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FUTURE EVENT: Fri, Mar 10, 2023 Dinner and discussion about multigender attraction (or "bi+") Hear why bisexuals are not a real thing anymore. #bisexual #multigender

Tue, Feb 28, 2023 Tasmanian councillor gets himself into world of pain mocking gender compromise #tasmania #ryanposselt

Mon, Feb 27, 2023 Colombian student who killed a sex worker in Coogee in her apartment in Sydney has been found not guilty of murder #crime #sydney #starobserver

Sun, Feb 26, 2023 BBC disinvited us after we stood by Kate Forbes’s freedom of speech, claims LGB group #lgballiance #uk #bbc #deplatforming #scotland #kateharris

The BBC has been accused of disinviting a gay group from a programme because it refused to attack Kate Forbes, the under-fire Scottish National Party (SNP) leadership hopeful. The LGB Alliance (LGBA) was approached on Friday by BBC One’s Sunday Morning Live to debate whether “traditional Christian views are incompatible with modern politics” on a studio panel, in the context of Ms Forbes’s views on same-sex marriage. When a producer canvassed its opinion, the group of lesbian, gay and bisexual people said it “completely reject[ed] her views” but insisted “we have freedom of religion” and that religious beliefs are protected under the 2010 Equality Act. Shortly after that phone call, the BBC producer sent an email, seen by The Telegraph, saying the programme had “decided to go in a different direction with the debate, and we’ll no longer be requiring Kate [Harris, co-founder of LGBA] on Sunday”.

Sun, Feb 26, 2023 Trans woman to make legal claim against owner of a female-only chat app - after her membership was rejected because its founder thought she was a man #sallgrover #roxannetickle #law #queensland #dating #lesbian #women

Fri, Feb 24, 2023 Lesbians without liberty #sexmatters #survey #uk #lesbian

Tue, Feb 21, 2023 Spain: UN experts hail new feminist legislation (This astonishing press release proudly announces that self-identification is UN best practice.) #self-id #un Also: Reem Alsalem did not agree, and she is the UN expert on violence against women and girls. #reemalsalem

Tue, Feb 21, 2023 Middle East, North Africa: Digital Targeting of LGBT People: Arbitrary Arrests, Torture Follow Online Abuses, Illegal Phone Searches #middleeast #africa #digital #surveillance

⇣ Australian woman attacked over pronouns?

Mon, Feb 20, 2023 Australian Woman Left Disabled Following Attack By Trans Activist #violence #pronouns #courts #melbourne #reduxx #sarahcadzow #minus18 Also: Sarah Cadzow

Sun, Feb 19, 2023 Australia can be LGBTQI rights champion in Asia-Pacific #funding #law #pacific #asia

Sun, Feb 19, 2023 Time to Think by Hannah Barnes review – what went wrong at Gids?

NB (nota bene, not non-binary): This is a positive review, and it's in The Guardian. 'Shinigami Eyes', the browser add-on that colour-codes website addresses as being trans-friendly or trans-phobic, now lists The Guardian as a transphobic publication. #guardian #review #hannahbarnes #clinics #shinigamieyes

"After more than 370 pages, I began to feel half mad myself. At times, the world Barnes describes, with its genitalia fashioned from colons and its fierce culture of omertà, feels like some dystopian novel. But it isn’t, of course. It really happened, and she has worked bravely and unstintingly to expose it. This is what journalism is for."

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 It’s not ‘far right’ to question Drag Queen Story Hour #dragqueenstorytime

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 NATASHA ROBINSON, HEALTH EDITOR, EXCLUSIVE, '‘I want to spare future mothers and babies’', Weekend Australian, The (online) Text:

Moments after Elizabeth gave birth, her baby son was placed on her chest. As newborns do, his tiny body began to “breast crawl” across his mother’s chest, searching for her nipple, instinctively seeking milk.

To Elizabeth’s devastation, it was in vain. More than a decade earlier she had had chest masculinisation surgery, a procedure that was part of medical gender transition she regrets as a “terrible mistake”.

“It was really hard knowing that my son wanted to breastfeed and I couldn’t give him that … and when they put him on my stomach, he crawled up, he was looking for my breasts, and he couldn’t find them. And he tried to suck on my chin. And he spent so much time in his early life trying to find my breasts.”

Elizabeth’s story has been published in the first academic paper to document a case of a woman who had chest masculinisation surgery to affirm a gender identity as a trans man but who later detransitioned, became pregnant and grieved her inability to breastfeed.

The paper’s authors, Western Sydney University adjunct associate professor Karleen Gribble and professor of midwifery Hannah Dahlen, have raised the alarm that the increased numbers of young women undergoing gender-affirming surgery are not being warned about the future consequences. “We know that there are a lot more children and adolescents presenting at gender clinics in Australia. We don’t know how many are going on to have surgeries like this,” Professor Gribble said. “We really don’t have any good indication of what proportion of young people might take this path and regret it at a later point.”

Elizabeth, now in her 30s, first began to experience discomfort in her female body when she began to develop breasts as a 10-year-old and was subject to unwanted attention from men and other children. At 15, she heard about the concept of gender identity and “became persuaded that her bodily discomfort was because she was transgender”.

“There were not very unusual reasons underlying why she identified as trans to start with, and why she hated her breasts,” Professor Gribble said. “It’s really not uncommon for girls to hate their breasts.”

The increased numbers of adolescent girls presenting at gender clinics with sudden-onset gender-related distress and no past history of identifying as the opposite sex is something that is concerning doctors at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead who have questioned whether this group is “being drawn to the construct of gender dysphoria because of some evolving social process”.

Professor Gribble predicts in coming years there may be many more women who regret gender-affirming surgery, who go on to become pregnant and realise they cannot breastfeed, who were never warned by surgeons this would be the case – a situation she describes as unethical and possibly negligent.

She is critical that the AusPATH standards of care for transgender medicine make no mention of the ramifications for breastfeeding at all. Elizabeth’s chest surgery was a disaster, with her right nipple graft “chronically leaking a watery fluid, while voids in her scarred left nipple graft accumulated a smelly paste that had to be regularly squeezed out”.

Surgery to reduce scars left “her chest sunken and nipple-less while scarring and nerve pain remained”.

After she detransitioned and became pregnant, her attempts to explain to midwives her distress at not being able to breastfeed were rebuffed. She was so distressed that she was referred to an obstetrician who had received training on the care of transgender people but apparently did not understand that Elizabeth had detransitioned.

According to the paper, the doctor was intent on “correctly gendering this birthing parent”.

Elizabeth eventually was able to obtain donor breast milk for her baby but she wants to warn other young people considering undergoing mastectomies or taking cross-sex hormones of the long-term effects.

⇣ Affirmation Generation

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 The documentary 'Affirmation Generation' goes live on Vimeo. #affirmationgeneration #movie #documentary (The movie has been removed from Vimeo, but you can watch it on our web page.)

"Detransitioners Michelle, Laura, Cat, David, Joel and Abel tell the stories of their gender distress, transgender medicalization, and subsequent detransition. Without diagnostic clarity or mental health evaluations, their doctors quickly affirmed them as 'transgender,' and mindlessly ushered them along the path of medical transition. (The 'gender-affirming care' is the only treatment recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.) These young people were harmed irrevocably by the doctors they trusted. AFFIRMATION GENERATION demonstrates how the 'one-size-fits-all' medicalization – the 'gender-affirming care' – has failed these patients." https://affirmationgenerationmovie.com/about/

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 Unearthed Emails Show Rachel Levine Discussing ‘Potential Revenue’ From Child Sex Change Procedures #rachellevine #money

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 Inquiry into the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Bill 2022, final report #pdf #queensland #law #self-id Also: Transcript of the committee hearing.

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 As Spain advances trans rights, Sweden backtracks on gender-affirming treatments for teens #spain #europe #genderaffirmation

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 Furries (Yeah, you read that right.) #furries #deviance #research #politics #usa

Thu, Feb 16, 2023 SNP in turmoil after Nicola Sturgeon resigns as first minister #scotland

Thu, Feb 16, 2023 SNP 'prepares to rip up Sturgeon's gender bill' after First Minister's shock resignation #scotland

Wed, Feb 15, 2023 Cooma 'gay prison' podcasters call for government apology for entrapment, persecution of homosexual men #abc #gaymen #prison

Wed, Feb 15, 2023 NYT contributors blast paper’s coverage of transgender people (What to do when you don't like the news.) Also: https://bityl.co/HCtv #media #glaad On the same subject, from a different angle: Fri, Feb 17, 2023 Fight the Anti-Trans Backlash With Accountability, Not Silence. #denmark #pubertyblockers

Tue, Feb 14, 2023 Tavistock clinic ‘ignored’ link between autism and transgender children #autism #tavistock #uk

Tue, Feb 14, 2023 Gay footballer comes out #jakubjankto #football #comingout #sport Also: https://ytube.io/3ay4

Mon, Feb 13, 2023 Tonje Gjevjon announces that investigation has been dropped #tonjegjevjon

Mon, Feb 13, 2023 Thousands of transgender inclusivity badges left unused in Scotland after staff snubbed scheme #scotland (The gift that keeps on giving.)

Sun, Feb 12, 2023 Rediscovering a Queer Icon: Simeon Solomon #qnews #artists

Sun, Feb 12, 2023 Let women speak tour dates for Australia and New Zealand #kelliejaykeen

Sun, Feb 12, 2023 Interview with Tonje Gjevjon, lesbian artist #tonjegjevjon #artist #interview

Sat, Feb 11, 2023 Interview with Fred Sargent, on Stonewall 'riot' and historical revisionism #fredsargeant #stonewall #history

Fri, Feb 10, 2023 Do the math and decide for yourself #jordanpeterson #probability

Fri, Feb 10, 2023 Conversion therapy laws are trojan horses, says UK alliance #lgballiance #uk #conversiontherapy #law

Fri, Feb 10, 2023 Understanding the Rise of Transgender Identities #girls #identity #quillette "The social dynamics of girls’ and women’s friendship groups, including a desire to fit in and avoid conflict, may make them more susceptible to social contagion."

Fri, Feb 10, 2023 50 years after No. 96 #television #australia Also, in The Guardian.

Fri, Feb 10, 2023 Areo on Sex vs. Gender An attempt at conciliation. #language #community

Fri, Feb 10, 2023 Queensland government accused of 'rigging' consultation for new laws that make officially changing sex easier #queensland #shannonfentiman Also, this discussion on The Mess (#video).

Fri, Feb 10, 2023 Mr Menno report from Glasgow #video #mrmenno

Thu, Feb 9, 2023 Vic MP uses his maiden speech to announce he’s gay and praise his partner #victoria #politics

Sat, Sep 2, 2023 I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle. "There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling." #transing #clinics #whistleblower #children

Thu, Feb 9, 2023 Our response to the W.A. Equal Opportunity Laws #law #wa

Thu, Feb 9, 2023 Harry Potter fans couldn't wait for the long-awaited Hogwarts Legacy video game. Now, it's being boycotted. Here's why #abc #jkrowling

This is an example of the ABC's flagrant sanitising the news of any mention of the behaviour of gender ideology activists. Just remind yourself of what the response was to Rowling's reasonable, calm remarks: https://adobe.ly/37OVY5X

Tue, Feb 7, 2023 TRANSGENDER DEBATE DIVIDES SURFING #sport #women

Mon, Feb 6, 2023 Trans woman and country vet Kate Toyer looks back on her transition ahead of World Pride 2023 Moving account of a late and happy transition. #abc

Mon, Feb 6, 2023 Daily Mail - reporting on Let Women Speak Glasgow #uk #kelliejaykeen #women

Sun, Feb 5, 2023 Japan PM Kishida fires aide over same-sex couple outburst #japan #homophobia

Sun, Feb 5, 2023 What are the Furries Masking? #furries #identity

Does Sydney’s Mardi Gras still evoke strong passions within the LGBTQ community? (smh.com.au)

Sat, Feb 4, 2023 Equality Tasmania responds to 5-person anti-trans pool protest #tasmania #jessicahoyle

Sat, Feb 4, 2023 If you're part of today's woke revolution, you need to study the part of revolutions where they spin out of control #billmaher #humor #video

Sat, Feb 4, 2023 Kerala trans man pregnant, transgender couple look forward to new journey #india #pregnancy

Fri, Feb 3, 2023 Women must defend their single-sex spaces #ediewyatt

Wed, Feb 1, 2023 Urgent review launched as Mermaids report reveals ‘oppression’ of staff #mermaids #budget

Wed, Feb 1, 2023 Rates of sexual offending for January 2023 (from data in UK census). The links to sources in the following chart are »» https://archive.is/5bIVF and https://bit.ly/3H3JZES #sexualassault #crime #prison #uk #census

Wed, Feb 1, 2023 Research and discussion of online dangers, largely ignoring specific threats to lesbians »» https://youtu.be/0v6PjjvZRFo #podcast

Wed, Feb 1, 2023 Jordan Peterson on compelled speech #jordanpeterson #compelledspeech

Wed, Feb 1, 2023 Medical Journal Floats Concept of Using Braindead Women As Surrogates Through “Whole Body Gestational Donation” #surrogacy #women #medicine #ethics

Compiled by Justin Ian (volunteer writer).