This is is Stalin-style shit. This is literally what Stalin used to do -- erase history. Erase records. And now Boston (and maybe others in the future?) is following suit.
Hey, "trans" "allies" -- what gives? If your model of "care" is so great, so benign, so necessary, why are you erasing its history??
Considering the federal government is investigating the hospital, this should be expected. They’re clearly trying to erase and hide anything that could be used against them in the investigations.
Since I'm literally surrounded by people who will support this, allow me to play devil's advocate from their perspective: "By erasing these records, our wise leaders are protecting those who provide lifesaving treatment to vulnerable children from Trump and his henchmen who are themselves misogynistic pedophiles and the true forces of evil." Unfortunately those of us on the side of reality and rational thinking are boxed into a corner as the polarization spiral spins our democracy down the toilet. The only way out I can envisage is a moderate third option. Or Superman.
Yes indeed. The late British novelist Doris Lessing wrote movingly of how her anti-apartheid, idealistic Communism was shattered by the slow realization of Stalin's crimes in her autobiography Under My Skin. Many comrades lost their minds with disillusion or turned to drink, while others like her ex lover became cynical apparatchiks behind the Iron Curtain. So many lessons for our times. I see a lot of leftist apparatchiks-in-training these days, toeing the party line, truth be damned.
Maura Healey is the definition of a ladder-puller. I watched her on Seth Meyers talk about how Title IX opened doors for her — yet today, she votes against women’s right to fair play. Another Democrat talking out of both sides of her mouth. Worse, she can’t even see the hypocrisy because her party has decided a “woman” is just a feeling. This is exactly why I’ve gone unaffiliated.
I need to re-read that, thanks for the tip! Lessing's autobiography is in two parts. The first one, Under My Skin, covers the years from the world wars to the cold war which feels so relevant now. That period she describes so well when the idealistic Communists had to face the truth about Stalin (or not) actually came to mind for me a lot during Venezuela's Chavez regime since so many in my circles on the left were all about Chavismo. Whoops. It looks like her autobiographies aren't easily available which is sad since she's a fascinating person. Doesn't fit the mold for the right or the left, I guess. All the more reason to read her!
This coalition continues to “nail it”! I don’t think there could be a more powerful force than the LGB community, which knows full well the struggles same sex attracted children face to embrace themselves. I’m grateful, and honestly blown away by the strides they are making.
This is awful. The Reckoning devotes an entire section to Boston Children's in Chapter 6 on the medical establishment though. I just posted this: https://x.com/KDansky/status/1953850944484954326.
What's so stupid is, legally they will have to produce that content. Anything on the internet never goes away. And on TOP of that, they'll have to produce internal records, etc. So let's hope they get sued.
And the very fact that they attempted to hide it can be used against them in court. Indeed, I gather (full disclosure: not a lawyer here!) that there's even a legal concept which covers this: "consciousness of guilt" (if a defendant acts as though they think they're guilty, the jury is permitted to take this into account).
Yes! Even if it's well within their right to remove any content they want from the internet, it speaks volumes (and none of them good) when they do so. Why does anyone remove stuff? The most innocent answer is it's outdated. But then 99% of the time, you just update the stuff. You don't completely remove it.
Only guilty offenders would do that! And, yes , this is Stalinesque! Hide the evidence of fraud , which the FTC is investigating. I hope the FTC forces them to disclose what they did that has to be hidden . If it’s all such “ affirming care”, why hide it?
The diff was, Stalin COULD delete records. Here? Not so much. Nothing ever really gets deleted from computers or the internet. Not to mention their internal records.
This was just a stupid (and useless) move on their part. At the very most, it might fool a couple of people.
Here's a link to the website of Portland, Oregon's leading sex-change outfit, the Transgender Health Program at the Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU). https://www.ohsu.edu/transgender-health
Those interesting in preserving what OHSU's "gender medicine" program has to say on its website may want to get on it sooner rather than later. Contents include pull-down menus under "For Patients," "For Providers," "About Us," "Volunteering," "Education and Events" and "Resources." Some of those headings have multiple subheadings.
I think it more because they’re under investigation by the federal government for providing these procedures. So they’re trying to erase anything that could be used against them in the investigation.
Puzzle T, the hospital destroying its own in-house records would be illegal. I don't know if they're doing that. Probably not; it would be incredibly stupid.
Destroying -- or trying to -- their online presence is different.
What they'll learn, though, is the power of the Streisand Effect.
They’re technically not “destroying” evidence. They’re removing links to it from their website and restricting access to links on Wayback Machine. That’s not quite the same as outright “destroying” evidence.
But if they were actually destroying the evidence, then yes, that would be illegal.
That makes sense. I was thinking about the FTC’s fraud hearings and if any of the doctors or clinics were deceiving or mishearing patients and the public on these treatments and wondering if hiding what the public and potential patient families were seeing would count as hiding evidence, but I guess that would depend on whether they tried to destroy all evidence of what was ever on their website? Or if that would even be considered evidence in the first place?
Yes, that's the pretext and I'm sure sincere in many cases, but profits are a huge underlying motive in all of this. Which is also why I don't entirely trust the orange man and his tech bros on this either.
This is almost certainly due to the FBI investigation into the hospital as well as the DOJ subpoenas. They’re no doubt attempting to hide anything that could be used against them in the federal investigations.
It was archived too (takes a bit to load as the file is a little over 40 mb). It's about an hour long. I had to look at the source of the archive page. I just downloaded the mp4 as well.
Boomer here, please clarify. This website makes available previous versions of other websites? Or am I misunderstanding. I am not reading that they are erasing the record, but rather restricting the sharing by this other site. Clearly they wish to “hide” past information from easy public access. I get that. If they are actually trying to “erase” actual records within their own system and hard drives this doesn’t appear to be demonstrating that.
If I take the link to this post and put it into the Wayback Machine (or another archive website), it will save this post exactly the way it looks right now. If the post is later edited, the Wayback Machine won't show the edits, just the original post.
For example, this is helpful if an online news story is edited. If the original article was saved, you can view it without the edits.
If the LGB Courage Coalition were to contact the people running the Wayback Machine and ask them to exclude the link to this post, you would no longer be able to view archives of the post (provided the archive owners agree to remove it).
Yeah, Larry, you get it. There's no evidence they are actually destroying their own records (or that they're not, for that matter). That said, and apropos of nothing, if you're not familiar with the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, do yourself a favor and check it out! Just sayin'!
This is is Stalin-style shit. This is literally what Stalin used to do -- erase history. Erase records. And now Boston (and maybe others in the future?) is following suit.
Hey, "trans" "allies" -- what gives? If your model of "care" is so great, so benign, so necessary, why are you erasing its history??
Considering the federal government is investigating the hospital, this should be expected. They’re clearly trying to erase and hide anything that could be used against them in the investigations.
Since I'm literally surrounded by people who will support this, allow me to play devil's advocate from their perspective: "By erasing these records, our wise leaders are protecting those who provide lifesaving treatment to vulnerable children from Trump and his henchmen who are themselves misogynistic pedophiles and the true forces of evil." Unfortunately those of us on the side of reality and rational thinking are boxed into a corner as the polarization spiral spins our democracy down the toilet. The only way out I can envisage is a moderate third option. Or Superman.
Most hospitals would be proud to offer “,life saving” treatments, it would seem. Something fishy about hiding it…and we can guess what it is!
LOL!! Most people I know are or will be saying something very much like this!
Absolutely! But the trans ideology is much like Stalin’s authoritarian regime.
Yes indeed. The late British novelist Doris Lessing wrote movingly of how her anti-apartheid, idealistic Communism was shattered by the slow realization of Stalin's crimes in her autobiography Under My Skin. Many comrades lost their minds with disillusion or turned to drink, while others like her ex lover became cynical apparatchiks behind the Iron Curtain. So many lessons for our times. I see a lot of leftist apparatchiks-in-training these days, toeing the party line, truth be damned.
Very sad!
Massachusetts governor Maura Healy is a lesbian and former professional athlete, so you have to wonder what she really thinks.
Maura Healey is the definition of a ladder-puller. I watched her on Seth Meyers talk about how Title IX opened doors for her — yet today, she votes against women’s right to fair play. Another Democrat talking out of both sides of her mouth. Worse, she can’t even see the hypocrisy because her party has decided a “woman” is just a feeling. This is exactly why I’ve gone unaffiliated.
Lessing’s Prisons We Choose to Live Inside has been a major help to my mental state during this madness. Would love to read her biography.
I need to re-read that, thanks for the tip! Lessing's autobiography is in two parts. The first one, Under My Skin, covers the years from the world wars to the cold war which feels so relevant now. That period she describes so well when the idealistic Communists had to face the truth about Stalin (or not) actually came to mind for me a lot during Venezuela's Chavez regime since so many in my circles on the left were all about Chavismo. Whoops. It looks like her autobiographies aren't easily available which is sad since she's a fascinating person. Doesn't fit the mold for the right or the left, I guess. All the more reason to read her!
This coalition continues to “nail it”! I don’t think there could be a more powerful force than the LGB community, which knows full well the struggles same sex attracted children face to embrace themselves. I’m grateful, and honestly blown away by the strides they are making.
💯💯💯
This is awful. The Reckoning devotes an entire section to Boston Children's in Chapter 6 on the medical establishment though. I just posted this: https://x.com/KDansky/status/1953850944484954326.
I hope some savvy people grabbed screenshots early on!
I posted this sentiment before noticing you did first.
YAY!!! Way to go~! I just requested to follow you. From KHDooley.
Clearly, they're anticipating litigation/prosecution. I'm actually cheered by this news.
Can't wait for the discovery.
What's so stupid is, legally they will have to produce that content. Anything on the internet never goes away. And on TOP of that, they'll have to produce internal records, etc. So let's hope they get sued.
And the very fact that they attempted to hide it can be used against them in court. Indeed, I gather (full disclosure: not a lawyer here!) that there's even a legal concept which covers this: "consciousness of guilt" (if a defendant acts as though they think they're guilty, the jury is permitted to take this into account).
Yes! Even if it's well within their right to remove any content they want from the internet, it speaks volumes (and none of them good) when they do so. Why does anyone remove stuff? The most innocent answer is it's outdated. But then 99% of the time, you just update the stuff. You don't completely remove it.
Only guilty offenders would do that! And, yes , this is Stalinesque! Hide the evidence of fraud , which the FTC is investigating. I hope the FTC forces them to disclose what they did that has to be hidden . If it’s all such “ affirming care”, why hide it?
Symphony Orchestra
I’m not sure how symphony orchestra got on that post!!
😂
The diff was, Stalin COULD delete records. Here? Not so much. Nothing ever really gets deleted from computers or the internet. Not to mention their internal records.
This was just a stupid (and useless) move on their part. At the very most, it might fool a couple of people.
Because that’s what “good people” do hide information.
Here's a link to the website of Portland, Oregon's leading sex-change outfit, the Transgender Health Program at the Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU). https://www.ohsu.edu/transgender-health
Those interesting in preserving what OHSU's "gender medicine" program has to say on its website may want to get on it sooner rather than later. Contents include pull-down menus under "For Patients," "For Providers," "About Us," "Volunteering," "Education and Events" and "Resources." Some of those headings have multiple subheadings.
Oregon is the nuttiest state for this stuff, obvs, so they probably feel very protected. Which is so not smart.
They're circling the woke wagons with the Orange nemesis as their pretext. I'm sure profits have nothing to do with it. Disgusting.
https://substack.com/@ma4women/note/c-143431338?r=3ffpq
I think it more because they’re under investigation by the federal government for providing these procedures. So they’re trying to erase anything that could be used against them in the investigation.
But isn't destroying evidence illegal?
Puzzle T, the hospital destroying its own in-house records would be illegal. I don't know if they're doing that. Probably not; it would be incredibly stupid.
Destroying -- or trying to -- their online presence is different.
What they'll learn, though, is the power of the Streisand Effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
They’re technically not “destroying” evidence. They’re removing links to it from their website and restricting access to links on Wayback Machine. That’s not quite the same as outright “destroying” evidence.
But if they were actually destroying the evidence, then yes, that would be illegal.
That makes sense. I was thinking about the FTC’s fraud hearings and if any of the doctors or clinics were deceiving or mishearing patients and the public on these treatments and wondering if hiding what the public and potential patient families were seeing would count as hiding evidence, but I guess that would depend on whether they tried to destroy all evidence of what was ever on their website? Or if that would even be considered evidence in the first place?
Yep. Obstruction, etc.
Yes, that's the pretext and I'm sure sincere in many cases, but profits are a huge underlying motive in all of this. Which is also why I don't entirely trust the orange man and his tech bros on this either.
This is almost certainly due to the FBI investigation into the hospital as well as the DOJ subpoenas. They’re no doubt attempting to hide anything that could be used against them in the federal investigations.
But the content will be found and then they'll be on the block for obstructing justice to boot.
What a dopey move they made.
Memory-holed.
I sure hope somebody somewhere has LOTS of screenshots! DulyNoted noted this first.
They are anticipating litigation. But someone somewhere will have a copy.
Thank you for posting about this. I made a post sharing some archive resources so we're not completely dependent on the Wayback Machine.
https://rainyseason.substack.com/p/boston-childrens-hospital-cover-up
Archive.is has a few archives of the page:
https://archive.is/IBEL1
https://archive.is/https://www.childrenshospital.org/programs/gender-multispecialty-service
That's awesome because investigators now have something to base any demands on (e.g., that video down the page that is only a screenshot).
It was archived too (takes a bit to load as the file is a little over 40 mb). It's about an hour long. I had to look at the source of the archive page. I just downloaded the mp4 as well.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230506151019/https://bchmedia.org/sites/default/files/media-dam/Welcome%20to%20the%20Gender%20Multispecialty%20Service.mp4
Dang! You're on it, girl. Well done! Nice sleuthing.
Correction. The video is about 130 mb. but it's only 2 1/2 minutes long. Here's the video and the source information:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X_tUxkpLMLj_6m4Yxt3kx6RdOL3O-ej0?usp=drive_link
Later today or tomorrow, I'll put it in a Google drive and send it to Jamie Reed.
Boomer here, please clarify. This website makes available previous versions of other websites? Or am I misunderstanding. I am not reading that they are erasing the record, but rather restricting the sharing by this other site. Clearly they wish to “hide” past information from easy public access. I get that. If they are actually trying to “erase” actual records within their own system and hard drives this doesn’t appear to be demonstrating that.
Yes, that's pretty much it.
If I take the link to this post and put it into the Wayback Machine (or another archive website), it will save this post exactly the way it looks right now. If the post is later edited, the Wayback Machine won't show the edits, just the original post.
For example, this is helpful if an online news story is edited. If the original article was saved, you can view it without the edits.
If the LGB Courage Coalition were to contact the people running the Wayback Machine and ask them to exclude the link to this post, you would no longer be able to view archives of the post (provided the archive owners agree to remove it).
Yeah, Larry, you get it. There's no evidence they are actually destroying their own records (or that they're not, for that matter). That said, and apropos of nothing, if you're not familiar with the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, do yourself a favor and check it out! Just sayin'!
Thank you Larry