Author: Mick Hartley

Another side of the WPATH files, as mentioned by Janice Turner in today's Times:

If you thought eunuchs died out with the Ottoman Empire and have become merely Machiavellian characters in Game of Thrones, you’ve lost track of modern sexual mores. A release this week of leaked documents and internal videos from WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) was appallingly familiar to anyone acquainted with the grotesque “treatments” that rapacious doctors, especially in the US, perform on vulnerable adults and children.

One issue, however, highlighted by the feminist online magazine Reduxx, was somewhat eye-popping. WPATH is a symposium of global “experts” who draw up “best practice” guidance for treating trans people. Yet in 2021 it updated its standards of care to define eunuch as a gender identity and suggested it might be one that required surgeons to perform “reduction or elimination of masculine physical features”.

WPATH was effectively saying that a medic might be correct to castrate a physiologically disturbed man. (One would-be patient was a 19-year-old autistic youth who lived in his parents’ basement and saw surgery as a route back to childhood.)

Reduxx discovered that an academic who contributed to WPATH’s eunuch guidance was, under a pseudonym, an administrator on a website called The Eunuch Archive, a sadomasochistic forum brimming with paedophilic torture fantasies in which little boys are grateful to the men who castrate them. WPATH is no marginal institution: its protocols were adopted by Tavistock’s Gids clinic, and its name is still invoked across the NHS.

One of the very few – the only? – mention of the WPATH files scandal in the mainsteam press.

A longish interview with Israeli academic Dan Schueftan at Quillette. A couple of extracts:

The Palestinian perspective is, and this did not change in the last 100 years, that the very collective existence of the Jews here in the Middle East is illegitimate, except as individuals of the Jewish religion. They deny the existence of a Jewish people. Even today, the so-called president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, gave a speech. It's so ridiculous, it's unbelievable. I mean, he tells stories about there's never been a Jewish people and so on, and the Khazars and the Caucasus, and it's ridiculous. They even deny the existence of a Jewish people, and of course they believe that Israel is a product of a colonial British act and the very existence of Israel is illegitimate and they make the option of national coexistence of a historic compromise impossible. Therefore, they don't have a state.

Now the way they behaved in terms of violence, persuaded the Jews, and after October 7th more than any time in the past, that since whatever they have they weaponise, what they want in the final analysis, and they say it openly, is to obliterate the state of Israel. Hamas even speak about obliterating all the Jews. Their charter relies on the protocols of the elders of Zion. So this is an attempt by the Palestinians to terminate the existence, not only of the state of Israel, but also of the Jews as a national collective, as a sovereign entity in this region.

This is a problem that, at least in the foreseeable future, doesn't have a solution. […]

I mean, Americans come to Israel now and say, tell us what your end game is, and I tell them, oh, we really need to learn from you. You had an end game bringing democracy to Iraq. Then you had an end game bringing women's rights to Afghanistan. Let's learn from you. Tell us how after bringing democracy to Iraq and women's rights to Afghanistan will you bring peace to the Palestinians.

Ouch.

Well worth a read.

he Gaza Health Ministry released daily casualty figures that include both a total number and a specific number of women and children.

Basically, the reported daily numbers are remarkably consistent from day to day: in the real world you'd expect considerable variation. Also, you'd expect the women and the children casualties to correlate, depending on the amount of destruction of residential buildings on a particular day – but they don't. And there's an inexplicable negative correlation between the number of men killed and the number of women killed.

While the evidence is not dispositive, it is highly suggestive that a process unconnected or loosely connected to reality was used to report the numbers. Most likely, the Hamas ministry settled on a daily total arbitrarily. We know this because the daily totals increase too consistently to be real. Then they assigned about 70% of the total to be women and children, splitting that amount randomly from day to day. Then they in-filled the number of men as set by the predetermined total. This explains all the data observed….

The truth can’t yet be known and probably never will be. The total civilian casualty count is likely to be extremely overstated. Israel estimates that at least 12,000 fighters have been killed. If that number proves to be even reasonably accurate, then the ratio of noncombatant casualties to combatants is remarkably low: at most 1.4 to 1 and perhaps as low as 1 to 1. By historical standards of urban warfare, where combatants are embedded above and below into civilian population centers, this is a remarkable and successful effort to prevent unnecessary loss of life while fighting an implacable enemy that protects itself with civilians.

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"Every single opportunity they get to kill someone, they kill someone. Every single opportunity. And they have the nerve to have a supposed Star of David, and supposedly attribute themselves to David. David has nothing to do with you. Solomon has nothing to do with you. You have nothing to with David. You have nothing to do with Solomon. You have blood lust. You lust for slaughtering and murdering of people, and the manipulation of people. You are evil. Everything about your existence is evil. You deny, you lie, you twist. Of course you always have the ace of spades, which is the victim card."

Gosh. Who could he be talking about?

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On the X Spaces below, everyone agrees that we need to provide the best available care to children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults experiencing gender dysphoria or distress.

But it's clear puberty blockers, hormones, and genital surgeries are the worst form of care, not the best. And yet, they're the first and only form of care that WPATH members are offering.

On the Spaces call below, Jamie Reed @JamieWhistle confirmed that in her 10 years working in a gender clinic, she and her colleagues never turned down a patient seeking drugs and surgery, aka "gender-affirming care."

A medical doctor who fought the opioid epidemic, Dr. Carrie Mendoza @fairinmedi , said professional doctors do not talk like surgeons, therapists, and activists in the WPATH Files.

In the WPATH Files, you see trans activists demanding no barriers or "gatekeeping" getting in the way of giving drugs and surgeries to vulnerable children and adults.

Mendoza suggests it would be like having pharmaceutical salespeople in the room where doctors discuss treatment, urging them to prescribe more oxycontin.

What's happening is madness. Gender ideologues are misdiagnosing anxiety, autism, and being gay as gender dysphoria and prescribing pseudoscientific sex conversion therapy consisting of irreversible surgeries and lifelong medicalization

We all went along with this it because of the culture of caring and the culture of fear.

The culture of caring meant people confused caring with pure affirmation and no gatekeeping.

The culture of fear meant that trans activists sought to destroy the careers and lives of the people who really cared and urged caution.

But things have been changing. Europe is changing. Nations there are reassessing the evidence and increasingly not allowing drugs or surgeries for children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults.

The media is changing. Major new exposes have appeared everywhere, from the Times of London to the New York Times to News Nation, blowing the whistle on the continuing medical mistreatment scandal of "gender medicine."

And now there are the WPATH Files, which are 170 pages of evidence that what's happening is neither medicine nor scientific.

This medical mistreatment will end. The only question now is how many more people it hurts before it does so.

The way forward is demanding honesty and accountability from governments and medical institutions.

There's nothing professional or normal about what's in the WPATH Files. Rather, they expose a shocking scandal and signify the beginning of its end.

Helping Russia, North Korean-style:

Kim Jong-un has given 1.5 million artillery shells to Vladimir Putin after their meeting last year, but half of them are duds, a Ukrainian intelligence chief has said.

According to Major-General Vadym Skibitsky, deputy chief of Kyiv’s intelligence directorate, North Korea is also supplying 500kg ballistic missiles that are being used in Ukraine, but the artillery shells that it has sent are more than half a century old.

“As of today, taking into account the available statistics, Russia has already imported 1.5 million rounds of ammunition from the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea],” he told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. “However, these shells were made in the 70s and 80s. Half of them do not work and the rest need to be either repaired or checked before being used.”

Oh boy. David Rose at the JC:

The Foreign Office held a seminar at which officials were told that calling Hamas terrorists was an “obstacle to peace” and it was suggested that Israel was a “white, settler colonialist nation”, the JC can reveal.

Four academics, led by Professor Jeroen Gunning from King’s College London, delivered the session to civil servants, including those specialising in the Middle East, at the British diplomatic service’s London headquarters last Wednesday.

Many of the claims made during the 75-minute meeting directly contradicted Britain’s foreign policy, with Professor Gunning claiming that there could be “no future without Hamas”….

Several of the speakers said that to apply the “terrorist label” to Hamas was “unhelpful” and an obstacle to peace. In their view, Hamas’s “political wing” was “moderate”, and there was therefore a need to “engage with them”.

One of the lecturers, Dr Tristan Dunning, from the University of Queensland, said that as an Australian, “I know all about white, settler colonialism and stealing land from the native population”….

Although Hamas had failed to build civilian bomb shelters and barred ordinary people from its tunnels, the lecturers said, protecting civilians was the responsibility of the “occupying power” and the high civilian casualty rate was Israel’s fault.

Asked about the Israeli hostages, one of speakers claimed that Palestinian convicts in Israel were “hostages too”, adding that there were thousands of prisoners but only about 100 Israelis held in Gaza.

Professor Gunning and Dr Dunning were joined by Dr Anas Iqtait of Australian National University in Canberra and the University of Sydney’s Dr Martin Kear.

They had co-authored a paper submitted to the House of Commons on Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 7 November that claimed Britain was partly to blame for the October 7 massacre and could now be held accountable for “genocide”….

owever, the sources pointed out that the factory was operating as usual on the day of the incident and afterward.

The official’s remains were returned to North Korea immediately after the incident, and many of the workers involved in the attack were quickly repatriated. North Korea appears to have moved quickly to stop rumors of the incident from spreading and to prevent similar unrest elsewhere.

In the wake of the incident, North Korean consulates in China have moved to reinforce the ideological vetting of officials tasked with managing trade or overseas workers. They have not mentioned the incident directly, nor have officials seen fit to mention it during ideological reviews of North Korean workers.

The ideological lectures focus mainly on how “the situation around the Korean Peninsula is becoming increasingly tense due to the plans of enemy nations like the United States and South Korea to suffocate North Korea” and how workers must “strengthen their loyalty to the state at such times.”

In particular, officials frequently mention passages from late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung’s memoir, With the Century, during ideological reviews each morning at large garment factories in Liaoning Province.

Nothing like a few passages from Kim Il Sung’s memoir every morning to get you in the mood for another long day of hard labour, where most of your miserable wages – if you get any at all – go straight to Pyongyang.

“North Korean workers in China typically earn between RMB 1,800 and RMB 2,300 [approximately USD 250-320] per month. Of this, they are forced to pay between USD 130 and up to USD 200 as party funds or dues to the Socialist Women’s Union of Korea or the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions,” said a garment factory worker in China. “They only get about USD 20 a month in pocket money, while North Korean officials say they will give them the remaining USD 100 when they return home. But many workers are worried about whether they’ll ever see that money.

“North Korean company managers who know about the incident [in Nanping Town] have recently been feeding their workers pork, and most of them paid their workers pocket money last month – even though they used to skip every other month – as part of efforts to appease unhappy workers,” she added.

that says treatment is “in line with WPATH”. Several senior clinicians in NHS gender dysphoria clinics for over-17s are also listed as current WPATH members.

In short, there is much for NHS bosses to review here as a matter of urgency. For when it comes to responsibility for the healthcare of vulnerable young people, WPATH now looks seriously compromised.

picked out. Imagine if a Christian or Jewish preacher leveled this kind of hatred against Muslims…wouldn't it make the news? Wouldn't people be shocked and horrified? – with calls to prosecute, and close down the institutions involved?

But no, we just get used to it….