1007 Qantas CEO is GAY (threatening to withdraw sponsorship of Wallabies, over Israel Folau)

Qantas CEO is GAY (threatening to withdraw sponsorship of Wallabies,
over Israel Folau)

Newsletter published on April 14, 2019

(1) Qantas CEO is GAY
(2) Qantas CEO is GAY (threatening to withdraw sponsorship of Wallabies,
over Israel Folau)
(3) Photo with Tongans Apaiata and Siate
(4) Re: Some of my newsletters may have not arrived
(5) End Trans experiment on kids, say whistleblowing workers
(6) Trans exploitation of children; clinicians speak out about the rush
to ‘transition’ gender-confused kids

(1) Qantas CEO is GAY

From: "Ian and Chris" <subimacleod@iprimus.com.au>
Subject: RE: Folau teammates 'like' his anti-Gay post. Folau sacking
could bring down the Gay Lobby

Thanks for the post Peter,  not sure you know but the little Irish
leprechaun running Qantas is gay, not that there is anything wrong with
that.
IanM

(2) Qantas CEO is GAY (threatening to withdraw sponsorship of Wallabies,
over Israel Folau)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Joyce_(executive)

Alan Joseph Joyce, AC (born 30 June 1966) is an Australian[2]
businessman. Originally from Ireland, he is the Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of the Australian airline Qantas.

Joyce is openly gay and lives in the inner-Sydney suburb of The Rocks
with his partner, a New Zealand man with whom Joyce has been in a
relationship since 1999.[2] In 2011, Joyce was successfully treated for
prostate cancer.[21]

This page was last edited on 19 February 2019, at 07:30 (UTC).

(3) Photo with Tongans Apaiata and Siate
From: Martin Fonda <mfonda78@gmail.com>
Subject: Apaiata-Peter-Siate.jpg

Very nice, Peter, Best wishes. Martin, Ottawa

NOTE (Peter M.:): I asked Apaiata and Siate who the colonial power had
been. They said that Tonga was never colonised; it was the only island
that had remained free. Fiji was colonised by Britain, and Samoa by the
USA. I note that Thailand was also never colonised.

(4) Re: Some of my newsletters may have not arrived
From: Darkmoon <darkmoon@darkmoon.me>
Subject: Re: Some of my newsletters may have not arrived

Peter: I've been having the same problems with my newsletter recently,
sent out to a few hundred subscribers maybe 2-3 times a month. I was
informed only last week in a stock email that roughly 20 subscribers no
longer existed or couldn't be reached, though they were all apparently
alive and well the previous week! Strange things going on...!  (LD)

(5) End Trans experiment on kids, say whistleblowing workers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-6897269/Workers-transgender-clinic-quit-concerns-unregulated-live-experiments-children.html

Daily Mail

Sunday, April 14 2019

End the transgender 'unregulated live experiment on children' say
whistleblowing workers who have quit clinic treating patients as young
as THREE

Five staff from the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic
have quit Clinicians concerned children are having unnecessary gender
change treatment One whistleblower only stayed in post to stop more
children having treatment Number of youngsters referred to service rose
from 94 in 2010 to 2,519 last year

Five whistleblowing workers at the only NHS transgender clinic in
Britain have quit over fears children as young as three are going
through unnecessary gender reassignment treatment.

The clinicians from the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS)
clinic based in London and Leeds left over concerns children were being
incorrectly diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

It was feared some gay children struggling with their sexual identity
are being incorrectly diagnosed as transgender.

Specialists also worried that some of the youngsters were being referred
and pressured into having gender change treatment after suffering
homophobic bullying.

All five former staff members were part of the team deciding if
youngsters should be given hormone blockers to stop their development
before puberty, according to the Times.

Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic in London. Five
workers quit over concerns about the number of children being given
gender change treatment

The patients then take a course of cross-sex hormones at the age of 16
depending on whether they want to develop as male or female.

At least 18 staff have reportedly quit the controversial clinic over the
past three years, citing fears not enough checks are being done to
correctly diagnose child patients.

One of the five whistleblowers even said the only reason many stayed in
their post was to prevent more children from having the treatment.

Referrals to the clinic risen in recent years, with 94 in 2010, rising
to 2,519 by last year, with the youngest patient aged just three.

One of the clinicians told The Times: 'I felt for the last two years
what kept me in the job was the sense there was a huge number of
children in danger.

'I was there to protect children from being damaged.'

Experts fear the treatments are being given without exploring the
underlying reason for the children's confusion over their sexuality.

The Tavistock Gender Identity Development Clinic in north London has an
'inability to stand up to pressure' from campaigners and parents
demanding fast-track transitions, its own clinicians have said in February

An Oxford professor said the treatments were 'unregulated live
experiments on children' with some diagnosis not supported by any evidence.

Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre of Evidence-based Medicine at
Oxford University, told The Times: 'Given paucity of evidence, the
off-label use of drugs in gender dysphoria treatment largely means an
unregulated live experiment on children.'

GIDS, which is part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust,
denied these claims and insisted careful diagnoses were made in these
complex cases.

A spokesman told the Times: 'It is only in recent years that the number
of young people attending specialist services worldwide has dramatically
increased.

'Prior to this the numbers have been small and it has therefore been
difficult to collect sufficient evidence to fully evaluate treatment
pathways.

'We and other specialist services worldwide are actively engaged in
research to better understand the characteristics and needs of young
people attending specialist services.'

In February doctors at the gender identity clinic warned young patients
could be exposed to 'long-term damage' due to lobby groups and 'pushy
parents'.

A report by former staff governor David Bell, said some children 'take
up a trans identity as a solution' to 'multiple problems such as
historic child abuse in the family, bereavement, homophobia, and a very
significant incidence of autism spectrum disorder'.

The Bell report said many children questioning their identity may have
'learnt through online resources coaching from from parents or peers
exactly what to say in order to get the results they want'.

Psychoanalyst and former governor of the clinic, Dr Marcus Evans,
resigned in February over concerns clinicians were looking for 'quick
solutions' by offering gender reassignment.

Last November the centre was accused of 'fast-tracking' young people for
gender treatment in a letter sent by parents.

(6) Trans exploitation of children; clinicians speak out about the rush
to ‘transition’ gender-confused kids
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/04/11/stop-this-trans-exploitation-of-children/

Stop this trans exploitation of children At last, clinicians are
speaking out about the rush to ‘transition’ gender-confused kids.

Joanna Williams
ASSOCIATE EDITOR

11th April 2019

At last medical professionals are raising questions about the treatment
of transgender children. For too long doctors, teachers and social
workers have quietly conspired in a view that children who question
their gender are trans and that they need to have this identity affirmed
along with a new name and pronouns, different clothes, counselling,
perhaps a medical referral, hormone therapy and, later, surgery. Now,
finally, five clinicians from the NHS’s gender clinic for children, the
Tavistock Centre, have gone public with concerns about the centre’s
practice in interviews with Lucy Bannerman of The Times.

They question the impact of counselling that simply confirms a child’s
gender confusion. They warn that vulnerable children and teenagers have
‘been sent down the path towards transition’ without sufficient time to
assess whether this is the right course of action. Most damningly of
all, they challenge the practice of prescribing children with hormone
blockers to halt their sexual development. The long-term impact of this
medication on a child’s brain is still unknown. Meanwhile, irreversible
cross-sex hormones that lead to infertility can be prescribed to
children from the age of 16. There would be outrage if any other group
in society was being experimented on in this way. Yet for children,
often very vulnerable children, the label ‘transgender’ means all
ethical standards are abandoned.

One problem for the Tavistock clinicians is that well-funded advocacy
groups like Mermaids provide resources and forums for parents and
children to share information about the most effective way of securing
particular outcomes in advance of any counselling. All those who spoke
to The Times said they believed that transgender charities were having a
‘harmful’ effect by ‘allegedly promoting transition as a cure-all
solution for confused adolescents’. In this way, adult campaigners
exploit children to further their own agenda. The frequently quoted
retort that it is better to have ‘a living girl than a dead boy’ is the
most despicable and manipulative example of the kind of emotional
blackmail that is sadly effective when it comes to securing medical
interventions.

The clinicians now speaking out expressed concern that the label
‘transgender’ is often erroneously applied to children who may be
struggling with their sexuality and would otherwise grow up to be gay or
lesbian. They report that many children decided they wanted to change
gender after suffering homophobic bullying, ‘yet these young people were
still referred down the route of hormone treatment’. This seems to be a
particular issue for young girls who find it far more socially
acceptable to come out as a boy than to come out as a lesbian. Although
gay conversion therapy is illegal, it is acceptable to ‘normalise’
children by turning them into heterosexual members of the opposite gender.

Sadly, charities such as Stonewall who have traditionally advocated for
gay and lesbian rights are not calling out this new incarnation of
discrimination. They are far too busy aligning themselves with the trans
activists and calling out The Times coverage as ‘damaging and
misleading’. Taking up the trans cause might justify Stonewall’s
continued existence (and funding) now that there are few legal or
cultural battles left to be won for gay rights, but once more we see
children exploited for adult gains.

Yet rather than questioning the role of Stonewall or Mermaids, and
rather than praising The Times for its public-interest journalism,
Labour MP Stephen Doughty was among many activists and ‘allies’ who
rushed to Twitter with accusations of bigotry and transphobia against
the newspaper. Being labelled transphobic, alongside the bullying,
intimidation and abuse that vocal proponents of the trans movement
unleash, leaves many people too fearful to speak out.

There has been a huge increase in the number of children querying their
gender identity. In 2010 there were 94 referrals to the Tavistock
Clinic; by 2018 this had risen to 2,519. The youngest child referred was
just three years old. Of course, these children need to be treated with
the utmost compassion. These are undoubtedly troubled, vulnerable
children. Some researchers have identified a link between autistic
traits and confusion about gender identity; others point out that
transgender children are more likely to self-harm. The medical
professionals who spoke to The Times described the children who are
referred to the Tavistock for ‘experimental treatment’ as ‘very
vulnerable children, who have experienced mental-health difficulties,
abuse, family trauma.’

The vulnerability of this group of children should be reason enough to
avoid rushing into life-changing decisions. But parents who advise
caution are all too often told by advocacy groups and health
professionals that they are the problem. Schools allow children to
change their name, pronouns and dress irrespective of the wishes of
their parents. The ultimate sanction for parents who prevent their child
from changing gender is that their child is removed from the parental
home and put into care.

Sometimes, of course, it is not the children but the parents who need
counselling. There is a huge difference between a troubled older
teenager and a toddler or child still in primary school. Toddlers know
nothing about the world – they are as likely to identify as a train as a
member of the opposite sex. Parents of three-year-olds need to be told
in no uncertain terms that if their son likes to wear a dress or their
daughter likes to play with cars, then they have a perfectly normal
child who needs to be nowhere near the Tavistock Clinic. By the same
token, it would be helpful to these parents if teachers weren’t
encouraged to confuse such young children by asking them to choose their
gender.

The clinicians who have now spoken out about the rush to label and
medicalise transgender children should be praised for starting a badly
needed public debate. But we need to talk about far more than medical
interventions. We need to ask why young people see changing gender as a
positive thing to do and question the role of schools, advocacy groups,
social workers and health professionals in promoting this view.

Joanna Williams is associate editor at spiked. Her new book, Women vs
Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars, is out now.