Saturday PITT Review - March 3 to 7, 2025
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Quote of the Week from The Doctor Visit: “.. when I see a doctor wearing pins promoting trans ideology, I am being exposed to a non science-based ideology which is harmful to women and children. I suggest acquainting your staff with the Cass Review. And, for the record, I am a liberal leaning atheist.”
PITT POSTS THIS WEEK:
Friday, March 7: Why do these Children and Adolescents Desist?
Thursday, March 6: The Cult of Gender Ideology: Psychological Manipulation and Social Control
Wednesday, March 5: Code of Parental Rights
Tuesday, March 4: Trans Training Seminar
Monday, March 3: The Doctor Visit
IN THE NEWS
The Journal of Sexual Medicine just published a study “Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery”. The conclusion: “Gender-affirming surgery, while beneficial in affirming gender identity, is associated with increased risk of mental health issues, underscoring the need for ongoing, gender-sensitive mental health support for transgender individuals’ post-surgery.”
Editor’s note: Or maybe, just maybe, great mental health support is needed before surgery.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds acts to protect the rights of women and girls
Don’t let the New York Post headline fool you. Transgender individuals are not losing any civil rights. This law merely defines sex based on a person’s anatomy at birth and removes gender identity from a list of protected groups that employers, businesses and landlords may not discriminate against. The law does not remove any discrimination protections for gay and lesbian people. It will, however, prevent men who “identify” as women from accessing women’s single sex spaces. As Governor Reynolds explains, “It is necessary to secure genuine equal protection for women and girls.”
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Regarding the passage of the Iowa bill banning trans-identified men from women's sports, locker rooms, sororities, etc.: all the search results I've found so far say the bill removes every human right codified in Iowa law that is available to other groups (women, people of color, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities, etc.), simply by eliminating the trans category from the class of protected persons.
According to Governor Reynolds' announcement, trans-identified people will lose no rights, except that men and boys who identify as trans will no longer have access to women's and girls' sports and single-sex spaces. But because of the discrepancy between what Gov. Reynolds says and what every single news outlet is announcing, I've searched but have not been able to locate a copy of the bill itself. If the bill is as Gov. Reynolds describes it, I'm celebrating. If the media is lying, which wouldn't surprise me, I'm celebrating.
But, if the bill removes trans-identified people from the list of protected classes with respect to human rights in general, that would be an authoritarian gesture, throwing the baby out with the bathwater, to put it mildly, IMO.
UPDATE: I went back and reread the description provided by PITT. It says: "This law merely defines sex based on a person’s anatomy at birth and removes gender identity from a list of protected groups that employers, businesses and landlords may not discriminate against. The law does not remove any discrimination protections for gay and lesbian people..." (Mentioning gays and lesbians is gratuitous. Gays and lesbians are a distinct class that has nothing to do with transgender people.) If I'm reading it correctly, this means that transgender people can be legally discriminated against by landlords and business owners on the basis of their gender identity. Of course, landlords and business owners are under no obligation to rent to, or hire, anyone who applies for an apartment or a job. That type of discrimination can be subtle and impossible to prove.
Anyway, I understand why trans-identified people would be furious about being singled out and excised from a bill that otherwise would provide them basic human protections against unemployment or homelessness on the basis of their identity.
I don't believe in gender identity, and am adamant that men who claim a woman identity have no standing in women's single-sex spaces. As a lesbian and a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), I feel it's essential to exclude men and boys from ALL women's and girls' spaces regardless of how they identify.
But otherwise, trans-identified adults should have the same rights and protections as anyone else, as long as they are not breaking the law. Bodily autonomy is a human right.
I'd still like to read the bill If someone has a link to it. It seems to me (I'm not an expert) that the bill as written is likely to be challenged in the courts. It's a shame, because the bill's original intent -- to protect women and girls -- is essential.