Transgenderism

Started by Aodhan, February 28, 2019, 07:34:52 PM

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Aodhan

I am a six foot twenty stone man and legally I could don a frock and use a ladies bathroom! How tragic for our wives, mothers, daughters and sisters! And to think that governments baulk at the level of sex crime in society

Josephine87

I understand the situation is far worse in the UK than elsewhere. I'm sorry for the women there. I'm curious to see how the Mohammedans will react when they become more powerful.
"Begin again." -St. Teresa of Avila

"My present trial seems to me a somewhat painful one, and I have the humiliation of knowing how badly I bore it at first. I now want to accept and to carry this little cross joyfully, to carry it silently, with a smile in my heart and on my lips, in union with the Cross of Christ. My God, blessed be Thou; accept from me each day the embarrassment, inconvenience, and pain this misery causes me. May it become a prayer and an act of reparation." -Elisabeth Leseur

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In the UK yesterday a transsexual by the name of Miranda Yardley was taken to court by a woman by the name of Helen Islan (who incidentally is a volunteer marketing officer for the trans charity "Mermaids") for alleged "transphobia". 

Let me just be absolutely clear here a transsexual was taken to court by a woman for "transphobia".  The woman taking the transsexual to court has a "trans-kid" and has a vested interest in pushing the narrative.  Thankfully the judge threw the case out of court.

The level of insanity is staggering - people getting police visits for retweeting biological facts, pensioners being harassed for stating the biological truth, it is getting so far out of hand it is beyond the pale.

This is a thread from a Scottish MP highlighting some of the main issues currently being discussed re census data:


Joan McAlpine
@JoanMcAlpine
2 days ago, 21 tweets, 7 min read  Read on Twitter

Thread: Re Sex and the Census. For many individuals identity is very personal and important and the 2021 census will allow those people to express a trans identity for the first time. All good so far...

But sex and identity are not the same thing and require separate questions. Biological sex is an important demographic variable needed to record & plan services and understand different population trends. @NatRecordsScot themselves say this

So the sex question should stay binary. Non binary people can express their identity in the trans question. Non binary people still have a physical sex. I note that non binary is listed as part of Stonewall's "trans umbrella". It's an identity.

Individual census returns remain confidential for 100 years. Many respondants might find other mandatory questions about illness, ethnicity & personal circumstances sensitive and difficult. But they answer them knowing their privacy is protected.

During evidence I asked @LGBTIScotland how @PippaBunce should answer the census sex question if they identified as woman one day and man the next. I was told they would be non binary. But Bunce still has a biological sex which would then not be recorded.

Recording birth sex is important to monitor sex discrimination and the Equality Act 2010. Women experience discrimination on the basis of biology, not how they identify (although trans people experience discrimination too, it is of a different type)

The census sets an important precedent. How can we defend the Equality Act, which clearly gives women protections based on biological sex, if we have said this definition of sex is irrelevant to our largest data gathering exercise?

Sex exemptions in the Equality Act are vital for privacy & dignity in shared spaces also "occupation exemptions" for jobs supporting vulnerable females. This matters as more men self ID as women while retaining male bodies and male genitals

Those pushing to change census sex question to an identity question ie @ScottishTrans and @stonewalluk told Westminster Women & Equality's Committee occupational/single sex exemptions in the Equality Act should be dropped. See here data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc...

These same groups are key government stakeholders. They receive significant government funding and shape equality policies, including those affecting women. They were consulted about these changes to sex question in census to the exclusion of anyone else

Some lesbian and gay folk I speak dont share this dismissal of biological sex - if you cannot define sex how can you define sexual orientation? @ons make similar point when they said keep census binary here assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl...

As does @Docstockk parliament.scot/S5_European/In...

Also people with Differences of Sexual Development were ignored in the census consultation which said "intersex" was same as trans. Vast majority are male or female, less than 1:5500 babies have difficult-to-determine sex - see here parliament.scot/S5_European/In...

There is a view among some DSD reps I spoke to that there is an attempt to misrepresent their conditions to push unscientific claims that "sex is a spectrum" & lots of folk are "intersex", itself a term which DSD Families say is confusing and unhelpful

Sex is binary. Using the 1 in 5500 babies to claim sex is a spectrum is like saying human beings dont have ten toes because some human beings are born with more than ten toes, or less.

Lastly I am disappointed with the "official" women's groups who have embraced concept of sex self ID, even though the GRA is unchanged and self ID has no legal weight. I was told these groups will not accept membership from women with different view.

They will not listen to concerns of many ordinary women in Scotland who fear that the definition of female is being replaced with a concept of "gender identity" based on 1950s sexist stereotypes. This is not a feminism I recognise.

mentions which receives significant government funding to represent women and girls didn't submit evidence for census bill until after deadline passed. It appeared is if they only intervened when the committee was challenging the self ID narrative...

It was left to newly formed, unfunded, female rights groups like @ForwomenScot -and academics like @GoonerProf @kathmurray1 - to articulate what many women are too scared to say. They were respectful of trans people and supported asking the trans question.

Despite this respectful approach, some suggest these women should not give evidence to parliament. That is worrying when you consider policy in this area has been subject to "capture" by a tiny number of stakeholders with similar views

Finally, You can read the @SP_European report here sp-bpr-en-prod-cdnep.azureedge.net/published/CTEE...

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This damning article was written this week by a former governer of the Tavistock and Portman clinic, he resigned following the publication of a report from one of the clinicians at the clinic- a clinic that gives children puberty blockers:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6762379/Former-governor-says-fears-hurrying-children-transgender-path.html


Vulnerable youngsters rushed into treatment. Staff too nervous to speak out: After resigning from controversial Tavistock gender clinic trust, a former governor says he fears we're hurrying children down a transgender path they may bitterly regret

For four decades, I have devoted my career to trying to understand people who are greatly distressed and confused.
As an adult psychotherapist, I deal with patients who may express their feelings in challenging ways.
But my role is to pay careful attention and to try to tune in to what isn't being said; the hidden aspects of a patient's story.
The key to achieving this is patience, time and slow-moving, dogged determination — words that aren't fashionable in a fast-paced world intent on quick fixes and budget cuts.
But it's my view that to try to treat vulnerable patients in any other way can be hugely damaging.
This is, in part, the reason I resigned from my post as governor of The Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust last week.
A leaked internal report had branded the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at The Tavistock Centre, England's only NHS youth gender clinic, 'not fit for purpose'.
The overwhelming feeling was that some children in its care were not being given enough time in their psychological assessment and treatment.
It goes without saying that the area of mental health — and particularly relating to gender dysphoria — is highly complex.
The service was accused of being too quick to give children and young people medical treatment (hormone-blocking drugs).
Treatment that has unknown far reaching consequences and that, without sufficient exploration as to the child's feelings and motives, can have devastating life long effects on their identity and development.
Although, following this first critical report, the Trust had subsequently commissioned its own review of the situation, I began to worry that this second report was being used to close down rather than open up the debate about the serious and sensitive clinical issues.
Adolescence and childhood is a time when people are developing socially and biologically; when young people are identifying with different groups, and with male and female aspects of themselves.
There is pressure from the child who is in a distressed state, there is pressure from the family and the peer group and from the pro-trans lobbies — and all of this puts pressure on the clinician, who may want to help the individual to resolve their distressed state by going along with a quick solution.
There is a great deal at stake here, as these decisions have long-term consequences.
I first witnessed some of these consequences 30 years ago, when running a parasuicide clinic in London. This was for adults who had attempted suicide without the intention of actually killing themselves: it was sometimes a cry for help.
People ended up there for a variety of reasons, but a number of patients had taken an overdose because they had undergone gender reassignment surgery and regretted it.
At the time, I was struck by the commonality of their feelings. There was often a profound disappointment that the surgery hadn't provided the solutions they'd hoped for.
As a result, there was much anger towards medical and psychiatric staff who, in their minds, had failed to examine in sufficient depth their reasons for wanting to change sex.
This is ultimately the issue being raised with The Tavistock: the concern being that children in its care aren't been given enough time with clinical professionals to explore their difficulties and reasons for what's driving them to believe they inhabit the wrong body. And the fear is they might end up like the patients I saw all those years ago.
I have a long association with The Tavistock, and I imagine former colleagues will accuse me of damaging the service and its reputation.
But I feel the Trust's tendency, in relation to this contentious issue, to close down debate is so unhelpful that it justified me leaving my role and speaking out.
Such an approach is worrying at any level in the NHS, but particularly in an area where we still know so little. After all, the figures of how many young people are seeking treatment are startling.
Over the past five years, the number of children referred to The Tavistock Centre has risen from 468 to 2,519 a year, a rise of more than 400 per cent.
Dr Polly Carmichael, director of the GIDS at The Tavistock, this week admitted that the centre was under pressure, although she insisted that the service has 'really long assessments over periods of time, with the specific aim of allowing young people to think about what is right for them'.
How that squares with the concerns raised by the internal report is beyond me.
In that report, its author Dr David Bell, then a staff governor, suggested the service was failing to fully consider psychological and social factors in a young person's background — such as whether they had been abused, suffered a bereavement or had autism — which might influence their decision to transition.
Staff had anonymously contacted him to say that some patients were going on to medical treatments after just a few hours of contact with clinical staff. Although this was later denied by the Trust.
The aim of this medication is to halt the growth of secondary sex characteristics such as breasts or facial hair — features that would cause the patient great distress.
I share the concerns about the fact the long-term side-effects of these powerful hormone-blocking drugs are, as yet, unknown.
Indeed, around the time the report was being compiled, I was contacted by a group of parents whose children had been assessed in the GID service. They, too, expressed concerns that their children were being rushed through to medical treatment without adequate evaluation and engagement.
The report also alleged that the clinic bowed to pressure from 'highly politicised' pro-trans lobby groups.
In fact, several of us in The Tavistock have long held concerns about the GID service.
I trained at The Tavistock in 1986 and was the first nurse appointed the following year. I worked as an adult psychotherapist for 20 years and I was also head of nursing and went on to become associate clinical director.
As a manager, I was on the clinic's committee more than ten years ago when concerns were first raised by members of staff within the GID unit that the assessments of patients weren't in-depth enough.
So it is a service that has long been mired in controversy. But there is a seeming reluctance to engage with this.
And when you have a service that fails to address the concerns of staff adequately — or makes them feel fearful of reporting what's actually occurring on the shop floor — you are in a disturbing situation.
Take this week's Panorama investigation into The Tavistock. What troubled me most about the programme was the number of staff who only felt they could speak about these issues anonymously, off the record.
This in itself suggests that being accused of being transphobic or having bigoted views is not just happening outside The Tavistock, it's happening inside it, too.
Why would so many concerned staff, who felt strongly enough to talk to the programme, refuse to be identified? It seems to me they felt their views wouldn't be welcomed.
One anonymous member of the service told Panorama: 'In the majority of cases, I was simply unsure how well things would work out for them in the future.'
Another anonymous contributor made the point that, counter to child development theory and knowledge, there is an emphasis less on helping a person psychologically, wherever possible, to cope with their bodies — and much more on changing their bodies as a way of improving their mental health.
Yet it is essential for a clinician to work with the young person and family over a long period to understand the developmental history, family dynamics and various peer group dynamics; after all, these make up the experiences that shape us.
Childhood and adolescence can stir up all sorts of doubts and conflicts. When these become overwhelming, they may push the child to focus on a fixed solution — one of which might be, 'I'm the wrong sex'.
This situation requires considerable experience and clinical maturity, as one needs to be able to empathise deeply with the individual's confusion, distress and mental pain.
Yet, at the same time, one needs to maintain adequate distance so that one resists the pressure to join them in their view that active medical (rather than psychological) intervention is the only solution.
A thorough assessment needs to include a full discussion (which may require many meetings) about the potential losses and costs, both emotional and physical, of medication and later surgery.
This process will likely incur resistance. The child or young adult and their family may feel this kind of engagement from the clinician is interfering or obstructive, cruel even.
But these patients need an independent clinical service that has the long-term interests of the patient at its heart.
To some extent, this involves a capacity to remain empathetic to the child's distress, but to also stand up to pressure coming from various sources: from the young person, their family, peer groups, online/social networking pressures and, of course, from pro trans groups.
And, crucially, at the heart of any clinical service must be the knowledge that the medication it prescribes its patients is safe. I cannot think of one other area of medicine where it would be permissible to use so extensively medication whose long-term effects are unknown. But there are emerging concerns.
In the Panorama programme, Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, talked about the lack of clinical evidence about these drugs, stating that we cannot make an informed decision about the long-term benefit or cost of treatment.
Dr Carmichael, GIDS director and consultant clinical psychologist, may have claimed that the effect of the puberty-blocker is fully reversible.
But then she did admit that we know nothing about the long-term effects on the brain or other organs in the body.
Another real concern is that quite a high proportion of patients who have medical interventions — such as the puberty-blocking hormones — go on to have sexual reassignment surgery.
And although it is often claimed that patients react positively after transitioning, as I say, I know differently from my own experience.
We're also navigating uncharted territory. Where there used to be a particular profile for those being referred (mostly male, with a long-standing idea — often since early childhood — that they were the wrong sex), of the 2,519 young people referred to Tavistock's GID service in the last financial year, more than 70 per cent were born female.
Some parents have expressed a fear that a plethora of social media videos featuring young people (especially those born female) discussing their decision to opt for physical intervention was, at least in part, driving the trend.
There is also evidence of a contagion effect in close peer groups.
In my 40 years in psychiatry, I have learned that closing down debate and discussion creates silos that resist thoughtful examination of important issues.
This is a particularly worrying approach by the GID service. They are treating highly vulnerable individuals who are making decisions which will often have, as yet unknown, consequences for the rest of their lives.
Considering the lack of clinical evidence for the drugs used, one might question why the national service (which has been going for 30 years) hasn't yet undertaken a research study or even collected basic follow-up outcome data?
It is important to state here that I'm not suggesting that changing gender through medical intervention is never the right decision. Only that this should take place at the end of a long process of deepening engagement with the child and their family.
I have been asked whether I think the GID service should be closed down. The answer is no. All I am seeking is a change of attitude that might create an atmosphere more open to thinking critically about the approach.
We urgently need a new regulator that has oversight to ensure a more clinically rigorous, balanced and ethical approach.
There should also be more clinics nationwide so that children and their families are not left waiting in a distressed state to be seen.
Little wonder, if they have waited sometimes two years, that they feel their need for interventions is so urgent once they arrive at the GID service's base.
The young people who attend the clinic often turn up in great distress. We owe it to them to explore their reasoning in forensic detail — before hurrying them down the path of no return.
Marcus Evans is the author of Making Room For Madness In Mental Health (Routledge).


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Habitual_Ritual

Quote from: Aodhan on February 28, 2019, 07:34:52 PM
And to think that governments baulk at the level of sex crime in society

Half of them are degenerates themselves
" There exists now an enormous religious ignorance. In the times since the Council it is evident we have failed to pass on the content of the Faith."

(Pope Benedict XVI speaking in October 2002.)

Habitual_Ritual

Quote from: Serendipity on March 02, 2019, 06:07:32 AM
Let me just be absolutely clear here a transsexual was taken to court by a woman for "transphobia".


" There exists now an enormous religious ignorance. In the times since the Council it is evident we have failed to pass on the content of the Faith."

(Pope Benedict XVI speaking in October 2002.)

Reader

How can one can be born with all the physical/hormonal evidence of their gender, then deny that simply by declaring it to not be so

but

One is supposedly "born that way" when homosexual and there's absolutely no changing that?

diaduit

Quote from: Reader on March 03, 2019, 05:13:59 PM
How can one can be born with all the physical/hormonal evidence of their gender, then deny that simply by declaring it to not be so

but

One is supposedly "born that way" when homosexual and there's absolutely no changing that?

I have never thought of that before......excellent point.

Elizabeth

I still think androgyny is very important to the rise of Antichrist, Baphomet, etc.

Josephine87

Quote from: Habitual_Ritual on March 02, 2019, 09:58:23 AM
Quote from: Aodhan on February 28, 2019, 07:34:52 PM
And to think that governments baulk at the level of sex crime in society

Half of them are degenerates themselves

Only half?   ;D
"Begin again." -St. Teresa of Avila

"My present trial seems to me a somewhat painful one, and I have the humiliation of knowing how badly I bore it at first. I now want to accept and to carry this little cross joyfully, to carry it silently, with a smile in my heart and on my lips, in union with the Cross of Christ. My God, blessed be Thou; accept from me each day the embarrassment, inconvenience, and pain this misery causes me. May it become a prayer and an act of reparation." -Elisabeth Leseur

Kirin

Quote from: Josephine87 on March 01, 2019, 12:45:42 PM
I understand the situation is far worse in the UK than elsewhere. I'm sorry for the women there. I'm curious to see how the Mohammedans will react when they become more powerful.

Actually, it might surprise you, Muslims are actually often supportive of transgenders who get the operation.

Currently in Iran, homosexuals caught in the act have a choice;death or a sex change. Islamic jurisprudence , not unanimously but a considerable portion of the international  ummah, considers it to be the rightful cure for homosexual tendencies. It's not a new idea,several historically Islamic states have some concept of a third gender such as the Hijra.

There are charities in the UK such as mermaids that actually condemns homosexuality, in favour of transgenderism. This charity operates quite freely despite being homophobic because it enjoys religious endorsement.

In short, they prefer transsexuals to homosexuals. Some are obviously sneered and laughed at, and yet others enjoy a strange respected place in Islamic societies as a medicine man figure invited to weddings for good luck

Josephine87

Thanks for reminding me of how degenerate Islam is.  I'd bet Iranian trannies are more of the ladyboy type and not many autogynephiles, which is the more common type in the West (at least, the loudest).  There are lots of Western trannies who want to keep their male genitals and have sex with women, including insisting on sex with lesbians, which is all completely incompatible with The Iranian Ultimatum.

Weirdly enough but not unsurprisingly, Islamic countries are some of the gayest places imaginable.  Ask any vaguely handsome veteran who had the misfortune of going out and about in Iraq and Afghanistan.  To many, it's "not gay if you're on top" and "not gay if it's a chai boy". 
"Begin again." -St. Teresa of Avila

"My present trial seems to me a somewhat painful one, and I have the humiliation of knowing how badly I bore it at first. I now want to accept and to carry this little cross joyfully, to carry it silently, with a smile in my heart and on my lips, in union with the Cross of Christ. My God, blessed be Thou; accept from me each day the embarrassment, inconvenience, and pain this misery causes me. May it become a prayer and an act of reparation." -Elisabeth Leseur

Kirin

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Quote from: Josephine87 on March 05, 2019, 06:04:31 PM
Thanks for reminding me of how degenerate Islam is.  I'd bet Iranian trannies are more of the ladyboy type and not many autogynephiles, which is the more common type in the West (at least, the loudest).  There are lots of Western trannies who want to keep their male genitals and have sex with women, including insisting on sex with lesbians, which is all completely incompatible with The Iranian Ultimatum.

Weirdly enough but not unsurprisingly, Islamic countries are some of the gayest places imaginable.  Ask any vaguely handsome veteran who had the misfortune of going out and about in Iraq and Afghanistan.  To many, it's "not gay if you're on top" and "not gay if it's a chai boy".

That's not really a uniquley Islamic thing, it's how both the west and middle east itself was from the far north to the southernmost reaches of the Roman Empire until Abrahamic religion decided both it and sex outside of marriage was universally bad (There's also the old belief that "It's not really fornication/sex" if it's not another woman). The far east to my understanding has historically taken far fewer issues with being the submissive partner pre-European contact if any at all.

But yes, it could well be the same reason homosexuality is so rampant in seminaries. We can preach chastity as much as we like but in a society where men face few repercussions for being promiscuous and a woman can quite realistically face death or a lifetime of persecution for it (or indeed a place where access to women is restricted or non existent at all) some men can and do there find other ways to explain away other sources of getting off.

It's a problem it creates itself.