A disturbing post on Reddit has surfaced in which a father boasts that his trans-identified female child gifted him her nipples for Christmas after they fell off during recovery from “top surgery.”

A post was first shared on January 5 through the subreddit r/CisParentTranskid, which is a board for non-transgender parents who claim to have transgender children. The parents often share stories, support, and request resources amongst themselves. But the post, made by a father using the handle “Pedantichrist,” was of a distinctly different tone.

The user, who is a Reddit power moderator, claimed to be the parent of a transgender “son,” a female child who identified as a boy. He described how part of his child’s nipples fell off during recovery from an elective double mastectomy, commonly referred to as “top surgery.”

“After top surgery, [she] retained [her] original nipples, but they obviously need to be moved and they scab up and a layer falls off. [Her] Christmas present to me was the left one, framed and mounted (the right one broke into small pieces),” the father described on Reddit, using male pronouns to refer to his child.

The father then described how, although he did not expect the gift, he was nonetheless still pleased.

“And yes, it is weird as fuck, but it is not that far outside my normal sense of humour. I have hung it on my wall,” he said. His post history on Reddit suggests he is the father of three young children. In addition to being a user on r/CisParentTransKid, Pedantichrist moderates several subreddits — including the 9-million strong r/Unexpected, as well as a local community board for residents of Devon, United Kingdom.

His post was met with positive responses on the r/CisParenTransKid subreddit. At the time of this writing, the post has 112 “upvotes” with 98% of the total votes being positive.

“Beautiful, This story gave me euphoria,” one reddit user, said responding to the post. The term ‘gender euphoria‘ has frequently been used to describe a state of sexual arousal prompted by a transgender individual being “affirmed” in their gender.

“I love this!!! All I got after my kid had his was his bras for a good old fashion bra burning in our back yard,” responded another parent, referring to their trans-identified female child burning her undergarments following his elective double mastectomy.

Another user chalked up the stunt to typical “boy humor” from the female child.

Cosmetic mastectomies have become front-and-center in the recent debates surrounding gender ideology and its impact on children.

There has been a dramatic increase in young girls seeking double mastectomies after adopting a “trans” or “non-binary” identity.  A recent study found that the number of “top surgeries” carried out on girls under 18 in the United States has increased by 13-fold in the last decade. The same study found that the majority of girls seeking the procedure had a history of mental health concerns, with around 60 percent having anxiety and/or depression. An additional 11 percent had history of an eating disorder.

Increasing concerns about the transitioning of youth has made its way into the medical community, with several prominent health authorities making statements last year cautioning against surgical or chemical interventions where a minor presents with gender dysphoria.

Last February, the National Academy of Medicine in France issued a press release urging practitioners to take “great medical caution” in the treatment of children and adolescents who claim to be transgender. The Academy noted that there had been a dramatic uptick in the number of youths reporting transgender or non-binary identities. One example it used was from the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia where, in 2003, only one child had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, while a short few years later it was treating nearly 200 “dysphoric” kids.

Similar guidances out of Sweden and various U.S. states have similarly been reported.

In 2022, “no-nipple” cosmetic mastectomies became a topic of widespread backlash, with a TikTok trend emerging of females who identified as transgender or non-binary discussing having undergone “nipple-less top surgery.”

Some individuals who previously identified as transgender have begun to vocalize their regret surrounding the “affirming” medical interventions they were allowed to access as minors.

Chloe Cole, 18, is one of dozens of young women who previously identified as transgender and has become a vocal advocate for those who call themselves “detransitioners.” After identifying as a boy in her youth, Cole underwent an elective double mastectomy at just 15 years old.

On January 28, Cole will be speaking at rally in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on her experiences as a detransitioner. The “Teens Against Gender Mutilation” event will be led by teenagers like Cole who were impacted by gender ideology.

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A University lecture in Canada intended to offer criticism of gender ideology was shut down this week after trans activists flooded the venue in protest.

McGill University, located in Montreal, was set to host a talk by Robert Wintemute, a professor of human rights law at Kings College, on the topic of how “transgender demands” infringe on “the rights of lesbian and bisexual women or the rights of children who might grow up to be LGB adults.”

The event, titled The Sex vs. Gender (Identity) Debate In the United Kingdom and the Divorce of LGB from T, was organized by McGill University’s Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP). The CHRLP website described the talk as a conversation on “whether or not the law should be changed to make it easier for a transgender individual to change their legal sex from their birth sex,” and about the problems this presents for “women-only spaces and sports, in which the individual’s birth sex should take priority over their gender identity, regardless of their legal sex.”

On January 10, over 200 protesters flooded the halls outside of the classroom where the lecture was scheduled to take place, holding signs and screaming at the attendees. One demonstrator held a sign comparing those who supported the debate to Adolf Hitler.

Critics slammed Wintemute as “notoriously transphobic and trans-exclusionary,” and reportedly threw baking flour at him. Attempts were also allegedly made to interfere with the projector he had set up for his presentation.

Wintemute, an alumnus of McGill University, was one of the original 29 signatories to a document that was foundational in establishing the notion of gender identity as a human right. The Yogyakarta Principles, designed to outline rights specific to sexual orientation and gender identity, were created during a gathering of academics and specialists in 2006.

Principle 3 asserts that gender identity is self-defined and does not require any medical intervention to be recognized. It also states that official documents, such as passports and identification, should be altered to comply with a subjective gender identity.

In April 2021, Wintemute told The Critic that he had revised his views on the matter after seeing how women were being impacted by laws which prioritize gender identity over sex. Wintemute stated that he “failed to consider” that men would take advantage of the legislation in order to access female-only spaces and said: “A key factor in my change of opinion has been listening to women.”

Since expressing his concerns around the conflicts between sex and gender identity, Wintemute has been appointed as a trustee for UK-based charity LGB Alliance – a group which has received tremendous criticism from trans activists, and was even taken to court last year by a charity which promotes the medical transitioning of minors.

In response to the cancellation of his lecture, Wintemute told CBC that he was thankful to the protesters for providing a demonstration of the “intimidation” that women face when opposing gender identity policies. “Probably the majority of women in this country disagree with some of transgender demands but they refuse to say so because they will be seen as intolerant,” he added.

The protest against Wintemute’s lecture was organized by a trans-identified male named Celeste Trianon.

Trianon, a law student at the University of Montreal, describes himself as a “a transfeminine sapphic jurist and activist.” In partnership with two student groups, Trianon organized the protest through a Facebook page, where it was claimed that the debate would “contribute directly to the systemic elimination of trans voices and lives worldwide.”

In the days leading up to the planned protest, Trianon published an open letter which similarly argued that “McGill University is actively contributing to the genocide of trans people across the world,” and attempted to portray both the LGB Alliance and Wintemute as participants in a far-right conspiracy.

“Every extra minute of airtime given to an anti-trans activist … will contribute to the premature deaths of trans people worldwide,” Trianon wrote.

According to his Facebook profile, Trianon is the president of a non-profit organization called Gender Euphoria (Euphorie dans le genre) which purports to give funding to “trans-led networks” and also has “allocated resources to provide our team members with work allowance.”

The term ‘gender euphoria‘ has frequently been used to describe a state of sexual arousal upon wearing clothing associated with the opposite sex. Curiously, Gender Euphoria’s official website provides the option to “leave without a trace,” which, when clicked, deletes the site from a visitor’s browser history.

Trianon has advocated for the medical transitioning of minors and has claimed that drugs used to halt puberty are “entirely reversible gender-affirming care,” despite mounting evidence to the contrary and increasing criticism of the practice. In a 2021 article for Sex [M]ed, Trianon argued that under-18’s can display “psychological maturity” which must be taken into account when determining the ability to consent to surgeries, and criticized “preexisting stereotypes surrounding children and teenagers … that they aren’t mature enough to make choices concerning themselves.”

“When surgeries are provided to trans* youth, this is generally because they have already demonstrated ‘psychological maturity’ (an unfortunately subjective criterion), and have an appropriate sociological and/or psychological reason for pursuing surgery before the age of majority,” Trianon wrote.

“Generally speaking, puberty blockers are prescribed to trans* youth before puberty has initiated or to those who are in the early phases of a gender dysphoric puberty (Tanner I-III),” Trianon added. The Tanner scale describes varying stages of puberty, with Stages I-III referring to children aged from one year-old to 15 years of age.

Trianon is also the Director of TransEstrie, which “provides trans, non-binary, and questioning people with access to products that are not widely available in the area, such as binders, packers, gaffs, and breastforms.”

TransEstrie works in partnership with a company called Banana Prosthetics to advertise prosthetic penises known euphemistically as ‘packers’ – some of which are designed to resemble the genitalia of prepubescent boys and intended to be worn by very young girls.

“Young trans or non-binary boys need age-appropriate prostheses and that’s why we offer them the possibility of getting packers, stand-to-pee and boxers that meet their needs,” reads the site. “We also have the possibility to order packers suitable for even younger boys.”

Trianon’s organization invites youth to directly contact the organization to make an appointment to try on the gear available.

Another sponsor linked through on the TransEstrie site is Come As You Are, a sex toy retailer. The company advertises a range of vibrators, dildos, and BDSM fetish accessories.

Immediately following the cancellation of Wintemute’s lecture, Trianon boasted on Facebook and referred to the LGB Alliance as “one of the most dangerous anti-trans hate groups in the world.” He added that he believed Wintemute “spewed hate,” and singled out a woman by name who he had spotted wearing a shirt supportive of author J.K. Rowling.

Annie-Ève Collin was one of two women targeted by trans activists for abuse at the event. Speaking with Reduxx, Collin explained that she had hoped to attend the debate with her friend, Lucia. As more and more protesters started to appear, Lucia began recording their demonstration with her phone. Seeing this, one protester “violently hit her arm,” sending her phone flying out of her hand.

Lucia also says that as they were leaving the building, they saw vandalism on the walls that read “Fuck TERFs.” TERF is an acronym standing for “trans exclusionary radical feminist. It is often paired with abuse or threats of violence.

Lucia has since filed a police report over the incident, and told Reduxx she was struck in an attempt to prevent her from filming Trianon, who was angrily shouting at them. Lucia noted that many protesters did not seem to be university students themselves.

Immediately afterwards, an activist believed to be Trianon placed a bullhorn to Collin’s ear and yelled, “Get out!” in her face. Collin says the incident caused her to have a headache for the following two days. During that time, she has been receiving aggressive e-mails sent to her work account.

Collin believes that she was attacked in part because she was wearing a sweater that read, “I [Heart] JK Rowling” and “woman: adult human female.” However, trans activists have been harassing her since 2018, when a man with over 10,000 Facebook followers, Ianik Marcil, made a public post calling her a ‘transphobe,’ outing her identity and place of work.

Since then, numerous attempts have been made to have her employment terminated, with some going so far as to contact her supervisor. Trans activists even created a 66-page document about her filled with screenshots taken from her social media – not only of her own posts, but also to track her interactions with friends. This document, she says, was sent to her supervisors.

This was also not the first time that Trianon had harassed her. Last October, Collin attended a Zoom conference presented by a person who identifies as non-binary. The theme of the talk, Collin says, was the importance of language in acknowledging non-binary status. After the presentation, Collin questioned the speaker on why this logic was not being extended to biological sex.

Trianon, who also attended the Zoom conference, made a defamatory post about her on Facebook, accusing her of “Zoom-bombing” and calling her slurs and a “hate machine.”

As media began to report on the lecture cancellation, Trianon went to the CBC and presented himself as a victim.

“The T (trans) is so much more vulnerable than the rest of LGB. I think there’s tons of scientific evidence speaking to that,” he said.

Trianon also took advantage of the attention drawn to the lecture cancellation to promote a crowdfunder for an organization called ASTTeQ (Action Santé Travesti(e)s et Transsexuel(le)s du Québec), which offers a youth support program for vulnerable people aged 14 to 30 and advocates for the full legalization of the prostitution industry.

In addition to Gender Euphoria and TransEstrie, Trianon currently works with a group called The Quebec Trans ID Clinic, which helps individuals change their names and falsify their sex on legal documents.

In a December 24 post to Instagram, Trianon can be seen holding documents requesting alterations to identifying markers alongside controversial trans-identifying male Sophie LaBelle.

LaBelle, the creator of a webcomic series entitled Assigned Male, came under intense scrutiny in 2021 for creating diaper and furry fetish art based on photographs of real infants sourced online. Last year, Reduxx learned that LaBelle had been speaking on trans issues at elementary schools across Quebec.

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A controversial male social media influencer is sparking backlash after an Instagram video he made scolding women began to circulate on social media. In the video, Jeffery Marsh, who identifies as non-binary, addressed a past sponsorship he had been offered to promote tampons and other feminine hygiene products.

Last month, Marsh posted a video to his Instagram page speaking to “the ladies of Twitter, especially” over “hate” he received for a tampon ad campaign he took part in. After being uploaded to other social media platforms, the video began to spark backlash, amassing hundreds of critical comments from women concerned about female erasure.

In the video, Marsh addresses the “hate” he received for a paid campaign he took part in with feminine hygiene product brand This is L. The partnership had actually taken place in 2020, but had recently begun receiving new attention after images from the photoshoot with Marsh were shared on Twitter once again.

As new comments began to pile under his campaign photos, Marsh filmed a video addressing his reasons for taking part in a tampon promotion.

“I made the video for 2 reasons. So that women would feel less stigmatized, so that people who menstruate would feel less stigmatized,” Marsh said, noting that menstruation is often seen as “gross, disgusting, a joke” by “cis” men.

Calling himself a “non-binary person who does not menstruate,” Marsh claimed his intentions behind taking the paid gig were to help end the stigma associated with periods. He continued: “And then the hate came for me,” and scolded the women who took issue with his participation in the tampon promotion, claiming that they were “policing” gender by criticizing him.

“We should be working together. The more you police your gender role the more you are policing the idea that one gender role is the best. I will keep fighting for your rights even if you hate me to my core because women are not second class citizens.”

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Marsh’s claimed reasons for his participation in the ad campaign fell flat on social media, with many pointing out that Marsh frequently uses the term “TERF” when addressing women who vocally support the basic rights and safeguarding of women and children. TERF – an acronym standing for “trans exclusionary radical feminist” – is often used in a derogatory fashion and coupled with threats and abuse.

Jeffrey Marsh is well-known amongst advocates for women’s rights and child safeguarding due to his catalogue of videos denying the existence of biological sex, as well as those where he directly addresses the “kids” in his audience. Marsh has advocated people to go “no contact” with families or relatives who invalidate their gender identity, and has advised parents to provide “gender affirming care” for their children.

Marsh’s most recent video on his past collaboration also referenced popular trans-identified male influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who similarly defended his decision to become a spokesperson for Tampax last year. Both Tampax and This is L, the brand Marsh promoted, are owned by mega-conglomerate Proctor & Gamble.

In 2020, This is L partnered with the Phluid Project in a promotional video featuring individuals of varying “gender identities” to spread the message that periods are not specific to females. Amongst the “queer” influencers who shilled their “gender neutral” menstrual products were Blair Imani and Alok Vaid-Menon.

Phluid is a “gender free” clothing and lifestyle brand based in New York which also often involves itself in trans activism. On its website, Phluid states that it “…support[s] the most at risk of the LGBTQIA+ community [by] supporting trans-led organizations.” Phluid has provided direct support to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, which provides assistance to incarcerated males who wish to change their gender or be moved to a women’s institution.

Among the inmates the SRLP has worked with are convicted child murderer Synthia Chyna Blast, who was invited to be part of their prisoner action committee, and Xena Grandichelli, who raped a toddler yet assisted with SRLP’s community outreach. 

This is L also features multiple partners on their site, most of which equally propagate that women are not the only ones who menstruate. In particular, the Period Project, which strongly advocates for “gender neutral” language around menstruation.

On its website, the Period Project writes: “Not all women menstruate, and not all menstruators are women. At The Period Project, we are dedicated to supporting all menstruators, and we want to make sure our fight for menstrual equity is gender inclusive. We use the term ‘menstruators’ to refer to all people who experience menstruation, including cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid individuals.”

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A former volunteer with a prominent Scottish LGBT youth charity which has come forward to reveal the shocking lack of child safeguarding measures he witnessed while working with the organization.

LGBT Youth Scotland recently referred itself to police following a damning Reduxx report featuring testimony from two survivors who allege to have been groomed and exploited by charity staff while accessing the service as minors.

But a former volunteer with the organization has now come forward with new allegations, emphatically asserting that there were no child safeguarding measures in place whatsoever while he was involved with the charity.

Justin, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, explains he had started working with LGBT Youth Scotland in 2009. As a gay man with a background in therapy and counseling, Justin says he began volunteering due to his own experience as a youth, hoping to be able to offer support to young people struggling with their sexuality.

“When I was 18 or 19, I struggled to fit in as I didn’t like the social aspect of what the gay scene was. It was very [focused on] drink, drugs, and sleeping around. I found volunteering within gay group groups and at helplines was a more positive experience,” Justin says. “From experience, I found that if you enter the gay social scene for the first time, being gay can easily become your whole personality, so I thought that supporting the youth group would be a great opportunity to show that it doesn’t need to be that way.”

But after joining LGBT Youth Scotland as a volunteer, he began to notice problems.

Justin says that adult volunteers were imposing their political and social values upon the young service users.

During one of the group meetings, he recalls that he witnessed an adult male worker become enraged at a young boy who had expressed some support for the Conservative Party.

“It actually frightened me the level of anger that came out,” Justin says, noting that the boy fled the session in the middle of the night.

“The young boy left the building at this stage and I was unable to locate him. You should note this office is in the city centre of Glasgow and it was dark outside… not the best environment for an upset youth,” Justin says, explaining that he was told by another volunteer that there was “no point” in expressing support for anything but the Scottish National Party.

At another group support meeting, two young boys were “effectively scolded” by the same adult staff member for expressing that they did not want to attend a Pride parade.

“This went against everything I had learned about providing a supportive environment and empowering young people, rather it was directing them to hold the views that were considered ‘right’ by their gay elders,” Justin explains.

Disturbingly, Justin says that one of his first tasks in the office as a volunteer was helping staff “destroy” any reference to the charity’s former CEO, James Rennie.

Rennie, who had been at the helm of LGBT Youth Scotland for years, had just been convicted of operating Scotland’s largest pedophile ring. In what would be labeled as the country’s “worse abuse trial ever,” Rennie was found to have been molesting his godson starting from when the child was just 3 months old.

While serving as the CEO of LGBT Youth Scotland and receiving praise in Scottish parliament for his work for gay rights, Rennie had been soliciting child sexual abuse materials from other perverts, including those featuring “young Down’s syndrome or learning difficulty kids.”

The sick predator ring Rennie led was broken up in 2007, and he was ultimately found guilty in 2009, along with eight other men who collectively held over 125,000 pieces of child sexual abuse materials.

“If I found any promotional material, printed reports, letters anything that had his photo or name on it, it had to be shredded. All reminders of him had to be removed as if he hadn’t existed,” Justin says. “There was very little mention of his name among staff… I was told not to ask, yet no reassurances were given that they had changed anything from the lessons learned from his time there.”

Justin explains that he felt as though the overt focus in the office was not on providing quality services to youth, but on securing more money for dubious research endeavors.

“The office at this time had easily 20 people in it, many fully paid, doing their own research, and funding applications to continue to be paid to repeat the cycle. Despite my curious inquiries into how some of this present and past research had directly helped the young people using this service, I was never given any real details,” Justin recalls. “I couldn’t see how the youth groups who were more or less entirely run by unpaid and untrained volunteers were benefiting from any work I witnessed in the office.”

Justin says it was then that he began to see LGBT Youth Scotland as a “well-funded pressure group,” with the young service users only being used as justification for additional funding.

“[The charity] used the life experiences of the vulnerable people in their care to keep getting funding to continue their ‘work.’ Essentially, the young people were there as research objects to continue the concept of a ‘vulnerable group’ that needs to be supported by a well funded organization.”

But it wasn’t only in the office that Justin began to have concerns about how LGBT Youth Scotland was conducting its operations.

Unpaid volunteers, many of whom did not have professional qualifications, were working directly with minors.

“It was mainly the unpaid volunteers that tended to do the more direct work with the young people,” Justin says, adding that some of the minor service users had been referred to the charity through social services and were considered quite vulnerable.

“Despite this first impression, I stayed because I felt the young people deserved better support,” Justin added.

Justin asserts that he did not feel as though there were any child safeguarding measures in place while he was at the charity, a persistent issue which contributed to a disturbing incident he witnessed while volunteering at an event in Glasgow.

The event was a national LGBT Youth Scotland gathering that was being held in the city, one which required overnight accommodations for attendees. In addition to paid employees, there was also a large number of adult volunteers.

During a workshop on the first day of the gathering, Justin says he watched an adult volunteer new to the organization “openly flirt” with two of the teen service users, who were approximately 14 to 16 years old.

“Not only was this verbal flirting, such as asking them where they lived, but he openly placed his hand on one of the boys thighs and used his foot to brush up against the leg of another boy.”

Justin explains he and another volunteer were so perplexed by the “sheer boldness” of the behavior, they initially doubted themselves, confused as to whether he was a volunteer or a service user.

“After this workshop both myself and the other female volunteer decided it was best to speak to a responsible member of staff regarding our confusion and concern,” Justin says. “As it transpired, this was an adult male volunteer … He was allowed to stay on for the rest of the weekend with only the assurance that [LGBT Youth Scotland] would ‘keep an eye on him.'”

Justin tells Reduxx that even though he and the other volunteer had witnessed the inappropriate conduct, LGBT Youth Scotland staff did not speak to the young people involved, or consider the behavior a risk.

“Allowing inexperienced and untrained volunteers to work with quite often vulnerable children is unethical. Not empowering any volunteers to be able to raise concerns in any adequate or effective manner.”

Reflecting on his time at LGBT Youth Scotland, Justin expresses some regrets about how he handled the unethical situations he had witnessed.

“I am beginning to accept over these past few years that I, too, was part of the problem. Those kids deserved better. I should have been stronger and not trusted an organization’s good reputation. I should have pushed enough people who were employed by them until one of them who had the power did the right thing,” he says.

On December 23, Reduxx published an exclusive interview with two survivors who allege to have been sexually abused and groomed while attending LGBT Youth Scotland as minors.

Sam Cowie and Daniel Nechtan both utilized the charity’s services at different points in time, but reported disturbingly similar experiences.

Cowie, who informally accessed the services in 2010, told Reduxx that he had been “groomed” by older men at the charity, who would provide him with special privileges, cigarettes, and alcohol.

“I was plied with alcohol free of charge, encouraged to sleep with older men and given money to perform sexual acts,” Cowie explained to Reduxx, saying charity staff had also brought him to adult gay clubs in Edinburgh.

Daniel Nechtan, who attended the services in 2003, recalled having been sexually exploited by now-jailed CEO James Rennie, despite the statement made by LGBT Youth Scotland following his arrest that none of their youth members had been harmed by him.

“Although I was young, many people involved in this charity were in their twenties and thirties, and, as far as I can tell, there was no safeguarding or anything. In fact, it seemed more like a social network to connect older men with [often vulnerable] teenagers,” Nechtan said.

Less than 24 hours after the Reduxx report was released, LGBT Youth Scotland issued a release declaring that they had referred themselves to police as a result of the allegations against them.

BREAKING: LGBT Youth Scotland have issued a statement on the allegations of grooming and abuse made against them by two former youth members.

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— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) December 23, 2022

Justin says it was after reading the Reduxx article that it “hit home” how dire the situation had been at LGBT Youth Scotland, and prompted him to come forward.

“Reading about someone who I might have, at one time, had the chance to protect or at least do better for… It brought back that moment of that man flirting and touching those boys at that LGBT Youth Scotland event. I’d failed them. The organization failed them. And if creeps like that would do that openly, then what the hell were creeps like him doing in more private situations?” Justin asks.

“We have to stop protecting these guys, we know they can be drawn towards youth organizations, we have to empower our young to be able to speak out without them getting accused of fueling bigotry.”

LGBT Youth Scotland has declined to comment on the allegations leveled against the organization, but has continued to rally public support for donations.

A Freedom of Information request published in 2019 noted that the governing Scottish National Party administration had been providing funds to LGBT Youth Scotland through the equality budget since it took office.

According to its most recent fiscal disclosure, LGBT Youth Scotland had received seven different Government grants through various allocations, including the Equality budget and the Violence Against Women and Girls budget.

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England’s National Health Service (NHS) has put forward a £100,000 contract to create a “gender-inclusive” maternity care training program based on research guided by a trans-identified male who has claimed that men can give birth and that “pre-operative trans women” have “girl penises.”

On December 16, the NHS quietly released an Invitation to Quote for the “Maternity Gender Inclusion Program,” with a listed closing date for pilot submissions set for January 11th, 2023.

The contracted program is set to be rolled out to midwives in maternity departments across 40 NHS Trusts in England, and would be based on the findings of the Improving Trans Experiences of Maternity Services (ITEMS) research project, which was co-authored by a trans-identified male and is alleged to have “significant” flaws in its methodology.

With Woman, a maternity care advocacy coalition, penned an open letter highlighting the “flawed” research within the ITEMS publications, and has called for a complete pause on the contract offering entirely.

Speaking with Reduxx, a spokeswoman from With Woman raised multiple concerns, especially with the entirety of the program’s focus appearing to be on “inclusive” language and not improvements in medical care for a traditionally complex cohort.

With Woman noted that even the Invitation to Quote appears fixed, with the very short contracting and funding window raising suspicion. With Woman indicated their belief that there may be organizations already lined up to take the contract as the time frames are too brief for uninvolved organizations to adequately prepare a pilot.

The ITEMS report, which is being used as a justification for the need for the program, based its findings on the responses of just 121 people. The report determined that “birthing people” were improperly cared for because they were “misgendered,” and made unsubstantiated claims that 30% of “trans parents” secretly gave birth at home with no medical intervention.

The report was co-authored by Dr. Ruth Pearce, a trans-identified male Lecturer in Community Development at Glasgow University.

Pearce played a significant role in the direction of the ITEMS research. Pearce’s work focuses on “trans pregnancy” and “Queer, Trans and Feminist music scenes.”

In an essay posted on to his website, Pearce asserts that he is more attractive and confident than biological women.

“Quite frankly, I bet a whole load of women would love to be as confident and good looking as I am. I’ve got a pretty face, great hair, fantastic legs, and I’ve recently grown some rather shapely breasts.” He is also known for having once fronted a “queer feminist rage” music group through which he sang a song about his scrotum.

In an August 2022 video titled “Reproductive Justice for Trans People With Ruth Pearce and Francis White,” Pearce explains the focus of his work on ITEMS, policy and language surrounding “trans birth” and the need to highlight transgender people having children to counter the claims that a “trans child” may not reproduce, and to create media that contradicts Abigail Shrier’s claims that child transition can lead to “irreversible damage” of fertility. 

Pearce called attention in particular to a phenomenon known as Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, which was coined by Lisa Littman and referenced by Jungian analyst and author Lisa Marchiano in a 2017 academic article titled “Outbreak: On Transgender Teens and Psychic Epidemics.” 

In the article, Marchiano examines the role of social media in the sudden rise in teens claiming a gender identity, stating: “a young person’s coming out as transgender is often preceded by increased social media use and/or having one or more peers also come out as transgender.”

Pearce mocked the concept of children learning of transgender identities on social media, but later contradicted himself by discussing the issue in the presentation segment titled “We Are the Virus: Reproduction via Social Contagion.”

In the segment, Pearce asserted the need to help transgender-identifying people to not only sexually reproduce, but also to “socially reproduce” by means of altering medical language and policy to introduce the idea of transition to children and adults as a form of “reproductive justice,” thereby creating more transgender people.

In the video, Pearce acknowledged that social contagion is the method by which transgenderism proliferates, stating: “Alexis Davin noted that the very process that Lisa Marchiano and Abigail Shrier described as a social contagion is the means by which trans people engage in a form of social reproduction. We become visible to one another and introduce one another to a language that makes sense of our lives and our needs.”

Later in the seminar he continued, “I’ve been thinking a lot about social contagion because it’s the language of the anti-trans movement. But… the exact thing they’re describing is the exact means by which we reproduce ourselves.”

During the seminar, Pearce described the work he did with Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH) NHS Trust, arguing for the need for “Gender Inclusive Language” to create “Language as Possibility” and posters that act as apparent recruitment advertising for the political transgender movement. Pearce elaborated by saying, “in Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, that’s a really interesting example of queer spaces of care being created through an institution rather than through more radical networks.”

Pearce’s involvement with the ITEMS research, as well as its use to justify an NHS maternity program, comes less than one year after NHS negligence was found to have been responsible for the needless deaths of over 200 babies and 9 mothers at at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust. According to internal investigations, “repeated failures in the quality of care and governance” was to blame for the deaths, which spanned over 2 decades, with an additional 1,486 families and 1,592 incidents being recorded as a result of inadequate maternity care oversight.

Reduxx has previously revealed how errors and confusion arose due to the use of inaccurate medical language which led to midwifery students at Napier University in Edinburgh being taught how to care for males giving birth through penises and prostates.

According to a course workbook, students were advised: “It is important to note that while most times the birthing person will have female genitalia, you may be caring for a pregnant or birthing person who is transitioning from male to female and may still have external male genitalia.”

UPDATE 1/12/23: The Maternity Gender Inclusion Program offering has now been withdrawn by the NHS.

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