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First, Do No Harm
For FAIR’s Substack, FAIR network attorney Daniel Cragg writes about the WPATH files and the impossibility of obtaining informed consent from youth.
The WPATH Files are crucial evidence that proves youth “gender-affirming care” is the great medical atrocity of our time, on par with (or perhaps worse than) the 20th Century’s eugenics-motivated involuntary sterilization of those deemed inferior and the frontal orbital lobotomy. WPATH physicians have abdicated their responsibility to “first, do no harm.” Sadly, we are once again reminded that well-meaning medical doctors are not immune from being swept up in the passion of a mass movement or being lured by the financial windfall from these expensive surgeries, consequently forsaking their sacred duty to practice ethical, scientific medicine. It is time for medical doctors who have lost their way to be held accountable.
The UK Mistreated Kids with Gender Dysphoria for Years
For The Free Press, FAIR advisor Lisa Selin Davis writes about The Cass Report—a damning new report that reveals how a national health service failed to care for deeply distressed children.
Cass notes that “for most young people, a medical pathway will not be the best way to manage their gender-related distress.” She supports expanding the treatment to regional, holistic centers, essentially ending the specialist gender clinic model. That treatment should be based on unbiased psychological care, and robust and consistent evaluation tools must be developed so reliable evidence can finally be gathered.
This final report—and an interim one Cass issued in 2022—echoes what a number of Western nations, such as Finland and Sweden, have found when they reviewed their own youth gender services. It also underscores what we see in the United States: poor quality research, an unstudied population, and detransitioners traumatized by the treatment they received.
I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.
For The Free Press, Uri Berliner writes about the ideological capture of NPR.
He declared that diversity—on our staff and in our audience—was the overriding mission, the “North Star” of the organization. Phrases like “that’s part of the North Star” became part of meetings and more casual conversation.
Race and identity became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace. Journalists were required to ask everyone we interviewed their race, gender, and ethnicity (among other questions), and had to enter it in a centralized tracking system. We were given unconscious bias training sessions. A growing DEI staff offered regular meetings imploring us to “start talking about race.” Monthly dialogues were offered for “women of color” and “men of color.” Nonbinary people of color were included, too.
How The Trans Movement is Erasing Black Women from History
For her Substack, N3VLYNNN, Nevline Nnaji sets the record straight about Pauli Murray.
In fact, Pauli Murray had always referred to herself as a black woman. A Negro woman to be exact, with a capital N. And her experiences and understandings of her social positioning as a Negro woman, are exactly what fueled her fierce advocacy work within the U.S. civil rights movement from the 1930s until her death in 1985. The whole point of her legacy is that she was such a powerful, dynamic force, despite the odds stacked against her due to her race and her sex. The whole point is that she advocated for both racial equality and women’s sex-based rights—for her own sake, as well as future generations.
Artificial Intelligence In The Classroom Offers An Artificial Education
For The Federalist, FAIR supported plaintiff Zack De Piero writes about how AI obscures foundational skills of reading, writing, and thinking.
If teachers insist on bringing generative AI into their classrooms, students must be given full license to interrogate its rhetorical, stylistic, and sociopolitical limitations. Left unchecked, generative AI risks becoming politically correct technology masquerading as an objective program for language processing and data analysis.
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