Emerging Research, Foundational Flaws and Outdated Information Require District to Revisit Current Gender Policy
A J425 Notebook Summarizing Latest Reporting on LSSD Gender Policy and Shifting Landscape of Pediatric Gender Theory
LAKE STEVENS — Given the mountain of evidence calling into question the foundations of pediatric gender theory and a series of studies that have invalidated core claims previously advanced as fact in gender policies adopted by local school districts, Lake Stevens School District must follow the lead of the 2023 Cass Report, a four year study commissioned by the U.K. government to review the practice of pediatric gender transition, and immediately strike the existing gender policy. While adopted in good faith in 2020, the policy — written by a group of gender activists openly working to advance an ideological viewpoint (the fact that activists who work in service of any point of view are allowed to author medical policy governing the entire district population is a conversation for different day) - has since been revealed to promote practices that are at best unproven and at worst result in the sterilization, injury and death of otherwise healthy children.
Further, as entire nations turn away from these practices, the local implementation of the controversial theory drives a wedge between the district and the community by insisting that gender theory since banned in the UK and severely curtailed across Western Europe is not only necessary but necessary to the point that district employees may advance the theory and assist in transitioning children even without the permission or knowledge of parents. Given that the safety of students must come first, it is very difficult to picture any justification for the deployment of a controversial theory, the application of which leads to the use of off-label hormones and irreversible surgeries that remove healthy body parts off children.
In this piece, we review the considerable flaws in pediatric gender theory, including the fact that both of the initial gender transition patients committed suicide after botched treatments and abuse at the hands of researchers (but were labeled successes that justified thousands of surgeries that followed); the fact that the foundational theory behind the practice known as “gender affirming care” was invalidated after recent studies revealed that the entire theory was based on an incredibly small sample group (less than 50 people, less than half of which completed the study) — and that one of the kids in the initial population died as a result of the treatment and yet the death was somehow excluded from the final formulation.
Recent studies also revealed that a core principle of the treatment — the idea that “puberty blockers” can be deployed to give kids a multi-year “timeout” to consider their options before the onset of puberty was both unproven and unsafe. Based on the widely accepted fact that the vast majority of non gender conforming kids will either simply outgrow the phase or identify as homosexual, the “Dutch Protocol” theorized that by pausing puberty, kids would have time to arrive at whichever identity suited them before irreversible surgeries were necessary. However, recent studies have shown that the medicating they called puberty blockers was actually a powerful hormone created to sterilize adult male deviants. The off label use of this hormone on kids was at best unproven and nearly all patients were not informed of the true function of the drug. Even rapists are given informed consent before they are subjected to this course of treatment.
As a result it’s not surprising that those placed on this treatment didn’t gain an effective pause. In fact, taking the hormone was shown to be a near 1 for 1 gateway into full gender transition treatment. And because the hormone damages sex organs and stunts growth, even a male child who perhaps decided against transition after a year of hormones would find himself possibly sterilized and with shrunken malformed genitalia, which if anything can only further increases momentum towards surgery.
In fact, a 2023 study showed that researchers behind the Dutch Protocol selected the hormone for the purpose of facilitating future surgery, not for the utility of a safe “pause” — researchers liked the way the hormone stunted growth but left enough of a penis behind for the researchers to use the material to craft a fake vagina in the gender transition surgery that any child taking the hormones is hurtling towards. See below for details and citing.
These and other shocking developments are outlined in the piece below and in the J425 Live discussion above.
We’re urging the community to educate itself on this disturbing field and to prepare for a public conversation should the school district insist on maintaining the current policy at the start of the upcoming school year. J425 believes that given the tidal wave of information that raises safety concerns not present at the time of adoption, the school board is likely already working to pull down the current policy. We’ll keep you posted, please hit subscribe to stay informed.
Canada Orders Forced Re-Education of Prominent Psychologist Critical of Pediatric Gender Transition
See above video to learn about Canada’s campaign to re-educate a prominent Harvard and University of Toronto clinical psychologist who has sharply criticized the field of pediatric gender transition. The surprising episode illustrates the great personal cost Peterson is paying for his views and the nonsensical lengths the establishment will go to sideline viewpoints that run counter to accepted groupthink. Particularly funny is that fact that Peterson is ordered to be re educated by a “social media expert” until his attitude has been fixed in a subjective manner that satisfies the charges against him. Peterson is subject to an anonymous reporting system in which anyone can submit a complaint about anything he’d said anywhere. His statements were then viewed as representative of his work as a clinical psychologist, despite the fact that none of the complaints came from a patient and none of the statements for which he was cited (which included criticizing Justin Trudeau) occurred in a professional setting. Most were excerpts from a podcast appearance. Nonetheless, Peterson must submit to reeducation or surrender his license. The popular and controversial author and psychologist remains one of the most highly-rated professors in the history of both Harvard and University of Toronto.
Reviewing the Foundational Flaws of Pediatric Gender Transition
1. Both Children Involved in First “Successful” Gender Transition Committed Suicide — After Botched Treatment and Years of Pedophilic Abuse from Researchers
We’ve told you the roots of pediatric gender transition, in which the modern practice was introduced via a 1972 experiment in which Dr. John Money told the world that he’d successfully transitioned a toddler male to female, and that because the patient had an identical twin who served as the control, his work proved the efficacy of gender transition.
In reality Money lied.
Both of the twins killed themselves because of his gender experimentation on them, which included Money both sexually molesting the children and forcing the brothers to have sex with each other.
This occurred for over a decade, ruining the lives of two children and their family.
Again, he wrote this experiment up as a success, it serves as the case that rationalized thousands of gender transitions that followed.
Why didn’t they tell us this when they extolled the virtues of pediatric gender transition?
How could a state and or a school district elect to introduce this theory to its children without mentioning that this is a theory born from the death of patients one and two at the hands of a pedophilic monster?
2. Foundational Treatment Protocol and So-Called “Puberty Blockers” Revealed as Dangerous and Unproven
A standard practice in the pediatric gender transition field known as the “Dutch protocol” — through which the terms “gender affirming care” and the “puberty blocker” were introduced — has been revealed as faulty after contemporary researchers learned that the initial study was based on an extremely limited study of children, one of whom DIED as a result of the treatment (but was omitted from the paper).
Further, the medication they called puberty blockers turned out to be an incredibly potent hormone created for the chemical castration of adult male deviants.
As a result, the entire premises of the foundational “Dutch Protocol” and the associated term “gender affirming care” have been all but invalidated, with the UK halting use of puberty blockers in 2023.
Needless to say, when a child dies in a study, typically that practice is halted. In this world, the death is covered up and the practice is foisted upon the public anyway. Why?
3. UK Review Leads to Ban on “Puberty Blockers” and Closure of World’s Largest Pediatric Gender Clinic
A landmark UK review of this practice arrived at the same conclusion in 2023, with the published final report concluding that the entire field of pediatric gender transition was “on shaky ground” and that rationale calling for irreversible surgeries and the use of powerful off label hormones on kids were “remarkably weak”. As a result, the UK immediately halted the use of “puberty blockers” and CLOSED the world’s largest pediatric gender clinic (Tavistock). The doctor who led the UK review of these practices has spent the last year asking the U.S. why we’re still subjecting children to a barbaric unsupported practice that the UK and leading western nations have since turned away from.
The Cass Report
A four year study in which the author, a highly respected pediatrician in the U.K., concluded in the British Medical Journal that youth gender medicine is “built on shaky foundations.”
She later told the New York Times that U.S. doctors and doctor groups that support hormonal and surgical procedures for kids are “out of date.”
Her final report, published last month, concluded that the evidence supporting the use of puberty-blocking drugs and other hormonal medications in adolescents was “remarkably weak.”
On her recommendation, the N.H.S. will no longer prescribe puberty blockers outside of clinical trials.
Dr. Cass’s findings are in line with several European countries that have limited the treatments after scientific reviews. Tavistock shuttered as a result
But in America, where nearly two dozen states have banned the care outright, medical groups have endorsed the treatments as evidence-based and necessary.In the UK, it is reported that over 1000 civil suits have been filed so far from a pool of 30,000 children transitioned at Tavistock.
4. Transgender Political Appointee Unilaterally Removes Age Guidelines for Surgical Intervention on Children
Finally, we discuss how prominent transgender political appointee Rachel Levine was caught ordering the leading medical authority on pediatric gender transition (WPATH) to REMOVE guidelines that would’ve set a minimum age, protecting the youngest children from irreversible surgical procedures.
This trans activist, Dr. Rachel Levine, more on them in the J425 Live episode at the top, pressured WPATH to remove the protections, and they did.
In a normal world Levine would be fired and charged and the medical organization would lose all credibility.
In actuality, this is the least of WPATH’s scandals. More on that in a later post.
But all in all it seems like shaky ground on which to rationalize the surgical removal of kids’ body parts; it seems like thin support for public school policy that allows for school employees to privately engage kids about their “gender identity” and to assist them in their social transition, a practice that does not require parental permission or even notification.
Conclusion: Safety and Liability Concerns Emerging After Adoption Require District to Immediately Revisit or Strike Existing Policy
As stated before, the UK’s four year medical study of the pediatric gender transition field led to an immediate halt on puberty blockers and the closure of the worlds largest pediatric gender clinic after Dr. Cass published a report stating that the entire field was “on shaky ground”, that rationale behind treatment was “shockingly weak” and that the prevailing United States standard of care is “outdated at best”. We also know that the organization tasked with setting medical policy in this field allowed a transgender political appointee to unilaterally remove safeguards from the published standards of care governing pediatric gender transition.
Given these two developments and the growing mountain of evidence invalidating core tenants of gender theory, many of which are incorrectly presented as fact in adopted policy, combined with the growing stream (See Blair v Appomattox SD)of so-called “detransitioner” lawsuits working their way through federal court it’s incumbent on local school districts including Lake Stevens School District to immediately strike their adopted gender policy and halt the practice of facilitating transitions on school grounds and without the knowledge of parents.
J425: https://www.thejournal425.com/p/j425-the-dark-origin-story-of-gender
LSSD Policy https://www.thejournal425.com/p/transgender-students-lssd-adopts
https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1708548258/lkstevenswednetedu/wukmjekdnmu7ea5qdhvo/policy-5590-procedure-gender-inclusive-schools.pdf
https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/Schools-In-Transition.pdf
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LSSD Must Revisit Gender Policy After U.K. Shutters All Pediatric Gender Clinics & Bans “Puberty Blockers” Amidst Growing Safety Concerns