Forced Gender Reassignment. Societies Hidden Shame.

A few days ago I shared a story about Maya Posch which you can see here, an Intersex from the Netherlands. It would be foolish to think that she is the only IS person in the world and she isnt, there are many more people just like Maya, all fighting the same battle, to have their gender accepted. If this is not bad enough many IS people are also having to fight against Forced gender reassignment as this email Maya received today shows.

Got an email earlier from a Belgian woman who was born a hermaphrodite (early 1960s), got forced surgery as a child into a 'boy', forced testosterone-injections until she was 21, then transitioned to a 'female'. Chalk up another one for the 'transsexuals' statistics where said transsexual isn't a transsexual at all but a victim of medical practice against intersex. 
Currently she is having the same issues in Belgium as I am in the Netherlands with regards to having her intersex condition acknowledged. Physicians do not 'understand' the issue and there's the insistence that there is no 100% certain way to diagnose someone as being IS. She heard this there and I heard this here as well. Despite both of us being the most clear-cut IS cases you can imagine. What does it take beyond having both male and female reproductive organs to prove that one is intersex?!?
It hurts me so much to read this woman's story and to realize that she has been dealing with it for fifty years already. For me it's been a long twenty-eight years and then I only have to deal with the ignorance of physicians as well as brainwashing attempts into thinking I have to be transsexual and attempts to make me undergo sex-reassignment surgery. I didn't have forced surgery as a young child, thank the heavens...
Why is this happening? What did we do wrong? Why are we suffering? What happened to our human rights? Please help us become human again in the eyes of governments and the medical world again.

This kind of action is being taken by a so called "Civilised society" and is not acceptable in any shape or form. This is nothing more than uneducated people in positions of power forcing their will and beliefs on someone else and has to be stopped.

Maya ended her post on Google+ by asking

Sign & share the below petition. When I'm taking my case to the European Court of Human Rights later this year it will be very useful, as well as with my media contacts. The latter type of contact is also very welcome. If you can bring me into contact with a media channel who is interested in this story, please do.

If you haven't already signed the petition you can click here and do it. Signing will only take a minute or two and could change the lives of so many people.

Even People With No Gender Have Human Rights

One of the biggest gripes I have is how some people think that they are better than everyone else or that certain people have no rights because of who or what they are. I am very big on equality and believe that "everyone" is equal regardless. That is Everyone with NO exceptions. 

One of my catchphrases for want of a better word is "... Boys, Girls and those of you of mixed or no gender" so you can imagine how fast I was to act when I heard the story of  Maya Posch an intersex person from the Netherlands and her fight to be recognised for what she is while refusing to be as Maya would say be "Brainwashed" into accepting major surgery.

So. Why am I telling you all this? 

Well, boys, girls and those of you of mixed or no gender Maya Posch is currently preparing a case for the European courts of Human Rights and needs as many signatures on her petition as possible. Well 10,000 to be precise. You can sign her petition by clicking "Here" . 

If you want to know more about Maya Posch and the Intersex gender you can go to Mayaposch.blogspot.com

We are all human no mater what gender, colour, sexuality, creed, faith, place we live, bank balance and what ever I have not mentioned. We all live on the same planet and deserve the same rights. Regardless. 

SOPA. How it could effect me.

As a blogger I have to admit SOPA and PIPA being passed does scare the hell out of me. Even though I live in England the powers of these bills will mean that "if" I were to make a post protesting about something or giving my point of view about something I run the risk of having my blog blocked or even stolen by the powers that be over the pond and lets face it, historically I have not been known for keeping quiet about subjects which have caught my attention.

There are times as a blogger I use pictures which are on the internet in my posts. I admit some of these pictures are not mine, usually I do link the site where I took the pictures from but there are times when I done (Im a bad blogger). I am NOT a pirate, I don't link to pirate sites but I have and no doubt will link to things which I am blogging about so that my readers can see for them selves what I am rambling on about and be able to form their own opinion. If SOPA and PIPA are passed I know that this will put me and many other bloggers in a situation where their blogs can and will be blocked.

For some people their blogs are their jobs. They are professional bloggers who make a living from creating posts for other people to read. I don't make any money from blogging, in fact if you take into account the fact that I use my own domain names and not the free sub-domains that my blog host offers it actually costs me money to blog, I pay for the privilege of doing this and have done for nearly 6 years now. I have not made a single penny from any of my blogs but, saying that I would be devastated if any of my blogs were to be taken down just because I had said something which the powers that be in America did not like and trust me if SOPA and PIPA are pushed through this will happen at some point.

The bill which was passed to try to stop internet piracy will be used to take away peoples freedom of speech. Think it wont happen? Let me take you back to the post I made before I blacked out my blog  a post which briefly talked about a student in Sheffield, England who America is trying to extradite using a treaty we stupidly signed so that terrorists and those suspected as terrorists can be extradited to America for trial. Thing is the guy that the powers that be are trying to extradite is NOT a terrorist or even a suspect. He hosted a website which linked to pirate websites. If we take this bending of rules to suit their own needs into account I am confident that other laws will be bent to suit the needs of those in power.

It is for these and many other reasons I am against the introduction of SOPA and PIPA. If you want to know more you can either Google "What is SOPA" or click here. 

Stop SOPA and PIPA

Noscere TV has been Blacked out in Protest against SOPA and PIPA

Click Here to find out more about what SOPA and PIPA WILL do

America. Land of the free to do what you want.

It was just a matter of time before the U.S. abused its powers and changed the rules to suit its self and it did just that this week as it flexed its muscles and managed to bend the rules of the Extradition treaty it signed with Britain and have a student from Sheffield extradited, not as a terrorist or even a suspected terrorist but for running a website that linked to pirate sites and sites that streamed movies, cartoons and TV shows. Needless to say Great Britain did as it was told like the good bitch it is and made it so that this most hanus of criminals lost his case and now might face extradition to America to face trial, even though what he did is technically not a crime in this (his) country.

This is not the first time America has changed the rules to get what it wants regardless of the consequences or the civil rights of its people. Since 9/11 America has gained powers which are worrying to say the least. Powers that in short give National security powers to do what the hell they want including but no doubt not limited to:

Assassination of U.S. citizens
Indefinite detention
No right to a civilian trial
Warrantless searches
Secret Evidence
US officials have immunity from War Crimes prosecution
Secret courts with secret evidence
Immunity from Judicial review
Continuous monitoring of citizens
Extraordinary rendition

(Taken from The Washington Posts "10 Reasons why America is no longer the land of the free")

As Tim O`Reilly points out (I paraphrase) It was bad enough to blame Bush for introducing these bills after 9/11 under the guise of Anti terrorism but what is inexcusable is how the Obama administration have extended these powers to the point now where they can tell a country that they want one of its citizens extradited for breaking an American law while not even in America. (Not a direct quote from Tim O`Reilly)

Let me ask you. What next? At what point do we say No? You can not do this.

To end with I would like to quote Jonathan Turley the author of "10 Reasons why America is no longer the land of the free" and Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University.

Dishonesty from politicians is nothing new for Americans. The real question is whether we are lying to ourselves when we call this country the land of the free.