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The 'Right Side Of History' Is Finally Getting A Risk Assessment

Stop the Presses - 10 October 2022

Matt Osborne
Oct 11, 2022
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I can feel it. The ground is shifting. Slow as a glacier, maybe, but things are moving our way.

Take this Reuters article that appeared a few days ago, which was reasonably fair to both sides of the “trans kids” issue and basically admits that the people shilling child sterilization have no idea what they are doing to these children.

Or Vanderbilt University “pausing” gender surgerires on minors, or Chase Strangio whining because Oklahoma Chldren’s Hospital has stopped them altogether.

Most exciting is the new energy of detransitioners. They are getting organized. They are angry at what has happened to them and they are not going to be silent anymore.

Good. It is time that this nonsensical cult of child sterilization had a proper risk assessment at every institution and organization that took part in it.

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5 months ago · 76 likes · 23 comments · Lisa Selin Davis

Everyone who has been in this fight for a minute knows that the lie of human sex change has already left lasting scars on a generation of youth.

To make it stop, financial costs must be imposed on insurers and political costs on politicians, changing their cost-benefit analysis of the issue.

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Susceptible Minority @Sara29345397
Four teenagers in a detransition support group asked how long it would take for their breasts to grow back.
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In the UK, this is largely shaking out as government review. Over here in the USA, however, we have market mechanisms to correct these problems.

As I’ve been saying since I first acknowledged my stance on these issues, it will all end in litigation. And look, here it comes:

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3. Lead Oregon lawyers in the field of therapy malpractice have predicted the shit show of liability lawsuits that is about to unfold. Exciting times!
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Stephanie Winn has put her therapist career on the line by addressing the needs of detransitioners, or as she calls them, Survivors of Gender Medicine (SOGM). Having brushed off activist attacks on her license, she is emerging as an important voice in this fight.

Recently, Winn held a Q&A session with graduate students interested in working with this new population. You can hear hearts breaking as she talks.

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THE MIRRORING EFFECT: Jessica Gill bemoans the state of conservative television programming that misses the mark with young non-wokes.

Instead of using their resources to build above the foundations, the right-wing broadcasting media insists on capitalising on the already existing culture war discourse. These media outlets seem less focused on trying to build a right-wing hegemony and more on pandering to their boomer audience, who sees the culture war as entertainment rather than something that impacts the real world.

For every MSNBC viewer who lives to own the Fox News viewers, there is at least one equal and opposite Fox News viewer living to own MSNBC viewers. This is called “negative partisanship” and it is a powerful political force.


RAPE CULTURE, MAKE IT WOKE: In the UK, the trans lobby keeps trying to overturn “rape by deception” laws through deceptive means. Former prosecutor Dennis Noel Kavanaugh is having none of it.


THE FRAUD IS COMING APART: By now you will have seen that former comedian Jon Stewart has weighed in with a special program that might have moved the needle three years ago, before a movement against child sterilization had gathered. Like the late investors who lose everything they put into a Ponzi scheme, the people who staked their reputations on the junk science of the child sterilization cult last will end up losing all the credibility they invested, and feeling burned the hottest. Stewart never bothered to look into the evidence and it shows.

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5 months ago · 63 likes · 20 comments · Leor Sapir

Julian Vigo also talked to the author of the above piece, which is damning:

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Listen now (120 min) | Leor Sapir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discusses two of his articles on the gender debate—“The ‘T’ Piggybacking on the ‘LGB’” and “Transgender Confusions”—covering the policies around public policy, law, and Supreme Court rulings. Beginning with issues such as “bathroom bill” and prisons, Sapir criticises the central tenet of this movement…
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5 months ago · 4 likes · Savage Minds

THE FACE OF BEING RIGHT: Thanks to her haters, JK Rowling has become a synonym for opposition to the child sterilization cult. Just putting her picture in a headline graphic tells 1000 words about the story before anyone reads a word.

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Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender
Encouragingly, NHS staff are starting to be warned not to promote Mermaids as a trustworthy source of information or support
dailymail.co.ukNHS staff warned they must NOT promote transgender Mermaids charityA group of NHS workers have been advised to drop support for transgender children’s charity Mermaids after a string of controversies attracting criticism from activists, including JK Rowling.
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MENACE TO SOCIETY: The civil rights organization that sterilizes children, puts rapists in women’s prisons, and men in women’s sports, is also responsible for the spike in random murders by mentally ill homeless people refusing their medication.

The underlying problem is that the ACLU and other progressive libertarians view the mentally ill as victims of society deserving of special rights, including the right to avoid the consequences of their behavior. They hold the view that, “Quite simply, there is no place for coercion,” in the words of a recent disability rights coalition’s letter to the governor of New York. The deaths of people like Alison Russo-Elling, Nathaniel Rivers, and Michelle Go are the direct result of such dogmatism.

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6 months ago · 913 likes · 648 comments · Michael Shellenberger

THE MILITARY KNOWS WHAT A MAN IS: According to the latest policy update for America’s Selective Service system, trans women are not really women, after all. "US citizens or immigrants who are born male and changed their gender to female are still required to register. Individuals who are born female and changed their gender to male are not required to register," the new policy reads. And guess what? They actually do genital checks at intake in the military!

Weirdly, the usual activists are silent on this clear-cut case of invalidating transphobia.

Jamie Farr could not be reached for comment.


JENNIFER BILEK HAS A SUBSTACK NOW: So you can read her there, and now that Substack finally has an Android app you can have us both on your phone, too.

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5 months ago · 28 likes · 7 comments · Jennifer Bilek

THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE: Mermaids has been talking up suicide risk while they provided a forum and encouragement for “trans kids” to ruminate on suicide. This is irresponsible as hell. JL has the receipts.

Of particular concern is that suicide is openly discussed on the site with frequent posts by distressed youngsters who say they are considering suicide. All too often, there is no intervention by a moderator and it is left to other adolescents to provide support and advice.

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My huge thanks to an anonymous source who provided me with the following information and screenshots. She is the mother of a gender-distressed child and, a few years ago, sought help from Mermaids on the recommendation of her child’s school. In 2020 she wrote a letter of complaint to Mermaids, alarmed by their procedures and protocols…
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5 months ago · 22 likes · 6 comments · JL

To be clear, this is the same forum that was supposedly shut down because of abuse by all the evil terfs, and not because they were breaking every last possible rule of normal child safeguarding to push a dangerous medical cult.


HOW MANY FETISH FREAKS WORK FOR YOU, SUSIE?: Bad enough that they had an active pedophile on the board. Darren Mew, the Digital Engagement Officer at Mermaids, is not safe for kids, NSFW, and NSFL, either.

Now, Darren can dress however he wants and pose for whatever he wants, BUT if you have any sort of job even remotely concerning kids, no-one should be able to find a photo of you on the internet with your cock out. It’s as simple as that. The mind absolutely boggles at all the men - and it is all men - wailing on about supposed bigots and prudes making this point as though it is virtually impossible to stop yourself posing with your shaved cock and your ginger ringpiece splayed for the world to see like Darren has done. Whereas for 99% of the population, it is unthinkable.

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I should warn you, this post is going to contain a graphic image. Many of you will have had the misfortune to have seen it on Twitter but I’m just giving you a heads-up. Today’s latest revelation about Mermaids has been that their Digital Engagement Officer, Darren Mew, likes to pose in sexualised schoolgirl garb and pose for photos looking like a sexual…
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5 months ago · 2 likes · Shambolic Neutral

LEARN HOW TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER: Everyone needs affection, but not the wrong kind of affection.

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