Thread by @KuypersMarieke

A quick thread for any English speakers about something I've been afraid of ever since the publication of a Dutch article about the Dutch Approach that was heavily biased. It's been used as more evidence of this "increasing" concern in an Atlantic piece archive.is/sku5x#selectio…

Because I've been looking into anti-trans targeting of The Dutch Approach, I recognize the author. Frieda Klotz's article on the same topic from last year was published on GLP, which is a Monsanto front - the article geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/06/27/tra……- GLP: sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gene…

The same article by Klotz on Undark, a website tied to GLP: undark.org/2022/04/06/the……About the link between Undark and GLP: medium.com/@thackerpd/why…

Kuitenbrouwer and Vasterman are not qualified to judge gender care. One is a media sociologist, the other a columnist. Kuitenbrouwer is rabidly transphobic, calling the "trans-movement bloodthirsty". They were also on a Genspect sponsored podcast

For some of Kuitenbrouwer's massively transphobic work, check out these articles: docs.google.com/document/d/1Br…

Vasterman shared the Undark article by the same author as the Atlantic piece, Frieda Klotz in april last year

https://twitter.com/PeterVasterman/status/1512115101196824586?s=20

In december he published a similar piece together with Kuitenbrouwer www-nrc-nl.translate.goog/nieuws/2022/12…

To which Dutch doctors, amongst them De Vries who is interviewed in the Atlantic article replied with their defense of the Dutch Approach. To me it seems like her views are misrepresented in The Atlantic www-nrc-nl.translate.goog/nieuws/2022/12…

To make the connection even more complete, Kuitenbrouwer apparently knew about the Volkskrant article before it was published, according to this tweet in which he says there's an article coming about the Dutch approach. Did he influence the article?

https://twitter.com/kuitenbrouwer/status/1627664286280519682?s=20

I also spoke to someone who was interviewed for the article and retracted their story once they read the article. The told me and I have evidence that the authors spoke to anti-trans activist Michael Biggs. How much influence did he have? transgendermap.com/politics/socio…

The influence of anti-trans groups does seem obvious, they even link to one in the Volkskrant article referencing SEGM as a "group of 120 doctors". It does not have 120 members who are doctors, but about a dozen, amongst them Michael Biggs

https://twitter.com/KuypersMarieke/status/1636625410434686978?s=20

The Volkskrant also talks to dr. Kaltiala who spread the debunked social contagion (ROGD) story and was a witness in Florida, and is linked to SEGM as well genderanalysis.net/entity/riittak…

Furthermore, the detransitioner in the story matches (same process, ages of treatment, same very specific story about a back surgery and the account proudly retweeted the article) the Twitter account of someone who was invited by anti-trans group Genspect to a detrans house

I’m rushing the analysis I was already writing about the Volkskrant article and how it was influenced by anti-trans groups and will try to publish a translated version as soon as possible and add it to this thread once it’s finished.

Want to know what dr. De Vries thinks? Here are her own words in the book about the Dutch Approach by Alex Bakker:

This is a critical response to the article by the Dutch Transgender Network. They link to a pdf with extensive references, you can throw that in Google translate as well using the documents tab …-transgendernetwerk-nl.translate.goog/belangenorgani…

Oh look Kuitenbrouwer seems to admit he “crossed paths” with the Dutch journalists. (I wasn’t sacked by the way, shows how reliable this guy’s info is)

https://twitter.com/kuitenbrouwer/status/1652396395431698432

Ahw I think he doesn’t like me so he blocked me. Here’s a screenshot