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By: Katie Herzog

Published: July 28, 2021

Today we bring you another installment of Katie Herzog’s ongoing series about the spread of woke ideology in the field of medicine. Her first story focused on the ideological purge at the top medical schools and teaching hospitals in the country. “Wokeness,” as one doctor put it, “feels like an existential threat.”

Katie’s latest reporting illustrates some of the most urgent elements of that threat. It focuses on how biological sex is being denied by professors fearful of being smeared by their students as transphobic. And it shows how the true victims of that denial are not sensitive medical students but patients, perhaps most importantly, transgender ones.

Some of you may find Katie’s story shocking and disconcerting and perhaps even maddening. You might also ask yourself: How has it come to this? How has this radical ideology gone from the relatively obscure academic fringe to the mainstream in such a short time?

Those are among the questions that motivate this newsletter. We feel obligated to chronicle in detail and in primary accounts the takeover of our institutions by this ideology — and the consequences of it.

So far, it has taken root in some of our leading medical schools. Some. Not all. But I’m left thinking: What state will American medicine — or any other American institution —  find itself in after being routed by this ideology?  

If you think reporting like Katie Herzog’s is important I hope you’ll support us by subscribing here.

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During a recent endocrinology course at a top medical school in the University of California system, a professor stopped mid-lecture to apologize for something he’d said at the beginning of class.

“I don’t want you to think that I am in any way trying to imply anything, and if you can summon some generosity to forgive me, I would really appreciate it,” the physician says in a recording provided by a student in the class (whom I’ll call Lauren). “Again, I’m very sorry for that. It was certainly not my intention to offend anyone. The worst thing that I can do as a human being is be offensive.”

His offense: using the term “pregnant women.”

“I said ‘when a woman is pregnant,’ which implies that only women can get pregnant and I most sincerely apologize to all of you.”

It wasn’t the first time Lauren had heard an instructor apologize for using language that, to most Americans, would seem utterly inoffensive. Words like “male” and “female.”

Why would medical school professors apologize for referring to a patient’s biological sex? Because, Lauren explains, in the context of her medical school “acknowledging biological sex can be considered transphobic.”

When sex is acknowledged by her instructors, it’s sometimes portrayed as a social construct, not a biological reality, she says. In a lecture on transgender health, an instructor declared: “Biological sex, sexual orientation, and gender are all constructs. These are all constructs that we have created.”

In other words, some of the country’s top medical students are being taught that humans are not, like other mammals, a species comprising two sexes. The notion of sex, they are learning, is just a man-made creation.

The idea that sex is a social construct may be interesting debate fodder in an anthropology class. But in medicine, the material reality of sex really matters, in part because the refusal to acknowledge sex can have devastating effects on patient outcomes.

In 2019, the New England Journal of Medicine reported the case of a 32-year-old transgender man who went to an ER complaining of abdominal pain. While the patient disclosed he was transgender, his medical records did not. He was simply a man. The triage nurse determined that the patient, who was obese, was in pain because he’d stopped taking a medication meant to relieve hypertension. This was no emergency, she decided. She was wrong: The patient was, in fact, pregnant and in labor. By the time hospital staff realized that, it was too late. The baby was dead. And the patient, despite his own shock at being pregnant, was shattered.

Professors Running Scared of Students

To Dana Beyer, a trans activist in Maryland who is also a retired surgeon, such stories illustrate how vital it is that sex, not just gender identity — how someone perceives their gender — is taken into consideration in medicine. “The practice of medicine is based in scientific reality, which includes sex, but not gender,” Beyer says. “The more honest a patient is with their physician, the better the odds for a positive outcome.”

The denial of sex doesn’t help anyone, perhaps least of all transgender patients who require special treatment. But, Lauren says, instructors who discuss sex risk complaints from their students — which is why, she thinks, many don’t. “I think there’s a small percentage of instructors who are true believers. But most of them are probably just scared of their students,” she says.

And for good reason. Her medical school hosts an online forum in which students correct their instructors for using terms like “male” and “female” or “breastfeed” instead of “chestfeed.” Students can lodge their complaints in real time during lectures. After one class, Lauren says, she heard that a professor was so upset by students calling her out for using “male” and “female” that she started crying.

Then there are the petitions. At the beginning of the year, students circulated a number of petitions designed to, as Lauren puts it, “name and shame” instructors for “wrongspeak.”

One was delivered after a lecture on chromosomal disorders in which the professor used the pronouns “she” and “her” as well as the terms “father” and “son,” all of which, according to the students, are “cisnormative.” After the petition was delivered, the instructor emailed the class, noting that while she had consulted with a member of the school’s LGBTQ Committee prior to the lecture, she was sorry for using such “binary” language. Another petition was delivered after an instructor referred to “a man changing into a woman,” which, according to the students, incorrectly assumed that the trans woman wasn’t always a woman. But, as Lauren points out, “if trans women were born women, why would they need to transition?”

This phenomenon — of students policing teachers; of students being treated as the authorities over and above their teachers — has had consequences.

“Since the petitions were sent out, instructors have been far more proactive about ‘correcting’ their slides in advance or sending out emails to the school listserv if any upcoming material has ‘outdated’ terminology,” Lauren tells me. “At first, compliance is demanded from outside, and eventually the instructors become trained to police their own language proactively.”

In one point in the semester, a faculty member sent out a preemptive email warning students about forthcoming lectures containing language that doesn’t align with the school’s “approach to gender inclusivity and gender/sex antioppression.” That language included the term “premenopausal women.” In the future, the professor promised, this would be updated to “premenopausal people.”

Lauren also says young doctors are being taught to declare their pronouns upon meeting patients and ask for patients’ pronouns in return. This was echoed by a recent graduate of Mount Sinai Medical School in New York. “Everything was about pronouns,” the student said. The student objected to this, thinking most patients would be confused or offended by a doctor asking them what their pronouns were, but she never said so — at least not publicly. “It was impossible to push back without worrying about getting expelled,” she told me.  

This hypersensitivity is undermining medical training. And many of these students are likely not even aware that their education is being informed by ideology.

“Take abdominal aortic aneurysms,” Lauren says. “These are four times as likely to occur in males than females, but this very significant difference wasn’t emphasized. I had to look it up, and I don’t have the time to look up the sex predominance for the hundreds of diseases I’m expected to know. I’m not even sure what I’m not being taught, and unless my classmates are as skeptical as I am, they probably aren’t aware either.”

Other conditions that present differently and at different rates in males and females include hernias, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and asthma, among many others. Males and females also have different normal ranges for kidney function, which impacts drug dosage. They have different symptoms during heart attacks: males complain of chest pain, while women experience fatigue, dizziness, and indigestion. In other words: biological sex is a hugely important factor in knowing what ails patients and how to properly treat them.

Carole Hooven is the author of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us and a professor at Harvard who focuses on behavioral endocrinology. I discussed Lauren’s story with her and Hooven found it deeply troubling. “Today’s students will go on to hold professional positions that give them a great deal of power over others’ bodies and minds. These young people are our future doctors, educators, researchers, statisticians, psychologists. To ignore or downplay the reality of sex and sex-based differences is to perversely handicap our understanding and our ability to increase human health and thriving.”

A former dean of a leading medical school agrees: “I don’t know the extent to which the stories you relate are now widespread in medical education, but to the extent that they are — and I hear some of this is popping up at my own institution — they are a serious departure from the expectation that medical education and practice should be based on science and be free from imposition of ideology and ideology-based intimidation.”

He added: “How male and female members of our species develop, how they differ genetically, anatomically, physiologically, and with respect to diseases and their treatment are foundational to clinical medicine and research. Efforts to erase or diminish these foundations should be unacceptable to responsible professional leaders.”

There is no doubt the rules are changing. According to the American Psychological Association, the terms “natal sex” and “birth sex,” for example, are now considered “disparaging”; the preferred term is “assigned sex at birth.” The National Institutes of Health, the CDC, and Harvard Medical School have all made efforts to divorce sex from medicine and emphasize gender identity.

When Asking Questions Can Destroy Your Career

While it’s unclear if this trend will remain limited to some medical schools, what is perfectly clear is that activism, specifically around issues of sex, gender, and race, is impacting scientific research and progress.

One of the most notorious examples is that of a physician and former associate professor at Brown University, Lisa Littman.

Around 2014, Littman began to notice a sudden uptick in female adolescents in her social network who were coming out as transgender boys. Until recently, the incidence of gender dysphoria was thought to be rare, affecting an estimated one in 10,000 people in the U.S. While the exact number of trans-identifying adolescents (or adults, for that matter) is unknown, in the last decade or so, the number of youth seeking treatment for gender dysphoria has spiked by over 1,000 percent in the U.S.; in the U.K., it’s jumped by 4,000 percent. The largest youth gender clinic in Los Angeles reportedly saw 1,000 patients in 2019. That same clinic, in 2009, saw about 80.

Curious about what was happening, Littman surveyed about 250 parents whose adolescent children had announced they were transgender — after never before exhibiting the symptoms of gender dysphoria. Over 80 percent of cases involved girls; many were part of friend groups in which half or more of the members had come out as trans. Littman coined the term “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” to describe this phenomenon. She posited that it might be a sort of social contagion, not unlike cutting or anorexia, both of which were endemic among teenage girls when I was in high school in the ’90s.

In August 2018, Littman published her results in a paper called "Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Study of Parental Reports” in the journal PLOS One. Littman, the journal, and Brown University were pummeled with accusations of transphobia in the press and on social media. In response, the journal announced an investigation into Littman’s work. Several hours later, Brown University issued a press release denouncing the professor’s paper.

Littman’s paper was republished in March 2019 with an amended title and other minor, mostly cosmetic changes. The journal has since confirmed that, while the paper was “corrected,” the original version contained no false information.

But Littman’s career was forever altered. She no longer teaches at Brown. And her contract at the Rhode Island State Health Department wasn’t renewed.

Littman is hardly alone. Trans activists have also targeted Ray Blanchard and Ken Zucker in Toronto, Michael Bailey at Northwestern, and Stephen Gliske at the University of Michigan for publishing findings they deemed transphobic. In a recent case, trans activists shut down research that was to be conducted by UCLA psychiatrist Jamie Feusner, who had hoped to explore the physiological underpinnings of gender dysphoria.

Nor is this limited to academia. Journalists who question the new ideological orthodoxy, like Abigail Shrier and Jesse Singal (with whom I co-host a podcast), have also been smeared for their work. After the American Booksellers Association included Shrier’s book, Irreversible Damage, in a promotional mailing to bookstores, activists went ballistic, prompting the ABA’s CEO to apologize for having done “horrific harm” that “traumatized and endangered members of the trans community” and “caused violence and pain.”

I had a similar experience in 2017 after writing about de-transitioners — people who transition to a different gender and then transition back — for the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger. After the piece came out, people put up flyers and stickers around Seattle calling me transphobic; someone burned stacks of the newspaper and sent me a video of it. I lost many friends, and later ended up moving out of the city in part because of the turmoil.

But far more concerning than the treatment of journalists chronicling this story is the treatment of patients themselves.

Patients Are Suffering

Julia Mason is a pediatrician in the Portland suburbs who, unlike most doctors I spoke to, allowed me to use her name. Mason explained that she works at a small private practice and her boss is a libertarian. In other words: she won’t get fired for being honest.

Mason has been practicing for over 25 years, but it wasn’t until 2015 that she saw her first transgender patient: a 15-year-old trans boy who Mason referred to a gender clinic, where the patient was prescribed testosterone.

Since that first patient, she says there have been about 10 more requests for referrals to gender clinics. As this number increased, Mason started wondering about the advice her patients are getting at these clinics.

“A 12-year-old female came to see me, and the dad told me that they went to a therapist, and in the first five minutes, the therapist was like, ‘Yep. He’s trans,’” she told me. “And then they went to a pediatric endocrinologist who recommended puberty blockers on the first visit.”

Mason generally avoids prescribing puberty blockers, which inhibit the development of secondary sex characteristics like breasts or facial hair. The reason, she says, is that because there have been no controlled studies on the use of puberty blockers for gender dysphoric youth, the long term effects are still unknown. (In the U.K., a recent review of existing studies found that the quality of the evidence that puberty blockers are effective in relieving gender dysphoria and improving mental health is “very low.”)

In girls, Mason says, blockers inhibit breast development, but “you end up shorter, and the last thing a female who wants to look male needs is to be shorter.” Other side effects may include a loss of bone density, headache, fatigue, joint pain, hot flashes, mood swings and something called “brain fog.” In boys, blockers inhibit penis growth, which can make it harder for them to achieve orgasm and for surgeons to later construct those penises into “neo-vaginas,” a procedure known as vaginoplasty.

Trans activists often claim the effects of puberty blockers are fully reversible, but this remains unproven, and studies show that the overwhelming majority of teens who start on puberty blockers later take cross-sex hormones (testosterone for females and estrogen for males) to complete their transition. The combination of puberty blockers followed by hormones can cause sterility and other health problems, including sexual dysfunction, and the hormones must be taken for life — or until detransition. Little is known about their long-term effects. While the line that blockers are “fully reversible” is oft-repeated by activists and the media, last year, England’s National Health Service back-tracked this unsubstantiated claim on its website.

Mason is one of several doctors who voiced concerns about the fast-tracking of adolescents seeking to transition — and the new normal in the medical establishment, which seems to encourage that fast-tracking.

In 2018, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that pediatricians “affirm” their patients’ chosen gender without taking into account mental health, family history, trauma, or fears of puberty. The AAP recommendations say nothing about the many consequences, physical and psychological, of transitioning. So perhaps it is not surprising that surgeons are performing double mastectomies, or “top surgery,” on patients as young as 13.

One leading clinician, Diane Ehrensaft, has said that children as young as three have the cognitive ability to come out as transgender. And the University of California San Francisco Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic, where Ehrensaft is the mental health director, has helped kids of that age transition socially.

But not all clinicians have cheered these developments. In a paper responding to the AAP guidelines, James Cantor, a clinical psychologist in Toronto, noted that “every follow-up study of [gender dysphoric] children, without exception, found the same thing: By puberty, the majority of GD children ceased to want to transition.” Other studies of gender-clinic patients, stretching back to the 1970s, have found that 60 to 90 percent of patients eventually grow out of their gender dysphoria; most come out as gay or lesbian.

In an email to me, Cantor said: “The deafening silence from AAP when asked about the evidence allegedly supporting their trans policy is hard to interpret as anything other than their ‘pleading the 5th,’ as you in the U.S. put it.”

Erica Anderson, a clinical psychologist at the UCSF Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic and a trans woman herself, also voiced skepticism about the AAP’s approach to would-be transitioners. Unlike Mason, Anderson says withholding puberty blockers from dysphoric children is “cruel.” But she is suspicious of the sharp spike in young people, and especially young women. While she doesn’t like phrases like “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” or “social contagion,” she said something is definitely going on.

“What makes us think that gender is the one exception to peer influence?” she told me. “For 100 years, psychology has acknowledged that adolescence is a time of experimentation and exploration. It's normal. I'm not alarmed by that. What I'm alarmed by is some medical and psychological professionals rushing kids into taking blockers or hormones.”

Because Anderson has been so vocal, including a recent 60 Minutes appearance in which she discussed detransitioners, she regularly gets calls from frantic parents. She told me she’d gotten off the phone with the parents of a 17-year-old who had announced that they were trans and wanted hormones. “It’s alarming to these parents,” Anderson said.

Anderson isn’t opposed to pediatric transition when patients are properly diagnosed, but she wants to see more individualized care rather than the activist-driven, one-size-fits-all approach. That, however, goes against current AAP guidelines.

Will Science Prevail?

Medicine is not impervious to trends.

“In the 90s, when I was training, everything was about controlling pain,” said a pediatrician in the Midwest who declined to be named for fear of repercussions. “We were taught that it was really hard to become addicted to narcotics. Look where that got us.”

Around the same time, she says, there was a rash of kids being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, something we now know is exceedingly rare in children. Before that, there was the recovered memory craze, multiple personality disorder, and rebirthing therapy, a bizarre treatment for attachment disorders that lead to the deaths of several children in the U.S. So how does this happen?

“Some idea will get picked up by major medical associations that put out reports and their members turn to those instead of the actual literature,” this pediatrician said. “And when you get too far ahead of the research, that's when you get into trouble. That's what’s happening now.”

For her part, Lauren, the medical student in California, is both hopeful for the future — and not. “On the one hand, I have this idea that the truth will eventually come out and science will ultimately prevail,” she said.

But the difference between things like rebirthing therapy or multiple personality disorder and the new gender ideology is that the latter is portrayed as a civil rights movement. “It seems virtuous. It seems like the right thing to do,” she said. “So how can you fight against something that’s being marketed as a fight for human rights?”

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Creationism, science denial and evolution denial aren’t just for theists any more.

People who are trans - actually trans, from extensive, professional, expert diagnosis, not turnstile ideological quacks, or people screwing around with their gender identity like it’s a game, which we know turns out badly - need our love, care and support.

What’s profoundly disturbing is that trans people confront the biological reality of sex every. single. day. To deny biological sex is to deny trans entirely (since instead of being beyond one’s control, you can simply socially deconstruct); makes homosexuality and bisexuality a choice (since it’s all just mutable constructions); and denies evolution (since our primate cousins exhibit sexual and gender dimorphism without the imposition of political social constructivism, so to say it’s a social construction in humans is to say that it mysteriously disappeared from our ancestral line, then recapitulated identically but as an artificially-imposed concept. i.e. this is a form of creationism).

Denial of biological reality is the real bigotry.

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If God Took Adam's rib to create his partner, the genotype will be 44XY. Ergo, Adam's partner was Male. via /r/atheism

Submitted August 08, 2018 at 05:16PM by Prolificvisions (Via reddit https://ift.tt/2KDrxCx) If God Took Adam's rib to create his partner, the genotype will be 44XY. Ergo, Adam's partner was Male.

Science is the downfall of religion.

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Date: 2011-04-17 16:59:40

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Hello , just wondering were you part of a religion but then saw the overwhelming flaws of it and now this is why your so passionate about telling people the truth ? I’m asking this because I used to be part of a religion in a luke warm sense of a way and now that I’m out of it I have noticed that I am similar trying to tell people the truth . Also I really enjoy the blog and hope you have a great day 👍🏻😊

I was raised in what you might call Lukewarm Catholicism. I went to Thursday School - which is Sunday School on Thursdays - went to church probably about 50 Sundays out of the year, did confirmation.

But none of it stuck. I remember the buildings from the Thursday School classes, because it was at a Catholic school I didn’t go to associated with the local church (my actual school was non-religious). But i don’t remember the classes, the lessons, the teachers - not even if they were male or female. It made no impression on me, whatsoever.

I dressed up to be walked through my confirmation, apparently, but I don’t remember any of it except through photos.

From church, I remember the boredom, the parquet wooden collection plate being passed around. I remember that when they did silent prayer, I had this extreme sense of the emptiness of the hall and its high ceilings; there was nobody there to listen to them. I remember looking around at the people with their eyes closed, and hearing the deafening silence, not just from the lack of sound, but the god they were praying to who wasn’t there. Like I was watching a spiritual tumbleweed roll through the air above their heads.

I ate the little wafer thing, but didn’t get the little sippy cup of wine. I thought it bizarre that they wanted me to eat flesh, but I knew it was just a wafer, so it didn’t bother me. They told me that it actually becomes the body of Jesus, but I still assumed they were either kidding or being symbolic, because it was clearly still just a wafer.

We never said grace or prayed before bed or anything. Nothing of this belief system existed outside of these compartmentalized rituals. By the time I was 16, we had stopped going to church entirely. It had apparently been something that we’d done only because my parents had felt socially obligated to.

Religion was a non-entity in my life for quite some time. I didn’t think of myself in terms of the word “atheist.” I just knew that some people believed in various religions and I didn’t.

This blog was never intended for anyone but myself. As I explored Tumblr, I found science posts and memes which eventually lead to atheism ones, which was sort of my first real return to the religious sphere since my family stopped going to church. The original intent of the blog was to collect interesting and funny memes that I found, starting with the one which correctly identifies that a rib from Adam would have had a 44XY genotype and would necessarily have had to be a male clone. My reblog disappeared when Tumblr deleted the original poster’s for some reason; this is my more recent reposting of it.

I suppose my intent now is less about telling people what’s true, and more about helping figure out what’s false. To show that the beliefs of believers, as stated by the believers themselves, refute themselves. Their god being mysterious and unknowable, yet “good” or “loving.” Being perfect but needing worship. Purported “evidence” and “supported by science” yet requiring faith. Unfalsifiable claims, both celestial and terrestrial.

And then also help people push back on other people’s beliefs intruding into their lives, from Xianity to Woke, with the courage to do so, be able to say why, be able to dismiss sophistry like Motte and Baileys or Ad Homs, point out that their right to have and express their belief also the same right that allows you to point out the flaws in that belief, to ignore feelings as epistemologically valid, to be able to decline to participate without guilt (secularism), and focus on values, particularly those of Liberal ethics, rather than subscribing to specific beliefs.

That by being principled, you can withstand and resist the demands of those who lead with their offended feelings, outrage, self-invested victimhood, and demands for your participation in their belief. With gut-check on your values and principles, you can laugh off those who decry you as a “sinner” or “immoral” or “spreading hate” or racist/Nazi/fascist (their definition). These are attempts to make you play their game, and exhaust yourself defending yourself on their terms. “LOL” or “no, you” is all you need when someone threatens you with hell.

Hopefully when you clear away all the false ideas, the fallacies and sophistry, the emotional reasoning and the illogical clutter, something resembling the truth remains. If it doesn’t, that’s still okay. Eliminating wrong answers helps us not waste time or effort on them, and helps us get closer to correct answers.

How well I achieve that is up to others to decide. But that’s where I’m coming from.

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Never have I encountered someone who drove such a hard line against religion as you do. Although I am a fan of your blog, I've been wondering for a while now: why do you despise religion so much? From a logical point of view, I can understand that but do you have any personal reasons to maintain this blog/campaign against religion?

I don’t have any reasons that are compelling, dramatic or tragic, like a family member dying as a result of faith-healing gone wrong, or a friend lost to the cult of Scientology, Mormonism or Whoism.

I suppose ultimately, I do this because I can.

This blog was originally only intended to be a place to save some memes I’d come across, such as those from @forthelove-ofscience, who was one of the first atheist blogs I encountered on Tumblr. My first post was a reblog of the Adam & Steve 44XY genotype meme, because it was funny but also sciencey (it’s since been flagged “adult” for some reason, so has sort of vanished).

Since then I’ve read and listen and watched and learned a lot. Focusing less on the minutiae of the scripture and its contradictions that originally had me so amused, and more on how to assess ideas, identify flawed reasoning, fallacies, what constitutes knowledge, why do superstitious arguments fail, etc. Being able to reason and articulate some things I’d sort of known intuitively but not been able to fully understand. Like that nagging unease about the idea that beliefs should be respected, which is something that is now patently absurd to me - and I can explain why. None of this to the same level as a Sam Harris or a Tracie Harris by any means, but enough to hold my own against an average Tumblr religionist. At least, I think so/seem to.

Separately, around that time at work we’d been given the mandate to push back or even escalate when bad solutions or ideas come our way for the services we manage. A number of projects went awry (fortunately, not in my area), but it was felt several service owners were reluctant to push back on or upset large projects, some of them with very large amounts of money attached, for fear of being seen to be an impediment. Our direct manager instructed that we would never be hauled over the coals, and he would vigorously defend us, for pushing back or escalating in good faith when a bad solution is being proposed. We might end up being overridden higher up, or might not be privy to all the details, but it was better to question and be wrong than not question and be right. To expect better. To not put up with substandard.

Or, what I took away more generally is to question bad ideas. And religions have an overabundance of bad ideas. nonsensical, ignorant, contradictory, fallacious, absurd, dehumanising… as much - often even more so - for the believer as for everyone else.

So, aside from it also being a bit of a creative writing outlet, I guess my best succinct answer is “because I can.”

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BoF Professional Webmagazine exposed adidas X KOLOR Performancewear Fall/Winter 2015/2016. ๑ adidas, the leader in sport gears was raising its profile in the fashion world, and its latest effort for the cause was a wonderful collaboration with Junichi Abe of KOLOR from Japan. The two had teamed up to give a stylish makeover to adidas' performance line. Abe, who helped launched Junya Watanabe and has worked with Yohji Yamamoto, was best known for bringing unique cuts and fabrics to his clothes. His collaboration with adidas brought the same stylish edge to the performance-wear with a 21 piece collection that included a metallic, space-age down jacket with asymmetrical zippers, and a shirt made out of Climachill jersey, which kept body temps even while getting active. The collaboration also appeared to have layered shorts, and a neoprene jacket. There would also be two new shoes available that utilised the Climaheat, Climachill, and Boost technologies from adidas. "Sports style is really a giant consumer vertical; it’s very lifestyle sportswear, so there is much more of a fashion element ," Dirk Schönberger, creative director of adidas' sport style division, told Business of Fashion Professional Webmagazine (a.k.a. BoF Professional) about the sportswear brand's collaborations with fashion labels. Schönberger also revealed that there could be plenty more on the horizon. "We have to deliver — at a minimum every week — something that excites the consumer," he said. "The verticals and the [speed of the] Internet have changed the way we do things." #MenswearUpdatedBy_eJC #Advertisement #Ads #Campaign #Catalogue #Lookbook #Cast #Casting #OnlineStore #DigitalCatalogue #JC的工作室 #XCLUSIV4eJC #XCLUSIV4eJC2560 #estudi_jChiyarumupon #selected_by_eJC #promoted_by_eJC #recommended_by_eJC #updated_by_eJC #FashionPhotography #StalkWithCaution #ผู้ชาย #บุรุษ #สุภาพบุรุษ #男 #男人 #男子 #人44XY #Male #Man #Men #Gentleman #Gentlemen #Model #Mannequin #Muse #Talent #Sensation #Stunner #Ginger #Guapo #Viril #Virile #Uomini #Bombshell #Menswear #Attires #Collection #Portrait #Digits #Digitals #Polaroids #Digiroids #Gallery #Showcase

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Alexander Wang Menswear Spring/Summer 2016/2017 New York Fashion Week: Men’s. Alexander Wang has always loved a bash, and for his 10th anniversary collection during New York Fashion Week: Men’s, that night he threw himself a big one. Is anybody wondering what the #AW510 insignia that turned up on an oversize hoodie and some of the men’s pieces stood for? FYI: Wang was hailed from Northern California: 510 is the born-in-the-Bay-Alrea area code of his cellphone. Up front, a merch table sold his ‪DoSomething.org‬ tees and sweats, which benefit the organization’s youth and social change efforts. It was straight out of a rock show, a feeling that was accentuated inside the venue by the crush of celebrities who sat in the front row. Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Josh Ostrovsky (a.k.a. “The Fat Jew”), The Weeknd, Bella Hadid, Mary J. Blige . . . the list went on. Post-show, a curtain at the back of the runway opened to reveal a phalanx of pole dancers, who entertained the throngs until it was time for the party’s big numbers. Tinashe, Lil Wayne, and Ludacris all performed. But the night’s main act was the video that played after the models took their finale spin. An extended highlights reel, it was a long, loud, chronological look back at Wang’s first decade, from his early bows, short-haired and baby-faced at ‪21, all the way‬ through last his November 2014’s H&M collaboration  and his Fall/Winter 2015/2016 advertising campaign. It’s a critical moment for Wang. In July 2015, he and Balenciaga opted not to renew their contract beyond its first three-year term. Such a short tenure at such a prestigious house could tarnish a designer’s reputation, but Wang had emerged essentially unscathed and, as he seemed to be saying with that night’s hoopla, bigger than ever. When the split was announced, Wang suggested that he wanted to turn his focus to his eponymous brand. That meant expectations were elevated for this new collection. If some of the surrounding festivities (ahem, those pole dancers) were somewhat off-message, he nailed the collection, which was free of pretense. “No concept,” he said backstage, summing up the straight-off-the-streets ethos of the clothes. “We’re always asking ourselves what’s modern. Well, what’s modern is what’s right in front of us.” That was an idea that has gained traction in the industry over the last couple of years, but it was Wang’s own approach at the beginning. It worked for him then, and, save for a couple of costumery fringed leather pieces, it worked for him that night with his deconstructed denim, army surplus separates, pyjamas silks, slip dresses, and one shrunken satin bomber jacket. Wang intuitively got what the downtown cool girl wanted to wear. There was no disputing the New Yorkiness of his clothes, but no anniversary collection was complete without a throwback moment. #FashionWeeks #FashionShows #MensFashionShows #Catwalks #Runways #Menswear #Attires #Collections #JC的工作室 #XCLUSIV4eJC #XCLUSIV4eJC2560 #estudi_jChiyarumupon #selected_by_eJC #promoted_by_eJC #recommended_by_eJC #updated_by_eJC #FashionPhotography #StalkWithCaution #ผู้ชาย #บุรุษ #สุภาพบุรุษ #男 #男人 #男子 #人44XY #Male #Man #Men #Gentleman #Gentlemen #Model #Mannequin #Muse #Talent #Sensation #Stunner #Ginger #Guapo #Viril #Virile #Uomini #Bombshell #Portrait #Digits #Digitals #Polaroids #Digiroids #Gallery #Showcase

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MEN OF GOOD FORTUNE | 10 Men Magazine. Photographer, Alessio Bolzoni. Fashion Editor/Stylist, Hector Castro. Hair, Stylist Ramona Eschbach. Makeup Artist, Alice Ghendrih. Casting Director, Alexandra Sandberg. Talent, Erik van Gils. #Magazine #Book #PrintedCopy #CofeeTableBook #Editorial #Edition #Blog #Blogger #FashionBlog #Online #Webzine #Webmagazine #JC的工作室 #XCLUSIV4eJC #XCLUSIV4eJC2560 #estudi_jChiyarumupon #selected_by_eJC #promoted_by_eJC #recommended_by_eJC #updated_by_eJC #FashionPhotography #StalkWithCaution #ผู้ชาย #บุรุษ #สุภาพบุรุษ #男 #男人 #男子 #人44XY #Male #Man #Men #Gentleman #Gentlemen #Model #Mannequin #Muse #Talent #Sensation #Stunner #Ginger #Uomini #Guapo #Viril #Virile #Bombshell #Portrait #Polaroids #Digiroids #Gallery #Showcase

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FRONTIERS Magazine published STAY FIT IN THE DESERT. Frontiers Magazine revealed the Sports issue of August/September 2015 with Rufskin on their side and #MuscleWorshipper sensation Logan Alan Swiecki-Taylor on the cover. Photographed and styled by COATS&POUCHES for RUFSKIN STUDIO and Frontiersmedia. Rufskin created a special sport fashion story featuring some sneak peaks into their new Sports line. Happened in Amboy, CA, USA. #Magazine #Book #PrintedCopy #CofeeTableBook #Editorial #Edition #Blog #Blogger #FashionBlog #Online #Webzine #Webmagazine #JC的工作室 #XCLUSIV4eJC #XCLUSIV4eJC2560 #estudi_jChiyarumupon #selected_by_eJC #promoted_by_eJC #recommended_by_eJC #updated_by_eJC #FashionPhotography #StalkWithCaution #ผู้ชาย #บุรุษ #สุภาพบุรุษ #男 #男人 #男子 #人44XY #Male #Man #Men #Gentleman #Gentlemen #Model #Mannequin #Muse #Talent #Sensation #Stunner #Ginger #Uomini #Guapo #Viril #Virile #Bombshell #Portrait #Polaroids #Digiroids #Gallery #Showcase

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A.Y. Not Dead Tailored Menswear Spring/Summer 2016/2017 Campaign. ๑ Teams Alice Rosati, photographer. Sofía Achával, stylist. Marielle Loubet at Calliste Agency, MUA/Hair. Filip Hrivnak, model. #MenswearUpdatedBy_eJC #Advertisement #Ads #Campaign #Catalogue #Lookbook #Cast #Casting #OnlineStore #DigitalCatalogue #JC的工作室 #XCLUSIV4eJC #XCLUSIV4eJC2560 #estudi_jChiyarumupon #selected_by_eJC #promoted_by_eJC #recommended_by_eJC #updated_by_eJC #FashionPhotography #StalkWithCaution #ผู้ชาย #บุรุษ #สุภาพบุรุษ #男 #男人 #男子 #人44XY #Male #Man #Men #Gentleman #Gentlemen #Model #Mannequin #Muse #Talent #Sensation #Stunner #Ginger #Guapo #Viril #Virile #Uomini #Bombshell #Menswear #Attires #Collection #Portrait #Digits #Digitals #Polaroids #Digiroids #Gallery #Showcase

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ADON Webmagazine showed off Diego Barrueco's gallery. ๑ ADON Webmagazine tapped Sight Models Management #FitnessDemigod muse Diego Barrueco showed off his well trained muscles with stunning work by #TalentedLensman Erion Hegel Kross at ERIONHK PHOTOGRAPHY. #Magazine #Book #PrintedCopy #CofeeTableBook #Editorial #Edition #Blog #Blogger #FashionBlog #Online #Webzine #Webmagazine #JC的工作室 #XCLUSIV4eJC #XCLUSIV4eJC2560 #estudi_jChiyarumupon #selected_by_eJC #promoted_by_eJC #recommended_by_eJC #updated_by_eJC #FashionPhotography #ผู้ชาย #บุรุษ #สุภาพบุรุษ #男 #男人 #男子 #人44XY #Male #Man #Men #Gentleman #Gentlemen #Model #Mannequin #Muse #Talent #Sensation #Stunner #Ginger #Uomini #Guapo #Viril #Virile #Bombshell #Portrait #Polaroids #Digiroids #Gallery #Showcase

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Noctis Magazine published THIS EMOTIONALLY INTENSE BOND. A marvellous work was exposed at Noctis Magazine, photographed by Antonio Eugenio explored 'bromance' theme with an Adonis newcomers Adrian Bernal and Ethan Hassein at Established Models London. Styled by Tom Barratt and stylist's assistant by Eden Loweth. #Magazine #Book #PrintedCopy #CofeeTableBook #Editorial #Edition #Blog #Blogger #FashionBlog #Online #Webzine #Webmagazine #JC的工作室 #XCLUSIV4eJC #XCLUSIV4eJC2560 #estudi_jChiyarumupon #selected_by_eJC #promoted_by_eJC #recommended_by_eJC #updated_by_eJC #FashionPhotography #StalkWithCaution #ผู้ชาย #บุรุษ #สุภาพบุรุษ #男 #男人 #男子 #人44XY #Male #Man #Men #Gentleman #Gentlemen #Model #Mannequin #Muse #Talent #Sensation #Stunner #Ginger #Uomini #Guapo #Viril #Virile #Bombshell #Portrait #Polaroids #Digiroids #Gallery #Showcase

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Sergio Baia Photos built up #eJCDébuting Guilherme Trestini and Jonathan Dobal's portfolios. Two #BrazilianBombshell #FitnessDemigod new faces was promoted by our timeline with stunning photography done by #PhotographerExtraordinaire Sergio Baia at Rio de Janeiro. The talents were Guilherme Trestini and Jonathan Dobal. #WeAlwaysSupportNewTalents #eJCNewcomer #eJCNewFace #eJCNewTalent #eJCDébuting #UpAndComer #Débuting #Discovering #Introducing #Promoting #Welcoming #Debuting #Discovery #Introduction #JC的工作室 #XCLUSIV4eJC #XCLUSIV4eJC2560 #estudi_jChiyarumupon #selected_by_eJC #promoted_by_eJC #recommended_by_eJC #updated_by_eJC #Fashion #ผู้ชาย #บุรุษเพศ #สุภาพบุรุษ #男 #男人 #男子 #人44XY #Male #Man #Men #Gentleman #Gentlemen #Model #Mannequin #Muse #Talent #Sensation #Stunner #Ginger #Guapo #Viril #Virile #Uomini #Bombshell #SpecialItFactor #Portrait #Digits #Digitals #Digiroids #Polaroids #Gallery #Showcase #FashionPhotography #HeForcesMeSeeingHisSexualHotness #SexyIsWhatYouTellMe #NoPornHereItsArt #StalkWithCaution #ILoveArtThatRelatedToFashionAndMen #EffortlessGoodLooking #BeautyIsNoColour #IfThisWereHarmfulToHealthItWasTooAddctive #TheSelfieSyndromeNeedsCure #SeeItPremiere #ForYourEyesOnlyAt_eJC #ExclusiveForNonCommercialOnly #AsAlwaysWeArePromotingTheBEST #No1PromoterInChinaMainlandAndFarEastAsia #AStoryWhereTheRestWasTellingItself #WeCanClearlySeeHowBeautifulHeIs #AStoryWorthToAppreciateIt #WhenYouLookedSoGood #HeHadGottenItAll #BehforeTheNightEndsIHopeIFindYouByMySide #YouMustLookAtIt #SQUAREADY