1./ On Jolyon Maugham and his underhand tactics. Here's Jolyon complaining that an expert cited by the prosecution in the Tavistock trial is a.... veterinary scientist who did work on sheep. To self-styled genius Jolyon this appears to be an outrage. It isn't. And here's why.
2./ How would YOU test puberty blockers? Now that they're in widespread use Jolyon's side argue it would be unethical to run a trial where a control group of gender dysphoric kids are NOT given PBs. So why not run an animal trial? That's exactly what Professor Neil Evans did.
3./ His team at Glasgow University worked with researchers from Norway's leading Gender Identity clinic. Jolyon didn't mention them. But anyway how CAN animals help us work out the impact of puberty blockers? Simple: all mammals go through adolescence. Yep even sheep.
4./ Strange as it may seem almost identical chemical interactions happen in adolescent sheep as in humans. Yep, pituitary gland, GnRH hormones, sex hormones. Even more importantly, the rewiring of the brain that happens in teen humans happens in sheep too. courses.lumenlearning.com/ap1x94x1/chapt…
5./ How do I know this? Because unlike Jolyon I was intellectually curious enough to speak to the team and read their papers. If like me you grew up in the country you'll know already sheep aren't the pacific little creatures of school rhymes. discoverthelakes.co.uk/how-to-survive…
6./ My boyfriend and I were once chased by rams cos we had our dog (on a leash) and ewes with lambs ain't friendly either. Neither ...despite millenia of domestication are sheep as dumb as we like to imagine. There's another thing that's useful about them.bbc.com/earth/story/20…
7./ If you want to study the impact of a chemical on the entire body mice are so different in body mass from humans it's hard to get the comparison right. Sheep are much closer (average mass 55kg) to humans. So they go thru adolescence and they're close in mass to us! Tick. Tick
8./ The problem is how to examine the mental function of a sheep in ways that might shed light on subtle human brain function. The Glasgow team did something brilliant. They devised a complex maze for their sheep and trained them (using food) to navigate their way through it.
9./ The "teenage" sheep who weren't given puberty blockers when they were reintroduced to the maze after an absence found their way round just as before. Those who took the PBs were lost. This is a very precise sort of memory: spatial memory.
10./ It's the sort of memory that means if you go back to your home town you know you're way around. Could the lack of that sort of memory be suggestive (that's all we can say) of more pervasive identity problems in humans? You can read the paper here. 👇ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
11./ Remember the team were trying to be very precise and only focus on a very few functions. This isn't to say there weren't other deleterious effects of PBs. It just means the experiment was designed to explore THIS one. The team also found distinct emotional differences.
12./ Rams who were given PBs remained more emotionally reactive after the blockers were stopped than the control group. The team concluded "perturbing normal hippocampal formation .. may also have long lasting effects on other brain areas and aspects of cognitive function."
13./ I don't get it. Jolyon and his side say THEY care about kids who believe they are trans. So then why would they not bother to read the paper from, never mind speak to the team who ran the only large animal trial into the powerful drugs they want to give to those kids?
14./ Maybe Jolyon isn't motivated by the truth. Here he points out slyly the team's work was "taken up" by a Christian outfit. So what? Are we to judge Einstein's work on the basis that David Icke sometimes quotes it? This is a lazy attempt to smear good science by association.
15./ Evans was cited by the Christian Institute not paid by them. What's strange is I used to believe some of Jolyon's conspiracy theories. What this debacle proves is that when it comes to facts he can be as careful as a medicalised teenage sheep lost in a long forgotten maze.
1./ 🧵Incest and White Lotus. The creator of Netflix's hit series wrote his thesis about Judith Butler. In my latest article I explore whether the show's incest theme was inspired by the incest-obsessed Queen of Queer Theory.
Click on the link in my bio or end of 🧵to read more.
2./ Mike White wrote his thesis about Butler two years after Gender Trouble was published. The book even got an airing in Season 1, when the deeply annoying Paula was seen packing it into her bag. How big a role does incest play in Butler's book? It has a starring role. 👉
3./ Here are some of the references to incest in Gender Trouble. Butler became obsessed with incest after studying the work of fellow lesbian, Gayle Rubin. This sadomasochist aficionado of S&M porn and defender of paedophilia had come up a crazy Foucault influenced notion. 👉
1./ 🧵The LGBTQ+ lobby, Epstein and hating mothers.
My latest article is about Jes Staley, ex-CEO of Barclays & champion of the LGBTQ+ lobby. 2 weeks ago he went to court to appeal fines for lying about his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Click on the link in my bio to read more.☝️
2./ In 2023, the UK's finance regulator @TheFCA fined Staley £1.8m and banned him from senior positions after he signed off a letter from Barclays claiming he had a strictly business relationship with the notorious sex trafficker who conveniently committed suicide in 2019.
3./ In fact, their business relationship began in 1999 when Epstein became a client of Staley's at JP Morgan. It blossomed in 2002 when Epstein brought $1Bn into Staley's division. Money he'd mysteriously been given power of attorney over by the reclusive billionaire Les Wexner.
1./ 🧵The Sissy Fantasy. My latest article asks why the mainstream media was so shocked by Sam Rockwell's monologue in White Lotus? Did defenders of the trans agenda not realise his love of sissification is the erotic core of most trans identification in men?
Click on the link in my bio to read the full story. 👆👆👆
2./ That matters because if you don't understand "dressing like a woman" gets some men sexually aroused you will fail to appreciate the importance of policing single sex spaces. A good example of this ignorance was the baffled discussion of Rockwell's monologue in the @latimes.
3./ Greg Braxton and Mary McNamara considered the sexual behaviour under discussion so dark and extreme they wondered if it had been included merely for shock value. Yet exhibitionist autogynephilia like this is far from uncommon. They should know that from their own paper.
1./🧵 In my latest article I show why the LGBTQ+ activist and child rapist Stephen Ireland is only the tip of the iceberg. The LGBTQ+ lobby is riddled with predatory men and its agenda is a front for depraved sexual fantasies.
Click on the link in my bio to read more. 🔼
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2./ Ireland didn't just start @PrideInSurrey. He ran UK Pride Network. Here he is on stage in 2018 at the national Pride he organised. He led a campaign to shut down the first @ChickfilA diner in the UK, he signed petitions by @LGBTConsortium and was on the Pride Power List.
3./ It's no accident Ireland fantasised about mutilating boys or abducting them from playgrounds. The LGBTQ+ lobby's number one demand is puberty blockers that sterilise children. It also demands schools socially transition kids without parental consent. A first step in grooming.
1./ Today we got a glimpse of the depravity behind much of the LGBTQ+ lobby's support for transitioning children. Surrey Pride's founder has been convicted of raping a 12 year old boy. He also fantasised about castrating boys. Is he an outlier? Not at all. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
2./ Stephen Ireland was a crystal meth addict with a chaotic personal life. How many other LGBTQ+ groups hide men just as evil who don't leave such obvious evidence as text messages fantasising about kidnapping kids or cutting their vocal chords as he did? The majority, I bet.
3./ Ireland and his @PrideInSurrey were fierce critics of @AllianceLGB and picketed the conference of what was then the ONLY gay group to oppose transitioning kids. Creepy men like India Willoughby joined them there. Of course he did. Birds of a feather.
1./ Mister McBride.
Some people are uncomfortable Sarah McBride was introduced as MISTER. They want us to be polite. The truth tho is he has a decade long record of undermining women's rights and attacking free speech. He doesn't get to police our speech.
2./ I recently explored in detail his deliberate sabotage of the safety of women and girls. McBride claims now it's Republicans that are obsessed with restrooms despite the fact he worked relentlessly in LGBTQ+ groups like @HRC to invade women's privacy.
3./ McBride was enabled by Joe Biden and worked hand in glove with the tiny and incestuous Biden circle in Delaware, the most egregiously corrupt state in America. There he tried to censor social media and worked to deprive parents of their rights in schools.