Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy

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[email protected] says...
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> On May 25, 2026 at 8:39:45 AM MST, "zendejo" wrote
> <[email protected]>:
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> > On 5/24/26 9:30 PM, Brock McNuggets wrote:
> >> On May 24, 2026 at 6:53:51 PM MST, ""Joel W. Crump"" wrote
> >> <[email protected]>:
> >> 
> > 
> >>> It is anti-American to violently side with the right wing.
> >> 
> >> I wish I could agree -- but the treatment of Natives, the KKK, one drop racial
> >> rules, slavery, Jim Crow, internment camps, etc. The Nazis got many of their
> >> ideas from America. This is an eye opening read:
> >> 
> >> https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-American-Model-United-States/dp/0691172420
> >> 
> >> Or an online source:
> >> 
> >> https://www.history.com/articles/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow?utm_source=chatgpt.com
> >> 
> >> 
> > It ought not be lost that Henry Ford's famed River Rouge assembly line
> > was the model Hitler adopted for the KDF/Volkswagen.
> 
> True. Though using his tech / ideas does not necessarily mean they were
> aligned. But they WERE aligned.

Prove it then.
> > 
> > However, the borrowed off a far more sinister portion of our history -
> > institutionalized eugenics:
> > 
> > https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2757926/
> > 
> > 
> > To understand why eugenics became a serious scientific movement in the
> > 1920s, it is useful to look back 20 years earlier. In 1902, Charles B.
> > Davenport, then a Professor of Zoology at the University of Chicago,
> > approached the Carnegie Institution with a request for $45,000 to create
> > a ?Biological Experiment Station for the study of evolution? on the Cold
> > Spring Harbor Campus.4 His aim would be the ?analytic and experimental
> > study of the causes of specific differentiation?of race change.? He
> > proposed to accomplish this ?by the cross breeding of animals and plants
> > to find the laws of commingling of qualities ? the study of the laws and
> > limits of inheritance.?4 Within this brief two-page proposal, Davenport
> > commingles the scientific genetic approach that dated back to Mendel
> > with his personal fascination with the perceived human racial
> > differences of his day.
> > 
> > Within 5 years the Experimental Evolution Department had established
> > over 100 animal stocks that included 20 mammals and dozens of insects
> > (including crickets and Drosophila), and over 400 flowering plants.5 It
> > took until 1910 for Davenport to begin studies on human inheritance with
> > the creation of the Eugenics Record Office. Financial support came from
> > Mrs. E.H. Harriman (a wealthy philanthropist), John Harvey Kellogg (the
> > breakfast cereal magnate), and the American Breeders' Association. This
> > association was the first membership-based group whose mission included
> > the promotion of eugenics research in the United States through a
> > subcommittee chaired by ichthyologist and Stanford University President
> > David Starr Jordan.6,7 By 1918, H.H. Laughlin was hired as the
> > superintendent of the Eugenics Records Office, which transitioned from a
> > freestanding, self-supporting endeavor to a sub-department of the
> > Experimental Evolution Department under the control of the Carnegie
> > Institution.8 Davenport conceived of this office to mainly ?serve
> > eugenical interests in the capacity of repository and clearing house?
> > and to ?provide data adequate to making eugenical studies.?8 Their
> > method was to collect family histories from ?better families? and
> > ?subnormal families? based upon methods previously described by Galton.
> > 
> > By the 1920s, three major efforts pushed the eugenic agenda in the
> > United States and subsequently throughout Europe: (1) The Eugenics
> > Research Association with Laughlin and Davenport as leaders and in
> > affiliation with the American Association of the Advancement of Science
> > (AAAS). (2) The American Eugenics Society founded by Laughlin, Harry
> > Crampton, Madison Grant, and Henry Fairfield Osborn with the purpose of
> > promoting the eugenical movement at both the scientific and popular
> > level. (3) The Eugenics Records Office, directed by Davenport and run by
> > Laughlin with the express purpose of providing the scientific data to
> > support the eugenics movement.
> > 
> > A concerted effort of this magnitude with the expressed support of the
> > mainstream scientific establishment (e.g., AAAS as operator of the
> > journal Science; the American Breeders' Association, which later became
> > the American Genetics Association; and the Carnegie Institution) had an
> > effect throughout both the scientific and governmental establishments
> > worldwide. Specifically, by 1936 when both England and the U.S. genetic
> > scientific communities finally condemned eugenical sterilization, over
> > 60,000 forced sterilizations were already performed in the United States
> > on mostly poor (and often African-American) people confined to mental
> > hospitals.9,10 The practice of forced sterilizations for the ?unfit? was
> > almost unanimously supported by eugenicists. The American Eugenics
> > Society had hoped, in time, to sterilize one-tenth of the U.S.
> > population, or millions of Americans.11
> > 
> > Laughlin's publication of Eugenical Sterilization in the United States
> > in 1922 included the drafting of a ?model law? for compulsory
> > sterilization that was the bedrock of forced sterilization programs
> > throughout the country. According to Davenport, Laughlin's ?book on
> > sterilization is recognized as the standard.?12 In 1930, Laughlin
> > comments about the U.S. Supreme Court upholding a Virginia sterilization
> > statute as, ?the establishment of the eugenical authority of the
> > state ? [enabling] the prevention of hereditary degeneration by a method
> > sound from the legal, eugenical and humanitarian points of view. ? It is
> > now possible for any state, if it desires to do so, to enact a
> > sterilization statute.?12 A typical study prepared by Laughlin and used
> > to justify these laws is excerpted below:
> > 
> > The Problem of the Feeble-Minded in Connecticut ? the 11,962
> > feeble-minded persons?the total number who came under the purview of the
> > Survey?have been studied individually in reference to nine subject as
> > follows: (1) sex, (2) age, (3) recidivism, (4) diagnostic class, (5)
> > intelligence quotient, (6) race descent, (7) nativity, (8) citizenship,
> > (9) kin in institutions. ? At the present rate every inhabitant of
> > Connecticut is expending ? 5 and 1/3 as many dollars on the socially
> > inadequate and the individually handicapped as the average inhabitant
> > was spending for the same purpose 20 years ago.13
> > 
> > Davenport's eugenical research is very typical of countless studies
> > purporting to link perceived human differences to the burgeoning field
> > of Genetics. This work is best appreciated by quoting the author directly:
> > 
> > Successful naval officers are of various types. ? The three commonist
> > traits are: (1) love of sea; (2) capacity for fighting; (3) capacity for
> > commanding or administering. ? The performance of a man depends in large
> > degree upon his inherent, inheritable traits. ? The sea makes to
> > different people varied appeal. ? The love of the sea, sea-lust or
> > thalasssophilia is apparently a specific trait to be differentiated from
> > wanderlust or love of adventure. ? One of the most striking
> > characteristics of sea?lust is that it is wholly a male character ? so
> > the appeal of the sea develops under the secretion of the germ gland in
> > the boy. It is theoretically possible that some mothers are heterozygous
> > for love of the sea, so that when married to a thalassophilic man half
> > of their children will show sea-lust and half will not.14
> > 
> > What is often not appreciated is that Nazi efforts were bolstered by the
> > published works of the American eugenics movement as the intellectual
> > underpinnings for its social policies. One of Hilter's first acts after
> > gaining control of the German government was the passage of the Law for
> > the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (Gesetz zur VerhÃŒtung
> > erbkranken Nachwuchses) in July 1933.15 The Nazis, when proposing their
> > own sterilization program, specifically noted the ?success of
> > sterilization laws in California? documented most notably by the
> > American eugenicist P.B. Popenoe.16 The Nazi program ultimately resulted
> > in the sterilization of 360,000?375,000 persons.9 The intellectual
> > linkage between the United States and Nazi eugenic programs is further
> > illustrated by Davenport's presence on the editorial boards of two
> > influential German racial hygiene journals, Zeitschrift fÃŒr Rassenkunde
> > und ihrer Nachbargebiete and the Zeitschrift fÃŒr menschliche Vererbungs-
> > und Konstitutionslehre.17 Sadly, with the benefit of 70 years hindsight,
> > we can see the alignment of the stated goals of the Eugenics Records
> > Office with Nazi social engineering programs as revealed by Davenport:
> > 
> > To investigate the nature of those forces or agencies which improve or
> > impair racial or family-stock qualities. These forces which act upon
> > immigration, mate selection and fertility, differential by race and
> > family-stock quality are those which have been given most attention. In
> > the field of immigration, studies have been made in Europe and America
> > on the selection of immigrants have played as recruits to the breeding
> > stock of the American people. Many of these researches were conducted in
> > collaboration with the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization of
> > the House of Rep. and the Immigration Service of the U.S. Government.18
> > 
> > It wasn't until 1935 that a review panel convened by the Carnegie
> > Institution concluded that the Eugenics Research Office research did not
> > have scientific merit, and subsequently withdrew funding in 1939.19 In
> > examining this dark history of American science, it is equally important
> > to appreciate that eugenics was but a small part the work of the Carnegie.
> 
> A good read and an important part of history many in the US ignore.