Saturday PITT Review - July 1 to 5, 2024
July 5, 2024
Welcome to the PITT weekly roundup where you find a list of the week’s postings along with links to some of our favorite books, social media, and podcasts. Please continue the fight against the harms of gender ideology by sharing.
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Quote of the Week from What I Said and What I Wish I'd Said: For reasons that are still not clear to me, at 19 she suddenly began the nightmare of disowning her own body. It started with binding, and then testosterone, and now at 23, her determination to get a double mastectomy. Looking back at those years before the nightmare began, I now realize I should have taken a path completely opposite than the one I did. I should have turned her into a fighter.“
PITT POSTS THIS WEEK:
Friday, July 5: Where is My Son?
Thursday, July 4: This Bigot Loves You
Wednesday, July 3: Who are these boys?
Tuesday, July 2: The contribution of computer games to transgender identity
Monday, July 1: What I Said and What I Wish I'd Said
IN THE NEWS
Biden Administration Opposes Surgery for Transgender Minors
From the New York Times, By Roni Caryn Rabin, Teddy Rosenbluth and Noah Weiland, June 28, 2024
The Biden administration said this week that it opposed gender-affirming surgery for minors, the most explicit statement to date on the subject from a president who has been a staunch supporter of transgender rights. The statement followed a report in The Times that a federal health official had urged the removal of age minimums from treatment guidelines for transgender minors.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
In the Doctors Protecting Children Declaration, a group of physicians, psychotherapists, scientists, researchers, and public health professionals express serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects of the gender affirmation model.
IMAGE THAT CAPTURES IT
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Even though the Biden administration may say that they oppose surgeries for minors, they’re still actively promoting these surgeries for minors on the HHS website: https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/gender-affirming-care-young-people.pdf
People should definitely be cautious about believing this statement as long as the Biden administration is refusing to act on it
Allergies during pregnancy may also be contributing to the increase in LGBT. See research of Kathryn Lenz et al.:
....prenatal allergic inflammation had long-term consequences for the sexual differentiation process in both males and females, impacting their behavior in adulthood.
Prenatal allergen exposure in females shifted them towards a male-typical organization of synaptic patterning in the neonatal POA that endured into adulthood.
In contrast, males that were prenatally exposed to allergic inflammation showed evidence of dysmasculinization, including reductions in dendritic spine synapses in the POA as well as decreased mounting behavior and female olfactory preference in adulthood."
This dysmasculinization may reflect an inverted U shaped effect of immune signaling in the male brain, such that too little inflammatory signaling would lead to feminization of brain development, but excessive activation of the immune system in males by exogenous inflammatory insults pushes male neuroimmune activation beyond the optimal level for masculinization and thus perturbs the masculinization process.".
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423032/