…researcher Dr. James Cantor said that the internal communications of WPATH show that Levine “strongly pressured WPATH leadership to rush the development and issuance of SOC-8,” their latest standards of care for trans persons, “in order to assist with Administration political strategy.” Levine has said that “trans kids” are an “inspiration.“
This means that Levine pressured a group of medical professionals to hurry up and issue guidance on how to treat children with gender dysphoria in order to aid her boss’ political aims. Joe Biden, Levine’s top boss, instructed all federal agencies to be more trans-inclusive on his first day in office in 2021.
The previous guidelines had said that sex change drugs could be administered as young as 14, surgeries to remove healthy breasts could be done at 15, and genital surgeries, other than phalloplasty for females, could be done at 17. Phalloplasty was not recommended until age 18 due to complexity of the process of removing tissue from one part of the body, reconstructing it to resemble a phallus, and surgically grafting it onto the pubic area.
“Therefore, given the recent research and the revelations of the harmful approach advocated by WPATH and its followers in the United States, we, the undersigned, call upon the medical professional organizations of the United States, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex. Instead, these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological co-morbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria. We also encourage the physicians who are members of these professional organizations to contact their leadership and urge them to adhere to the evidence-based research now available.”
The United States District Court for the District of Maine has dismissed a Maine mother’s lawsuit against the Great Salt Bay Community School (GSBCS) Board for withholding information about her child’s gender transition.
District Court Judge Jon D. Levy released his decision this past Friday that the mother — Amber Lavigne — failed to state a claim because the facts provided in this case were insufficient to establish municipal liability.
Since the judge’s reasoning was based solely on Lavigne’s inability to show that the municipality could legally be found responsible for the alleged violations, he did not address the underlying constitutional questions associated with Lavigne’s claims.
In December of 2022, Lavigne discovered that a 26-year-old social worker by the name of Samuel Roy had given her 13-year-old child two breast binders — garments designed to conceal the appearance of a female’s breasts — and provided instructions on their use.
I’ve said it before, but I’ll repeat it: the concept of the energy transition is essentially a Western conceit. The U.S. and Western European countries are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on programs like the Inflation Reduction Act and the Energiewende to fund buildouts of solar, wind, batteries, and tutti-fruity-colored hydrogen, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the world will do the same. There is no evidence that China and India are going through an energy transition. Instead, the numbers show those two countries are building staggering amounts of new coal-fired capacity. That capacity is far greater than the amount of nuclear capacity they are building. This chart, which I first published last December, uses updated figures from the International Energy Agency and Global Energy Monitor.
A controversial “transgender trafficking” bill officially became Maine law on Monday after receiving the signature of Gov. Janet Mills.
The bill, LD 227, grants legal protections for providers of abortions and transgender surgeries who preform their services on people from states with more restrictive laws than Maine.
The bill institutes legal rights to “gender-affirming health care” and “reproductive health care,” and provides for legal action to be taken against anyone who interferes with someone trying to procure those services.
One portion of the law, which has raised serious concerns among Republicans and parental rights activists, provides legal protections to anyone bringing a minor into Maine for an abortion or to receive transgender treatment.
The protections will apply even if the adult is not a parent of the minor, and has not notified the parents.
I have decided to focus some attention on Maine because it is a small state and one I know fairly well. Maine politics, to my eye, appears to be the outcome of rigged elections, corrupt ideologues, and Soros-like legal and political tactics. It is a microcosm of what is happening or has already happened in every state in USA. Blessed with the lowest crime rate in the nation and a mild-mannered rural population that still lives by traditional American values, it is disturbing to watch Maine be torn apart by single-issue justice warriors, all of whom profit greatly from their misguided passions. Presently, Maine is a gynocracy with a triumvirate of true-believers self-righteously wielding power against the will of the majority of Maine’s rural and working-class populations and those with deep family roots going back many generations. ABN
…In 2012, three wealthy men, Bloomberg, hedge fund manager Tom Steyer and former CEO of Goldman Sachs Hank Paulson chipped in $500,000 each to fund a project “making the climate threat feel real, immediate and potentially devastating to the business world”. An early funded report was part-titled ‘Risky Business’ and it focused on RCP8.5 “as the pathway closest to a business-as-usual trajectory”. The pathway was said to be “closest to a future without concerted action to reduce future warming”.
…The “genius” of ‘Risky Business’ was it undertook a “sophisticated campaign” to introduce its methodological ideas into mainstream scientific literature, “where they would take on a life of their own”. In 2016, a paper from the ‘Risky Business’ project was published in the prestigious journal Science featuring the erroneous notion of moving from one RCP (Representative Concentration Pathway) scenario to another. Despite the obvious methodological flaw, notes Pielke, the paper passed peer-review with little or no criticism, and to date has been cited more than 1,100 times. “Hundreds, maybe thousands of papers followed similarly in adopting the same assumption of moving between incommensurate scenarios”, observes Pielke.
Maine’s legacy and corporate media — including the Bangor Daily News, the major television stations, and the collection of news websites now owned by a George Soros-controlled non-profit — utterly failed to cover the massive reaction to LD 227 on Tuesday.
The bill in question would create new legal protections for late-term abortions as well as sex-change treatments, including sex-change drugs and surgeries for minors. In addition, the bill would create protections for adults who traffick children across state lines into Maine in order to receive these treatments — even adults who are not related to those children.
Providing transgendered children “puberty blockers” is currently one of the most controversial areas in medicine (e.g., liberal colleagues of mine have publicly protested Republican state governments banning the practice).
What I find remarkable about this entire debate is how little knowledge exists about the safety of these drugs. For instance, when I’ve asked my liberal colleagues if they are aware of the dangers of these drugs, they genuinely share that they were not aware they had any clinically significant side effects.
Given that the hormonal blockers are amongst the most dangerous drugs on the market, I feel it is important to review all the people who have been harmed by them, and the scandalous 40 year saga that has allowed them to be unjustifiably used for a wide range of medical conditions.
More than one reader has told me Suspicious0bservers is a scam. I do not support fake anything but I do like unique material, so I have posted a few of Ben’s videos. The video above credibly claims that Ben is fake. The argument in the video is strong and I respect those who have contacted me. So, unless I hear better info, Ben will not get anymore time on this site. ABN
Bret is a professional biologist or evolutionary biologist, yet he made this elementary mistake and sounds perfectly reasonable while discussing it. He did similar for early lockdowns when he said extremely strict lockdowns in USA would have ended the ‘pandemic’ in two weeks. I am not trying to run Bret down but to illustrate why his continuous refusal to simply admit he was wrong and correct his mistakes is a problem. I have not deeply studied Bret or his work so I may be wrong on these details, but that’s how the story has appeared to me since his Carlson interview, and before but to a much lesser extent. Covid, climate, vaxxes, diet, sociology and almost all other major topics that lend themselves to corruption are rife with glaring errors and individuals calling themselves professionals who not only fail to correct those errors, but repeat them. ABN
Professor Michael Mann took an enormous hammering in court over the deficiencies in his Hockey Stick analysis. He is suing Mark Steyn (and Rand Simberg) for defamation after they called his graph a fraud. Just listen to Simberg’s lawyer Victoria Weatherford demolish him:
Mann said he did not gather the data for the Hockey Stick. He handled the statistics that showed flat temps for 1000 years and a sudden recent warming and tried desperately to avoid admitting he was not qualified in statistics.
W your PHD is not in statistics? MANN My PHD is in geology and geo ‘s a broad field involves science data analysis. There’s lot of statistics I took course work in statistics during my PHD program
W Yes or no? Your PHD is not in statistics? MANN: It’s in geology & geophysics W:That’s a no, it’s not in statistics MANN: Obviously No.
And then Mann tried to deny, not very convincingly, that he failed to consult a professional statistician when constructing the Hockey Stick graph – possibly the most influential graph of the 20th century.
Yet another example of how bad ‘The Science’ is. Wherever you look our usurpers get it wrong, apparently deliberately, and then use that to steal and oppress. Mann is another silver tongue who maybe does not think so clearly.
Leaving Mann aside, I believe self-deception is a trait with both genetic and cultural roots. A person who can self-deceive will always be better at deceiving others and/or getting their way than a person who is resolutely honest and never self-deceives and never tries to deceive others. Nice guys finish last (unless they become monks). Deception and self-deception are major factors in who controls the world, who speaks for the controllers, and who wants to speak for them. In today’s world, there are trillions of dollars at stake. So we should expect to see most, if not all, prominent speakers adept at self- and other-deception. Historically, parasitic cultures and subcultures have not just used self- and other-deception, they have also trained themselves and their children in this devious art. This is a huge factor in our world today since every major topic is rife with deception on more levels than one. ABN
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