#kajsa reads

[kajsa-writes-sometimes]

Kajsa's Writings°

These stories and poems are written when I found a prompt to tempting to pass by. Most of them are poems written as a response to the Flash Fiction Friday prompts, some of them are written on the basis of other prompts found mostly on Tumblr.

You can read the full collection on Movellas or you can read the individual poems and short stories right here on tumblr

Genre: Historical Fiction

It features a slow burn romance, an independent MC in the shape of Miss Angelina Ravenloft, a true gentleman, and a rather long mail correspondence

Resume: Miss Angelina Ravenloft wants a life of her own. She wants to decide where she lives, what she thinks, who her friends are, and most importantly, who to love. All of this would have been impossible if not for a group of friends filled with supportive, equal minded people.

While Angelina makes a life for herself in Hemwick with the help of the young vicar, Jean Habernath, Miss Amanda Pailey, and Mrs. Miranda Marlowe, her writings attract the attention of the Duke of Northern Hemwick.

When Angelina receives a letter in which the Duke offers to become her patron, her life takes a turn she could not have predicted. Soon she will become a first hand witness to the drama surrounding the young Duke as if she hadn't had enough to deal with already.

Amanda Pailey is getting married, a lady from the church has been trying to set Miss Ravenloft and the Vicar up for years, the new secretary at the paper immediately caught her eye, and she still needs to find time to write her next novel.

Follow the struggles of Miss Angelina Ravenloft as life seems to keep trying to derail her efforts to live her life on her own terms.

Master list: You can find the master list with a full list of the chapter and links to all the stuff behind the scenes

Movellas: You can read the full story here

This is a poetry collection focussing on the experience of discovering you are on the asexual and aromantic spectrum.

You can find the master list of all the poems here or you can read the full collection on Movellas.

Genre: Supernatural

Tropes and trickers: Superheroes, villains, love story, bisexual, lesbian, mentions of psychological abuse and abusive relationships

Resume: Mandy moves to a new city to get away from the person who are making her life a living hell. Getting a new appartment and a new job seemed like a good solution, but it turns out dissapearing is not an easy thing to do.

The Spider is trying to spin her web as discretely as possible. She likes staying in the shadows where people aren't aware of her influence, but when a new hero comes to town she is soon thrust into the public eye.

Master list: You can find the master list with a full overview of all the chapters right here

Movellas: You can read the full story here

Master List: Old Heroes

Genre: Fantasy of varying degrees

This is a collection of interweaved short stories. Some are based on prompts, and some are written because a story needed to be told.

The stories follows an old team of adventures who have now settled down. Sometimes they need to pick up their swords again to help make the world a better place, sometimes they seek out eachother because no one else understands their pain, and sometimes they forget that once upon a time they were heroes even though the world is keen to remember.

Master list: You can find the master list with a full list of the current stories and some extra information here

Kajsa Reads

I like reading as much as I like writing but I'm sadly as bad as keeping track of what I want to read as I am to update my writings regularly. To try and fix this and at least be able to find the stories I want to read, I've made a list to keep track.

If you need something good to read, please check out some of the stories on there. You can find the list here.

°This list will be update regularly until it is up to date. It will then be kept up to date as new stuff joins the old

#kajsa writes #friday scribbles: words from a busy mind #the true story of a poor writer and her unwanted patron #when purple became my favourite colour #the supervillain and the civilian #old heroes: the travels of lin #kajsa reads

[bibliolectors]

Tarde de frío sábado: en casa y leyendo -puro placer lector (ilustración de Kajsa Hallström)

#Illustration #art #reading #Kajsa Hallström #reading and art #lectura #lectura y arte #ilustración

[djuvlipen]

Feminist Books I've Read So Far This Year

Caroline Criado-Perez, Invisible Women

Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

bell hooks, Ain't I A Woman?

Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

Michele Wallace, The Black Macho and The Myth of The Superwoman

Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam

Kumari Jayawardena, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

Stephanie Golden, The Women Outside

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (part 1)

Books I still have to read (sigh.)

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (part 2)

Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Being and Being Bought

Assata Shakur, Assata

Elaine Brown, A Taste of Power

Gail Dines, Pornland

Iris Chang, The Rape of Nankin

Susan Brownmiller, Femininity

Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women, Woman Hating, Intercourse

Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectics of Sex

Kate Millett, Sexual Politics

Silvia Federici, Caliban and The Witch

#will probably start with the dworkin's and try and finish beauvoir #sigh #wait! just noticed i'm almost halfway through my reading list! nice #radfem literature #ref

[friendlymathematician]

Serious question, is a woman who makes pornographic content of herself on OnlyFans exploiting herself? Like let’s say she’s the only one involved, she’s an adult, and she does it entirely because it’s fun. Not because she feels pressured socially or economically. Do you think this is unethical? I’m studying feminism but I can’t tell if sex work is good or bad. Because the example I have seems pretty harmless. Thanks for your time!

i don't think you understand how social pressure works. it's not just a specific person telling you that you should do a thing - social pressure is also growing up in a society that tells you your only value is your body being appealing to men. it is growing up surrounded by a pornographic culture that sexualises violence against and exploitation of female bodies. there is no such thing as a person unaffected by the culture surrounding them. this hypothetical woman does not exist.

sex work, by the way, is a terrible term. it's promoted by various pimp organisations such as the red umbrella, and obscures the difference between those doing the exploitation (pimps, traffickers, pornographers) and those being exploited (prostituted women and children). use precise, correct terminology.

if you want to read more about prostitution, one excellent resource is kajsa ekis ekman's being and being bought (varat och varan). it also treats surrogacy, as another form of exploitation of the female body.

[lilacsupernova]

Over the past ten years, these types of attacks have grown increasingly aggressive. Not since the movement for women's suffrage have women's rights activists in the west been subjected to such massive hate campaigns. Several feminists who have spoken out about women's rights in relation to gender identity theory have been physically assaulted. In September 2017, a women's meeting titled “We Need to Talk About Gender” was held in Hyde Park in London; the location – Speakers' Corner – was decided on following the organisers receiving threats and pressure to cancel including cancellations of offers to host them from several venues. At this historics meeting place where the suffragettes had met to demand the vote for women, a group of counter protesters arrived with signs that read “No Debate” and “Terfs not Welcome.” They violently attacked the meeting attendees and a 25-year-old man named Wolf was later sentenced for assault of a 60-year-old woman. Wolf identifies as female and had previously tweeted that he planned to attend the meeting to “fuck some terfs up” and “if you are a terf and/or dont [sic] think transwomen are women, you can suck my cock you cuntface.” An observer at the trial writes:

“Two dozen individuals-mostly men with masks on some in some in full combat gear -accompanied Wolf to court. […] Three of Wolf's supporters brought fighting dogs (Dobermans and Mastiffs), as well as a huge sound system blaring death metal. Half stayed outside the court, half came in. The machismo of it all was palpable. […] By day two, Wolf's supporters had dwindled to around a dozen. All but one were men. [Maria] McLachlan's supporters were all women.”

An odd scene indeed: a group of young, masked men gather in support of a man who has struck down a 60-year-woman, all convinced that they are women. The women's movement has gone through many ideological conflicts over the years but these have rarely been solved by assaulting one another.

– Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2023) On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts on the New Definition of Woman, pp. 289-90.

#kajsa ekis ekman #on the meaning of sex #feminism #radical feminism #maria mclachlan #let women speak #male violence #misogyny #lilac posts

[feministevents]

Book Launch for 'On the Meaning of Sex' by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (Zoom)

Wednesday, 8 March 2023

7PM to 8PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time ->3AM to 4AM EST

->8AM to 9AM GMT

The new definition of sex has been hailed as progressive. But is it really? What ideology is expressed by it? What consequences will it have? Join us on International Women's Day as Bronwyn Winter launches the new book by Swedish feminist and Marxist, Kajsa Ekis Ekman - ON THE MEANING OF SEX: THOUGHTS ABOUT THE NEW DEFINITION OF WOMEN. The book is a brilliant examination of the intellectually incoherent and anti-feminist character of gender identity theory.

Read more about the book here.

Register for Zoom link here.

#event #book launch #australia

[justchillingoverhere321]

Hiii, I've decided to make a little introduction post since I'm pretty new and want you guys to get to know me a little better :)

- My name is Kat

- I'm from Austria

- I speak German, English, Spanish, rusty Norwegian, some French and broken Dutch (I'm a language nerd 🤓)

- I've been a huge fan of alpine skiing since I was a little kid

- My favorite skiers are of course Mika and Aleks, but I also love Kajsa and Ragnhild (pretty much any Norwegian skier tbh 🥹) and Michelle!

- Random facts: I have three cats, my favorite color is pink and I play the piano and love to read :)

#this is me :) #feel free to tell me some random facts about yourself #alpine skiing #hellooo #introduction post

[simminginpastels]

Hi there!

My name is Kajsa (swedish kid here) and I’m new here in Tumblr (or Simblr?). I’ve been a sims player for several years now, but I’ve never really been part of the sims community since I would only hop in with my main account @kajsainpictures to download cc or get some inspiration. Buuut recently my sister Kyra aka @syninplays​ (🙄) tirelessly begged me to share my sims stuff here so well, here I am. 

Not sure how this entire Simblr thing really works besides the little tips my sister gave me, so forgive me if I mess it up sometime 😅 Anyhow, feel free to socialize ask me whatever you want and follow as I’m trying to find more cool people to follow! I also made a few posts and readied my blog to be fully functional once I’m settled, in case you want to take a look? 

I'll post mostly from the sims 4, sharing my builds/interior and my sims as well! I already made a sims page which is here where you can read about my silly pixel people. ♡

#new simblr #new on tumblr #new simmer #simmer #simblr #ts4 blog #ts4 simmer #I have no idea how to tag this sorryyy

[kajsa-writes-sometimes]

Things I try to keep a tap on

and stuff I want to read if my brain would give me a break

I'll add links to the stories under the read more. I'll update every once in a while

The Red Kings Mystical Suiter by @writeblrfantasy

Shadowplay by @pheita

Stella Maris by @phantomnations

#kajsa reads #master list

[jeannedarcxz]

reading "on the meaning of sex" by kajsa ekis ekman and it is great but so fucking dystopian. can't believe we live in a society where biology and science are thrown aside in order to embrace metaphysical gender essentialism lol

#radblr #radfem #radfem safe #radical feminism #gender critical #gc #kajsa ekis ekman #hwrites

[super-unpredictable98]

The Unavoidable | Me and Mrs. Jones AU

Pairing: Billy x Saga (Me and Ms. Adolphson’ Verse) Word Count: 2,8 k Warning: Strong language

(Masterlist)

"Should I be worried, S? You left the house twice this month, once for your sister's hen night and once to pick the twins up from school. But even then you were covered from head to toe, Alfie told me people thought you were a child predator," Billy laughed, sitting by his girlfriend on the couch. 

"Welcome home from work, my dear, I missed you too!" Saga laughed nervously.

"Who you runnin' from? Any stalker I should know about?"

"No... It's just... I heard my father is in England," she admitted quietly, and Billy's heart dropped. 

He knew she wasn't embarrassed of him or anything like that, she was more scared of her family than anything else, but it still hurt that she was that terrified of being seen with him. 

Most of the time he felt like a mildly successful guy: he had a good job (it wasn't a five-star hotel restaurant, but still), he had a nice flat, and he could afford to take Saga out and buy nice gifts for her. He was faithful and loving, she seemed happy with him.

"How are we gonna do this at the wedding? Are you gonna tell him or am I just Alfie's friend when I'm there?" He asked hesitantly.

"I- I'm gonna tell him, of course. I don't wanna have to pretend like you're not my boyfriend, I love you!" Saga cried. "Besides, he's not gonna throw a tantrum during Inca's wedding. My brothers will be there too, I think they'll like you, they just want to see me happy."

"You sure? I heard your brothers are quite big, if they don't like me, I'm pretty much fucked."

"No, they are big but they are also really nice."

Billy nodded, trying to believe her. He was usually so great at meeting parents, his natural charm always made them like him, but this time he was the bad boy who stole the girl away from the man her dad chose. That thought had been haunting him ever since they started dating.

"What are their names? Y'never talk about your family," he pointed at the plastic bag on the table with the meal he prepared for her before closing the kitchen. 

"My mum's name is Kajsa, she was a model when she was my age, but now she's a housewife. People say Inca and I look a lot like her, she's the best mom in the world and nothing you say can change my mind. My dad, Ivar, has his own menswear brand he created with my grandpa. He is very strict, but he does what he does because he loves us. He just wants what's best for me."

"Mmmhm I see, I see..." Billy nodded. He absolutely didn't like her father, not after learning that he essentially forced Saga to date Ake despite her protests. Ivar sounded like a huge control freak who treated his kids as property, but for everyone's sake, he was willing to ignore those feelings and be nice to the old man. "And your brothers?"

"Noak is the oldest, he works with my dad and he is very uptight, he always used to tell our parents when I did something wrong. Esbjorn is a lawyer and he loves to read, especially the classics, he's really smart. Then there's Inca, and Goran is the second youngest, he is an athlete, he swims for his college team."

"And then there's you, the little family princess protected by all these people," he chuckled as he watched her happily eat her spaghetti and meatballs. "I'm fucked."

"No, you are not! They will love you just like I do, you are a good man, a great catch, Billy. If my dad or my siblings can't see that, then it sounds like a them problem, I'm not gonna give up my happiness for them anymore."

Billy wasn't so sure they would even give him a chance. An Irish nomad who just settled in England, working as a chef, but at a small pub and with a salary that wouldn't impress anyone. Living in a flat with one chair and who just happened to swoop in and win the heart of a, let's face it, rich Swedish heiress. He loved her to bits, but was that enough for her family?

As the days passed by, he tried to focus on his groomsman duties and work, ignoring his doubts and doing the best he could to hide them from his very perceptive girlfriend. When the day finally came, the nerves were at an all time high, but for a moment everything disappeared:

"You look... Gorgeous, Saga," Billy swallowed when she came out of his room in her long emerald green dress. 

It was quite a simple outfit, Inca would never let the bridesmaids upstage her in any way, but Saga made it look like a masterpiece. Her hair up exposed her long neck and her delicate collar bones, the slit that exposed her beautiful thigh... It all made his heart skip a beat and send blood somewhere else.

"Thank you, sweetie, you look very handsome too," she stepped closer to fix his tie and his hair. "When our wedding happens, you are definitely not wearing gray again."

"We're gettin' married?" He chuckled.

"I would like to one day, wouldn't you?"

"Yeah, of course, I just- we never discussed that. I thought you'd be horrified with commitment after all that happened."

"I am, but not when it comes to you. I want to be with you for as long as I can, being with you is like being home."

"That is so beautiful, darlin'," he smiled, taking in the sight of her so he would never forget it. "And what color would you want me t'wear for our wedding?"

"I don't know, maybe blue, or deep red."

"Sounds good t'me, as long as I'm marryin' you I'll wear a diaper for all I care," he offered his arm for her to hold. "Let's go, Tom is already waitin' downstairs."

—————————————————— 

"I am starting to lose my mind!" Inca cried, pacing from one side of the room to the other.

"Hey, hey, calm down," Saga took her hands while Gemma simply watched awkwardly from the side. Calming the bride was a job for the bridesmaids of course, so they both had to be there. "Look at me, Inca! You are going to be fine."

"What if I'm making a mistake?"

"You won't know until you make it and it's better to make a mistake and fix the mess later than to never try and never know how things could've been."

"Divorce is always an option, don't feel like your life is over," Gemma said, but quickly shut her mouth when Saga glanced at her. "I don't think you're making a mistake."

"You married Jason once and it didn't work, maybe I am!" Inca panted, she was starting to look even paler if that was possible. "This dress is too big, it's suffocating me! I'm needing to change."

"It's okay, you are just anxious, sister! You love this dress because it's too big, it's gonna look amazing in the photos. You'll look perfect, and you are going to be so happy with your husband. I meant what I said that one time, Jason is an idiot, but he is a good person. You are perfect together, there's nothing to worry about."

"Are you sure, Saga? You really think so?"

"I am one hundred percent sure."

"Okay, I'm ready! Go on, I'm going to be preparing for my big entrance."

The two bridesmaids ran into the church and took their places at the altar. Billy gave them a questioning look and Saga gave him a thumbs up, nodding with a smile. Her face changed completely though when she noticed her father sitting on the first row with her mother and brothers. 

It had been a while since they had seen each other. Saga purposefully avoided calling or texting so she could escape the questions about her love life and whenever Ake came up in conversation, she simply made up an excuse to hang up. 

During the ceremony, she allowed herself not to think about that and simply focus on her sister and that big moment. Saga had never been so grateful for Inca being such an attention seeker, who would even look at her when that beautiful bride with that massive fairytale dress was standing right there? 

But there was only so much that could be done to avoid the unavoidable. After the pictures everyone headed to the reception, Billy opened the car door for his girlfriend and once again offered his arm so they could go in together.

"Would you rather walk in alone?" He asked just to make sure.

"No, being with you makes me feel safe."

"Saga! Have you been running from us?" Esbjorn laughed, taking her in his arms and lifting her in the air. "We are all missing you so much."

"I miss you too, I've just been so busy. Work and babysitting for Gemma..." She murmured.

"Hmmm you have your lying voice, Sag," Noak quirked an eyebrow and Billy cleared his throat uncomfortably, none of them seemed to even notice he was there. "Come on, what really happened? Are you being mistreated in England?"

"Mistreated? Look at her!" Goran teased, giving her stomach a squeeze. "She gained some weight, she's been eating well! That's really good, remember how she was always moping around right before moving? Saga is looking much happier!"

"Yes, I see that," her father joined them. "Looking much happier indeed. I missed that smile."

"You look beautiful, baby, so beautiful! Soon you'll be the one standing there in a wedding dress," her mother added. "Speaking of, where is Ake? I thought he moved here to be closer to you."

"Haven't you heard? Ake moved back home actually," Saga chuckled nervously. "It's been a few months, we are... Not together anymore."

"What? He broke up with you?" Noak asked.

"He wouldn't dare..." Ivar muttered.

"No! He didn't, it was mutual. None of us were happy, he didn't want to live here and I didn't really like him anymore," she explained.

"Didn't like him anymore? And since when is that a reason to be breaking up? I found you a great boy!" 

"I'm grown, father, I'm a woman now. Don't you think I have the right to choose who I want to be with?"

"And who could possibly be better than Ake for you, Saga?" Kajsa asked.

"M-my boyfriend," she pointed at him, and he finally approached the family, his legs barely holding him up straight. "His name is William Delaney, but everyone calls him Billy. He's a chef and we are living together most of the time, that's probably why I gained some weight. He is amazing, so smart, hardworking, and kind. He has a heart of gold and makes me really happy."

"Hello, sir," Billy shook Ivar's hand and did the same to each of her brothers before delicately greeting Kajsa. "It's a pleasure to meet you all."

"Why does he talk like that?" Goran asked.

"Because he's Irish," Saga mumbled. "He also just moved to the country recently with his friend Alfie. Alfie is Gemma's son, Gemma was married to Jason, and Jason is now marrying Inca, so he's not just some stranger."

The silence that took over that conversation was deadly. No one dared to speak and Saga's dad still seemed very upset about the end of her relationship with Ake. She knew that would happen, she shouldn't have introduced them at all, maybe just trying to be totally invisible during the wedding would've been better. 

"I see you are meeting the Irish! mammy, pappy, Billy is fantastic!" Inca showed up out of nowhere to save the day. "He is such nice little boy, so funny too. And handsome, of course, they are going to have beautiful babies." 

"Babies?" Saga hissed.

"Are you...?" Esbjorn's eyes grew wide.

"NO! I'm not, no chance at all!" Saga shook her head and Billy quickly followed her lead.

"Yeah, I guess Inca meant after we are married, in a few years," he added.

"You plan to marry our sister?" Noak gave him the most skeptical look. 

"Absolutely, she's the most amazing girl I've ever met and I'd be a complete idiot t'let her go. Especially after I fought so hard t'have her... You know, sir, she really tried t'make things work with Ake. I was foamin' at the mouth with jealousy all the time,  she did the best she could. But I guess in the end love always wins, isn't it?"

"You love this man, Saga?" Ivar asked, Kajsa already melting from how sweet he was and how clear his intentions were.

"I do, more than anything in the world," she took his hand. "And if you still don't like him, please come over tomorrow for dinner, he's the most amazing cook."

"Oh yeah, I'd love t'make somethin' for my future in-laws, whatever you want," Billy offered. "I can even make a typical Swedish dish if you like."

"He's being so nice, Ivar," Kajsa sighed, completely mesmerized. "Wasn't that what we wanted? For her to be happy? Back when you chose Ake she was so sad, don't you remember?"

"She was always crying," Inca added. "And it's the 21st century, forcing your child to be with someone like that is not right."

"I do remember, I thought it was just jitters, I didn't think she was actually unhappy," he scoffed sadly. "Well, if you are really serious about marrying my Saga and not just make her wait around like this bastard Jason did to my Inca... Then you have my blessing."

"You have my word Mr. Adolphson," Billy nodded, trying not to seem too giddy from getting his approval. He could've sworn the night would go a very different way.

"Thank you, pappy," Saga grinned widely. 

"But I will be coming over tomorrow, William," Ivar warned. "If you are not making a good janssons frestelse, I guess you are just not good enough for my daughter. It's her favorite dish, you need to be cooking it."

"I'll do my best, Mr. Adolphson. May I have your next dance, Mrs. Adolphson?" he held out his hand and she took it, blushing slightly.

"Of course, young man."

"Sweet! C'mon Sags, let's get this party started!" Alfie pulled her by the hand to the dance floor, still holding a couple of scotch eggs and munching on them. 

"Maybe we were lucky, pappy," Goran pointed out. "Saga could be dating him."

—————————————————— 

"So that went well!" Billy loosened his tie as they finally arrived at the flat. "Your family is way less scary than I imagined."

"I told you. I knew dad wouldn't react too badly at her wedding. Maybe on any other day he would've beat you up, but we got lucky, didn't we?" Saga kicked off her shoes and collapsed on the sofa.

"Good t'know," he laughed. "You're a good strategist. Now y'just gotta teach me that dish he wants. What is it?"

"Oh, it's very easy, it's like a fish and potato casserole, I can teach you," she pulled him down with her and leaned against his chest, remembering how they danced after everything was settled. How he held her so close, swaying gently to the music and stealing kisses when nobody was looking. 

"I think I can manage," Billy wrapped his arms around her. "Guess now I better start thinkin' about how I'm gonna propose t'you."

"There's still so much time," Saga laughed.

"When the time comes... I need t'plan ahead, I wanna top Jason's confession when he asked your sister to grab his steady horn so he could take her on a magical adventure right after settin' fire to himself."

"Yeah, that'll be very hard to top," she nodded with a giggle. "But I guess you already know what to say. Remember that time? Jason made you pretend like I was Inca and propose to me? You are my perfect person and I see you perfectly."

Her heart raced just thinking about that day, the kiss that came after... She couldn't believe she was actually his girlfriend, that he actually liked her. 

It felt like a dream most of the time when he looked at her with that charming smirk, when he kissed her and it still felt like the first time, chest to chest in the bathroom the first night they met.

"I wanna find new words," Billy explained. "I wanna find a whole new way to surprise you and make you say yes."

"I'm the luckiest girl in the world," she mumbled without even realizing it.

"And I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I'm glad I didn't give up, sometimes I feel like a complete homewrecker, but... When y'look at me like that, it's hard t'feel guilty at all."

#me and ms adolphson #me and mrs jones fanfic #me and mrs jones #billy delaney x oc #billy delaney #fanfic #robert sheehan character fic #robert sheehan fanfic

[there-are-4-lights]

i listened to the launch of kajsa ekis ekman's book in english today and most of the stuff i'd heard already (i've read the book already) but one thing she said is one of those things that’s going to stick with me forever, she said something like “when they attack women for being terfs or whatever, they attack them singly. you’re supposed to feel like there’s this big mob attacking you, and you are alone”.

and like, that’s not a new thought by any means, it’s classic divide and conquer, you single someone out and make her feel like a uniquely bad person and stuff. but now im never going to unsee it.

there’s something wrong with joanne. not with joanne and the other 90k people who’ve signed the petition. she’s never not alone.

[lilacsupernova]

When States Convert Homosexuals

At first glance, one might think that the patients of youth trans clinics only have one thing in common: they are trans. However, several studies show a much more complex picture.

The vast majority of young people seeking treatment at trans clinics are homosexual or have one or several neuropsychiatric diagnoses. Most come from a highly educated family and 41 per cent previously identified as gay or bisexual. 62.5 per cent of girls in a British study had previously been diagnosed with a psychiatric or neuropsychiatric illness. Anorexia is especially common, as are ADHD, depression and trauma. The figures are nearly identical in other countries: 60 per cent of patients at transgender clinics in Sweden and Norway suffer from complex mental health needs. Similarly, a US study found 44 per cent of girls aged three to 12 diagnosed with a gender dysphoria who did not undergo hormone treatment turned out to be lesbian or bisexual in their teens. A 2011 Dutch study followed up 77 children referred to a gender dysphoria clinic when they were aged eight and obtained similar results: the majority later turned out to be gay or bisexual. This was overwhelmingly true for boys, 46 per cent of whom no longer had gender dysphoria in their teens. Around half of the participants later identified as gay and, of those whose gender dysphoria persisted, all were in gay or bisexual relationships. The researchers, [Peggy] Cohen-Kettenis among them, were obliged to draw conclusions in complete contradiction of their previous work:

"Most children with gender dysphoria will not remain gender dysphoric after puberty. Children with persistent GID are characterized by more extreme gender dysphoria in childhood than other children with desisting gender dysphoria. With regard to sexual orientation, the most likely outcome of childhood GID is homosexuality or bisexuality."

[...] The studies mentioned were all conducted prior to the tremendous increase in teen gender dysphoria. A fundamental flaw is that around 30 per cent of participants did not respond to follow-up questionnaires. Therefore, it is impossible to state with any certainty how they felt and why. Yet one thing is clear: it is above all gay children and teenagers who are taken to gender reassignment clinics. Through injections and later surgery, they are made to resemble members of the opposite sex. In other words, to look heterosexual. The boy who behaves 'effeminately' and is taken to a clinic at age eight, is made into a girl and probably sterilised in the process. Here are the words of a mother of an 11-year-old boy:

"We gave him the idea. He liked wearing dresses and then we read in the paper that one could be born in the wrong body. We thought we were helping him. We didn't understand it would lead to this. We confused being feminine with being a girl."

– Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2023) On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts on the New Definition of Woman, pp. 144-6.

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Nederland maakt 200 miljoen euro vrij voor luchtverdediging Oekraïne

Demissionair minister Kajsa Ollongren (Defensie) heeft aangekondigd dat Nederland meer dan 200 miljoen euro zal vrijmaken voor extra luchtverdediging voor Oekraïne. Dit besluit werd genomen na de ingelaste NAVO-Oekraïne-raad, waar ook de Oekraïense president Volodimir Zelenski aan deelnam. Van het bedrag van 200 miljoen euro zal 150 miljoen euro worden besteed aan een Duits initiatief dat samenwerkt met andere landen om snel luchtverdedigingssystemen voor lange afstanden te leveren. Daarnaast zal Defensie 60 miljoen euro investeren in luchtverdedigingsmiddelen voor korte afstanden, waarmee onder andere drones kunnen worden uitgeschakeld, aldus minister Ollongren. “Luchtverdedigingsmiddelen en artilleriemunitie zijn dringend nodig in Oekraïne. De situatie dreigt kritiek te worden. De middelen waar Nederland nu aan bijdraagt, bevinden zich al op het Europese continent en zullen zo snel mogelijk naar Oekraïne worden gebracht. We moeten nu gezamenlijk alles op alles zetten om Oekraïne te ondersteunen”, benadrukte de Nederlandse regeringsfunctionaris. Nederland zal ook een bijdrage leveren aan een initiatief van Estland om snel artilleriemunitie naar Oekraïne te sturen vanuit bestaande voorraden. Een woordvoerder van het ministerie van Defensie kon nog geen details geven over de Nederlandse bijdrage aan dit initiatief. Oekraïne heeft al geruime tijd om meer hulp gevraagd, omdat het land dagelijks wordt aangevallen met raketten en drones door Rusland. Oekraïne heeft onder andere behoefte aan zeven Patriot-systemen om steden en infrastructuur te beschermen. Duitsland heeft eerder deze week aangekondigd een Patriot-systeem te sturen. Daarnaast zit Oekraïne aan het immens lange front in de verdrukking, waar het Russische leger langzaam terrein wint en meer artilleriegranaten heeft dan Oekraïne. Er wordt gespeculeerd over een groot zomeroffensief van Rusland. De druk op Oekraïne neemt toe doordat er minder militaire steun vanuit de Verenigde Staten komt. In het Amerikaanse Congres wordt al maanden gediscussieerd over een steunpakket van 60 miljard dollar voor Oekraïne, waar mogelijk dit weekend opnieuw over gestemd zal worden in het Huis van Afgevaardigden. Read the full article