC like so many international organisations is still heavily captured. I hope that the female athletes will take matters into their own hands by boycotting any event where cheating men are competing.
I doubt it since it’s a once in a lifetime chance for them but let’s hope they make some kind of protest such as holding up a sign saying adult human female/ not a cheater.
Maybe people should boycott watching the olympics?
I am. (But then I always do. Athletics bores the arse off me!)
There’d have to be a mass movement to have an affect and I can’t see that happening. I’m just hoping that these cheats will be obvious enough to peak people and that there are some protests.
Yes that’s a good point
It is disappointing to learn that there will be males in the women's events at the Olympics. I hope that all the journalists will correctly identify them, in opposition to their instructions from the IOC.
Thanks for the good news, JL.
The pushback continues and Gays Against Groomers are great. Parents need GAG as much as gays and lesbians do.
Love the bears video.
😊
As always , thanks JL 🌹
😘
I would caution getting too excited about gender treatment referrals for kids being down until we have more info on why. There's a good chance that it's only down because the NHS banned medical and affirmative gender treatments so people could just be either turning to private providers or traveling out of the country to get it instead. Someone should do a study to see if demand has increased outside of the NHS or if it's down in other places too.
Another great edition JL!
With regard to the 'Glimmer of hope', Graham is a grown man and can speak to who he likes, but Joey Barton as far as I'm concerned is a misogynist and no friend to women.
The Joey Barton interview appears to be behind a firewall and I am not funding a bellend like Barton, (nothing personal, Joey). However, "no-platforming" him would be like bringing us back to the dark-ages like when a wannabe firebrand, ill informed, student refused to "share a platform" with Germaine Greer during a debate about feminism... at a University!
I don't believe in deplatforming. I was giving my opinion.
I am sorry, Lolly. I was wrong in inferring that you were of that opinion in my comment.
No worries Ian, have a good day.
It just wants me join ? Will I have to pay ?
I’m not paying for a knob we have enough of them for free , well not free at all !
I bloody confused myself with that comment !! 😂
I know nothing about him but the interview is good and he’s on our side on this issue.
Thanks as ever for the GNS, JL.
I recall that great graffiti!!!
Bernard Lane does great work.
Well done Gays Against Groomers. What a result!
There was a swarm of bees in our back garden this afternoon but I accept that this is eclipsed by bears in your paddling pool 😂
I am still plugging Terf Month on our substack: https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/you-aint-me
Dusty
A coach in my home state of Oregon has been fired for standing up for right of real females not to have to compete in female-only events against males who claim to be female. Here is the story as it appears in OregonLive/TheOregonian. https://www.oregonlive.com/highschoolsports/2024/06/lake-oswego-track-coach-dismissed-citing-portland-schools-complaint-of-his-response-to-transgender-athlete-inclusion.html
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A Lake Oswego [Oregon] High School coach says he has been fired from his position over allegations that he antagonized a transgender student-athlete who competed in Oregon’s track and field state championships and rallied coaches and families to protest her participation.
John Parks, who was cross country and track and field coach at Lake Oswego High, reached out to Oregon media outlets on Monday, stating that he had been dismissed after the school district conducted an investigation that was started by a formal complaint sent in by Portland Public Schools Athletic Director Marshall Haskins.
“The basic cause of my dismissal is fighting for females right to compete in sports fairly,” Parks wrote in an email. “I know you are fully aware of the debates on this issue and let me say I had 2 transgender athletes on my team this spring and I support them like all other athletes and only seek a solution that is a win for all as we don’t need any athletes subjected to what happened last month. Instead of a fair and measured investigation I was a victim of my passion for coaching, helping female athletes.”
The dismissal comes just weeks after a transgender girl athlete competed in the Oregon high school state track and field championships, finishing second in the 400-meter dash and winning the 200. Although the athlete was in compliance with OSAA rules, the results became a flashpoint in the debate over transgender athletes’ rights in Oregon and elsewhere.
According to Kristin Binkley, Parks’ attorney, the reason that Parks was given for his dismissal was a violation of school district policy when he sent a letter to the OSAA on May 15 (days before the state championship meet) asking that the state association change its rules, which allow transgender student-athletes to compete in the activity that aligns with their gender identity.
In his letter, Parks notes that the transgender student-athlete was favored to win the 200-meter dash in Class 6A (which she did) and would be strong competition for the 400-meter dash (which was being defended by a two-time state champion who currently holds the state record in the event and was coached by Parks).
Parks added that, based on her current trajectory, the transgender student-athlete would be on pace to break the state records in the 200 and 400 in the coming years since she was just a sophomore in the 2024 season.
“Allowing this travesty to be carried out is making a complete mockery of the meet this weekend and in the future until the rules are altered to protect natural born females,” he wrote in the letter to the OSAA.
The Oregonian/OregonLive is not naming the student-athlete to protect her privacy.
Parks’ letter to the OSAA asked that the OSAA create an “open” category that put transgender student athletes in a separate competition in the state meet, similar to the way the OSAA runs competitions for athletes with disabilities.
“The OSAA already has state meet events for para athletes in wheelchair and Unified competition. The solution to trans athletes is to have an open category like a gender neutral bathroom,” Parks wrote. “Allows competition opportunities but doesn’t make a mockery of the reason females compete in their own category.”
Parks also cited that USA Track & Field requires transgender athletes complete certain benchmarks before competing against opponents that match their gender identity. The World Athletics Council does not allow transgender women to compete in women’s events.
The OSAA’s policy is created through the guidelines that are set by the Oregon Department of Education and the federal government. The policies are made by the OSAA’s executive board, which includes representatives from Oregon schools around the state.
Parks and Binkley both claimed that Parks’ letter to the OSAA had the approval of Lake Oswego Athletic Director Chris Coleman even though it was cited among the reasons for his dismissal. Coleman did not respond to a request for inquiry from The Oregonian/OregonLive. A Lake Oswego School District representative stated that coaches are hired on one-year contracts and the district would not comment on a personnel matter.
Complaint from Portland Public Schools
Haskins sent a letter to the Lake Oswego School District and Salem-Keizer School District, where Parks said he last taught during the 2022-23 school year, on May 24 claiming that Parks made the Portland transgender student-athlete feel “unwelcome and discriminated against” throughout the spring.
“I was appalled, disappointed and embarrassed for Lake Oswego and Salem Keizer School districts because of the behavior of one of your employees,” Haskins’ email to the school districts reads.
The athlete attends McDaniel High School, which is part of Portland Public Schools. It is not clear how Haskins heard about the remarks or Parks’ advocacy.
Haskins claimed that Parks contacted other coaches and parents from around the state, asking them to reach out to the OSAA demanding they bar the transgender athlete from the female competition. He also asked coaches to boycott the medal presentations, Haskins said.
The letter from Haskins also claims that Parks was contacting families and student-athletes before the state meet “forcing them to participate in his personal agenda.” Haskins also claimed that Parks was “riling up” tournament spectators who booed and jeered at the state meet as the transgender athlete competed and received her medals. In a follow-up message sent to The Oregonian/OregonLive, Parks denied this claim.
Haskins alleged that Parks spoke negatively with the transgender student-athlete during her medal presentation.
A person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Oregonian/OregonLive that Parks’ remark to the student athlete was: “It will never be a fair race if you’re in it.”
The Oregonian/OregonLive was not able to verify with the athlete Tuesday about what was said during the presentation. Parks denied that this is what was said.
Parks said that the investigation from Lake Oswego School District found Haskins’ letter to the district to be “hearsay and erroneous.”
Parks has been the head track and field coach at Lake Oswego High School since the 2022-23 school year. The Lakers’ girls team has won the state championship (or tied for first) for three consecutive seasons.
Parks has been a sprints coach at the professional and Olympic level for 20 years even prior to working at Lake Oswego. He coached previously at Auburn, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Oregon State (both in football and in track and field), Portland State and Willamette University.
-- Nik Streng, nstreng@oregonian.com, @NikStreng
Portland is the home of biden/child mutilated/cheats. It's a disgrace that a cheating male is allowed into girls sports. Shame on the school district, state reps, sports bodies for allowing cheating in sports. SHAME
Thank you! Sadly, Joe Biden, like millions of well-intentioned liberals, has swallowed trans propaganda hook, line and sinker.
I can’t stand that bloody awful Progress Pride flag nor the way that gay men and women who have supported Pride for decades are being bullied and sidelined because they refuse to accept opposite sex partners. God help us all if trans-id men and women’s ‘feelings’ are prioritised over those of LGB people.
Whilst I continue to support your fantastic work. I think Graham has made a misstep appearing on Joey Barton’s podcast. He is a misogynistic bully who treats females with contempt and has a history of violence on and off the football pitch Only this week has had to issue a public apology and pay substantial damages to Jeremy Vine for appalling slurs it does the cause no good being associated with him
Wtf https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-does-sadiq-khan-support-this-trans-mastectomy-poster/
I agree with you
As soon as the issue becomes too high profile, that issue is dealt with. Case in point Lia Thomas. Walk down the street in UK or Ireland ask who Lia Thomas is, guarantee small % will know. So in a perverse way its a pity Lia Thomas isn't in the Olympics as a woman. Olympics is the high profile magnification the general public needs to highlight this gender madness
No, Thomas can not be allowed to continue his cheating. And people in the UK and Ireland are actually aware of Thomas and his cheating. And it's getting more and more well known