Category: Science / Medical Information

“I Learned I Was Intersex At 21” | Listen Up | ABC Science

This video again shows that sex is a spectrum in a sliding scale from fully one with all the markers through to the end of the other side with fully all the markers for the other.   Simply because it dangles doesn’t mean internally the person is a male or boy.  There are more intersex people than red headed people in the world.  See if she had not had the surgeries to remove her internal testis, she would have developed male features with a vagina.   Hugs.  Scottie.  

Growing up, Mimi felt ashamed because she wasn’t like other girls. But a chance discovery at 21 changed that. Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube 👉 https://ab.co/2YFO4Go

Our sincere thanks to Mimi (she / they) for telling her story.

Intersex is an umbrella term for a range of chromosomal variations. Variations are a natural biological event, estimated to happen in about 17 in every 1,000 live births. That’s 1.7 per cent of the population.

There are over 30 different intersex variations with varying degrees of impact. For some, intersex features are noticeable from birth, while others don’t realize until they try for children. For more information, read: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/inter…

How They Taught Teen Boys About Their Private Parts in 1958. Would Schools Teach This Today?

A coach telling boys it is ok to masturbate and to call it rubbing themselves … wow those 1950s teachers were real groomers by standards of the Lib’s of TikTok. Mom’s of Liberty, and red state republicans.   Hugs.  Scottie

To me, this sex education high school film, which ran in thousands of schools across America back in the late 1950s, is perfectly reasonable. I saw something in school like it although I had already learned most of what it said from other boys in class talking.

But talking about sperm, ejaculation, the penis, having an erection, masturbation, about puberty in general and boys seems to me like in many schools in America today, they would not allow this conversation. I am interested to hear your comments on whether this is being taught in your child’s school.

Sex education in schools has been around a long time. Some parents and political leaders felt that it should never be taught in the schools. Some parents and political leaders today fear that has gone too far by teaching sex in such a way that alternatives to a man and a woman relationship are being discussed.

This is clearly a film for teenage boys in part because it just talks about the facts. No emotion. No other issues. I feel that even today, this is a manner of speaking that boys feel comfortable with.

In case you are asking, films for teenage girls talk about these issues such as a girls. In a completely different fashion and style. They were smart about that when they made these films.

I was a fairly shy teenager and did not kiss girls after a date until they kissed me. But I know that there were other boys in my class who are far more aggressive. as a teenage boy in the 1950s, I knew extraordinarily little about teenage girls and what their dating experience was like. If you are a teenage boy or a young man watching this, you have a lot more of a sense of what women are like then we did back then. If you are a teenage girl or young woman watching this, things I think have changed a great deal in terms of the ethics and morals this film is trying to convince teenage girls and boys to accept as the way things should be. I would be interested in comments on sexual mores today both in the United States and around the world and how they relate to what is being presented here.

EXPLAINED: Why TERF-In-Chief JK Rowling Is Celebrating Trans-Care Review Findings | Erin Reed | TMR

To be clear I have had both the Cass report and the wpath files thrown at me by anti-trans hater activists.  What they refuse to do is listen to the follow up that destroys each of these as false, misleading, taken out of context, and in some cases what the haters claim is directly against what both reported finding.  Like anti-vaxxers and maga, the anti-trans terfs feel comfortable lying about what really is to try to convince people that their weird views are correct.  I have looked into this and even some people that claim to be my friend on this channel refuse to hear or read anything that disagrees with their anti-trans ideas.  Even when those ideas are clearly proven wrong.  They are no different from Covid / vaccine deniers, flat earthers, and others who prefer their prejudices and old ways to the accual facts.  Hugs.  Scottie

Journalist Erin Reed, author of the Erin In The Morning newsletter on SubStack, discusses the recent gender identity review by the National Health Services (NHS) in the United Kingdom.

Nobody Asked …

Nobody Asked …

Where I lived as a kid in Vermont, the same issue was going on.   The hydro dam was important and had been there a long time but, … it was blocking all the spawning fish.  So they built this huge large grand viewing gallery alongside the dam so the fish could swim up past the dam and also it was built in stages for all to see.  But then … in the late 1970s or so.   Hugs.  Scottie  

Trans Kids Are Fighting for Their Rights in Texas

I want to thank Barry for sending me the link to this video.  Best wishes friend.  Scottie.

The video is about the politically driven fight to end trans care in Texas for minors and adults.  And how it is affecting four trans families and others.   In it you will hear false claims made about chopping off little boys penises which is not happening, but no mention of breast augmentation and nose jobs for teenage girls.  You will hear claims made that are misinformation, lies, and myths.  The goal is to create a straight cis fundamentalist Christian republican society ruled by men, and to do this they use the claims of saving the children to rile up the base and muddy the water to get more votes.  They don’t care who they hurt in the process, they wouldn’t even allow current minors on puberty blockers and hormones to be weaned off or to continue treatment.  This is not about the health of children as Texas did not accept summer food assistance for poor people, they did not do anything about school shootings and gun control, they did not increase child health care at all they only removed the medically accepted best practices for gender nonconforming kids.  Hugs.  Scottie

When Texas lawmakers introduce a record number of anti-trans bills, transgender kids and their families from across the state converge on the Capitol to fight back.

DeSantis: Florida Has “Restored Sanity” On Measles

DeSantis: Florida Has “Restored Sanity” On Measles

I refuse to post the full story of DeathSantis beating his chest proudly denying that vaccines against measles need not be taken while a horribly dangerous disease sweeps the state keeping kids out of schools for months at a time.   It is not just an itch spots disease but one that can kill, main, leave lifelong disabilities, pain, and blindness along with many other things like organ failure.   Why oh why do you think parents were desperate to have their children vaccinated in the 1960s.   They had seen the results of the disease.  The vaccines are safe and effective.  Plus nowhere in the bible does it say don’t take vaccines.  This entire anti-vaccine crap was started by people conflating something with them that they did not cause, then quacks, scammers, and conspiracy nuts kept it going and growing.   It has become a sign of what political party you belong to by if you accept medical science.  Think about that, people walking around with modern tech all over them, want to return to a medical time when people barely washed their hands.  Hugs.  Scottie

 

Hank: NO MORE WoW!!!  Loria month ago

With NOT getting the MMR, it is also Rubella, “German Measles”, that, if a woman gets it while pregnant in the 1st Trimester, the child could be born with

The most common birth defects from CRS (Congenital Rubella Syndrome) can include:
Deafness
Cataracts
Heart defects
Intellectual disabilities
Liver and spleen damage
Low birth weight
Skin rash at birth

https://www.cdc.gov/rubella…

Darretha month ago

‘The national medical health establishment and the media lost the public’s confidence with their botched response to COVID-19.’

Premise is false. All that happened is that the federal gov’t didn’t capitulate to the delusional violent MAGAts who believed COVID was a hoax.

That’s it.

Nothing more.

StarGmom a month ago

I guess we’re in Opposite Land today

Charlie In SFa month ago

So, his kids are in private school/day care and I am sure have all their shots.

Halou a month ago

“To date, no additional cases have occurred at Manatee Bay Elementary since Friday”

Might be because they’ve changed the rules around reporting infectious diseases? And consistently go out of their way to attribute “politically inconvenient” deaths as anything else.

 

Calmly Destroying Christian Apologists with Science for an Hour

Another great video destroying anti-trans propaganda, myths, and misinformation.  He talks slow, is methodical, and uses sources he displays and has in his description box to make his points.   Often he will go through the studies that the anti-trans people use to show they either did not say what is claimed, are way out of date, used the wrong methods, or simply were created to be used for anti-trans propaganda.  He shows not only the bad studies and debunks them, but the real modern medically reviewed and approved studies showing that very few detransition and those that do mostly do so because of negative treatment from society, peers, and family.  People who live all their childhood knowing and claiming they are a different gender are not suddenly going to stop saying it at 18 or 21.  If they are going to suffer all that mistreatment and hate growing up, they are what they are telling you.   Hugs.  Scottie

Frank Turek and Sean McDowell make ridiculous pseudoscientific claims about LGBTQ people. Here I debunk them with actual scientific research.

Go to https://ground.news/skeptic to verify your information.

Subscribe using my link for 30% off unlimited access or try it this month for less than $1. Claims I debunk: Abuse and trauma cause non-heterosexuality and gender non-conformity, not affirming queer people is the best way to help them, being gender nonconforming is a social media contagion, rapid onset gender dysphoria is real, gender dysphoria can and should only be treated with therapy or prayer, gender dysphoria is similar to and should be treated in the same way as anorexia, 80% of gender dysphoric youths grow out of it by age 18, medical intervention for gender dysphoria does not help mental health outcomes, and trans s rates skyrocket 10 years after transition.

Gender Theory: Why Now?

If you are unsure of the difference between sex and gender, or if you are question many of the hate myths about trans people, or possibly thinking trans people are new and never been accepted then please watch this video.

The host is easy to listen too, shows his sources, and uses facts, yes those pesky facts that refute all the anti-trans misinformation spread desperately through the right wing media.  The video covers how anti-trans groups formed fake medical groups to claim science said that trans was a sickness or such, but the video show that real professionals in medical science disagree and show that being trans and gender nonconforming is a normal difference some people have.  

Finally the hosts shows how the anti-trans movement push was started around 2008 when conservatives and fundamentalist religious groups were losing the war against gay people and gay marriage.  They were seeing gay people normalized on TV and moved to prevent that from happening for trans people.  Plus the video shows how this is about state control over everyone’s body.   He shows how the idea of strict gender roles formed when men felt marginalized and wanted to create a society that was male oriented and was based on male superiority.  For men to be superior, that meant they needed females to be inferior.  So strict gender roles were created and enforced.  This only has been the way for the last few centuries, not forever.  Hugs.  Scottie 

Does Gender Even Matter?

There’s a full blown panic sweeping America, and it’s all about gender, and especially people who don’t conform to traditional categories. But what is it about people’s gender choices that makes others so worried? Was this an inevitable facet of modern life, or is something more complicated going on? Let’s find out in this Wisecrack video on Gender Theory: Why Now?

RFK: The Anti-Kennedy Kennedy | Christopher Titus | Armageddon Update

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

 

At the link https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/people-vaccinated-covid, there is an interactive chart of how many people in each country have taken the vaccines.   In India it is over 1.3 billion, the US has 270.23 million.  And governments still want people to get the vaccine and boosters.   If they were that bad and deadly, why would a government still want people to take it.  

70.6% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
13.57 billion doses have been administered globally, and 11,909 are now administered each day.
32.7% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose.