There is a difference. These kids are being transitioned when they are children. they have no idea of the possible longterm costs such as infertility and lack of sexual function. They and their parents are told untreated they will commit suicide. I have ...
This might be an interesting read in response to Micky. Why did three Green mps break almost every Green value to attack Keen-Minshull when their differences with her are political? The reason is "Trans women are women and 'no debate.' Inflammatory claims ...
See here for example https://twitter.com/ameracadpeds/status/1561797558007173120
It's a very reassuring take for those involved in healthcare and parents. The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa have just published a commentary on the UK Cass Review where they advocate affirmative care only and endorse the ...
On other occasions research portrayed as positive has been reported as having been published which on enquiry did not exist. See this where the Listener quoted from "publshed research" was cited which could not be supplied because "it did not exist" Otago ...
On other occasions research portrayed as positive has been reported as having been published which on enquiry did not exist https://fyi.org.nz/request/15830-published-review-of-international-studies-on-the-psychosocial-and-physical-health-effect-of-puberty...
...://www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/jan-rivers-against-tvnz/
I think you have hit the nail on the head. I think gender identities and self-id are societal disrupters that help to break up social solidarity.. In schools teachers are allowing kids to transition and their parents are not told about it even though there...
I have a little background on specifically what happens with NZ's media. A few months ago I was pretty angry that concerns about puberty blocker medicine were presented by TVNZ as one of a number of stories about conspiracy theories and misinformation and ...
You create a straw man of validation. No-one has to be forced to agree with the self-estimation and beliefs of another person. Liberal democracies have not generally operated in the territory of enforced belief and speech. No-one HAS to validate me, you or...
Weka and the other core posters have worked hard to create a moderation scheme that works well. Big thanks to them. For example people have a right to believe they have a gender identity. It is an explanation for them believing themselves transgender. ...
I'm sorry you have been misled. But sex cannot change. That's how come the gold digger buried after 100 years could be identified as male. Stats NZ made the claim that sex could change in 2020. When called on this they revealed that they meant that a birth...
I wondered the same. It's an unusual interview by Kim Hill where she doesn't delight the interviewee by knowing something unexpected about them. I would have thought Prof. Stock's background in aesthetics would have rated a mention at least. Not entirely ...
Thanks very much for another post with a really solid base of verified information. How long can NZ continue with its Wild West approach to children and gender medicine when other countries are drawing back? So far the New Zealand transgender lobby ...
This article is a series of tweets about the way that Diversity and Inclusion policies by a leader at the Guardian Susanna Rustin https://threadreaderapp.com/user/SusannaRustin Another journal article published over the weekend is Reconsidering Informed ...
The issue in answer to your question is that puberty blockers continue inexorably to cross sex hormones and the combination leads to inevitable sterility and other sreious problems. Is it OK for kids to leave adolesce with levels of bone density more akin ...
Well spotted connection! The first thing I wrote on this was called. Another Unfortunate Experiment on the Redline blog. Then I tidied it up with a better structure and proper referencing. But the issue about whether the consent could be in any way ...
A senior clinician at WPATH takes issue with this idea. See https://genspect.org/leeper-edwards-support-doesnt-always-mean-medical-interventions/ She is quoted as saying " “As far as I know, there are no studies that say that if we don’t start these kids ...
Too right. I become my real self, by transcending my actual self to become someone else. It's a recipe for a mental health nightmare. Plus all the friends, relatives, colleagues have to go along with a pretended self.
Very keen to get in touch. It's a great post you have put up, well researched and really solid. And a lot of work. Look forward to hearing from you. Also with anyone else here who may have capacity to focus on these issues. There are two or three ...
Thank you so much Standardista Molly for posting this information. Of course this issue is highly relevant to New Zealand too. Our treatment guidelines are already more extreme that even those of WPATH in 2012 version 7 and they will remain more extreme ...
Luckily their position was well reasoned and well evidenced as well as being eloquently delivered.
Thanks very much. The conversion practices prohibition bill is underway too. Again there are some serious problems. Migt you be interested in an open letter that I have written to Dr Ayesha Verrall as a post for discussion. It's here. https://www....
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Thanks Weka for a really solid article on this topic. You have done, and taken the place of, the NZ media who are all but absent on critical analysis of this area.
"Comfortable with" is a NZ cliche. Its why John Key used that expression and 'relaxed about' so much. I too am relaxed about transgender people in my life. It doesn't make me believe in gender ideology or think that it would be appropriate that girls have ...
At the first SUFW public meeting in Auckland a woman spoke who was having a sensitive claim dealt with by ACC. She asked for a woman counsellor. She was allocated a transwoman with whom, quite naturally, she found it hard to explore the issues. The role is...
Yes. They are tasked with, and funded handsomely by government to be looking out for SOGIESC kids or LGBTQIA kids or IDAHOBIT kids but in reality their modus operandi seems to be that they are careless about whether gay and lesbian kids are being ...
My open letter to Dr Ayesha Verrall on why the conversion practices prohibition legislation bill is such a terrible idea. It really is. https://www.publicgood.org.nz/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Letter-to-Dr-Ayesha-Verrall.pdf
You are absolutely right that the responses have been weak and formulaic. But you are mistaken I think if you believe that there is much critical thinking on this issue. I've been looking for good reasons as to why I should desist from fighting for women's...
It does you are right. Thanks
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