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Leading Doctor at Boston Children’s Hospital Gave Cross-Sex Hormones to 13-Year-Old

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Genevieve Gluck
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The co-founder of the pediatric gender identity clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital admitted to giving feminizing hormone therapy to a 13-year-old child during a lecture in 2013. This is just the latest in a slew of disturbing news coming from the clinic related to transitioning extremely young children.

Last week, several promotional videos created by Boston Children’s Hospital went viral on Twitter. The first clip to be widely shared racked up over 1.6 million views and featured Gender Multispeciality Service (GeMS) clinician Dr. Frances Grimstad presenting hysterectomies as a form of “gender-affirming” therapy.

Another video from the Hospital that sparked massive backlash featured Dr. Jeremi Carswell, the Director of the GeMS clinic, stating that children can “know that they are transgender from the moment they have any ability to express themselves,” and “parents tell us… they knew from the minute they were born.”

Many concerned commenters expressed disbelief at views espoused by medical professionals in the videos. But Boston Children’s Hospital played a crucial role in pioneering the use of drugs to halt children’s puberty in North America.

Dr. Norman Spack, a pediatric endocrinologist, co-founded the hospital’s Gender Multispeciality Service (formerly the Gender Management Service) in February 2007.

In a TED Talk lecture he gave in 2013, Dr. Spack talks of halting children’s puberty beginning as early as 10 years old.

“At the time that puberty begins, about age 10 to 12 in girls and 12 to 14 in boys… the child who says they are in the wrong body is almost certain to be transgender and is extremely unlikely to change those feelings no matter how anybody tries,” Dr. Spack said, while defending the practice of halting children’s puberty.

Dr. Spack described a program he called “12-16-18,” which refers to the ages at which children should enter various stages of medical transition.

“Around age 12 is when they give the blocking hormones,” Dr. Spack says, referring to clinicians in the Netherlands. He stated that cross-sex hormones could be administered beginning from 15 to 16 years of age, preparing a teen for genital surgery by the age of 18.

Dr. Spack went on to advocate for the necessity of prescribing puberty blockers and estrogen to young boys so that they can grow up to be “beautiful,” highlighting two instances in which he had done so. Dr. Spack tells of meeting “Jackie,” a 12-year-old male child from Britain, and placing him on estrogen by 13 years old.

Jackie’s mother, Susie Green, had sought out medical intervention for her child in the United States because it was illegal to do so for minors under the age of 16 in the United Kingdom. Incidentally, Susie Green has since become a prominent advocate for transitioning children in the UK, and currently serves as the CEO of controversial trans charity Mermaids.

During his TED Talk, Dr. Spack explained that in order to prevent Jackie’s growth, he decided to block the boy’s puberty and administer estrogen to Jackie beginning at age 13.

“We blocked [his] testosterone with a blocking hormone. But we added estrogen not at 16, but at 13,” Dr. Spack said. He then emphasizes that Jackie underwent “genital plastic surgery” in Thailand when he was 16 years old, again due to the illegality of the procedure for minors in the United Kingdom.

During the TED Talk, Dr. Spack also notes another one of his young patients, Nicole Maines, who he placed on puberty-blocking drugs at the age of 11. Maines then started estrogen at 14.

In addition to providing cross-sex hormones to young boys, Dr. Spack has taken credit for pioneering the medical practice of halting puberty in children in the United States. Speaking on halting the natural development of children aged 10 to 14 years old, Dr. Spack said, “I brought some kids in… and this now became the standard of care, and [Boston] Children’s Hospital was behind it. We started a program in 2007. It became the first program of its kind in North America.”

This claim is reiterated on the TED website, which, in a biography detailing Dr. Spack’s work, asserts that Boston Children’s Hospital “remains one of the few in the world that treats minors with hormone replacement therapy.”

In 2015, Dr. Spack wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled Transgender Surgery at 17 May Avoid Serious Problems Later.

“Genetic boys could have surgery at 17, especially if they are going to college, since the months of necessary post-operative care are best done at home. If genetic girls who identify as male have very large breasts, mastectomies could even be done at 14,” wrote Dr. Spack. He has also separately asserted that children as young as 2 years of age can understand their gender identity.

Boston Children’s Hospital recently pulled videos which appeared to promote the surgical transitioning of teens and children in response to intense criticism which followed public awareness of their services.

Image from a document previously made available from Boston Children’s Hospital

The fact-checkers at Politifact asserted that it was “inaccurate” to suggest that Boston Children’s Hospital had endorsed or performed so-called sex reassignment surgeries on minors. In the same article, Politifact points out that Boston Children’s Hospital follows the Standards of Care (SOC) recommended by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

WPATH is expected to release the newest version of its SOC later on this year. Among updated recommendations are the lowering of the minimum recommended age that providers can prescribe hormone therapy to 14, down from 16. The association will also lower the minimum recommended age for some surgeries to 15, down from 18.

Boston Children’s Hospital had, according to their website, already been recommending genital surgeries for teens aged 17, but quietly updated the medical standards following intense scrutiny.

An academic article published in March of this year further corroborates evidence that Boston Children’s Hospital has performed genital surgeries on under-18’s.

“A Single Center Case Series of Gender-Affirming Surgeries and the Evolution of a Specialty Anesthesia Team,” published by the Journal of Clinical Medicine, states that “there is growing support for improved access to gender-affirming surgical care at pediatric institutions,” and specifically names Boston Children’s Hospital as one of the providers.

“The Center for Gender Surgery (CfGS) at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) was the first pediatric center in the United States to offer gender-affirming chest surgeries for individuals over 15 years old and genital surgeries for those over 17 years of age,” reads the paper. “In the four years since its inception, CfGS has completed over 300 gender-affirming surgeries.”

Mainstream media outlets have decried claims that the hospital is medically transitioning minors as “false allegations.” NBC News reported of “mounting threats” to hospital employees while blaming “far-right activists” for spreading “anti-trans statements.”

In response to the backlash, the Boston Children’s Hospital released a statement asserting the criticism was based on a “false narrative,” and that they did not perform hysterectomies on females under the age of 18.

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Médico cofundador de la clínica de género del Hospital Infantil de Boston dio hormonas femeninas a niño de 13 años

By
Genevieve Gluck
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El cofundador de la clínica pediátrica de identidad de género del Hospital Pediátrico de Boston admitió en una conferencia de 2013 haber administrado hormonas femeninas a un niño de 13 años. Esta no es más que la última de una serie de noticias inquietantes provenientes de la clínica relacionadas con la transición de niños extremadamente jóvenes.

La semana pasada, varios videos promocionales creados por el Boston Children’s Hospital se volvieron virales en Twitter. El primer clip acumuló más de 1.6 millones de visitas y en él aparecía la dra. Frances Grimstad, médica del Servicio de Multiespecialidades de Género (GeMS), presentando las histerectomías como una forma de terapia de “afirmación de género”.

En otro video del Hospital, que provocó una reacción masiva, salía la Dra. Jeremi Carswell, Directora de la clínica GeMS, afirmando que los niños pueden “saber que son transgénero desde el momento en que tienen la capacidad de expresarse”, y “los padres nos dicen que lo sabían desde el momento en que nacieron”.

Mucha gente preocupada expresó su incredulidad ante las opiniones defendidas por los profesionales médicos en los videos. Pero el Boston Children’s Hospital desempeñó un papel crucial al ser pionero en el uso de medicamentos para detener la pubertad infantil en América del Norte.

El Dr. Norman Spack, endocrinólogo pediátrico, cofundó el Servicio de Multiespecialidad de Género del hospital (anteriormente el Servicio de Gestión de Género) en febrero de 2007.

En una conferencia de TED Talk que dio en 2013, el Dr. Spack habla de detener la pubertad a niños de tan solo 10 años.

“En el momento en que comienza la pubertad, alrededor de los 10 a 12 años en las niñas y de 12 a 14 en los niños … el menor que dice que está en el cuerpo equivocado es casi seguro que sea transgénero y es extremadamente improbable que cambie de parecer, aunque la gente lo intente convencer de lo contrario”, dijo el Dr. Spack, mientras defendía la práctica de detener la pubertad de los niños.

El Dr. Spack describió un programa que llamó “12-16-18”, que se refiere a las edades en las que los niños deben entrar en las diferentes etapas de transición médica: “Alrededor de los 12 años es cuando administran las hormonas bloqueadoras”, dice el Dr. Spack, refiriéndose a médicos en los Países Bajos. Afirmó que las hormonas sexuales cruzadas podrían administrarse a partir de los 15 a los 16 años de edad, preparando a un adolescente para la cirugía genital a la edad de 18 años.

El Dr. Spack continuó abogando por la necesidad de recetar bloqueadores de la pubertad y estrógeno a niños pequeños para que puedan crecer y ser “hermosos”, destacando dos casos en los que ya lo había hecho. El Dr. Spack cuenta que conoció a “Jackie”, un niño varón de 12 años de Gran Bretaña, y que lo puso a tratamiento de estrógeno a los 13 años.

La madre de Jackie, Susie Green, había intentado conseguir intervención médica para su hijo en los Estados Unidos, porque era ilegal para menores de 16 años en el Reino Unido. Susie Green se ha convertido desde entonces en una destacada defensora de la transición de los niños en el Reino Unido, y actualmente es la CEO de la polémica organización benéfica trans Mermaids.

Durante su charla TED, el Dr. Spack explicó que para prevenir el crecimiento de Jackie, decidió bloquear la pubertad del niño y darle estrógeno a partir de los 13 años.

“Bloqueamos su testosterona con una hormona bloqueadora. Pero añadimos estrógeno no a los 16, sino a los 13 años”, dijo el Dr. Spack. Luego hace hincapié en que Jackie se sometió a una “cirugía plástica genital” en Tailandia cuando tenía 16 años, nuevamente debido a la ilegalidad del procedimiento para menores en el Reino Unido.

Durante la charla TED, el Dr. Spack también señala a otro de sus jóvenes pacientes, Nicole Maines, a quien puso a tratamiento de bloqueadores de la pubertad a la edad de 11 años. Maines luego comenzó a tomar estrógeno a los 14 años.

Además de proporcionar hormonas sexuales cruzadas a niños, el Dr. Spack se ha atribuido el mérito de ser pionero en la práctica médica de detener la pubertad de menores en los Estados Unidos. Hablando sobre detener el desarrollo natural de niños de 10 a 14 años, el Dr. Spack dijo: “Traje a algunos niños (al hospital)… y esto ahora se convirtió en el estándar de atención, y el Hospital de Niños [de Boston] era el responsable. Comenzamos un programa en 2007. Se convirtió en el primer programa de este tipo en América del Norte”.

Esta afirmación se reitera en el sitio web de TED, que, en una biografía que detalla el trabajo del Dr. Spack, afirma que el Boston Children’s Hospital “sigue siendo uno de los pocos en el mundo que trata a menores con terapia de reemplazo hormonal”.

En 2015, el Dr. Spack escribió un artículo de opinión para The New York Times titulado Transgender Surgery at 17 May Avoid Serious Problems Later. (La Cirugía Transgénero a los 17 Puede Evitar Problemas Graves Más Tarde)

“Los niños genéticos podrían someterse a una cirugía a los 17 años, especialmente si van a ir a la universidad, ya que los meses de atención postoperatoria necesarios se realizan mejor en casa. Si las niñas genéticas que se identifican como varones tienen senos muy grandes, las mastectomías podrían incluso hacerse a los 14 años”, escribió el Dr. Spack. También ha afirmado en otras ocasiones que los niños de tan solo 2 años de edad pueden entender su identidad de género.

El Boston Children’s Hospital recientemente retiró videos que parecían promover la transición quirúrgica de adolescentes y niños en respuesta a las intensas críticas que siguieron a la sensibilización del público hacia sus servicios.

Los verificadores de hechos de Politifact afirmaron que era “inexacto” sugerir que el Hospital de Niños de Boston había respaldado o realizado las llamadas cirugías de reasignación de sexo en menores. En el mismo artículo, Politifact señala que Boston Children’s Hospital sigue los Estándares de Atención (SOC) recomendados por la Asociación Profesional Mundial para la Salud Transgénero (WPATH).

Se espera que WPATH lance la versión más reciente de su SOC a finales de este año. Entre las recomendaciones actualizadas se encuentran la reducción de la edad mínima recomendada para prescribir terapia hormonal a 14 años, en vez de a los 16 años. La asociación también reducirá la edad mínima recomendada para algunas cirugías a 15 años, en vez de los 18.

El Boston Children’s Hospital, según su sitio web, ya había estado recomendando cirugías genitales para adolescentes de 17 años, pero actualizó calladamente los estándares médicos después de un intenso escrutinio.

Un artículo académico publicado en marzo de este año corrobora aún más la evidencia de que el Boston Children’s Hospital ha realizado cirugías genitales en menores de 18 años.

“A Single Center Case Series of Gender-Affirming Surgeries and the Evolution of a Specialty Anesthesia Team”, publicado por el Journal of Clinical Medicine, afirma que “hay un creciente apoyo para mejorar el acceso a la atención quirúrgica de afirmación de género en las instituciones pediátricas”, y nombra específicamente a Boston Children’s Hospital como uno de los proveedores.

“El Centro de Cirugía de Género (CfGS) en el Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) fue el primer centro pediátrico en los Estados Unidos en ofrecer cirugías de pecho que afirman el género para mayores de 15 años y cirugías genitales para mayores de 17 años”, se puede leer en el documento. “En los cuatro años transcurridos desde su creación, CfGS ha hecho más de 300 cirugías de afirmación de género”.

Los principales medios de comunicación han definido las afirmaciones de que el hospital está haciendo la transición médica de menores como “acusaciones falsas”. NBC News informó de “crecientes amenazas” a los empleados del hospital mientras culpaba a los “activistas de extrema derecha” por difundir “declaraciones anti-trans”.

En respuesta al rechazo, el Hospital de Niños de Boston emitió un comunicado afirmando que las críticas se basaban en una “narrativa falsa” y que no realizaron histerectomías a menores de 18 años.

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“Put TERFs in Their Place”: Trans Activist Appointed to Office by Scottish Lawmakers

By
Genevieve Gluck
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A Scottish trans activist who has called for the murder of politicians he disagrees with and was filmed screaming insults at women last fall has been appointed as a Learning Disabilities Officer for the governing Scottish National Party.

Alexandria Adamson, a male who identifies as a transgender woman, was recorded hurling slurs at a women’s rights demonstration in Edinburgh last September. Adamson, who was demonstrating with a crowd of trans activists, went viral after he was caught on film lunging towards a woman and repeatedly screaming “witch!” at her before a police officer intervened.

The incident occurred on September 2, 2021, during a protest initially led by pro-women activists. The group of approximately 400 women gathered outside Holyrood to demand the Scottish National Party-Green government protect sex-based rights in law, and to protest self-identification policies strengthened under national leader Nicola Sturgeon.

The pro-woman demonstration held signs which said “save our single-sex spaces” and “sex not gender,” but were met with an estimated 100-strong counter protest of trans activists. Adamson had apparently been amongst the organizers, calling upon people to join him in protest against “hate crimes.”

A video uploaded to Adamson’s Facebook account, evidently recorded himself, depicted Adamson walking towards Holyrood that morning on his way to the protest. In the video, Adamson can be heard muttering menacing phrases about “TERFs” — an acronym many feminists have condemned as a misogynistic slur. Most commonly, the acronym is applied to women who do not believe in self-identification policies.

“All this transphobia has to end. What I’ve witnessed in England was politically demonic. We have to put the TERFs in their place and stand up in solidarity. Those evil TERFs are no-good bullies … No good is going to come to them. They won’t know what’s coming to them.”

After the video of Adamson’s outburst at the protest began circulating on social media, his identity was quickly confirmed by internet sleuths. Shortly after, more disturbing threats he’d made against women began to emerge from his social media pages.

In the days leading up to the September event, Adamson shared a Facebook event page which called for all who support “self-ID for trans people” to join him in “[putting] TERFs in their place.”

In another Facebook post dated July 16, Adamson appeared to delight in imagining himself “pummeling” a woman whom he believed to be transphobic.

Adamson had also uploaded photos of hand-written diary entries to his social media account. One such entry, titled “Alexandria’s Testimony,” described how he believed he had a direct encounter with a “Holy Spirit” who told him that his “purpose was to be a woman.”

He quotes a Bible verse which states that “the lesson of kindness is on her tongue”, and concludes by asserting his view that “all autistic, disabled, LGBTQ+ Christians were born with a divine purpose,” and added the warning: “Do not judge us, it’s unBiblical.”

In addition to threatening women he decries as “TERFs,” Adamson has also called for British Secretary of State Elizabeth Truss to be “put to death,” referring to her as a “demon” and a “b*tch.”

Yet despite this documented abuse and harassment of women, the Scottish National Party’s Disabled Members Group appointed Adamson to an organizational leadership role in February, an announcement that went largely overlooked until women’s rights advocates on Twitter began circulating the news earlier this week.

As news of Adamson’s appointment to a government role spread across social media, many expressed concern. Some social media users noted his calls for violence against political opponents made him unfit for public service, and reported tweets on his Twitter account which referred to those he disagreed with as “demons” who should “all be killed.” Adamson’s account has since been suspended.

It is unclear whether Police Scotland intend to take action against Adamson for tweets that incite violence and abuse. Many feminists on Twitter have pointed out that pro-woman advocates in the country have been criminally investigated for far less.

In 2021, Scottish feminist Marion Miller was charged under the Communications Act for Tweets she made from 2019, one of which was simply a photo of a suffragette ribbon. After a legal battle, the charges were dropped later that year.

Scotland has become a hub for debate surrounding gender ideology and its impact on women.

A controversial hate crime bill supported by Scotland’s justice secretary, Humza Yousaf, was passed last year despite containing no provisions to protect women from sex-based crimes. The legislation was slammed for creating a new criminal offense of “stirring up hatred” towards “cross-dressing people”, and for granting more protections to men who declare themselves to be women than to biological women.

In 2021, it was revealed that Police Scotland had been recording male rapists as female if they self-identify as such upon arrest, influencing official government crime statistics. Scotland also has a robust prison self-identification policy, and approximately 12 male convicts have been transferred to female prisons in the country over the course of the past two years.

Some female prisoners in Scotland have recently revealed to researchers that they feel threatened by trans-identified male inmates, with those who have suffered previous violence and abuse being particularly vulnerable.

UPDATE 17/08/22: The Scottish Daily Express has reported the SNP has suspended a member after becoming aware of an assassination threat made by that member against Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak. The Express stated they made a decision against identifying the member, whom they referred to using feminine pronouns, but the threat matches one made by Adamson in May.

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Senior Women Heckled During Rally For Single-Sex Locker Rooms at Community Pool

By
Anna Slatz
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A peaceful demonstration held by women’s rights activists in support of an 80-year-old woman banned from her local pool was interrupted by aggressive trans activists who heckled the women as they spoke and attempted to destroy their equipment.

The demonstration took place yesterday evening in the small community of Port Townsend, Washington, a city with less than 10,000 residents that has become a hub for debate on women’s single-sex spaces after an 80-year-old model citizen was banned from the community’s pool after expressing concerns about a male in the women’s changing room.

Julie Jaman had been a guest at the YMCA-run Mountain View community pool for over 35 years. Speaking to Reduxx earlier this month, Jaman revealed that on July 26, she witnessed a trans-identified male using the female locker rooms at the pool, and became concerned due to the fact he appeared to be watching the young girls as they changed out of their bathing suits.

Jaman, who was herself nude as she was showering after a swim, demanded the male leave, but was quickly met with outrage from Rowen DeLuna, the pool’s aquatics manager who was in the locker room at the time. DeLuna berated her for being “discriminatory.”

“She said, ‘you are being discriminatory, you are banned from the pool, and I am calling the police.’ I was totally stunned,” Jaman says, adding that she felt particularly vulnerable, being yelled at while nude.

After Jaman came forward to press about her experience, the male in the women’s locker room was revealed as Clementine Adams — a transgender member of the pool’s staff who had only begun to transition weeks prior to self-identifying into the women’s locker room.

Clementine Adams

As news of Jaman’s ban from the pool began to spread, many took to social media to condemn the Mountain View Pool and the Olympic Peninsula YMCA and demand Julie have her membership reinstated.

On August 15, feminist activists associated with pro-safeguarding collective RevFoxxUSA organized a press conference near the Mountain View Pool in support of Jaman, inviting the senior citizen to speak about her experience. But the women were met with extreme hostility from trans activists, who had begun organizing a protest as soon as word of the press conference began to circulate on social media.

Gabrielle Clark, a free speech advocate and founding member of RevFoxxUSA, said the activists became so aggressive that she was genuinely frightened for Jaman’s safety, and the safety of the supporting women in attendance.

“We were attacked by [trans activists]. Fully grown men were getting in our faces, shoving, verbally abusing us, and attacking our equipment … Most of us were senior women. These were feminists who protested in the 1970s for women’s rights.” Clark, who travelled from out of state to assist with the conference, says.

Clark explains she had been introduced to Jaman by Amy Sousa, another founding member of RevFoxxUSA who lives near Jaman and has been a vocal advocate rallying support for her cause since her ban.

Gabrielle Clark [M], Amy Sousa [R], and Jennifer Thomas [L], three founding members of RevFoxxUSA, introducing the press conference. Photo Credit: Lynn Chadwick.

Clark was standing next to Jaman for almost the entirety of the conference, giving her words of encouragement as the increasingly vocal activists shouted her down and heckled her. At one point, an activist rushed behind Clark and ripped down the suffragette flags that had been pinned on the wall. But Clark didn’t let them go without a fight, immediately acting quickly to chase down the activist.

“I got a hold of the flags and yanked them back. I’m not letting anyone take anything from me again. Including my dignity.”

A woman in attendance at the event, asked only to be identified as Nora, said she witnessed one of the trans activists attempt to destroy the phone of a man who had been helping out with the press conference.

“I saw one counter protester grab [his] phone and run away with it … they threw it on the ground and tried to crush it with their foot before it was recovered,” Nora says, “I was approached by someone who verbally abused me despite standing quietly at the periphery, holding my signs and saying nothing.”

Nora also told Reduxx that many of the trans activists were physically aggressive with the women in attendance.

Port Townsend Police were present at the event, but many of the women who spoke to Reduxx affirmed they did very little to keep the peace.

Gabrielle Clark says Amy Sousa had contacted the police prior to the event to request support, and that other women associated with RevFoxxUSA listened to the call over speaker in which Police Chief Olsen told them law enforcement would be available.

“We called them ahead of time to make sure that they would be there to keep the peace. They assured us that they would. We told them that there would be mostly seniors,” Clark explains, “[But] police did nothing. They let the mob attack senior citizens. They could have kept the peace but they hid around the corner.”

Photo: @technonymph/TWITTER.

During the live-broadcasted stream of the press conference, primarily male voices are heard screaming at the women and attempting to drown them out with chants.

Some pro-woman advocates in attendance have shared a photo on social media of a heavily-tattooed man they say was one of the most vocal hecklers. The bearded individual was wearing a t-shirt with a lynched klansman on the front.

Lynn Chadwick, a signatory of the Women Declaration and an advocate for parents of children with rapid onset gender dysphoria, says there were “at least 200” trans activists aggressively demonstrating against 30-40 women.

“I’ve been involved in feminist advocacy since early 2019. I lost my kids, all three, to the gender cult. The feminists were there to catch me. That’s when I began to see things through new eyes,” Chadwick says, “When Julie was born we had only had the vote for 20 years. I’m sure the women who fought so hard for our rights would never have envisioned this.”

Chadwick says the trans activists became so aggressive at one point that she was forced to call 911.

“They were shoving and pushing us hard. I turned around and told them, ‘you need to stop touching us. Right now. Stop touching us. It’s assault and I will file a report.’ They continued shoving us. They ripped down our flags and ran off with them. My friend had her sign stolen and ripped to pieces.”

After calling 911, Chadwick says she was told officers were already on the scene, but she says she didn’t see any police amongst the vicious section of the crowd to turn to for help, and that the officers were instead at the very periphery, standing in an area where nothing was at risk.

“There were a lot of older women who were very frightened,” Chadwick noted.

Despite the aggression, Gabrielle Clark says she was moved by the opportunity to stand alongside Julie Jaman and the other women in attendance, many of whom she says were fighting for women’s sex-based rights before she was born.

“Being a woman is a birthright. Nobody is going to take it away. It’s sad that a couple dozen octogenarians are being accused of bigotry when those very same people fought for all our rights half a century ago.”

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Texas Child Welfare Employee Fired After Encouraging Teen to Consider “Sex Work”

By
Reduxx Team
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The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has fired a support worker after a video emerged of her encouraging a vulnerable 14-year-old girl to consider becoming a prostitute to survive.

The shocking conversation was caught on film by the teen, who had begun recording her interactions with the worker after she had started to make similar suggestions on other occasions.

The video was released to Fox 26 News on Sunday, showing the girl covertly filming the worker explicitly telling her to become a prostitute. The interaction had taken place after the teen had approached the worker and asked for help to get food.

The teen was being housed the Harris County hotel awaiting foster care placement after entering the system at the request of her mother, who had become concerned about her daughter’s risky behavior.

“My daughter told me that the worker had been telling her to do these things, so she said she decided to video her,” Keisha Bazley, the girl’s mother, told Fox 26. Bazley filed a formal complaint and the video was shown to the Department, resulting in the staff member involved being terminated.

“The person in the video – who was employed as [Child Protective Services] support staff — was dismissed from her position August 10,” Marissa Gonzales, a Department spokesperson, said in a statement to the Texas Tribune. “The safety and appropriateness with which children in care must be treated is our paramount concern.”

Following the termination, Department Commissioner Jaime Masters travelled from Austin to Houston to personally apologize to the child and her mother.

But while Gonzales and the Department insisted that “nothing less” than the safeguarding of the youth in their care would be tolerated, this isn’t the first disturbing story out of the Texas child protection system in recent months.

In March, allegations surfaced that young girls in a government-contracted shelter for female youth victims of sex trafficking were being trafficked once again by their own case workers. Seven children, aged 11 to 17, were allegedly abused by 9 perpetrators working for the Refuge Ranch, which was run by the Refuge for Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking. An employee attempted to make the abuse known but the reports went neglected.

The employee had tried to alert the Department of Family and Protective Services, through which the private facility was operating, that a staff member had been selling nude photos of two of the young girls in their care, and had been buying illicit drugs and alcohol for the children. Despite the report, the Department failed to remove all of the children from the abusive care for five weeks after the first documented case of of exploitation had been brought to light.

While Texas Rangers reportedly found no evidence of any wrongdoing, court-appointed watchdogs discovered “ample” proof that the former child sex trafficking victims were being abused. According to court documents, allegations of child sex abuse, exploitation, neglectful supervision and physical abuse have all found substantiating evidence. The case is still under investigation.

In June, U.S. District Judge Janis Jack expressed her concerns that Texas’ child protection system was not performing adequate background checks on potential caregivers, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

Research has consistently found that children involved in the foster care or child protective service system experienced disproportionately higher rates of sexual and physical abuse.

A 2001 study by Johns Hopkins University found that children in foster care are four times more likely to be sexually abused than their non-foster peers, and children in group homes are 28 times more likely to be abused. Even more dramatic findings were published by child safeguarding organization Darkness To Light, which found that children living in foster care were 10 times more likely to be sexually abused than children residing with both biological parents.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 60% of runaway youth who are victims of sex trafficking had previously been in the custody of social services or in foster care.

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Empleada de Protección Infantil en Texas despedida por animar a una adolescente a prostituirse

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Reduxx Team
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El Departamento de Servicios Familiares y de Protección de Texas despidió a una trabajadora de apoyo cuando descubrió un video en el que animaba a una niña vulnerable de 14 años a considerar convertirse en prostituta para poder sobrevivir.

Fue la misma adolescente la que filmó la estremecedora conversación: ya había comenzado a grabar sus interacciones con la trabajadora al haber ésta empezado a hacerle sugerencias similares en otras ocasiones.

El video fue publicado por Fox 26 News el domingo, y muestra a la niña filmando en secreto a la trabajadora diciéndole explícitamente que se convirtiera en prostituta. La interacción había tenido lugar después de que la adolescente se acercara a la trabajadora y le pidiera ayuda para poder comer.

La adolescente estaba alojada en un hotel del condado de Harris a la espera de ser llevada a un hogar de acogida temporal, después de ingresar en el sistema a petición de su madre, quien se había empezado a preocupar por el comportamiento de riesgo de su hija.

“Mi hija me contó que la trabajadora le había estado diciendo que hiciera estas cosas, así que dijo que había decidido filmarla”, dijo Keisha Bazley, la madre de la niña, a Fox 26. Bazley presentó una queja formal y el video se mostró al Departamento, lo que resultó en que la empleada involucrada fuera despedida.

“La persona en el video, que estaba empleada como personal de apoyo [de los Servicios de Protección Infantil], fue despedida de su puesto el 10 de agosto”, dijo Marissa Gonzales, portavoza del Departamento, en un comunicado al Texas Tribune. “La seguridad y la propiedad con la que los niños bajo tutela deben ser tratados, es nuestra principal preocupación”.

Después del despido, el comisionado del Departamento Jaime Masters viajó de Austin a Houston para disculparse personalmente con la niña y su madre.

Pero aunque Gonzales y el Departamento insistieron en que no se iba a tolerar nada que pusiera en peligro la protección de los jóvenes bajo su cuidado, esta no es la primera historia inquietante del sistema de protección infantil de Texas en los últimos meses.

En marzo, surgieron denuncias de que las niñas de un refugio contratado por el gobierno para mujeres jóvenes víctimas de trata sexual estaban siendo traficadas una vez más, esta vez por sus mismos trabajadores sociales. Nueve de ellos, que trabajaban para el Rancho Refugio, administrado por el Refugio para el Tráfico Sexual Doméstico de Menores, abusaron presuntamente de siete menores, de entre 11 y 17 años. Un empleado intentó dar a conocer el abuso, pero sus informes fueron omitidos.

El empleado había tratado de alertar al Departamento de Servicios Familiares y de Protección, del que depende el centro privado, de que un miembro del personal había estado vendiendo fotos de desnudos de dos de las niñas a su cargo, y había estado comprando drogas y alcohol para los menores. A pesar del informe, el Departamento no retiró a todos los niños del hogar hasta cinco semanas después de que saliera a la luz el primer caso documentado de explotación.

Aunque los Texas Rangers no encontraron evidencia de ningún delito, los organismos de control designados por la corte descubrieron pruebas “abundantes” de que las ex víctimas de tráfico sexual infantil estaban sufriendo abusos. Según documentos judiciales, las denuncias de abuso sexual infantil, explotación, supervisión negligente y abuso físico cuentan con pruebas que lo corroboran. El caso aún está bajo investigación.

En junio, la jueza de distrito Janis Jack, expresó su preocupación de que el sistema de protección infantil de Texas no estuviera realizando investigaciones de antecedentes adecuadas de los cuidadores potenciales, según el San Antonio Express-News.

La investigación ha descubierto que los niños en hogares de acogida temporales o en el sistema de servicios de protección infantil experimentaron tasas desproporcionadamente más altas de abuso sexual y físico de una forma consistente.

Un estudio realizado en 2001 por la Universidad Johns Hopkins descubrió que los niños en hogares de acogida temporal tienen cuatro veces más probabilidades de sufrir abusos sexuales que sus compañeros que no están en hogares, y los niños en casas de acogida para grupos tienen 28 veces más probabilidades de sufrir abusos. La organización de protección infantil Darkness To Light ha publicado resultados aún más dramáticos: descubrió que los niños que viven en hogares de acogida temporal tenían 10 veces más probabilidades de sufrir abusos sexuales que los niños que residen con ambos padres biológicos.

Según el Centro Nacional para Niños Desaparecidos y Explotados, el 60% de los jóvenes fugitivos que son víctimas de tráfico sexual habían estado previamente bajo la custodia de los servicios sociales o en hogares de acogida.

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“Lesbian Sex” Guide Advises That Lesbians May Have a Penis

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Anna Slatz
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Healthline is under fire for publishing an article in which it advises lesbian woman on “penis-in-vagina” sex, and warns about the risks of getting pregnant.

On August 1, medical information and lifestyle site Healthline updated a guidance article titled “How Do Lesbians Have Sex? 28 Things to Know Before Your First Time.” Like all Healthline publications, the article claims it was “medically reviewed” by a qualified doctor prior to posting, and in this case the professional listed is Dr. Janet Brito, whose bio states she is a “nationally certified Latinx sex therapist, supervisor, speaker, trainer, and author.”

The article starts out by informing readers that lesbian sex may not necessarily refer to sex between two women, and that one or both of the partners involved in the lesbian relationship may not even be female.

“‘Lesbian sex’ isn’t limited to cisgender couples. It also includes other people who have vaginas, people with penises, and people with intersex genitalia,” the article states, continuing: “So, whatever counts as ‘lesbian sex’ is really up to whoever is doing it.” The guidance also suggests both partners involved in the “lesbian sex” may have a penis, and also advises on the best positions for anal sex.

Throughout the article, Healthline asserts that a penis may be involved in lesbian sex, reminding readers that “just because you’re both women doesn’t mean you have the same genitals — for example, one person might be a cis woman with a vagina, while the other might be a trans woman with a penis.”

In a section of the guide on stimulation, Healthline provides guidance for lesbians on how to “manually stimulate someone who has a penis,” offering advice on “hand jobs” and orally stimulating the penis, scrotum, and perineum. The article also gives advice on penis-in-vagina and penis-in-anus sex.

Healthline also warns against pregnancy, advising birth control be used.

“It’s possible to get pregnant if one partner has a penis and another has a vagina,” it says, continuing: “often people assume that lesbians can’t get pregnant, or that lesbian sex can’t result in pregnancy. That’s a myth based on the assumption that both women are cisgender … If one partner is transgender and has a penis and the other is cisgender and has a vagina, they can have penis-in-vagina sex.”

The August 1 Healthline guide appears to be a re-publication of an earlier article released on July 22, though it is unclear what was changed in the update apart from the professional who conducted the “medical review.” Previously, the article had been “medically reviewed” by Jennifer Litner, who, similar to Brito, is not a medical doctor but a sex therapist.

After the guidance first began circulating on social media at the end of July, many users expressed outrage at the suggestion that lesbian sex could involve penises and risks of pregnancy, with some calling it “conversion therapy.”

Others noted that any sex that involved non-females was, by definition, not lesbian sex.

This isn’t the first time Healthline has experienced backlash for an overly “woke” article. The site has multiple resource guides referring to women as “vulva owners,” “menstruators,” and “pregnant people.” In an article published last year, lesbianism was defined as a “non-man” who is romantically or sexually interested in “non-men.”

Speaking to Reduxx on the Healthline guidance, Canadian lesbian activist Eva Kurilova rejected the suggestions as being “outright harmful” to same-sex attracted women.

“No, HealthLine, lesbian sex does not involve a penis and does not come with the possibility of pregnancy.”

Kurilova is a journalist with Gender Dissent, an outlet and organization which describes itself as focused on “examining and exposing the powerful corporate and political connections” behind gender ideology.

“[Resources for lesbians] are already hard to find without stumbling upon pornographic content. This ‘lesbian sex’ guide contributes to the problem by erasing the reality of female homosexuality and using it for further male validation,” Kurilova said.

“It also steps right into conversion therapy territory by framing ‘lesbian sex’ as sex that might just happen to include a penis. This kind of messaging makes it harder for lesbians to maintain sexual boundaries and refuse the advances of males who ‘identify’ as lesbians.”

Activist campaigns and rhetoric targeted at demanding lesbians be sexually receptive to including trans-identified males in their dating pool have seen sharp increases in recent years, with trans activists labelling exclusive female homosexuality as “the cotton ceiling.” The term was inspired by the concept of the “glass ceiling,” which is used to describe discrimination women face in the workplace that prevents them for reaching upper management levels. The “cotton” refers to the material of a women’s underwear, and frames a lesbian’s refusal to have sexual relations with males as a form of discrimination. 

In July, during the employment tribunal hearing of lesbian barrister Allison Bailey, a lawyer argued that a “cotton ceiling” workshop intended to deconstruct lesbian sexual barriers was “similar to South Africa attempting to racially integrate society.”

Over the past two months, lesbians in multiple countries have reported experiencing assault, intimidation, or abuse at pride marches or women’s activist events.

On August 7, a lesbian activist in Germany filed a police report after being assaulted by trans activists at the Dyke March Hamburg for holding a sign which defined lesbian as a “female homosexual.”

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OPINION: Transitioning Dead Women

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Shay Woulahan
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According to historian Bettany Hughes, of all written and recorded history, only 0.5% is about women despite women consistently making up about 50% of the population.

But though the odds were stacked against them, many incredible women and girls defied the often-oppressive confines of their gender roles to become recognizable household names. This is a positive. After all, little girls having a diverse range of same-sex figures to look up to and be inspired by should be, by all accounts, a good thing. And, surely, no one would stand in opposition to recognizing the great women of history who have such little space to shine as it is, right?

Ha! Wrong!

In recent years, gender ideologues have taken their great eraser to the textbooks of history in an attempt to redefine and otherwise revise the record to insert themselves where they were never before mentioned. As in all other issues, the ideologues are particularly heavy-handed when it comes to women.

History’s great females have not been spared the influence of gender ideology, which, itself is historically non-existent. After all, modern gender theory is a new concept. The concept of gender as we understand it was coined in the 1960s by disgraced sexologist John Money. The term “transgender” was also coined in the 1960s but only gained popularity in recent years. Similarly, “non-binary” has existed only since the 1990s.

Applying terms related to “gender identity” to individuals who existed long before the terms did is moot, and more of a type of bizarre fan fiction than anything else.

But that hasn’t stopped the trans-historians of trans-history. Armed with sexist stereotypes, they have been marching through history’s great women, so kindly “correcting” the record of their lives where they have determined one or another wasn’t sufficiently “womanly” enough. All in the name of smashing the gender binary, of course.

The most recent example of this is the Sainted Joan of Arc. Joan was a French heroine that led the French army to victory against the English in 1429, purportedly after receiving divine guidance to do so. As she led troops into battle, she donned more practical men’s clothes and armor. After being captured by the English in 1430, she was tried in a kangaroo court on charges of witchcraft, heresy, and defying the divine law for having dressed as a man. She was burned alive in 1431 at the age of 19.

An incredible story of an inspiring, powerful woman.

… Until now.

On August 11, London-based theatre Shakespeare’s Globe announced it’s upcoming play I, Joan, which would re-write her story to make her non-binary who utilized ‘they/them’ pronouns.

In their description of the play it reads, “Rebelling against the world’s expectations, questioning the gender binary, Joan finds their power and their belief spreads like fire.”

While it is true that Joan defied the world’s expectations of her, play writer Charlie Josephine’s implication that she was less of a woman for doing so only reinforces these societal expectations of what a woman should be.

Calling Joan “they” instead of “she” does nothing to question the gender binary. Rather than acknowledging that Joan was a woman who overcame the expectations imposed upon her because of her sex, Joesphine suggests that being a woman is nothing more than adherence to those very expectations.

Rejecting gender roles such as femininity and submissiveness is to reject womanhood itself. The gender binary is not being questioned, it is being upheld in the most extreme way possible. Part of the reasons cited by the English for Joan’s execution was her gender non-conformity. Nearly 600 years later, and the message is still the same; women don’t act this way, women don’t dress this way, women aren’t warriors, women aren’t leaders. 

Unsurprisingly, this is not the first time Joan has been posthumously transitioned.

The controversial private gender clinic, GenderGP published an article on their website in 2021 titled “Non-binary people in history: Why aren’t they recognized?” and included Joan of Arc in their breakdown.

“The famous French warrior Joan of Arc used female pronouns, but when she was called by God, took up exclusively masculine clothing and social roles,” it read.

Groundbreaking.

Unfortunately, Joan is not the only woman who has had her womanhood stripped from her for not conforming to their stereotypical sex-role.

A blog post referred to the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, by he/him pronouns because she sometimes called herself a “man of action” and a “man of science,” and had a close, documented relationship with a female friend. They argued that it was far more likely that she was a man than a lesbian.

The author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, has also been described as “trans” by both activists and Queer news outlet LGBTQ Nation. A tweet from earlier this year wracked up over 34,000 likes after a round-bespectacled gender special firmly declared Alcott was transgender.

It is true… Alcott often expressed wishing she had been born a boy. But was is the likelihood she simply envied the freedom that was afforded to boys and men during the time period in which she lived?

Struggling to conform to gender stereotypes and female socialization is a major theme of Alcott’s most famous novel. The novel tells the coming of age stories of four sisters, two of the sisters, Amy and Jo initially attempt to break free from the constraints of gender roles. The novel questions the validity of gender stereotypes for both men and women. But the commentary of Alcott’s novel, though published in 1868, are apparently too progressive for modern day trans activists who see Alcott’s and her characters rejection of gender roles as a sign they were really men.

Another example of a woman “transed” posthumously is diarist and landlord, Anne Lister, has been the topic of heated debates over the last several years due to a plaque honoring her originally excluding the word lesbian.

Lister did not identify as a lesbian, because the term was not in use at the time, but in her diaries she said she only loved the “fairer sex” and described her relationships with women. Lister also took communion with another woman in what has been described as the first lesbian wedding in the UK. But activists have argued that due to the fact Lister dressed in masculine clothing and adopted the nickname “gentleman Jack, ” she was really transgender.

Unsurprisingly, historical lesbians are among the most likely to be posthumously transitioned, which does nothing but demonstrate that lesbophobia runs deep within gender ideology. Subscribers to this world view even go as far as to say having affairs and relationships with women is a sign that a woman is not truly female.

There is no where this is more demonstrated than in the historical revisionism surrounding “female husbands.” This was a rare phenomenon through the 17th – 19th centuries in which women attempted to live as men, and sometimes even married women in the process.

One of the most noted “female husbands” was Sarah Paul, who went by the name Samuel Bundy. Paul was sent to prison after being convicted of defrauding a woman named Mary Parlour by marrying her as a man, but Parlour is largely believed to have been pressured by her community into pressing charges against Paul as she had known Paul was a woman throughout their relationship.

Other “female husbands” had similar stories, though in some cases, their female partner was truly ignorant to their true sex and was quite surprised to discover they hadn’t married a man, such as in the case of Mary Hamilton.

In 2020, Jen Manion released a book asserting that effectively every “female husband” was either transgender or non-binary, totally skipping over the possibility they simply could have been lesbian women or women who just wanted the same freedoms as men had. This claim has been repeated in the Guardian as recently as last year. Interestingly, it appears that most sources pre-2019 viewed the “female husbands” largely as lesbian women seeking to live in peace with their partners.

The proponents of transitioning these dead women love to claim their intentions are rooted in smashing the gender binary and defying gender norms, but, without fail, the subtext is always identical to the narrative of most extremist of misogynistic traditionalists. So rapidly do the gender binary smashers become the gender binary gestapo.

Women cannot be women unless they act, dress, love, and conform in very specific ways.

A fantastic example of that is the female Viking warrior who was recently posthumously transed because of the way in which she was buried.

In the 1870s, when her 10th century grave was first uncovered, the Viking warrior was originally assumed to be male because of how she was buried. But in 2017, with the advancement of forensic science, she was determined to have been female. Rather than being both curious and excited for the prospect to learn of a great female soldier, the revelation left academics scrambling to argue that she may have been “transgender, non-binary or gender fluid.”

Despite this being promoted as the “progressive” viewpoint, it almost twins the line of thinking of the original researchers who undercover the bones in the 1870s. Both saw a skeleton buried with honor and with weapons and thought: “This can’t be a woman, women can’t be warriors.”

Throughout history, remarkable women have rejected gender roles and shown the generations of women that came after them that there were many ways to be a woman. They showed us that woman can be scientists, warriors, writers and much more. They carved out a path for women who wanted to have short hair, or wear masculine clothing, or love other women, or even live independent of men. Now, gender ideologues are trying to regress society back to the rigid view of what women and men should be. If a woman does not adhere to these ideas, she must not really be a woman.

In this moment, I am reminded of the opening of Joan of Arc’s trial, historical records showing her persecutors referred to her gender bending behavior.

They called her disgraceful for “putting on the clothing of the male sex,” labelling it a “Striking and vile monstrosity” which disregarded “what is honorable in the female sex.”

If only they’d known she was non-binary!

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OPINIÓN: Transicionando mujeres muertas

By
Shay Woulahan
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Según la historiadora Bettany Hughes, de toda la historia escrita y registrada, solo el 0,5% trata sobre mujeres. a pesar de que las mujeres constituyen consistentemente alrededor del 50% de la población.

Pero aún con todas las probabilidades en su contra, muchas mujeres y niñas increíbles desafiaron los confines a menudo opresivos de sus roles de género para convertirse en nombres fácilmente reconocibles. Eso es positivo. Después de todo, que las niñas tengan una amplia gama de personajes del mismo sexo a las que admirar y en quien inspirarse deberían ser, obviamente, algo bueno. Y, por supuesto, nadie se opondría a reconocer a las grandes mujeres de la historia que ya tienen tan poco espacio para brillar de por sí, ¿verdad?

¡Ja! ¡Falso!

En los últimos años, los ideólogos de género han pasado sus enormes gomas de borrar por los libros de texto de historia en un intento de redefinir y corregir documentos para meterse donde nunca antes habían sido mencionados. Como en todos los demás temas, los ideólogos son particularmente duros cuando se trata de mujeres.

Las grandes mujeres de la historia no se han librado de la influencia de la ideología de género que es, en sí misma, históricamente inexistente. Después de todo, la teoría de género moderna es un concepto nuevo. El concepto de género tal como lo entendemos fue acuñado en la década de los 60 por el sexólogo caído en desgracia John Money (aquí en español). El término “transgénero” también se acuñó en la década de los 60, pero no ganó popularidad hasta hace unos años. Del mismo modo, “no binario” no existía  hasta la década de los 90.

Aplicar términos relacionados con la “identidad de género” a individuos que existieron mucho antes que esos términos no tiene objeto, y es más un tipo de fan fiction extraño que otra cosa.

Pero eso no ha detenido a los trans-historiadores de la trans-historia. Armados con estereotipos sexistas, han pasado revista a las grandes mujeres de la historia, y han “corregido” amablemente el testimonio de las vidas de aquellas que, en su opinión, no eran lo suficientemente “femeninas”. Todo en nombre de romper el binarismo de género, por supuesto.

El ejemplo más reciente es Juana de Arco. Juana fue una heroína francesa que llevó al ejército francés a la victoria contra los ingleses en 1429, supuestamente después de recibir inspiración divina. Cuando conducía a las tropas a la batalla, se ponía ropa y armadura de hombre por ser más prácticas. Después de ser capturada por los ingleses en 1430, fue juzgada en un tribunal popular por cargos de brujería, herejía y por desafiar la ley divina por haberse vestido de hombre. Fue quemada viva en 1431 a la edad de 19 años.

Una historia increíble de una mujer inspiradora y poderosa.

… Hasta ahora.

El 11 de agosto, el teatro londinense Shakespeare’s Globe anunció su próxima obra I, Joan (Yo, Juana), que iba a reescribir la historia para volver a Juana no binaria y hacer que utilizara los pronombres “elle/elles”.

En la descripción de la obra se lee: “Rebelándose contra las expectativas del mundo, cuestionando el binarismo de género, Joan encuentra su (de elle) fuerza y su (de elle) fe se extiende como el fuego”.

Si bien es cierto que Joan desafió las expectativas del mundo sobre ella, la implicación de la escritora Charlie Josephine (no binarie) de que era menos mujer por hacerlo, no hace más que reforzar estas expectativas sociales de lo que debería ser una mujer.

Llamar a Joan “elle” en lugar de “ella” no hace nada por cuestionar el binarismo de género. En lugar de reconocer que Joan fue una mujer que superó las expectativas que se le impusieron debido a su sexo, Josephine sugiere que ser mujer no es más que el cumplimiento de esas mismas expectativas.

Rechazar los roles de género como la feminidad y la sumisión es rechazar la condición misma de mujer. El binarismo de género no está siendo cuestionado, está siendo ratificado de la manera más extrema posible. Parte de las razones citadas por los ingleses para la ejecución de Joan fue su inconformidad de género. Casi 600 años después, y el mensaje sigue siendo el mismo; las mujeres no actúan de esta manera, las mujeres no se visten de esta manera, las mujeres no son guerreras, las mujeres no son líderes.

Como era de esperar, esta no es la primera vez que Joan ha sido sometida a una transición póstuma.

La polémica clínica privada de género, GenderGP publicó un artículo en su sitio web en 2021 titulado “Personas no binarias en la historia: ¿Por qué no son reconocidas?” e incluyó a Juana de Arco en su desglose.

“La famosa guerrera francesa Juana de Arco usaba pronombres femeninos, pero cuando fue llamada por Dios, asumió ropa y roles sociales exclusivamente masculinos”.

Revolucionario.

Desafortunadamente, Joan no es la única mujer a la que se le ha despojado de su condición de mujer por no ajustarse a su estereotipo de rol sexual.

Una publicación de blog usaba pronombres masculinos para referirse a la fundadora de la enfermería moderna, Florence Nightingale,  porque a veces se llamaba a sí misma un “hombre de acción” y un “hombre de ciencia”, y tenía una estrecha y bien documentada relación con una amiga. Argumentaban que era mucho más probable que fuera un hombre que una lesbiana.

La autora de Mujercitas, Louisa May Alcott, también ha sido descrita como “trans” tanto por activistas como por el medio de noticias queer LGBTQ Nation. Un tweet de principios de este año se llevó más de 34,000 me gusta cuando una persona de género especial con gafas redondas declarara firmemente que Alcott era transgénero.

Es cierto… Alcott a menudo expresaba su deseo de haber nacido un niño. Pero, ¿no era más probable que simplemente envidiara la libertad que se les daba a los niños y hombres durante el período en el que vivió?

Luchar por ajustarse a los estereotipos de género y la socialización femenina es un tema importante de la novela más famosa de Alcott. La novela cuenta las historias del paso de la pubertad de cuatro hermanas, dos de las cuales, Amy y Jo, inicialmente intentan liberarse de las limitaciones de los roles de género. La novela cuestiona la validez de los estereotipos de género tanto para hombres como para mujeres. Pero la novela de Alcott, aunque publicada en 1868, es aparentemente demasiado progresistas para los modernos activistas trans que ven el rechazo de Alcott y sus personajes a los roles de género como una señal de que realmente eran hombres.

Otro ejemplo de una mujer “transeada” póstumamente es la diarista y terrateniente, Anne Lister, que ha sido objeto de acalorados debates en los últimos años debido a una placa en su honor que originalmente excluía la palabra lesbiana.

Lister no se identificaba como lesbiana, porque el término no estaba en uso en aquel momento, pero en sus diarios decía que solo amaba el “bello sexo” y describía sus relaciones con las mujeres. Lister también recibió el sacramento con otra mujer en lo que se ha calificado como la primera boda lesbiana en el Reino Unido. Pero los activistas argumentan que, debido al hecho de que Lister se vestía con ropa masculina y había adoptado el apodo de “gentleman Jack”, era en realidad transgénero.

Como era de esperar, las lesbianas históricas se encuentran entre las más propensas a ser transicionadas póstumamente, lo que no hace más que demostrar que la lesbofobia está profundamente arraigada en la ideología de género. Los partidarios de esta visión del mundo llegan incluso a decir que tener aventuras y relaciones con mujeres es una señal de que una mujer no es realmente una mujer.

Y en ningún sitio está esto más demostrado que en el revisionismo histórico que rodea a las “mujeres maridos”. Este fue un fenómeno raro ocurrido entre los siglos XVII y XIX por el cual algunas mujeres intentaban vivir como hombres, y a veces incluso se casaron con otras mujeres en el proceso.

Una de las “mujeres maridos” más notables fue Sarah Paul, que se hacía llamar Samuel Bundy. Paul fue encarcelada después de ser declarada culpable de estafar a una mujer llamada Mary Parlour al casarse con ella como hombre, pero se cree que Parlour fue presionado por su comunidad para presentar cargos contra Paul, ya que sabía que Paul era una mujer a lo largo de su relación.

Otras “mujeres maridos” cuentan historias similares, aunque en algunos casos, su pareja femenina era realmente ignorante de su verdadero sexo y se sorprendió bastante al descubrir que no se habían casado con un hombre, como en el caso de Mary Hamilton.

En 2020, Jen Manion sacó un libro donde afirmaba que de hecho las “mujeres marido” eran transgénero o no binarias, omitiendo totalmente la posibilidad de que pudieran haber sido simplemente lesbianas o mujeres que solo querían las mismas libertades que tenían los hombres. Esta afirmación se ha repetido en The Guardian tan recientemente como el año pasado. Curiosamente, parece que la mayoría de las fuentes anteriores a 2019 veían a las “mujeres maridos” en gran medida como lesbianas que buscaban vivir en paz con sus parejas.

A los defensores de la transición de estas mujeres muertas les encanta afirmar que sus intenciones radican en romper el binarismo de género y desafiar las normas de género, pero, sin excepción, el subtexto siempre es idéntico a la narrativa de los más extremistas de los tradicionalistas misóginos. Así de rápido los destructores del binarismo de género se convierten en la gestapo del binarismo de género.

Las mujeres no pueden ser mujeres a menos que actúen, se vistan, se conforme y amen de maneras muy específicas.

Un ejemplo fantástico de eso es la guerrera vikinga que recientemente fue transeada póstumamente debido a la forma en que fue enterrada.

En la década de los 70 del siglo XIX, cuando su tumba del siglo XX fue descubierta, se asumió en un principio que la guerrera vikinga era un hombre debido a cómo fue enterrada. Pero en 2017, con el avance de la ciencia forense, se descubrió que era una mujer. En lugar de sentir curiosidad y entusiasmo por la perspectiva de conocer a una gran soldado, la revelación dejó a los académicos intentando argumentar que pudo haber sido “transgénero, no binaria o de género fluido“.

A pesar de que esto se promueve como el punto de vista “progresista”, es una línea de pensamiento casi idéntica a la de los investigadores originales que descubrieron los huesos en 1870. Ambos vieron un esqueleto enterrado con honor y con armas y pensaron: “Esto no puede ser una mujer, las mujeres no pueden ser guerreras”.

A lo largo de la historia, mujeres notables han rechazado los roles de género y han demostrado a las generaciones de mujeres que vinieron después de ellas que había muchas maneras de ser mujer. Nos mostraron que las mujeres pueden ser científicas, guerreras, escritoras y mucho más. Abrieron un camino para las mujeres que querían llevar el pelo corto, o usar ropa masculina, o amar a otras mujeres, o incluso vivir independientemente de los hombres. Ahora, los ideólogos de género están tratando de hacer retroceder a la sociedad a la visión rígida de lo que deberían ser las mujeres y los hombres. Si una mujer no se adhiere a estas ideas, no puede ser realmente una mujer.

Me recuerda al inicio del juicio de Juana de Arco: los registros históricos muestran que sus perseguidores se refirieron a su rebeldía hacia los estereotipos de género.

La llamaron escandalosa por “ponerse ropa del sexo masculino”, calificándola de “monstruosidad llamativa y vil” que ignoraba “lo que es honorable en el sexo femenino”.

¡Ah, si supieran que era no binaria!

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Miss Transgender Peru Arrested on Human Trafficking Charges in Belgium

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Jennifer Sieland
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A two-time Miss Transgender Peru winner has been arrested in Belgium after reportedly trafficking people into the sex trade, making some of them veritable slaves in Europe’s most famous legal red light districts.

Celeste Rivasplata, 34, is a widely known social media influencer in Peru for having won two national Miss Transgender titles in 2019 and 2021, as well as Miss International Peru that same year. But Rivasplata, a biological male who identifies as a woman, is now facing human trafficking charges after police became aware he was running an international sexual exploitation ring with one dozen victims.

Rivasplata in Columbia, July 2021. Source: @celesterivasplataofical/INSTAGRAM

According to La Meuse, Rivasplata would solicit vulnerable trans-identified young people from Peru, offering them a better life in Belgium.

While the exact ages of the victims is unknown, Rivasplata’s father would collect fees from them in Peru prior to their departure to Belgium. Once they arrived, Rivasplata would strip them of their passports and tell them their debt could only be paid through prostitution. The victims were also threatened that their families back in Peru would be harmed if they did not comply.

Rivasplata rented apartments and hotel rooms in 6 cities in Belgium where prostitution had some legal protections, as well as in Utrecht, Netherlands, where he housed the victims, leaving them with nothing more than food. He then placed ads featuring the victims on the internet, including on red light district escorting websites, and handled the bookings. Clients were charged €150 to €300 for “passes” that then gave them access to their chosen victim.

The money Rivasplata collected was apparently laundered using an international wire transfer agency back to Peru, with some administrators being paid a bribe to not log Rivasplata’s identification with every transaction.

Rivasplata was arrested on July 7 after police became aware of the operation and connected him to the trafficking victims through digital means. He was jailed in a women’s holding cell in Berkendael prior to being released without conditions after a €7,000 bail was paid on Wednesday.

In local news reports on Rivasplata’s charges, he was referred to using feminine pronouns.

In 2019, Rivasplata was featured on multiple Peruvian television programs after the country introduced gender self-identification laws. In one interview, Rivasplata stated that previous Peruvian policies not allowing him to change his legal markers were unfair because he “felt like a woman” and wanted to be perceived and treated as one.

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