WASHINGTON (TND) — After failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records pertaining to the off-label use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in children, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is facing a lawsuit seeking to compel them to hand over those records.
Nonprofit law group America First Legal (AFL) filed the suit earlier this week, accusing the FDA of "illegally concealing" the information it is seeking to obtain. AFL initiated its FOIA request in September, but according to the legal group it still remains unanswered.
The request sought records from the start of the Biden administration until the date the FOIA was processed. It targeted documents and information that included the words "child" or "minor" alongside the names of medications used off-label to aid gender transitions, such as, "Lupron," "Leuprorelin," "GnRH agonist" or "GnRH analogues."
"Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can lead to sterilization and a range of other serious health issues including depression, blood clots, high blood pressure, weight gain, and in some cases, suicide. For example, drugs like Lupron are used to chemically castrate sex offenders and are currently being injected into young boys to 'transition' them into girls," AFL insisted in a press release announcing the lawsuit. "To date, the FDA has refused to comply with AFL's investigative request and hidden the records. AFL is suing to compel compliance with the law, and to protect the American public's right to know."
The lawsuit comes after a former children's gender clinic case worker in St. Louis issued scathing allegations that children at her former clinic were allegedly being placed on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones prematurely and oftentimes without, or with coerced, parental consent."
"As for the man who first identified Running Eagle, Will Roscoe, you can see how unbiased his research approach is from his latest book which...er..reveals how Jesus and the disciples were all part of a gay shamanic cult. It makes Dan Brown's books seem authoritative."
"It's a sad reflection of our culture that we allow a bullying lobby to rewrite Running Eagle's history and that of her innovative people using lame ideas concocted and popularised by two creepy white guys; Hay and Williams, one of whom was later jailed for paedophilia."
This substack is clearly not written by an Indigenous person and fails to take into account the fact that the Residential school system in tandem with the concept of Manifest Destiny in the United States taught many tribes to hate and fear homosexuality in line with Christian teaching. Prior to contact, homosexuality was accepted across North America, but homosexuals were equal tribal members. They were not mystical sacred beings with psychic powers. They were neither above or below anyone else in the tribe. Non-Natives on the left and the right miss one of the most fundamental precepts of Indigenous spiritual beliefs when discussing Indigenous attitudes towards those who are different - Everyone is EQUAL in the circle. No one is above. No one is below. No one is higher. No one is lower.
To this date, no one has ever been able to find any legitimate reference to "two spirit" people from legitimate hereditary Indigenous elders or from Native scholars who speak and understand their Native language and who have a solid, legitimate connection to a federally recognized tribe. Not one legitimate Indigenous leader will claim this myth. Meanwhile Native youth who have lost their ties to their communities are being brainwashed into thinking that this Settler invention to legitimize sex between adult males and children is part of their culture. This is spiritual rape.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Indigenous scholars and activists worked hard to expose the myth of the Berdache that white racist and homophobic anthropologists created. AIM held many protests at Universities around the US and Canada exposing the Berdache myth as pure Settler fiction. Many Indigenous activists and scholars spoke out about the Berdache myth, but the white anthropologists were always painted as the "authorities" on Indigenous culture, never the Indigenous elders who kept knowledge of their culture through storytelling in the oral tradition.
In the 1990s, William Roscoe, a white gay anthropologist, lifted a lot of the objectionable work of non-Native anthropologists regarding the Berdache and re-branded it as his "Two Spirit" nonsense. Harry Hay, controversial for his support of NAMBLA, joined forces with Roscoe in promoting the myth. They even dared to try to make the homosexual into a sacred being with magical powers so that white gay men with pedophilic urges could feel validated.
Gender Ideology started with racist colonial cultural mis-appropriation of Indigenous cultural and spiritual beliefs. No one in the radical feminist camp cried out until it branched out to mis-appropriate all of womanhood. The human right of the oppressed groups involved have never been taken into consideration when it comes to insane drive to accept, legitimize and validate all forms of male sexual depravity.
It's not surprising that Trans Rights Advocates are exploiting Running Eagle or Pitamakan, another strong Indigenous woman who cannot speak for herself. She is being labeled as "Two Spirit" for simply saying she would be "no man's slave." The Gender ideologists want to re-write history and define any woman who does not submit unconditionally to men as trans or "two spirit" or born in the wrong body. Running Eagle or Pitamakan is the next candidate to be being transed and exploited to further the sexual agenda of the white male settler. She is starting to be referred to as "the Blackfeet Joan of Arc" by outsiders. This is being done not to honour the strength and resilience of Indigenous women, but so that depraved men who are rightfully outcasts from their society for their sexual crimes against children can feel better about themselves.
The racist colonial historical revisionism must end. Indigenous people must be allowed to tell our own stories about how strong and powerful our women have always been without the misogynist settlers silencing our voices to proclaim that all our strong women never existed thereby erasing our strongest, most powerful women role models by claiming that if they were strong, they must really not have been women at all.
"We urgently need to talk about what porn is doing to boys & man, but we won't because a) people are scared of being calld prudes/authoritarians & b) men don't want to give up their 24/7 access to countless women & girls being degraded in whichever way the men want them to be." https://twitter.com/Serena_Partrick/status/1788466306385092858
"Prosecutors have opened an investigation into the sickening gang rape of a 14-year-old girl in a wooded area in Belgium by ten other minors.
The girl, who remains unidentified for privacy reasons, was allegedly lured into a wooded area called Kabouterbos in Kortrijk, West Flanders (five miles from the French border), by her teenage boyfriend over the Easter school break.
Upon enticing her into the forest, close to an area used by mountain bikers, the boyfriend is said to have attacked his young partner before allegedly allowing several other boys to sexually assault her as well. Reports said the group filmed the attack on their smartphones and posted clips to social media. "
"The investigation has been conducted in the utmost secrecy by the West Flanders prosecutor's office to avoid any chance of family members of the victim or members of the public learning the identities of those involved.
But Nieuwsblad said prosecutors turned up 'reprehensible behaviour' on the part of the suspects and 'revenge-mongering facts', citing sources close to the investigation who said the alleged perpetrators showed 'a complete lack of sense of norms'.
'I have never experienced this in my career,' the lawyer for one of the suspects is reported to have told the newspaper.
The girl is thought to have spent two days in the forest where she was raped at least twice and tormented and abused by the gang of minors.
The group took turns abusing the victim, and all participated 'to a greater or lesser extent,' Nieuwsblad said in its report.
None of the group urged their friends to stop the abuse, it added.
Tom Janssens of the Public Prosecutor's Office said that on account of the age of all those involved, little is being said publicly on their identity.
He did confirm that ten suspects had been identified and arrested, and that all were minors. 'Because the perpetrators are so young, we are not releasing much information about their identity,' Janssens told The Brussels Times.
The six minors placed in an institution were set to appear in juvenile court on Wednesday afternoon. It is understood that one of those six minors - a thirteen-year-old - has already been released on conditions.
The investigation will now work to establish to what extent each suspect was involved in the assault on the 14-year-old girl, or if any were bystanders.
Kortrijk mayor Vincent Van Quickenborne said he was shocked when he first learned about the case that he has known about behind closed doors 'for some time'.
'The public prosecutor's office does not allow me to say anything about the facts themselves, but I had been aware of the investigation for some time,' he said.
'These are cra*py acts for which there are no words. I say that not only as a politician, but also as a father of 3 young children.'
Youth lawyer Kelly Decaluwé, who is defending one of the suspects, said the minors had 'all been interrogated simultaneously and the investigators will now test the statements to find out the truth'.
'These are horrible facts,' she said. 'The question is how it is possible that these children have lost all sense of norms. What should we do with this?
Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe woman) Waabizheski Indoodem born on sovereign Indigenous land surrounded by what is now called the state of Michigan. Cultural and environmental activist, retired teacher, artist, trouble-maker. Loved by some, hated by a few, but rarely ignored