February 2023
Resist Gender Education Newsletter
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How was I supposed to know?
“How was I supposed to know?” This is the sorrowful question from Chloe Cole, an 18 year old from California who has reclaimed her womanhood after identifying as a male for six years. Unfortunately, those six years have left an indelible mark on her body - her voice is permanently deepened by the puberty blockers and testosterone she started taking at the age of 13, she had her breasts removed at 15, and, at 18, she suffers from the sexual dysfunction that is normally associated with menopause.
As with so many other trans-identifying teenage girls, Chloe’s normal adolescent struggles were diagnosed as gender dysphoria without proper investigation of other potential causes for her unhappiness, and hormones were prescribed immediately. In this informative interview with Chloe, Jordan Peterson says:
Well consent has to be documented but it also has to be informed and informed means you have to understand what you are consenting to. You needed to be walked through in great detail all of the issues that were relevant to you on the psychological and medical front, all of the options that were available to you, and the pros and cons of all those options. I can’t see in any possible way that that could have been done with any degree of thoroughness in something under six months of weekly therapy and I would say that’s an absolute minimum to walk anyone through something as complicated as what you laid out.
Detransition: The Wounds That Won't Heal | Chloe Cole | EP 319 This is a two hour video in which Peterson discusses Chloe’s case in depth. For shorter viewing, click on the link under the image for 25 key moments from the interview.
I thought I was saving trans kids
Jamie Reed, a former case manager, blows the whistle on the harmful practices in US gender clinics. “What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.”
Schools urgently need transgender policy guidance
In November, Amanda Spielman, the chief inspector of schools in the UK, told MPs that new government guidance on transgender issues for schools is “urgently needed”. https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/secondary/schools-need-dfe-transgender-guidance-urgently-says-spielman
Spielman said that there is “very limited guidance” available on the matter and schools need help to navigate their way through a “minefield”.
Schools are places where children from all kinds of backgrounds, all families have to be...No parent wants to send their child to school thinking that they are going to be pushed into one set of political views or another. So teachers really have to be expert guides through disputed territory.
She added: It is really important that parents understand what their child’s concerns are - if their child is having serious questions or doubts or explorations of gender identity, to keep parents in the dark about that is obviously a safeguarding risk.
I think it’s very important for all schools to understand that whether or not a child is exploring gender identities, the fundamental principles of safeguarding continue to apply and biological sex continues to be relevant.
The lack of official guidance has meant that a group of UK school principals, governors, and teacher organisations published its own unofficial guidance in November. This guidance states that, to meet the regulatory requirements, schools may need to provide gender-neutral as well as single sex toilet facilities. It recommends that schools be mindful of the Cass Review Interim Report and that affirmation and social transition are not neutral acts but can have a significant impact on the pupil’s psychological functioning. https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/transgender-guidance-schools-may-need-single-sex-and-unisex-toilets
Our Ministry of Education and new Minister of Education would do well to pay attention to these developments in the UK, where common sense appears to finally be prevailing over ideology.
We look forward to an announcement soon of the official UK guidance, in anticipation that it will also be useful for NZ schools.
Should the concept that people can be born in the wrong body and change sex be taught in NZ schools?
A petition has been started by Helen Houghton, seeking a Citizens’ Initiated referendum on the above question. To sign and collect further signatures, please download and print the form from this link.
Please return forms to PO Box 40860 Upper Hutt, Wellington 5018.
Important: The forms must be completed accurately and have no additions. Blank forms may be photocopied but the signatures must be originals.
Instructions on how to use the forms correctly are here.
Open letter to Boards of Trustees
In November, we wrote an open letter to the incoming school Boards of Trustees, providing them with criticism of the effects of gender theory on children and the policy questions that schools urgently need to consider.
Posie Parker - Let Women Speak - is coming to NZ
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull is a UK women’s rights activist who also speaks as Posie Parker. She is known for her t-shirts and billboards proclaiming the dictionary definition of ‘woman’ - adult human female. Kellie-Jay has a Youtube channel, is the founder of the lobby group Standing for Women, and the organiser of regular outdoor speaking events called “Let Women Speak”, where there is an open mic for women to describe the effects of gender ideology on their lives.
Kellie-Jay toured the US last year and in March is coming to Australia and New Zealand. “Let Women Speak” will have outdoor events in Auckland on March 25 and in Wellington on March 26. Times and venues are still to be confirmed but will be advertised soon on https://twitter.com/l_o_u_t?t=KpGiYsBWLx9Jkho0GhWmuA&s=09