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    G7 leaders mock Putin in jokes about stripping off
    By Guardian Nigeria
    26 June 2022 | 1:28 pm

    World leaders mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tough-man image at a G7 lunch in Germany on Sunday, joking about whether they should strip down to shirtsleeves — or even less.

    “Jackets on? Jackets off? Do we take our coats off?” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked as he sat down at the table in Bavaria’s picturesque Elmau Castle, where Chancellor Olaf Scholz was hosting the summit of seven powerful democracies.

    The leaders — from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the European Union — pondered the dilemma.

    Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, suggested they wait for the official picture before disrobing but then Johnson quipped “We have to show that we’re tougher than Putin” and the joke kept rolling.

    “We’re going to get the bare-chested horseback riding display,” Trudeau said, referring to Putin’s infamous 2009 photo-op of himself riding shirtless on a horse.

    “Horseback riding is the best,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, without apparently weighing in on the clothing issue itself.

    Johnson interjected: “We’ve got to show them our pecs.”

    The leaders posed — jackets on — for photos before reporters were hustled out of the room, leaving the sartorial debate behind closed doors.

    https://guardian.ng/news/g7-leaders-mock-putin-in-jokes-about-stripping-off/

     

  2. 9 hours ago, jonski43 said:

    One-offs? That's the problem, they're not. There are more and more people coming forward saying they're regretting transitioning.

    Now the lawsuits are coming which will mean medical institutions will probably not want to perform these kind of operations if it's going to expose them to costly legal action. 

    But on the other hand, there's a lot of people happy with their transition I guess?

    It's their body and their rights to do whatever they want.

    Transition is not hair cut thingy where hair will grow back after a while.

    These people should've thought very carefully when making such major decision.

    I believe they need to sign certain consent form and go through multiple counselling session for years before the actual operation. These medical institutions are not dumb enough to get themselves into trouble.

     

     

  3. Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe assassinated while giving campaign speech
    08 Jul 2022 04:57PM

    TOKYO: Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe died of his injuries on Friday (Jul 8 )after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election.

    "Shinzo Abe was transported to (the hospital) at 12.20pm. He was in a state of cardiac arrest upon arrival," said Hidetada Fukushima, professor of emergency medicine at Nara Medical University hospital.

    "Resuscitation was administered. However, unfortunately he died at 5.03pm," he told reporters.

    Abe was flown to hospital by helicopter after a shooter opened fire while the former prime minister was delivering a campaign speech in the western region of Nara.

    But he was already showing no vital signs by the time he reached the hospital, with bullet wounds to the neck and chest. One bullet appeared to have entered through his left shoulder.

    Abe died of blood loss, despite being administered blood transfusions in large quantities, Fukushima added.

    The former prime minister's wife Akie Abe arrived at the hospital earlier on Friday afternoon and Fukushima said the family had been informed of Abe's death.

    Abe, 67, had been delivering a speech near a train station when he was shot by an assailant at around 11.30am.

    Footage broadcast by NHK showed Abe standing on a stage when a loud blast was heard with smoke visible in the air.

    Police said a 41-year-old man suspected of carrying out the shooting was arrested. NHK reported that the suspect, identified as Tetsuya Yamagami, told police he was dissatisfied with Abe and wanted to kill him.

    It was the first assassination of a sitting or former Japanese premier since the days of prewar militarism in the 1930s.

    Speaking before Abe's death was announced, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned the shooting in the "strongest terms" while Japanese people and world leaders expressed shock at the violence in a country in which political violence is rare and guns are tightly controlled.

    "This attack is an act of brutality that happened during the elections - the very foundation of our democracy - and is absolutely unforgivable," said Kishida.

    Police said the suspected shooter was a resident of Nara. The gun used in the shooting appeared to be a homemade firearm, NHK reported earlier.

    Several media outlets the suspect as a former member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. Abe's younger brother, Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi, declined to comment on that.

    https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/japan-former-pm-shinzo-abe-assassinated-shot-nara-campaign-speech-2796576

  4. Chinese man, 33, who went to doctors with urinary problem is shocked to learn he was born with ovaries and a uterus - and has been menstruating for 20 years

    • Chen Li was told by doctors in China he was born with female sex chromosomes as well as ovaries and a uterus, despite having male genital organs
    • He only discovered he was intersex after he complained of urinary problem
    • The man, who was suffering from blood in urine, was in fact menstruating

    By RACHAEL BUNYAN FOR MAILONLINE | 7 July 2022

    A man in China who thought he had a urinary problem was shocked to find out he was born intersex and has been menstruating for the last 20 years.

    Chen Li, 33, whose name has been changed, was told by doctors he was born with female sex chromosomes as well as ovaries and a uterus, despite having male genital organs.

    Chen, from a small town in the Sichuan province, only discovered he was also female after he went to doctors for help with a recurring urinary problem, reports the South China Morning Post. 

    The man, who had been suffering from blood in his urine for more than 20 years and had pain in his abdomen every month, had actually been menstruating. 

    Chen, who was horrified to find out he was intersex after 33 years living as a man, has since had his uterus and ovaries surgically removed.

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    The 33-year-old had baffled doctors with his condition after he experienced recurrent blood in his urine and abdominal pain that lasted for more than four hours after going through puberty. 

    Doctors at first thought that the abdominal pain was appendicitis but the symptoms continued even after treatment. 

    But after a medical check-up last year, doctors finally found the root cause of his symptoms. 

    Chen was in fact intersex with female X chromosomes and female reproductive organs - and the monthly cycle of blood in his urine and abdominal pain were actually caused by menstruation.

    Chen underwent a three-hour surgery on 6 June to remove his ovaries and uterus.

    His surgeon, Luo Xiping, told the South China Morning Post that the patient 'was quickly at ease and his confidence was restored'.

    'From his point on, he can live his life as a man, but he cannot reproduce because his testicles cannot produce sperm,' the surgeon added. 

    Intersex is a term which has largely replaced 'hermaphrodite' and is used to describe people who 'do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies', according to United Nations guidelines.

    The UN believes between 0.05 and 1.7 per cent of the global population is intersex - about the same percentage that have red hair.

    Whilst being intersex is extremely rare, in March last year, a married woman in China who had been trying to get pregnant found out she was a biological man. 

    The 25-year-old Chinese woman, known only as Pingping, was told she had the male Y chromosome, despite having female genital organs and having lived as a woman all her life. 

    The discovery emerged following an X-ray on an injured ankle, but also explained why she had never had a period and failed to get pregnant with her husband. 

    The woman, whose name was given as Pingping, was told she had a condition called a '46 XY disorder of sexual development' in which people with male chromosomes have ambiguous, underdeveloped or missing genital organs. 

    Because the woman had ostensibly female organs, she had never questioned her sex, and had turned a blind eye to the fact she had never menstruated. 

    When her mother took her to a doctor as a child, she was told that she might simply be developing more slowly than others. 

    'After I grew up, I found this issue quite embarrassing so I didn’t treat it seriously,' she said.   

    But the doctors who looked at her ankle were struck by her underdeveloped bones and investigated further - bringing forth the surprising result. 

    Doctors informed her that she had no uterus or ovaries, which explained why her 12-month effort to get pregnant had ended in disappointment. 

    But she also had no male genitalia or testes, with doctors saying that these might have existed once but 'degenerated and atrophied'. 

    The medics said Pingping's family should have taken her for more thorough checks years ago, adding that her parents were closely related. 

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10991697/Chinese-man-went-doctors-urinary-problem-told-born-ovaries-uterus.html

  5. Shinzo Abe shot while making election speech in Japan
    July 8, 2022

     

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    NARA, Japan, July 8 (Reuters) - Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was shot on Friday while campaigning for a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man armed with an apparently homemade gun opened fired at him from behind.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-ex-prime-minister-abe-may-have-been-shot-taken-hospital-nhk-2022-07-08/

  6. UK PM Johnson to resign on Thursday: BBC
    THU, JUL 07, 2022 - 4:24 PM

    BRITISH Prime Minister Boris Johnson will resign on Thursday (Jul 7), several media outlets including the BBC reported.

    Johnson had been hanging onto power despite the resignation of a string of his top ministers. On Thursday, the man he appointed as finance minister less than 48 hours earlier publicly urged Johnson to go.

    Defence Secretary Ben Wallace also called on Johnson to quit but said he would stay in his role to protect national security. REUTERS

    https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/uk-pm-johnson-to-resign-on-thursday-bbc

  7. Anguish of young man who had sex organs removed on NHS then regretted it the same day... as he SUES NHS over gender reassignment surgery

    • The unnamed man has said doctors did not warn him about the drastic outcome of gender reassignment surgery which has left him infertile and incontinent 
    • Campaigners say it is first medical negligence case over NHS transgender care
    • He claims he was asked about surgery but delayed as he had doubts but went ahead over fears care he had been receiving for his gender problems would stop 
    • On Twitter, the man said that he had been effectively 'castrated' by the surgery 

    By SUE REID for Daily Mail  | PUBLISHED: 22:00 BST, 23 June 2022

    A young British man who had his genitals removed during gender reassignment surgery is suing the NHS over the operation in a historic legal action.

    He complains that doctors did not warn him of the drastic outcome of the body-altering surgery which has left him infertile, incontinent and feeling like a ‘sexual eunuch’.

    He said on Twitter yesterday: ‘The minute I woke up from surgery, I knew I had made the biggest mistake of my life.’

    Campaigners say that it is the first medical negligence case over NHS transgender care in this country. The NHS trust involved has not been named.

    Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, a group advising parents on transgender children and young adults, said: ‘It is hoped this will force a re-think by the NHS about this kind of barbaric surgery on patients who are told by medics it will help them.

    ‘He has a very real case for compensation against the heath service. We believe he has suffered harm.’

    His case has been taken on by lawyers in Liverpool. It centres on whether the NHS and its gender clinics adequately counselled him before the operation five years ago. The patient, in his thirties, was brought up in the North of England and has de-transitioned from being a woman to live as a man again.

    The man says he is gay and his sexuality should have been discussed before the radical, irreversible gender surgery. ‘I have been castrated. That is the correct term,’ he says on his Twitter feed, which has 19,000 followers.

    ‘I cannot believe they [the NHS] were allowed to do this to me.

    ‘I was not even asked if I wanted to freeze my sperm, or have kids in the future.’ He does not want to be named because he is ashamed of how he looks. Instead, he tweets under the pseudonym TullipR.

    Yesterday, he posted a picture of his huge bundle of medical notes which will be used by his lawyers to bring the case against the NHS.

    TullipR says he transitioned at 25, more than a decade ago, and started taking female hormones to feminise his body. This was followed by surgery when he underwent an NHS operation called ‘penile inversion with scrotal graft’ which removes male genitalia and uses the tissue to construct a false vagina.

    He says he grew up in the North East of England. ‘I knew deep down from a young age I was gay and was deeply terrified of it,’ he says in his tweets describing his past. ‘Everyone in the family joked and expressed disgust and disapproval of gay people.’

    He withdrew into an online world where he felt at peace. There, at 23, he found discussions about gender dysphoria, the fear of living in the wrong sexual body. ‘That’s me, I thought.’

    He found an internet forum called ‘Angels’ which was directed at trans women – men who wish to be women.

    They urged him to transition ‘now’, before it was ‘too late’. He says that he latched on to the idea with zeal.

    He took female hormone drugs bought privately, and later prescribed by his GP and an adult NHS gender clinic, to suppress his male characteristics and look feminine. But when a NHS psychiatrist asked him if he wanted gender reassignment surgery (GRS), he delayed for two years because he had doubts.

    Worried that if he refused he would be denied NHS treatment for his gender problems, he finally agreed.

    His tweets explain: ‘Eventually I found myself on the operating table. Immediately on waking up from surgery, I knew I had made the biggest mistake of my life.

    ‘My sex had been lobotomised.’

    After surgery, he confronted his GP about his doubts.

    He claims they shrugged and said there was no guidance for those who regretted the surgery and treatment. The tweets go on: ‘I have no sensation in my crotch region at all. You could stab me with a knife. I wouldn’t know. The entire region is numb. No one ever told me that the base area of your penis is left. It can’t be removed. It means you have a stump inside which twitches.’

    TullipR says his sex drive died about six months after he began taking female hormones.

    I was glad to be rid of it, but now I realize what I am missing and I won't get back. He describes the ‘living nightmare’ of waking up and forgetting that he has lost his penis and scrotum. ‘I expect something that was there for three decades, and it’s not. My heart skips a beat, every damn time.’

    In the tweets, he describes how the operation has left him struggling to relieve himself. ‘It takes me about 10 minutes to empty my bladder. It is extremely slow, painful, and because it dribbles... it will then go all over the entire area, leaving me soaking.

    ‘I find moments later my underwear is wet. It slowly drips out for more than an hour. I never knew that I would risk smelling of p*** everywhere I go.’

    According to the NHS last year, 13,500 people were waiting for an initial appointment for gender identity treatment which can lead to reassignment surgery.

    The clinic with the shortest waiting time for a first appointment was the flagship Tavistock and Portman Clinic in north-west London which was, at the time, nearly three years.

  8. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    I feel like a part of me has been taken away... default_sad2.gif

    And I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness
    And loneliness has never been a stranger to me

    EXCLUSIVE: Life in plastic is (not) fantastic! Jessica Alves vows to STOP having surgery as she poses for Barbie inspired shoot... but only after she gets her 13th nose job

    By REBECCA LAWRENCE FOR MAILONLINE | PUBLISHED: 10:28 BST, 5 July 2022

    Jessica Alves has vowed to stop having plastic surgery after spending more than £900,000 on 91 procedures in the last two decades. 

    The transgender influencer, 38, revealed in an exclusive chat with MailOnline that she isn't interested in chasing 'perfection' and feels far more confident now that she's living her life as a woman. 

    While Jessica admitted she still has plans for a 13th nose job, as well as full body liposuction, she then wants to stop going under the knife for good. 

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    She explained: 'I'm far from perfection, neither do I want to be perfect, but there are a few things that I need to fix before the summer is over... then I will be done for life with plastic surgery.' 

    Jess also revealed that she now felt the 'ultimate validation' as a woman after being picked as a brand ambassador for Fashion Nova. 

    The TV personality chanelled a Barbie doll for her latest shoot with the brand, and said of the spread 'I loved it! Barbie represents the perfection of a female form and it is fun and flattering to be compared to the doll.' 

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    As well as her various modelling gigs, Jessica has spent the past few months making the most of the return of the travel industry post-lockdown. 

    She explained: 'My gender transition happened while we were at the pandemic in lockdown, so this is my first real summer as a woman. 

    'I have been having a blast! I spent two months in Thailand, now I'm in Turkey and then I'm off to Bali.

    'I am still looking for love and to live a fairytale romance which hopefully will happen one day.' 

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    It comes after Jessica and her new love interest Jamie Bugden split after enjoying a whirlwind romance in Thailand.

    A source told MailOnline last month: 'Jessica was living a love story while in Phuket but that's over now. They are two very different people living very far apart with different mottos in life.

    'Maybe they will meet again one day but are no longer in a relationship.'

    The insider added: 'Jessica is single and very much on the hunt for Mr Right. She still believes in love, romance and being monogamous and is ready to invest her time, love and effort into a relationship'

    Prior to their split, a source told MailOnline of Jessica's romance with Jamie: 'They have been getting on very well and are making the most of their trip. It is the first time she has ever posted a man on her social media.

    'Jessica is heartbroken that it won't be a long term relationship as he is a British man based in Thailand and she splits her time between London and Brazil. They are having fun for now'.

     

  9. 308 mass shootings in 6 months.... I wonder how many minor shootings had occurred? :shock: 

    US Recorded 308 Mass Shootings Since Beginning Of 2022 
    ASSOCIATED PRESS | JULY 05, 2022, 08:38 IST

    Here Is A List Of High Profile Mass Shootings:
    The latest high-profile shooting in the United States happened on July Fourth, when a gunman opened fire on parade-goers in a Chicago suburb. Other notable episodes of gun violence in recent weeks:

    • ESTAVIA HILLS, ALABAMA: At least two people died and another was hospitalized on June 16 after a shooting at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in a Birmingham suburb. Police said a suspect is in custody.
    • DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS: Police shot and killed a man who fired gunshots June 13 at a Dallas-area gymnasium where at least 150 children were attending a day camp.
    • CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE: Three people died and 14 people were injured in a shooting June 5 in front of a restaurant. Three people have been arrested.
    • PHILADELPHIA: Three people died and 11 others were injured June 4 on a busy block in Philadelphia during a melee that began with a fistfight and was followed by random gunfire. Two men are in custody in two of the deaths; other people have also been arrested in connection with the melee.
    • DAYTON, OHIO: A jail inmate being treated at a hospital shot and killed a security guard June 1, pointed the weapon at others and killed himself in a parking lot.
    • TULSA, OKLAHOMA: A gunman killed his surgeon and three other people at a medical office June 1. The gunman killed himself as police arrived.
    • UVALDE, TEXAS: An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School on May 24 in the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. More than 15 other people were wounded. Law enforcement killed the attacker.
    • CHICAGO: A shooting killed two people and injured seven others on May 19 just blocks from the Magnificent Mile shopping district. Two men have been charged.
    • LAGUNA WOODS, CALIFORNIA: One person was killed and five others injured May 15 after a man opened fire on Taiwanese parishioners in Southern California. Authorities have said the gunman was motivated by hatred for Taiwan. He has been charged with murder and other counts.
    • BUFFALO, NEW YORK: A white gunman opened fire May 14 at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood, killing 10 people and injuring others. He has been charged with federal hate crimes that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted.

     

    https://www.news18.com/news/world/us-recorded-308-mass-shootings-since-beginning-of-2022-here-is-a-list-of-high-profile-mass-shootings-5491417.html

  10. EXCLUSIVE: 'I'd feel complete if I could give birth': Transgender Jessica Alves reveals plans to undergo a womb transplant as she puts on an eye-popping display in sizzling snaps

    By LAURA FOX | PUBLISHED: 11:18 BST, 27 July 2021

    Jessica Alves has revealed her plans to undergo a womb transplant so she can fall pregnant, even though the procedure has never been undertaken on a transgender woman.

    The TV personality, 37, who underwent sex reassignment surgery in February, revealed she is hoping to have the groundbreaking surgery as she becomes more and more desperate to have a child.

    It came as Jessica also offered a glimpse of eye-popping figure in a series of exclusive snaps after joining the racy subscription site OnlyFans.

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    Speaking to Closer magazine, Jessica said: 'Even it cost a million pounds to have one, I'd find a way to do it. I would love a baby that has my own genes and blood, and I have my frozen sperm so I could use that for IVF.

    'All I wanted was to be a woman and having gender reassignment surgery was the happiest day of my life. But having a womb would be even better - I would feel complete if I could give birth.

    'I would love to have a brood of children. I would make me so happy to be called ''mummy''.' 

    Jessica said she hopes to become the first transgender woman to have a womb transplant, and is currently speaking to doctors about having the procedure.

    Womb transplants, which cost £50,000 per operation, were developed to allow women to carry a baby if they were born without a womb or have had it removed through illness. Roughly 15,000 women in the UK could benefit.

    It has been considered that the procedure could be trialled on those who were born biologically male using the organs of dead donors or women who have since transitioned to become men and had their wombs removed. 

    In 2019 a clinic in Cleveland became the first to deliver a healthy baby that was carried to term in a womb transplanted from a dead donor.  

    Prior to this, more than a dozen women had given birth after womb transplants, mainly from living donors.

    In 2019 it was reported that experts were investigating whether a womb could be transplanted into a transgender woman who was born male.

    Writing in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the scientists said it would be perfectly possible to put a womb into a male body so that they could carry a baby to full-term. And they say it may be ‘legally and ethically impermissible’ not to consider performing the procedure. 

    Several transgender men – those who were born women and then switched – have already given birth in the UK.

    But in those circumstances it was merely a case of retaining the female reproductive organs after they transitioned, rather than having to implant female organs into a male body.

    Six months after the surgery and the womb has healed, a donated egg would be fertilised with the transgender woman’s own sperm and the embryo implanted. The baby would then be delivered by caesarean section. 

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9830169/Jessica-Alves-reveals-plans-undergo-womb-transplant.html
     

  11. 1 hour ago, cardiganstarlet said:

    What is left for her to do? She’s done everything imaginable at this point.

    She wanna do womb transplant so that she can have her own babies.

    If she did it, it will be a good news for all trans women.

    Sounds impossible but happened before.

    A woman had received a womb transplant and gave birth to a baby but then again, she's a biological woman in the first place.

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