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Episode 143: How Biden’s Rogue Deputy Fooled Us, And Why 1,400 Psychologists Hunt Dark Pirate Jussim Dec 12, 2022

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Join captain Katie Herzog (and her first mate, Moose) on the high seas as we pursue Sam Brinton, Biden’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy And Lover of Unreasonably Long Titles. The notorious nonbinary air pirate has been declared an outlaw for plunderin’ an airport of its luggage… again. But Katie takes a closer look and finds their crooked ways go back years, having fooled even us.

Then, less-important co-captain Jesse Singal investigates what happened when German psychologist Klaus Fiedler took the helm at the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science — and how his quartermaster’s criticism of its race obsession led its American crew to mutiny. Doing so, he crosses paths with the notorious Dark Pirate Jussim and his evil steed, a racist mule whose mere mention is said to bring a ship a thousand years of bad luck.

Turns out Jesse’s not the only Jewish heterodox psychology writer on the high seas of Twitter…

ARRata

The piece referred to in #103 regarding Brinton’s torture in gay conversion therapy came from LGBT Nation, not LGBT News. Here it is:

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/08/survivor-mit-grad-student-samuel-brinton-remembers-ex-gay-therapy/

Caught Rad-Handed

Our coverage of Sam Brinton:

A picture from the Brinton 2019 Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Asexual College Conference With An Unreasonably Long Title

NYPost: Sam claims to have stolen the bag by accident

https://nypost.com/2022/11/28/non-binary-biden-nuclear-official-charged-with-stealing-womans-luggage-at-airport/

LGBTQ Nation: “Has Sam Brinton’s story always been too good to be true?”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/sam-brintons-story-always-good-true/

Brinton is on leave due to charges of grand larceny (region-locked article for whatever reason)

https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/energy-department-official-accused-of-stealing-luggage-from-las-vegas-airport/

Dark Pirate Jussim Sails Again

The article in question

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691620927709

Figures from the article

Jussim’s Twitter

https://twitter.com/PsychRabble

On the correspondence with Roberts

https://www.chronicle.com/article/i-am-the-victim-a-journal-editor-is-under-fire-after-a-diversity-debate-is-derailed

The PsyArxiv of the emails

https://psyarxiv.com/xk4yu

Twitter responds to the article exactly how you’d expect it to

The open letter to the Association for Psychological Science, denigrating it for “racism, general editorial incompetence, and abuse of power”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O212esQJDYVuiuvN3OQLg7YOD58PbhlmFjfYV3nREU4/edit

The counter-letter from Europe: “An expression of grave concern”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fxcdNhzuikb4S2OHFTTNP8s2KPqhbxKAlIB_q_XVpjk/edit

The email Fielder got from the APS, requesting his resignation:

Image description: Brinton flashes the victory sign to their crew after successfully capturing the USS Trevor and her precious cargo of over 500 designer suitcases

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Episode 142: Ye Has His Mask-On Moment And Milo Yiannopoulos Attempts A Super Sleazy Comeback Dec 05, 2022

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Get ready to bear witness to Milo Yiannopoulos’s return to the world of internet drama, alongside internet “journalists” Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog. Today, we delve into the shadowy and malicious role Yiannopoulos allegedly played in the legendary dinner between former president Trump, the rapper formerly known as Kanye, and the white nationalist zoomer influencer currently known as Nick Fuentes.

Also discussed: the online outcry over a Balenciaga photoshoot that spilled over into the mainstream media, spurred on by YouTuber-cum-Twitter-influencer Shoe0nHead (June Lapine) and the bipartisan outcry that ensued… and why it’s all quite silly.

Et tu, Milo?

Links:

Errata

UPDATE: Balenciaga has since dropped the suit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-02/kering-s-balenciaga-drops-lawsuit-over-ad-referencing-child-pornography

George Takei’s Mastodon

https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei

The BalenCIAga Conspiracy

The document in question: Scalia’s opinion from United States vs. Williams

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/553/285/#tab-opinion-1962658

Note the dates on the chart and teddy bear (bottom-left)

Note the Borremans book on the desk

The closest I can get you to Borremans’ Fire From the Sun without hotlinking an image (obviously NSFW)

https://www.google.com/search?q=fire+from+the+sun+michael

This diploma either reads “John Phillip Fischer” or “L is real 2401”

Fischer’s sex crime conviction

Oli London’s tweet, accusing Balenciaga’s owner of profiting from CPThe sculpture in question, controversially being auctioned by the company that is owned by the company that also owns Balenciaga (NSFW)

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5335329

Fox’s indictment of Balenciaga

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6316362543112

Slate: “Oh, Dear: Fox News Kind of Has a Point About Those Balenciaga Ads”

https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/11/balenciaga-scandal-child-teddy-bears-fox-news.html

NBC: “TikTok users protest Balenciaga's holiday campaign by destroying bags and shoes”

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/viral/balenciaga-backlash-tiktok-users-destroying-products-rcna59672

The Calvin Klein ad from the 90’s

Allegedly, it angered even President Clinton!

https://www.vogue.com/article/calvin-klein-jeans-90s-ads-kate-moss-mark-wahlberg-controversy

I Miss The Old Kanye

Recap: Kanye goes “Death Con 3” on the Jews

https://www.timesofisrael.com/kanye-west-says-hell-go-to-death-con-3-on-jewish-people-after-instagram-ban/

The ADL on Fuentes

https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/nicholas-j-fuentes-five-things-know

Axios: “Trump talks with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner”

https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/nicholas-j-fuentes-five-things-know

WATCH: GOP leaders condemn Trump-Fuentes dinner

He said, Ye said: Ben Shapiro, Kanye West clash over Trump dinner with Holocaust denier

https://www.jns.org/he-said-ye-said-ben-shapiro-kanye-west-clash-over-trump-dinner-with-holocaust-denier/

Fuentes announces he’s taking a break from his stream to join Ye’s campaign

https://cozy.tv/nick/replays/2022-11-26

The Guardian: “Milo Yiannopoulos claims he set up Fuentes dinner ‘to make Trump’s life miserable’”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/30/milo-yiannopoulos-nick-fuentes-donald-trump-dinner

TheWrap: “Milo Yiannopoulos’ Rise and Fall, From GamerGate to Pedophilia Comments”

https://www.thewrap.com/milo-yiannopoulos-timeline-rise-fall-gamergate-pedophilia-breitbart/

Milo once owned Dangerous.com!

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/milo-yiannopoulos-sold-website-dangerous/

Jesse in NY Mag: “How Breitbart Is Milking the Milo Yiannopoulos Campus-Outrage Outrage Cycle”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/how-breitbart-is-milking-the-milo-yiannopoulos-campus-outrage-outrage-cycle.html

Jesse on his newsletter: “No-Platforming Didn’t Wreck Milo — *Milo* Wrecked Milo”

Milo, rocking the most heterosexual haircut I’ve ever seen

Kanye storms out of TimCast interview

Rolling Stone’s coverage of the event

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kanye-west-nick-fuentes-milo-yiannopoulos-tim-pool-podcast-1234637817/

Politico: “Virulently antisemitic comments by Kanye West spark new GOP criticism”

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/01/ye-antisemitism-republicans-hitler-00071695

The mental health argument

UnHerd: “Don’t Punish Kanye West”

https://unherd.com/2022/10/dont-punish-kanye-west/

RAËLISM

https://jalopnik.com/kanye-banned-twitter-symbol-ufo-sex-cult-racing-driver-1849847363

Kanye got substantially more votes per dollar than even Biden!

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-presidential-run-analysis-9477968/

Misc.

BAP is not happy with any of the figures involved (WARNING: Slurs. A lot of them)

https://t.me/BronzeAgePalaestra/685

All involved with the dinner say Trump was impressed with Fuentes

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/25/trump-nick-fuentes-ye-kanye

Contrariwise, none were with Trump’s 2024 announcement speech

https://web.archive.org/web/20221125044521/

A heavily detailed TimCast piece on the whole affair

https://timcast.com/news/exclusive-details-ye-brings-nick-fuentes-and-karen-giorno-to-dinner-with-trump/

The Guardian: “Donald Trump ‘shied away from criticising Nick Fuentes’”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/28/donald-trump-shied-away-from-criticising-nick-fuentes

Guess who got that article corrected?

Patriots.win describes Fuentes as “a short hispanic homunculi that consorts with homosexuals”

https://patriots.win/p/16ZWybOvmZ/i-for-one-want-to-welcome-nick-f/c/

The alt-right describes Milo as a “paid Zionist operative”

https://mainstreettribune.org/2022/11/ye-2024/

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Premium: On Drag Queen Story Hour And Media Coverage Of The Club Q Shooting Nov 30, 2022

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Fans are mad at Katie for insulting Elon Musk, conservatives are mad at drag queens for reading to kids, and journalists are convinced conservatives mad at drag queens caused the Club Q shooting. So there’s a lot to discuss.

Notes:

Background on Aldrich:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/21/colorado-springs-qbar-shooter/

https://www.c…

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Episode 141: Jesse’s Jewish Journey And Musk’s Magnificent Mastodon Meltdown Nov 28, 2022

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Jesse Singal returns to his ancestral homeland, only to find it in ruins. (Before that, he was on a trip to Israel.) There is panic in the Twitter streets as Elon Musk takes over and “dismisses” over 90% of the staff, including legendary software engineers Daniel Johnson and Rahul Ligma. Impersonation runs rampant and famous figures are permabanned left and right as Musk’s hasty changes to the verification program end in pandemonium.

Certain the site is doomed, the Twelve Tribes of Twitter (including Katie Herzog) set out in search of their fabled home: a previously obscure Twitter clone known as Mastodon. But you know what they say: “out of the frying pan, into the fire…”

Links:

🔊 Musician With Regrets: KLEZMER INCELCORE (Feat. Jesse Forever Single)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TeYfGbisefuZDgLLf99lbhquQMLz0Oum/view

It’s insane a Michael Moynihan trip to Israel didn’t end with him narrowly escaping via an airlift off the top of the American Embassy

Jesse witnesses Israel’s tragic alcoholism epidemic on his trip:

WaPo: “When Eli Lilly’s share price sank 4 percent on Friday — in line with a drop in other health care stocks — many Twitter users credited the fake account”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/14/twitter-fake-eli-lilly/

November 17th: “it seems Musk is concerned that not enough employees are buying into his vision of an“extremely hardcore” Twitter” [sic]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-changes-twitters-remote-work-rules-again-225801061.html

Literally the next day: “Twitter sued over Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ work rules”

https://www.independent.ie/business/world/twitter-sued-over-elon-musks-hardcore-work-rules-42153638.html

Musk has dismissed “half of [Twitter]’s workforce and most of its executive suite”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/musk-s-first-email-to-twitter-staff-ends-remote-work

Semafor: “Eventually, there will be an issue that has to be addressed by SREs [...] the other issue is that there is basically no security team left.”

https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/11/24/2022/black-friday-edition

Musk: “Vox populi, vox dei”

An assorted sampling of Musk’s shitposts:

🤣🤣🤣 please help 🤣 make it stop 🤣🤣 i am in excruciating 🤣🤣 🤣 pain 🤣 lmao 🤣🤣🤣

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aelonmusk%20%F0%9F%A4%A3&src=typed_query&f=live

Pew: Twitter’s users are more left-wing than the general population

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/

NYT: “Mr. Agrawal tweeted to rebut his claims. Mr. Musk responded with a poop emoji.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/technology/twitter-changes.html

Carabello: “Apple and Google need to seriously start exploring booting Twitter off the app store”

Business Insider: “A Twitter engineer said he believed he was fired for criticizing Elon Musk on Slack.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fired-twitter-worker-jokes-slack-criticism-social-watercooler-2022-11?r=US&IR=T

Musk: "New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.”

Musk: “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”

DeBoer: “I Assure You, Writers Would Be Fine Without Twitter”

Jeong for Vice: “Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/783akg/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-it

Wired: “Rochko learned that the software project he started building during his university days, called Mastodon, is running Donald Trump’s new Truth Social network.”

https://www.wired.com/story/more-software-isnt-better-software/

🔞 Matt Skala: Mastodon WTF timeline (ロリコン vs. 児童ポルノ)

https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/335

The apotheosis of Adam Davidson:

The journalists’ Mastodon instance:

https://journa.host/explore

Bernstein for The Times: “Mr. Davidson told him he had been suspended [from journa.host] for referring to Ms. Molloy as an ‘activist’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/style/mastodon-twitter-adam-davidson.html

Image: NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 31: Elon Musk attends Heidi Klum's 2022 Hallowe'en Party at Sake No Hana at Moxy LES on October 31, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

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Premium: Julie Bindel Stops By For "Tea" With Katie Nov 23, 2022

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Julie Bindel, noted hatemonger and/or advocate for ending violence against women, stops by to talk to Katie about… well, a lot of stuff. It’s a good chat! (The tea thing is just a metaphor, a way of honoring Bindel for being British.)

Links:

Bindel’s Substackhttps://substack.com/profile/91305008-julie-bindel

And Twitterhttps://twitter.com/bindelj

The article that kicked off…

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Episode 140: Katherine Dee (@Default_Friend) Explains The Internet To Jesse Nov 21, 2022

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Jesse’s been off in Israel resolving and/or exacerbating tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians, FAR too busy to talk to some distant goy like Katie, so here’s an interview he recently conducted with Katherine Dee, an extremely smart and perceptive writer and podcaster on internet culture. Topics include the very… *particular* nature of rationalist gatherings, the perils of parasocial relationships, and the question of what identity means when it’s severed from any sort of embodied, real-world existence.

Links:

Aella comes on BARPod:

Some of Dee’s favorite articles that she has written:

Tumblr Transformed American Politics

https://theamericanconservative.com/tumblr-transformed-american-politics/

Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made

Rise of the Female-to-Female Transsexual

The Ghost of Adam Lanza, Pt. 1

The brief and wondrous life of a scene.

The image is the ace pride flag: https://grpride.org/product/asexual-pride-flag/

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Episode 139: Live From The Village Underground In New York City Nov 14, 2022

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Inflation is skyrocketing. The economy is down. Not everyone can afford to go see a show. As such, hosts Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog have decided to give back to the community that has taken away so much from us with this recording of a live BARPod show in NYC. First up is the story of how Andrew Tate, legendary exploiter of virgins and Dean of Hustlers University, got unpersoned on social media. Then comes the tantalizing true story of Antifa’s war against an “incelcore” music festival in Atlanta, complete with PROBLEMATIC lyrics, attempted SWATtings, and songs about being watched by the FBI.

Virgins just can’t catch a break, can they?

Who The #*@#&$ Is Andrew Tate And Does His Existence Prove There Is No God?*

Who’s the most famous man on the net?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F012ds47h,%2Fm%2F0261x8t,%2Fm%2F0c6qh,%2Fm%2F043p2f2

The Andrew Tate Supercut (either a dead link, or it requires you to log in to see it. I’m not making a Vimeo account just to figure out which)

Duty calls

https://xkcd.com/386/

Upworthy on Andrew Tate

https://www.upworthy.com/a-terrible-tweet-about-depression-has-the-internet-in-an-uproar

The Observer on Andrew Tate: “Inside the violent, misogynistic world of TikTok’s new star, Andrew Tate”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/andrew-tate-violent-misogynistic-world-of-tiktok-new-star

VirginFest

A livestream of the entire event

Negative XP himself

Viral fan video of Negative XP’s “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Ruined a Whole Generation of Women”

Negative XP’s “I’m A Nazi”

Negative XP’s Hitler tweet

Lyrics to Negative XP’s “I’m a Nazi”

https://genius.com/Negative-xp-im-a-nazi-lyrics

VirginFest poster for you to print off and hang up in your room for maximum incel cred

Atlanta Antifa’s Twitter thread on VirginFest

How the cop raid ended

Photo from the show comes courtesy of Jesse’s cousin, Elon Altman.

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Episode 138: Jon Stewart And John Oliver Are Wrong About The Evidence For Puberty Blockers And Hormones Nov 07, 2022

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You know those IDIOT REPUBLICANS who think that SCIENCE hasn’t TOTALLY PROVEN that puberty blockers and hormones are AWESOME????? And TOTALLY REVERSIBLE????? Well two MOUTH-BREATHING IDIOTS who probably also HATE CRT and PUPPIES are so BIGOTED they don’t even ACCEPT the MEDICAL CONSENSUS.(Show notes a bit longer and more in-depth than usual this week to help everyone follow along, double-check stuff, etc.)Show notes/Links:Carole hooven DESTROYS jon stewartThe state lawshttps://www.kff.org/other/issue-brief/youth-access-to-gender-affirming-care-the-federal-and-state-policy-landscape/Jesse on the state laws in 2020The vote went down after the episode was recorded, but Florida has now banned yuth gender medicine, with exceptions for those already receiving it and future research projectshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/health/florida-gender-care-minors-medical-board.htmlThe full episode of Stewart’s show: https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/the-war-over-gender/umc.cmc.1jj39s607lehulo4k0iscsarp“I don’t send someone to a therapist when I’m going to start them on insulin.”https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/“Historically, mental health professionals have been charged with ensuring ‘readiness’ [she puts that in scare quotes] for phenotypic transition, along with establishing a therapeutic relationship that will help young people navigate this very same transition. These 2 tasks are at odds with each other because establishing a therapeutic relationship entails honesty and a sense of safety that can be compromised if young people believe that what they need and deserve (potentially blockers, hormones, or surgery) can be denied them according to the information they provide to the therapist.” This excerpt strongly suggests she doesn’t believe in the traditional gatekeeping role a mental-health clinician might play in a situation like this, helping to determine if a young person will benefit from transitioning.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2504256Kids — sorry, sorry — “adolescents” — getting double mastectomies at 13 or 14https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29507933/“Suicide Attempts among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults: Findings of the Naitonal Transgender Discrimination Survey.”https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trans-GNC-Suicide-Attempts-Jan-2014.pdfn.b.: “Without such probes, we were unable to determine the extent to which the 41 percent of NTDS participants who reported ever attempting suicide may overestimate the actual prevalence of attempts in the sample.” And:Finally, it should be emphasized that the NTDS, like all similar surveys, captured information about suicide attempts, not completed suicide. Lacking any information about completed suicide among transgender people (due primarily to decedents not being identified by gender identity or transgender status), it may be tempting to consider suicide attempt data to be the best available proxy measure of suicide death. Data from the U.S. population at large, however, show clear demographic differences between suicide attempters and those who die by suicide. While almost 80 percent of all suicide deaths occur among males, about 75 percent of suicide attempts are made by females. Adolescents, who overall have a relatively low suicide rate of about 7 per 100,000 people, account for a substantial proportion of suicide attempts, making perhaps 100 or more attempts for every suicide death. 13 suicides per 100,000 in a GIDS samplehttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02287-7Insanely high rate of 2.8% in a Belgian clinical samplehttps://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8706800/file/8707586.pdfT H E G U I D E L I N E SStewart: So these, the guidelines that you wrote, because you were responsible with the endocrine board for writing guidelines of care for endocrinology.Safer: The Endocrine Society, yesStewart: The endocrine society.Yes.Stewart: And that was based on, uh, research papers, data, the things that you saw. Intervening with gender affirming care which may be just being respectful or, as they get older some of these other things. You’ve seen that have a reduction in depression, a reduction in suicide — that’s what you’ve studied.Safer: Absolutely.Nothing about mental health improvement, lotta assessment-talk, “low evidence” at best https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/102/11/3869/4157558?login=false#99603239The Ibuprofen System For Evidence Assessmenthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470778/table/app2.t2/Erica Anderson and Laura Edwards-Leeper take their concerns to the Washington Posthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/24/trans-kids-therapy-psychologist/Jesse’s interview with Anderson on BARPodRutledge: We don't have enough data, we don't have enough to show that these drugs are effective and that these children are better off. And that we should encourage…Stewart: You don't have enough, or it's not enough for you? I've got some bad news for ya. Parents with children who have gender dysphoria, have lost children, to suicide, and depression. Rutledge : They absolutely have.Stewart: —because it's acute. And so these mainstream medical organizations have developed guidelines through peer reviewed data, and studies. And through those guidelines, they've improved mental health outcomes.Rutledge’s read on the evidence is perfectly reasonableHere’s Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare:For adolescents with gender incongruence, the [National Board of Health and Welfare] deems that the risks of puberty suppressing treatment with GnRH-analogues and gender-affirming hormonal treatment currently outweigh the possible benefits, and that the treatments should be offered only in exceptional cases. … To minimize the risk that a young person with gender incongruence later will regret a gender-affirming treatment, the NBHW deems that the criteria for offering GnRH-analogue and gender-affirming hormones should link more closely to those used in the Dutch protocol, where the duration of gender incongruence over time is emphasized.https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/globalassets/sharepoint-dokument/artikelkatalog/kunskapsstod/2022-3-7799.pdfAnd here’s Finlands’ Council for Choices in Health Care, via an unofficial translationIn light of available evidence, gender reassignment of minors is an experimental practice. Based on studies examining gender identity in minors, hormonal interventions may be considered before reaching adulthood in those with firmly established transgender identities, but it must be done with a great deal of caution, and no irreversible treatment should be initiated. Information about the potential harms of hormone therapies is accumulating slowly and is not systematically reported. It is critical to obtain information on the benefits and risks of these treatments in rigorous research settings.https://segm.org/sites/default/files/Finnish_Guidelines_2020_Minors_Unofficial%20Translation.pdfNHS headed same wayhttps://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/specialised-commissioning/gender-dysphoria-services/user_uploads/b1937-ii-specialist-service-for-children-and-young-people-with-gender-dysphoria-1.pdfDutch stuffhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2121238https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2046221Depression and suicidality linked to blockers, perhaps rarelyhttps://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2016/019732s042,020517s038lbl.pdfThttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693622/“Testosterone Therapy is Associated With Depression, Suicidality, and Intentional Self-Harm: Analysis of a National Federated Database”https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1743609522012449#:~:text=Testosterone%20use%20was%20independently%20associated,testosterone%20deficient%20sub%2Dgroup%20analysisThe book to read on Thttps://www.amazon.com/Story-Testosterone-Hormone-Dominates-Divides/dp/1250236061The desistane literature is by no means “debunked,” and if you actually read the studies, no, the clinicians who wrote them did not confuse a bunch of merely gender nonconforming kids for genuinely gender dysphoric onesThese studies aren’t perfect and come from different contexts, but they consistently tell the same storyhttp://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.htmlThat story probably doesn’t apply to kids who socially transition at a young age https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/health/transgender-children-identity.htmlhttps://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/2/e2021056082/186992/Gender-Identity-5-Years-After-Social-Transition?autologincheck=redirected%3fnfToken%3d00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000Even at the bigger clinics that do take a multidisciplinary approach, and where kids could theoretically get comprehensive, holistic care, that isn’t always happeninghttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-care/In interviews with Reuters, doctors and other staff at 18 gender clinics across the country described their processes for evaluating patients. None described anything like the months-long assessments de Vries and her colleagues adopted in their research. At most of the clinics, a team of professionals – typically a social worker, a psychologist and a doctor specializing in adolescent medicine or endocrinology – initially meets with the parents and child for two hours or more to get to know the family, their medical history and their goals for treatment. They also discuss the benefits and risks of treatment options. Seven of the clinics said that if they don’t see any red flags and the child and parents are in agreement, they are comfortable prescribing puberty blockers or hormones based on the first visit, depending on the age of the child. “For those kids, there’s not a value of stretching it out for six months to do assessments,” said Dr Eric Meininger, senior physician for the gender health program at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. “They’ve done their research, and they truly understand the risk.”2020 Finnish studyhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31762394/Those who did well in terms of psychiatric symptoms and functioning before cross-sex hormones mainly did well during real-life. Those who had psychiatric treatment needs or problems in school, peer relationships and managing everyday matters outside of home continued to have problems during real-life. … Medical gender reassignment is not enough to improve functioning and relieve psychiatric comorbidities among adolescents with gender dysphoria. Appropriate interventions are warranted for psychiatric comorbidities and problems in adolescent development.Jack Turban misinterpreting it:https://archive.ph/wip/x6LGWGIDS study comparing a group of kids with serious mental health problems who were delayed access to youth gender medicine to a group of kids who were able to start sooner because their mental health was solid enoughhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26556015/Severely distorted UW study also found no improvement among kids who went on youth gender medicineYet another study out of GIDS, on kids from 12 to 15 years old who went on blockers, found no mental-health improvements, full-stophttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243894Littman defends Littman’s research methodshttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01631-zThat dumb chartWe also have chartshttps://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929361-000-multiple-personalities-takedown-of-a-diagnosis/http://www.fmsfonline.org/?ginterest=RecoveredMemoriesInTheCourts“Another significant issue raised with us is one of diagnostic overshadowing – many of the children and young people presenting have complex needs, but once they are identified as having gender-related distress, other important healthcare issues that would normally be managed by local services can sometimes be overlooked.”https://cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Cass-Review-Interim-Report-Final-Web-Accessible.pdfNHS changes course on the safety/reversibility of blockers in 2020https://www.transgendertrend.com/nhs-no-longer-puberty-blockers-reversible/[Michael Hobbes got mad at me for posting this because he doesn’t like Transgender Trend, but holy hell is that stupid: They are simply summing up and putting into writing a change to the NHS website, and they’re citing a BBC report on the same subject. -Jesse]OLD LANGUAGE: The effects of treatment with GnRH analogues are considered to be fully reversible, so treatment can usually be stopped at any time after a discussion between you, your child and your [multidisciplinary team]NEW LANGUAGE: Little is known about the long-term side effects of hormone or puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria. Although the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) advises this is a physically reversible treatment if stopped, it is not known what the psychological effects may be. It’s also not known whether hormone blockers affect the development of the teenage brain or children’s bones. Side effects may also include hot flushes, fatigue and mood alterations.Serious Lupron side effectshttps://www.statnews.com/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems/For years, Sharissa Derricott, 30, had no idea why her body seemed to be failing. At 21, a surgeon replaced her deteriorated jaw joint. She’s been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition. Her teeth are shedding enamel and cracking. None of it made sense to her until she discovered a community of women online who describe similar symptoms and have one thing in common: All had taken a drug called Lupron. Thousands of parents chose to inject their daughters with the drug, which was approved to shut down puberty in young girls but also is commonly used off-label to help short kids grow taller. The drug’s pediatric version comes with few warnings about long-term side effects. It is also used in adults to fight prostate cancer or relieve uterine pain and the Food and Drug Administration has warnings on the drug’s adult labels about a variety of side effects. More than 10,000 adverse event reports filed with the FDA reflect the experiences of women who’ve taken Lupron. The reports describe everything from brittle bones to faulty joints. In interviews and in online forums, women who took the drug as young girls or initiated a daughter’s treatment described harsh side effects that have been well-documented in adults.Caroline Jemsbyhttps://www.journalismfund.eu/journalists/carolina-jemsbyGULDSPADENhttps://archive.ph/wip/GFuryClip in questionhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1bL4WWMCs46dCKweZzz0gBj1AqE62k3oj/view?usp=sharingFull unlocked interview with JesseGLAAD is glad journalists are falling in linehttps://www.glaad.org/blog/jon-stewart-sets-record-straight-gender-affirming-carehttps://www.glaad.org/blog/john-oliver-explains-why-gender-affirming-care-is-so-importantBut sometimes nothttps://www.glaad.org/gap/jesse-singalJesse’s response to the original version of his page (he hasn’t yet responded to the new one, which went up after this, because life is short): The TikTok Doc yeets some teetshttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/health/top-surgery-transgender-teenagers.htmlWhoops:Dr. Gallagher of Miami said that she follows up with patients for up to a year. “I can say this honestly: I don’t know of a single case of regret,” Dr. Gallagher said in May, adding that regret was much more common with cosmetic procedures. But one of her former top surgery patients, Grace Lidinsky-Smith, has been vocal about her detransition on social media and in news reports. “I slowly came to terms with the fact that it had been a mistake born out of a mental health crisis,” Ms. Lidinsky-Smith, 28, said in an interview.So basically, these clinicians are claiming top surgery has incredibly low regret rates, but they’re…

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Episode 137: Why We Canceled Ourselves At Dartmouth Oct 31, 2022

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Mid-tour, Jesse and Katie take a break from their newfound rockstar lifestyles to deliver unto their legion of screaming* fans another certified Blocked and Reported classic. They begin with the long-awaited story of how the Dartmouth show got canceled and then proceed to their latest meltdown tale, in which the Publishing Mafia rears its head once again. This time, they’ve launched a coup within the Hobart journal, spurred on by an interview with the Iowa Pariah himself, Alex Perez.

* in fear, mostly

The Dartmouth Disturbance

Dartmouth’s Political Economy Project, BAR’s would-be hosts

https://pep.dartmouth.edu/

There was an event here. It’s gone now.

https://govt.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=68549

“We’ll hold [it] in the biggest venue you think you can fill”

After asking why their event listing disappeared, Katie and Jesse got this with zero context: “this event will be open only to those with currently valid Dartmouth College ID’s”

Brave Spaces Dartmouth isn’t real (though there is a broader Brave Spaces movement) — it was created to try and save the event (and the Political Economy Project from the stain of being associated with BARPod)

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22BRAVE+SPACES%22+DARTMOUTH

The Hobart Meltdown

The journal itself

https://www.hobartpulp.com/

The Alex Perez interview that started it

https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/alex-perez-on-the-iowa-s-writers-workshop-baseball-and-growing-up-cuban-american-in-america

🗄️ A Statement From The Resigning Editors

https://web.archive.org/web/20221012225245/https://www.hobartpulp.com/preview/web_features/a-statement-from-the-resigning-editors

A LitHub article on the drama

https://web.archive.org/web/20221012225245/https://www.hobartpulp.com/preview/web_features/a-statement-from-the-resigning-editors

Ellen’s response to the drama

https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/letter-from-the-editor

What Ellen learned in 2014

https://web.archive.org/web/20141219214331/https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/an-open-letter-to-the-internet

Hey, this reminds me of something…

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Episode 136: How The Left Can Fight Cancel Culture (With Clementine Morrigan) Oct 24, 2022

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After Jesse regales Katie with a diner-based yarn so gripping it should be a big-budget action movie, Katie interviews Clementine Morrigan, who in addition to being an alleged member of a deranged sex cult is one of the smartest voices out there about cancel culture aka accountability culture aka antiracism aka sociopathy.

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