The Week In Woke

Everything is racist including the bees and the fleas:

CBS copes and seethes about the diverse turnout at the Trump rally.

The WPATH Tapes: audio reveals doctors scheming to "treat" serious mental health problems with... hormone treatments.

Several top doctors advocated for patients, including children, to remain on hormone treatments despite having serious mental health issues, according to footage from a 2022 conference exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an international organization that creates medical guidelines for transgender procedures, hosted an educational series in September 2022 in Montreal, Canada. The DCNF obtained roughly 30 hours of video recordings from the 2022 conference through a public records request.

During one recorded session, Dr. Chris Booth, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of British Columbia, said that psychotic symptoms should not necessarily prevent a patient from being on hormone therapy. He also discussed dealing with psychiatrists who want to end hormone treatments for patients undergoing psychotic episodes.

Psychosis is a break from reality. So this is a serious mental episode which may involve crazy paranoia, hallucinations, or a false understanding of the reality around oneself.

And they're like -- don't stop the cross-sex hormones! Full speed ahead! We'll get through this psychological storm by running the engines at 150%!

"I've had trans masculine individuals who've come in [to the hospital] with psychotic symptoms, and then the treating psychiatrist wants to stop their hormones" over concerns these drugs were exacerbating the patients' mental health problems, Booth said. "I try to explain to them that having them resume menses would likely be a much greater detriment than having them remain on their hormone therapy."

Resuming your natural menstrual periods is a worse outcome than a psychotic break!

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), people suffering from psychosis "typically experience delusions (false beliefs, for example, that people on television are sending them special messages or that others are trying to hurt them) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that others do not, such as hearing voices telling them to do something or criticizing them)."

The NIH also says psychosis "may be a symptom of a mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or severe depression" and often begins in a person's late teens to mid-20s.

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In a separate panel session, Dr. Daniel Metzger, a pediatric endocrinologist at British Columbia Children's Hospital and WPATH member, explained how he had several schizophrenic patients who said they felt like testosterone treatments made their psychosis "a little bit worse."

"I have had a few kids with schizophrenia who do notice that if they push their testosterone too much that it seems to them that it makes things a little bit worse," Metzger said. "So, the patients who have schizophrenia are doing well on their meds. So, they will sometimes moderate their dose a little bit just to keep the voices down or whatever the bad symptom is."

Much more at the link, unfortunately.

A nursery school got a $25,000 grant, for "racial healing," which is just like real healing except totally bullshit. You'll never guess where almost all the money went. Actually, you probably already have. Almost all the "racial healing" money just went to a DEI grifter.

Most of a state "racial healing" grant will be spent on a "diversity, equity, and inclusion" consultant for Elmhurst University's nursing school, according to documents shared with The College Fix.

The Healing Illinois grant comes from the Illinois Department of Human Services and YWCA Northwestern Illinois, according to the grant acceptance letter. The goal is to fund projects supporting "racial healing" and "racial equity."

As The Fix previously reported, the Illinois government plans to spend up to $4.5 million on "anti-racism" and "racial healing" grants like the one to Elmhurst. The university received $25,000 through the program in March to "ensure its Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) curriculum fully integrates diversity, equity and inclusion concepts."

Of that total, $17,000 will be used to hire an outside consultant, while the remaining $8,000 will be spent on faculty stipends for curriculum work, according to the university's grant application, obtained by Do No Harm and shared with The Fix.

Laura Morgan, chief of staff at Do No Harm, which opposes DEI in healthcare, voiced concerns about the money being spent largely on an outside consultant since the university already has a vice president of equity and inclusion.

You can never have too much money being wasted on shiftless DEI layabouts.

Oh no! A Trans Hero won a race against girls and in fact demolished the girls' record in the race, but wasn't not celebrated for xis heroism, but booed by people who thought he was a man cheating to win a race! This is terrible! I sure hope we don't see anymore of this despicable booing for male cheaters.

A female golfer is speaking out against a male cheater and interloper in her sport.

Unfortunately, she's speaking out... anonymously.

Ladies, please find your balls. The men invading your sport certainly know where theirs are.

Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson has a legitimate chance to compete in this month's U.S. Women's Open after earning the first alternate spot at a qualifying tournament earlier this month. One woman forced to compete against the biological male in that event has elected to speak out about the ridiculous situation.

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One of the 55 women Davidson beat in the qualifier recalled one specific moment that stood out to her during the event.

"Best part was when he/him/she/her/it/the holed out [from] 40 feet off the green and goes 'fu-k yeah' with the lowest male tone I heard all day," the female player, who requested anonymity out of concern over repercussions for speaking out, said via direct messages. "Everyone was in shock and not a single person clapped."

Oh no! More non-clapping for the SHEroes Who Must Always be Applauded! Democracy is in peril!

Scrabble is dumbing the game down to appeal to nearly-nonverbal feral Gen Zers.

For the first time in 75 years, Mattel is making a major change to the iconic board game Scrabble -- and touting a "No More Scoring" gameplay option.

The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game -- one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a "less competitive" version to appeal to Gen Z gamers.

The flip side of the classic game, called Scrabble Together, will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system, be quicker to play and allow people to play in teams.

"The makers of Scrabble found that younger people, Gen Z people, don't quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble," Gyles Brandreth, who co-hosts the language podcast Something Rhymes With Purple, told BBC Radio 4 Today. "They want a game where you can simply enjoy language, words, being together and having fun creating words."

Scrabble Together is marketed for those who find the classic game to be intimidating or for people who have ever thought "word games aren't for me."

I've got an idea: Just print the words directly on the board to save the GenZers some effort. But keep the words short. "Moo" and "moon" and "dog" are a safe bet. Otherwise these genderf*cked little morons will attempt to Challenge the board.

However, some naysayers objected to the changes, calling it "Scrabble for Snowflakes" and "Woke Scrabble" on X.

Oh no! That's an accurate read of reality, and therefore, Illegal.

Last week, the NYT lowered itself to interview Hillary Cass, who told them that the U.S. is out-of-date on "gender therapy" science.

It's not science, it's cult doctrine.

The National Health Service asked Dr. Cass, who had never treated children with gender dysphoria but had served as the president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, to independently evaluate how the agency should proceed.

Nice little insinuation -- only doctors taking money directly in the Big Chop industry are qualified to evaluate the science -- or non-science -- propping up the grift.

Over the next four years, Dr. Cass commissioned systematic reviews of scientific studies on youth gender treatments and international guidelines of care. She also met with young patients and their families, transgender adults, people who had detransitioned, advocacy groups and clinicians.

Her final report, published last month, concluded that the evidence supporting the use of puberty-blocking drugs and other hormonal medications in adolescents was "remarkably weak." On her recommendation, the N.H.S. will no longer prescribe puberty blockers outside of clinical trials. Dr. Cass also recommended that testosterone and estrogen, which allow young people to develop the physical characteristics of the opposite sex, be prescribed with "extreme caution."

Dr. Cass's findings are in line with several European countries that have limited the treatments after scientific reviews. But in America, where nearly two dozen states have banned the care outright, medical groups have endorsed the treatments as evidence-based and necessary.

The American Academy of Pediatrics declined to comment on Dr. Cass's specific findings, and condemned the state bans. "Politicians have inserted themselves into the exam room, which is dangerous for both physicians and for families," Dr. Ben Hoffman, the organization's president, said.

LOL. Yes, she's the politician. You lunatic Pray the Gay to Stay ideologues pushing for children to get mutilated are just "caregivers."

What are your top takeaways from the report?

The most important concern for me is just how poor the evidence base is in this area. Some people have questioned, "Did we set a higher bar for this group of young people?" We absolutely didn't. The real problem is that the evidence is very weak compared to many other areas of pediatric practice.

The second big takeaway for me is that we have to stop just seeing these young people through the lens of their gender and see them as whole people, and address the much broader range of challenges that they have, sometimes with their mental health, sometimes with undiagnosed neurodiversity. It's really about helping them to thrive, not just saying "How do we address the gender?" in isolation.

In other words: Stop pretending that mentally insane people are not mentally insane. Deal with the mental insanity. Don't just give puberty blockers to a disturbed child just because she saw thirty TikToks telling her they would cure all of her untreated psychological problems.

The most common criticism directed at your review is that it was in some way rigged because of the lack of randomized controlled trials, which compare two treatments or a treatment and a placebo, in this field. That, from the get-go, you knew you would find that there was low-quality evidence.

People were worried that we threw out anything that wasn't a randomized controlled trial, which is the gold standard for study design. We didn't, actually.

There weren't any randomized controlled trials, but we still included about 58 percent of the studies that were identified, the ones that were high quality or moderate quality. The kinds of studies that aren't R.C.T.s can give us some really good information, but they have to be well-conducted. The weakness was many were very poorly conducted.

There's something I would like to say about the perception that this was rigged, as you say. We were really clear that this review was not about defining what trans means, negating anybody's experiences or rolling back health care.

There are young people who absolutely benefit from a medical pathway, and we need to make sure that those young people have access -- under a research protocol, because we need to improve the research -- but not assume that that's the right pathway for everyone.

Heresy! Everyone should be at least gay, and preferably trans! Trans is the "no-backsies" form of gayness!

Another criticism is that this field is being held to a higher standard than others, or being exceptionalized in some way. There are other areas of medicine, particularly in pediatrics, where doctors practice without high-quality evidence.

The University of York, which is kind of the home of systematic reviews, one of the key organizations that does them in this country, found that evidence in this field was strikingly lower than other areas -- even in pediatrics.

I can't think of any other situation where we give life-altering treatments and don't have enough understanding about what's happening to those young people in adulthood....

In your report, you are also concerned about the rapid increase in numbers of teens who have sought out gender care over the last 10 years, most of whom were female at birth. I often hear two different explanations. On the one hand, there's a positive story about social acceptance: that there have always been this many trans people, and kids today just feel freer to express who they are. The other story is a more fearful one: that this is a 'contagion' driven in large part by social media. How do you think about it?

There's always two views because it's never a simple answer. And probably elements of both of those things apply.

It doesn't really make sense to have such a dramatic increase in numbers that has been exponential. This has happened in a really narrow time frame across the world. Social acceptance just doesn't happen that way, so dramatically. So that doesn't make sense as the full answer.

But equally, those who say this is just social contagion are also not taking account of how complex and nuanced this is.

The people who say this is mostly a social contagion are the ones who aren't viewing this with enough nuance??!!

Oh well, she's trying to gently prod the insane towards sanity.

TIME Magazine reports that Governor Ron DeSantis made it more difficult for a man to get an abortion.

Bro do you even hear the stupid shit that's turdling out of your mouth?

Bud Light now says they will "stay in our lane" as far as... unspecified issues in the future, but continues to refuse to apologize or state plainly what they're promising not to do going forward.

They're now promising they will "stay in our lane." Notice they still won't say what they did, nor specify which "lanes" they will no longer be moving into.

They're still more afraid of the Alphabet Mafia than us.

The boycott is on until that changes.

Belgian drinks company Anheuser-Busch Inbev meets quarterly revenue forecasts but fails to fully recover from last year's backlash.

Brewer AB InBev announced on Wednesday that its revenue grew by 2.6% in the first three months of the year, a result which fell in line with analysts' expectations.

In terms of volume, AB InBev sold slightly more beer than anticipated, noting a decline of 0.6%.

Revenue figures for the firm, which makes Stella Artois, Bud Light, and Corona beer, were boosted by sales of products such as spirits-based drinks in cans.

The results are nonetheless historically low due to the lasting effects of a customer boycott.

Last year, AB InBev sparked controversy when deciding to work with the transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

The company sent the 26 year-old a personalised Bud Light can to celebrate the first year since her transition.

Right-wing commentators accused the brand of pushing a overly-liberal agenda.

Left-wing voices then criticised the brewer for failing to support Mulvaney.

Earlier this week, AB InBev's Europe CEO Jason Warner told UK media outlet the Telegraph newspaper that the company will "stay in our lane" following the reaction to the campaign, which had sought to appeal to consumers by promoting diversity.

Whenever someone makes a promise but won't say what they are promising, you know that's a solemn promise you can bank on.

Meanwhile, a Rasmussen poll finds that 71% of the public wants Disney to stop being a gay propaganda groomer factory.

Over 71 percent of American adults want Disney to pivot back toward "family-friendly entertainment" and away from the LGBTQIA agenda.

A Rasmussen poll also found that 53 percent of adults "strongly agreed" with the following statement: "Disney should return to wholesome programming and allow parents to decide when their children are taught about sexuality?"

In 2022, Disney executive Karen Burke touted that "the company has 'many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories" and that Disney received positive feedback from LGBTQ activists.

However, another 54 percent of participants say "LGBTQIA programming" is not "appropriate for children under 12."

Creepy LGBTQ activists do not control the box office. Ordinary Americans do. And Rasmussen's polling is consistent with how moviegoers at large view Disney films.

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An Axios Harris study found that Americans now consider Disney the fifth most polarizing brand in the country.

Are rape crisis centers founded and funded to comfort and treat women after the trauma of a rape? Or do they exist solely to affirm the feelings of callous transgender bullies and lunatics?

The answer might surprise you!

Do rape-crisis centres exist to support rape victims, or to validate the beliefs of gender ideologues? This was the question at the heart of a recent UK tribunal ruling.

This week, it was revealed that the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) turned away rape survivors who were suspected of disagreeing with its trans-activist chief executive's views on gender. Women who wrote to the ERCC to ask about women-only services were classed as bigots and had their communications stored in a folder called 'Hate emails'.

All this came to light thanks to staff member Roz Adams winning her case for constructive dismissal against the ERCC. A panel of judges found that a 'heresy hunt' was launched against her because she 'did not fully subscribe to gender ideology', unlike ERCC management, which 'wished to promote it in the organisation'. The targeting of Adams was instigated by what the employment tribunal described as the 'invisible hand' of Mridul Wadhwa, the transgender head of the ERCC.

Adams's ordeal began when she tried to advocate for traumatised service users who wanted reassurance that they would be seen by a female counsellor. A female colleague, referred to as AB in the ruling, identified as nonbinary and chose a name that would be widely understood as male. This prompted one service user to ask Adams whether ERCC staff were all female because 'as a woman, I would be very uncomfortable talking with a man'. Adams then emailed her manager for advice.

In a trail of emails, Adams pointed out that 'people who have been abused by men... are very attuned to be triggered by the presence of male bodies'. If the biological sex of the ERCC's case workers were to be disclosed, then the 'barriers to [women] accessing support would be reduced', she explained. But her lengthy and considered email asking for guidance was referred to by AB as 'violent and humiliating'. The court dismissed this entirely, stating that 'the email has not caused [AB] the upset and humiliation' that she claimed it had. 'It is also suspicious that the claim of humiliation only comes later after [AB had] been in contact with Mridul Wadhwa', the judges added.

No matter how spurious the claims of offence, Adams's colleagues insisted that she was a transphobe. She was then placed under an investigation that was described in the ruling as 'somewhat reminiscent of the work of Franz Kafka'. Wadhwa, the tribunal noted, had already 'formed the view that the claimant was transphobic' before dismissing her. 'This led to a completely spurious and mishandled disciplinary process.'

It has long been clear that Wadhwa has put his trans activism ahead of the needs of the women the ERCC is supposed to serve. Back in 2021, he appeared on the popular podcast, The Guilty Feminist, to talk about his career. When asked about whether women should be entitled to access rape-crisis centres that are free of men, he said:

'Sexual violence happens to bigoted people as well. And so, you know, it is not a discerning crime... These spaces are also for you. But if you bring unacceptable beliefs that are discriminatory in nature, we will begin to work with you on your journey of recovery from trauma. But please also expect to be challenged on your prejudices.'

There could hardly be a more glaring example of Wadhwa's lack of respect for women's boundaries.

Running down the anti-woke accounts:

A boy who was expelled for "blackface" -- it was actually acne cream -- has won a lawsuit against his school for a cool half million dollars.

Fifth graders at a school read a book about "exploring gender" to... kindergartners. As part of a "school exercise." Twisted teachers will invent any reason to get children involved in their own mental illnesses.

Illinois Democrats -- I hate Illinois Democrats -- have voted to spend a lot of money to change to replace the word "offenders," as in "criminal offenders," to "justice-impacted individuals."

"UPDATE: I just received one of the most meaningful messages. The 3 board members who pushed a policy to allow males in the girl's bathroom just lost their reelection. They ran on this policy. They were replaced by 3 parental rights advocates."

"BREAKING: FL Transportation Secretary Jared Purdue mandates bridge lights to display red, white, & blue for the entire summer.

No more displays for Pride, Juneteenth, Gun VoiIence Awareness in Florida"