Good and Bad News Roundup

Your Humble Author criticizes women who should know better

Sadly, many women who claim to be “feminists” attack us as well. [Source of picture forgotten.]

Some interesting items, both good and bad, have found their way into Your Humble Author’s inbox recently. Some of them nauseated me, so of course I must share them with all y’all. The rest are very good, so of course I ask you to check them out yourself.

First, Planned Parenthood [PP] emailed this gem.

After celebrating the recent Commonwealth Court’s abortion decision, PP wrote this:

Gender-[A]ffirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT) is often only discussed in relation to transgender and gender-nonconforming patients, but in truth, the availability of hormone therapies benefits everyone.

In fact, one of the most common uses of gender-affirming hormone therapy is for patients experiencing perimenopause and menopause symptoms!

Most people will go through hormonal balance and production shifts through their lifetimes. Hormone therapy is a safe and easy treatment option, and our clinicians are available to answer any questions you might have about your unique needs. [Emphases in original]

Oy vey! Where do I even START to unpack all this bullshit??

First, “patients” don’t experience menopause. WOMEN, if they’re lucky to get old enough, experience menopause. Read this very carefully, PP: Only. Women. Experience. Menopause. Got it? No, of course you don’t.

Hormone replacement therapy [HRT] is NOT “gender affirming care [GAC.]” As its name indicates, HRT replaces two hormones (estrogen and progestin) that naturally decline during perimenopause. These declines can cause hot flashes and other uncomfortable (to put it mildly) menopausal symptoms. HRT can reduce the frequency and severity of these symptoms as well as help prevent osteoporosis and other serious diseases in menopausal women. Like any other medical treatment, HRT has both risks and benefits. It has nothing to do with “GAC.” Menopausal women don’t want or need “gender affirmation.” We are not rejecting our own bodies. We need symptom relief. That’s all. Stop trying to steal legitimate reproductive medicine for your ideology.

So let us think: what else would PP claim is “GAC?” They’ve previously claimed that breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer is “gender affirming.” No it isn’t! It’s replacing a body part lost to a life-threatening disease with a prosthesis. It’s not about a woman rejecting her sex. I suppose PP will claim that Pap smears, breast exams, etc., are also “GAC,” as are menstrual products, contraceptives… What isn’t “GAC?”

If a man gets a boob job, his medical insurance may pay for it because “GAC.” But if I get a boob job, my insurance won’t pay because that’s “cosmetic.” Well, isn’t the man’s boob job cosmetic too? He attempts to “pass” cosmetically as a woman… so… cosmetic. Medical insurance discriminates against women (quelle surprise) by denying payment for the same procedure performed in a man. The same is true for nose jobs, Botox, you name it. Medical insurance companies even refused to pay for post-mastectomy breast reconstruction, claiming it was “cosmetic.” A former coworker had to fight her insurance company to pay for her breast reduction surgery. Apparently all her severe shoulder and back pain were “cosmetic.” Anything to deny women medical treatment.

So yeah, Your Humble Author get royally pissed when gender nonsense tries to become respectable by sneaking into necessary medical treatment. PP must stop scaring women by saying bans on “GAC” threaten our medical care — they don’t.

Anyway, PP continues:

If you have a uterus and ovaries, menopause happens in the stage of life when reproductive hormone levels begin to decrease. Your ovaries get smaller and gradually stop making estrogen, as well as slow down making progesterone. Without these hormones, you stop getting your period and stop being able to get pregnant.

Your Humble Author shall refrain from commenting on the above, and skip merrily on to her next topic.

Women’s Media Center (WMC) makes this absurd claim.

WMC posted an article called Women-Only Spaces Are Not the Solution to Gender-Based [sic] Violence. Yes, the WOMEN’S Media Center:

Women-only [Uber and Lyft] drivers are just the latest example of a broader trend: creating gender-segregated [sic] spaces so women are safe. Around the world, we see women-only train compartments and buses, women-only taxi services, women-only gyms and co-working spaces, and even women-only nightlife venues — from a club in Bengaluru to women-only nights in London — designed to offer relief from harassment. These spaces respond to a real need. But they also signal a troubling compromise: Instead of making shared spaces safer, we are redesigning them to exclude risk by excluding men.

Oh my goodness, we can’t EVER exclude men! The horror! Those poor excluded men lose so many opportunities to harass women!

Author ElsaMarie D’Silva even compares women-only services to socio-religious restrictions on women’s rights, such as confinement to the home and bans on education. But these are not the same as women-only facilities. The latter are protection from male violence. They are voluntary, chosen by women. The former are oppression by male violence. They are mandatory, enforced by men and patriarchy. D’Silva misses this critical distinction entirely.

Soraya Chemaly calls this “the fallacy of symmetry.” Her article at the link is long and kinda woke-y, and I disagree with most of her views on gender ideology, but it’s worth reading for her analysis of sex-segregated services and facilities.

Nevertheless, D’Silva has a point. Women shouldn’t need sex-segregated transit, workplaces, and nightclubs. We shouldn’t need to alter our own behavior to be safe. Women shouldn’t need to be hypervigilant about our physical safety. Instead, men need to stop harassing and assaulting us. Men must treat us like actual human beings, not as objects for their abuse. But until they do, women must have women-only facilities.

And yes, all y’all expected this: excluding all men sets a precedent for excluding men who think they’re women, and that’s Simply The. Worst.

What a disgrace that the WOMEN’S Media Center doesn’t understand this.

Now the good stuff!

An episode of Kara Dansky’s The TERF Report features Marie Hurabiell, a Democratic sex realist who’s running against the infamous misogynist Scott Wiener for Nancy Pelosi’s US House seat from California. Ms Hurabiell will not appear in mainstream media because they’ve cancelled her for knowing that men can’t be women and basing public policy on delusions is bad. If you know anyone in US Rep Pelosi’s California district, please encourage them to support Ms Hurabiell. Here is Ms Dansky’s interview with her.

Next week is National Women's Health Week!

Every May, beginning on Mother's Day, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office on Women's Health (OWH) leads National Women's Health Week (NWHW). This year, NWHW takes place from May 10-16. This observance highlights women's health conditions and priorities and encourages women of all ages to prioritize their physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Yes — WOMEN’S health, not gender nonsense. For more information and resources, see the link above.

Women’s Declaration International [WDI] has launched a new database/website called Not Our Crimes. WDI keeps track of the numbers of men in women’s prisons as well as the crimes these men commit. Please visit the site, and if you have any information to include, contact WDI on their webform.

Finally, sex realists in Colorado have successfully placed three separate measures — protecting kids from sex trafficking, protecting kids from sex-rejecting procedures, and protecting women’s sports — on their state’s November 2026 ballot. If you know anyone is Colorado, please ask them to get involved with Protecting Kids Colorado. This group does excellent work!

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