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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...school-attack-caught-camera-says-bullied.html

A transgender girl accused of assaulting two students at a Texas high school alleges that she was being bullied and was merely fighting back

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School.

The female student was transported to the hospital along with a male student, whom Perry allegedly kicked in the face and knocked unconscious.

According to the police report, Perry - who goes by 'Millie' - told officers that the victim has been bullying her and had posted a photo of her on social media with a negative comment.

One Tomball High School parent whose daughter knows Perry said that the 18-year-old had been the target of a death threat.

'From what my daughter has said that the girl that was the bully had posted a picture of Millie saying people like this should die,' the mother, who asked not to be identified by name, told DailyMail.com.

When Perry appeared in court on assault charges, her attorney told a judge that the teen has been undergoing a difficult transition from male to female and that: 'There's more to this story than meets the eye.'

Perry is currently out on bond, according to authorities.

The video of the altercation sparked a widespread debate on social media as some claim Perry was justified in standing up to her alleged bullies and others condemn her use of violence.

The mother who spoke with DailyMail.com has been one of Millie's most ardent defenders on Facebook.

'I do not condone violence at all. But situations like this show that people now a days, not just kids, think they can post what they want. Or say what they want without thinking of who they are hurting,' she said.

'Nobody knows what Millie has gone through, and this could have just been a final straw for her. That is all speculation of course because I don't personally know her or her family, but as a parent and someone who is part of the LGBTQ community this girl needs help and support, not grown men online talking about her private parts and shaming and mocking her.'

One Facebook commenter summed up the views of many, writing: 'This was brutal, and severe! I was bullied for years and never attacked anyone!'

Multiple commenters rejected the gender transition defense and classified the attack as a male senselessly beating a female.

One woman wrote on Facebook: 'This person will get off because they're transitioning. This is an animal. She kicked, and stomped, and beat...not okay. Bullying is not acceptable, but kicking someone in the head. Punishment doesn't fit the crime.'

FB https://www.facebook.com/travez.perry http://archive.is/mnEmm

 

[s0mbra]

Full tranny fight video.
I don't speak Floridian so I'm not sure wtf was said. (I've attached a clip of the critical stomping moments in slightly higher quality if someone wants to make some tranny slap memes or something.)

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Yup, I TOTALLY want these true and honest women to share intimate spaces with me, young girls, old women and sexual assault victims :,)

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Gays including drag queens in their clubs hit a level of degeneracy that exceeds what you’re going to see from RuPaul outside the culture or from RPDR. And that’s exactly where they should be being degenerate, that’s what it’s for. So, obvs kids like Desmond don’t belong there.

I don’t really see the value in random drag queens doing story time though. Sex offenders have gotten through, And I don’t really trust the non-RuPauls to know how to successfully adjust their presentation for kids. The costumes and practices of a sexual subculture need to be kept away from kids imo. We wouldn’t have Leather Bear Story Hour, and leather daddies in their costumes are no more or less sexual than drag acts are.

Yeah, you can either say gay/drag clubs are places where anything goes, normal rules about everything from public fucking to public intoxication are off, OR you can say they're family-friendly places where it's normal and NotSexual for children to perform talent show acts.

Leather Daddy Story Hour is a great comparison and I'm going to bring it up next time someone talks about drag queen story time like it's totally innocent.

 

[AnOminous]

I just think there's a difference between 'I wear a dress for fun/money' and 'I wear a dress because I think that makes me biologically a woman/it's part of my fetish/because I want to make you uncomfortable', and it's useful to keep that distinction before it gets too 'gays shouldn't be around children'.

I can see this reasoning if for some reason there was a drag queen incidentally occurring in media or if a performance for some reason involved not obviously sexual drag. But I'm inherently suspicious of anything where the primary purpose is to expose kids to drag for no real educational purpose, where it's mainly troons acting obviously sexually, and where they for some reason think it's okay to let convicted sex offenders do this shit.

 

[Neko GF]

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! South Dakota's House Committee advances HB 1057 (a bill that will ban transgender operations and treatments on minors) with a 5-8 vote.
(Archive)

UPDATE: House committee advances youth transgender treatment bill

The House State Affairs committee has advanced a bill that would criminalize gender reassignment procedures on minors in South Dakota.

www.ksfy.com

 

[Retribution]

Full tranny fight video.
I don't speak Floridian so I'm not sure wtf was said. (I've attached a clip of the critical stomping moments in slightly higher quality if someone wants to make some tranny slap memes or something.)

Deport them. All of them.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Today on Slate "How to do it": "should I buy my thirteen-year-old trans kid a vibrator? (Slate says yes, and they even asked a lawyer for advice!) https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/01/teenage-son-wants-a-sex-toy-advice.html

My 13-Year-Old Son Wants Me to Buy Him a Sex Toy
Should I?

Dear How to Do It,

My 13-year-old trans son recently told me that a friend’s mom gave him, the friend (also trans), a vibrator. I know my kid thinks his friend’s mom is generally wacky and that she does not support her son being transgender and is generally ultra-religious, so I said something like, “Wow, that surprises me, and it seems kind of intrusive to get that from your mom.” (I was actually wondering if this was some kind of don’t-be-trans thing from the mom—like, clitorises are great! Here, have a vibrator! Look! Fun! I had no idea where this conversation was going.)

My son replied, “Yeah.” Then he went on, “Well, I guess it’s not illegal or anything. I guess it wouldn’t be hard to get one, even for a kid. They could probably figure it out … ” I wasn’t sure where all this was going, so I said again, “It seems like a weird thing for a mom to give a kid out of nowhere. I guess if a kid asked me for one, I’d get it for them.” At which point my kid made that pleading I-want-a-puppy face, and I said, “You want a vibrator?” And he said, “Yeah,” and I said, “OK, I’ll get you one.” So my questions are, is there any reason a 13-year-old shouldn’t have a vibrator? I can’t think of any special health hazard or anything—is there one? I guess I’m actually kind of happy he’s feeling that accepting of his body since I know with dysphoria, for a long time, he just felt like everything “down there” on him was gross and wrong. Am I crazy to think this whole thing is good, maybe? Am I crazy to get my kid a vibrator if he wants one?


—Vibin’

Dear Vibin’,

Philosophically, I see nothing wrong with you buying your 13-year-old son a sex toy, as he will be masturbating anyway. Just as you wouldn’t try to stop a fish from swimming or a bird from flying, so should you not attempt to impede a teenager from masturbating. By providing a vibrator, you are not merely being sex-positive; you’re fostering efficiency. That is good parenting, if you ask me.

But I’m guessing that part of why you’re asking this question is because facilitating a teen’s sexual expression is taboo and may feel like a weird thing to do, given teens’ vulnerability to exploitation. I thought it might be useful to get a legal expert on the record here, so I talked to Larry Walters, a First Amendment lawyer who serves as general counsel to the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for sexual expression as a human right. I asked Walters if you could get in legal trouble for giving your son a vibrator, and the answer is probably not. “If a law enforcement agency wanted to prohibit the gifting of a toy to one’s child, I think there are significant constitutional issues that could be implicated in terms of family privacy rights,” he told me.

Regarding your health concerns: I haven’t come across any compelling arguments against a teen using a vibrator, but I’ve heard quite a few anecdotes in favor of it (such as this one). The notion that vibrators will desensitize genitals is sex-negative fear-mongering. A vibrator is preferable to whatever makeshift aid not manufactured for the purpose of masturbation your kid would forage (and teens, they will a-forage). Advise him to pay special attention to instructions, cleaning, and care, and don’t start with something that seems too advanced or complicated. This seems to me like a healthy situation from a sexual and communicative perspective, but maybe talk to your kid’s doctor, just to be safe, about any potential dysphoria-related issues that may come up here.

Netflix Show Features 10-Year-Old Trans Kid as a “Top” in Sexual Terms

Netflix premiered a new show co-created by drag queen RuPaul, titled AJ and the Queen where a ten-year-old accompanies a drag queen

nationalfile.com

Netflix Show Features 10-Year-Old Trans Kid as a “Top” in Sexual Terms
Sexualized terminology used for child to describe person who penetrates during gay intercourse
Netflix premiered a new show co-created by drag queen RuPaul, titled AJ and the Queen where a ten-year-old accompanies a drag queen to perform in mostly gay clubs around the country. In one scene, the prepubescent child is referred to as a ‘top’ which means the person who penetrates during gay intercourse.

The show is co-created by RuPaul, who is the host of the popular show RuPaul’s Drag Race. RuPaul has been subject of much controversy, especially concerning underage drag queens, such as ‘Desmond is Amazing,’ exposing children to performances of a sexual nature.


In the show, the child, who is the 10-year-old daughter of a drug-addicted prostitute, says she wants to be a boy “because people leave boys alone.”
According to Newsbusters, the young girl does everything in her power to superficially cover any feminine features such as her long hair and tries to act like a boy.
During the show, in which the drag queen co-protagonist and the young girl bond, traveling the country, the child is exposed to several highly sexualized themes throughout.

The scene which caused controversy was taken from episode 2, titled Pittsburgh, where the unlikely pair arrive at a gay club in the Pennsylvania city and undertake the following discussion:

Magda: Well, look what the pussy dragged in. And you have a child. I knew closing those Planned Parenthood clinics would create a problem. [Laughs.]

Magda and Robert: Mwah. Mwah.
Robert: Girl, this is AJ. AJ, this is Magda. One of Pittsburgh’s finest queens.
Edie: Which tells you a lot about the Pittsburg scene.
Robert: Uh, maybe don’t tuck in your junk in front of a minor.
Edie: There are no miners in Pennsylvania, no matter what the president promised.
Robert and Edie: Mwah. Mwah.
Robert: AJ, this is Edie. She used to be pretty.
Magda: I’m still pretty thought, right?
Robert: Well…
Alma Joy: Wait till you…
AJ: What’s his problem?
Robert: That’s Alma Joy and, trust me, she may have a couple of nuts, but there is no joy…
Robert: Good to see you, Alma.
Alma Joy: Have we met?
Robert: Oh, okay. No high road. Michelle Obama taught us nothing?
Alma Joy: Surprised to see you all the way out here in the sticks, Ruby. Wasn’t that what you called us? I guess she’d know all about sticks. She has that big one stuck up her ass.
Magda: You say that like that’s a bad thing.
Alma Joy: What are you even doing in Pittsburgh? I thought you were opening your own New York club.
Robert: Oh, I am. We’re in the middle of huge renovations and it is going to be major.
Man: Here you go, Edie.
Edie: Oh, Ruby, girl, there are burgers at the bar. Are you hungy?
AJ: I am. Take me. Come on. Let’s go.
Edie: Okay. Follow me. First kid I ever met that’s a top.

Although the line is in jest, the joke about a ten-year-old girl identifying as a boy–not because she apparently suffered from gender dysphoria, but because she witnessed her drug-addled mother’s suffering as a prostitute–who would act as the penetrating party during gay intercourse is seemingly considered acceptable.

Other episodes of the show continue to immerse the girl in sexually-charged themes.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

"First Amendment lawyer" literally means "child porn defender." That's what every high-profile "first amendment lawyer" is actually doing.

A friend of mine who was very high-minded about constitutional law went through law school and became a first amendment lawyer, only to discover at every conference and seminar for first amendment lawyers, ALL the focus is on defending various types of child pornography. He ended up in wills & trusts instead, so much for ConLaw.

So yeah, ask a "first amendment lawyer" what they think of giving a 13 year old a vibrator. I'm sure the answer you get will be straight as an arrow.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Former transgender patient will tell court that sex change clinic is putting children on 'torturous' path

A former transgender patient has mounted an unprecedented legal challenge against a sex change clinic she claims is putting children on a "torturous”, “permanent” and “unnecessary path, High Court documents reveal.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Former transgender patient will tell court that sex change clinic is putting children on 'torturous' path

former transgender patient has mounted an unprecedented legal challenge against a sex change clinic she claims is putting children on a "torturous”, “permanent” and “unnecessary path, High Court documents reveal.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the UK's only gender identity development service (GIDS) for children, is being sued over concerns that youngsters are being given "experimental treatment" without adequate assessments.
The landmark case centres around a bid to stop the NHS prescribing "experimental" puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children who wish to undergo gender reassignment.
The case is being brought by the former patient alongside a woman known only as Mrs A, the mother of a 15-year-old autistic girl who is currently on the waiting list for treatment at the service.
Earlier this month The Telegraph reported that Susan Evans, 62, a former psychiatric nurse at the Trust, was the lead claimant in the case along with Mrs A. She said that “experimental” and “invasive medical treatment” should be prevented in order to protect children.
However it can now be revealed that Keira Bell, a former Tavistock patient who is unemployed and lives in the Cambridge area, is taking her place as the lead claimant in the High Court challenge.

At a hearing in London on Wednesday, Mrs A's barrister, Jeremy Hyam QC, formally requested that Ms Bell, 23, be made a claimant in the case, and Mr Justice Supperstone, overseeing the case, agreed.
In a statement after the hearing, Ms Bell said: "I have become a claimant in this case because I do not believe that children and young people can consent to the use of powerful and experimental hormone drugs like I did.
"I believe that the current affirmative system put in place by the Tavistock is inadequate as it does not allow for exploration of these gender dysphoric feelings, nor does it seek to find the underlying causes of this condition.
"Hormone-changing drugs and surgery does not work for everyone and it certainly should not be offered to someone under the age of 18 when they are emotionally and mentally vulnerable.
"The treatment urgently needs to change so that it does not put young people, like me, on a torturous and unnecessary path that is permanent and life-changing."
At a hearing in London, Mrs A's barrister, Jeremy Hyam QC, said:"What is challenged is the current and continuing practice of the defendant ... to prescribe puberty-suppressing hormone blockers and then subsequently cross-sex hormones to children under the age of 18."

He added: "The nature of the treatment which is being given is a serious intervention described by the defendant itself as having consequences that may be significant and life-changing.
"That treatment is given to children - not just under the age of 16, but under the age of 12 - on the basis that those children themselves consent to the treatment and gave fully-informed consent to that treatment, even though the nature of the treatment has side-effects which, we say, supported by the evidence, they cannot properly take into account."
Ms Evans told The Telegraph that the former patient has had “her life thoroughly interrupted” and “feels very damaged”, but added that “she’s remarkably resilient”.
In a statement after the claim was filed earlier this month, a spokesman for the trust said: "It is not appropriate for us to comment in detail in advance of any proposed legal proceedings.
"The GIDS is one of the longest-established services of its type in the world, with an international reputation for being cautious and considered.
"Our clinical interventions are laid out in nationally-set service specifications.
"NHS England monitor our service very closely. The service has a high level of reported satisfaction and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission."

Ms Bell, a former student, was originally supposed to be supporting Ms Evans’ case as a witness. However she has now become a “substitute” for Ms Evans as the lead claimant following a change in the former nurses’ personal circumstances.

"First Amendment lawyer" literally means "child porn defender." That's what every high-profile "first amendment lawyer" is actually doing.

A friend of mine who was very high-minded about constitutional law went through law school and became a first amendment lawyer, only to discover at every conference and seminar for first amendment lawyers, ALL the focus is on defending various types of child pornography. He ended up in wills & trusts instead, so much for ConLaw.

So yeah, ask a "first amendment lawyer" what they think of giving a 13 year old a vibrator. I'm sure the answer you get will be straight as an arrow.

It's definitely true in this case. The lawyer serves as general counsel to an anti-FOSTA activist group which in its turn has ties to a "sex positive child protection (AKA covert pedo) organization":

There is some dodgy shit in Juzwiak’s reply.
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The Woodhull Freedom Foundation is like the ACLU for the sex industry. WFF is currently suing the US government over FOSTA (Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) claiming FOSTA “chills sexual speech and harms sex workers.” The Woodhull Foundation was named for Victoria Woodhull, a pro-eugenics, anti-abortion suffragist.

In their appeal, Woodhull named various other groups as supporting their position including Protasia Foundation, a San Francisco-based advocacy org focused on “combining an evidence-based approach to child sexual abuse prevention with its commitment to human rights and sex positivity.”

Here is what is essentially the foundation’s mission statement as written by their executive director. TL;DR Protasia is “sex positive child protection organization” and anyone who doesn’t advocate for a big tent approach (including MAPs) is just a big ol’ bigot.

I don’t have time to dig into all of this, but this article, written by fellow kiwi @yesthatanna, is pretty comprehensive. @3119967d0c did a good rundown on this group in the MAP/NOMSPS thread.

 

[Icecream]

In the show, the child, who is the 10-year-old daughter of a drug-addicted prostitute, says she wants to be a boy “because people leave boys alone.”

Sadly I feel like that is the reason a lot of teenage girls are transitioning. Ugh.

 

[Nykysnottrans]

Apparently people are still learning the news, so I thought I'd do a post in this thread as well. For those of you who don't know yet, gay MRA Youtuber Prince of Queens died unexpectedly a month ago. He was a longtime critic of the SJW troons, so I have collected some of his highlights below for those of you who are unfamiliar with his oftentimes funny videos:

9 Things TransTrenders Often Say

God Might be Gender Neutral, But YOU AREN'T!!!

“Non Binary Genders”, Dissected by Aging Gay Guy

UNGRATEFUL TRANS BRATS!!!

Does the left WANT people to be TransTrenders?

“Non binary is an immutable trait & protected class” – Youtube HQ

Why EXACTLY gays are asked to prioritize the transgender community

When trans guys "womansplain" masculinity

Trans Guys and Female Privileges (transgender men getting in fights)

This is the absolute highlight, from 2016:

TransTrenders and Bistraightuals: A Historical Perspective of Queer Fads

 

[queue-anon]

"""""five lesbians"""""
""""one had a kid"""'
hm. something tells me these women, were not, in fact, lesbians. at all.
bets on them being a bunch of wayward college "bisexuals"? anyone?

While there are plenty of bisexuals pretending to be lesbians, it's still possible for a lesbian to get pregnant without sexing a man.

 

[Next Task]

But I'm inherently suspicious of anything where the primary purpose is to expose kids to drag for no real educational purpose, where it's mainly troons acting obviously sexually, and where they for some reason think it's okay to let convicted sex offenders do this shit.

For the second two points, yeah, this is why I don't like it when it's troons and when they don't vet the readers first. As to the first one, I'm not so worried because no, drag is not inherently sexual, inherently part of a fetish or anything like that. It's not like leather bears who are literally covered in what they find personally arousing - drag is much more often (of course not always, but more often than it's being given credit for here) about performance and being a character.

So I think it's a mistake to assume that drag queens - or kings, for that matter - are only in it for sexual reasons, and especially that they're inherently degenerate in a way that's harmful for children. Or even as if drag queens have no ability to modulate performing for different groups of people. To me, I see it as, when properly checked and vetted, not much different from people hiring someone to be a princess for their child's birthday party, it's just it's a man in a dress rather than a woman.

There's no 'egg' terminology in drag, after all, unlike with troons. If your son plays with dolls or your daughter plays with trucks, drag queens will be like the vast majority of gay men and just think your kid likes the toys, maybe that they'll be gay, but not that they must be the wrong gender. Considering that they play with gender norms anyway, it's actually better that kids encounter drag queens rather than troons and their handmaidens, because it shows them that, in this example, a boy can play with makeup or like pretty things and it doesn't mean he's any less of a boy.

I dunno. I just think that it's a mistake to think a man in a dress who knows he's just a man in a dress is a threat, because I've known lots of boys who liked dresses when they were very young, and girls who were tomboys, and I infinitely prefer the idea that they learn this is OK and we expand gender roles to encompass that, rather than the troon answer of constricting gender roles so that the tomboys are really boys and those little boys (like Jazz Jennings) are really girls.

 

[Yamma Damma]

(Tor has been horrid lately, holyshit.)

While there are plenty of bisexuals pretending to be lesbians, it's still possible for a lesbian to get pregnant without sexing a man.

Pregnant from what, immaculate conception or a toilet seat?

Apparently people are still learning the news, so I thought I'd do a post in this thread as well. For those of you who don't know yet, gay MRA Youtuber Prince of Queens died unexpectadly a month ago. He was a longtime critic of the SJW troons, so I have collected some of his highlights below for those of you who are unfamiliar with his oftentimes funny videos:

PRINCE OF QUEENS IS DEAD?! You have got to be kidding me! I thought his slow video output was from his Dad passing away and YouTube screwing with his monetization. He was the rare proud gay that stood up to these PC whackjobs long before others did and got other gay guys to defend themselves from all the radfems and race-hustlers hijacking the gay community. (He also called out Contrapoints and got us thinking he turned trans because it was guaranteed him a mindless following.) Fuck did we lose a good one.

(Now I feel bed for thinking his Gaytriarchy could've been a potential Community Watch.)

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Prince of Queens is dead?

Shit, I was on a YouTube stream with him not too long ago. Holy shit. He was funny as fuck in streams and a pretty good guy in the before/after stream bullshit sessions.

 

[queue-anon]

Pregnant from what, immaculate conception or a toilet seat?

Sometimes when a lesbian and a turkey baster love each other very much...

 

[Plaguemine]

https://www.odditycentral.com/news/african-man-find-out-his-wife-of-two-wee

"He had a sweet soft voice and walked like a woman,” Kibunga said, adding that he had heard Mutumba complain that four days after the wedding his new bride refused to take her clothes off while they slept. When she was out of the house, Nabukeera always wore a hijab or a traditional gomesi dress, which didn’t raise any suspicion.


I tried several times to add the picture of this beautiful wooman. Its saying there was an error.

Anyway. Do their woman look so ugly that this thing passes enough? This gentile giant was caught stealing a tv too so....womalike.

 

[Whatsup bud?]

https://www.odditycentral.com/news/african-man-find-out-his-wife-of-two-wee

"He had a sweet soft voice and walked like a woman,” Kibunga said, adding that he had heard Mutumba complain that four days after the wedding his new bride refused to take her clothes off while they slept. When she was out of the house, Nabukeera always wore a hijab or a traditional gomesi dress, which didn’t raise any suspicion.


I tried several times to add the picture of this beautiful wooman. Its saying there was an error.

Anyway. Do their woman look so ugly that this thing passes enough? This gentile giant was caught stealing a tv too so....womalike.

They just dont adhere to western beauty standards s'all. Also Im sure she was in those circus tents the women over their wear all the time.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

That fucking headline picture https://www.thepostmillennial.com/y...ld-gender-affirming-top-surgery-on-instagram/

Young Canadians are being sold ‘gender-affirming’ top surgery on Instagram

The rapid escalation of gender-fluid identification amongst young people in the West is nothing short of astounding. Adolescent females are now in a majority of those seeking transition. An Ottawa clinic, CHEO, used to see one or two patients a year. Last year it saw 189. It’s the same in other provinces:

Girls who are dissatisfied with their post-puberty bodies and wish to present as boys, naturally focus on their burgeoning breasts. They may use binders to flatten them, or they may seek surgical removal, referred to in the gender-fluidity world as “top surgery.”

Until fairly recently, a patient needed to undergo psychiatric testing before receiving OHIP approval for funding. Now a patient can be diagnosed by a GP or any other “expert” in gender health. Effectively, OHIP is now approving funding for any teenager who self-diagnoses as gender dysphoric, since Ontario law forbids any health professional from practicing “conversion therapy.” That is, any attempt by a doctor to inquire into contributing factors such as autism, anxiety, sexual preference, depression or other influencing factors could easily be construed as illegal.

The primary destination for top surgery in Ontario is the McLean Clinic, run by Dr. Hugh A. McLean, who has himself performed hundreds of top surgeries and who is not shy about promoting his clinic as a place where gender-fluidity dreams come true.

On the clinic’s Instagram page you can see dozens of photos of post-op FTM (female-to-male) clients posing bare-chested and happy. The clinic cheers on their patients—and prospective patients—with encouraging posts such as “Postop one day! What a way to start the holiday season. Nice job, Dr. McLean!” and “Ready for a topless summer.” Some of the females seem extremely young. Other adolescents comment, “I can’t wait to have this surgery too!” “I’m jealous!” In one photo, fellow surgeon Dr. Giancarlo McEvenue (more on him anon) wearing a mask and a Santa Claus hat holds up two buckets labelled “Breast tissue,” accompanied by a Dr McLean post: “For all you good boys, Dr McEvenue is not bringing gifts, he’s taking them away!”



We already know that adolescence is a notoriously labile period in the maturation cycle, and that teenagers under the age of 18 (at a minimum—our brains are not fully mature until 25) cannot be assumed to be making momentous decisions with truly “informed consent.” This Instagram page straddles a line between affirmation and recruitment.

Dr. McEvenue, Dr. McLean’s (until recently) colleague at the McLean clinic (he is listed as a surgeon here now), is as well a paid consultant for Johnson & Johnson, whose products and services are employed in these surgeries. Under their sponsorship, Dr. McEvenue participated in a gender reassignment surgery panel last September in Markham, Ontario. You can watch the panel and his performance here.

https://youtu.be/Jtp_QKk41O0

In the video, you see a marked transformation in Dr. McEvenue’s pitch. He’s jettisoned the Instagram-friendly Santa hat and the buckets of breast tissue. He is now the smooth, Madman-esque embodiment of Corporate Guy, representing a mammoth company that brands itself as so LGBT-friendly they are bursting with Pride and self-congratulation.

Dr. McEvenue tells us that there could be as many as two million people with gender dysphoria in Canada – about 1.5% of the population – considerably more than the DSM-5’s estimation of .002-.003%. Not only is the wish for top surgery not indicative of a disorder, he says, but it is even “not a distress,” and in fact it may not be necessarily exclusively related to gender dysphoria. Sometimes it is just “breast dysphoria,” he says, a term new to me, which turns out to mean that “you don’t like your breasts.” If that is your issue, Dr. McEvenue is there for you, and will remove them. Because he has a “passion” for what he does.

At the 14:30 minute mark, Dr. McEvenue inadvertently demonstrates the health community’s general dumbing-down of the transition process that he is abetting.

He says, “Believe it or not, when a patient wanted top surgery five or ten years ago, they had to go to a psychiatrist to get diagnosed.” (Here he grins, presumably at the craziness of the very idea that a woman wanting to lop her breasts off might benefit from sorting through her motives with a mental health expert). He continues, “If a woman comes to me for breast augmentation, I don’t make her go to a psychiatrist. I say, okay, are you an adult? Do you understand the surgery?” (laughter, applause. This audience really really wants to believe that top surgery on teenage girls is no big deal.)

So let’s unpack these statements. Dr. McEvenue is comparing breast removal to breast augmentation as though they were two sides of the same coin. But they’re not. The parallel to a breast augmentation is a breast reduction. Both surgeries are performed on women who identify as women, but for reasons of comfort (reduction) or perceived enhanced sexual allure (augmentation), seek surgical alterations. Of course such women do not require psychiatric evaluations. How is augmentation in any way logically comparable to top surgery for transitioning girls who want their breasts removed so they can present as male? It isn’t, unless you are attempting to trivialize both the operation and its psychological implications.

Furthermore, he asks his augmentation patients, “are you an adult?” But from the photos on the Instagram account, a great number of Dr. McEvenue’s patients are not adults at all. How does he know they truly understand what they are doing? Why wouldn’t he want them to see a psychiatrist beforehand? If they are sure of what they are doing, what harm can deeper exploration do? And if they are not sure, what’s the down side of them changing their mind? There is a long waiting list at the McLean Clinic, according to Dr. McEvenue. If one or two drop off it after consulting with a mental-health expert, where’s the tragedy there? Dr. McEvenue claims it is a matter of “respect” not to challenge his patients’ self-diagnosis. And at the 18-minute mark, he says, “Why would I send [a patient] for a second opinion?” Yet “second opinions” are standard in every other field of surgery, and no other surgeons consider them a sign of disrespect. (I guess it’s a good thing Dr. McEvenue isn’t an oncologist.)

Dr. McEvenue enthuses about the benefits of Instagram (“Instagram has been huge for us”) and boasts of the clinic’s 14,000 followers. He claims that he doesn’t moderate the discussion generated, although, “If I see a negative comment, I delete it.” The McLean Clinic is certainly dedicated to FTM transitioning as a “fun” experience.

Representing the patient experience on the panel is a likable transman, Yuri, who is warm, amiable and articulate, clearly at home in his new persona and eager to extol the benefits of his top surgery. Notably, he is now 30 years old, and had the surgery in his 20s. So he is hardly representative of the growing demographic that is seeking the surgery. If all the clinic’s patients were in their 20s, this panel wouldn’t have been needed. The subject is only controversial because the age of those undergoing it is moving downward. Parents are of course concerned, confused and occasionally desperate for objective advice.

They won’t find objectivity on this panel. Two of the speakers, the J & J host and Dr. McEvenue, are stakeholders in the business end of top surgeries. One of the panellists is a mature patient who had gone through years of reflection as an adult before doing it, and the last panellist, Melissa, is the parent of a child to whom she has given her full affirming support since her (then) daughter was four years old and refused to dress in princess clothes.

Melissa, unfortunately, plays the “suicide” card, saying, “I’d rather stand beside my son than over top of his grave.” Suicide is a “big possibility,” Melissa says, and a parent’s job “isn’t to understand, it’s to support” the dysphoric child. Dr. McEvenue reinforces her message with, “a lot of time this is a life-saving operation.” But since he is committed never to second-guessing the patient’s self-diagnosis, he cannot be sure that psychiatric help wouldn’t be equally life-saving.

Brown University researcher Lisa Littman, who coined the term “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” (ROGD) found that many adolescent girls with problems other than gender dysphoria—autism, anxiety, depression—glommed on to gender dysphoria as the source of their troubles through sites like Reddit and Tumblr, where “social contagion” took hold of them. These sites school new adherents in the kind of tropes—such as threatening suicide—that are sure to get their parents on board and assure instant affirmation from therapists. Parents should know this.

So just how real is the risk of suicide if a young girl does not get her double mastectomy? In a very recent article published in Quillette, psychoanalyst Marcus Evans, who formerly served as Consultant Psychotherapist and Associate Clinical Director of Adult and Adolescent Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, the Tavistock Clinic being England’s premier public gender clinic, has this to say on the subject of suicide risk: “Those who advocate an unquestioning ‘affirmation’-based approach to trans-identified children often will claim that any delay or hesitation in assisting a child’s desired gender transition may cause irreparable psychological harm, and possibly even lead to suicide. They also typically will cite research purporting to prove that a child who transitions can expect higher levels of psychological health and life satisfaction. None of these claims align substantially with any robust data or studies in this area. Nor do they align with the cases I have encountered over decades as a psychotherapist.”

What else is missing from this panel presentation? Questions that weren’t puffballs. For example, nobody asked whether Dr. McEvenue had ever had to reconstruct breasts after a client felt regret over the top surgery? (The McLean Clinic website says that “very few trans folk regret their decision to undergo top surgery as part of their transition to their experienced gender,” but they do not reference any studies.) Regretful detransitioners abound, and many of them want to be heard, but trans activists make life difficult for them when they speak out. Or another unasked question: Do you talk to these adolescent girls about their sexual preferences before planning their surgeries? Some girls presenting as trans are in fact merely lesbians who have difficulty processing that notion. In such cases, transitioning is neither required or advisable. But the subject did not arise on the panel.

As noted in a balanced, in-depth Atlantic magazine article on the subject by seasoned researcher Jesse Singal, the American Psychological Association’s guidelines observe that “adolescents can become intensely focused on their immediate desires.” It goes on: “This intense focus on immediate needs may create challenges in assuring that adolescents are cognitively and emotionally able to make life-altering decisions.” The McLean Clinic is marketing itself to this demographic, and far from appearing to see “challenge” in this demographic’s vulnerability, they show every sign of seeing only market opportunity.

It will be clear to any objective observer that the McLean Clinic’s “fun” approach to top surgery and its dependence on social media promotes a perspective that underplays the complexity of the issue and overplays the magical-solution angle. The McLean Clinic’s bruited compassion for their patients is commendable. But their Instagram culture makes a mockery of the “informed consent” they claim to respect.

From a business perspective, the Mclean Clinic’s long waiting list is a sign of success. Their marketing techniques are not illegal. But are they ethical? That is a subject the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons might wish to take under deliberation.

Pregnant from what, immaculate conception or a toilet seat?

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[Banditotron]

Pregnant from what, immaculate conception or a toilet seat?

Sperm banks, big brain.

 

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That fucking headline picture https://www.thepostmillennial.com/y...ld-gender-affirming-top-surgery-on-instagram/
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Wasn't that picture from some social media scandal? The doc is laughing his ass off behind that mask, you can tell. He obviously considers FtM troons a huge joke, as well as the fact he made big bucks permanently mutilating them in ways they'll ultimately regret bitterly.