https://nordictimes.com/debate/sex-with-and-for-children-a-reality-we-allow/

Debate

“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

Photo: Patrick Perkins/Unsplash

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

https://nordictimes.com/world/trans-controversy-divides-the-atheist-movement/

World

“Trans controversy” divides the atheist movement

The LGBT lobby

Published 10 January 2025

– By Editorial Staff

Montage. Photo: Karl Withakay/CC BY-SA 4.0, Andreonegin/iStock

Richard Dawkins says the FFRF has given in to the “hysterical squeels” of identity politics activists

Well-known atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has resigned from the board of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) after the organization clearly endorsed the transgender movement and the idea that every human being can choose their own gender.

He is one of several high-profile figures who are tired of the atheist group’s activities being permeated by censorship and unscientific gender ideological activism.

Dawkins chose to leave the organization after the leadership censored an article by a scientist who pointed out that gender is not something you can choose, but something unchangeable and biological. “An act of unseemly panic“, according to him.

The FFRF itself claims the publication was a “mistake“, but Dawkins accuses the organization of succumbing to the “hysterical squeals” of activists who want to silence and deplatform dissent. Two other scientists – Jerry Coyne and Steven Pinker, have also left the atheist group, saying it is trying to impose a quasi-religious ideology full of “dogma, blasphemy, and heretics“.

The row over the transgender issue began in earnest when an article was published on the FFRF website, arguing that biology and innate gender are irrelevant in determining who is a woman and who is not, and that anyone who identifies as a woman is just that.

“An error of judgement”

This article was countered by Jerry Coyne who noted that the very definition of woman is strictly biological and based on the structure of the gametes. This led two of the group’s leaders to delete the article and apologize for the “distress” the views allegedly caused readers.

“Despite our best efforts to champion reason and equality, mistakes can happen, and this incident is a reminder of the importance of constant reflection and growth”, wrote co-chairs Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

“Publishing this post was an error of judgment, and we have decided to remove it as it does not reflect our values and principles. We regret any distress caused by this post and are committed to ensuring it doesn’t happen again“, they added.

Compared to religious fanatics

Non-gender atheists were quick to harshly criticize the FFRF for promoting a “quasi-religious ideology“, and Coyne himself quickly announced that he cannot remain in an organization that censors its members in this way.

“I was simply promoting a biological rather than a psychological definition of sex, and I do not understand why you would consider that ‘distressing’“, he defended himself in an email.

“The gender ideology which caused you to take down my article is itself quasi-religious. Having many aspects of religions and cults, including dogma, blasphemy, belief in what is palpably untrue, apostasy, and a tendency to ignore science when it contradicts a preferred ideology“, he continued.

The American-Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker, in turn, points out that the activist group can no longer be considered a defender of religious freedom but rather wants to “impose a new religion“.

As for Richard Dawkins, he has also previously criticized the spread of gender ideology and political activism in science. This has resulted, among other things, in the American Humanist Association (AHA) revoking a prize awarded to the evolutionary biologist 25 years earlier.

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https://nordictimes.com/europe/uk-court-to-rule-on-legal-definition-of-woman/

Europe

UK court to rule on legal definition of “woman”

The LGBT lobby

Published 29 November 2024

– By Editorial Staff

Photo: X/Nick Wallis

For Women Scotland believes that the definition of a woman should only be biological, not legal.

The UK Supreme Court is now considering whether trans women should be included in the definition of woman in the Equality Act. The outcome could change the way gender is legally defined in the country in the future.

Last year, Scotland’s Supreme Court ruled that transgender people who call themselves women should be covered by legislation aimed at improving gender balance on public boards. According to the Scottish Parliament, there should be a 50% representation of women, and the law will include those who are not biological women in that definition of woman.

The women’s organization For Women Scotland appealed the bill, arguing that the definition of a woman should only be biological, not legal. The organization points out that the legislation has far-reaching implications for women’s rights.

Legal or biological sex

Now the issue is being taken up in the UK Supreme Court, reports The Guardian. The hearings began on Tuesday and continued on Wednesday.

Since 2004, Scotland has applied the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), which allows transgender people to obtain legal recognition of their gender through a certificate. Two years ago, the Act was extended to allow transgender people to change their legal gender without the need for a medical diagnosis. The question now before the court is whether transgender people should be able to use this definition and identify as women under the UK Equality Act 2010.

“Biological denial”

On Tuesday, Aidan O’Neill, representing For Women Scotland, argued for what he called the “common sense” meaning of the words man and woman, telling the judges that gender is an “immutable biological state”, and that this interpretation is necessary to protect women’s rights. He also highlighted that women have historically been discriminated against through “biological determinism”, where biological differences have been used to limit women’s opportunities.

Now, O’Neill said, women instead face a new challenge in the form of “biological denial”, where biological sex is considered irrelevant

– That is to say that being a woman has nothing to do with biology and it is therefore not open to women to seek to deny men who identify as women and [have a GRC] access to women’s spaces.

“Transphobic”

The women’s organization has been accused of being “transphobic” and transgender people say it curtails their rights. Ruth Crawford, who represents the Scottish Parliament in the court, says the GRA should ensure that “a person who has become the sex of their acquired gender is entitled to the protections of that sex”, according to the BBC.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has contributed financially to the women’s organization’s appeal and Maya Forstater, founder of the Sex Matters campaign, was also present in court.

The court is expected to give its ruling in a few weeks’ time.

Editorial Staff
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https://nordictimes.com/world/taiwanese-public-rejects-gender-self-identification/

World

Taiwanese public rejects gender self-identification

The LGBT lobby

Published 9 November 2024

– By Editorial Staff

Photo: GillyBerlin/CC BY 2.0

View of the capital of Taiwan, Taipei.

An overwhelming majority of Taiwanese people are strongly skeptical of granting rights traditionally reserved for biological women to so-called trans women. This is according to a comprehensive study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

The survey, conducted between April 16 and April 30, 2022, included participants from Taiwan and surrounding islands. The researchers collected a total of 10,158 valid responses addressing issues related to trans women’s rights and safety, the science journal PsyPost reports.

Respondents were asked to consider 14 statements such as “Trans women can be housed in female prisons”, with responses recorded on a binary scale where participants either agreed or disagreed with the statement.

The study was divided into three main categories: women’s safety, women’s rights and law and society issues.

The results show strong opposition to granting trans women, i.e. biological males who self-identify as women, rights and assets traditionally reserved for biological females.

A full 91.6% of respondents disagreed with all statements in the survey, indicating strong opposition to, for example, allowing trans women to use women’s public restrooms, which only 6.1% supported. Only 4.2% were in favor of allowing trans women to participate in female sporting events.

The survey points to deep skepticism about self-proclaimed gender identification among Taiwanese citizens, which could influence any legislative changes in this area.

A new study published in Archives of Sexual Behaviour reveals that an overwhelming majority of Taiwanese respondents strongly oppose gender self-identification for transgender women. https://t.co/OzbWoKeGIh

— PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) August 18, 2024

Skepticism highest among women

Taiwan’s Gender Recognition Act, which requires sex reassignment surgery (SRS) for legal gender reassignment on identity documents, has long been controversial. The legal requirement faced further criticism after a high-profile court decision in 2021, in which a transgender person was allowed to change their legal gender without undergoing SRS, provided psychiatric evaluations were attached.

The study also revealed that opposition was stronger among women, parents and older individuals (over 36 years old). People with higher education showed no major differences in their responses compared to those without, and even supporters of same-sex marriage and gender identity education had generally low levels of support for gender identification.

Open feedback also showed a concern for women’s safety and rights, as well as a fear of gender identity issues considered to negatively affect children.

The researchers note some limitation in the sample, which consisted of a predominantly female participant base, which could potentially affect the results and its representativeness of the entire Taiwanese population.

At the same time, the study points to potentially significant public opposition to future legislative changes that would allow a more flexible approach to so-called gender identification.

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https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/church-of-sweden-organizes-international-trans-conference/

Sweden

Church of Sweden organizes international “trans conference”

The LGBT lobby

Published 10 October 2024

– By Editorial Staff

Montage. Photo: Church of Sweden, Oliver Jähnke/FB

Oliver Jähnke is the project manager for "Transblessing".

On October 12-13, the Church of Sweden is organizing for the fourth year in a row the digital conference Transblessing, which prides itself on being “the world’s only digital, international conference for Christian transgender people under 35”.

The conference is planned and implemented by “young, Christian transgender people” and it is the Diocese of Västerås, the Church of Sweden, the SENSUS study organization, the Young Church of Sweden and the national association EKHO (Ecumenical groups for Christian LGBT people) that makes the event possible.

Project leader Oliver Jähnke, who was born a biological woman but now identifies as a man, said in a press release that expectations are high for this year’s conference.

“In the four conferences we have organized so far, we have seen how important and life-changing it is to meet young Christian transgender people from different countries. We are always in the minority, no matter what room we enter, so organizing and participating in Transblessing, where we are the norm, can have incredibly positive consequences in our lives”.

The conference is divided into four different ‘sessions’ over two days with different themes to be covered, namely: ‘Trans and the Bible’, ‘Interfaith’, ‘Spirituality’ and ‘Grief and Healing’.

Radical left-wing influence

The Church of Sweden has long been accused of being infiltrated by radical left-wing activists of various kinds who want the church to focus on issues other than theology and faith – such as LGBTQ, mass immigration or climate alarmism.

In the past, the event has also been criticized by parents who worry that the Church will uncritically encourage young people to undergo gender reassignment surgery through these events.

– The very name ‘Transblessing’ is remarkable. I don’t see how this fits in with the Church’s ideology. Everyone should be welcome in the church, but the church should not lead anyone down a path that is so dangerous, said one mother in an interview with the Christian magazine Världen Idag two years ago.

– These treatments are very harmful, especially for young people who haven’t really decided who they are. They are not mature. Gender dysphoria often passes at puberty and many regret it later. Is this really what the Church should be doing?

Editorial Staff
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