Month: August 2022

In a recent video of a U.S. Congressional hearing on the effects of the Supreme Court ruling that the constitution does not enshrine the right to abortion, Republican Senator Josh Hawley asked Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges if she meant “women” when she used the term “persons with the capacity to become pregnant.” Bridges responded that trans men and non-binary people also could conceive. In response to Hawley’s question about whether the current hearing also concerns women’s rights, Bridges accused him of transphobia:

“I want to point out that your way of questioning is transphobic and exposes trans people to violence.”

There were enthusiastic comments on Twitter under the video saying Bridges had “slammed” Hawley. At the same time, most of society will be on Hawley’s side. On the other side of the Atlantic, it is evident that after many years of the unstoppable advance of trans ideology through institutions, a counter-strike has started.

Feelings trump facts

There is a rare diagnosis known as gender dysphoria. That is the medical name for when a person feels they are a different gender than the one they were born with. People with this diagnosis try to live and appear as persons of the opposite sex, and sometimes they undergo surgery. For a long time, no one disputed that a trans woman is a biological man and vice versa. But then, contemporary transgender activism appeared, claiming that the determinants are not biological facts, but the inner feeling of the person concerned. Hence the custom of announcing one’s pronouns spread; just because someone looks like a man does not mean they cannot be a woman, according to transgenderism. On the contrary, the inner feeling of the person in question completely overwhelms the biological reality. If someone says they are a woman, they are a woman, no matter what they have between their legs. If anyone declares himself to be of the opposite sex and decides to undergo medical procedures, no one has the right to prevent him from doing so.

Added to this was the claim that biological sex itself does not exist. According to trans activists, gender is a spectrum, and no one can define where male ends and female begins. They make no bones about the obstinate protests of biologists that this is not true. Trans ideology is not entirely internally consistent. On the one hand, gender is a spectrum, and everyone can change it at will. On the other hand, a person can be re-operated so that at first glance, they show typical features of the opposite sex.

Perhaps it would be possible to dismiss transgenderism as a crazy cult, with which a few leftists are mainly harming themselves, but this ideology has penetrated the mainstream and had negative consequences. One is the admission of biological men, who identify as women, into exclusively female spaces. In the U.S., the “battle for the toilets” raged when trans women were allowed to use women’s toilets. The problem also appeared in sports, as men have a clear biological advantage over women. The placement of trans women in women’s prisons is also controversial. Recently, in the American state of New Jersey, two inmates became pregnant after intercourse with a trans woman.

Trans factory

However, the issue of transgenderism and children is the most problematic. Any medical procedures at a young age can have unforeseeable consequences, so it is necessary to proceed with the utmost caution. However, trans activists claim that children can choose their gender, and they must be accommodated as much as possible. The British LGBT non-profit Stonewall tweeted:

“Research suggests that children recognize their trans identity as early as two years old. Yet in many kindergartens and schools, a binary understanding of predetermined gender is taught. LGBTQ inclusive and affirming education is key to the well-being of all young people!”

But the tables are starting to turn. Stonewall deleted its tweet after protests, saying it only wanted to highlight harmful gender stereotypes. On Thursday, Britain’s NHS announced that it would be closing the infamous Tavistock Clinic, or rather, the department that is known as the Gender Identity Development Service, GIDS for short. It is a specialist facility founded in 1989 to help children and young people who have problems with their gender identity. GIDS had a privileged position in England, being the only workplace in the country authorized to perform gender reassignment operations on children. However, in recent years, it has been rocked by scandals, as the clinic acted more like a factory producing transgender children.

This is what I wrote about GIDS in December 2020:

“However, it is undoubtedly a victory for children’s health. The Tavistock clinic has faced scandals for several years. Many suspect it of being taken over by transgender activists who do not care about the welfare of children but are interested in creating as many transgender people as possible. Last year, an internal report warned that the clinic was not fit for purpose, and several parents complained that the clinic was deliberately steering children towards a transgender identity. Former staff member Dr. David Bell, who wrote the report, accused the institution of not sufficiently considering the psychological and social factors that could affect children. Within three years, 35 psychologists resigned, some because they feared the clinic was over-diagnosing gender dysphoria.

Last year, the clinic treated 2,560 young people with gender dysphoria, a 6 percent increase over the previous year and a 30-fold increase over 10 years. Of these, 2,376 were under 18 years of age, 10 were under four years old, and nearly 230 were under 10 years of age.”

Last year, the Tavistock clinic examined 5,000 children.

Expert pediatrician Hilary Cass dealt a death blow to GIDS with a report that condemned its practices. She described the mindless use of puberty blockers as particularly serious.

“We do not fully understand the role of sex hormones in adolescence and how they influence the development of sexuality and gender identity in early adolescence, so we cannot be sure of the impact of stopping the influx of these hormones on psycho-sexual and sexual maturation. We cannot know whether puberty blockers, instead of buying time to make a decision, disrupt that decision-making process,” Cass wrote. She recommended research into the effects of puberty blockers. That they were deployed without fully understanding the possible consequences is a scandal.

Regional centers were created in children’s hospitals to take care of children who doubted their gender identity in cooperation with psychiatry.

Left wing feminists lead on the issue

Interestingly, left-wing feminists have taken the lead in the reaction against transgenderism. On the one hand, they resented the reduction of the term “woman” to insignificance. In the case of children, however, they also drew attention to their childhood years. As children, they rebelled against female stereotypes, especially after they reached puberty and began to separate from boys. Julie Bindel, a lesbian radical feminist, wrote on the Unherd website:

“Growing up in the 1970s on a council estate, like most women, I struggled with my feelings about girlhood. Conformity was everything there, and I hated dresses, tights, and wearing unruly hair in a bun. Sometimes I would lock myself in the bathroom and try on my brother’s Brutus jeans and a t-shirt, imagining what it would be like to be able to dress however I wanted. I wasn’t interested in boys and was in love with my best friend. If I had been born 40 years later and had liberal, middle-class parents, they would have offered me a trip to the gender clinic, and I would have run straight there. I was desperate to be a boy — not because I was trapped in the wrong body, but because I was trapped in a patriarchal society that punishes girls for not conforming to sexual stereotypes, otherwise known as ‘gender.’”

Bindel and others like her fear that it is mainly girls like her who go to gender clinics. Instead of being told they will grow out of it or reassured that it is okay to be a girl who does not like skirts and dolls, they are labeled as trans boys. The numbers support this assumption. In 2017, 70 percent of GIDS patients were girls, compared to 75 percent being boys 10 years earlier.

Thanks to an alliance between radical feminists and social conservatives, transgenderism appears to be declining in Britain. It is not just about closing the Tavistock clinic. British courts have repeatedly ruled in favor of people fired from their jobs for questioning transgenderism, and after a series of BBC reports on Stonewall’s practices, many companies and organizations cut ties with the charity. Perhaps not all battles of the culture wars must go one way.

https://rmx.news/commentary/the-counter-offensive-against-transgenderism-has-begun/

For trips to France, the conditions imposed during the Corona “pandemic” have been lifted. As of this week, proof of Corona shots, a negative test or a recovered status is no longer required. In France, a number of special rules for the fight against the lab-made virus were lifted at the turn of the month.

So far, travelers entering the country either had to be “fully vaccinated” or be able to show a current negative Corona test. For travelers from the EU and some other countries, proof of a recently recovered infection was also accepted. This is now no longer necessary. However, if new dangerous virus variants emerge, the government could order visitors to present a negative test before boarding a plane to France.

The lifting of the previous restrictions is a direct consequence of the recent general election, which weakened Macron’s left camp and increased the number of elected representatives of the right-wing Rassemblement National (formerly the Front National) tenfold.

In mid-July, a majority of Rassemblement National, Republicans and the left-wing populist party La France Insoumise (LFI) prevented a corresponding bill from the Macron government that would have further tightened Corona measures. It was the first post-election vote in which the government suffered a resounding defeat.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/08/02/thanks-to-the-rise-of-the-right-france-drops-corona-measures/

Germany’s green energy transition from carbon fuels and nuclear energy to renewables has “failed”, a state Prime Minister has declared.

Germany’s green energy transition efforts to see the country move from using fossil fuels and nuclear energy and toward green renewables have “failed”, the Prime Minister of German Federal state Saxony has declared, before demanding the country’s government to rethink its abandonment of nuclear to avert disaster.

Having gotten itself addicted to Russian gas exports, Germany had for a long time held on to the belief that pushing its climate crazy green agenda harder would solve its energy problems, and that the country would be able to shut down all of its nuclear power stations without issue.

According to a report by Handelsblatt, however, as the country faces the possibility of gas shortages and blackouts over the winter months, Saxony Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer has labelled the government’s green transition a failure, and is now demanding that the country’s remaining nuclear power stations stay online.

“The energy transition with gas as the base load has failed,” he reportedly said, with the publication noting that — even before the current gas crisis — green energy struggled to supply sufficient power in the country last winter.

“As long as the federal government has not developed a new concept for the energy transition, the nuclear power plants must continue to run,” he went on to say.

In the context of the current plan to see Germany’s remaining nuclear plants shut down by January 2023, Kretschmer described the government’s decision to turn back on a coal power station as “madness”

However, having been brought back into reserve in late 2021, federal authorities have now reportedly given the green light for the Mehrum coal-fired plant back online in a desperate attempt to put more megawatts on the national grid, as well as free up vital gas supplies for use in home heating.

This decision has been made despite the government’s climate crazy obsession with reducing carbon emissions, with coal burning now reportedly threatening the country’s carbon emission goals.

Some politicians want to go even further, however, saying that gas should no longer be used in the country to generate electricity at all, and that nuclear and coal should be used to fill the gaps, though the country’s Green party economics minister, Robert Habeck, has claimed that this approach would lead to blackouts.

“There are system-relevant gas power plants that have to be supplied with gas. If they don’t get any gas, serious disruptions occur,” a spokesman for the politician said.

“Unfortunately, that is the reality of the electricity system, which you have to know in order to ensure security of supply,” they went on to say.

Regardless of whether a full transition is possible or not, Germany’s shift to coal may nevertheless not be sustainable in the long-term, with a long-read POLITICO article claiming last week that the entirety of Europe will see a shortage in the fuel as a result of a combination of increased demand and sanctions on Russia.

Such a shortage would hurt the likes of Poland and Germany the most, the publication claims, though local officials in Germany have reportedly claimed that they have enough of the fuel in reserve to keep the ship afloat.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/01/energy-crisis-state-prime-minister-declares-green-energy-transition-has-failed/

On Friday afternoon July 29, 2022, a transsexual woman was attacked by unknown persons during a walk in Bremen. Three men allegedly spat at her, beat her and sprayed her with irritant gas.

According to the Bremen police, the 40-year-old woman was walking with her dog and two goats on Waller Street in Walle. According to her own statements, she was then lightly touched by a passing car. The driver got out of the car and insulted and threatened her for unknown reasons. The 40-year-old then went on her way and the two parties went their separate ways.

At the street “Auf den Barken”, the woman had again encountered the driver, who was now accompanied by two young men. “According to her own statements, the trans woman was spat at, hit and grabbed on the chest by the trio,” the officers said in their police report. After the car driver sprayed her with irritant gas, the attackers fled in the car and on two e-scooters. The 40-year-old woman from Bremen was treated by paramedics on the spot.

The driver was described as having a corpulent figure, a dark complexion and short black hair. He fled in a VW car. The police are looking for witnesses. The Criminal Investigation Department can be contacted by calling 0421/362-3888.

https://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/bremen/bremen-transsexuelle-frau-reizgas-bespuckt-geschlagen-beleidigt-walle-polizei-91697907.html

“Today is a good day for freedom and diversity in our country,” Germany’s Family Minister Lisa Paus and Justice Minister Marco Buschmann jointly announced at the beginning of July when they presented the Self-Determination Act.

It is supposed to go through the legislative process soon before the Bundestag members go on vacation. Every German will thus be able to change their gender once a year. All they have to do is stop by the registry office. The court will no longer rule on it, nor will the person have to undergo surgery.

The law is supposed to replace a legal norm from 1980, which, according to the Federal Ministry of Justice, is “essentially unconstitutional.”

“For the disabled, the law is humiliating. We will finally replace it with a modern law of self-determination. The Self-Determination Act will improve the lives of transgender people and recognize gender diversity,” said Family Minister Lisa Paus. “In many areas, society is further ahead of legislation. As a government, we have decided to create a legal framework for an open, diverse and modern society,” she added.

According to Justice Minister Marko Buschmann, the law is part of the diversity of life. The current one treats the affected persons as if they were sick. There is no justification for this, ministers claim.

The Self-Determination Act is intended to provide, for the first time, uniform treatment for transgender, intersex, and non-binary people to change their genders and first names at will. Subsequently, Germans will be able to change their gender and first name simply by visiting the registry office. Submitting a medical report or obtaining expert opinions in court proceedings would no longer be required under the proposed legislation.

However, the law envisages some limitations so that the registry centers are not overcrowded. Germans will only be able to change their gender once a year. The Self-Determination Act applies exclusively to changing gender and first names. If a person also requests a change of their sexual organs, it will be decided based on a professional medical opinion.

For minors under 14, or if the minor is incapable of legal acts, the declaration of change will be submitted to the registry office by legal representatives. Teenagers older than 14 will be able to file the statement themselves with the consent of their legal representatives, but if the parents or other legal representatives do not agree, the court will intervene.

The bill also stipulates that the procedure will be kept confidential, with any publication being sanctioned by a fine.

A moderate majority of Germans, 46 percent, approve of the government’s plans, while 41 percent of respondents reject the law, according to a representative survey by the YouGov Institute.

Some feminist organizations are absolutely against the law, and among political parties, only the opposition AfD is against it. According to one of the party representatives, Stephan Brandner, the law “has nothing to do with freedom but is an expression of blatant denial of reality. In biology, laws cannot simply be ignored,” Brandner claimed.

Some political parties have partial objections. The CDU, for example, refuses to cancel expert opinions, especially for children and teenagers. In the region of Saxony-Anhalt, the SPD is the only one in the governing coalition approving the law without reservations. The local CDU warns that the reform could lead to “arbitrariness,” and the FDP wants to make adjustments to ensure that no one can hide from the authorities or creditors when they change their first name.

https://rmx.news/article/every-german-will-be-able-to-change-their-gender-once-a-year-without-the-need-for-surgery/

by Giulio Meotti

“France and Belgium are the weak links of the West in terms of national identity in crisis and the intellectual disarmament of their elites in the face of multiculturalism (France has the largest Muslim population in Europe after Russia) and remain the target principal of the Salafist movement and its political and financial supporters. For them, Brussels is the key city in terms of Islamic penetration: it seems politically submissive, the births of Muslim children are almost half and the Islamist lobby within the institutions of the European Union works at full capacity ”.

Professor of the History of Arab Societies at the Sorbonne University in Paris and one of the leading scholars of the Islamic world, Pierre Vermeren thus begins his extraordinary essay in Le Figaro. He tells of an Islamization on several fronts, both oblique and transversal fronts.

There is the political front: “La Seine-Saint-Denis has fallen into the arms of La France Insoumise, this new social and radical left. Who led the mobilization? The Islamist vote. The Muslim Brotherhood and their foreign supporters opt, as in Belgium, for the weaker party, the one that will defend their demands (subsidies to community associations and mosques) or that will not harm their interests ”.

Vermeren explains that “in a Europe where billions of euros of cannabis money circulate, Islamism has entered a hyperactive phase since 2015”. At the international level, political Islam is driving the European one after having obtained two strategic victories in six months, with the withdrawal of the Americans from Afghanistan and the French from Mali.

“In Nigeria (where 2,543 Christians were killed in the first six months of 2002) not a week goes by without young Christian women being kidnapped, priests and faithful killed, or churches being destroyed. At the other end of the Muslim world, in Pakistan, Islamists are committed to persecuting the remaining Christian communities, kidnapping young Christian girls, raping them, converting them and forcibly marrying them, as has been done for centuries. In Europe, not a month goes by without an attack or a murder attributed to someone more or less linked to the radical Islam movement ”.

What is the situation on French territory? “The attacks were a success for the Salafists: if the country resisted, the attacks strengthened the Islamic communitarianism of young Muslims – as many studies attest -, made visible by the veil of young Muslim women. The veil, which ten years ago was limited to a few cities in the north and east of the country, has become the norm in many neighborhoods (Île-de-France cities) or cities (such as Lille) and has even established itself in Bordeaux and Brittany. This Islamism is led by the Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood, with which their foreign supporters and financiers (Maghreb and Gulf countries) compete. Furthermore, the European Commission and the American authorities, as surprising as it may seem, treat it with benevolence: the promotion of the hijab is the subject of intense communication in Brussels and Strasbourg ”.

Added to this is the censorship. “Thus, this year, three terrible murders have been ‘discreetly’ silenced, over which two Jewish families and a family of military doctors (in Sarcelles, Lyon and Marseille) have mourned, committed in the name of Islam in at least two cases, but which he preferred to psychiatrize and hide. We recall that under François Mitterrand, the ‘only’ desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Carpentras mobilized the whole of France. Today few are surprised by the almost total disappearance of Christian crosses and plaques in so many suburban cemeteries – broken and then thrown away -, not to mention the arson attacks and the weekly desecration of churches which, in some cases, may have an Islamist motive “.

Then there is the disappearance of non-halal butchers in many suburban cities or in small towns with a “cité”: “After suffering spitting or malicious gestures, the merchant silently leaves the area and moves to a middle-class neighborhood or a small town where its sought-after activity flourishes “. When hundreds of young people from the northern suburbs (citizens or foreigners from the Maghreb and not brought to justice) rob tourists and humiliate the police and the state at the Stade de France in front of hundreds of millions of viewers, “the public authorities are speechless” .

Then there is the school: “We mention the attitude that is found in many schools, which consists, from the earliest age of the pupils, in the refusal of lessons in music, swimming and fundamental historical facts (Shoah, Armenian genocide) … “.

In light of these evils, concludes Vermeren, “the relief felt by the French and their leaders at the disappearance of the great attacks is not without cowardice. Do not kill hundreds of people without specific targets with the almost certainty of dying in these attacks. In seven anni, the threshold of tolerance for the unacceptable rises a little more every year. The polls indicate that many young French people strangely accept this situation, while our leaders are turning away ”.

Vermeren, with considerable contempt for academic and journalistic conformism, masterfully recounts a gigantic operation of the overturning of a civilization. It should be at the top of the list of European governments. Instead, they happily cooperate with it.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/357431

By Milli Sands

What prompted this submission, was the following from an AT article: 

The clearly understood meaning of the word “woman” is a biological person with two x chromosomes. Presumably in an effort to avoid offense to the minuscule number of trans women who biologically are male (one x and one y chromosome) …  

Error! Too exclusive. Medically/scientifically too inaccurate. Not “clearly understood.”

First, the correct definition, then the supporting argument. 

A “woman” is an adult human whose karyotype includes one or more X chromosomes and no Y chromosomes.  

As an added bonus, a “man” is an adult human whose karyotype includes one or more properly functioning Y chromosomes and one or more X chromosomes. There is no viable OY karyotype. 

A doctor reviews the results of chromosome and DNA testing (public domain)

Here are your females (emphasis added): 

1. XO – Turner syndrome (TS), also known as 45,X, or 45,X0, is a genetic condition in which a female is partially or completely missing an X chromosome. …Turner syndrome occurs in between one in 2,000 and one in 5,000 females at birth. 

2. XX – a person with a normalfemale karyotype, including two X chromosomes. 

3. XXX – Triple X syndrome, also called trisomy X or 47,XXX, is a genetic disorder that affects about 1 in 1,000 females. Females normally have two X chromosomes in all cells — one X chromosome from each parent. In triple X syndrome, a female has three X chromosomes. 

4. XXXX – Tetrasomy X, also known as 48,XXXX, is a chromosomal disorder in which a female has four, rather than two, copies of the X chromosome.

Now for the boys (emphasis added): 

1. XY – An individual with one X-chromosome and one Y-chromosome, the normal male karyotype. 

2. XYY – XYY syndrome, also known as Jacobs syndrome, is an aneuploid genetic condition in which a male has an extra Y chromosome. 

3. XXY – Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic condition in which a boy is born with an extra X chromosome. 

4. XXYY – XXYY syndrome is a sex chromosome anomaly in which males have an extra X and Y chromosome 

…and a whole bunch more X and Y combinations leading to our last example of 

5. XXXXY – 49,XXXXY syndrome is an extremely rare aneuploidic sex chromosomal abnormality. It occurs in approximately 1 out of 85,000 to 100,000 males.

Intersex is defined as, “Intersex is a group of conditions in which there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries).” 

A female can appear male when she is exposed in utero to excess male hormones. A male can appear female when he has a problem making, metabolizing or using testosterone. 

And, to revisit a point made earlier where I qualified the Y chromosome with “properly functioning,” a male can appear female or ambiguous when his Y chromosome fails to act like one. This occurs when a gene, called SRY, that lives on the Y chromosome malfunctions or is absent. SRY “causes testes to form in the embryo and results in development of external and internal male genitalia. If there is a mutation in the SRY gene, the embryo will develop female genitalia despite having XY chromosomes.” This is because SRY codes for a “protein (which) starts processes that cause a fetus to develop male gonads (testes) and prevent the development of female reproductive structures (uterus and fallopian tubes).” 

So there you have it. A “woman” is an adult human whose karyotype includes one or more X chromosomes and no Y chromosomes. A “man” is an adult human whose karyotype includes one or more properly functioning Y chromosomes and one or more X chromosomes. There is no viable OY karyotype (though there might be an OYVAY phenotype). 

99.9% of use cases covered. 

QED 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/what_is_a_woman_what_is_a_man_.html