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‘What a wicked thing this was’: UK Tavistock gender clinic
shut down by NHS
However, the plan is to replace Tavistock-Portman with two regional centres - London and the northwest, and eventually have as many as 8 centres across the UK.
August 01, 2022 - 10:43PM
“We pretend that we protect children and that we want to help them – and actually it’s not just unhelpful but actively cruel to say to a child that is confused … if you feel a bit strange in your body maybe you’re of the opposite sex,” Mr Murray said.
“That is wicked.”
“I hope that in this generation there are going to be class action lawsuits and more coming down the road as fast as anything.
“Adults it’s one thing … but as a child – what a wicked thing this was to allow to go on.”
Unfortunately, patients on the 2.5 year waiting list will still be seen at Tavistock, until regional centres can be opened - possibly the spring of 2023. It has yet to be seen whether this is a positive move for gender dysphoric children, or if it will make the horrific practices of Tavistock more easily available.
The transgender child abuse scandal
This horrific cult is a consequence of the west losing its own mind
Melanie Phillips
Aug 2
The full implications of the decision to shut down the Tavistock Institute’s gender clinic in London, which I wrote about here, have still not been widely appreciated.
What the Tavistock did was horrifying. This supposedly leading mental health institution has done irreversible harm to thousands of troubled teenagers — with clinicians and others making a bonfire of their professional ethics and duty of care in the cause of an ideology as barking mad as it is pernicious.
But this terrible scandal goes far beyond the Tavistock. Great swathes of the establishment — including schools and universities, government departments and even businesses —have signed up to a cult which they have promoted as an orthodoxy that cannot be challenged.
The Labour party appears to have been struck dumb by the closure of the Tavistock gender clinic. This is hardly surprising, since the party’s leading lights — including its leader, Sir Keir Starmer — have either said they don’t know what a woman is or have run for the hills at any sign they may even be asked the question.
Just as professionals involved in promoting this wicked ideology should be struck off or even prosecuted, so no politician who supported it should be elected to office.
There’s an urgent need to tackle the sinister penetration of this cult into British life. But the bigger question is why so many have succumbed to what can only be regarded as a form of derangement. The reasons lie deep in what’s happened in western culture, and the ramifications extend way beyond the transgender issue.
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Montreal Saint-Laurent borough gives drag queen storytime
green light weeks after nixing event
Borough council initially cited concerns about event's subject matter
CBC News ·
Posted: Aug 02, 2022 5:35 AM ET
Following weeks of controversy after cancelling a drag queen storytime event for children, Montreal's Saint-Laurent borough reversed its decision and announced the event hosted by drag queen Barbada De Barbades will go ahead as scheduled.
In a statement Monday evening, the administration said the borough council met with Sébastien Potvin, who performs as Barbada. The council confirmed that her story hour will be held as planned in November at two local libraries.
"We're pleased to have had the opportunity to get together with Barbada for a discussion that was enriching for everyone," said Saint-Laurent borough Mayor Alan DeSousa in the statement.
"Saint-Laurent Council will always encourage and respect all forms of art and creativity," he said.
The announcement coincides with the start of Pride Week in Montreal.
The borough had initially pulled the plug on the event after the city of Dorval received complaints when it scheduled an event featuring Barbada in June.
Last month, DeSousa also said council had concerns about potentially sensitive subjects that would be discussed at Barbada's storytime event. He had said he and other elected officials would meet with Barbada to ask about the content of her performance.
The invitation to meet came the day after an online petition was launched demanding the story hour be reinstated.
In the same statement from the borough Monday, Barbada said she's "delighted" to be able to offer storytime in Saint-Laurent this fall.
"I have been leading the storytime activity since 2016 and it has proven its worth," she said. Barbada said the main objective is to give children a taste for reading while also discovering their differences.
When Barbada first found out that her event had been cancelled, she said she was surprised as she stars in a kids' TV show. But she'd been confident that borough councillors would allow the event to go ahead, once they realized it is age-appropriate with a positive message.
She said she is "happy to have had the opportunity to talk to Saint-Laurent Council freely and with mutual respect. It's important to answer questions in order to avoid any and all misunderstandings," she said.
Medicine bundle project for 2-spirit people in B.C.
seeks to bring back spiritual aspects of sexuality
Project was created by and for two-spirit people in the province
Akshay Kulkarni ·
CBC News ·
Posted: Jul 31, 2022 9:00 AM PT
A kit lays flat on a table. It includes traditional medicines, including incense, as well as STD and HIV rapid test kits and other resources.
An example of a medicine bundle kit that is sent out to two-spirit people in B.C. as part of a pilot project. (Toonasa Photography/CBRC)
Organizers of a project that provides two-spirit people in B.C. with medicine bundles containing safe sex resources and traditional medicine say they aim to bring back the mental, spiritual and emotional aspects of sexuality.
The spiritual aspects of sodomy are very well known, except, apparently, to the 2S community. I pity those when they stand before Jesus Christ on that day.
The Medicine Bundle pilot project is being organized by the Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC), a Vancouver-based charity that works with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (2SLGBT+) people.
It's part of a research project funded by various organizations including the First Nations Health Authority. The project started in May and is set to end Aug. 26, depending on supplies.
Jessy Dame, a Métis registered nurse and the two-spirit program manager at the CBRC, says the project was conceived by and for two-spirit people after consultation with the queer and trans Indigenous community.
"One of the biggest needs identified was access to sexual health services and safe access within rural and remote communities," Dame said.
"Through many conversations, and through our two-spirit guidance committee … the medicine bundle was born."
The bundles sent out to two-spirit people include rapid HIV and STD test kits, safe sex resources including condoms, and traditional medicines such as sage, cedar, sweetgrass, lavender, bear grease, and Labrador tea.
Medicine bundles symbolic and historic
Dame says medicine bundles have historic and spiritual significance for two-spirit people, and that the project aims to reconnect two-spirit people with the spiritual aspects of sex.
"A big part of the feedback [from two-spirit people] is current state sexual health services are mainly just physical," he said.
"In order to challenge the legacy of stigma and shame, it needs to be beyond just physical testing and physical assessments. It needs to be spiritual, mental, emotional."
A group of people stand underneath the large B.C. Legislature building, with two rainbow Pride flags flying above them. One of the flags has two feathers on it, to commemorate two-spirit people.
A two-spirit Pride flag flies above the B.C. Legislature in 2021. Jessy Dame says he hopes
the medicine bundle project is adopted across the country. (Province of British Columbia)
Dame said most of the traditional medicines included in the bundle — which participants can choose depending on what is appropriate for them — are not used in a sexual context.
However, they can be used for spiritual healing and re-connecting with one's roots, which line up with what the project is aiming to do. Dame also said the bundles were blessed by an Indigenous elder before being shipped.
"We are sexual beings and [medicine is] a sacred piece," he said. "This was the start of some folks' healing journey ... to regain or take back control of their own sexual health.
"Through colonization and religion and a number of things, we've shamed and stigmatized it. This bundle is the attempt to bring back the medicines ... it is a part of us."
Dame says sex is not just about a physical exchange, but rather "an empowerment."
The pilot program has seen tremendous uptake so far and the community response has been "extremely positive," he said.
About 150 of the 200 kits have been sent across the province.
Hopes for a 'two-spirit resurgence'
With Pride celebrations this weekend in B.C., Dame said he hopes the project and the group's work will increase the visibility of two-spirit people in the larger 2SLGBT+ community.
"There's been a long legacy of two-spirit people being brought in last or attached at the end of an acronym. Even though we've been here the longest," he said.
"Hoping that, in this Pride season, we are seeing a huge two-spirit resurgence, which is so powerful. And I hope to see that to continue through projects like this."
While there is no specific category for two-spirit people under Canada's census, the figures for 2021 showed more than 18,000 people in B.C. identified as transgender or non-binary.
The participants in the project are protected under research confidentiality, but the project also employed "trusted messengers" from Indigenous communities to deliver resources to two-spirit people.
"To know that I am responsible for a medicine bundle, that will support my Indigenous family members far and wide, helps me connect to my true essence as an Indigenous person," read a statement from Ryan O'Toole, one of the messengers from the Gitxaala Nation in northern B.C.
Dame said he hoped the medicine bundle project would be adopted by other sexual health providers across the country, even as the pilot project winds down.
"It shouldn't just be replicated," he said. "Our hope is that other folks will work with us or will adapt the model to their community's needs."
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