Politics & Culture – Madison Ayers Writes

Women Are Being Coerced into Birth Control in Their Most Vulnerable Moments

“When Crystina Hughes, a thirty-five-year-old Black woman, went to the University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital to give birth, she wasn’t considering birth control.

Immediately after giving birth to her daughter, a doctor asked if she wanted to get an IUD inserted. After all, her cervix was already dilated. Hughes said no, but once her husband left for the neonatal ICU with their newborn, the doctor asked again: Could he insert an IUD?

In her vulnerability, Hughes assumed that it must be important to have the IUD inserted now, so she relented. Around six weeks postpartum, her milk dried up, and she had to have the IUD removed after her uterus prolapsed.”

Is it true that puberty blockers “pause” puberty?

“When Chloe Cole was 12, she began to question whether or not she was a girl. By her thirteenth birthday, she was put on “puberty blockers“—the catchall name for the drugs that suppress the hormones that regulate the reproductive system in adolescent girls and boys. Soon after, Chloe began taking testosterone, also known as T, to masculinize her features. Just two years later, at the age of 15, she underwent a double mastectomy to amputate both of her (healthy) breasts; a procedure typically reserved for breast cancer patients. This irreversible surgery–usually preceded by breast binding in the cascade of transgender interventions–is euphemistically called “top surgery.”

Chloe recently described her story in great detail in an interview with psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson. She explained how she had no idea how chest binding would affect her developing breasts, nor, as a 15-year-old, had she considered the loss of her future ability to breastfeed. “I also wasn’t really thinking at all about being a parent at all because I was… I was a kid,” she said.”

Verily’s “While You Were Out”

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of contributing to issues of “While You Were Out”, Verily Magazine’s weekly news roundup. I was able to write on the GOP primaries, Supreme Court decisions, immigration, and more. You can read these news blurbs from Verily here:

Unhinged Health ‘Experts’ Claim Men Can Breastfeed Too

“Breastfeeding isn’t just for women anymore, says a British National Health Services (NHS) trust in a leaked letter reported by The Telegraph. Men who identify as women can now take off-label drugs to produce breast secretions that are “comparable to that produced [by a woman] following the birth of a baby,” according to the trust. This statement comes just months before the ninth edition of breastfeeding nonprofit La Leche League’s landmark book, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, is set to release. Except this time, it’s only titled The Art of Breastfeeding. Just forget the word “womanly” was ever included.”

Gen Z’s Search for Fulfillment: Less Sex and More Porn—and a Deep Desire for Friendship

“Contrary to the oversexualized depictions of teenagers in shows like Euphoria and Riverdale, Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012) is tired of seeing sex on screen. According to “Teens and Screens 2023,” a recent report from UCLA, nearly half of Gen Z respondents say that showing sex is not necessary to the plot of a movie or TV show. Many of them also believe romance is “overused” in media. What do these young people want to see on screen instead?

Friendship.”

Teens and sex: Rescuing a generation—how abstinence and the Success Sequence can help Gen Z experience long-term success and fulfillment

“In part I of our teens and sex series, I explained why teens have less sex now than in decades past. Now that we grasp the extent of the problem, what can we do? With destructive technologies taking the place of destructive casual sex, how exactly can Gen-Z improve their mental health and achieve success as they move into adulthood? The answer lies in the culture: we must discourage both teen sex and technology overuse, and instead urge teens to spend their middle and high school years focused on creating deep and meaningful friendships with their peers.”

Read part two of my article on teen sex and mental health at Natural Womanhood.

Teens and sex: The kids aren’t alright—the connection between decreased teen sex and mental health

“Fewer American High Schoolers Having Sex Than Ever Before” reads the headline of an article from the Institute for Family Studies. Charles Fain Lehman, the author, calls this a “cause for celebration.”. . . Is this indeed a cause for celebration? In many ways, yes. Teenagers who partake in sexual activities from a younger age will experience more negative mental health outcomes than those who wait, and the idea of a more responsible teenage generation is certainly a heartening one [1]. . . However, by the metrics of mental health and outlooks on the world around them, it does not appear that all is well in Generation Z. Though the decrease in sexual activity is largely a boon for teens and their long-term success, it doesn’t tell the full story.”

Read part one of my article on the connection between decreased teen sex and mental health at Natural Womanhood.