Splendid Isolation

'There is nothing mystical about judges that puts them above criticism. The public deserves to know how institutions are operating, especially when they are not operating in the public interest' nationalpost.com/opinion/np-vie…

I’m off to Ireland to report on their trucker convoy! Just like Canada’s convoy this is a spontaneous protest against Ireland’s abusive government. And just like Canada, Irish politicians are freaking out — deploying the army! Follow and support us at TheTruthAboutIreland.com

lol!!! Who are these people??? They sound like effing lunatics???!!!

My friend was banned from Facebook for daring to criticize Islam and the Green party - he lost 39k followers overnight. Now he's back on X with a mission: exposing the Green Party's hypocrisy and agenda. Follow him and spread the truth 👇 @ExposedGreens

Me: Most likely it's not a genocide if the population grows over the time period in question. Them: It's not about the numbers! It's about intent! Me: So Hamas committed an act of genocide on October 7, 2023? Them: No! Only 1,200 people died!

The western media is Iran’s most powerful weapon.

The Finnish study is orders of magnitude more complete and rigorous than the entire literature cited in justification on behalf of the false claim that pediatric gender medicine is evidence based combined. All the criticism of an enormous study tracking every single person receiving gender medicalization in a country, in some cases for decades, by people willing to cite a collection of the shoddiest pseudo-studies ever assembled on any subject, is tragifarcical cope by people whose bad faith has long ago been established beyond question.

In my experience, conservatives treat gays much better than liberals. Liberals treat gays like a caricature of what they think a gay person is, and conservatives treat each gay person like an individual person.

I too grew up in Lebanon. When I was only five years old, Palestinian gunmen, in coordination with local militias, helped ethnically cleanse Christians from southern Mount Lebanon. In September 1983, they and their allies displaced tens of thousands of Christians from the Shouf and Aley regions, slaughtering at least 1,500 people in the process. This was not an isolated episode. In January 1976, Palestinian factions carried out what was then the largest act of ethnic cleansing of the Lebanese Civil War in the coastal city of Damour. At least 300 civilians—women, children, and the elderly—were murdered, and thousands more were driven from their homes. These were Lebanese civilians, killed in their own country by foreign armed groups. @TaghridAlMawed should be ashamed—unequivocally—for two reasons. First, she is falsifying history by portraying Palestinians as nothing more than victims in Lebanon. That is a distortion. Palestinian militias were not passive actors; they were perpetrators. They helped trigger the civil war in 1975, killed thousands of Lebanese Christians, contributed to the fragmentation of the country, and later turned their guns on one another (Abu Musa vs. Arafat) as well as on Lebanese factions such as Shia Amal during the War of the Camps (1985–1988). The scale of violence and devastation they inflicted on Lebanon—a country that had taken them in—cannot simply be erased or rewritten. Second, and even more reprehensible, is her willingness to exploit the deaths of two recently killed individuals in Lebanon for political point-scoring. These deaths occurred in a context entirely unrelated to a civil war that ended 36 years ago. Yes, Pierre Moawad was a Lebanese Forces activist. But unlike Palestinian gangs in the camps, or Hezbollah, the Lebanese Forces have long disarmed and operate today as a political party. To circulate images of the newly dead in order to resurrect old conflicts and weaponize their deaths is not just irresponsible—it is morally indefensible. Then again I am not surprised because I expect no better from extremist Palestinian activists. @TaghridAlMawed: shame on you.

UPDATE ON IMPORTANT NEW FINLAND STUDY | Professor Kaltiala has responded to criticism of the Finnish study, which found that mental health may get worse after young people undergo medical gender transition. One critique of the study argues that psychiatric appointments are part and parcel of the gender-transition process in Finland and therefore may not point to serious psychiatric morbidity. In their paper, Professor Kaltiala and her colleagues acknowledged the limitation that their study could not analyse in detail why these patients needed psychiatric services. Asked about this issue, she told me that the healthcare register data used for the study included diagnoses and in-patient periods but not treatment nor information about a patient’s problems related to family life, romantic relationships or work. However, Professor Kaltiala said the young people seen by specialised psychiatric services in her country would have “severe disorders”. These services were focused on “those really in need”, consistent with national criteria for health equity. “In Finland, you do not get admitted to specialist-level services if you don’t have mental disorders at all or [have only] mild disorders and problems,” she said. “Primary-level services are available for needs related to milder disorders and psychosocial difficulties.” She said the gender-referred youth in the new study were much more likely than matched controls to have a history of severe mental disorders, often dating back some years before they reached the gender clinic. “Thus, many developed feelings of gender dysphoria in the context of severe disorders,” she said. “Severe mental disorders during adolescence generally have potential to complicate identity development. It rather seems that feelings of gender dysphoria are sometimes secondary to severe mental disorders.” If it were the other way around, and the mental disorders were secondary to the dysphoria, those disorders would be “expected to subside with medical gender reassignment”, according to the Dutch treatment protocol adopted internationally, she said. But this did not happen in the new Finnish study. Instead, the need for specialist psychiatric services—and therefore the scale of serious mental disorders—increased after medical transition, as the study by Professor Kaltiala and her colleagues reported. Updated news report ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/genderclin…

When I came out as gay none of my friends cared. When I came out as conservative a lot of my friends cared, and I found out who my real friends were.

BREAKING: Hamas' militias kidnapped Gazan resident Ahmed Alnajjar from his displacement tent in Deir El Balah, central Gaza and took him to an unknown location. Ahmad was kidnapped because of his recent posts on social media criticizing Hamas and what they brought to Gaza.

Finally, from Finland comes vital research into the prevalence of severe psychiatric disorders among ‘gender-referred adolescents’, focusing particularly on ‘outcomes related to medical gender reassignment’. This study is remarkably extensive; it covers everyone in Finland under the age of 23 who was referred for clinical support with gender dysphoria between 1996 and 2019. The findings absolutely shatter the myth of the child made suicidal through thwarted gender transition. The Finnish study shows that children who are distressed about their gender have significantly higher rates of psychological problems than in the general population, both before (46 per cent versus 15 per cent) and around two years after referral (62 per cent versus 15 per cent). ✍️ Joanna Williams Article | spectator.com/article/this-s…

Westerners now talk about “Lebanon” like it’s always been their life’s passion. Similar to their sudden interest in Gaza, these places become the flags moronic westerners adopt at critical moments in time. Since the 1970s, Lebanon endured sustained interference and abuses - such as Syria under the Assad regimes, Hezbollah as an Iranian proxy, and of course Palestinian militants who were arguably the catalyst (but of course). These foreign invaders - these occupiers - systematically undermined Lebanese sovereignty, fueled sectarian divisions, perpetrated violence against Lebanese civilians, and established parallel structures that weakened state institutions. Beirut rolls of the tongue to ‘commentators’ and foreign journalists alike, yet its south and its north are famously different, with Hezbollah the strong de facto presence, exerting significant local authority parallel to the state, in areas of southern Beirut. It’s been an arena for foreign agendas for decades, destroying a beautiful country. Do you ever see or hear western virtue signallers championing Lebanon or the Lebanese outside of conflict with Israel? Course not. Nobody gives a toss. Like Gaza, the consistent theme is interference and control by rogue groups with one intention - Destroy neighbouring Israel. It’s why all these newfound “passionate” supporters of Lebanon say nothing, for decades. Lebanese - like Palestinians - are meaningless and invisible during a status quo. Then Hezbollah (or Hamas in Gaza) start a war and Israel strikes back hard, attempting to do what Lebanese governments can’t or won’t do, and the @UN has consistently shown little interest in implementing. Here’s a thought. Stop trying to destroy Israel. It really is that simple.

This image of the regime washing blood off the streets after they massacred protestors in January in Iran is intensely symbolic The "international community" is whitewashing the regime all over again

Please just call me the f-slur at this point, we're begging you

"Anonymous sources confirm Pierre Poilievre is actually a serpent."

Health Nerd has claimed the following about the Finnish study on youths attending gender clinics: "The primary outcome of the study was the number of psychiatric appointments—how many times kids saw a psychiatrist for any problem." This is false. The outcome measure was specialist psychiatric appointments. In Finland, speciality psychiatry is generally reserved for more severe mental health problems. That is why the study uses it as a proxy for serious mental health problems. So no, these were not appointments for any problem. I have told Health Nerd this over and over and over. But he has refused to acknowledge that his central thesis about this study is woefully incorrect. Instead, he has tried to gaslight me into thinking I'm the one who doesn't understand this study. And here you see him just doubling down and continuing to promote his essay about the study. I cannot begin to explain my shock when people with educational credentials and a large platform misuse both in this way. It undermines trust in science.

While waiting for my plane to Athens, I did a quick segment with GB News about Leah Gazan's use of the "MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+" initialism.

@jonkay @LeahGazan My understanding was 2S was created in the 90s by a Canadian Cree woman reflecting on a French colonial term “berdache”, which was a coined term for Ojibwa men thought of as prostitutes. I grew up on Chippewa land and NEVER heard this term. Ever. And I’m gay.