TransLogicEatsItself

@CIGNA you were warned. In 2017 @CIGNA paid for a gender quack to perform a double mastectomy on my daughter. My daughter has since detransitioned, but her harms are irreversible. Pasted below is the body of the third message I sent to @CIGNA CEO and Board of Directors in 2018. I tried to warn them about what was coming their way, not just to possibly save my daughter from the harms they were funding, but to also save other daughters from those harms. In all, I sent three letters to the Board. None of members of the Board felt that a reply was necessary, even though in my letter I provided ample references to justify action on their behalf. These letters were sent in 2018 and all of what I warned them about has come true. I will be watching with great interest when @chloecole takes on @AboutKP. This letter went to all of the Board of Directors at the time, as follows: · Alan Muney · CEO David M. Cordani · Donna F. Zarcone · Eric C. Wiseman · Eric J. Foss · Isaiah Harris · James E. Rogers · John M. Partridge · Nicole Jones · Roman Martines · William D. Zollers From: To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Board of Directors Cigna Corporation This is now my third letter to Cigna’s board of directors. I have yet to receive a reply from any board member to any of my previous letters. I have tried to appeal to you as humans and as parents, but that has not inspired you to act. But this matter should also concern the board from a risk perspective, because your failure to act represents a significant financial liability to Cigna. In the interactions I have had with Cigna, through xxxxxx, she has attempted to placate me with the assurance that Cigna takes into consideration all new research on the topic of gender dysphoria in adolescents. But as more and more evidence and research has emerged, Cigna continues to sit on the sidelines. Sitting it out would be fine except for the fact that your negligence is resulting in the permanent disfigurement and emotional harm to young people. In my last letter I attempted to draw your attention to new research by Lisa Littman, a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine. Her peer-reviewed research was predictably attacked by trans activists but has not been discredited. Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults: A study of parental reports journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Cigna chose to ignore Dr. Littman’s work, but many researchers and concerned clinicians did not. Since my last letter much more research has emerged that gives credence to Dr. Littman’s work. The British Journal of Medicine has spoken out strongly against “permanent, premature medicalization” as a treatment for gender dysphoria (GD). Safeguarding LGBT+ adolescents BMJ 2019; 364 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l2… (Published 31 January 2019)Cite this as: BMJ 2019;364:l245 Clinicians at the Tavistock Clinic in the UK have recently published similar findings. ‘Taking the lid off the box’: The value of extended clinical assessment for adolescents presenting with gender identity difficulties. Anna Churcher Clarke and Anastassis Spiliadis ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30722669 And concerned clinicians are speaking up, writing letters, signing petitions. It's Complicated: Docs Say Gender-Questioning Kids Need Better Science Lisa Nainggolan February 15, 2019 medscape.com/viewarticle/90… Even as the cries for caution from clinicians rise in number and pitch, more and more young people are de-transitioning. These young people’s stories are showing up in large numbers all over social media, and in mainstream media. Fifty trans people tell therapist of regrets thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/f… The mainstream media has chosen to remain silent on this topic for a long time, giving organizations like Cigna air cover to continue to back junk science, cow to trans activists, and pretend it isn’t happening. That, too, is changing. The MSM now under pressure to come clean and report both sides of the story. Hormones, surgery, regret: I was a transgender woman for 8 years — time I can't get back usatoday.com/story/opinion/… Doctors at England's only NHS transgender clinic for children warn lobby groups and pushy parents are exposing young patients to 'long-term damage' dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6… 'Why are we so scared to admit many people regret changing their gender?' telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-m… Research from Tavistock shows almost a 10% desistance rate in the first 18 months after transition. The longer-term desistance rate is likely to be much higher. Cigna is paying for irreversible procedures that you now know will lead to significant levels of regret. Some of those that desist will seek further medical and psychological help. Historical data suggests that a measurable number will request, attempt or commit suicide. The backlash against responsible and complicit organizations is going to be massive, because the nature of this contagion is so horrific. This contagion has affected our most vulnerable – our children. Our sons and daughters have been subjected to non-FDA approved drugs. Our sons and daughters, under the spell of this contagion, have requested surgical mutilations, meanwhile denied access to psychotherapy. Our children have been fast-tracked into these procedures. Those that have escaped now agree with many of the parents and describe the experience as cult-like. Adults, who should have known better, and acted like adults, failed them. When the reality of what has been going on hits shows like 60 Minutes, every previous expose will pale in comparison. This one is going to be the mother of them all. Organizations that have been repeatedly warned, and that had access to research, and an obligation to react to research, are particularly vulnerable. Will it play well when it is public that Cigna has been funding surgeons mutilating young women’s bodies like this? The time for leadership and compassion has passed. You can only hope to mitigate the damage now. My recommendations remain largely the same: · Stop covering these harmful surgeries and hormone treatments in adolescents for anyone under the age of 18, and only then with proper consideration of underlying conditions. · Recognize that ROGD needs further research, and, if confirmed as a condition, ROGD would no longer be treated with WPATH standard treatment. · Make a public statement about this new research, either on their own merits, or in the aggregate. In the aggregate, it is compelling, and the rate of release is increasing. Cigna should simply state that this research gives you pause, and you need time to consider what is best for these young people. · Reconsider the treatment of these young women with WPATH standards. They do not qualify for treatment with WPATH standards because their preconditions have not been adequately addressed, specifically ROGD and other documented mental health issues. · Send a letter to clinicians in your network, advising them that you are concerned about the treatment of young women with ROGD. · Dedicate resources to understanding this mental health crisis. This will help to protect yourself against future litigation by demonstrating you took the crisis seriously and it will help to slow the contagion, giving researchers time to do their work. You have been cowing to the trans lobby while children have been unnecessarily sacrificed for their cause. This letter is more strongly worded than the other two because I firmly believe momentum is finally turning and the contagion is breaking. For Cigna, the calculus has changed. I urge you to take action now. Sincerely, (Redacted)

@wynrosei No. You're gaslighting and it's not working. Men have given women valid reasons to fear them. Trans women are men. That's it. No nuance.

So... just so we're clear... you want me to be afraid of trans women in the women's bathroom because they might be cis men pretending so they can assault women and children... and you think this reflects on... trans women... and not on cis men? Do I have this correct?

@CNN Because women deserve security, privacy and dignity, away and apart from men. It's not complicated. It's not nuanced.

In the Trump administration’s latest move to limit trans rights, the Department of Education has launched a Title IX investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s college in western Massachusetts, for admitting trans women. cnn.it/4dsV9SX

Yeah Claire - you're not helping! All men want is everything. So stop resisting. Even womanhood, they've come for that now too and you should do what they want. Because men have had it tough for a long time. Men have definitely not had it all their way for millennia. It's a woman's world after all. Isn't that the expresssion?

Jesus fucking Christ. You're not helping women Claire. You're not fighting for women. Fairness is including trans women in the female category. Where the fuck have you been for the last 30 to 40 years?!?!? Transphobia is not feminism.

@Qveen_Potato Right. Of course they don't.

New study shows that trans women don't have an "inherently biological advantage" when it comes to sports.

@jk_rowling @FrankieJack69 He is unaware he is an insufferable twat, because TRAs don't do: * Humor in any form * Logic * Statistics * Science * Memes * Sarcasm * Irony * Biology * Self-awareness <- Right here * Not be narcissists * Boundaries * Reading a room <-- and some of this

@FrankieJack69 I think his immense self-regard and his unshakeable belief in the rectitude of all his opinions has created a cast iron sphere around his brain through which self-awareness cannot penetrate.

The man who's spent years talking over and attacking women for defending their rights has now decided that you must belong to a protected group to express an opinion on the threats facing it.

@jimbohuff @Qveen_Potato Decent analogy

@Qveen_Potato Most people see trans people like smokers. Yes adults be allowed to smoke No they shouldn’t be discriminated against. No we don’t hate smokers. However… No you can’t light up in non smoking spaces No you can’t give cigarettes to kids.

This is why transphobes and their ilk are a loud minority. People broadly agree trans people should be supported and have equal rights, even among Republicans. 🏳️‍⚧️

@RedTory2016 Our revulsion, although instinctive, feeds their fetish. It's transactional.

@DadsRogd They’re insufferable

These manly dudes are all the same. They talk about women’s looks without looking in the mirror & they think we’re all divorced. Homophobic wankstains. They can literally never transition out of male behaviour

@soniasodha Can we get back to shaming perverts? We, the normal people, don't want to see this sick shit.

A male university lecturer wearing giant prosthetic breasts & barely-there tops is v clearly engaging in an inappropriate public display of his sexual fetish and it's *nuts* some people are gullible enough to think this makes him part of an unchallengeable oppressed minority.

@KDansky @_bezpilotnik @helenstaniland Cue the crickets....

@_bezpilotnik @helenstaniland I completely support people who do not conform to sexist stereotypes. You would know that if you paid attention to my work. It's true that I have hostility toward men who mock women. Why don't you?

Helen (@helenstaniland) said "man with massive fake breasts." Peter (@_bezpilotnik) immediately thought "trans." Sometimes they make it too easy. Free and shareable, so share away! karadansky.substack.com/p/sometimes-th…

@PierreJouet I know right? Satire is dead.

This man is arguing for another man to be able to wear size ZZ rubber tits while lecturing at university without comment or criticism.

@DuncanHenry78 @ThatAussieWoman @JeanHatchet Yep, it's on the list. TRAs can't do: * Remember anything that happened longer than 5 years ago * Humor in any form * Logic * Statistics * Science * Memes <-- cringefully bad at it * Sarcasm * Irony * Biology * Self-awareness * Not be narcissists * Boundaries * Reading a room

@ThatAussieWoman @JeanHatchet Also they can’t meme.

Yes yes. You clever important feminists think we grassroots women doing the work are stupid. Got it. You can’t help yourselves can you?

@Sorelle_Arduino It's unpleasant to face it, but Greer is right.

Imagine comparing a woman wearing a prosthetic breast after breast cancer to an AGP man strapping on a massive pair of comedy tits in front of teenage girls? Greer was right, women have no idea how much men hate us

@ABmrJutt It's men. The sex class known as men are the problem. Men have predatory predispositions and the physiology to act on those predispositions. Trans women are men and have the same physiology and predatory tendencies.

If you’re worried about men dressing as women to prey on people, you’re not worried about trans women. You’re worried about cis men.

@joe_turner177 Unsurprising people object to him living out his fetish in public and displaying indifference to the feelings of his students by using them as props... Yeah, it isn't surprising at all. We are the sane ones. You have lost your fucking mind.

I know Matt as a lovely person and a brilliant educator, respected by students and colleagues at Oxford. Shameful but unsurprising to see the “gender critical” crowd harass someone with a different gender presentation just trying to live and do their job. Hateful bigots

Predatory sex-change surgeons will pay for the permanent harm they’ve done to America’s kids. Literally. I’m cosponsoring the STOP Act to ban child gender procedures, impose a $100K penalty on criminal surgeons, and give the funds to their detransitioning victims for recovery.

@WomenReadWomen It's sad to say it but I know all the kids sucked into this will have regret some day. The grownups who went along will be hanging their heads in shame. Your former friends are weak. They failed as adults.

Maybe I will delete this, but, anyone who has been seeing the posts I delete knows I've been having a really tough year. I don't want to give details because there are people who would enjoy hearing about my struggles. The knowledge of that holds me back. I have been dealing with some very personal issues, and learned that former friends of mine have decided to make me a pariah, they got together, found my articles, and somehow after seeing all I had done, made a kind of group decision, behind my back, to shut me out and disavow me. I just learned about this a few days ago. It's one thing to say, well, they were never your friends anyway, but it's quite different when they say outrageous things behind your back and other people believe their cult mindset, so that one former friend makes an effort to turn all friends against you. I will never back down, and I know that I have been speaking truthfully from my heart for years. There is nothing they could do to make me feel ashamed, but my former friends are trying. I understand on a personal level the toll this takes on people who speak out. It's depressing, absolutely, and our only comfort is each other, and the awareness that this is in fact a cult, one that needs to be shoved into the sunlight and exposed. But we'll never get back what we lost.

@RoseFashion191 Truth

When you use “she” for men as well as Women, you are reducing Woman to a “gender,” which is nothing more than sexist, performative stereotypes. And that’s the height of misogyny.

Or you are being intellectually lazy and don't understand the issue. You are trying to stifle dissent by rebranding it "purity standards." It's called disagreement and it belongs. X is the new town square where people gather to test their ideas. Stop trying to shame people for participating.

If you feel J. K. Rowling has somehow managed to fall short of your Terfy purity standards, you may have actually been driven insane by too much time on the internet.