Protesters are threatening to show up and shut down The Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles&#8217; upcoming debate on transgenderism.
Knowles is set to debate transgenderism and womanhood with Deirdre McCloskey, a well-known trans-identifying economics professor. The event is <a href="https://isi.org/events/debate-on-transgenderism-womanhood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted</a> by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and will be held at the University of Pittsburgh on the evening of April 18.
On Tuesday, Twitter user &#8220;Norman&#8221; encouraged his nearly 33,000 followers to show up to the event and shut down the debate between Knowles and McCloskey.
&#8220;The university of pittsburgh is hosting this man on campus! it would be a shame if absolutely everyone showed up, disrupted and shut it down at 7:30pm on April 18th at the William Pitt Union,&#8221; Norman <a href="https://twitter.com/emonormie/status/1633172822590648323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
Norman was responding to a viral video of Knowles speaking at CPAC this past weekend. In his remarks, Knowles said that &#8220;transgenderism must be eradicated.&#8221; His comment was misquoted by several left-leaning news outlets who claimed Knowles had called for transgender people themselves to be eradicated.
&#8220;Show up!!! shut it DOWN!! email pitt!!!&#8221; Norman added in another tweet, along with screenshots of the debate event page showing the date and time.
&#8220;ALSO it would be really a shame if you spammed their even[t] registration with fake names/info,&#8221; Norman added in another tweet that included a link to the registration page.
Protesters heeded the call and spammed the registration page to the Knowles debate with fake names until it sold out. Many of the names used were crass, including &#8220;Suck My Girlc**k,&#8221; &#8220;Moe Lester,&#8221; &#8220;Anna Bortion,&#8221; and &#8220;Gof*** Yerself&#8221; from &#8220;ANTIFA University.&#8221;
Twitter users commented on the original tweet about throwing eggs at Knowles, taking a road trip to the university to protest the debate, and taking the day off work. One Twitter user who appears to use &#8220;they&#8221; pronouns encouraged protesters to follow the university&#8217;s rules about protesting peacefully, to which another Twitter user responded, &#8220;no.&#8221;
Knowles remarked that the protesters seem to be afraid of hearing what he has to say.
&#8220;My debate opponent is a distinguished professor with three degrees from Harvard, countless scholarly publications, and six honorary doctorates,&#8221; Knowles told The Daily Wire. &#8220;And still the transgenderists appear hellbent on keeping me from articulating the argument against transgender ideology. It&#8217;s almost as if they&#8217;re afraid I&#8217;ll win the debate.&#8221;
ISI declined to comment on the social media efforts to shut down the debate.
The University of Pittsburgh has not yet made a statement about the pressure from protesters to refuse to host the event on campus.
McCloskey is a Harvard-trained economics professor who has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2000. McCloskey began identifying as female at the age of 53 in 1995. Now, the professor self-describes as a “literary, quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian, ex-Marxist, Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not ‘conservative’! I’m a Christian classical liberal.”
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Last year, LGBT activists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-activists-a-no-show-at-matt-walsh-event-after-plan-leaked" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> to show up and shut down a speech by Daily Wire host Matt Walsh at Texas A&amp;M University.
After their elaborate plan to infiltrate and protest Walsh&#8217;s remarks was leaked, the protesters were largely a no-show. The plan involved activists wearing “business-casual” and “cisgender and heterosexual-passing” to blend in with Walsh’s supporters and smuggling in flags as well as speakers to amplify chanting. Also included were detailed instructions on where to sit and when to start chanting and walking out, raising one fist in the air.
At the event, only one individual purportedly from the group that planned to protest Walsh’s speech made an appearance. He shared that he actually agreed with much of what Walsh said.

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Protesters Threaten To Shut Down Michael Knowles Transgenderism Debate

Gender

Gender Identity

Michael Knowles

Transgender

University of Pittsburgh

The following is an excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s new series Vision and Destiny. You can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/vision-and-destiny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watch</a> the special on DailyWire+.
Podcast time: 00:25
Gender. Is a gender identity real? Well, first of all, it depends on what you mean by real. It is not real the way the gender identity ideologues insist because they are very bad psychometricians. They have no idea in their idiot disciplines how to measure the phenomena that they claim exist. Having said that, obviously there are important functional differences between men and women — the most important of which, you might say, is the fact that if you take the typical man and the typical woman and they engage in sexual activity, there is some reasonable probability that a child will emerge. That is a fundamental reality of life, and it takes that binary process to produce the manifestation of that new life. That is where the rubber really hits the road. Now, there are markers for that. Of course, men and women have different chromosomal structures and all sorts of different biological attributes, although there is a fair bit of overlap in the human form, and you can tell that because that is how you know we are human.
There is biological sex as it is embodied, but then on top of that, there is the flexibility that comes with the fact that human beings are flexible actors, perceptually and conceptually — and that we are also creatures that undergo a very lengthy period of education, of socialization. Much of our brain is not programmed with deterministic instinct at birth. It has to mature in a social context, and the direction in which that maturation takes place is dependent to some degree on the social surrounding, but it is also to some degree dependent on other biological factors that are somewhat loosely linked to sex, but that vary more.
We know that personality, for example, has something approximating a five-dimensional structure. Now, you can differentiate that into 10 aspects. You get a little bit higher resolution that way and a little bit more descriptive accuracy. There is some debate about whether it should be five or six, and that depends to some degree on how you lay out the statistics. But no one disagrees that there is something approximating five basic dimensions of temperament. Temperament might be regarded as characteristic ways of perceiving and acting in the world, so: 
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Extroversion, that is propensity for positive emotion</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Neuroticism, that is propensity for negative emotion</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Agreeableness is something like the maternal dimension (It is politeness and compassion. It is the proclivity to sacrifice yourself for others. That might be a good way of thinking about it.)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Conscientiousness, it is dutifulness, orderliness, industriousness </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">And openness, which is the creativity domain and the domain of interest and ideas</li>
</ul>
Five dimensions of variability, and that is on top of the binary biological platform. 
There is a link because men and women tend to have their own sex-typed temperaments. Women are, on average, higher in negative emotion and higher in agreeableness. And then there are minor distinctions with the rest of the traits, which I will not go into now because they are much smaller. But on average, women are more agreeable. They are more self-sacrificing in relationship to others, which goes along with their propensity to care for infants — because you have to do that when you care for infants — and they are more threat and negative emotion sensitive. You could argue that the world is actually objectively more dangerous for women — because they are vulnerable on the sexual front and because they are smaller physically — but also that the world needs to be reacted to by some degree as if it is a more threatening place because women are charged with the primary care of infants, and infants are very vulnerable. So, you could say, you have binary sex for all functional purposes — obviously for all functional purposes because you need a man and a woman or their biological equivalence to produce a new baby, which as I said, is where the rubber hits the road — and then on top of that, you have variation in temperament in five dimensions that is somewhat sex-typed. 
Now, it gets complicated because men and women, on average, have different personalities. They also, by the way, on average, have difference in interest, so women are reliably more interested in people and men are reliably more interested in things. That is cross-culturally valid, and that is the biggest difference we know of between men and women. That is another dimension of variability, although it is associated with temperamental differences — so agreeable people tend to be more interested in people. In any case, there is enough variability within that five-dimensional space, so there is no shortage of more masculine women and more feminine men. That does not mean that they are not binary in their fundamental biological function or their cellular identity or a multitude of markers at the physiological level, which we could detail but I would believe are painfully obvious to everyone.
If gender is something like temperamental variability, then it exists. If it is not temperamental variability, I do not know what the hell it is. The gender theorists, who are fuzzy thinkers beyond compare, do not ever try to nail down their concepts to something approximating multi-trait, multi-method measurement, which, if you are talking about gender, “What do you mean?” Well, “What do you mean, what do you mean?” I mean, “How do you know it exists? What are the techniques of assessment detection that you utilize technically to specify the target of your claim? What is gender?” Well, “It is what people feel they are.” That is your theory? That is a stupid theory. It is not going anywhere, that theory, and so that is just a theory that enables you to claim something like the primacy of your narcissistic whim. It has nothing to do with the careful delineation of what actually constitutes identity. 
It is complex because there is variability in masculinity and femininity — on top of the binary biological substructure. That also means that you have to have a certain amount of tolerance for roll variability, and you should because there are masculine women and there are feminine men, and it is harder for them, in some real sense, to adopt the rule that would be easily commensurate with their biological identity because they share many temperamental features that are characteristic of the opposite sex. But that does not mean that they are born in the wrong body. One question there would be: “What exactly is it that is born in the wrong body? Is it some sort of soul?” People who make these claims are generally not on the side of the people who claim the existence of the soul, so, “What the hell is it exactly that is born in the wrong body?” “The person’s core identity. The person’s true self.” That is all hand-waving. I have no idea what you mean by that unless it is part of a context-dependent story where we more or less agree on the terms, but to abstract them out and say, “Well, that is not the person’s real core self,” sorry, man. You have wandered into uncharted territory there. First of all, you think you know what constitutes people’s core self? You really know that? Do you? I do not think so. 
You could even take another radical claim and say there is an infinite number of gender identities. Yes, if you want to play it that way, that is true because the amount of variability at a five-dimensional space is unbelievably large. You could say with no reason to be contradicted that every single person on the planet, in some sense, has a unique gender identity if you associate gender with temperament because every person is unique in their particular constellation of personality. So, if you want to conflate those two things, then you can. It starts to become very problematic when you additionally conflate them with sex. “Sex and gender and temperament, they are all the same thing.” Well, actually they are not. And the reason they are not is because, to say it again, you need a man and a woman to produce a child.
You might ask, “What is a man and what is a woman?” And one thing you can say is, “A man is half of what it takes to produce a child, and the woman is the other half.” There is nothing about that that is merely subjectively defined, and it really is where the conceptual structure (whatever that is), the temperamental structure, and then the way we view that temperamental structure, the rubber still has to hit the road in the reproductive sphere. And you might say, “Well, we do not need any of that messy reproduction because there are too many people on the bloody planet anyway” — or something like that. But first of all, that just unmoors you, and I would not recommend that because you might think that having an indetermined identity frees you, but all it does is produce so much chaos in your life that you are not going to be able to tolerate it. No one else is going to know what to do with you. 
This is one of the things that made me object to compelled speech on the pronoun front when the laws first started to emerge in Canada. The trans activists would come up to me and say, “Well, you know, you are really hurting me if you do not accept my indeterminacy of identity.” And I thought, “Well, that is what you think.” But as a trained clinician, I think that I am going to do you a lot more damage in the medium to long run by going along with your claim that you can just be anything you want moment to moment. You think that is freeing because you regard all social constraints as inhibitions on the wonderful manifestation of your true self. But I know that in order to be healthy in the long run, you have to be integrated at multiple levels of social community, and when you introduce indeterminacy as to your status at the sex level, no one has any idea what to do with you. So how are they going to play with you? They do not know what you are, in some sense, that even enables the ballgame to get off the ground.
That is no recipe for long-term wellbeing — because that is always bandied about, that notion of wellbeing and harm. No, you have to negotiate an identity regardless of your temperamental variability.
<a href="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/">Dr. Jordan B. Peterson</a> is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 1993 to 1998 he served as assistant and then associate professor of psychology at Harvard. He is the international bestselling author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules For Life, and Beyond Order. You can now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast">listen</a> to or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson">watch</a> his popular lectures on DailyWire+.
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The Identity Crisis: A Struggle With One’s Self

The Identity Crisis: A Struggle With One's Self

Jordan Peterson

Psychology

Readers Pass

Social Issues

World

On Wednesday, Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh headed to California despite protests and the state&#8217;s massive winter storm to speak at Stanford University as part of his &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is A Woman?</a>” college <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-embarking-on-what-is-a-woman-college-tour">tour</a>.
During the lecture on Wednesday, Walsh told the packed house that he was there to speak about truth, and specifically &#8220;the truth that you are either a man or a woman&#8221; — debunking the views of the radical gender ideology movement.
&#8220;You do not get to choose which category you belong to,&#8221; the host shared. &#8220;Your sex is determined without your consent. It is a matter of nature &#8230; nobody can transcend this binary arrangement. Nobody can be truly trans.&#8221;
&#8220;You can only say the word trans, but you can&#8217;t actually be it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This is what makes gender ideology [the idea it&#8217;s fluid] … this is what makes gender ideology insane and poisonous and destructive.&#8221;
Walsh also had a message for students who were upset about him speaking at the university following <a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2023/02/21/from-the-community-matt-walsh-a-dangerous-presence-on-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Stanford Daily</a> publishing a piece, titled &#8220;Matt Walsh: A dangerous presence on campus,” in which the author argued that it wasn&#8217;t a matter of freedom of speech, but the &#8220;lives of our queer and trans students.&#8221;
&#8220;I just want to state at the start that I am sorry that you think you can get your way through that kind of emotional manipulation,&#8221; the host shared. &#8220;I am sorry that you&#8217;ve been told the world will always bend to your whim. You can&#8217;t always get your way.&#8221;
Walsh then noted what he called the five objections he hears from those who oppose his views, including, &#8220;you&#8217;re not qualified to make these statements; you&#8217;re not a doctor.&#8221;
&#8220;First of all I&#8217;m defending basic, self-evident truths,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;There are some truths both moral and scientific that are accessible to everyone. And the truth that men are male and women are female is one of the most accessible truths there is.&#8221;
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&#8220;And the answer is, well, because it has to be someone,&#8221; he added. &#8220;As it turns out, there aren&#8217;t that many people who are very eager to stand up here and say all these things. So, I&#8217;ll do it, that&#8217;s why.&#8221;
The college lecture expands upon Walsh’s acclaimed documentary in which he successfully challenges radical ideas about gender ideology. &#8220;What Is A Woman?&#8221; premiered in June and has a 96% audience score on the review website Rotten Tomatoes.
Wednesday&#8217;s event was sponsored by the Stanford College Republicans and Young America&#8217;s Foundation. Hours before Walsh spoke, left-wing protestors made it clear that they were going to try and stop the event.
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With <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshblog</a> slated to come speak today, leftist agitators from off-campus are already declaring their intention of protesting and disrupting the event on social media. <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yaf</a> 1/ <a href="https://t.co/xwaMgAggLT">pic.twitter.com/xwaMgAggLT</a>
&mdash; Stanford College Republicans (@Stanford_GOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/Stanford_GOP/status/1630985273818648577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The campus Republican group posted several videos and photos showing leftist protestors &#8220;ripping down&#8221; their Matt Walsh &#8220;flyers in broad daylight.&#8221;
The group tweeted that &#8220;the left cannot defend the transgender farce, so their only strategy is to silence those who speak out against it. This authoritarian behavior will not stand.&#8221;
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Today, we caught leftist ripping down our <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> flyers in broad daylight. 
The left cannot defend the transgender farce, so their only strategy is to silence those who speak out against it. This authoritarian behavior will not stand. <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yaf</a> <a href="https://t.co/sNV3tZPUL6">pic.twitter.com/sNV3tZPUL6</a>
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Later, the group shared footage showing another protestor removing a huge &#8220;banner advertising for [Walsh&#8217;s] lecture,&#8221; showing it had been &#8220;taken down AGAIN.&#8221;
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Our banner advertising for <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> ’s lecture was taken down AGAIN. 
This time we confronted the leftist who did it. 👇👇👇<a href="https://twitter.com/yaf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yaf</a> <a href="https://t.co/gSpsXcaYq6">pic.twitter.com/gSpsXcaYq6</a>
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The group approached and confronted the person who tore it down, asking why they did it. They later recovered it from the person. Another video showed what the group called &#8220;triggered leftist&#8221; protestors who claimed, &#8220;the same way you get to put the flyers up, I get to take them down.&#8221;
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Triggered leftist at Stanford: “The same way you get to put the flyers up, I get to take them down.”
This is the deranged mentality of the campus left. Watch as we confront ANOTHER leftist for ripping down our flyers 👇👇<a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yaf</a> <a href="https://t.co/Nsjo1251ns">pic.twitter.com/Nsjo1251ns</a>
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&#8220;This is the deranged mentality of the campus left,&#8221; the tweet added. &#8220;Watch as we confront ANOTHER leftist for ripping down our flyers.&#8221;
On Tuesday, protestors set fire to flyers promoting Walsh&#8217;s appearance, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-republicans-accuse-campus-leftists-of-using-intimidation-to-stop-matt-walsh-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> reported. The Republican group on campus tweeted photos showing the flyers advertising Walsh&#8217;s event set ablaze by protesters. Eventbrite, the platform promoting the event, even removed the speech&#8217;s ticketing page. At the last minute, organizers then had to set up a new ticketing platform, the outlet noted.
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With <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> coming to Stanford March 1st, Leftists are losing their minds. Just last night leftists made the point by TORCHING our flyers. 
We deny covering any well-meaning flyers intentionally, but is lighting our flyers on FIRE really a rational reaction? <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@yaf</a> <a href="https://t.co/gkzNIG772F">pic.twitter.com/gkzNIG772F</a>
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&#8220;Remarkably, in a country founded on the principles of free speech and expression, some still think they control what others can see and hear,&#8221; YAF spokesperson Michael McGonigle told the outlet. &#8220;Fortunately, they&#8217;re wrong. It&#8217;s easier to burn posters than show up and engage in a respectful exchange of ideas—perhaps out of fear they may agree with what they hear.&#8221;
In an <a href="https://stanfordreview.org/why-we-invited-matt-walsh/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> last week by the Stanford College Republicans titled, &#8220;Why We Invited Matt Walsh,&#8221; the group wrote that in a place where &#8220;the leftist gender-bending ideology is the norm—embraced, or at least tacitly supported, by nearly all professors and administrators,&#8221; it was &#8220;more important than ever for students to engage&#8221; with Walsh’s ideas.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-talks-to-megyn-kelly-about-what-is-a-woman-documentary-dark-origins-of-gender-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh Talks To Megyn Kelly About &#8216;What Is A Woman&#8217; Documentary, Dark Origins Of Gender Ideology</a>

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Matt Walsh Hits Stanford University On ‘What Is A Woman?’ College Tour

Matt Walsh Hits Stanford University On 'What Is A Woman?’ College Tour

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What Is A Woman

A New York male-to-female transgender teacher manipulated a fifth-grade girl to adopt a male name and pronouns, which caused the child to have suicidal thoughts, a new lawsuit alleges.
According to a <a href="https://trellis.law/doc/155146253/summons-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> filed in Suffolk County Court by the girl&#8217;s parents, a fifth-grade teacher at Terryville Road Elementary School in Port Jefferson Station, Debra Rosenquist, allegedly &#8220;forced&#8221; the child to use a male name and pronouns. The parents learned of the social transition months later when their daughter drew a picture that said, &#8220;I wanna kill myself.&#8221;
The family’s lawyer, Debra Wabnik, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/28/ny-teacher-forced-5th-grader-to-go-by-male-pronouns-suit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post that Rosenquist “manipulated a pre-teen female into changing her gender identity when the child did not feel any inclination to do so.” 
According to the suit, Rosenquist began calling the 9-year-old &#8220;Leo&#8221; and using opposite-sex pronouns at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year, continuing to refer to the student as such for months before the parents were notified by the school principal in January 2022. The student reportedly met with a school psychologist and said she &#8220;was confused about her gender identity,&#8221; the court documents state.
The parents were supportive of the name change if it was requested by their child but were doubtful that their daughter actually wished to identify as a boy. They are concerned that the teacher had significantly deviated from the district&#8217;s curriculum and taught material on &#8220;gender identity&#8221; ideology to young students.
The lawsuit states that Rosenquist &#8220;pursued her own agenda outside the curriculum, which included persuading her 5th-grade students to try ‘being gay’ or being another gender even when they were not.&#8221; 
&#8220;To further her agenda, Rosenquist read and provided her students graphic books about gender and sexuality which were not on the curriculum,&#8221; the suit alleged.
Rosenquist authored an LGBT-themed book entitled &#8220;I am Neither&#8221; and reportedly kept it in the classroom. Additionally, Rosenquist allegedly read &#8220;When Aidan Became a Brother,&#8221; a book about chemical and surgical child sex change procedures, even though it was not part of the official curriculum. After an investigation was launched, it was discovered that at least one of the non-curricular books was present in Rosenquist&#8217;s classroom.
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The parents learned that Rosenquist had allegedly been reported for abuse, but nothing had been done because of Rosenquist&#8217;s position as a tenured teacher. 
According to the suit, the parents met with the school&#8217;s principal, superintendent, and assistant superintendent in February 2022. The administrators admitted that the issue was not handled properly and that they had not known about the off-curriculum materials used by Rosenquist. 
The parents are accusing the school of negligence in failing to properly monitor the classroom and train and supervise staff. The lawsuit alleges that the student in question was placed in a different classroom but is now being bullied and ostracized by her classmates. The family is suing for unspecified damages after having to pay for lawyers&#8217; fees and psychological treatment for their daughter, claiming that the ordeal has caused the child to suffer from humiliation, anxiety, emotional pain, and trauma.
According to the family&#8217;s lawyer, their daughter continues to identify as female. 
&#8220;At no point did she identify as male,” Wabnik said. “The notion that she identified as male was foisted upon her by Rosenquist.&#8221;
“The psychological and social damage Rosenquist caused this child and her family was immense,” she added. Rosenquist was reportedly removed from the classroom but is now teaching younger students. 
“Incredibly, the district still has Rosenquist in the classroom where she can similarly harm other innocent children,” said Wabnik.
Comsewogue School District Superintendent Jennifer Quinn said in a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-teacher-forced-manipulated-5th-grader-become-transgender-causing-suicidal-ideation-suit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to Fox News, &#8220;After a thorough investigation and consultation with our attorney, action is [being] taken in accordance with applicable laws and collective bargaining agreements. Please be assured that this has been done.&#8221;

Gender equality

Lawsuit Alleges New York Trans Teacher ‘Forced’ 5th-Grader To Change Name, Pronouns

Lawsuit Alleges New York Trans Teacher 'Forced' 5th-Grader To Change Name, Pronouns

Courts

Gender Pronouns

Lawsuit

New York

Teacher

Transsexuals want to reclaim the narrative on gender dysphoria as a meaningful diagnosis from radical <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> activists who wish to eradicate it and other so-called &#8220;barriers&#8221; to sex change services.
In an <a href="https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com/openletter-apa2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> to 29 major medical organizations based in the U.S., a group of transsexuals (a term they prefer) belonging to the <a href="https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Dysphoria Alliance</a> (GDA) called for a shift toward evidence-based care and a rejection of ideologically and politically-driven narratives.
&#8220;As people with gender dysphoria, many of us transgender or detransitioners, we want to clear away the confusion and obfuscation surrounding our condition,&#8221; the letter reads. &#8220;For the safety and well-being of all trans and gender dysphoric people, we need our healthcare, especially our mental healthcare, disentangled from a well-meaning yet misappropriated academic philosophy.&#8221;
The letter explains that the postmodern philosophy called <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-queer-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Theory</a>, which seeks to do away with biological categories based on the belief that they are oppressive and socially constructed, is where ideological narratives about transgender people arose that have filtered into mainstream culture in recent years. According to the letter, the view of &#8220;gender&#8221; being untethered from biological sex has been embraced by transgender activists who have managed to impose their beliefs into law and medicine. The letter argues that the beliefs taught in Queer Theory have infiltrated healthcare practices and compromised the safety of patients by prioritizing ideology over evidence.
&#8220;Activists have created confusion about what &#8216;trans&#8217; is by couching it in an academic theory that deliberately obscures any definitive categories,&#8221; the letter continues. &#8220;In addition, they employ intimidation campaigns against any individual or organization that seeks clarity.&#8221;
Aaron Kimberly, a female-to-male transsexual, mental health clinician, and founder and executive director of GDA, is concerned that radical transgender activism is causing more hostility towards people with gender dysphoria throughout society — not more acceptance.
&#8220;I feel as though the trans population is being used in a larger political movement at the federal and international level and the resulting culture war has real-life consequences on the wellbeing of trans, gay and gender non-conforming people,&#8221; Kimberly told The Daily Wire.
Aaron Terrell, a female-to-male transexual and the Director of Operations at GDA, and colleagues were inspired to write the open letter after the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, and a number of other organizations and celebrities released a <a href="https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-glaad-100-organizations-advocates-call-out-biased-harmful-new-york-times-coverage-of-transgender-people-in-joint-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joint letter</a> last week calling on The New York Times and other media outlets to &#8220;improve their coverage of transgender people and issues.&#8221; The joint letter included a list of demands urging journalists to &#8220;stop printing biased anti-trans stories&#8221; and to &#8220;listen to trans people.&#8221;
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&#8220;I merely heeded their call,&#8221; Terrell told The Daily Wire.
The letter highlights the concern that teenagers, especially adolescent girls, may be influenced to adopt transgender identities through their peer groups and social media. The letter points to other suspected forms of &#8220;social contagion,&#8221; including the recent surge of adolescent girls developing tics with no known biological cause that experts have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wave-of-teens-who-developed-strange-tics-from-watching-tiktok-videos-are-now-recovering-according-to-neurologists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attributed</a> to watching TikTok videos of influencers who claim to have Tourette&#8217;s syndrome.
&#8220;Our healthcare system is failing these young people, as well as people with gender dysphoria, by robbing us of evidence-based information about what our condition is,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com/_files/ugd/712544_3d2b995866e346ff857c29f1c9799937.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> states.
&#8220;What we are given instead of an evidence-based explanation for gender dysphoria is a postmodernist philosophy that attempts to deny biological realities,&#8221; the press release continues. &#8220;This is a political maneuver that is at odds with clinical care.&#8221;
Gender dysphoria was always understood to be a psychiatric condition until recent years when transgender activists have pushed for a more <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/every-tomboy-is-tagged-transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;inclusive&#8221;</a> definition that ceases to categorize it as a mental illness in order to &#8220;reduce stigma.&#8221; They have also pushed for little to no &#8220;gatekeeping&#8221; of medical transition treatments and lobbied to have therapy that doesn&#8217;t affirm their chosen &#8220;gender identity&#8221; <a href="https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/conversion_therapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> in 20 states.
According to such influential organizations and medical institutions as Planned Parenthood, American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, their websites now define “transgender” as an “umbrella term” that includes mere gender nonconformity, or the rejection of stereotypical preferences and behaviors commonly associated with one’s sex.
With the broadening of criteria, more children are in danger of becoming lifelong medical patients who might otherwise have outgrown their gender-related distress. There is <a href="http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1677358801357000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2YzyGCoEdDggXk6kme6eW9">evidence</a> that roughly 60–90% of children who identify as transgender, but do not socially or medically transition will no longer identify as transgender in adulthood, and many will grow up to be gay adults. 
A clinical diagnosis of persistent gender dysphoria since early childhood isn&#8217;t even necessary to receive irreversible medical treatments. At least <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hospitals-clinics-are-promoting-services-to-gender-nonconforming-kids-here-are-47-of-them" target="_blank" rel="noopener">47 pediatric gender clinics</a> in the United States advertise their services to “gender nonconforming” children, according to an <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/interactive-map-clinical-care-programs-for-gender-nonconforming-childr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interactive map</a> provided by the Human Rights Campaign.
GDA&#8217;s stated mission is to inform the conversation around gender dysphoria and evidence-based care, while amplifying the voices of detransitioners and advocating for women&#8217;s sex-based rights. The <a href="https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com/openletter-apa2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> currently has over 100 signatures, and others who have gender dysphoria are encouraged to sign.

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Transsexuals Pen Letter Asking U.S.-Based Medical Organizations To Reject Ideology In Favor Of Evidence

Mental Health

TikTok

Transsexual

United States

I’m far enough away from Los Angeles that I don’t have to worry about offending District Attorney George Gascón by “misgendering” or “deadnaming” James Tubbs, who is not only a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-child-molester-hannah-tubbs-gloats-laughs-over-light-sentence-in-jailhouse-phone-call" target="_blank" rel="noopener">child-molesting monster</a>, but also a man pretending to be a woman.
Tubbs has played Gascón for a fool ever since he was busted for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in the women’s restroom of a Denny’s. At this point, it is starting to seem like Gascón enjoys being humiliated by the man called James Tubbs.
Did I mention that James Tubbs is a man?
Tubbs, who is now 27, pleaded guilty last year to grabbing the poor girl by the throat and molesting her in a locked stall until someone heard her cries for help and chased him away. Here’s the catch, and where he first out-lawyered the hapless Gascón: The crime happened on New Year’s Day in 2014, just two weeks before Tubbs turned 18. Even though he was a grown man when he got caught via DNA evidence five years later, he was a minor when he committed the crime. In George Gascón&#8217;s mind, that meant the man called James Tubbs had to be prosecuted as a juvenile.
Tubbs, who falsely began claiming he is a woman right after he got caught, was sentenced to two years in a girls’ juvenile detention center.
And now, Gascón has taken his slavish devotion to sticking up for the man called James Tubbs to yet another level of identity idiocy. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-da-gascon-suspends-prosecutor-misgendering-deadnaming-trans-child-molester-accused-murder">According to Fox News</a>, he suspended one of his own prosecutors for referring to Tubbs as a man and using his given name instead of “Hannah,” the name James Tubbs likes to call himself as part of his new fake identity as a woman.
You would think Gascón would reserve his compassion for victims of crimes, not men like Tubbs who perpetrate them. Tubbs even got caught rubbing Gascón’s nose in his own stupidity last year, when Fox News reporter Bill Melugin obtained a recording of him boasting in a phone call to his father about getting a slap on the wrist.
&#8220;So now they&#8217;re going to put me with other trannies that have seen their cases like mine or with one tranny like me that has a case like mine,&#8221; Tubbs laughed in the recorded call. &#8220;So when you come to court, make sure you address me as her.&#8221;
James Tubbs is a man, and a very bad man. Since his guilty plea in the attack of a child in a women’s restroom, he has also been accused of beating a fellow man to death with a rock and dumping his body in a river. Now he is facing a murder charge and is being held in the Kern County Jail, where sensible officials properly list him as “<a href="https://itsapps.kerncounty.com/Iframed/nonCMS/InmateSearch/inmate_srch.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Edward Tubbs</a>.”
Believe it or not, Gascón is an Army veteran, a former police chief, and a onetime Republican. Somewhere along the way, perhaps while serving as San Francisco’s district attorney, he transitioned into an embarrassingly woke, criminal-coddling caricature. He has survived multiple recall efforts, and knowing California, has a limitless political future.
James Tubbs is a man. George Gascón ought to start acting like one again.

George Gascon, James Tubbs

L.A.’s Gascón Embarrasses Himself Again With The Help Of A Very Bad Man

'Misgendered' Trans Child Molester Helps L.A.'s Gascón Embarrass Himself Again

Crime

George Gascon

Los Angeles

<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus-jordan-peterson?utm_campaign=peterson&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;cid=peterson&amp;mid=b&amp;xid=0&amp;msclkid=2f3e9dfb6fda124d9c53fe03817c1b88" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr Jordan B Peterson</a>’s second episode of “<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/jordan-b-peterson/vision-destiny?_gl=1*1p5vsln*_ga*MTk1ODkzMzYxNi4xNjc3MjU4NDE3*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY3NzI1ODQxNi4xLjEuMTY3NzI1ODQ1My4yMy4wLjA." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vision &amp; Destiny</a>” on DailyWire+ features the best-selling author and clinical psychologist exploring the ongoing identity crisis in the West and how radical gender ideology is adding fuel to the fire.
Peterson first came to international attention in September of 2016 when he posted a series of videos criticizing Bill C-16, a proposed piece of Canadian legislation that would add &#8220;gender expression&#8221; and &#8220;gender identity&#8221; to the list of protected classes under the Canadian Human Rights Act. Peterson argued that the law represented an unprecedented infringement on free speech as it would compel people to use a person’s desired pronouns whether or not the speaker thought they were legitimate.
While the initial controversy was primarily about free speech, Peterson has continued to maintain that the category of &#8220;gender identity&#8221; is ill-formed, psychometrically invalid, and is rooted in and promulgated by a corrupt ideology of Marxist origins.
“It’s not real,” Peterson said. “They have no idea in their idiot decisions how to measure the phenomena that they claim exist.”
“Obviously there are functional differences between men and women,” Peterson continued. “The most important of which, you might say, is the fact that if you take a typical man and a typical woman and they engage in sexual activity, there is some reasonable probability that a child will emerge … that’s a fundamental reality and it takes that binary process.”
Peterson argues that this differential approach to reproductive process drives the other biological and psychological differences between men and women — men tend to be larger, stronger, more robust, and more willing to engage in physical confrontation, whereas female bodies are optimized toward the bearing and rearing of infants.
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Within the Big 5 model of personality traits, the major sex differences are that women tend to be more agreeable and more sensitive to negative emotion than men, making them more threat sensitive and more likely to sacrifice their own interests for vulnerable members of their ingroup.
Peterson notes that while there are differences in the temperament between the average male and average female, there is also overlap, the same way there is a smaller overlap in the distribution of strength and height, so that within the set of all men and all women there will be some &#8220;masculine&#8221; women and some &#8220;feminine&#8221; men.
Peterson also argues that while human beings develop in a social context, and identities and expectations are inevitably shaped by and negotiated within a culturally loaded framework, any cultural edifice is built atop the basic biological structure.
Peterson also objects to the imposition of one’s subjective feelings in the name of respecting a person’s “true self.”
“As a trained physician, I think I’m going to do a lot more damage to you in the medium-to-long run by going along with your claim that you can just be anything you want,” he remarked.
“It’s an absolute and utter unethical abdication of every element of professional responsibility,” Peterson said. “There’s no excuse for it.”

Dr Jordan Peterson Takes On Gender Madness In New Episode Of ‘Vision & Destiny’

Dr Jordan Peterson Takes On Gender Madness In New Episode Of 'Vision & Destiny'

DailyWire+

A new Canadian study found that 9 in 10 male inmates who identify as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> were incarcerated for violent offenses and nearly half were sexual offenders.
A <a href="https://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/005008-r442_E-en.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent study</a> conducted by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), an &#8220;Examination of Gender Diverse Offenders,&#8221; which surveyed 99 &#8220;gender diverse&#8221; inmates between 2017 and 2020, found that of the 61 male inmates in the study who identified as transgender or something other than male, 46% had committed sexual offenses and 92% were incarcerated for violent crimes.
The report found that 91.7% of male inmates who identified as transgender women surveyed were incarcerated for a violent offense, including 41.6% for homicide. By contrast, according to the Correctional Service of Canada&#8217;s 2021 annual report, 25.8% of male inmates (who identify as male) were serving sentences for a violent offense, which includes homicide/manslaughter, attempted murder, aggravated assault, and other violent offenses. 
Additionally, the researchers determined that 62.7% of male inmates who identified as transgender women had a low reintegration potential, 39.3% required maximum security, and 74.6% had &#8220;high static risk,&#8221; which refers to a high level of risk that an individual will reoffend based on factors that are relatively unchangeable or &#8220;static.&#8221;
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Because of the way the study was designed, inmates were not categorized by biological sex, but rather as &#8220;transgender women&#8221; and an &#8220;other&#8221; group that included &#8220;gender fluid, gender non-conforming, intersex, two-spirited, or unspecified.&#8221;
The Daily Wire sought clarification for the biological sex of the individuals with a history of sexual offenses, and Marie Pier Lécuyer, the senior media relations advisor for the Correctional Service Canada, explained that &#8220;of the 33 gender diverse offenders identified with a sex offense history, 84.9% (28) were male and 15.1% (5) were female at the time of the study.&#8221;
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With this new information, it can be deduced that 85% of the inmates who identified as transgender women or &#8220;other&#8221; with a history of sexual offenses were in fact male. About 94% of the crimes were committed prior to adopting a transgender identity, with 64% having committed a &#8220;current sex offense&#8221; while they were incarcerated, and 88% convicted of prior sex offenses before they were incarcerated.
The majority (85%) had committed a sex offense that caused death or serious harm to their victims, with over half of the victims being children (58%) or female (55%). Nearly 70% had inflicted psychological harm on their victims and a third of offenders had multiple victims.
The report found that only about 16% of the males who identified as transgender or &#8220;gender diverse&#8221; applied for a transfer to a women&#8217;s prison. Among those who made this request, 62% were granted approval, 19% were denied, and 19% were still pending at the time of the study. No females who identified as transgender men sought to transfer to a men&#8217;s prison.
The study also revealed that 47% of the &#8220;gender-diverse&#8221; offenders surveyed were Indigenous. As of 2021, Indigenous people make up only 5% of the Canadian population, but constitute a disproportionate number of inmates in Canada&#8217;s prisons.
Prior to 2017, incarcerated individuals in Canada were placed in a men&#8217;s or women&#8217;s correctional facility based on their biological sex. However, in December 2017, the Correctional Service of Canada issued a directive mandating that prisoners be housed in facilities that align with their self-determined &#8220;gender identity.&#8221; Since then, several offenders convicted of severe sex crimes have been transferred to women’s prisons. However, the Canadian policy was clarified with a 2022 directive that explicitly gave prison officials the power to reject a transgender inmate’s transfer request on a case-by-case basis.
After the implementation of this new policy, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) research study was conducted to investigate the methods used by other correctional systems to accommodate &#8220;gender diverse&#8221; individuals and to create a comprehensive profile of &#8220;gender diverse&#8221; offenders in Canada&#8217;s federal correctional system.

Handcuffed hands of a prisoner behind prison bars

9 In 10 Trans Women In Canada’s Prisons Are Violent, Nearly Half Convicted Of Sex Crimes: Study

9 In 10 Trans Women In Canada's Prisons Violent, Nearly Half Convicted Of Sex Crimes: Study

Canada

Prison

Prisoners

New email correspondence reveals that a St. Louis gender clinic, currently under investigation by the Missouri attorney general after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morally-and-medically-appalling-gender-clinic-case-manager-blows-the-whistle-on-permanent-harm-done-to-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bombshell whistleblower report</a> alleged malpractice, advised an elementary school teacher to &#8220;affirm&#8221; a group of fifth-grade girls who all claimed to be transgender.
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit parent advocacy group, discovered emails from a clinic staff member of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children&#8217;s Hospital that instructed a fifth-grader teacher not to question the validity of a group of 10 and 11-year-old friends&#8217; new transgender identities.
&#8220;The short story is that one of the students in the 5th-grade class is coming out as Trans. She has told several of her friends and now several of them are also saying they are Trans,&#8221; a teacher explained to the St. Louis gender clinic staff, whose names are redacted in the email correspondence, in October 2021. 
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The teacher expressed concern about the situation and asked if there were any resources for handling it. The clinic staff member said the studies positing that &#8220;social contagion&#8221; may be responsible for clusters of adolescents adopting transgender identities do not use &#8220;affirming&#8221; language and are, in his &#8220;personal and professional opinion, invalid.&#8221;
The staff member then suggested that all the girls were genuinely transgender, and it simply took a close friend coming out for them to realize they were too. He said he would try to find some resources for the teacher but would exclude anything that &#8220;may invalidate transgender folks.&#8221; 
In a subsequent email, the staff member quoted the clinic&#8217;s Adolescent Medicine specialist, Dr. Sarah Garwood, who said, &#8220;The best we can do is affirm, validate and allow for exploration,&#8221; adding that &#8220;no harm&#8221; would be done in affirming a child&#8217;s transgender identity. 
While social transition, which may consist of adopting a new name and opposite-sex pronouns, is often portrayed as a benign way to allow children to express their “true selves,” studies show there are good reasons to doubt this narrative. All available <a href="https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/camh.12330" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> suggests that this seemingly innocuous act of support is an active psychosocial intervention that can make matters worse.
The best available data <a href="http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicate</a> that roughly 60–90% of children who identify as transgender, but do not socially or medically transition, will no longer identify as transgender in adulthood.
After conducting a systematic review of evidence, England’s National Health Service has proposed <a href="https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/specialised-commissioning/gender-dysphoria-services/user_uploads/b1937-ii-specialist-service-for-children-and-young-people-with-gender-dysphoria-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new guidelines</a> for treating trans-identifying youth and warns that adolescents identifying as transgender may be experiencing a “transient phase” and that doctors should not encourage them to change their names and pronouns. “Social transition,” the NHS said, is not a “neutral act” and could have “significant effects” in terms of “psychological functioning.”
The Director of Outreach at Parents Defending Education, Erika Sanzi, told The Daily Wire that the case of the fifth-grade girls is not an isolated incident, and it has brought into sharp focus the debate around the diagnosis and treatment of gender dysphoria in minors.
&#8220;This isn&#8217;t the first time we&#8217;ve seen these kinds of communications between a gender clinic at a children&#8217;s hospital and a local school district,&#8221; said Sanzi. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen similar correspondence in San Francisco, Chicago, and Philadelphia. St. Louis is the tip of the iceberg.&#8221;
The St. Louis gender clinic faces intense scrutiny following claims made by former case manager <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamie Reed</a>. Her allegations describing the clinic&#8217;s practices as &#8220;medically and morally appalling&#8221; resulting in &#8220;permanent harm&#8221; done to vulnerable children have sparked two separate investigations, one by the Missouri Attorney General&#8217;s office and another by the office of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
The controversy has raised serious questions about the ethics and practices of gender clinics, particularly when it comes to working with children. Critics argue that too much emphasis is being placed on affirmation and not enough on exploring the underlying causes of gender dysphoria, which may include trauma, mental health conditions, or social pressures.
These revelations have caused outrage among parents, educators, and healthcare professionals. Nicki Neily, president and founder of Parents Defending Education, called the doctors&#8217; lack of curiosity about the underlying causes of the trend among the 10-year-old children &#8220;immoral at best and an abdication of professional responsibility at worst.&#8221;
&#8220;These children and their families have been let down, both by the school and the hospital — so it&#8217;s little wonder that trust in these institutions has declined precipitously over the past few years,&#8221; Neily added.

People waiting on an LGBTQ pride parade

St. Louis Gender Clinic Advised 5th Grade Teacher To ‘Affirm’ Group Of Students As ‘Trans’

Missouri

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The U.K.&#8217;s largest pediatric gender clinic has been accused in a new book of medicalizing teens with comorbidities, including more than a third of patients who showed signs of &#8220;moderate to severe&#8221; autism.
The <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tavistock-gender-clinic-puberty-blockers-nhs-investigation-fh7pngj0v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a>, &#8220;Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children&#8221; by BBC Newsnight journalist Hannah Barnes, alleges that the the Tavistock Clinic, an NHS facility in the U.K. officially called the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), ignored evidence that 97.5% of children seeking chemical and surgical sex reassignment services had autism, depression, or other problems that may have explained their unhappiness. 
“Some staff feared they could be unnecessarily medicating autistic children,” Barnes wrote.
After conducting over 100 hours of interviews with clinicians and patients during research for the book, Barnes found that staff at the facility sought to push a pro-transgender policy and, as one whistleblower put it, treated children who might not have been transgender as “collateral damage.”
 According to the book, former staff said many children, including those with neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and ADHD, were unnecessarily prescribed drugs and even surgery. The book reports that less than 2% of children in the U.K. have an autism spectrum disorder, but approximately 35% of GIDS referrals “present with moderate to severe autistic traits.” 
Children and adolescents on the autism spectrum are disproportionately represented among the large, newly emerging cohort of children claiming to be transgender. Over the past 10 years, there have been at least <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zhanavrangalova/2017/11/15/growing-evidence-for-a-link-between-gender-dysphoria-and-autism-spectrum-disorders/?sh=6e3f4479153e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nine studies</a> connecting Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and transgender identities. Rates of autistic traits in these studies range from 5% to 54% among those with gender dysphoria, significantly higher than among the general population.
Some researchers believe the percentage of young girls with autism who believe they’re experiencing gender dysphoria is actually higher, and that many females who have autism go undiagnosed. Up until recently, autism was considered a “boy’s diagnosis,” affecting males-to-females by a ratio of 4-to-1. Experts now believe that girls’ autistic traits present differently, which may require a separate diagnostic criteria to detect. 
A recent <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35204992/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> published in 2022 used a mathematical model to predict the true male-to-female ratio, which they estimated as being closer to a 3-4 ratio. The study notes, “Eighty percent of females remain undiagnosed at age 18, which has serious consequences for the mental health of young women.”
Similar concerns among Tavistock staff were raised about unnecessarily medicating children who were gay. In 2012, GIDS surveyed adolescents who were referred to the clinic about their sexuality and found that over 90% of females and 80% of males identified as same-sex attracted or bisexual. As a result, some clinicians, including Anastassis Spiliadis, believed that GIDS was effectively providing &#8220;conversion therapy for gay kids,&#8221; and there was even a dark joke circulating amongst the team that there would be &#8220;no gay people left at the rate GIDS was going.&#8221; Barnes reports that when gay clinicians expressed their concerns to those in charge, they were dismissed as being too close to the work and therefore not objective. The clinic has disputed this claim. 
According to the book, children as young as 10 were referred to the clinic for a prescription of puberty-blocking drugs after as little as 20 minutes of consultation, and others were referred without adequate investigation of co-occurring psychiatric conditions. A social worker Barnes interviewed estimated that as few as “2 or 3%&#8221; of children treated at the clinic would have stayed transgender for life if they had not been given the controversial drug therapy.
Children referred to GIDS were ten times more likely than the national average to have a registered sex offender as a parent, while 42% had lost a parent through death or separation, and 70% had more than five “associated features” such as anxiety, depression, abuse, self-harm, bullying, eating disorders, or suicide attempts.
Barnes reports that some staff at GIDS felt that children who would have reconciled themselves with the bodies they were born with were being denied that chance by the use of drugs. Dr. Anna Hutchinson, a senior clinical psychologist at GIDS, stated that the service quickly began to &#8220;accept everyone.&#8221;
Although puberty blockers were intended to give children &#8220;time to think&#8221; about whether they wanted to transition fully, Dr. Hutchinson realized that almost all of them ended up taking cross-sex hormones such as testosterone and estrogen, which have irreversible effects. When she recognized this, it was a “holy f***” moment for her.
“Because what are the chances of 100% of people, offered time to think, thinking the same thing?&#8221; said Dr. Hutchinson. &#8220;If the service was getting this wrong, it was getting it wrong with some of the most vulnerable children and young people.” She now believes that “some of those kids would not have identified as trans had they not been put on the medical pathway.”
“Of course, that doesn’t mean to say that identifying as trans is a bad outcome,” she added. “But what is a bad outcome is creating a cohort of people who are medically dependent who’d never needed to be. And not only medically dependent, but perhaps — we don’t yet know — medically damaged.”
She now describes GIDS as “scandalous in its negligence and scale.”
Barnes also chronicled how the transgender charity Mermaids put huge pressure on the clinic to refer children for drugs at a younger age and to recommend surgery. One clinician said they would be “absolutely attacked by Mermaids for just trying to stop and think with children.”
In the wake of a highly critical interim report in February 2022 by Dr. Hilary Cass, a highly respected pediatrician who was brought in by NHS England to examine the clinic, it was announced that the Tavistock will close this spring. Dr. Cass&#8217;s conclusion was that services were “not a safe or viable long-term option” and a &#8220;fundamentally different service model&#8221; was required.

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A mother of two young boys realized she made a terrible mistake after allowing her 4-year-old son to socially transition into a girl identity and described the epiphany she had as &#8220;leaving a cult.&#8221; 
The mother, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote two essays and recently appeared on a popular podcast to discuss her journey from a social justice organizer and &#8220;true believer&#8221; in transgender ideology to a skeptic who is deeply regretful for allowing her son to believe he was a little girl trapped in a boy&#8217;s body. 
&#8220;I&#8217;m texting a friend, and I&#8217;m like &#8216;we&#8217;ve realized that our older son is not actually transgender and we&#8217;re going to be rolling back the social transition and I feel like I am leaving a cult,&#8217; because that&#8217;s what it felt like to me,&#8221; she said on the podcast <a href="https://youtu.be/dBRJorDjG88" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Triggernometry</a> with her identity disguised by a blur filter. 
The mother&#8217;s first essay in August 2022, &#8220;True Believer,&#8221; went viral on social media. In the Parents With Inconvenient Truths About Trans (PITT) Substack <a href="https://pitt.substack.com/p/true-believer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newsletter</a>, she described how she and her wife raised their two young boys as &#8220;gender neutral&#8221; because they believed they were following the righteous path of &#8220;social justice.&#8221; 
When their oldest son, who was 4 years old at the time, asked if he was a boy or girl, they told him he could choose. Six months later, their son declared he was a girl and wanted to be called &#8220;sister&#8221; and use &#8220;she/her&#8221; pronouns. Both his mothers affirmed his new transgender identity by allowing him to socially transition; they changed his name, allowed him to wear girl&#8217;s clothes, and allowed him to believe he was truly a girl for approximately one year.
It was when her youngest son, who was just three at the time, said that he also wanted to identify as a girl that she began to wonder if she had made a mistake with her eldest boy. As her worldview began to unravel, the mother expressed deep regret for the actions she and her wife took, acknowledging that they &#8220;led&#8221; their child down a path of lies that could have resulted in severe psychological damage and life-long, irreversible medical intervention. In the end, she came to realize that parents, not children, were meant to be in the lead. 
The mother followed the Triggernometry interview with another <a href="https://pitt.substack.com/p/a-return-to-reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">essay</a> for PITT, titled &#8220;A Return To Reality,&#8221; where she went into further detail of her new outlook.
&#8220;In the interview, I refer to the moment in time when I finally could see my belief in gender identity as a belief for the first time,&#8221; the mother penned. &#8220;It was this moment when I feel I moved out of experiencing this belief as absolute truth, and was able to ‘see’ it from the outside looking in&#8221; (emphasis hers).
She described the moment as feeling like &#8220;a pin came out of my head,&#8221; causing the whole belief system to collapse and returned to the cult analogy.
&#8220;How else could I describe being in something so deep, that I could not see outside of it?&#8221; she said. &#8220;At least when you are religious, you realize you hold beliefs, you understand you have a faith, and you consciously practice it. This was different. I had been in something that I did not know I was in. And in that moment, I came out of it&#8221; (emphasis hers).

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Finland&#8217;s leading expert on pediatric gender medicine says &#8220;four out of five&#8221; children will grow out of their gender confusion. 
Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, the chief psychiatrist at Tampere University, Finland&#8217;s largest pediatric gender clinic, recently had an <a href="https://www-hs-fi.translate.goog/tiede/art-2000009348478.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview </a>with the country&#8217;s top newspaper about her reluctance to recommend surgical and chemical sex change services for minors who identify as transgender.
Dr. Kaltiala explained that while it is &#8220;important to accept the child as they are,&#8221; it is also necessary to recognize that it is common for children to strongly identify with the opposite sex at some point in their lives, but four out of five children who identify as transgender will grow out of it during puberty.
&#8220;That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s wise to monitor the situation, give the child peace of mind and treat the family&#8217;s anxiety and possible related problems,&#8221; said Dr. Kaltiala.
Finland is considering a gender self-ID law for adults, and Seta, a transgender activist group, is pushing for the law to apply to minors. Dr. Kaltiala, who has evaluated hundreds of children and adolescents experiencing gender confusion, argues that the age limit should not be lowered. 
Dr. Kaltiala said it is common for young people to experiment with &#8220;different identities&#8221; and be &#8220;prone to suggestion.&#8221; She believes that in adolescence, the construction of identity is just underway and the final outcome is not known. According to Dr. Kaltiala, changing a legal sex marker in youth is not a simple formality, but a strong psychological and social intervention that guides the development of a young person. She said that this kind of intervention sends the message that this is the &#8220;right path&#8221; for the young person. 
Dr. Kaltiala said that when she began her work, cases of &#8220;gender identity&#8221; issues among children and young people were scarce. However, since 2015, the number of patients has risen tenfold, and the profile of the patient population has shifted.
Previously, most patients were young boys struggling with gender distress, but now the majority of Dr. Kaltiala&#8217;s patients are biological girls in their teenage years. Additionally, three out of four of her patients also struggle with significant mental health issues.
Transgender advocacy groups like Seta frequently rely on the debunked <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/pediatric-gender-medicine-and-the" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affirm-or-suicide</a> narrative to lobby for early medicalization of childhood gender dysphoria. 
Dr. Kaltiala calls the notion that hormone treatments and legal gender recognition for minors are urgently needed due to increased suicide risk &#8220;purposeful disinformation&#8221; and &#8220;irresponsible.&#8221; Suicidal thoughts and behavior in young people with &#8220;gender identity&#8221; issues are related to concurrent psychiatric disorders, not just &#8220;unaffirmed&#8221; gender, she explained.
&#8220;Mentally healthy young people who experience their gender in a way that differs from their biological body are not automatically suicidal,&#8221; said Dr. Kaltiala.
In a large Swedish study, suicide mortality significantly increased among adults who received sex-change treatments, and a Finnish study found that the mental health of many minors who received hormonal care deteriorated.  
&#8220;Therefore, it is not justified to tell the parents of young people experiencing transgenderism that the young person is at risk of suicide without corrective treatment and that the danger can be countered with gender reassignment treatment,&#8221; says Dr. Kaltiala. She recommends not beginning medicalization before adulthood.
Regarding the dominance of the suicide discourse, Dr. Kaltiala noted that adults who claim to have benefited from chemical and surgical sex change services have a desire to help children and young people, but lack the understanding that &#8220;a child is not a small adult.&#8221; 
In its statement to the Social and Health Committee, the Finnish Pediatric Society said that gender self-ID should not be extended to minors.
Finland, like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swedens-new-pediatric-treatment-guidelines-ditch-gender-affirming-medication-for-psychotherapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden </a>and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/englands-national-health-service-abandons-gender-affirming-model-of-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England,</a> has conducted systematic reviews of the available evidence on pediatric medical transition, as has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-medical-boards-vote-to-ban-medical-transition-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida’s Boards of Medicine</a>, with each concluding that the risks far outweigh any benefits. This resulted in the closure of prominent gender clinics, strict restrictions on the use of cross-sex hormones, and banning gender-related surgeries for minors. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/italian-psychological-association-expressed-great-concern-over-puberty-blocking-drugs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Italy</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-data-reveals-pediatric-gender-clinic-referrals-in-australia-have-skyrocketed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Australia</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spains-medical-societies-revolt-against-proposed-transgender-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spain’s</a> medical bodies have also recently raised similar concerns.
Meanwhile, U.S.-based medical groups have used poor evidence to support their positions and have refused to conduct systematic reviews. Instead, they have “devoted themselves to promoting deeply flawed and ideologically driven research,” <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/gender-transistions-school-to-clinic-pipeline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Leor Sapir, a Manhattan Institute fellow who wrote his Ph.D. <a href="https://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:108948" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dissertation</a> on the rapid proliferation of the “transgender rights movement.”
In the U.S., children are put in the driver’s seat of their own sex change operations despite the fact that a body of <a href="http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> indicates that roughly 60–90% of children who identify as transgender, but who do not socially or medically transition, will no longer identify as transgender in adulthood, and many will grow up to be gay and lesbian adults. The “gender-affirming” model of care discourages therapy that could help minors feel more comfortable in their bodies and instead provides puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, to “affirm” minors in their chosen trans identity.
&#8220;The interview highlights just how out of step the U.S. medical establishment is with its European counterparts on pediatric gender medicine,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/LeorSapir/status/1620448056444588033?s=20&amp;t=Czhgt_ntXXXjdCHFsFn7xw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Sapir. &#8220;Doctors and medical groups in Finland have been willing and able to stand up to activists, including within their own ranks.&#8221;

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