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December 09, 2022

Self-identification for transgender is dangerous

Violent men have attacked women who were protesting against violent men being housed in female prisons. Convicted killer David Warfield, who goes by the name Dana Rivers is a biological man who identifies as female.  He is possibly going to be moved to a women’s prison in California. The women were protesting the law that allows such a travesty to occur. One hooded assailant was caught on video, obtained by The Epoch Times, throwing an egg into the group of women and also seen striking one with an umbrella, while another attacker in all black garb with red armbands on a bicycle plowed into the women from the opposite direction. The women, who wore sashes reading “Woman Adult Human Female,” and carried signs saying “No Men In Women’s Prisons” and “Dana Rivers Is A Man,” were also pelted with pies in the video. Warfield, has been convicted on three counts of first-degree murder and felony arson. He brutally slaughtered a lesbian couple and their teenager in 2016, before setting their home on fire. Rivers waived his right to a jury for the insanity plea phase of the trial. If the judge overseeing the trial determines Rivers was sane when he committed the murders, it is unclear if he will be sent to a women’s or men’s prison. Several sources told The Epoch Times he is currently being held in protective custody in the women’s section of the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, Calif., in Alameda County. “We are firmly opposed to housing any men in women’s prisons under any circumstances, including Dana Rivers,” Kara Dansky, president of Women’s Declaration International, told The Epoch Times preceding the protest. “All men are male, regardless of any administration of hormones and/or surgeries, and our view is that women’s prisons ought to be for female inmates only, which is in alignment with the principles of international law.” During the protest against violent males being housed in women’s prisons, the women were confronted by violent males who harassed and threatened them, carrying out acts of violence against the women, including throwing projectiles, trying to steal their belongings and one masked man even rode his bike into the crowd. “Right now, in California, any man can simply declare he is a woman and get transferred to a women’s prison—even if he’s murdered two women, even if he stabbed a woman 28 times in the face,” she said. Jesika Gonzalez of TERF Collective, a group “working to end the international campaign of female erasure that is transgender ideology,” also spoke at the protest. “In California … even the most dangerous men are moved to women’s prisons upon request. Dana Rivers is the kind of man that proves the need for single-sex prisons,” Gonzalez said. The same can (and does) happen in Australia.  Women in Victoria have faced similar intimidation when protesting Victorian law. Attorney general of Queensland, Shannon Fentiman, is pushing hard to allow males to self-identify as women which will mean access to women’s prisons. Kirralie Smith, Binary spokeswoman, said self-identification is dangerous. “These are exactly the kinds of scenarios women should be protected from,” she said.  “No male should ever be housed in a female prison. No male should be allowed to self-identify and gain access to women’s sports or services.  “Biology matters. Disregarding science for political point-scoring is harmful and offensive.”  

December 09, 2022

‘American Girl’ promotes transgender lies to children

A new book by popular brand American Girl, from the same parent company Mattel (who recently put a transgender Barbie doll on the market), promotes blatant lies to three to 12-year-olds.  The book, A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image, tells children they can change sex and even how to lie to their parents about it. A passage in the book - marketed to girls aged between three and 12 advises: 'If you haven't gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body's changes, giving you more time to think about your gender identity.'  It also provides a list of resources for organizations the children can turn to 'if you don't have an adult you trust'. Whole pages are devoted to the lie that children can appropriate stereotypes of the opposite sex and claim to have changed their sex.  No one can change their sex. A girl cannot become a boy. She can put on a costume, make a name change, even become drug dependent (hormones), or have body mutilation surgery. But she will then just be a girl who has appropriated stereotypes via costumes, drugs or surgery.  She is still a girl.     Binary spokeswoman Kirralie Smith said the book is dangerous and promotes lies to children. “Puberty blockers cause great harm to children,” she said.  “Children cannot possibly understand or consent to a lifetime of drug dependency, or their side effects such as sterility or zero sexual function. “This book promotes dangerous lies, no one is born in the wrong body, and it is impossible to change your sex.  “It is far better to help young girls embrace who they are and reject meaningless stereotypes, not appropriate them.”