Article on the funding behind transgender lobbying organisations

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Not sure what the reputation of the source is like, but I found this article very interesting. If in doubt, follow the money...

thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/rich-white-men-institutionalizing-transgender-ideology/

From the article:

These men and others, including pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. government, are sending millions of dollars to LGBT causes. Overall reported global spending on LGBT is now estimated at $424 million. From 2003-2013, reported funding for transgender issues increased more than eightfold, growing at threefold the increase of LGBTQ funding overall, which quadrupled from 2003 to 2012. This huge spike in funding happened at the same time transgenderism began gaining traction in American culture.

$424 million is a lot of money. Is it enough to change laws, uproot language and force new speech on the public, to censor, to create an atmosphere of threat for those who do not comply with gender identity ideology?

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Transgender Trend article by SunMum following second episode of Butterfly on ITV: “They Look Normal” – The Case For Puberty Blockers

concludes:
"Faced with this difficult choice any parent might question the advice of the GIDS team. But if it was my child I would do some research. I would check every footnote and ask who benefited from every intervention on offer. I would reject simple or emotive answers and would have no patience with euphemism or bland reassurance. I would think hard because the future happiness of my child was in my hands.

And as I did so, I would become increasingly concerned about the experimental nature of the puberty blocker protocol and the quality of the evidence on which it is based. A review published in 2018 mentions ‘Low-quality evidence’ and ‘knowledge gaps’.

I would worry that puberty blockers have been used on human subjects before any animal studies (normally it is the other way round). And I would not like the fact that sheep whose puberty is temporarily blocked with these drugs have lasting mental effects: ‘How worried should we be by these findings when we prescribe puberty blockers?’ asked a gender clinician on hearing these findings last week at a conference at the Tavistock clinic. To which the researcher could only answer: ‘That’s a question for clinicians.’ Because GnRHa treatment produces ‘a drop of around 8 points’ in IQ, its value even as a treatment for precocious puberty in children is now being questioned.

I would find out that in MtF patients the loss of bone strength caused by puberty blockade is not fully compensated by later cross sex hormones. I would be concerned that the 22 year follow up on the first puberty blocked kid (who was FTM) reveals a handsome, professionally successful man who has been hindered from maintaining an intimate sexual relationship by shame at their constructed genitalia:

‘B considered it likely that his need to distance himself from her had been related to his shame about his genital appearance and his feelings of inadequacy in sexual matters.’

I would want to know why a drug company, Ferring, sponsored the crucial Dutch trial into puberty blockers: the 2006 Delemarre-van de Waal and Cohen-Kettenis paper was ‘presented at the 4th Ferring Pharmaceuticals International Paediatric Endocrinology Symposium, Paris (2006)’ and Ferring Pharmaceuticals supported the publication of these proceedings.’

www.transgendertrend.com/puberty-blockers-safe/

Bump.

These are the people who shout that woman’s groups are massively funded by Christian and right wing groups in the states...