1./ Trans Healthcare and the Nazis.
The LGBTQ+ lobby likes to claim trans people were a key target of the Nazis. They weren't. In fact, trans healthcare was pioneered by a champion of eugenics, and a surgeon who designed experiments at Dachau. His victims there were not trans.
2./ Magnus Hirschfeld, the Jewish, gay sexologist is constantly lauded by the LGBTQ+ lobby as the first ever prophet of "gender reassignment" medicine. What is often ignored is that he was also a passionate campaigner for the sterilisation of those he considered "unfit to breed".
3./ In 1931 Hirschfeld went to the US to meet Paul Popenoe and Ezra Gosney, fellow champions of sterilisation for the "feeble-minded". He was greeted "like an old friend...we have studied for 25 years". Both just happened to be vicious racists and white supremacists.
4./ Hirschfield praised them as being in "the vanguard of improving humanity by sterilising unfit men and women". Their research was to provide the model for the introduction of the Nazis' compulsory sterilisation program just two years later in 1933. sfgate.com/opinion/articl…
5./ Until WW2, Popenoe and Gosney would defend and advise the Nazi regime, traveling often to Germany. Hirschfeld too wrote to a friend that the Nazis' "purification..is in many respects just what we had wanted for a long time", even if the violence was "too high a price to pay".
6./ The Nazi program led to the compulsory sterilisation of 360 000 disabled, and in 1939 morphed into "euthanasia" using first injections and then gassing. At the heart of this sterilisation campaign was a long-time collaborator of Hirschfeld's, Erwin Gohrbandt.
7./ In 1931 Erwin Gohrbandt conducted the world's first vaginoplasty, creating an experimental "neo-vagina" for Dora Richter, a troubled male patient at Hirschfeld's Berlin clinic. Here's a timeline from @TransMediaWatch confirming his role. web.archive.org/web/2018122603…
8./ Gohrbandt did the same to another troubled patient, Einar Wegener ( Lili Elbe) the subject of the film The Danish Girl. Wegener thought nosebleeds were him menstruating. Doctors tried to transplant a womb into his body, killing him. He was a victim of shocking malpractice.
9./ Where did that spirit of malpractice emerge? Gohrbandt and Hirschfeld worked together for over a decade, sharing a passion for eugenics. Hirschfeld's work was obsessed with the study of sperm, viewing defective sperm as a sure sign of homosexuality or other "conditions".
10./ When he helped lead the Nazi sterilisation effort, Gohrbandt reviewed research on the potency of sperm and advocated it as a key factor in whether patients should be sterilised. Hirschfeld's research didn't contradict Nazi medicine. It shared assumptions.
11./ In a book last year, Laurie Marhoefer revealed Hirschfeld argued homosexuality was Nature's way to prevent bad genes being passed on. Gays must not procreate, he said. Unwittingly, Hirschfeld gave credence to the Nazi conviction that gays were a threat to racial purity.
12./ Up to 15000 gay men were sent to concentration camps, the first of which was Dachau. Only ten years after he conducted the first 'sex change surgery' Gohrbandt helped design experiments at Dachau which have become a byword for immoral medical experimentation.
13./ As the Luftwaffe's Chief Medic, Gohrbandt commissioned research at Dachau to find treatments for pilots who had to bail at sea. In 1942 he presented a paper at a conference which detailed the results of breathtakingly brutal experiments on prisoners of war in the camp.
14./ Up to 300 victims were immersed in tanks of freezing water until they lost consciousness. Those who did not die were revived and warmed, some in scalding water. This was done repeatedly. In other experiments for the Luftwaffe, Roma were forced to drink seawater for days.
15./ They became so thirsty they desperately licked the lab floor when it was mopped. In another, prisoners were put in decompression units to mimic high altitudes until their heads bled. Their brains were cut open while they were alive to observe gas bubbles that had formed.
16./ We know for sure only that Gohrbandt took part in the hypothermia experiments because he presented the research at a secret conference in Nuremberg. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the War Merit by Hitler in February 1945. He was never prosecuted after the War.
17./ Gohrbandt's surgical skills were in demand by the Occupying powers. The Allies' lax approach to Nazi doctors meant a colleague, Strughold, who'd worked on the same hypothermia research was spirited out of Germany and set up in a tailormade medical research centre in the US.
18./ As for Hirschfeld, he died in exile in 1935. He wasn't in Berlin when Stormtroopers looted his Institute in 1933. They carried out a bust of him so it could "watch" his library being burned. Hirschfeld can lay claim to being a victim. Unlike Gohrbandt he did not collaborate.
19./ He's no hero though. His support for eugenics and insistence gays should not reproduce gave a respectable shine to Nazi pseudo-science. What's shocking is how he has evaded criticism unlike other prominent supporters of eugenics. The trans lobby should stop defending him.
20./ The brilliant 'US and the Holocaust' series slams Americans like Theodore Roosevelt, Carnegie and Keller for their support of eugenics. Magnus Hirschfeld was loathed by the Nazis, but was just as guilty within Germany for feeding the obsession with "improving" the species.
21./ The sad truth is trans healthcare's founder and first surgeon championed eugenics. Together they invented a new way to sterilise patients, involving fake genitals created surgically. Two years after inventing the vaginoplasty Gohrbandt was busy sterilising the disabled.
22./ He'd go on to be implicated in disgusting medical experiments in Dachau that showed the same concern and humanity as he did when he gouged a hole in Dora Richter's pelvis. Is there another field of contemporary medicine with such a shameful and inglorious origin?
23./ If you'd like to read more myth-busting of the fake history the LGBTQ+ lobby insists on making up then why not subscribe to my blog. The link is in my bio.
24./ There's plenty of myths to bust, and balloons to burst. It's almost as if the LGBTQ+ lobby has a problem with telling the truth.
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1./ 🧵Why was media coverage of the Supreme Court's ruling on sex so biased? My latest article tells the emblematic story of one channel's capture by the trans lobby. Channel 4's subversion is partly down to the social circle its staff move in. Guess who's this guy's best mate.👇
2./ Last week Krishnan Guru-Murthy gave two idiot trans activists the chance to malign the Court's ruling with all the critical challenge we might expect from some blowhard champion of the trans agenda like the SNP's John Nicolson. Funny you should mention that poltroon. 👉
3./ Guru-Murthy and Nicolson regularly describe each other as their closest friends. Nicolson says GM is "one of the people in the world who likes me most." A low bar. They met when Guru-Murthy was a 15 year old schoolboy during filming for a TV show Nicolson was presenting.
1./ Apologies. It’s welcome that
Mark Smith has said, “men like me need to say sorry”. Everyone makes mistakes. A democratic culture only works if we accept people’s views evolve. There are tho some lessons to be learned from Mark’s original stance. 👉 heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…
2./ In his column in early 2020 after the launch of @AllianceLGB, Mark opined on our “horrible website”. He complained images of women had been deliberately chosen to look as feminine as possible to emphasise trans male exclusion. Uh? 👀 They really weren’t. Worse was to come. 👉
3./ Smith went on to compare @AllianceLGB’s concern over child safeguarding to Section 28. “Dangerous to children is a phrase that appears on the LGB Alliance website along with multiple uses of the word ‘threat’. We have been here before.” Indeed we have. Heard of PIE anyone?
1./ 🧵On a female hero. It’s typical of @HotchkissRhona to hand out well-deserved plaudits to women who helped prepare the ground for the Supreme Court triumph. But no one who went to early public meetings of @ForWomenScot can be in any doubt Rhona herself deserves thanks. 👉
2./ I first met this pocket rocket at a @ForWomenScot meeting in early 2020. In those days all gender critical events were by word of mouth or carefully vetted such was the level of fear. I’d come to talk about @AllianceLGB and was amazed to find a secret, feisty army of women.
3./The first speaker was @HotchkissRhona who talked, as an ex prison governor, about how trans identified men often acted out in sickening ways in women’s jails. Her jaw dropping speech was spiced with Rhona’s biting wit. She then introduced a young woman sitting beside me.
1./ How deep does homophobia run in the trans psychosis? There's a clue in the story of Sofia Taloni, one of the Arab world's most famous trans activists who's now detransitioning back to the bloke he always was. If Sofia looks a bit of a lunatic there's a reason for that. 👉
2./ Taloni was born in Morocco where homosexuality is illegal. Though as many a tourist can attest it's not exactly unknown dans la casbah. Shame and the threat of a jail sentence has led many gay Moroccans to embrace trans, which is not illegal. So here's Taloni not being gay.👇
3./ Taloni's internalised self-hate erupted in 2020 when he told his 700K Insta followers to download Grindr, create fake profiles and expose closet gay men. Taloni urged his followers to post the men's images online and then publicly berated them. attitude.co.uk/news/world/as-…
1./ 🧵Why is the debate about Trans so overdue? It's great to see the landmark book by @HJoyceGender discussed at a Festival at long last and by the legend that is @bindelj. There was though a tragic irony about the location that reminds us why this debate is urgently necessary
2./ In the early hours of the 25th July 2021 a slightly-built 30 year old Spanish engineer Jorge Martin Carreno was separated from his friends and sat down, tipsy, beside the architectural wonder that is the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford where today's debate was held.
3./ What Jorge did not know was a 23 year old trans identified male, who called himself Scarlet Blake, was at that very moment scouring the streets of Oxford looking for someone to kill. He was wearing a hooded jacket that hid his face. And then he spied...Jorge.
1./ 🧵Adolescence
If someone says a TV drama should shape policy remind them of Butterfly about a boy who wants puberty blockers. Its advisor Susie Green had castrated her own son. 6 years ago the show was applauded by many now applauding Adolescence.
2./ We now know puberty blockers do not alleviate gender dysphoria, yet Butterfly claimed they did. The Tavistock only released that information after relentless pressure. In the show the clinic is portrayed as a centre of excellence. It's now been closed.
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