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It’s not just a question of the assumptions and subject matter – bobbing, mommykink, leathersex and sluttiness, for instance – it’s the dismal quality of the supposedly educational presentations. The pitiable people giving them – the ones being paid to educate others – seem to be unfocused, flaky, disorganised, and utterly self-involved – just incompetent misfits.

And a belated ping!

unfocused, flaky, disorganised, and utterly self-involved – just incompetent misfits.
What else would any sane person expect?

I knew it. Post pinging remorse. To think I gave encouragement to our host, and he then finds it fitting to blight my soul with execrable content dredged from the fetid minds of freaks. No refunds I presume.

The conference began with presentations promoting puberty blockers, hormone treatments, breast removals, and genital surgeries. In one session, “The Adolescent Pathway Preparing Young People for Gender-Affirming Care,” Dr. Scott Mosser, the principal at the Gender Confirmation Center in San Francisco, explained that he has performed “over two thousand top surgeries,” which involve removing girls’ breasts, and that there is no age limit for beginning the “gender journey.” “I do not have a minimum age of any sort in my practice,” he said, explaining that he would be willing to consult with children as young as ten years old with parental consent. In another session open to children, “Gender-Affirming Masculine and Feminizing Hormones for Adolescents and Adults,” Dane Menkin, divisional director of LGBTQ services at Main Line Health, endorsed treatments ranging from puberty-blocking hormones to manual breast-binding for “masculinizing” adolescent girls. “I’m a strong proponent that you can bind for as many hours a day as you can tolerate binding,” he said.

Until the lawsuits start. And, oh, they will – my prediction is that in about 10 years, maybe sooner, the growing “detrans” movement will lead to malpractice cases against doctors, therapists, counselors and the like by former patients. We might call them “ambulance chasers” but plaintiff attorneys are a powerful lobby in our litigious society and when there is money to be made, they will jump at the chance. Think of the lawsuits against Big Tobacco – how much more sympathy will juries have for plaintiffs who were children when the harm was done to them?
I hope people like Mosser and Menkin are ruined completely when that time comes.

I knew it. Post pinging remorse.
Don’t be troubled, that’s normal. As Ovid said, “Omne animal post donationem triste.”

Is that Menkin or Mengele?
Somewhat related.

…transgender “wellness”…
Speaking of that of which there is a dearth, a trans couple has questions.

And on the general topic:

[M]any expressed concerns that the child was being used as a tool to ‘affirm’ the man’s gender identity. Another user questioned whether the hormone-induced discharge from a man’s nipples would be healthy or safe for babies… Retired physician Dr Maja Bowen said she had “several concerns” about the practice. “What comes out of a man’s nipple is not mother’s milk, but a watery substance devoid of antibodies and nutrients that are found in mother’s milk, the composition of which changes as the baby grows up.” Dr Bowen says that the few previous studies done on trans-identified males who have induced lactation show a paucity of evidence the discharge is nutritious or in equivalent of a mother’s breast milk.

More here, at Mick Hartley’s place.

Professional miserabilist Zoe Williams wants to share with us the deep thoughts she has about literary festival attendees:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/17/im-sure-rightwingers-read-books-but-youll-never-meet-one-at-a-literary-festival
She clearly didn’t attend the Oxford Literary Festival event I was at a few years ago, where Douglas Murray talked about his latest book to an absolutely packed room, and then signed our copies of it afterwards. It must be nice to live in a bubble.

Gah, wrong thread. Meant to post the above in the thread with the creepily painted toes.
[ Gathers firewood, agitates mob. ]

[Looking off into the distance]
Wow check out all those pitchforks!

Retired physician Dr Maja Bowen said she had “several concerns” about the practice. “What comes out of a man’s nipple is not mother’s milk, but a watery substance devoid of antibodies and nutrients that are found in mother’s milk, the composition of which changes as the baby grows up.”
Yet at the same time “fact checkers” are having the vapors because older people who know how to make baby formula from milk and Karo and such from recipes well known 60-70 years ago have the audacity to pass them around during a government manufactured shortage of baby formula. More shit you could not make up.

And a belated ping!
I read that as a deflated ping, perhaps in the contexted of the previous post 500 genital prosthetics maybe understandable.

Children cannot imagine being an adult and loving someone sexually. Seeing adults kiss is “ewww”. The fact that the hormones alone will prevent them from ever being sexually normal is not something they can grasp. At all. That you might not ever be able to have kids after hormones and surgery is again not something they can appreciate. We don’t let children sign contracts, get tattoos, buy a gun, buy cigarettes, or join the army. But they can volunteer for surgery? It is child abuse.

I think he means no.
Or at least not in any meaningful sense.

Gary Plauché would not go free today.
Indeed. Video of that incident was included in a montage in Michael Moore’s Bowling For Columbine anti-gun movie. Presumably without any context. I wouldn’t know myself.

school tried to force girl to sleep with trans-identified boy.

On a school trip to Costa Rica earlier this month, three female high school students in the Eudora school district were assigned to a two-bed hotel room with a transgender student who is biologically male — meaning one of them would have had to share a bed with the trans student — and school officials refused a request for a room change. One of the girls objected and told a chaperone she didn’t feel comfortable with the arrangement, but she was told to “deal with it.”

I do hope the teacher in question is about to “deal with” unemployment. At the very least.

I do hope the teacher in question is about to “deal with” unemployment.
Make that permanent unemployment.

Is that Menkin or Mengele?
Apropos of bugger all, it reminds me that we had an inexecrable band here in Canaderp called “Me, Mom and Morgentaler**”
I was always incensed by their name.
They spelled “mum” wrong.
**he was an “infamous” abortionist.

Meh. That’s likely why the other half of people don’t understand that infamous means famous in a bad way and not super-famous. Somebody always ends up nonplussed one way or the other.

Farnsworth should be required to prove his whereabouts.

I’ll be ever’where — wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people don’t have to eat eggs, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy for not eatin’ eggs, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’ — I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready, and they’re knowin’ it ain’t eggs. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise that ain’t eggs an’ live in the houses they build — why, I’ll be there.

So we’ve finally come to it: Farnsworth is going to write The Eggs of Wrath.

Perhaps I should write a sermon titled Egg Haters in the Hands of an Angry God.
Or maybe I can figure out how to rewrite Zelazny’s Holy Shoes prayer…
Regardless, Farnsworth’s refusal to enjoy breakfast in the Right Way cannot be countenanced. Wrong Fun must be expunged!

And to honor that other English tradition I mentioned earlier, I’ll buy some sort of sweet cake and a wedge of Wensleydale. And experiment to try with black coffee.