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This is a great interview, really informative. If only they would show it in the gender clinics.

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A good talk. Shame about your sound and video issues. The dress and the background fabric seem very you. Has anyone ever accused you of being a maximalist?

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My home-decorating and fashion philosophy has always been that, if two prints don't go together, add a third.

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So I'm guessing the question "do I even need prints for this?" rarely if ever enters your mind? I think over the last few years I've started to miss seeing printed fabrics and wallpapers etc in peoples homes. It's like ornate went out of fashion for most people and the norm now-a-days is just bland and utilitarian.

Random question from someone with minimal artistic knowledge but wouldn't a deep red or burnt orange background have helped the teal/turquoise/aqua (some kind of blue-green) dress pop more effectively, or was the goal to stop it popping at all costs?

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I wanted to blend into the background a bit. I really miss prints, too, and find the blandness depressing. My closet is... all prints, they're beautiful.

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Here's one variety of letter to write to President of Yale, Congressional Oversight Committee on the investigation of Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy after her non-publication of "puberty blocker" study (basically trying to replicate "Dutch Study" of 2014) due to Dr. OK's negative results, 25% of the 95 subjects spiral down into depression crises instead of "gender euphoria." Dr. OK knows this will affect the older patients whose bodies are already altered. She could have a cascade of malpractice lawsuits. Here's my letter. I suggest adapt and send to every clinic doing this. That's prior notice and the detransitioners' lawsuits will land more securely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYQBr_GNW1M&t=181s

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Also a supporter of mastectomies (has her husband had 1?) because you can always buy new pair.

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I've been calling members of the US House Oversight Committee, because Olson-Kennedy will be called before Congress (letter went to NIH on Nov. 4) for wasting $9.7 million on her attempt to replicate the "Dutch Study," (DeVries, Steensma, Cohen-Kettenis, 2014) and I give notes to congressional staffers, with the significant web pages to search. A search under this phrase, Dr. Stephen B. Levine Expert Witness Testimony, brings up the details on this study as well as the Swedish Study of Death Records. (Dhejne, et al, 2011) Dr. Stephen B. Levine was able to register to get the raw data, the information hidden away from the abstracts which we plebes access online. Both the Dutch Study and the Swedish Death Records study have their abstracts reworked to hide the details from a general search by members of the public. The malpractice suit against the American Academy of Pediatricians, naming Drs. Michelle Forcier and current president of AAP, Dr. Jason Rafferty, plus 2 more "gender drs" as defendants, can be found under a search of the plaintiff's name, Isabelle M Ayala COMPLAINT. This filing alleges conspiracy on the part of these doctors to protect all doctors in their field from the growing malpractice lawsuits. Ms. Ayala was given the hormones at age 14 and had double mastectomy prior to reaching 18. She's now 21 and her lawsuit was filed on Oct. 24, 2023. Unfortunately, the fact that Dr. Rafferty is openly gay and Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy is married (purportedly) to a woman who believes she's male, will not come into play as conflicts of interest in their "research" or medical practices. But these are conflicts of interest. Let's say you were married to a dentist claiming a new toothbrushing technique is the best and he's designed a new, expensive toothbrush, marketing it aggressively before any testing involving statistically significant studies with control groups had been conducted. If you are on the national board of professional dentists and inserting the husband's claims into the official statements by the dentists' association, as well as inserting bad science to help dentists from facing malpractice suits for those it didn't work for, you'd be fostering a conspiracy based on a spouse's profit scheme. There might be some holes in this hypothetical, but I'd also like to know what's the profession of Olson-Kennedy's "other half." They are often engaged in some related endeavor. I imagine if this other half has had 1, she's actually had 2 mastectomies, and if she's on testosterone for decades, she's also at risk of liver cancer and kidney failure. Thanks for inspiring this spurt of fact-based creativity!

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