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wednesday october 12 2022 UK NEWS Trans charity worker ‘posed as schoolgirl in explicit pictures’ Darren Mew is said to have taken part on a photo shoot for a gay magazine Fariha Karim Tuesday October 11 2022, 12.01am, The Times Parents of children who have used the transgender youth charity Mermaids have complained to the watchdog after a worker posted explicit images and sexualised pictures “as a schoolgirl” online. Darren Mew, digital engagement officer at the children’s charity and who identifies as “they/them”, posted an image of himself on Instagram with an upwards view through his short skirt with the words “Sorry I can’t hear you. I’m just out here living my fantasy” and the hashtag “nonbinaryfinery”. Mew was also featured in a collage of six pictures of himself naked, holding his erect penis, from the rear and with pairs of breasts with penises protruding from them for a shot for  Haus Magazine , an LGBT publication. •  Lottery pauses cash for trans charity during ...

Celebrity supporters of controversial trans charity Mermaids gave it ‘unprecedented influence’ JK Rowling has criticised those who have promoted the charity after revelations that it appointed a ‘paedophilia apologist’ as a trustee By Will Bolton 6 October 2022 • 3:21pm JK Rowling appears to have criticised celebrities, including Emma Watson, for helping  trans charity Mermaids  gain “unprecedented influence”. The  author made the remarks  in the wake of revelations that a trustee, Dr Jacob Breslow, spoke at a conference hosted by an organisation that promotes services for paedophiles who need professional help. Dr Breslow’s presentation appeared to be a critique of how paedophiles were understood. Writing on Twitter, Rowling said: “We’ve now learned that Mermaids appointed a paedophilia apologist as Trustee and that their online moderator encouraged kids to move onto a platform notorious for sexual exploitation.  “This is a charity that’s achieved unprecedented...

Transgender homicide rate ‘remarkably low’ despite Human Rights Campaign claims  In this Aug. 16, 2019, file photo, trans rights activist Kenya Cuevas smokes a cigarette while talking with fellow members of a community support group, in Mexico City. The group sets up a tent twice a week providing cultural activities ... By  Valerie Richardson  - The Washington Times - Sunday, December 8, 2019 Calls to combat a purported epidemic of killings targeting transgender people, especially women of color, are rising, even though U.S. data indicates that people who identify as members of the opposite sex are less likely to end up as homicide victims than their non-transgender counterparts. Kentucky State University associate professor Wilfred Reilly found that the 2017 homicide death rate for transgender people was about 1.48 per 100,000, less than a third of the overall murder rate of about 5 per 100,000 and a fraction of the rate for men in general (6.68) or black people (18.8). ...

Original article here A row between Oxford academics has broken out over a £700K taxpayer-funded transgender study whose participants laud the benefits of puberty blockers for children as young as 13. The advisory panel features 3 Mermaids staff. The university’s prestigious Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences was given a £700,000 public grant to identify the healthcare needs of young trans people. The three-year research has now been published, interviewing 50 trans and gender-diverse people across Britain about their experiences, along with 20 parents and carers and covering topics including everyday life, the Tavistock Clinic waiting list, school and family. However, it has been met with a backlash over what critics call its “hardline trans activism”.  It was led by Dr Melissa Stepney and Dr Sam Martin, two Oxford researchers who posted call-out adverts for trans interviewees aged 12 to 35 on Twitter by tagging the controversial charities Mermaids and...

Norah Vincent, Who Chronicled Passing as a Man, Is Dead at 53 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/obituaries/norah-vincent-dead.html  Norah Vincent in 2001 in her neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. For a book, she spent 18 months living as a man named Ned, putting him in hypermasculine situations. Credit...Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times Penelope Green Aug. 18, 2022 In the winter of 2003, Norah Vincent, a 35-year-old journalist, began to practice passing as a man. With the help of a makeup artist, she learned to simulate stubble by snipping bits of wool and painting them on her chin. She wore her hair, already short, cut in a flattop, and bought rectangular framed glasses, to accentuate the angles of her face. She weight-trained to build up the muscles in her chest and back, bound her breasts with a too-small sports bra and wore a jock strap stuffed with a soft prosthetic penis. She trained for months with a vocal coach at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, who...

NHS England is shutting the Tavistock gender clinic over safety concerns following a damning external review Tavistock gender clinic "to be sued by 1,000 families"  The Times, August 10, 2022 The Tavistock gender clinic is facing mass legal action from youngsters who claim they were rushed into taking life-altering puberty blockers. Lawyers expect about 1,000 families to join a medical negligence lawsuit alleging vulnerable children have been misdiagnosed and placed on a damaging medical pathway. They are accusing the gender identity development service [GIDS] at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust of multiple failures in its duty of care. This includes allegations it recklessly prescribed puberty blockers with harmful side effects and adopted an “unquestioning, affirmative approach” to children identifying as transgender. Last month NHS England announced it was shutting the Tavistock clinic over safety concerns following a damning external review. Care will be handed to regi...

Labour's trans-rights policy is looking increasingly absurd By Suzanne Moore Finally, we are having the debate that Stonewall said we must not have. Their policy, remember, over trans/women’s rights was “no debate”. To their supporters, to debate was to essentially deny the existence of trans people. To question their dogma was transphobic and one would be shouted down, deprived of work and, if you were a woman, issued with death and rape threats. That strategy, however anti-democratic and bonkers, actually worked – entire organisations swallowed it whole.  No one denies the existence of trans people. That’s patent nonsense. No one wants to take away their existing rights or make their lives any more difficult. All of us described as “gender critical” have just wanted to maintain sex-based rights for women.  Many of those who organised themselves around this – whether at Woman’s Place meetings or the Labours’ Women Declaration or parts of the deteriorating Women’s Equality Par...