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“Sex – with and for children, a reality we allow”

The LGBT lobby

Let homosexuals, queers, heterosexuals and everyone else have their orientation and their fantasies in private and in agreement with each other. But don't involve children, not in the streets, not in schools and libraries - not anywhere in public space. So writes the Swedish Veidos Health Center.

Published 25 September 2023
– By Editorial Staff
This is an opinion piece. The author is responsible for the views expressed in the article.

We set age limits on films and computer games and take it for granted that this should be the case. Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to work/ do holiday work, and children from 13 are allowed to do only light work. We have a 15-year limit on the purchase of energy drinks and a 20-year limit on the purchase of alcoholic beverages at the Systembolaget (state retail shop selling wines and spirits). You have to be 18 years old to get a driving licence, because before that you are not considered mature enough to drive a vehicle. All with the aim of protecting the well-being of our children, not exposing them to things they are not mature enough to handle and thus safeguarding their physical and mental health.

But we allow adult men who dress in women’s clothes and introduce themselves with obscene names to read stories to our children in kindergartens and public libraries. Parents taking their children to Pride events to see adults dressed in minimal leather outfits, humping in the streets or pretending to be animals is allowed without protest or age limits. Serious discussions are held about the right of children to “change gender” without parental consent. Children should be able to decide their gender and thus their pronouns, i.e. how they want others to address them.

We set age limits on films and computer games and take it for granted that this should be the case.

Parents, in the true spirit of responsibility, set limits on bedtime, what children eat and drink, what they can watch on TV, how much screen time is allowed and that they should wear clothes according to the weather. Don’t we do this to protect our children’s health and well-being, because it is important that we take responsibility for ensuring that our children can grow up in a healthy and empowering way before they are adults and mature enough to make their own decisions, determine the number of hours of sleep, what food they eat and so on?

It seems, incomprehensibly, that in real life it is not as important to enforce frameworks or age limits against exposing our children to the sight of leather-clad adults indulging in sexual perversions as it is to enforce age limits against pornographic or sexual content in films. It is equally incomprehensible that we want to insist, sometimes even encourage, that it is “normal” for underage children to “choose their own gender” and pronouns, while they are not mature enough, from a health point of view, to drink caffeinated beverages, choose their own bedtimes, go to work or cross a busy street by themselves. Where has healthy adult responsibility gone?

Children have the right to be children

Pride week has now passed again and the debate has been loud about whether or not the Pride movement and the LGBTQ lobby are promoting the sexualisation of children and the legalisation of paedophilia.

Björn Söder (Sweden Democrats) was accused by the government, his own ranks in the Sweden Democrats and the media of making “sweeping accusations” against the Pride event when he points to its close and now open links to paedophilia and lobbying for children to be legally part of the sexual activities of perverted adults.

However, neither the government nor the media say anything about actively distancing themselves from paedophilia, but merely counter with “love for all” and continue to celebrate Pride. Is this to be interpreted as meaning that paedophiles are fully entitled to “love” even if a child is harmed, for example by having the paedophile’s penis inserted into their vagina or anal opening? What right does the child have to a safe upbringing among sane adults who let the child be a child, without the interference of perverted adults whom our government apparently wants to give the legal right to express their “love and affection” at will?

Neither the government nor the media say anything about actively distancing themselves from paedophilia, but merely counter with “love for all” and continue to celebrate Pride.

There is no substantive response to the question at all. Probably because they know that the “sweeping accusations” are true. It should be emphasised that the issue is not about which sexual orientation is the right one or which should prevail. Sexual orientation is a private matter and what two adults, or more, do in agreement with each other is entirely up to them. This is about not involving children in the sexual proclivities, fantasies or perversions of adults.

For example, did you know that:

  • RFSL (the Swedish nation-wide association for equal sexual rights) has openly stated that paedophilia “is a way of giving love and affection to children”?
  • RFSL’s own travel guide Spartacus is used as a guide for paedophiles looking for children abroad?
  • Several LGBT activists with links to Pride and RFSL have been convicted of sexual offences against children and child pornography offences?
  • RFSL’s founder claims that “sex with children can be a good thing”?
  • The magazine ‘Come out’ reported that two out of three male homosexuals want to have sex with young boys?
  • Stockholm Pride recruited people convicted of child rape?
  • Paedophilia activist Kjell Rindar opening speech at Pride festival?

Why is it so important to bombard our children and young people with the LGBTQ lobby’s insistence on various sexual, more or less perverse, orientations? Why is it necessary to let children see humping leather-clad “animals”? Why do we not discuss or even reflect on whether and how it might be harmful to our children, physically and/or psychologically, to be exposed to, if only the sight of, the sexual perversions that some self-determining adults have chosen to identify with?

Let children be children. Let them be boys and girls. Let them grow up without perverse sexual elements and gender crisis lobbying. Let heterosexuals, homosexuals, gender binaries, transsexuals, queers and everyone else have their orientation, their fantasies and their sexual relationships in private and in consent with each other – but do not involve our, your or anyone else’s children in it. Not in streets and squares, not in schools and libraries, not anywhere in public space.

 

For the Veidos Health Centre,

Cecilia Gustafsson

Dano Kostovski

Kostas Elefteriadis

Lena Nilsson

Janne Hanhela

Jimmy Mattsson

Lena Allzén

Henrik Eklund

Anneli Karlsson

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Swedes will soon need only digital healthcare visit to “switch genders”

The LGBT lobby

Published 14 May 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The Gender Reassignment Act pushed through by Ulf Kristersson is seen as a major victory by LGBTQ organizations.

The much-criticized Gender Reassignment Act (Könsbyteslagen) comes into force on 1 July – and it is clear that, in practice, a single digital healthcare visit will often be enough to “change” legal gender.

The Nordic TImes has previously highlighted the law which was pushed through by Ulf Kristersson with the help of Moderate MPs who were actually against it but who still voted yes in the end, because they were afraid of otherwise losing their jobs or risking other reprisals.

The newspaper has also highlighted criticism of the law – including from Jovanna Dahlgren, professor of pediatric endocrinology, who believes that the amended legislation risks having a very large negative consequence for vulnerable young people.

– There is more and more information and facts that indicate that the sharp increase in gender dysphoria in the last 15-20 years is largely due to the fact that many girls have an identity crisis, and it comes quite suddenly in adolescence, she argued.

Dahlgren also points out that “very many” young people who are reported to suffer from gender dysphoria also have autistic traits or diagnoses, and that it often seems to be a temporary identity crisis which is why a quick gender change is not an optimal solution.

“Based on individual self-determination”

However, the criticism was dismissed, and in a month and a half the new legislation will come into force. One major change will be that a diagnosis of transsexualism will no longer be required to “change” one’s legal gender only a “simpler medical examination”.

The “assessments” will not only be carried out by psychologists or psychotherapists, but also by health care counselors. According to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare’s guidance, in most cases a single online medical visit will be sufficient to obtain a certificate that can then be used to change a person’s gender in the national register

– It’s important to remember that this is a regulation that is largely based on the individual’s own self-determination and where the process should also be simple, says Pär Ödman, chief legal adviser at the National Board of Health and Welfare, to state radio SR.

“Completely unreasonable”

Another major change will be that you no longer need to be an adult to undergo the “sex change” as long as you have parental consent, this process can be carried out as early as the age of 16.

Linda Lindberg, leader of the Sweden Democrats, calls the new law “completely unreasonable” and notes that it is a very vulnerable group that now risks feeling even worse.

– These are usually people who are questioning their identity and who are certainly not feeling very well. This is not the right way to deal with this type of care issue, absolutely not.

However, Ulrika Vesterlund, spokesperson for the Green Party on LGBTI issues, disagrees with this criticism and instead says that it “sounds good” that the legal gender reassignment processes are now being simplified.

UK Supreme Court: Womanhood is something one is born into

The LGBT lobby

Published 17 April 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Many British women consider the court's decision a great victory.

The UK Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the term “woman” in the country’s equality legislation refers to biological sex and nothing else.

The ruling rejects the Scottish Government’s interpretation, which included trans women in the definition and quotas for biological men who have “changed sex” as women in the workplace.

A panel of five judges, led by Justice Patrick Hodge, ruled that the words “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

The ruling means, among other things, that transgender people should not be counted as women for the purposes of the Equality Act’s quotas although the court was careful to emphasize that they should continue to be protected from discrimination on the basis of their gender identity.

The case stems from a 2018 Scottish law requiring public authorities in Scotland to have at least 50% women on their boards. According to the Scottish Government’s interpretation, trans women were included in this quota. However, the women’s rights group For Women Scotland (FWS) disputed this, arguing that the definition of woman cannot be extended beyond biological sex.

“Refers to reality –  not to paperwork”

An early court ruling in 2022 was appealed to the Supreme Court, which has now agreed with FWS.

Maya Forstater of the group Sex Matters considers the ruling a “great victory”:

– The court has given us the right answer: the protected characteristic of sex – male and female – refers to reality, not to paperwork, she says.

FWS director Trina Budge previously warned that a broader interpretation of gender risks filling quotas with “50% men, and 50% men with certificates”, which would undermine the purpose of the law.

Supported by J.K. Rowling

The group also highlighted that transgender access to women’s toilets, women’s prisons and women’s wards in hospitals can have very negative consequences and create insecurity.

FWS lawyer Aidan O’Neill argued during the trial that gender must be understood in law as a “expression of one’s bodily reality. It is an immutable biological state”.

For Women Scotland has received support from well-known author J.K. Rowling, who has reportedly donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to the group. Rowling has long argued in the past that it is unreasonable for trans women’s rights to be at the expense of biological women.

However, not everyone is applauding the ruling on the contrary, the human rights organization Amnesty International is highly critical and claims that transgender people now risk having their human rights violated.

EU grants hundreds of millions to gender ideology organizations

The LGBT lobby

Published 21 March 2025
– By Editorial Staff
“NGOs have played a direct role in drafting EU gender policies”, the report's author stresses.

The European Union has long provided over €200 million in grants to organizations promoting gender ideology, according to a new report by the think tank MCC Brussels. This has raised questions about the EU’s priorities and use of citizens’ tax money.

The report, authored by sociologist Ashley Frawley of MCC Brussels, shows that between 2014 and 2021, the EU has funded 258 organizations working on LGBTQ issues and the promotion of gender ideology, UnHerd reports.

Based on figures for the period 2014 – 2023, the organizations have received around €221 million in grants.

The largest grantee for the period 2014 – 2023 was ILGA Worldwide, which received €64.95 million for its advocacy work on gender identity. Other recipients included its European branch, ILGA-Europe (€16 million), the international LGBTQ organization IGLYO (€6 million), Transgender Europe (TGEU) (€4.6 million), the Lesbian Feminist and Intersectional Network (€6.2 million) and Intersex International Europe (€1.2 million).

Ashley Frawley commented on the report: “NGOs use EU funding to pressure national governments into adopting gender identity laws, bypassing national sovereignty”.

“Dictated by unelected activists”

Frawley argues that EU policies, originally designed to protect women and girls, have been reshaped to prioritize gender identity issues instead. Frawley believes that the policy has been “dictated by unelected activists rather than open national debates”.

– NGOs have played a direct role in drafting EU gender policies, frequently operating without public transparency.

The report highlights that many of the funded organizations are actively working to influence EU policies and legislation. This raises questions about potential conflicts of interest and democratic legitimacy.

Among the largest recipients of EU funding is the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which has received over €30 million. IPPF is controversial because of its involvement in abortion issues and sex education for children.

– They have redefined gender to have a very weak relationship with biological sex, and then they emphasize gender over sex, Frawley told The Epoch Times.

MCC Brussels: Violating the principle of neutrality

The think tank argues that funding organizations like these goes against the EU’s principle of neutrality on ethical issues. They argue that the Union should focus on more pressing economic and social challenges.

The conservative think tank ECLJ is also critical of EU policies in several areas and has previously published expert reports on freedom of expression, digital laws and EU climate policy. The MCC Brussels report is thus part of ECLJ’s ongoing review of EU policies and priorities.

The debate on the EU’s funding of gender ideology organizations is expected to intensify in light of the report, with questions of transparency, accountability and priorities in the EU’s budget allocation coming into focus.

It is worth noting that MCC Brussels is a think tank linked to the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), which has received funding from the Hungarian government under Viktor Orbán.

Critics, such as Corporate Europe Observatory, have questioned the independence and transparency of the think tank regarding its funding and lobbying activities.

Trump bans gender-altering treatments for children

Donald Trump's USA

Published 30 January 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Trump points out that many of the children who undergo gender reassignment treatments soon regret it.

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to severely restrict “chemical and surgical” gender reassignment surgery on minors in the United States.

Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions”, reads the order, which is titled “Protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation”,

This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end“, the President states.

The President-elect also believes that large numbers of children who have undergone FGM will soon begin to regret their mutilation and “begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding”.

Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization”, the order continues.

Sweden pushed through “gender reassignment law”

Trump decides that US policy will continue to be not to fund, sponsor, promote, assist or support the so-called transition of a child from the biological to the perceived sex, and to strictly enforce all laws that prohibit or restrict these “destructive and life-altering procedures“.

US health authorities will also be tasked with developing strategies on how to work instead to improve the mental well-being of children suffering from gender dysphoria or similar “identity-based confusion”.

Trump’s views on children and gender reassignment treatments contrast sharply with those of the Swedish government. Last year, Prime Minister Ulf Krisersson was a driving force behind the passage of a new “Gender Identity Act” which, among other things, lowered the age limit for changing legal gender from 18 to 16 and removed the requirement for a medical examination before treatment.

All parties except SD and KD supported this liberalization, and representatives of the Moderate Party warned that they had been pressured by the top party leadership to vote for the law – and that they otherwise risked reprisals of various kinds.

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