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Independent Council On Women’s Sport

Dr. Devin Jane Buckley (Ph.D. Duke) has written a superb article about the recently held, but largely uncovered ICONS conference defending women’s sport.

Speakers included Martina Navratilova and Olympic champions Inga Thompson, Benita Mosley, Donna De Varona, and Sue Walsh.

Under the Biden administration, Title IX, which originally barred sex-based discrimination only, has been gradually changing to include provisions against discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

One of the co-founders, former athlete Kim Jones, is also a mother of a daughter who swims in the Ivy League. She witnessed “emotional blackmail and abuse” firsthand when the NCAA allowed trans-woman Lia Thomas to compete in the female division.

Lia Thomas (left) National Champion, Women’s 500 Freestyle
“I watched the Ivy League request the girls to be quiet. I watched them tell the girls to place their thoughts and feelings below those of males. I watched the intimidation and coercion in mandatory meetings and at announcements at every single dual meet and championship meet. I have kept and read the emails suggesting counseling to make yourself okay with shared locker rooms with males.”  -  Kim Jones

Dr Buckley’s piece covers what Athletes, Scientists, Lawyers and Advocates have to say about our current crisis in Women’s Sport.

Despite the astonishing list of names and organizations involved in the conference, media coverage has been minimal.

A few days after ICONS, on July 15th, The University of Pennsylvania nominated swimmer Lia Thomas for the NCAA “Woman of the Year” award.

Nonetheless, dissent is growing. In the United States, 18 states have passed some version of a Save Women’s Sports Act. World Rugby, International Cycling Union, and the International Swimming Federation have banned males from the women’s category.

Read the whole thing.

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Digging Deeper Into Cass Review And Tavistock Close

James Kirkup at The Spectator has a piece worth your time.

Grab graphs from The Cass Review.

We do not fully understand the role of adolescent sex hormones in driving the development of both sexuality and gender identity through the early teen years, so by extension we cannot be sure about the impact of stopping these hormone surges on psychosexual and gender maturation. We therefore have no way of knowing whether, rather than buying time to make a decision, puberty blockers may disrupt that decision-making process.

A further concern is that adolescent sex hormone surges may trigger the opening of a critical period for experience-dependent rewiring of neural circuits underlying executive function (i.e. maturation of the part of the brain concerned with planning, decision making and judgement). If this is the case, brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by puberty blockers, which could have significant impact on the ability to make complex risk-laden decisions, as well as possible longer-term neuropsychological consequences. To date, there has been very limited research on the short-, medium- or longer-term impact of puberty blockers on neurocognitive development.

Source:  The Cass Review. (emphasis added)

Kirkup asks in his article:

This all raises many grim questions. Here are just two. Given the lack of evidence supporting the use of puberty blockers and the volume of concerns raised about their use, why has it taken so long for the uncertainties and risks around their use to be officially recognised? And is there any other context in which the responsible authorities – medical, governmental and political – would have been so slow to intervene over such scandalous disregard for the welfare of children?

Unfortunately, if the issue is about human sexuality or gender, people today treat the issue with kid-gloves. Many have also been intimidated into silence by the Gender-Ideology-Bullies out there. Afraid of being called a bigot. Or having their career derailed (a real fear).

One MP from Ireland wants to know more.

There will of course be political opportunists. There always are. But the full weight of investigative journalism had better get cranked up on this one.

Shouting Voices are beginning to be heard!

“Sloppy Care” Top Trans Doctors Say
Keira Bell

The Tavistock closing is a big deal. Sex changes for children — the Biden-approved policy — is unraveling. Is America noticing?

I expect the Trial Lawyers are getting their game faces on.

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BREAKING: NHS Closes Only Gender Identity Clinic For Children

Tavistock gender clinic forced to shut over safety fears

Centre accused of rushing vulnerable children into treatment

Dr. Hilary Cass, former president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, just issued her much anticipated review of the service.

And it is devastating. As a result, Tavistock will be closed.

It will be replaced by regional centres at existing children’s hospitals offering more “holistic care” with “strong links to mental health services”.

Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic has been accused of rushing children into life-altering treatment on puberty blockers.

The paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, who is leading a review of the service, has today issued a series of recommendations for a radical overhaul of how the NHS treats young people who are questioning their gender identity.

She found that the Tavistock clinic was “not a safe or viable long-term option” and that other mental health issues were “overshadowed” when gender was raised by children referred to the clinic.

Cass, former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said the current model of a sole provider for gender services should be scrapped as it failed to meet the holistic needs of distressed and vulnerable teenagers.

She said Tavistock should be replaced by regional centres with an “appropriate multi-professional workforce to enable them to provide an integrated model of care that manages the holistic needs of this population”.

Amid concerns that the clinic fails to take into account wider health problems before putting children on puberty blockers, Cass added: “Staff should maintain a broad clinical perspective in order to embed the care of children and young people with gender uncertainty within a broader child and adolescent health context.”

Source:  TheTimes (emphasis mine)

The upshot: They have been experimenting on children. They “failed to collect sufficient data on the impact of puberty blockers in under-16s.” Last year Tavistock received more than 5,000 referrals compared to 250 a decade ago. Surprisingly, most of them young girls. Many were children on the autism spectrum. Mental health issues went unexplored. And gender-questioning youth suffered. They rushed to treat with puberty blockers even though the benefits are uncertain and there are no long-term studies about the impact surrounding their use.

What a scandalous disregard for children.

FULL STORY

Thanks to everyone who worked so hard for this day. The Gender Critical Feminists of the UK, J.K. Rowling et al….

Especially,

Transgender Clinic Whistleblower Speaks Out
Keira Bell

There is more to do.

Europe is pulling back.

The US under the Biden Administration is pushing ahead. If you question a child’s belief that they are born in the wrong body and don’t follow them down the Gender-Affirming Identity-Medicalization track, you might be accused of engaging in “conversion therapy.”

You might even have your child taken away from you.

Gender Ideology Separates Mother From Daughter

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