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Nov 15, 2021 24 tweets 9 min read Read on X
1./ How BAD is the science employed by the trans lobby? Terrible, if we're to judge by the UK govt's recent study into Conversion Therapy which argues for an affirmation only model for "trans youth". It's only the latest in a tradition of awful, pseudo-science trans research.👇 Image
2./ The tax-payer funded report makes huge claims but was based on interviews with a grand total of 30 people. Remember how much the trans lobby complained about that BBC article based on interviews with "just 80" lesbians? Maybe lesbian experiences count for less at Oink News?👇 Image
3./ The absurd thing is the UK govt is taking seriously a report that opines on "Gender Identity Conversion Therapy" which examined only 4 previous studies, none of which were conducted in the UK. Incredibly, the report interviewed only SIX trans or "non-binary" people. Six?👇 ImageImage
4./ And of those 6 people only 3 claimed their "Conversion Therapy" was an attempt to change their gender identity. So the UK govt is considering interfering in the practice of psychotherapy based on THREE interviews. You couldn't make it up. But it gets even worse.
5./ The report admits interviews were sourced thru groups like @OzanneFoundn which have made madly exaggerated claims about Conversion Therapy in the UK. It even quotes "journalist" Patrick Strudwick as a source; someone whose work has never knowingly been confused with facts.👇 Image
6./ No govt that cared about evidence would give this Report the time of day. But it's just the most recent example of bizarrely bad research in support of the trans lobby. Who can forget Jack Turban's pathetic paper in support of puberty blockers?👇
7./ Turban used a self-selecting group drummed up by trans activist lobbyists and only admitted in the small print that kids who got puberty blockers were screened for mental health so...of course they should have better mental health outcomes than those who didn't get blockers.
8./ Except they didn't. There were IN FACT more attempts at suicide among those who got blockers than those who didn't and double the rate of hospitalisations from suicide attempts. Yet Turban didn't bother to correct headlines from inveterate fibbers like this. 👇 Image
9./ The trans lobby's "science" began in the 1920s when medic Magnus Hirschfeld set up a clinic in Berlin. But err...Hirschfeld recommended crackpot testicle transplants to "cure" homosexuality and his clinic was mired in colonial racism.👇
10./ The LGBTQ+ movement celebrates the fact Hirschfeld's clinic championed the first vaginoplasty. They don't mention the surgeon, Gohrbrandt, became a leading figure in the Nazi sterilisation of the disabled; and commissioned disgusting and deadly experiments at Dachau.👇 Image
11./ In time, another Hirschfeld admirer, Harry Benjamin, tried to turn the dark world of backroom sex change surgery by Nazis into a respectable discipline by developing "protocols" that would become the basis of oft-quoted trans health body, @wpath .👇 wpath.org
12./ But don't be fooled. WPATH remains a shady lobby group that promotes dubious "science". How could it not be? It was - as the now renamed Harry Benjamin Gender Dysphoria Association - the brainchild of one of the most eccentric trans activists in history, Reed Erickson. 👇 Image
13./ Erickson was a lesbian who in the 1950s decided "he" was a man, had surgery, kept a pet leopard called Henry, hoovered up ketamine and poured vast sums of money into "his" pet causes including the "science" of gender identity and "transsexualism". Image
14./ As trans activist Morgan Page recently pointed out without Reed "we would not have trans health care period." The vast sums of money Reed poured into founding gender dysphoria clinics in the US created the model that has now metastasised across the world. Image
15./ But what beneficiaries of Reed's largesse such as WPATH don't admit is just how cranky were his interests. The miracle of sex change was not "his" only pseudo-science obsession. Reed was a huge believer in telekinesis and telepathy using dreams.👇
16./ Reed also lavished funds on John Lilley, a biologist and fellow ketamine fiend, who claimed he'd learned to speak dolphin language. His experiments ended in scandal when his research assistant admitted she'd been having sex with one of the dolphins.👇 theguardian.com/environment/20…
17./ If that isn't bizarre enough for you, Reed was also obsessed by latter day religious miracles. "He" funded 'A Course in Miracles', a book that would go on to become a best-seller by the author Helen Schucman who claimed every word was dictated to her by ...Jesus. Okay..... ImageImage
18./ @wpath is now endlessly quoted as some sort of scientific authority. It isn't. When you're told that remember it was brought into being by a rich transman who believed in dolphin-human communication, telepathy, revelation through ketamine and books dictated by Jesus. 👇 Image
19./ The whole "discipline" of trans health care is still rooted in the values of its Reed Erickson origins. What else explains the incompetence of the Tavistock whose own research shows puberty blockers lead to more self-harm and behavioural problems?👇
20./ What else explains the threadbare evidence cited by puberty blocker enthusiasts like Dr Joshua Safer who pushed the Endocrine Society into appealing against @KLBfax's victory in the courts? Here he admits the evidence for gender identity is "weak".👇
21./ How can anyone take seriously someone like Dr Norman Spack who first popularised puberty blockers? Here's his distinctly unscientific take on how "beautiful" kids seemed once they were on the blockers that kept them so very pre-pubescent.👇
22./ The sad truth is the govt's Conversion Therapy Study is a mess on gender identity because the whole subject has become a morass of ill-defined terms, unscientific assertions and misrepresentations by activists who fiercely protect them from normal scrutiny.
23./ The only sensible plan would be to disconnect 'sexual orientation' in the Bill from 'gender identity' and commission robust research into the latter. Trans people deserve protection from those who would try to convert them. But not at the expense of insisting on affirmation.
24./ A ban on Conversion Therapy makes sense. But such a ban can't be driven by pseudo-science which aims to stop good therapists exploring gender dysphoria humanely. It's time for the trans lobby to invest in rigorous research and leave the obsessions of Reed Erickson behind.

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Oct 25
1./ 🧵Labour's War on @elonmusk
What is hate speech? For Imran Ahmed from the Center for Countering Digital Hate it includes accounts on @X that warn of the dangers of so-called "gender affirming healthcare" for children. This matters due to his close links to the UK governmentImage
2./ Last year his group @CCDHate published a report accusing 5 accounts including brilliant gay rights activists @againstgrmrs of.... "LGBTQ+ hate". In fact they and the other accounts were merely calling out horrors like Drag Queens in schools and sterilising kids with blockers. Image
3./ Believe it or not @CCDHate complained an ad had been placed beside a post from @againstgrmrs in which the group said they stood with parents against predatory child abuse by groomers. How is gays standing against predatory child abuse hate speech? It gets worse.Image
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Oct 22
1./ 🧵Two Spirit is a dodgy invention of the Trans Lobby. When I wrote about the trans lobby's origins in child abuse and women-hate a typically angry activist threw the notion of two spirit at me. Here's why two spirit is also steeped in misogyny & abuse.
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2./ The official story of 'two spirit' is that the term came in a dream an attendee had at the Third Native American Gay Conference in Winnipeg in 1990. The truth is Native Americans were desperate for a newly made up term. The reason was child abuse.
3./ These conferences were originally the brainchild of a group of white gay men who were disciples of Harry Hay, a founder of the gay movement who was then cast out (thank god) for his support for paedophilia. Hay had been lurking around Indian events since the late '60s. Image
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Oct 21
1./ What motivates the Trans Lobby?
Two images sum it all up. The first is of Robert Stoller the man who coined the term 'gender identity' and popularised the idea in the 1960s and 70s. Here he is in Papua New Guinea in 1979. Guess who took the photograph.👉 Image
2./ The photographer was Gilbert Herdt who spent the 1970s studying the Sambia tribe who ritually abused young boys. Herdt went on to publicly defend child abuse in the 1990s. His work was then quoted approvingly by @petertatchell in his own defence of paedophilia in 1997. Image
3./ The other image that explains the trans lobby is this one. "Virginia" Prince set up FPE, the first trans organisation, in the 60s and has been credited with effectively founding the trans movement. He was a psychiatric patient of Robert Stoller's for 27 years. Image
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Oct 21
1./The link between trans identification and sexual offences just keeps growing and now Northumbria Police officer Blake Payne-Humphries has made it blatantly clear. He's just been fired for sending a series of disgusting text message from this police station in 2022. Image
2./ In between rape fantasies and sending an image of his penis from the toilet at Southwick police station Payne-Humphries also discussed abusing under age girls. Then he said he wanted to raise a child to be transgender so he could abuse the child. Why does this matter? Image
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3./ One of the prime motivations of many adults who encourage trans identification in children as well as those who medicate them with drugs to prevent them maturing is often no more than a variation on this evil man's fantasy as @WomenReadWomen revealed.
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Oct 1
1./ Gay Tory Cowardice.
Under Theresa May, Tories championed the insanity of Gender Self-ID that allows any man to say he's a laydee. At a meeting of the @LGBTCons I discovered gay Tories still refuse to acknowlege the risks, contradictions and idiocy of this sort of approach. Image
2./ At their #CPC2024 meeting on London's nightlife the panel waxed lyrical about diversity and inclusion. So I asked if they cared so much about inclusion whether they would publicly defend the right of women to organise their own single sex social events. Guess what they said. Image
3./ Only one panellist deigned to back lesbians or gay men properly. @Madz_Grant from @Telegraph supported our right to have single sex events. @EmsFielder from freemarket @ASI had tho no opinion at all on the freedom to choose of lesbians or gay men. Even worse was to come. 👉 Image
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Sep 28
1./ 🧵Sheer Homophobia
The leader of Hezbollah is dead and every lesbian and gay man on the planet should cheer his death to the rafters (if there are any remaining at Hezbollah HQ). Last year Nasrallah called for violence against gay people. "And with no limits".
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2./ If there is anything left of this rancid bigot it is probably only a lump of his throbbing, ineradicable hate. In fact Hassan Nasrallah loathed gays so much he even wanted to exterminate the word homosexual.Image
3./ Instead he urged his brethren to "keep using words like abnormality" and offered a helpful selection of derogatory slurs as alternatives. There is an irony it's worth pointing out though about previous coverage of Nasrallah's homophobia.👉Image
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