1/ In 2015, the mother of a young adult w/Down Syndrome fundraised for "top surgery," even when her daughter was in ICU w/serious health issues. Those of us who uncovered/revealed it in 2015 assumed it would peak-trans many people. No one, outside a few blogs, said a word. https://twitter.com/EllieRestless/status/1080595124365680640 …
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(This is the archived GenderTrender post from 2015, which gives the whole story of the fundraising campaign for double mastectomy for a Down Syndrome patient in the ICU, and Olson-Kennedy's involvement in it).https://web.archive.org/web/20170220090227/https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/aydin-olson-kennedy-msw-urges-gender-surgery-for-down-syndrome-child-in-intensive-care-unit/ …
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Anyone who knows anything about Down Syndrome will be aware that people who have it often also have many serious comorbid health problems--problems severe enough to land someone in an intensive care unit.pic.twitter.com/5MyT0yk98g
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You would think "real" journalists (several of whom were alerted to the story) would have read this and taken an interest. But no. GenderTrender & other sites which uncover stories like this continue to be vilified as "transphobic" or "hateful"--before being shut down by Big Tech
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Hard not to be cynical when people who have a responsibility to investigate (powerful media like
@nytimes and@washingtonpost ) turn a blind eye to even the most extreme examples of trans-activist overreach. Instead they do puff pieces on Ehrensaft, the Olson-Kennedys, et al.0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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