October 14, 2021 Last weekend your Circumcision Choice team had planned to hold counter-protests outside the American Academy of Pediatrics annual conference in Philadelphia. However in light of the Covid-19 situation, the AAP converted its conference to a virtual event. Without doctors to harass at the Pennsylvania State Convention Center, the intactivists moved the locations of their protests to busy intersections in the Philadelphia area. Consequently we met them in Sprin

Published July 16, 2019 Updated July 18, 2019 On Monday three intactivists targeted a pediatric medical office in Denver, Colorado. This video shot and edited by James Loewen shows three members of the Blood Stained Men – Loewen, Harry Guiremand, and Kenneth Hopkins (the leader who calls himself “Brother K”) – go into a building and attempt to enter a medical office unauthorized in order to harass the physician, staff, and patients. Hopkins and Loewen have perfected a delibe

Published May 7, 2019 Updated periodically Click here for FAQs and Pushbacks about this post Jonathon Conte, a leader of Bay Area Intactivists, tragically took his own life on May 9, 2016. Five years earlier Conte wrote about his motivations as an intactivist. He grew up feeling normal and whole. As a teenager he learned about circumcision, and he blamed his own infant circumcision for his genital soreness and discomfort. [1] He expressed "a feeling of incompleteness, both ph

Published April 18, 2019 Updated October 2, 2019 "There you go again." Ronald Reagan - to his opponent Jimmy Carter, 1980 presidential debate Intactivists have again falsely accused your Circumcision Choice team of malfeasance. They first defamed us following the 2016 counter-protest outside the AAP Conference in San Francisco, James Loewen, the subject of our Irate Man series, falsely accused us of doxxing him, of sharing his home address and phone number with the doctors an

April 6, 2019 NO! An anti-circumcision protest is not appropriate for children. We've observed sporadic supervision of children by their protesting parents. At multiple venues an unsupervised toddler was close to falling down concrete steps or running into a crowded street. The weather may be a factor. We've seen children swelter in extreme heat, and we've seen children shiver for hours in freezing rain. An event with profane language, graphic images, fake bloody crotches, an

July 8, 2018 A young man named Gregory Malchuk has assumed an informal role as strategy advisor to the intactivist movement. He records his musings on videos that he posts on YouTube for his followers. He's offered several proposals, such as suggesting that intactivists hold protests at churches, high schools, and little league baseball games. Malchuk recently uploaded a video in which he admitted that anti-circumcision antics will likely elicit violence, even terrorist atta

Andrew Gross May 1, 2018 Kenneth Hopkins is a pathological liar. A pathological liar is someone who exhibits habitual lying, typically by telling stories that present himself as the hero or victim. The pathological liar fibs so often that it becomes second nature. The founder of the Blood Stained Men who calls himself “Brother K” has repeatedly lied about himself, about circumcision, and about other people - including me. For instance, we've documented how Hopkins has asked p

February 26, 2018 Meet Sasha Ormand, a nurse practitioner with 20 years of experience in pediatrics. A graduate of Evergreen College and the University of Washington, Ormand serves children and their families in the Spokane area. In recent online reviews, parents wrote that Ormand “is extremely patient, thorough, and caring.” She “takes the time to listen and really find out how to help my kids. She always gives all the treatment options available and never makes me feel like

January 3, 2018 Projection is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person projects her own thoughts, motivations, or actions on others. This technique allows one to avoid her own feelings of guilt and blame. [1] We’ve found that many in the anti-circumcision movement use projection to avoid looking at their own bad behavior. They blindly repeat intacto-facts like "16 functions" and "117 deaths," and accuse others of being uninformed. They'll say, "We aren't obsessed

October 3, 2017 Two weeks ago James Loewen of the Blood Stained Men leadership team denied writing that he would like to see a film that portrays circumcision specialists being brutally tortured and killed. Mr. Loewen's followers expressed disbelief that he would have expressed such a malicious thought. The sentiment that "none of that sounds like the style of anything James has ever said or written" was universally shared. On Monday Kenneth Hopkins - the leader of the Blood