Very weird and VERY creepy. I DO feel for Caroline, although I also agree with Bash that she ought to have stayed the course and maintained her initial objections to the puberty blockers. Good parenting involves staying the course on _tough_ decisions.
There is apparently a trend, by the way, in the use of puberty blockers for _permanent_…
Very weird and VERY creepy. I DO feel for Caroline, although I also agree with Bash that she ought to have stayed the course and maintained her initial objections to the puberty blockers. Good parenting involves staying the course on _tough_ decisions.
There is apparently a trend, by the way, in the use of puberty blockers for _permanent_ secondary sexual characteristic suppression in young people who want to remain absolutely sexless:
Ordinarily I would say that this is all about money, but when it comes to transgender medicine, it is also about ideology. And ideology is extremely dangerous in the hands of medical providers--it results in medical decisions being made on the basis of something other than science and best practices. It allows doctors to live out their ideological fantasies of altering the world (via their patients/victims) to suit their ideology.
I've experienced medical bullying, although in our case it was very much about money. When we were on our way home from a carefully budgeted, once-in-a-lifetime cross-country road trip, my middle son, age 15 at the time, woke up in the middle of the night with an extremely painful abscess on his cheek. I took him to a nearby ER, where they gave him IV antibiotics and pain medicine.
They said they couldn't drain the abscess; in fact, only ONE surgeon in their entire big-city medical system was authorized to do that. They would have to admit him to the hospital, then *transfer* him to a different hospital in the system, and hopefully the surgeon would be able to treat my son the following week.
I explained to the ER doctor that we had nowhere to stay in their city, could not afford a hotel (we had been tent camping and staying with friends throughout the trip), that our vacation was almost over and we were only a day and a half from home, and that we were expected back at work on Monday. I asked if she couldn't prescribe oral antibiotics and painkillers, with a plan to stop at another ER along the way if his condition worsened. She agreed that this was a reasonable solution and went to make the arrangements.
As we got ready to leave, a nurse came in. She began haranguing me in an effort to get me to agree to their original suggestion. She made threats: our insurance would not pay if we left against medical advice (um, the doctor had said we could leave?), and my son would die if we didn't do as they said (wait, the surgeon won't be able to get to him until next week, but he'll die before then?).
Fortunately, my son realized as well as I did that we were being railroaded for medical profits, so he did not object to leaving with me. We got home safely, and the abscess was already healing--no draining required--when we got home. But I will never trust any provider in Denver's medical ever again.
I'm sorry to hear about your bad experience. I think most parents do experience bullying like this along the path of parenting - sometimes from the school and sometimes from the medical industrial complex.
I completely agree that this is about ideology as well as big profits.
I think about the similarities to what happened in Germany in the 1930s. How could this be happening in our technically and morally advanced country?
Maybe many of the average people who go along with the GI narrative are simply being stupid like maybe your average German did at one time? It is so hard to understand how people look the other way/just follow the narrative of the state-tech-medical-journalism machine - now as they did in Germany.
In the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was subsequently executed by the Nazi Germans: "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than wickedness. Evil can be protested against, exposed, and, if necessary, it can be prevented by force. Evil always harbors the germ of self-destruction by inducing at least some uneasiness in people. We are defenseless against stupidity. Nothing can be done to oppose it, neither with protests nor with violence. Reasons cannot prevail. Facts that contradict one's prejudice simply don't need to be believed, and when they are inescapable, they can simply be brushed aside as meaningless, isolated cases." https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/on-stupidity
Somewhere in a lifetime of raising children, a parent does meet the bully or bullying experience. Mine was with a psychologist who rather than approving intervention for dyslexia wanted to start meds for hyperactivity. I sat on one side of the table and 5 of the school personnel sat opposite. It was gatekeeping at its finest. Parents pay for meds and school doesn’t provide or finance resources to help with dyslexia.
Other parents will have other show downs. What makes a show down successful is a strong belief in knowing that your solution is the best for your child along with spousal support and/ or support of friends or family who have a firm grip on good sense. What Is reported here, suggest a system that thrives on actively and ruthlessly searching for the weak points ie promotes disagreement with ex, threats that your child will die, and only offer one “life preserver.”
Funny how ADHD is so often the diagnosis meant to solve the problem, no? 😀 Mine was with teachers and a stepmother. They wanted my oldest son to go on ADHD meds (which in those days meant Ritalin.)
I said, "Absolutely not!" and enrolled him in a chess class and a Tai Kwon Do class.
Guess what? His powers of concentration improved. 😀
But, yeah. I REALLY had to stand my ground and got called some nasty names.
Your story has been tugging at the back of my mind all day, Patrizia. I think "trans" is the new ADHD. Ritalin did absolutely Nothing to help the child back in the day. The kids were just made listless and pliable. Now, they prescribe other drugs that are not quite as bad (I think?) But the bottom line is that drugs are pushed - not just used where beneficial. Sad because a loved one died? Take Prozac! Your child has a lot of energy and doesn't always concentrate? Lets drug him and put him in a chair instead of sending him to the fields! Uncomfortable with puberty and your friends have an answer? Great! You are the other sex and we have drugs for that fantasy!
That nutter senator in Nebraska who is filibustering has a transID child. I read that she wants to have the $7,000 a month "medicine" paid for by insurance. Lets do the math on a lifetime of that. But, if you choose to detransition no one wants to take you.
I do not think this is primarily "grassroots". There's an ideology promoted by demented narcissist activists and it serves pharma and plastic surgeons, etc.
Now the teachers unions & government are all in. It serves them in some way. I think it must be driven by billionaire doners like Srtryker and Pritker. Dem Voters are just sheep, IMO. I was an Independent all my life and have voted for plenty of Dems and Reps but now I am a one issue voter as this has to be stopped. I would not vote for anyone who does not speak against the Trans Travesty which seems to be all Dems or those like Rep Kristi Noem who previosly sold out in South Dakota - possibly because she takes money from the NBA.
Moms who speak out get in trouble (like Merrick Garland's list).
There is no such thing as non-binary. There is no such thing as being gender fluid. There is no such thing as transitioning from one sex to another. There are ways people feel, but these people need competent counselors who can guide them through adolescence by understanding, teaching coping skills, and many other things. I am appalled and ashamed of the medical community that supports gender affirming treatment. They should have their licenses revoked. Period. Full stop.
Doctors. All doctors. Are. Quacks. I don’t trust one of them anymore. They have no problem solving/critical thinking skills. They did well in school but never learned to THINK! They get all their info from the NEJM and drug company reps. They ski or golf rather than attend their continuing ed . It’s about the money and prestige. I pray I never am really sick because I’ll be hunting for a tribal medicine man.
The clinic took advantage of the parents' divorce status and pitted them against each other. Very common and very effective tactic, especially when both parties have to agree to any procedure.
It definitely adds to a child's anxiety and self-doubt - many kids blame themselves for the parents' breakup. And if the divorce is acrimonious, the kid can become a weapon that the parents use against each other.
All this can create a general sense of malaise, which some doctors are quick to diagnose as gender dysphoria.
Well. Sexuality IS a bell-shaped curve. I believe the transgender phenomenon is quite real. But very, very rare. Nowhere near as common as the creepy staff of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital might have you believe.
On the Indian subcontinent and other parts of Southeast Asia, hijra are recognized legally as a third gender. Hijira include some castrati and intersex but also many people who would be categorized as transgender in the U.S.
Sex is Not a bell shaped curve. Without clear categories of Sex everyone's Sexuality gets erased. Everyone's!
We all need to stop conflating biological sex with socially enforced gender roles.
Sex is in every cell in your body. It is impossible to change it. "Sex change" is magical thinking. It says a great deal about how poor science education has become when kids and adults can be convinced of the sex-change lie, that children are 'affirmed' to be lied to and medicalized for the rest of their lives. We are saying "Sure kids go to war with every cell in your body, heres the chemical weapon to fight yourself." That is so many layers of sick it is hard to fathom. It is impossible to have anything approaching a normal adult sex life following these treatments. The "Doctors" are mutilating the parts built for pleasure and turning them into sites of lifelong pain and distress. How disgusting g is that? The "Panel of Experts" that wrote the WPATH guidelines are ALL making money from promoting this lie! In no way is this "medicine."
And as to why the lefties who have been shouting about this were ignored, it is because they are mostly women, and often lesbians or 'radical feminists' in other words the females who don't suck up to males. Or detransitioners shunned and silenced by everyone and every social media platform.
So most males and females ignore or revile them.
Misogyny kept you from listening. Misogyny is rampant on all sides of all political divides.
Gross leering older men is why girls have always tried to hide themselves. Prior generations were not fed toxic lies about "Gender fluidity" as pretend escape.
The fact that the cartoonish caricature of Femininity is what is now held up as "womanhood" is why girls are looking for a way out of 'womanhood'.
The pornification of all forms of media and the fact that violent porn is ubiquitous online, porn that promotes unreal standards for everyone and normalizes rare and extreme kinks, kids are confused and scared.
The religious beliefs that claim that clothing indicates sex & punish women who will not comply. The fact that there are so FEW positive portrayals of Butch females in any media erases options for girls who do not aspire to be Barbies.
All of these are contributing factors.
All of us who did not stand up are responsible for the generation that has ALREADY gone through this & regrets it.
So all of us need to spread these messages: #1 If You try to stop Puberty you will be Stuck In Puberty Forever. #2 Sex Cannot be Changed!
Several things can be true. Transgenderism is a feeling, not a separate sex, no matter how many cultures in history have accepted those who “feel” like they don’t belong in the natal sex body. That, in and of itself, does not render it a third gender. Whether the current culture accepts and “normalizes” transgenders is a totally separate thing. Dr. Levine sats transgenderism should be normalized and codified. Well, no, it shouldn’t. Treat people kindly, yes. Be forced to take part in their delusion, no, especially if the person is a child or young adult.
In the article, Casey wants to remain a boy just like Peter Pan. Written over 100 years ago, does the play express the same angst of changing into an adult that is being stated by Casey? There may have always been this “becoming an adult” angst. The difference is that society no longer provides the encouragement to bridge to adulthood, but provides a chemical version of Peter Pan’s island.
The difference is that that normal distribution is assumed to apply to people who actually have a sexuality. Kinsey assumed every age group was included in that normal distribution. His entire thesis was that children are sexual from birth & should therefore be allowed to experience it from birth. Here's everything you need to know about Kinsey--> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtElwdfCUTc
Also intersex is a biological phenomenon & doesn't really have a place in a conversation about people with a mental disorder.
This is from the writer/activist Sarah Haider, a Pakistani American who founded Ex-Muslims of North America:
"For example, South Asian hijras (biological males who dress as women) are regularly touted as “proof” of transgenderism in another culture. However, hijras are not considered “a kind of woman” (nor do they claim to be)—rather, they are believed to be aberrative men in a culture that strictly enforces sex norms, and as such, they are shunned and feared. They live in abject poverty, making ends meet through illicit trades. The hijra is one culture’s solution to the tension referenced above—a way to “accommodate” highly feminine homosexual men who are not accepted in mainstream society. The hijra is not an example of trans acceptance. The hijra is an example of severe homophobia."
As a Gen Z’er commented below, being trans has become a way to be cool. And maybe a cover for actual psychological problems. Why has a whole medical specialty popped up to enable it? Money, of course. But also because the left in its absurd refusal to acknowledge objective truths vs untruths, right from wrong, enables it. These mutilated kids are victims of the left. But does the left even have a conscience to feel guilty? The left never self examines. It shrugs and moves on, it meant well, so that’s all that mattered.
I agree with you TOTALLY that whatever's pushing mass trans consciousness right now has very little to do with actual gender dysmorphia.
I'm not sure how to unpack that. I'm more left-leaning than you are, so obviously, I'm gonna have problems seeing it primarily as a Left/Right issue. 😀
It was a kind of throwaway in Nellie's most recent TGIF, but one of her more interesting items was about the mainstream media’s coverage of the recent Christian School shooting: Despite the fact that the shooter identified as a trans male, media outlets consistently referred to the shooter by the shooter's "dead" name and used the pronouns “she/her,” thus leading to the inescapable conclusion that mainstream media takes “trans women are women” a whole lot more seriously than it takes “trans men are men."
To me, this is one of the most fascinating parts of all the creepy stuff that's going on around gender that _begs_ to be unpacked.
That TGIF reference stuck with me too. I also notice that the sports controversy over trans women competing against women isn’t discussed the other way - trans men competing against men.
You don't hear about how trans men are men in sports is because they, well, aren't. Women who think they are men nearly always still compete against like bodies females. The immutable biological physical differences mean biological men can take women's records and championships with ease, while the reverse doesn't happen. "Lia" Thomas placed or won a bunch of events in the women's events at the Ivy championships last year, after being mediocre for the three years he was on the men's team (times rank him around 385th for the men). Lots of people noticed this. What most people didn't notice was the woman who beat him in the Ivy championships, in the 100 and 400 freestyle, was a woman who thinks she's a man named Iszac Henig from Yale. She has had her breast removed and spent most of the meet with her suit around her waist because she is allowed topless on the pool deck since her breast have been removed. Still, she competed against like bodied biological women, and won against male mediocre Lia Thomas, but she wouldn't have even qualified to race in the meet had she swum against the males she identifies as being.
There is a belief that Thomas and Henig colluded before the race to allow Henig to win. If you watched the race, Thomas appears to slow down and allow Henig to catch up and pass. Even if Henig was on hormones, her testosterone levels, lung capacity, muscle mass, etc. would never come close to Thomas. There is no way she could have beat Thomas.
Yup, as we were watching March Madness I wondered outloud where were all the trans men on these NCAAM teams? Imagine how different things would have turned out if UConn had a couple of 5’5” trans men on the team.
I think it's more a question of relevance. I've NEVER heard the media say "A white heterosexual male shot up a school today" either. They generally just name the shooter. Right-wing web sites will mention the shooter's religion if it isn't Christian.
I think they just don't want the fact that a trans person did something bad to be put out there.
And FWIW, I am a lifelong Democrat. Long before I heard people from the right taking on this issue there were feminists on the left fighting against the trans movement/agenda ( I have been speaking out against transing kids since 2011). I am very thankful that the right has taken on this issue and has really brought it to the forefront. We owe a huge debt to Chris Rufo and Billboard Chris and to conservative news outlets who cover this issue.
And it' been hard, because if you are a Democrat and bringing this issue up, you lose friends and sometimes become estranged from relatives. I have people who have known me for 30 years think I'm a little bit unhinged at best, and a hateful transphobe at worst.
To use a JK Rowling reference here, we have been Neville Longbottom- standing up to your friends can be harder than standing up to your enemies.
I know I will get piled on here, I just want people to know that there have been some of us on the left banging the drum about this for a very long time. We aren't all nuts. I wish we could find a way to work together to end this barbaric practice instead of demonizing each other. I truly believe that the vast majority of us are in the political middle. We don't want a culture war- we want to end the mutilation of children.
I think you are correct about the vast middle, and I appreciate your early recognition. I did not see it until after I voted to punish Republican Pat McCrory in the 2016 NC governor's election. A lot of us made that mistake and the children trapped in public school were punished for it during Covid, while my young children stayed in school full time in person at their top ranked conservative Christain school. I have spent since about 2017 speaking out trying to correct my mistake and make up for it, but the guilt is immense, and I completely deserve it - I was swayed by propaganda, not reality. I have faith this misogynistic insanity will end, but my heart breaks for the destroyed lives and bodies until it does.
You are probably right about the media - this is the 4th recent trans mass shooter, and each time that's glossed over or denied. Personally, I think we have a huge mental health crisis, which these detached from reality ideologies certainly appear to exacerbate, and the media and totalitarian left are determined not to consider that. Forget guns have been part of US culture since inception, and you could mail order even machine guns into the 1980's they tell us. However, objective reality is the biggest change has been our culture, morality, and breakdown of the family being overtly promoted by the totalitarian left. The totalitarian left owns social media, traditional media, and most of our institutions. It's not surprising the mental health crisis is getting worse - its predictable. And yes, I recognize there have always been crazy people who hurt others - every mass shooter falls into this category (and our military industrial complex -- but that's a discussion for a different day) - but it is getting much worse.
I disagree with you about the right to some extent. Only politicians on the right are trying to protect women and children. I was on the left back when the NC bathroom controversy blew up, and I hated HB2 because I had no concept that men were actually trying to invade women's spaces and athletics. It was my right leaning friends who saw the issue at the time. I do think generally there were more people on the right - who tend to be a live and let live bunch - simply didn't see the pervasiveness and indoctrination coming. Then there were people like me on the left who didn't realize we were buying pure propaganda.
I think social media and the loss of meaningful connection to nature and our communities and to God have all played a bigger part in shootings and mental illness than one party or the other.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, the trans woman who killed five at the Club Q nightclub on 11/19/2022
Devon Erickson, the trans woman who killed one at STEM School Highlands Ranch in 2019
Snochia Moseley, the trans man who killed three at a Rite Aid distribution center in Maryland in 2018
And Audrey Hale
But given that there have been literally HUNDREDS of mass shootings since Texas Tower Sniper Charles Whitman started the trend in 1966, I don't think four transgender shooters are statistically significant.
So many people who took to Twitter about this were shadow banned, or outright kicked off. Authors wrote books about it and Amazon refused to sell them. Talks were organized at small venues ( libraries, community centers, book stores) and then cancelled after complaints from trans activists. Critical comments on pro trans articles in Washington Post and NYT were deleted by moderators. We knew we needed a mic but it kept getting knocked out of our hands every time we tried to grab it.
It's hard to find a mic if you are a regular non famous person being blocked so effectively from in person and online dissent. That's why I am so glad that those on the right have managed to amplify the message.
Molly I to tend to be more left than right and am horrified by this trans movement. Adolescent is confusing and kids shouldn’t be making such life altering decisions. If you decide to transition in adulthood fine by me but children should be watched and monitored only!!! Problem with politics today is if you think one aspect of the political agenda is wrong you are automatically labeled a right wing conservative. What happened to a healthy exchange of ideas.
The far right is an immense tent. I think it’s terrible that women prisoners are forced to live with men and then told to refer to their rapists as “she”. That makes me a far right extremist, per the Narrative. So be it. I don’t Identify as anything - but if others call me far right, well, I won’t argue
Wow, your last statement perfectly sums this insanity up...thans for framing it like that. I have been struggling so long to figure out what motivates these people, other than money obviously.
To quote Mary from Dumb and Dumber: "Who are these sick people?"
I can assure you, no one on the right supports the ideas that little kids can declare what they are, that parents have no rights, that school teachers can aid and abet kids behind their parents’ backs, and that medical quacks can bully parents. Not. One.
Very weird and VERY creepy. I DO feel for Caroline, although I also agree with Bash that she ought to have stayed the course and maintained her initial objections to the puberty blockers. Good parenting involves staying the course on _tough_ decisions.
There is apparently a trend, by the way, in the use of puberty blockers for _permanent_ secondary sexual characteristic suppression in young people who want to remain absolutely sexless:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343196309_Forever_Young_The_Ethics_of_Ongoing_Puberty_Suppression_for_Non-Binary_Adults
The world really is turning into a creepy science fiction novel.
Ordinarily I would say that this is all about money, but when it comes to transgender medicine, it is also about ideology. And ideology is extremely dangerous in the hands of medical providers--it results in medical decisions being made on the basis of something other than science and best practices. It allows doctors to live out their ideological fantasies of altering the world (via their patients/victims) to suit their ideology.
I've experienced medical bullying, although in our case it was very much about money. When we were on our way home from a carefully budgeted, once-in-a-lifetime cross-country road trip, my middle son, age 15 at the time, woke up in the middle of the night with an extremely painful abscess on his cheek. I took him to a nearby ER, where they gave him IV antibiotics and pain medicine.
They said they couldn't drain the abscess; in fact, only ONE surgeon in their entire big-city medical system was authorized to do that. They would have to admit him to the hospital, then *transfer* him to a different hospital in the system, and hopefully the surgeon would be able to treat my son the following week.
I explained to the ER doctor that we had nowhere to stay in their city, could not afford a hotel (we had been tent camping and staying with friends throughout the trip), that our vacation was almost over and we were only a day and a half from home, and that we were expected back at work on Monday. I asked if she couldn't prescribe oral antibiotics and painkillers, with a plan to stop at another ER along the way if his condition worsened. She agreed that this was a reasonable solution and went to make the arrangements.
As we got ready to leave, a nurse came in. She began haranguing me in an effort to get me to agree to their original suggestion. She made threats: our insurance would not pay if we left against medical advice (um, the doctor had said we could leave?), and my son would die if we didn't do as they said (wait, the surgeon won't be able to get to him until next week, but he'll die before then?).
Fortunately, my son realized as well as I did that we were being railroaded for medical profits, so he did not object to leaving with me. We got home safely, and the abscess was already healing--no draining required--when we got home. But I will never trust any provider in Denver's medical ever again.
I'm sorry to hear about your bad experience. I think most parents do experience bullying like this along the path of parenting - sometimes from the school and sometimes from the medical industrial complex.
I completely agree that this is about ideology as well as big profits.
I think about the similarities to what happened in Germany in the 1930s. How could this be happening in our technically and morally advanced country?
Maybe many of the average people who go along with the GI narrative are simply being stupid like maybe your average German did at one time? It is so hard to understand how people look the other way/just follow the narrative of the state-tech-medical-journalism machine - now as they did in Germany.
In the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was subsequently executed by the Nazi Germans: "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than wickedness. Evil can be protested against, exposed, and, if necessary, it can be prevented by force. Evil always harbors the germ of self-destruction by inducing at least some uneasiness in people. We are defenseless against stupidity. Nothing can be done to oppose it, neither with protests nor with violence. Reasons cannot prevail. Facts that contradict one's prejudice simply don't need to be believed, and when they are inescapable, they can simply be brushed aside as meaningless, isolated cases." https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/on-stupidity
And: "Echoes of Eugenics: What the Doctors Trial at Nuremberg Means for Us in the US" https://pitt.substack.com/p/echoes-of-eugenics-what-the-doctors
Doctors were actually out ahead of Nazi officials.
Somewhere in a lifetime of raising children, a parent does meet the bully or bullying experience. Mine was with a psychologist who rather than approving intervention for dyslexia wanted to start meds for hyperactivity. I sat on one side of the table and 5 of the school personnel sat opposite. It was gatekeeping at its finest. Parents pay for meds and school doesn’t provide or finance resources to help with dyslexia.
Other parents will have other show downs. What makes a show down successful is a strong belief in knowing that your solution is the best for your child along with spousal support and/ or support of friends or family who have a firm grip on good sense. What Is reported here, suggest a system that thrives on actively and ruthlessly searching for the weak points ie promotes disagreement with ex, threats that your child will die, and only offer one “life preserver.”
I had a similar showdown, JoAnne.
Funny how ADHD is so often the diagnosis meant to solve the problem, no? 😀 Mine was with teachers and a stepmother. They wanted my oldest son to go on ADHD meds (which in those days meant Ritalin.)
I said, "Absolutely not!" and enrolled him in a chess class and a Tai Kwon Do class.
Guess what? His powers of concentration improved. 😀
But, yeah. I REALLY had to stand my ground and got called some nasty names.
Your story has been tugging at the back of my mind all day, Patrizia. I think "trans" is the new ADHD. Ritalin did absolutely Nothing to help the child back in the day. The kids were just made listless and pliable. Now, they prescribe other drugs that are not quite as bad (I think?) But the bottom line is that drugs are pushed - not just used where beneficial. Sad because a loved one died? Take Prozac! Your child has a lot of energy and doesn't always concentrate? Lets drug him and put him in a chair instead of sending him to the fields! Uncomfortable with puberty and your friends have an answer? Great! You are the other sex and we have drugs for that fantasy!
That nutter senator in Nebraska who is filibustering has a transID child. I read that she wants to have the $7,000 a month "medicine" paid for by insurance. Lets do the math on a lifetime of that. But, if you choose to detransition no one wants to take you.
I do not think this is primarily "grassroots". There's an ideology promoted by demented narcissist activists and it serves pharma and plastic surgeons, etc.
Now the teachers unions & government are all in. It serves them in some way. I think it must be driven by billionaire doners like Srtryker and Pritker. Dem Voters are just sheep, IMO. I was an Independent all my life and have voted for plenty of Dems and Reps but now I am a one issue voter as this has to be stopped. I would not vote for anyone who does not speak against the Trans Travesty which seems to be all Dems or those like Rep Kristi Noem who previosly sold out in South Dakota - possibly because she takes money from the NBA.
Moms who speak out get in trouble (like Merrick Garland's list).
What a horrible experience!
There is no such thing as non-binary. There is no such thing as being gender fluid. There is no such thing as transitioning from one sex to another. There are ways people feel, but these people need competent counselors who can guide them through adolescence by understanding, teaching coping skills, and many other things. I am appalled and ashamed of the medical community that supports gender affirming treatment. They should have their licenses revoked. Period. Full stop.
Doctors. All doctors. Are. Quacks. I don’t trust one of them anymore. They have no problem solving/critical thinking skills. They did well in school but never learned to THINK! They get all their info from the NEJM and drug company reps. They ski or golf rather than attend their continuing ed . It’s about the money and prestige. I pray I never am really sick because I’ll be hunting for a tribal medicine man.
The clinic took advantage of the parents' divorce status and pitted them against each other. Very common and very effective tactic, especially when both parties have to agree to any procedure.
Does divorce, especially a contentious divorce add another dimension to identification?
It definitely adds to a child's anxiety and self-doubt - many kids blame themselves for the parents' breakup. And if the divorce is acrimonious, the kid can become a weapon that the parents use against each other.
All this can create a general sense of malaise, which some doctors are quick to diagnose as gender dysphoria.
The left has a long history of glorifying and normalizing sexual deviation. Foucault, Kinsey, Goodman, Marcuse.
Well. Sexuality IS a bell-shaped curve. I believe the transgender phenomenon is quite real. But very, very rare. Nowhere near as common as the creepy staff of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital might have you believe.
On the Indian subcontinent and other parts of Southeast Asia, hijra are recognized legally as a third gender. Hijira include some castrati and intersex but also many people who would be categorized as transgender in the U.S.
Hijira is a _very_ ancient classification.
Sex is Not a bell shaped curve. Without clear categories of Sex everyone's Sexuality gets erased. Everyone's!
We all need to stop conflating biological sex with socially enforced gender roles.
Sex is in every cell in your body. It is impossible to change it. "Sex change" is magical thinking. It says a great deal about how poor science education has become when kids and adults can be convinced of the sex-change lie, that children are 'affirmed' to be lied to and medicalized for the rest of their lives. We are saying "Sure kids go to war with every cell in your body, heres the chemical weapon to fight yourself." That is so many layers of sick it is hard to fathom. It is impossible to have anything approaching a normal adult sex life following these treatments. The "Doctors" are mutilating the parts built for pleasure and turning them into sites of lifelong pain and distress. How disgusting g is that? The "Panel of Experts" that wrote the WPATH guidelines are ALL making money from promoting this lie! In no way is this "medicine."
And as to why the lefties who have been shouting about this were ignored, it is because they are mostly women, and often lesbians or 'radical feminists' in other words the females who don't suck up to males. Or detransitioners shunned and silenced by everyone and every social media platform.
So most males and females ignore or revile them.
Misogyny kept you from listening. Misogyny is rampant on all sides of all political divides.
Gross leering older men is why girls have always tried to hide themselves. Prior generations were not fed toxic lies about "Gender fluidity" as pretend escape.
The fact that the cartoonish caricature of Femininity is what is now held up as "womanhood" is why girls are looking for a way out of 'womanhood'.
The pornification of all forms of media and the fact that violent porn is ubiquitous online, porn that promotes unreal standards for everyone and normalizes rare and extreme kinks, kids are confused and scared.
The religious beliefs that claim that clothing indicates sex & punish women who will not comply. The fact that there are so FEW positive portrayals of Butch females in any media erases options for girls who do not aspire to be Barbies.
All of these are contributing factors.
All of us who did not stand up are responsible for the generation that has ALREADY gone through this & regrets it.
So all of us need to spread these messages: #1 If You try to stop Puberty you will be Stuck In Puberty Forever. #2 Sex Cannot be Changed!
Several things can be true. Transgenderism is a feeling, not a separate sex, no matter how many cultures in history have accepted those who “feel” like they don’t belong in the natal sex body. That, in and of itself, does not render it a third gender. Whether the current culture accepts and “normalizes” transgenders is a totally separate thing. Dr. Levine sats transgenderism should be normalized and codified. Well, no, it shouldn’t. Treat people kindly, yes. Be forced to take part in their delusion, no, especially if the person is a child or young adult.
In the article, Casey wants to remain a boy just like Peter Pan. Written over 100 years ago, does the play express the same angst of changing into an adult that is being stated by Casey? There may have always been this “becoming an adult” angst. The difference is that society no longer provides the encouragement to bridge to adulthood, but provides a chemical version of Peter Pan’s island.
The difference is that that normal distribution is assumed to apply to people who actually have a sexuality. Kinsey assumed every age group was included in that normal distribution. His entire thesis was that children are sexual from birth & should therefore be allowed to experience it from birth. Here's everything you need to know about Kinsey--> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtElwdfCUTc
Also intersex is a biological phenomenon & doesn't really have a place in a conversation about people with a mental disorder.
This is from the writer/activist Sarah Haider, a Pakistani American who founded Ex-Muslims of North America:
"For example, South Asian hijras (biological males who dress as women) are regularly touted as “proof” of transgenderism in another culture. However, hijras are not considered “a kind of woman” (nor do they claim to be)—rather, they are believed to be aberrative men in a culture that strictly enforces sex norms, and as such, they are shunned and feared. They live in abject poverty, making ends meet through illicit trades. The hijra is one culture’s solution to the tension referenced above—a way to “accommodate” highly feminine homosexual men who are not accepted in mainstream society. The hijra is not an example of trans acceptance. The hijra is an example of severe homophobia."
On the Indian Sub-Continent they also practiced Suttee.
Ha, ha, ha! 😀
C'mon Bruce, I think better of your analytic abilities than the posing of false equivalencies. 😀
It was just too tempting to resist.
As a Gen Z’er commented below, being trans has become a way to be cool. And maybe a cover for actual psychological problems. Why has a whole medical specialty popped up to enable it? Money, of course. But also because the left in its absurd refusal to acknowledge objective truths vs untruths, right from wrong, enables it. These mutilated kids are victims of the left. But does the left even have a conscience to feel guilty? The left never self examines. It shrugs and moves on, it meant well, so that’s all that mattered.
So much of this is about money. Trans = Pharma customer for life.
Of course the media is on board! Pharma advertising is how they make money.
I agree with you TOTALLY that whatever's pushing mass trans consciousness right now has very little to do with actual gender dysmorphia.
I'm not sure how to unpack that. I'm more left-leaning than you are, so obviously, I'm gonna have problems seeing it primarily as a Left/Right issue. 😀
It was a kind of throwaway in Nellie's most recent TGIF, but one of her more interesting items was about the mainstream media’s coverage of the recent Christian School shooting: Despite the fact that the shooter identified as a trans male, media outlets consistently referred to the shooter by the shooter's "dead" name and used the pronouns “she/her,” thus leading to the inescapable conclusion that mainstream media takes “trans women are women” a whole lot more seriously than it takes “trans men are men."
To me, this is one of the most fascinating parts of all the creepy stuff that's going on around gender that _begs_ to be unpacked.
That TGIF reference stuck with me too. I also notice that the sports controversy over trans women competing against women isn’t discussed the other way - trans men competing against men.
You don't hear about how trans men are men in sports is because they, well, aren't. Women who think they are men nearly always still compete against like bodies females. The immutable biological physical differences mean biological men can take women's records and championships with ease, while the reverse doesn't happen. "Lia" Thomas placed or won a bunch of events in the women's events at the Ivy championships last year, after being mediocre for the three years he was on the men's team (times rank him around 385th for the men). Lots of people noticed this. What most people didn't notice was the woman who beat him in the Ivy championships, in the 100 and 400 freestyle, was a woman who thinks she's a man named Iszac Henig from Yale. She has had her breast removed and spent most of the meet with her suit around her waist because she is allowed topless on the pool deck since her breast have been removed. Still, she competed against like bodied biological women, and won against male mediocre Lia Thomas, but she wouldn't have even qualified to race in the meet had she swum against the males she identifies as being.
There is a belief that Thomas and Henig colluded before the race to allow Henig to win. If you watched the race, Thomas appears to slow down and allow Henig to catch up and pass. Even if Henig was on hormones, her testosterone levels, lung capacity, muscle mass, etc. would never come close to Thomas. There is no way she could have beat Thomas.
Yup, as we were watching March Madness I wondered outloud where were all the trans men on these NCAAM teams? Imagine how different things would have turned out if UConn had a couple of 5’5” trans men on the team.
Maybe the media just figured out you don’t get to be a monster murdering kids then demand society coddle your delusions about yourself.
I think it's more a question of relevance. I've NEVER heard the media say "A white heterosexual male shot up a school today" either. They generally just name the shooter. Right-wing web sites will mention the shooter's religion if it isn't Christian.
I think they just don't want the fact that a trans person did something bad to be put out there.
And FWIW, I am a lifelong Democrat. Long before I heard people from the right taking on this issue there were feminists on the left fighting against the trans movement/agenda ( I have been speaking out against transing kids since 2011). I am very thankful that the right has taken on this issue and has really brought it to the forefront. We owe a huge debt to Chris Rufo and Billboard Chris and to conservative news outlets who cover this issue.
And it' been hard, because if you are a Democrat and bringing this issue up, you lose friends and sometimes become estranged from relatives. I have people who have known me for 30 years think I'm a little bit unhinged at best, and a hateful transphobe at worst.
To use a JK Rowling reference here, we have been Neville Longbottom- standing up to your friends can be harder than standing up to your enemies.
I know I will get piled on here, I just want people to know that there have been some of us on the left banging the drum about this for a very long time. We aren't all nuts. I wish we could find a way to work together to end this barbaric practice instead of demonizing each other. I truly believe that the vast majority of us are in the political middle. We don't want a culture war- we want to end the mutilation of children.
I think you are correct about the vast middle, and I appreciate your early recognition. I did not see it until after I voted to punish Republican Pat McCrory in the 2016 NC governor's election. A lot of us made that mistake and the children trapped in public school were punished for it during Covid, while my young children stayed in school full time in person at their top ranked conservative Christain school. I have spent since about 2017 speaking out trying to correct my mistake and make up for it, but the guilt is immense, and I completely deserve it - I was swayed by propaganda, not reality. I have faith this misogynistic insanity will end, but my heart breaks for the destroyed lives and bodies until it does.
You are probably right about the media - this is the 4th recent trans mass shooter, and each time that's glossed over or denied. Personally, I think we have a huge mental health crisis, which these detached from reality ideologies certainly appear to exacerbate, and the media and totalitarian left are determined not to consider that. Forget guns have been part of US culture since inception, and you could mail order even machine guns into the 1980's they tell us. However, objective reality is the biggest change has been our culture, morality, and breakdown of the family being overtly promoted by the totalitarian left. The totalitarian left owns social media, traditional media, and most of our institutions. It's not surprising the mental health crisis is getting worse - its predictable. And yes, I recognize there have always been crazy people who hurt others - every mass shooter falls into this category (and our military industrial complex -- but that's a discussion for a different day) - but it is getting much worse.
I disagree with you about the right to some extent. Only politicians on the right are trying to protect women and children. I was on the left back when the NC bathroom controversy blew up, and I hated HB2 because I had no concept that men were actually trying to invade women's spaces and athletics. It was my right leaning friends who saw the issue at the time. I do think generally there were more people on the right - who tend to be a live and let live bunch - simply didn't see the pervasiveness and indoctrination coming. Then there were people like me on the left who didn't realize we were buying pure propaganda.
Such a great comment.
When I was a teen there were just as many guns per capita. I had a rifle The High Schools had rifle teams.
But there were no school shootings.
Wonder what changed?????
We ceded control of things to leftist nitwits and wondered "what's the worst that can happen?"
Now we know.
I think social media and the loss of meaningful connection to nature and our communities and to God have all played a bigger part in shootings and mental illness than one party or the other.
Wow- I had no idea that we have had four trans mass shooters! Who were the other ones besides the Tennessee one?
Anderson Lee Aldrich, the trans woman who killed five at the Club Q nightclub on 11/19/2022
Devon Erickson, the trans woman who killed one at STEM School Highlands Ranch in 2019
Snochia Moseley, the trans man who killed three at a Rite Aid distribution center in Maryland in 2018
And Audrey Hale
But given that there have been literally HUNDREDS of mass shootings since Texas Tower Sniper Charles Whitman started the trend in 1966, I don't think four transgender shooters are statistically significant.
Well said.
"I just want people to know that there have been some of us on the left banging the drum about this for a very long time"
Maybe so, but don't you find it a bit curious that it wasn't an issue until the right put a mic and amplifier next to the drum?
So many people who took to Twitter about this were shadow banned, or outright kicked off. Authors wrote books about it and Amazon refused to sell them. Talks were organized at small venues ( libraries, community centers, book stores) and then cancelled after complaints from trans activists. Critical comments on pro trans articles in Washington Post and NYT were deleted by moderators. We knew we needed a mic but it kept getting knocked out of our hands every time we tried to grab it.
It's hard to find a mic if you are a regular non famous person being blocked so effectively from in person and online dissent. That's why I am so glad that those on the right have managed to amplify the message.
Molly I to tend to be more left than right and am horrified by this trans movement. Adolescent is confusing and kids shouldn’t be making such life altering decisions. If you decide to transition in adulthood fine by me but children should be watched and monitored only!!! Problem with politics today is if you think one aspect of the political agenda is wrong you are automatically labeled a right wing conservative. What happened to a healthy exchange of ideas.
The far right is an immense tent. I think it’s terrible that women prisoners are forced to live with men and then told to refer to their rapists as “she”. That makes me a far right extremist, per the Narrative. So be it. I don’t Identify as anything - but if others call me far right, well, I won’t argue
No. I suspect it has to do with what JK Rowling refers to as the invasion of safe female spaces by trans females.
It's a kind of progressively sanctioned way of dismantling the feminist movement.
Wow, your last statement perfectly sums this insanity up...thans for framing it like that. I have been struggling so long to figure out what motivates these people, other than money obviously.
To quote Mary from Dumb and Dumber: "Who are these sick people?"
I can assure you, no one on the right supports the ideas that little kids can declare what they are, that parents have no rights, that school teachers can aid and abet kids behind their parents’ backs, and that medical quacks can bully parents. Not. One.