June 25, 2024
First, journalist Jesse Singal has broken the news that Rachel (Richard) Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, pressured the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to remove age guidelines from its latest standards of care.
It’s well worth a read.
For readers who may not know, WPATH released new guidelines in September 2022 (SOC8) that removed all recommended age limits on the provision of so-called “gender affirming care” (i.e., sterilization and mutilation) to minors. Those same guidelines introduced the concept of the “eunuch” as a “gender identity.”
Several months before the publication of WPATH’s SOC8, the feminist publication Reduxx published a piece titled “Top Academic Behind Fetish Site Hosting Child Sexual Abuse Fantasy, Push to Revise WPATH Guidelines.” From Reduxx:
A Professor Emeritus at California State University who has given academic talks on “expanding the transgender umbrella” has for over two decades participated in a fetish forum that hosts and produces extreme sadomasochistic written pornography involving the castration and torture of children.
Thomas W. Johnson, a retired Professor at California State University in Chico (CSUC), is a formative member of the body modification fetish site The Eunuch Archive, which was the subject of a months-long investigation by Reduxx released on May 17. At the time, Johnson’s identity had not yet been confirmed as an anonymous user who goes by the handle “Jesus.”
But according to posts made to the forum in March and April, Johnson let his identity slip and invited site members to partake in an academic survey on “childhood experiences, castration desire and sexual history,” as well as watch him give a talk at CSUC via Zoom.
Johnson has published research based on surveys he has personally conducted with other members of the Archive. His academic interests advocate for expanding the concept of ‘gender identity’ to include men with sadomasochistic and even pedophilic castration fantasies — something that has now been included as a Male-to-Eunuch identity in the draft Standards of Care for the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), an international medical body that sets guidelines including those related to the transitioning of children.
I highly recommend following Reduxx, a “truly pro-woman, pro-child safeguarding platform that provides high-quality news and opinion on the stories the mainstream media ignores.” They can be found at @ReduxxMag on X.
WPATH is being driven by a very shady cast of characters, and now we can add Levine to the list. But this post is mainly about the recent news that the Supreme Court has granted the Biden Administration’s petition to review the matter of L.W. v. Skrmetti.
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