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Oppression of Sex and Gender Minorities by Psychologists
Jan 11th
You know those reparative therapy "experts" who influenced the homophobic death penalty legislation in Uganda? For sex and gender minorities, that movement is not led by religious zealots, but by a handful of Toronto psychologists like Kenneth Zucker who still get taken seriously in their field.
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) decided that gay people were no longer mentally ill, but that changed nothing for trans and gender-variant people. In fact, "experts" led the push to create a new disease called "gender identity disorder," which they successfully got added to the APA’s big book of mental illnesses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Though trans activists have been protesting to get this mental illness removed in the 2012 revision, these Toronto "experts" hold key positions among the people doing the revising.
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Even worse is a sub-disease they created called "gender identity disorder in children." They have made a lot of money claiming to "cure" hundreds of children who are "too feminine." While they also treat kids who are "too masculine," in most clinics which have adopted their methods, 5 to 30 times more children assigned as males are treated. The methods? No playing with dolls, no drawing with the "wrong" colors like pink or purple, and no playing with or drawing pictures of girls. The anxious parents who bring their children in to be "cured" are expected to enforce all rules. They are sent home with instructions to make the child go through all their possessions and remove anything "inappropriate," as well as ways to use reinforcement to "correct" their child’s thinking and behavior. How did nonconformity become a disease? And how did Toronto become infamous for this? It’s a textbook case of pathological science with roots in the 20th-century eugenics movement, and it shows how a few misguided people can have impact all over the world. Read on at Boing Boing |
Airport Body Scanners = CP Mass Production!
Jan 5th
The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned. Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to "virtual strip-searching" and have called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers involved. Ministers now face having to exempt under 18s from the scans or face the delays of introducing new legislation to ensure airport security staff do not commit offences under child pornography laws. They also face demands from civil liberties groups for safeguards to ensure that images from the £80,000 scanners, including those of celebrities, do not end up on the internet. The Department for Transport confirmed that the "child porn" problem was among the "legal and operational issues" now under discussion in Whitehall after Gordon Brown’s announcement on Sunday that he wanted to see their "gradual" introduction at British airports.
Boy reading at Airport – Because I couldn’t find any X-Ray Images ;p
What a setback for the pervs of this world! This is a very interesting approach ‘tho: using one police state law (“child porn” legislation) to weaken another one (totally useless terror hysteria laws). That might be something we could learn from. Beating them with their own weapons et cetera ;)
Periodical Political Post *41
Dec 19th
- Almost half of Americans believe being gay is a choice according to poll
- Australia plans to censor internet with secret list of sites like China and Iran do
- Canada makes talking to children online crime, regardless of what you talk about
- Lithuania still wants to ban information about homosexuality to “protect minors”
- English anti-terror cops ask nursery school workers to watch for 4 year old terrorists
- US-Woman gets 60 years prison for sex with minors (murderers usually get ~20 years)
- Heavy illegal downloaders buy more music & film industry healthier than ever
- How stranger danger changed the way children play on the example of the UK
- CDU & FDP verschulden Staat für Steuergeschenke an Reiche und Unternehmen…
- …Gleichstellung von Schwulen & Lesben findet die CDU dagegen zu teuer.
- FDP meint Krieg ist im nationalen Interesse, egal was die Bürger davon halten
- CDU & FDP ersetzen staatlichen Medizinkontrolleur durch Pharma-Lobbyisten
- Lebensmittellobby setzt sich durch: keine Kennzeichnung ungesunder Produkte
- Fingerabdruckscanner in der Grundschule: In Bayern blüht der Überwachungsstaat
- 14-jähriger erldeidet schwere Gehirnerschütterung während er in Polizeigewahrsam ist
- Geschichte: Tagung beschäftigte sich mit Unrechtssituation Schwuler in der BRD
Fuck Closets
Dec 16th
I believe that the best way to have your coming out is… not having one at all. Think about it: Why are you supposed to tell people about your sexual preference like being gay or bi is something to be ashamed of or an illness (Better stay away from me, I got the queerness! *sneeze*). The whole process of coming out makes you look like you have to justify being who you are by telling others about it, by making a confession. Where is the pride in that?
Why don’t you just bring your boyfriend to the next party? Kiss him, hold his hand, just act like there is nothing special about it. Because there *is* nothing special about loving someone. We should stop whining about tolerance from others, we should just live our life and don’t care about the rest, this way they won’t have a choice, they just have to get over it ‘cause no one cares about their stand on the issue.
We don’t get warned by our straight friends about their preferences, why would we act in another way? Stop worrying about others, focus on shaping your life in a way that makes YOU happy, that’s all you should take care of.
Periodical Political Post *40
Dec 2nd
- Homophobic hate crime reports rise by 11% in the United States
- Voters in India now allowed ‘third gender’ option
- Change we can believe in: Abuse in secret US prison in Afghanistan
- So much for the Peace Nobel Prize: Obama refuses to ban landmines
- Catholic church covered up child sex abuse over more than three decades
- UK gets new internet law, citizen can be sentenced without court proceedings
- EU shares bank transfer data with US, privacy groups not amused
- Turkey wants universal email surveillance from birth
- German president refuses to sign censorship law for now
- UK schools vet parents for christmas festivities, they might be pedos
- UK cops spending millions gathering useless intelligence on peaceful protestors
- Police officer who used taser on 10 year old girl finally fired
- Video game features gay sex scene (between a man and an elf)
The Puritans fight back
Nov 27th
Contrary to the chicken littles of the world, crime in America is down, way down. Oddly, as crime rates continued to plummet in the US the number of registered sex offenders is a growth industry. As the Washington Post reports, "Sex-offender registries have grown dramatically this decade…." They report there are now 716,319 people who are official pariahs in the United States, open to public harassment or worse because their names, photos and addresses are posted online. In 2001 the number was 403,000. So, in just eight years the number of registered offenders has almost doubled. It is basically heading for a doubling each decaded. Hmm, at that rate the entire population of the US should be registered sex offenders by the end of the century.
One reason for this explosion is that the reigstires are now casting wider and wider nets. Politicians have criminalized so much human sexuality that chances are good that everyone is sex offender at some point or another in their life. All that prevents them just combining the census with the sex offender list is they haven’t been efficient enough to catch everyone. One in five teens could be arrested as child pornographers for taking nude photos of themselves. Young teens who have consenting sex with each other get charged as sex offenders for molesting children. At one high school, if the law were applied as written, virtually every kid in the school would be a registered sex offender. Some girls were arrested for molesting themselves! — Read the whole Article
Omar
Nov 23rd
Omar is one of five French short films against homophobia. The story is pretty easy to follow even with my poor French skills from school ;) The other videos can be seen here. Thanks to shezatokyo for posting this on the milkboard.
C’est l’histoire d’Omar, un jeune homosexuel qui vit dans une cité. Une cité qu’il aime et qui l’aime mais où la pression est telle qu’il ne peut vivre, ni même révéler son homosexualité. Pas même à son meilleur ami Morad. Jusqu’au jour où son histoire d’amour cachée avec Arthur est découverte. Une décision s’impose alors : renoncer à son amour ou quitter la cité pour d’autres horizons.
Periodical Political Post *39
Nov 19th
- UK town council bans parents from playgrounds ‘cause they could be predators
- Austria allows civil partnerships but keeps banning adoptions by gay couples
- Argentina issues first gay marriage licence following last week’s court ruling
- 10-year-old refuses to pledge allegiance until there’s gay equality in the USA
- Gordon brown says UK finally ready to say sorry for deporting thousands of children
- UK police now allowed to withhold evidence from defendants and their lawyers in civil cases
- US govt. blocks release of photos showing prisoners being abused by Americans
- Former UK ambassador says CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’
- How UK police rebranded lawful protest as ‘domestic extremism’
- US govt. demanded IP addresses of *all* visitors of leftist news site Indymedia
- Schools in US city Indianapolis ban atheism websites "”to protect children”
- Music labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever
- ACTA (secret copyright treaty) leaks. It’s bad. Very bad
- Studie belegt: Keine Verbindung zwischen Homosexualität und Kinderschändung
- CDU/CSU und FDP wollen, dass Arme Krankenversicherung für Reiche finanzieren
- Die Zeit der Bürgerrechtsdemos war gestern: FDP überwacht nun mit
- Bildung bleibt Nebensache für Schwarz-Gelb, Ausgaben werden schöngerechnet
- Regierung lässt Ausstellung über Einwanderung im Historischen Museum zensieren
- Geschichtsstunde: Wie Großbritannien Kinder nach Australien deportiert hat
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Teenagers as Sex Offenders
Nov 11th
Sex offender lists are stupid per se. But did you know that the best represented age group on them is 14?
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Consider two young people, confused by their own budding sexuality, curious as to the dynamics of sex, terrified by it, but drawn to it anyway. Nature, or God, if you prefer, built the human body so that that the young are flooded with hormones that inspire lust and a need for release. Perhaps the mind is not ready to grasp what is happening, but the body demands it. At the very least, it is NOT very intelligent design. But it is what it is. Wishing won’t make it different. These two young people seek some seclusion. “I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours.” Nervous hands unzip zippers. Tentative touching, complete silence as they forget to even breathe. A door suddenly opens. They try to cover up. They don’t understand why they did it or what it means. That is part of what they were trying to figure out. Something from deep within compelled them to seek something they didn’t understand. Nature, or God if you insist, endowed the human species with a body that floods these young people with hormones, creating desires they don’t comprehend. Perhaps they are too young to fully understand. At the very least imposing such a burden on those so young indicates a total lack of intelligent design when it comes to human sexuality. A stern talking-to, perhaps going to bed without supper, or wise parental advice is how previous, less terrified, generations handled this. |
But that was before we let the special interest groups and politicians terrorize us about the “threat to our children.” Since then we have passed hundreds of ill-conceived pieces of legislation “to protect our children.” Now we are sacrificing our children on the very political altars that we helped build.
What was once considering a normal rite of passage, typical curiosity that the newly sexualized young have about themselves, their bodies, and the bodies of others, has become a heinous crime. Not long ago a curious adolescent or child, caught exploring, or playing doctor in the back yard, was given a talking-to, sent to bed early, and warned to not do it again — a warning most heeded for at least another few years, after which time warnings were useless. Today, it has been criminalized, and criminalized in a way far exceeding crimes of violence. A youth who has sex with another youth, even if voluntary, could well face legal sentences far worse than if they had killed their friend.
Please read the whole article at Classically Liberal. They have also collected a partial listing with relevant cases.
I for one think it’s kinda sad that even the author of the good and much needed article above thinks sending kids to bed without supper is a proper way to handle such situations. Not so long ago European parental guides suggested to let kids do whatever they want to do when it comes to sexuality because everything else would let them get the impression that sex is something bad and dirty.
Teen Sex belongs in Teen Literature
Nov 9th
Oh boy, I just read a column by Canadian author Cory Doctorow. He got a shitstorm of anger from teachers, students, parents, and librarians because he dared to write about a 17 year old boy having sex and drinking a beer. I really should know better by now but still… the fact how things like this are handled in North America never fails to amaze me. I know half of you guys stop reading here because you know what awaits you but that’s ok. Yes, I’m a smug eurofag and no, I can’t stop bashing North American countries for being so hypocritical, unprogressive and fucked up. So let’s make it short here: I know there are many people living in the US and Canada who are upset about this stuff just like I am. So if you’re a teenager and can’t stand the Christian censor machine who’s trying to control what you can read and think: Go and get some Youth lit from Europe. No matter if it’s Swedish, French, Dutch or German, many (sadly not all) of the great coming of age books released here are getting translated sooner or later and I never stumbled upon one that doesn’t have sex scenes ;)
My first young adult novel, Little Brother, tells the story of a kid named Marcus Yallow who forms a guerilla army of young people dedicated to the reformation of the US government by any means necessary. He and his friends use cryptography and other technology to subvert security measures, to distribute revolutionary literature, to liberate and publish secret governmental memoes, and humiliate government officials. Every chapter includes some kind of how-to guide for accomplishing this kind of thing on your own, from tips on disabling radio-frequency ID tags to beating biometric identity system to defeating the censorware used by your school network to control what kind of things you can and can’t see on the Internet. The book is a long hymn to personal liberty, free speech, the people’s right to question and even overthrow their government, even during wartime.
Marcus is 17, and the book is intended to be read by young teens or even precocious tweens (as well as adults). Naturally, I anticipated that some of the politics and technology in the story would upset my readers. And it’s true, a few of the reviewers were critical of this stuff. But not many, not overly so. What I didn’t expect was that I would receive a torrent of correspondence and entreaties from teachers, students, parents, and librarians who were angry, worried, or upset that Marcus loses his virginity about two-thirds of the way through the book (secondarily, some of them were also offended by the fact that Marcus drinks a beer at one point, and a smaller minority wanted to know why and how Marcus could get away with talking back to his elders).
read, read, read!
because they fear nothing more than a freethinking youth
