"When Kai Solomon printed out their consent form to get a COVID-19 vaccine, their eyes focused on the portion of the form that asked for their sex.
And their heart sank.
Solomon found Manitoba's form had four boxes they could pick from when designating sex: male, female, intersex and unknown" (Let's forget about 'intersex' there - any of a range of differences of sexual development being listed as separate to the only sexes in mammals - male and female. Let's forget them, their mostly sex specific conditions and the constant, ableist 'othering' and literal mis-sexing they endure at the hands of the LGBTQIAS+ movement - this is trivial in comparison to Kai's plight) "Solomon, who is non-binary and uses they and them pronouns, didn't see themself reflected in any of those options.
"I felt very invalid. It was very defeating. It just felt like we didn't fit … like we didn't deserve the vaccine because we're not on the form," Solomon said."
So, for Kai this is nightmarish. Legit. Having to give factual information on a medical form is harmful. Why does medicine need data, why isn't thyselves own internal self perception listed?! I myself feel excluded by the heteronormative font and colonialist use of English as a language. I have to wonder, when will we move onto why political persuasion, star signs, favourite colours and number of Twitter followers aren't recorded? There's so many things I imagine Kai likes people to know about them - thoughts on all of life's big questions, their funniest stories, the times they've been brave and kind or owned Jordan Peterson...
"Dr. Joss Reimer, the medical lead of Manitoba's vaccine implementation task force, apologized to Manitobans who identify as transgender for "wrong, inappropriate and disrespectful" wording in the question about sex on the vaccine consent form."
It's "wrong, inappropriate and disrespectful" to ask the most significant factor in medicine? This doctor had to do a press announcement to apologise to the they/thems. Just think about that.
"We should have done better before and we need to do better going forward, so I want to apologize for our error," she said."
Biological sex matters in medicine. The Lancet - "A growing body of research highlights the influence of biological sex in clinically relevant health outcomes, including sex-specific differences in immunity, pharmacology, and vaccines outcomes (side-effects and efficacy)". Women tend to need lower doses, they develop antibodies faster and suffer more symptoms. "sex-based differences in innate and adaptive immunity in SARS-CoV-2 infections are probable contributors to the increased risk of intensive care unit admission and overall mortality in men, and increased reports of long-COVID symptoms in women."
So, sorry, theybies and gentlethem, but this is highly fucking relevant. It's probably not that healthy to live in furious denial of your biology, because, umm, it's real and definitely important when it gets to healthcare. And even if you don't care - for the rest of us, confined to our dull meat-suit of realism, data is vital. Still, they can't stop. The precious, pedantic self exceptionalism and loud complaints are key in non-binary survival/validation and we all need to hear it or they will be killed all over again.
"There are now three boxes that can picked when designating sex: male, female and X.
The X isn't much better, according to Solomon and some other LGBTQ Manitobans.
"X isn't a gender and it's disrespectful," says Deith Aquino, a non-binary Filipinx Manitoban."
Yep, definitely a problem. X isn't a gender, but more importantly gender has no basis in medicine - so why is it on a question about sex? I actually agree!
So, what we've learned - biological sex is taboo, but we must know this person is of Filipino descent. Anyone know why? Why don't all records come with a little mood chart, ink-blot tests and requests for self expression through the medium of dance? Think of all the lost opportunities to truly know the patient via the intentional and unintentional gestures, expressions and body formations...
Part of the issue, Eau says, is that the province isn't clear about what information it needs and for what purpose."
What purpose? What possible reason would there be (except for those listed above - the cherry picked, heteronormative, abusive ones) for this violation and exercise in systematic de-legitimisation? Let Trans Manitoba on your public health board, goddammit, I'm sure they have so much to offer - for example, what colour plasters are you using? Are the needles used in the archetypal, patriarchal phallic form? Why can't they be inverted like a vagina? Are you penis fetishists?
"Sex, or one's biological attributes, is different than gender — socially constructed sets of expectations about how people should look, act and think. Gender identity is how you feel inside and how you express your gender."
The transplain begins. How is gender relevant? Do amicagender 'folks' reacted differently to antegenders? Can oneirogender become hydrogender as a side effect? Why do they confuse sex and gender with this inane sideshow of pre-packaged 'individuality'?
Yet again, they mix the two, wax lyrical about gender, roll it in glitter, put it centre stage and invite gasps of astonishment from the audience. Then they tell us they're not the same thing in an awe-inspiring show of esoteric investigative-journalism.
For the uneducated; *Antegender: "a protean gender which has the potential to be anything, but is formless and motionless, and therefore, does not manifest as any particular gender." *Amicagender: "a gender that changes depending on which friend you’re with" *Oneirogender: “being agender, but having recurring fantasies or daydreams of being a certain gender without the dysphoria or desire to actually be that gender day-to-day” *Hydrogender: "a gender that shares qualities with water"
Imagine confusing those...
Corinne Mason, who identifies as queer, says when they arrived to their vaccine with the sex portion of their consent form blank, someone assumed they are female and filled it in for them. - What? How dare they? All these little fascists, doing their documentation in back rooms under the guise of 'helping' or 'just doing their job'. If it doesn't send a chill down your spine, do you even have one? Are you non-spineary? Know what this reminds me of? Nazis and their documents and categories. Covid has caused a global crisis, killing millions and near bankrupting economies, restricting rights - all of it a cynical cover for the sustained assault on the most vulnerable.
""I saw it as a barrier," Mason said, worrying that the traumatizing experiences of trans, non-binary and two-spirit people will contribute to vaccine hesitancy in the community" - Traumatising. Barriers and trauma - clear signs of where we're headed. Of course trans, non-binary and TWO SPIRIT people have vaccine hesitancy, look at what happened when native American's accepted pox-ridden blankets.
"If you have trans people who are being misgendered or not knowing how to fill in the form, or … the form makes them feel, excluded or ignored or obscured ... then you have those people sharing that experience with other trans and non-binary people," Mason said." - I don't know how they do it, how they carry this relentless erasure on their shoulders and continue to not only survive, but do so by heroically outing themselves in the press, with home-dyed hair and constant demands... Having the most intimate understanding of your own self ignored and not validated and affirmed in forms designed to collect certain data for public health statistics is unforgivable. And despite knowing the risks of speaking out, Corinne still does it. It evokes Mohammed Ali's brave stance against the Vietnam war. How will history regard this? I for one hope for a Manitoba gender crime trials, holding these monsters to account.
"Eau has the same fears, but also wants to protect people from negative, triggering experiences.
"I want people to get vaccinated, but I also don't want people to be re-traumatized when they go. Having 12 people misgender you when you haven't left the house in a year is really upsetting," they said" - 12 people misgendering you - you counted twelve? Why do you have to speak to that many people? I hope this person sues and gets some form of reparation. Ideally, these 'professionals' should be fired. In the gender crime trials I would hope to see all those complicit in this confronted with the harm they have enabled and perpetuated. March them through the clinics, being referred to as 'patients' or something equally dehumanising, lets see how they feel having their special individual qualities ignored.
"It has to be better when I go back for my second … [vaccination dose], because what I experienced was transphobia." - It's difficult to imagine how it could be worse, anyway. The casual transphobia of being correctly indentified for the purposes of medical requirements, asked to declare your sex, or any reminder that it exists is a stain upon 'civilised' society.
Foster was found guilty of the 1994 murder by slashing and strangulation of Tairree Lynn West, 25. This was a gang robbery involving him, his girlfriend and another couple, all of whom knew the victim.
After trial her daughter gave a statement “But none of this will bring my mom back,” said Luchessa (also known as Ashley), a sixth-grader who West had adopted.
The gang had forced entry to West's home at around 1:30 am, hoping to rob the place. But soon enough it was to be a bloodbath.
The L.A. Times details how the men attacked West with a butcher's knife, stabbing and slashing her, while the women set about strangling her daughter, Ashley, and six month old baby, Carlie.
Yes - they strangled a baby of six months.
After losing consciousness, Ashley came round, staggered into the front room to dial 911 and was slashed across the face before the gang fled.
Family and friends reported that Foster's girlfriend, Erica Olson, was a close friend of West, and she had let her live in the apartment. Foster, however, had recently angered West after he stole $100 from her car.
Reading from other contemporaneous articles, it appears the zen-like Yekaterina was the driving force behind this assault and murder and inflictedthe fatal wounds on Tairree West and the slash on her daughter.
Thanks to the incredibly brave actions of Ashley, she and her baby sister survived, although Ashley was scarred for life from the slash which reached from her throat right up to just under her eye.
● https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-18-me-25892-story.html
● https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-14-me-12957-story.html
● https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-17-cb-23877-story.html
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| From KQED: "David Bella Birrell also said she’d been sexually assaulted in prison. " |
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| Grot Property: Vulnerable sex-prey, Birrell |
"David Birrell, 28, was booked into Riverside County Jail on suspicion of killing Hope Elfman, 17, who was raped and strangled."
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/04/21/A-man-and-his-wife-were-arrested-Tuesday-in/7751356677200/
"Birrell told reporters after the girl's death that she had made a lot of enemies and would not always follow house rules the family set down for her."
Hope Elfman was found dead, sprawled out naked on the patio of Birrell's house.
She was an orphan. Her mother had recently died, and her father had died some time before that.
She was 17, and had not only been raped, but also violated after death, with objects forced inside of her vagina. Less than a week prior to her murder, Birrell had increased her life insurance, with his wife forging Elfman's signature.
Like Robert Brandon Foster, David Birrell escaped the death penalty
"Thomas Hooker was nearly blind, in the advanced stages of diabetes, had to be regularly taken to the hospital for dialysis, had several toes amputated, and had difficulty moving without assistance. He lived in Palmdale with Joy Hooker, his third or fourth wife, and David Hooker (appellant), his 30-year-old adopted son. Joy and David were constant companions. They went to dinner and to the gym together."
"At about 3:45 a.m., Deanne (Thomas Hooker's daughter who lived nearby) and her husband Robert were awakened by Joy Hooker's pounding on their door, telling them to call 9-1-1. Robert ran to the Hooker house and saw appellant in the living room hosing down a burning loveseat. There was smoke inside the house, wallpaper had peeled off the walls, and plastic objects had melted. Robert asked appellant where Thomas Hooker was and appellant said he didn't know.
"Robert crawled to Thomas Hooker's bedroom and found him on the floor without a pulse. About five minutes later appellant came to Robert's assistance. Mr Hooker died from smoke inhalation.
"Thomas Hooker had told his nurse he knew Joy and David were having an affair and feared that if he didn't oust them from the house they would kill him; Joy's ex-husband, Robert Laughton, said Joy had recently told him she was tired of caring for her husband and had thought of ways to get rid of him;"
"When Miguel Crespo moved in, Guerrero, 48, began filling out a form that prosecutors believe she intended to use as part of a transfer request.
""He stated he is not compatible with me. I’m worried to be raped again," Guerrero wrote.
"He should never have been in that cell with the girl" said Fatima Shabazz, former inmate (I don't know for what) and advocate who worked on the new transgender dignity, agency and respect bill."
"In a circle of women stretching, Mark Peaches Cates, 58, said she’d never had the chance to exercise with just transgender women. Gym time with men had made her uncomfortable.
"You couldn’t be yourself," said Cates, who is in prison for second-degree murder."
One; it seems abhorrent to call people like Dallas Goosen, David Birrell or Robert Foster, 'women'. They do not look like women, they have all only transitioned in the most minor way, they have committed terrible crimes. Two, the joy the inmates get from a weekly activity which allows them to wear women's clothing is a tad indicative of autogynephilia - the most common fetish to present in sex offenders and serial killers.
Cary Keenan Smith 'CJay'
In addition, Kristi Legget, here, incarcerated 23 and a half years at the time of recording
We are also told "Wiener’s bill would also bring California in line with federal standards laid out in the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA" “Transgender people in prison — particularly trans women — are at severe risk of assault and sexual victimization because they’re automatically housed by their birth-assigned sex,” sen Scott Wiener said in a statement.
- Ok, but let's not count our chickens just yet, hey? Let's consider, for a moment, this just might increase rape.
I hope and pray that some day, the women left to absorb these prisoners are listened to. "Today, most transgender prisoners continue to be housed automatically with the sex they were assigned at birth, which is often dangerous for them" well, who cares about women, especially those who've broken the golden rule of behaving and being nice, huh?
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