Cross-posted from the Tranny Sideshows on Social Media thread.
If you ever feel like the rise of transsexualism has been like some kind of bizarre conspiracy, it turns out there is quite a lot of truth to that theory. An investigation published last month on feminist news and opinion website Reduxx by investigative journalist Genevieve Gluck revealed collaboration between a professional organisation for transsexual health and members of a fetish forum community that originated in the 90s on Usenet.
The original stories were originally posted to Kiwi Farms
earlier in this thread and to Articles and News (
first article;
second article), but received little attention. In celebration of the last Friday of Pride Month, I thought I'd write a rundown of what these stories found in the hope that it interested
@Null enough to pay homage to on Mad at the Internet.
Top Trans Medical Association Collaborated With Castration, Child Abuse Fetishists (Wayback Machine, archive.ph)
In December 2021 the professional organisation WPATH, World Professional Association for Transgender Health, published a draft for the 8th edition of its Standards of Care (SOC), which are guidelines for health professionals to assist transsexuals with their "gendered selves".
This draft included a number of new chapters, including one for eunuchs that was 11 pages long.
Who are WPATH? What they do, who they are connected to and why you should care. (Brief original research by me)
WPATH is a non-profit organisation that is mostly known for their Standards of Care for transsexuals, but also:
WPATH charges between $15 to $225 for
membership to their organisation (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph). They currently have over
3,300 members (
Wayback Machine,
archive.ph). They have links to the
American Psychiatric Association (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph) who publish the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM), and the
World Health Organization (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph).
On the first page of WPATH's SOC V8 draft chapter for eunuchs, they say:
[...]the greatest wealth of information about contemporary eunuch-identified people is found [...] on sites such as the Eunuch Archive (
www.eunuch.org)[...]
The Eunuch Archive has been briefly noticed by both
Kiwi Farms and a lot earlier by
Something Awful (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph). The community has origins back to Usenet newsgroup alt.eunuchs.questions that started in the
mid-90s (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph). Early in its life the Eunuch Archive's website stated that it existed thanks to the generosity of the Body Modification Ezine (BME), a website partially dedicated to members mutilating themselves.
- Archive of Eunuch Archive mentioning the Body Modification Ezine
- Archive of the Body Modification Ezine website (SFW link. Other archived dates might contain gore.)
BME is mostly notable for running a competition called the Pain Olympics. A hoax video pretending to be an official contribution to this competition
went viral in the late 2000s (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph).
Members of the eunuch and Eunuch Archive communities discuss fantasies and services for
castration (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph),
nullification (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph),
male feminisation (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph), and
body modification surgery (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph)..
An FAQ from the Eunuch Archive's early history recommends torture, bondage, and cutting porn forums.
The administrator of the Eunuch Archive goes by the username
Jesus. At the time of this article, Reduxx hadn't discovered his actual identity. In 2010
he posted insider information about how WPATH was changing their language surrounding the diagnosis of transsexualism away from indicating mental illness. He also said that these changes would be part of the American Psychiatric Association's upcoming 5th edition of the DSM. The 5th edition of the DSM also removed terms for sexual obsession with genital mutilation, known as Skoptic syndrome.
In 2016 after WPATH's symposium the same year,
Jesus posted that WPATH president
Eli Coleman asked him at the event to provide input on eunuchs for the next version of their SOC.
Jesus requested in that thread and
in another thread in 2018 for input from the Eunuch Archive community. In a different thread from 2021, a forum user posted that he "[...] would gladly throw millions of confused people under the bus [...]" campaigning "[...] for a world where doctors must obey and have no right to demand reasons or withhold surgery and medication,".
WPATH's SOC V8 draft chapter for eunuchs specifically mentions the Eunuch Archive's Fiction Archive on the first page:
The Fiction Archive, which is part of the Eunuch Archive, is neither medically nor historically accurate and is filled with fantasy (Piccolo et al 2019; Piccolo et al submitted).
This fiction archive contains over 3,700 of stories with sadistic child sexual abuse. These include fetishisation of child castration in author wish-fulfilment or coercive and forceful scenarios, doctors raping children, Nazis, child sex trafficking, castration of prepubescent children so paedophile protagonists could keep their bodies childlike, and child killings. Partial historical lists of these stories are available on the
Wayback Machine. Reduxx captured this screenshot of a
password-protected area (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph) of the Eunuch Archive by competing a membership application revealing what the category list looks like in contemporary times.
(The pink border was added by Reduxx)
GIF showing more of the list (Uploading directly to the post failed.
See attached ZIP.)
Fetishisation is a common theme on Eunuch Archive, with new members asked if they are interested in specific fetishes such as forced castration. Surveys conducted on the forum about members' interest in becoming a eunuch revealed many responses stating it allowed them to be more submissive, or better slaves to a master.
Another member of the Eunuch Archive has also collaborated with WPATH.
Dr. Krister Hildahl Willette, who's username is
Kristoff, gave a lecture at WPATH's symposium in 2009 about eunuchs as a gender identity. This was
later published (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph) to WPATH's International Journal of Transgender Health (then known as the International Journal of Transgenderism) in 2010.
Dr. Willette grifted for the Eunuch Archive over PayPal and PO Box under the name
Wyrm Wyvern Inc.
This page proves he owns the organisation (
Wayback Machine; archive.ph failed to save). The state of Minnesota involuntarily dissolved this organisation in 2019 (
PDF attached). Reduxx asserts that this nonprofit corporation's activities were being used for personal gain, but I couldn't verify that.
Dox (
Source;
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph)
Birthdate: 06.01.54 (unclear whether this is January 6th or June 1st)
Address: 2018 5th St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
PO Box: PO Box 68098, Minneapolis, MN, 55418-8098
Mobile: (612) 558-6197
Landline: (612) 782-9630
Email:
wyrmwyvern@live.com
Dr, Willette and
Jesus arranged annual meetings with Eunuch Archive members in Minneapolis, where
Krister lives and the former location of WPATH's headquarters. WPATH president
Eli Coleman also lives here.
Dr. Willette also uploaded some embarrassing videos to YouTube in 2006 and 2007. In each he wears a full body nun outfit.
Dr. Willette waves around a condom and talks about it making you have "the best dressed dick in town"
Dr. Willette reads a list of swear words including "faggot" but not including "nigger"
Top Academic Behind Fetish Site Hosting Child Sexual Abuse Fantasy, Push To Revise WPATH Guidelines (Wayback Machine; archive,ph)
A follow-up article by Reduxx unmasked the identity of the Eunuch Archive administrator
Jesus. His name is
Dr. Thomas W. Johnson as revealed by
this post, though I think that link was removed from the article. He's a professor for California State University at the Chico campus who
retired in 1998 (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph). He continues to present events for the university, with his latest one on May 5th this year called
"Serendipity and the Expansion of the Transgender Umbrella" (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph). A presentation he made in 2014 is still available online.
Time-coded lecture slides attached to the post. Live link has better quality.
Dr. Johnson has contributed to academic journals outside of WPATH's IJTH. In 2019 he wrote a paper based on surveys he conducted with the members of the Eunuch Archive
that was published (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph) in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. In 2008 he published a paper titled "A Passion for Castration: Characterizing Men Who Are Fascinated with Castration, but Have Not Been Castrated" in The Journal of Sexual Medicine revealing that the majority of survey participants on the Eunuch Archive were interested in castration because of sexual fantasy. (
PDF attached. See Table 3 on page 5.)
These people don't just interact online between adults and academics. A newsletter from the Chico campus of California State University dated during 2007 says that
Dr. Johnson was president of the Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society (
PDF attached, page 17).
The identity of one other leading site member was discovered by Reduxx and revealed in this article, though they didn't post direct proof they're the same person.
Dr. Richard Joel Wassersug is apparently the user
eunuchunique,
has a Wikipedia page (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph), and has been a member of the Eunuch Archive for
over 20 years.
Dr. Wassersug has a very large footprint. He is an honorary professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at the
University of British Columbia (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph), professor in the Department of Medical Neurosciences and Psychology at
Dalhousie University (
image capture attached. LinkedIn doesn't work with archive websites), and professor at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society for
La Trobe University (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph).
Dr. Wassersug writes papers such as this one from 2008 titled
Mastering Emasculation for the Journal of Clinical Oncology (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph). He
wrote about "coming out" as a eunuch after surgery for prostate cancer in around 2008. He collaborated in writing a book titled
Androgen Deprivation Therapy published in 2018 (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph).
In 2010
Dr. Wassersug began appearing on Australia's government funded radio stations.
Program begins by the snob presenter asking "Can your dildo feel as sensitive as the real thing?"
Dr. Wassersug begins speaking at 24:57
In 2011 Dr. Wassersug appeared on a La Trobe University podcast, as linked above. You can listen to it below.
What makes a eunuch?
In 2014
Dr. Wassersug appeared on Australia's government funded television station on a science program.
The whole episode is framed around
Dr. Wassersug's interview
Another clip that appears to have been cut from the same episode focuses on
Dr. Wassersug talking about eunuchs directly. This was re-uploaded in 2016 however, when the segment was rerun.
Dr. Johnson and
Dr. Wassersug have collaborated before in professional settings. In WPATH's 2009 symposium they presented a session together with other professors on developing WPATH's SOC for eunuchs (
PDF attached, page 6 with the time 2.55). They also collaborated on
this bizarre article in 2014 (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph) on The Conversation saying that the Islamic State can't be a caliphate because they don't have eunuchs.
In 2015
Dr. Johnson and
Dr. Willette collaborated with other academics to write a paper called "The sexual side of castration narratives", directly mentioned the Eunuch Archive in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (
PDF attached).
In 2011, all three professors
Dr. Johnson,
Dr. Willette, and
Dr. Wassersug spoke at WPATH's 2011 symposium (
PDF attached, on page 9 beside TRACK B). During that conference
WPATH declassified transsexualism as a psychological disorder (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph) and recommended changing the language around transsexualism.
The articles from Reduxx didn't do much more than scare the Eunuch Archive into modifying the permissions of its forum to require users register to read it. However there was one unexpected event that occurred about a week ago.
NHS Scotland Apologizes for ‘Eunuch Gender Identity’ Document (Wayback Machine; archive.ph)
This article opens by mentioning how WPATH's SOC V8 draft was published by the United Kingdom's Scottish National Health Service to their website during June this year. Reduxx reiterates most of the points in the earlier articles, but also links to another paper titled
"Castration for Pleasure" (
Wayback Machine;
archive.ph,
supplementary martial attached) mentioning the Eunuch Archive directly, written by
Dr. Johnson and
Dr. Wassersug and published just last month in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
It's truly fucking insane. This small fetish community started during the infancy of the internet, was completely blatant in pursuing their fucked up ideals, and now its leaders are influencing academia, the media, health, and governments into playing along with their bullshit. A tiny amount of coom-brained lunatics who get off to castrating children, and the whole fucking planet, are somehow forcing the entire forsaken world into bowing to their sick fantasies. And they just get away with it.
I desperately hope common sense will prevail, and this whole fucking movement is finally rejected for the farce it is.
Most of them seem to be the same shit he posts elsewhere. What IS it with these losers?
