Author: Mick Hartley

al ones, has been the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, or WPATH. This body has been treated, both by professional associations of medics and clinicians and by the media, as if it consisted of experts with the knowledge and training to be able to opine with authority.

But this is simply not the case. Membership of WPATH is not restricted to clinicians: anyone at all can join on payment of a modest fee. Its so-called “standards of care” are in fact no such thing. The various chapters of the current version were produced by subgroups containing many people with no medical or therapeutic qualifications, and without reference to standard medical requirements to weigh evidence properly or consider such matters as patients’ capacity to consent and harmful side-effects of treatment.

WPATH promotes “non-binary” identities — neither male nor female — and experimental surgeries that give people the appearance of having both male and female genitals, or neither. There is no evidence base suggesting that such surgeries are medically necessary or advisable, or even that they make people feel any better. It also claims that boys can be born with a “eunuch” gender identity, and that suitable treatment for such boys might be castration. This shocking statement is similarly unevidenced.

In part simply because of the audacious name of the organisation, which makes it sound authoritative, WPATH has had a remarkable and wholly unwarranted degree of influence. Many medical organisations, both in the UK and elsewhere, proudly state they follow WPATH guidelines and standards of care, as if they were following the guidelines of an appropriately constituted authority (such as NICE).

I and many others have known that this ongoing experiment on gender-distressed children and young people has caused, and is continuing to cause, very considerable damage.

One of the most disturbing aspects of the newly released files is that they suggest some members of WPATH know full well that gender-affirming care is experimental — that they know it sometimes causes very serious harm, and that some patients who received irreversible medical treatments were incapable of giving meaningful consent, whether because of their immaturity, learning difficulties or serious mental illness. I cannot find any sign of this awareness in WPATH’s public pronouncements, nor in those of the most prominent cheerleaders for the gender-affirming care that WPATH so enthusiastically promotes.

I would therefore argue that WPATH shares responsibility for any resulting negligence or malpractice. I do not know how any responsible medical authority can do anything after the release of these files but break off all ties with WPATH, and indeed condemn its continued existence.

ng. Eighty year-old Inga Avramayan, who had been trying to assist her paralysed husband to a shelter, was killed in that attack. Yet as well as posing in front of the mural, Awadeyah promised more, writing: “Always rest assured that what is coming is more beautiful. God willing”.

Awadeyah’s social-media posts are publicly available for any journalist to see. Yet BBC Verify appears to have failed in the most basic of journalistic practices: checking one of their key sources. How could this have possibly happened?

The BBC has developed an apparent habit of accepting at face value what it is told by people presenting as Palestinian civilians or civic officials. It either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care that in too many cases these people turn out to be representatives of, or sympathetic towards, terrorist organisations.

It also appears to be increasingly the case that stories BBC reporters receive from Palestinian sources align with their negative assumptions about Israel, and that the corporation’s journalists don’t challenge or robustly investigate accounts that come from highly flawed and disreputable sources.

The failure of BBC Verify’s reporting on such a high-profile and emotive conflict is not just a profound journalistic failure. The stakes are regrettably much higher than that.

The BBC’s reporting is contributing to an atmosphere in the UK in which Jewish people feel unsafe, its flawed journalism adding fuel to the fire of anti-Semitism that is glowing ever more dangerously.

It is hard to think of a more damning indictment of the BBC. And yet, nothing changes. Senior BBC managers send emails about their commitment to fighting anti-Semitism, but words are meaningless to the Jewish community. Only actions matter, and the consistent anti-Israel bias of the BBC is a real and present danger to Jewish people.

It is time that the BBC’s senior leadership took accountability for this disastrous state of affairs.

are essentially making it up as they go along, conducting uncontrolled experiments and doing barely anything to follow up on whether they work.

After I received these files, my colleagues and I tried to report on them as journalists would. We quickly became overwhelmed by the size and complexity of the project, and decided to produce a full report about the files for Environmental Progress, our nonprofit research institute, to provide context of the best available science about gender distress. That report, written by journalist Mia Hughes, is now available to read, its entirely justified subtitle referring to “Pseudoscientific Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children, Adolescents, and Vulnerable Adults.”

See also from Sex Matters – WPATH: The truth about “gender-affirming healthcare”.

These documents suggest that some WPATH members brush off concerns about long-term patient outcomes, despite being aware of potentially debilitating and even fatal side effects of cross-sex hormones and other treatments. 

Taken together, the files paint a disturbing picture of so-called “gender medicine” as neither evidence-based nor safe. And since the first rule of medicine is to do no harm, it is not medicine.

And a more, um, sensational line from the New York Post – Secret files show how international group pushes shocking experimental gender surgery for minors.

Newly leaked files from the world’s leading transgender health-care organization reveal it is pushing hormonal and surgical transitions for minors, including stomach-wrenching experimental procedures designed to create sexless bodies that resemble department-store mannequins.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health documents demonstrate it’s controlled by gender ideologues who push aside concerns about whether children and adolescents can consent to medical treatments that WPATH members privately acknowledge often have devastating and permanent side effects.

Yet the US government, American doctors and prominent organizations nonetheless rely on WPATH guidelines for advice on treating our youth.

As does (or did) the NHS.

Update: from the Telegraph:

Doctors on a leading transgender healthcare body have admitted that patients have developed cancer owing to the effects of hormone treatment….

Another said they would go ahead with a double mastectomy (called “top surgery”) on a 16-year-old girl even though hormones had likely given her liver cancer.

UN Women UK delegates all seem to have something in common: they're men.

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Last week we heard about the lovely Martin 'Katie' Neeves. And let's not forget Munroe Bergdorf, selected as UN Women's UK Champion.

Yep, the UN are indeed "having a fucking laugh".

properly researched. Puberty blockers are powerful drugs, and we know that their use will almost certainly lead on to hormone replacement therapy, and possibly to surgery.

Davies-Arai believes we are now at the beginning of the end of the widespread use of puberty blockers.

“At some point we will look back in horror at this, as we look back now on lobotomies,” she observes. “It might take a long time because this generation of children has been indoctrinated, but hopefully younger children will now be spared.”

ulate all the evil of that day in a single image, it would be that of the violent seizure of a young Israeli woman, Naama Levy, 19, barefoot, beaten, and bloodied, her hands tied behind her back, the crotch of her sweatpants heavily soiled, possibly from being raped, dragged by her hair at gunpoint into a Hamas car, and driven off to Gaza to suffer an unspeakable fate among her captors there.Her assailants filmed every second of her ordeal; and as one watches the clips of her being taken away, one sees crowds nearby loudly shouting “Allah-hu Akbar” – “Allah is the greatest”—a victory cry that offers religious sanction to the malign treatment of Naama Levy and countless others seized, slaughtered, and abducted on that horrific day.

All wars cause human suffering, but the cruelties visited upon Israelis on October 7th far surpasses what normally happens when armies go to war. Hamas’s actions had a different aim: not conquest but the purposeful humiliation of Jews by people who detest them and were sworn to degrade and dehumanize them before murdering them.

Yet tens of thousands were out on the streets in western cities – London, New York, Sydney – loudly celebrating this astonishing barbarism. Those who thought that antisemitism in the West was firmly in the past were in for a very rude awakening.

Hamas originates as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is and always has been a jihadist organization, which sees the existence of the State of Israel as an intolerable intrusion into the Domain of Islam (“dar al-islam”) and is committed to removing Israel by whatever means necessary. The preamble to the Hamas Charter declares that “Israel exists and will continue to exist until Islam obliterates it, just as it obliterated others before it.” The “Palestinian problem,” it affirms, “is a religious problem” and is not amenable to a negotiated political settlement.The only way to “raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine” is through “jihad,” a holy war that is a “duty for every Muslim wherever he may be.”

As represented by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen, and the Islamic Republic of Iran (the sponsor of all the others), it is also religious, and at its heart of hearts there resides an annihilationist fantasy of killing Jews and bringing an end to the Jewish state. Hamas and its allies are not looking for a two-state solution but a repeat of the Final Solution. Their brutally successful killing spree on October 7th was an extravagant rehearsal for that larger goal, a genocidal one….

The anti-Israel passions set loose in street demonstrations and on college campuses and social media have heightened already resurgent displays of open Jew-hatred and rattled a previously assumed sense of security. Academic scholars will continue to debate whether anti-Zionism and antisemitism are similar or separate phenomena, but to most others, the links between hatred of Israel and Jew-hatred are apparent. The reasons are clear: the widespread and unapologetic branding of Israel as an apartheid, genocidal, even Nazi state—defamatory accusations that were in wide circulation well before October 7th—are rapidly becoming normalized. The same is true for both verbal and physical hostility to Jews. As these impassioned animosities coalesce and go mainstream, Jews everywhere are experiencing an unease about their place in society that is new and unnerving for many of them….

Also evident is the following: There will be no Jewish future worthy the name without the State of Israel.

system. Putin knows that his only route to Kyiv passes through Washington, D.C., and he has acted accordingly.

The people working to assure the destruction of democracy in Ukraine also oppose democracy in America. We have just experienced a bogus impeachment proceeding against President Biden, where the chief accusation (long ago discredited by Ukrainian and other journalists, incidentally) arose from a Russian agent. Mike Johnson is in a submission chain that passes through Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin.

g truants to assess the situation, but the factory has yet to come up with a concrete plan of action.

Ha! A "concrete plan of action". Cement factory?

Oh never mind.

“A young man met the love of his life in 2022. They had just started living together because financial difficulties prevented them from getting married, and they had a child last November. But in their poverty, the mother couldn’t afford enough food to breastfeed properly, and the baby whimpered with hunger every day. So the young man has been skipping work while looking for other ways to earn some money,” the source said.

The factory manager who stopped by the young man’s home was shocked to see the family earning a living from a small patch of land they farmed near the city center. The manager felt sorry for the family and returned to the factory without taking any further action.

When seven young people skipped work at a construction company in Hyesan this month, three of the absentees were given disciplinary labor sentences.

“Although officials sternly warn young people that frequent absenteeism will result in legal punishment, and although several people have actually been sent to disciplinary labor camps, absenteeism isn’t decreasing. This shows that young people consider their livelihoods more important than their jobs,” the source said.

The source quoted a North Korean youth as saying, “We have seen with our own eyes that our parents remained loyal until they collapsed from hunger, but their efforts went unrewarded.”

“When we’re on the verge of starvation, what’s the point of being called a hero or getting some kind of medal?” said another.

“We can’t survive unless we pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. That’s why going to work is worse than death and feels like a kind of torture,” said a third young person.

“Young people who have suffered economically even after the end of the pandemic feel desperate about their future. If the authorities rely on legal measures to deal with this, young people’s distrust and antipathy towards the state will only increase in the future, which could have serious consequences,” the source said.

Let's hope so.

Further to that last post about publishing Jewish authors…from the Telegraph:

Half of British publishers are refusing to take books by authors who are identifiably Jewish, a literary agent has claimed.

The major agent, who did not wish to be identified, said many mainstream publishing houses were among those deeming Jewish books as off bounds.

The agent was speaking to Stephen Games, who founded the independent publisher EnvelopeBooks, who said it has been an “emerging problem” for some time that has been “exacerbated” since the Israel-Gaza war began in October.

“A very well-known literary agent of great repute and associated with books that one would immediately recognise said that he is having difficulty with his Jewish authors or writings on Jewish subjects because he just finds that much of literary London is now a no-go zone for Jews,” said Mr Games.

“He said there is no point putting proposals up to commissioning editors as they just are not interested.”

Astonishing – and deeply depressing – if true.

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Here's the book – Jews Milk Goats:

When Gill Freedman and her husband Jeremy decided to move to a smallholding in rural Bedfordshire many of their friends and family thought they were mad.

How could they leave behind the comforts of North London? What did they really know about raising chickens, sheep, cows and goats and growing fruit and vegetables? How would they cope with the mud, the wet and the cold? And how would they be able to observe their Jewish faith so far from the centres of Judaism in England?