Gender Spectrum: Telling Adolescents They Are "Gender Dysphoric" If They Worry about Normal Body Changes

Is an adolescent’s normal anxiety related to his or her physical changes during puberty evidence of “gender dysphoria” requiring medical intervention? Apparently so, according to the widely cited advocacy organization Gender Spectrum. Here are questions G.S. recommends that a healthcare professional ask the young “patient” open-ended questions in order to “establish trust” -- and pull the teen into further counseling and procedures:

Establishing Trust with Youth Seeking Gender Affirmative Medical Care https://www.genderspectrum.org/articles/medical-establishing-trust [no date]

... Use open-ended questions to establish rapport.

Getting Started
Begin by asking about your patient’s interests and strengths
  *What do you like at school?
  *What do you like to do during your free time?
  *What is something that you feel like you’re really good at?

Transition to more personal questions about gender identity
  *Tell me about your gender history
  *When did you start thinking about this?
  *Has [sic] your feelings about your gender changed over time?
  *How does your gender feel in terms of your body, or in terms of changes to your body?

Gauging Gender Dysphoria
Seek to identify the patient’s current sense of living in their own body
  *Are you having any sad feelings about your gender? Can you describe them?
  *Are you feeling anxious? In what ways?
  *Are there experiences at home or at school related to gender that are making you feel unsupported or depressed?

Are there specific parts of your body that are causing these feeling?: [sic]
  *Breast development?
  *Menstrual cycle?
  *Erections?
  *Hair growth?

Establishing Goals
Clarify the patient’s goals related to their gender expression
  *In the best-case scenario, how could I support you?
What are you looking for?
  *Social transition?
  *Non-pharmacological changes?
  *Medications?
  *Body changes?

Mass. Law Protects Boston Children's Hospital "Gender" Clinic Doctors from Prosecution for Medical Malpractice

How do the gender clinic experts at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) get away with inflicting harm? Their staff is protected by a 2022 Mass. law which criminalizes anyone from out of state who’d dare to bring a lawsuit for medical malpractice. That would be considered “abusive litigation” because (in Mass.) there is a “constitutional right” to “gender-affirming healthcare.” If a detransitioner (like Chloe Cole) harmed by BCH MDs tried to get justice in Mass., she would be the offender and civil action could be taken against her. This law is crying out for a challenge!

In-state transition regretters who were harmed could not sue the BCH staff because that would be anti-transgender discrimination! The BCH gender surgery webpage notes that their practices are protected by the 2016 Mass. law banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity in public accommodations.

All this permitted abuse is based on the gender myth. “Gender” is never defined in the law – except circularly, i.e., “gender is gender.” MGL Ch 4, Sec 7, 59th. Nor does BCH ever clearly define or describe what condition they’re treating in children – except to note little boys sometimes play with dolls or say “I want to be a mommy.” (See my May 2023 report on BCH gender clinic.)

Warning to other states: Block any attempt to pass a transgender rights law. This is where it would lead.

Too bad MassResistance’s 2008 warning about what our state’s pending trans rights bill would bring was roundly ignored.

FINDING BAD BOOKS in Schools and Libraries - RESOURCES

Obscene - Pornographic - Inappropriate

(updated 5/28/2023) 

MassResistance.org reports here.

Book Looks: http://booklooks.org
Best all-around resource; has key section quotes with page locations, cover image, and brief summary.

Pocatello, Idaho MassResistance parent group:
300 inappropriate books (in all sections of Marshall Library)

Make Schools Safe Again (Texas)
https://makeschoolssafeagain.com/library-books

Texans Wake Up
https://www.texanswakeup.com/shop

Parent Advocates of Treasure Valley
https://pa-wa.com/obscene-school-books

Pavement Education Project (PEP), North Carolina
https://www.pavementeducationproject.com/thebooks

Utah’s list of 448 books [2021]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DfZ9tnTsR82iR1K0VMIZOojJTmgvPpvy7sdRDWTnkhA/edit

Mary in the Library
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075804370170
[posts updates; links to BookLooks summaries]

LaVerna in the Library (Utah)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/353057099906284

No Left Turn in Education
https://www.ratedbooks.org/nlte
     & short list of good books,
https://www.ratedbooks.org/nltegoodbooks

Dan Kleinman, Safe Libraries
https://safelibraries.blogspot.com

Deborah DeGroff, Between the Covers: What's Inside Children's Books?
https://www.whatsinsidechildrensbooks.com/

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Scholastic Publishing (not to be trusted): The Teacher Store
https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/search-results.html?text=gender
& https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/search-results.html?text=lgbt

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LGBT GROUPS - RECOMMENDATIONS:

American Library Assoc., Rainbow Book List
https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/

GLSEN, https://www.glsen.org/activity/national-student-council-book-recommendations 

Stonewall Book Awards
https://www.ala.org/rt/rrt/award/stonewall/honored

Lambda Literary, LGBTQ Books for Children, Teens, and Young Adults
https://lambdaliterary.org/lgbtq-writers-in-schools/lgbtq-writers-in-schools-books 

SOGI 123 Inclusive Books for K-12 Schools (British Columbia, Canada)

 

Boston Children's Hospital's Leading Role in Pediatric ‘Gender Medicine’; New report names names, preserves videos, describes procedures

See the full report HERE.
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23b/BCH-gender-clinic-horrors/report/BosChildrensHosp-GenderClinic.pdf 

This clinic must be shut down. The hospital Trustees need to hear from people. Here's the list: https://www.childrenshospital.org/about-us/our-leadership/board-trustees

I first noted "gender" clinic founder, Dr. Norman Spack, on this blog in several posts starting in 2005 through 2007. I discussed the clinic's ghoulish experimentation with puberty blocking drugs in 2007 on the MassResistance radio show (on WTTT) when the BCH "gender" clinic had just opened. In 2008, Brian Camenker of MassResistance appeared on Megyn Kelly's show on Fox News. In 2011, we tried to wake people up again. Apparently, no one wanted to deal with this ugly topic then. Finally, after almost two decades of child abuse, the general public is waking up. 

CONTENTS:
Introduction
Boston Children’s Hospital gender clinic opens in 2007
“Gender-affirming” treatments have no scientific basis
Social transitioning: BCH guide on names, pronouns; warns against parents; tucking & binding
Puberty blocking drugs
Cross-sex hormones
Eligibility for surgery at BCH
Mutilating surgeries performed at BCH
Mastectomies, aka “Chest reconstruction”
Male chest surgeries, aka “Breast Augmentation”
Male bottom surgery – Vaginoplasty (construction of pseudo-vagina, clitoris & labia)
Female bottom surgery - Metoidioplasty (construction of pseudo mini-penis & testicles)
Female bottom surgery - Phalloplasty (construction of pseudo penis and testicles)
“Gender-affirming” Hysterectomy & Vaginectomy
Facial Harmonization
Transgender Reproductive Health Service
BCH Center for Gender Surgery’s “Research and Innovation”
Bonus Videos: Drs. Carswell, Spack, and Diamond
BCH Gender Clinic Staff, Admin, Trustees – Contact info
WPATH - World Professional Association for Transgender Health
Reliable sources

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See also: https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23b/BCH-gender-clinic-horrors/index.html

New acronym! TGNCNBI

Equality New York has to make sure all the bases are covered. 

In a recent email opposing the NY bill that would ban males from women sports, the organization decided that LGBTQIA2S+ was not inclusive enough. The growing variations of "trans" were not accounted for.

So the headline introduced TGNCNBI:

New York Leaders Condemn Republican Sponsors for Introducing Anti-Trans Bill & Call for Continued Support for the TGNCNBI Community

We, the undersigned, are leaders, organizations, and elected officials that advocate for Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, Non-binary, and Intersex (TGNCNBI) individuals and their rights. We are appalled at the recent introduction of an anti-transgender bill here in New York State, led by Republicans. The following bill S6259 (Borrello)/A6124 (Goodell) requires that women’s sports for students in grades seven through twelve only include those who were assigned female at birth. Now our community is disheartened that Republicans have made a direct attack on our Transgender & Non-binary youth...

The email footer uses the boring old LGBTQIA2S+.

Somerville, MA -- 1st in US to give polygamists legal non-discrimination protections

In April 2004, Article 8 Alliance held a demonstration on the State House steps denouncing the Supreme Judicial Court's anti-constitutional Goodridge gay marriage ruling (Nov. 2003) and calling for removal of the four rogue justices. One of our protesters held a sign reading "Polygamy Is Next"

Protester on left holds sign: Polygamy Is Next  [Amy Contrada photo]

Our prediction was correct. It's just taking a few decades to get there. We will probably see a case before the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court soon and it will rule, once again, that LOVE IS LOVE and there's no reason to limit marriage to only two people.

Since I no longer live in Massachusetts, I don't keep track of this sort of insanity. A Boston area friend alerted me to the latest slide down the pervy slope in Somerville. From the local rag, Patch: 

Somerville Passes Polyamorous Non-Discrimination Ordinances The historic move makes Somerville the first city in the United States to extend explicit legal protections to polyamorous families. (March 24, 2023)

Somerville must be so proud! First in the nation! ... except for certain areas out west where this sort of thing is quite open (though illegal).

Not surprisingly, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group at Harvard Law School helped draft the language adopted by the City Council.  (Now you know one thing the + stands for...) One of the City Councilors identifies as "polyamorous". From the report:

Somerville City Council made history Friday with the passing of non-discrimination ordinances to protect polyamorous families and relationships, city officials announced in a news release.

The ordinances make Somerville the first city in the country to extend legal protections to polyamorous and non-nuclear families and relationships.

The ordinances were introduced by City Councilor At-Large Willie Burnely and Councilor JT Scott to prohibit employers, law enforcement, and others from discriminating against someone based on their family or relationship structure.

“As a polyamorous person, I'm grateful to live in a city that embraces rather than punishes people based on their family or relationship structure,” said Councilor Willie Burnley Jr in the news release.

My friend commented: "Previously, Somerville and Cambridge gave benefits to city employees in poly relationships. Somerville used to be nearly all blue collar and not Woke years ago. But it caught the Cambridge disease and is probably sicker than Cambridge now.  And that's saying a LOT. (Cambridge is full of hi-tech companies from which it gets loads of tax revenue, yet believes in socialism.) Other nearby Woke cities: Arlington, Brookline, Newton, Boston ... The disease is spreading."

CORRUPT BARGAINS website & order form

See more info on my new book, CORRUPT BARGAINS, at its new website here.

Order your copy here or here.

New book on gay marriage in Massachusetts

My new book will be available soon! 

Corrupt Bargains
How Gay Marriage Began in Massachusetts

by Amy L. Contrada

The book is a unique, 500-page documentary history of the constitutional crisis surrounding the implementation of gay marriage in Massachusetts, 2001-2007.

In 2003, Massachusetts became the first state to formally recognize same-sex marriage. In a 4-3 ruling, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court declared that the Massachusetts Constitution (written by John Adams) protected same-sex marriage as an inviolable right. This absurdity went unchallenged by the political elite who cared nothing for the constitution’s clear separation of powers. While the state’s marriage law was never changed, the executive branch (under Governor Mitt Romney) illegally implemented same-sex marriage – blindly accepting the court as the ultimate authority, despite widespread calls to reject its ruling.

CORRUPT BARGAINS is a unique history of how same-sex marriage began in Massachusetts. It is the only documentary account of the corrupt maneuvering of politicians and pro-LGBT special interest groups during this constitutional crisis (2001-2007). Massachusetts developed the template for the deceptive political strategies that would dupe the conservative establishment and citizenry across the country. The tactics behind the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling on same-sex marriage (2015) were crafted in Massachusetts.

The successful LGBT strategy was to ignore questions of morality and public health, invent “rights,” demand “fairness” and “equality,” and flood the zone with emotional propaganda. The achievement of same-sex marriage cleared the way for the next big goal of the sexual radicals: transgender rights.

CORRUPT BARGAINS is a case study of how corrupt government officials circumvent constitutional governance. The book provides a front-row view of these precedent-setting events. It has rescued rare sources from the memory hole, with up-to-date links in the 900 endnotes.