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Feminist professor: “Children are leading the gender revolution”

The LGBT lobby

Published 26 August 2023
– By Editorial Staff
Diane Ehrensaft and her book on children's "gender identities".

Diane Ehrensaft, a children’s hospital director and feminist professor in California, says the “trans revolution” should be seen as the next phase of the feminist movement. Ehrensaft is a driving force behind this revolution and is pleased that more and more children are identifying as what she calls “gender hybrids”.

– I totally agree that we are in the midst of a gender revolution and that children are leading it, and it’s wonderful to see, she says.

Ehrensaft is a high-profile feminist activist who has been appointed chief of mental health and chief psychologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and holds a professorship at the UCSF School of Medicine.

Ehrensaft specializes in pediatric “gender-affirmative care for transgender and gender-expansive patients”. Her research has focused on how gender develops before puberty and the mental health effects of puberty blockers and sex hormones on children.


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The feminist professor also believes, among other things, that children can be transgender and also identify as “gender hybrids” – like what she calls “gender minotaurs”, where they can change their gender depending on the season or have multiple sexual identities at the same time, according to the New York Post.

Exactly what a “gender minotaur” is, however, is unclear and does not seem to be a fully established concept even in trans activist circles – but a common minotaur is a mythological creature half man and half bull that appears in Greek mythology.

“Wonderful to see”

According to Ehrensaft, it is children who are “leading a gender revolution”, which she insists is “wonderful to see”.

I totally agree we are in the midst of a gender revolution and the children are leading it. And it’s a wonderful thing to see. And it’s also humbling to know [children] know more than we do about this topic of being gender expansive, the professor declared during a 2018 talk at the San Francisco Public Library.

She argues that the “trans revolution” can be seen as the next phase of the 1960s feminist movement, which she says was an ideological phase of challenging gender stereotypes.

Now, we’ve got genders moving boulders, and it makes a lot of people nervous, she says.

“Language is political”

The professor has helped popularize terms such as “genderfluid” “non-binary” and “gender expansive” and has highlighted conversations with a seven-year-old child as evidence that there can be “gender minotaurs” and gender hybrids.

A boy… twirled [in my office]… and said to me, ‘You see, I’m a Prius… I’m a boy in the front, and I’m a girl in the back’. I started meeting a whole bunch of other gender hybrids. And so we have the gender Prius, we have a gender Minotaur. And most of the kids who are gender minotaurs love mermaids. So make sure you have a lot of mermaid books. If you really you think about it, it works.

Other gender identities that Ehrensaft says should be respected and taken seriously include “protogay”, “prototrans”, “gender slave”, “gender ambidextrous” and “gender smoothie. She also notes that the ideological environment she is part of is constantly trying to change culture and language.

 And as you know, language is political. So what’s good today will be politically incorrect tomorrow. So we’ll just keep changing as we go.

Ehrensaft says she has received some backlash for her activism, including from Christians who say to her that “you have lost your way from your Christian God”, but she tells The Jewish News of Northern California that she doesn’t mind.

I always chuckle at this one, because as a Jew, I never went looking for it, she said of the criticism.

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

The LGBT lobby

Published yesterday 7:15
– 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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