“NewsNation's @RichMcHugh exclusively reports on a whistleblower case out of St. Louis, Missouri, where a former case manager claims a pediatric transgender clinic is causing physical harm to patients and using experimental drugs. #VargasReports”
Attention, young people: The folks in your schools with the "genderbread" diagrams are confusing you on purpose. It's a scam. Don't fall for it.
You were born male or female. This reality was recognized and duly recorded. A gender was not "assigned" to you as though plucked from a hat. The eyeball test conducted at the moment of your birth is 99.982% accurate, a lower rate of error than many lab tests.
"Male" and "female" are just words to describe the reality of human reproductive dimorphism-a thing that existed before the human race invented language. It only describes your body.
Neither of the two sexes (there are only two) comes with an inherent set of colors, hobbies, interests or activities. We used to call that sort of idea "sexist."
Nowadays, it is fashionable to say that "gender" is some sort of inner sense of self that makes you like certain games, toys, sports, haircuts, clothes, etc., rather than others.
This is not "gender," however. It is called "having a personality."
No one is "born in the wrong body." The scammers want you to become a $500,000 lifetime medical profit-center by telling you otherwise. But we don't have to adopt interesting new pronouns to become the people we already are.
Just be yourself in your body. Never trust anyone who suggests you are anything else.
“Were you or your child harmed by gender medicine? You are not alone. We want to hear from you. #TransitionJustice #Trans #GenderDysphoria #TransMan #TransWoman #Detransition #NonBinary #DetransitionAwarenessDay #DetransAwarenessDay”
"It is one thing to affirm yourself, but to demand affirmation from others, that is the enemy of mental health."
-- Savannah Edwards
If you make your identity, affirmation or mental health contingent upon the behaviors or attitudes of other people, you have no right to get upset when they fail to live up to your expectations or decline the responsibility entirely. You voluntarily gave that power to them, so you get what you get.
You're not entitled to make someone else drive the car, and then tell them how to drive from the back seat. If you want to go a particular way, get your license and drive yourself there.
Outsourcing your wellbeing looks a lot like abusive narcissism. It looks like you making other people rearrange their lives around whether or not you're happy, and carry you gingerly through life as their burden.
If your personal identity becomes invalidated without other people's participation - that is, if you are not you without someone else's agreement and recognition - then that identity couldn't have been real in the first place, just a performance for other people.
This week I read the most extraordinary and chilling statement. It was issued by a fringe group called the Trans Resistance Network. It was about the horrific gun attack at the Covenant School, a private Christian school, in Nashville this week. The suspect in the attack is Audrey / Aiden Hale, a young woman who, according to
I was raised an atheist in the American south. I was also too honest to ever stay quiet about my beliefs. And the bullying I received from Christians for being an atheist was horrific.
As I grew up and more people started to become atheists, I was initially happy. Slowly, though, I learned that this new atheism is different from the one I grew up with, that valued free inquiry, skepticism, rationalism and informed discourse. And I have become disillusioned as I realized that these new atheists are just as capable of the same bullying that the Christians I grew up with where if someone dared to questions a tenet of their beliefs.
The atheism I grew up with was non-dogmatic. This new atheism is not.
Violence will not heal us. Extremism on one side just pushes the other side to further extremism. I know intimately the pain of being bullied and ostracized and assaulted. And I also know that healing does not come from passing that pain on to others and becoming what you hate.
Healing happens when we learn to start talking to ourselves with compassion. Healing happens when we look inward and start to converse with our hurt child. Healing happens when we surround ourselves with kind people who are healthy for us and when we do things that our healthy for us.
Healing comes when we grow from being a victim and into a survivor.Â
One rather valid criticism of pediatric gender transition is that is prioritizes how someone looks over how someone’s body functions. Sure, people who undergo pediatric transition may pass more easily but they will likely sacrifice their sexual function and their ability to reproduce. Bones may fail to mineralize and may break more easily. WtM who have mastectomies will lose upper body strength. Cross sexed hormones can also increase the risk of dementia in biological males.
As someone who has reached midlife and is having to come to terms with the fact that I am no longer a beautiful young woman, let me tell you that having a body that functions well and accomplishments that are separate from how I look is critical to my mental health. I may not be the dress size I like but I can have incredible multiple orgasms. I may have stretch marks but my body grew and nurtured two beautiful children and was strong enough to endure the pains of labor. I may no longer turn heads but I have a loving husband and know the difference between the thrill of an intense crush and the security and comfort of a love that has endured trials and tribulations. I also have a career and talents that I nurture that continue to go strong despite the trials of age.
Our looks eventually peak and go downhill. We can spend a lot of time and money focusing on looking a certain way, a truly shallow goal, or we can spend time and effort on having a healthy, functioning body.
While there are studies that describe the self-reported high satisfaction of young people and their families of being on puberty blockers, and some improvement in mental health, others suggest there is evidence that puberty blocker use can lead to changes in sexuality and sexual function, poor bone health, stunted height, low mood, tumour-like masses in the brain and, for those treatment early enough who continue on to cross-sex hormones, almost certain infertility. The use of cross-sex hormones can also bring an increased risk of a range of possible longer-term health complications such as blood clots and cardiovascular disease.
-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think
Further, a lot of these potential risks and complications were not adequately addressed prior to medicalization and no proper informed consent was done.
Apparently being a regular teenager is a disorder requiring medical treatment and the removal of body parts. Not only are you "trans" if you don't fit a 1950s Barbie/G.I. Joe stereotype, you're "trans" if you don't fit a 1950s "golly, gee" soda shoppe "Leave It To Beaver" stereotype.
This is the same tactic psychics use to tell you your fortune, and astrologers use to convince you that distant stars reflect your personality. It's called the Forer Effect, or Barnum Effect.
To really drive home the cult programming, any time you're feeling better, that's how you know you've gotten worse.
For political and ideological reasons - for example, one presenter actually claims that children are being "misdiagnosed" as autistic when they're actually trans - they've flipped the symptom and the cause.
The “affirm or suicide” narrative is politically potent, but also reckless and misleading.
In a section titled “Aspects of News Coverage That Can Promote Suicide Contagion,” the CDC cautioned against “[p]resenting simplistic explanations for suicide.” Suicide, it explained, “is never the result of a single factor or event, but rather results from a complex interaction of many factors and usually involves a history of psychosocial problems.”
If you are feeling suicidal, never forget that there is hope! Please call the Suicide Crisis Line at 988 to get help.
I have heard from detransistioners as well as Trans Activists that trans people are extremely insecure in their identity, which is why they explode at the smallest thing that threatens it. A lot of well meaning people try to help by jumping through hoops and bending over backwards to assure the trans person that they are whatever they identify as. What those well meaning people have forgotten is the difference between helping and enabling, and what trans people who rely on the assurance of others do not realize is that they are giving away their power.
Real power is being confident enough in your identity so that even if someone challenges it, it doesn’t phase you. Real power is knowing who you are and not having to pretend to be someone different. Real power is being able to hold onto your truth even if someone else does not agree.
Forcing someone else to validate who you are may help in the short term. The hard truth is that even if you can coerce all 8 billion people on this planet to acknowledge your identity (and that is not a realistic goal) it will never be enough if you don’t feel secure in your identity.
Forcing people to shout “trans women are women”, forcing pronouns down people’s throats and making the world walk on eggshells around pronouns and doing everything they can to validate you, and shutting down debate about the research into pediatric transition may feel like things that help in the moment. And they may temporarily give you a boost in self esteem. But in the long term it is making your mental health worse.
Just as a opioid addict believes that heroin will help, in actuality it is hurting.
Real mental health and real healing is looking inward and becoming secure in your own identity. Real mental health is not relying on others to tell you who you are.
And to those of you who are not assuming a trans identity and are trying to be supportive, please consider whether you are really helping or hurting.
Biology denial pretends to re-enact gay rights. It's not. It's mocking it.
By: Dennis Noel Kavanagh
Published: May 22, 2022
[ Above: LGB Alliance making a point no charity should ever have to make ]
Of all the many absurd frauds perpetrated by gender ideology/biology denial the most egregious is the audacious lie “This is just like gay rights”, or the common riposte from the hard of thinking: “That’s just recycled homophobia”.
Such phrases are normally uttered by some risible gender borg, more often than not in answer to an actual homosexual daring to voice even a mild objection to the increasingly eccentric and dangerous demands of a creed whose main aim seems to be the re-medicalisation of homosexuality by force of gender.
Paradoxically, of course, Gay Rights 2.0 is actually the fight against biology denial, not for it and, with unerring symmetry, homophobia 2.0 is of course the fight to seriously sustain the argument that children playing with the wrong toys (normally gay) require surgical correction. For the sake of practicality and utility if nothing else, I propose here to set out why biology denial’s claim to our history, heritage and social position as gay rights activists is a fraudulent and sinister mockery of what our movement is, and what it stands for. Gender is a fraud by abuse of trust, most commonly a linguistic sleight of hand or a superficially plausible mapping of one issue onto another.
It’s easy to be fooled of course. Biology denial is a sort of hateful gay rights re-enactment society for bored bourgeois kids, some no doubt genuinely believe themselves to be fighting for “trans rights”, famously, none can specify the particular right when pressed. None can or do deal with detransitioners or inconvenient facts like homophobia being raised by the head of safeguarding at the Tavistock as a concern. Biology denial is a voluntary cyclops with one hand covering an eye which might otherwise survey the human collateral damage of this strange and failed aesthetic flesh cult. But then the acceptable casualties tend to be gay of course. That alone should provide you with a telling clue as to what is really going on.
[ Above: The absurd reconceptualisation of gay people as privileged beneficiaries with no history of pain ]
The 10 reasons biology denial is not Gay Rights 2.0:
(1) Biology denial regards gender non conformity as a medical issue
Biology denial position: Playing with toys atypical to societal gender roles should be regarded as the diagnostic criteria for experimental drugs with known results (underdeveloped genitalia, bone density deficits etc.) and as yet unknown results such that Nordic countries and France have now banned/seriously restricted their use. These drugs lock children into medical pathways with studies showing 97%+ graduation from puberty blockers to cross sex hormones.
Gay Rights position: Let children play with whatever toys they happen to like. Gender non-conformity is perfectly normal in our community. Children should not face lifelong medicalisation because homophobia is not taken seriously as a safeguarding issue at facilities engaging in gay conversion by gender.
[ Above: A mocked up satire on heterosexual MPs unwittingly supporting gay conversion by gender having not properly looked into the safeguarding of young gay people ]
(2) Biology denial is well funded, well connected and supported by left and right
Biology denial position: The profoundly religious and unevidenced suggestion that everyone possesses a gender soul enjoys huge corporate support and is also the de facto position of almost all trade unions in the UK. That consensus is largely mirrored in politics where the classic alignment of a political party is not a reliable indication of where it’s members stand on biology denial. While the right wing are in general terms more resistant to mass medicalisation of children, some of the most prominent gender borg acolytes in the UK are found on the Conservative benches. Ancillary to both is a monocultural charity sector where numerous “LGBTWTF” charities in effect act as proxies for one another. This leads to intellectual stagnation and discourse characterised by mantra like repetition of absurd phrases in place of arguments.
Gay Rights position: The gay rights of old and today is a grassroots phenomenon containing actual homosexuals. A comparison as between the funding arrangements for LGB Alliance, Gay Men’s Network, Lesbian Labour etc. and the leviathan biology denial outfits would be like comparing a local sports team to a televangelising mega church. Corporations and unions in the past had limited affinity with classic gay rights and support from both left and right was earned through open debate and discussion, rather than by diktat, shaming or dubious membership schemes requiring payment and adherence to a set of doctrines. Where BD is organised, lavish and entrenched in power structures the gay rights of old and today was and is a movement of private individuals giving up free time to fight homophobic hate.
(3) Biology denial rewrites science, language and history to appear organic
Biology denial position: Intersex/DSDs (Differences of Sexual Development) conditions should be dishonestly leveraged to argue sex is a spectrum despite such conditions being differences of either male or female development. Language control should become normal with a privileged class requiring forced/coerced language socially and in written communications. New words should be fabricated for an ever increasing range of biology denial identities and parties not adhering to new speech codes should be punished/ostracised/humiliated as “hateful”. Gay people may present a threat or object to the misuse of their movement as a vehicle for these aims so should be humiliated and demoralised by being told they owe all their rights to biology denial, their history should be extensively and audaciously rewritten to minimise/erase achievements by gay men and lesbians. History should further be raided and recrafted such that a claim to the long term existence of biology denial can be dishonestly made.
Gay Rights position: (Science) Human beings are not sequential hermaphrodites so cannot biologically change sex. Intersex/DSD conditions are not a debating prop nor is it fair or right to deploy these conditions when those with them loudly and repeatedly ask you not to. (Language) Coerced language is wrong and is simply a show of social power verging on bullying. In Gay Rights the advent of gay marriage was not accompanied by a demand that heterosexuals started saying “cis straight marriage”. Changing words is wrong and imperious. Homosexuals are not “homogendered”, nor is it morally acceptable to summarily redefine us in this way. The only language we’ve ever asked someone to accept is to get used to “his husband” or “her wife” and funnily enough most people are completely fine with that. (History) The achievements of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals should not and will not be forgotten. No social force/philosophy or cult has the right to rob people of their heroes. Our history should be accurately described according to facts, not rewritten to suit an oppressor class exploiting our movement and erasing our historical agency. Truth matters and gay history matters. We are a minority and minorities have more need of heroes that majorities. Children should not be taught lies about the Stonewall riots to suit the political objectives of biology denial and no movement should normalise the practice of trafficking in falsehoods.
[ Above: A sadly accurate assessment of how biology denial repackages historic anti-gay hate ]
(4) Biology denial believes in cancellation, silencing and harassment
Biology denial position: Disagreement of any kind should be met with pile-ons, attempts to get people sacked/driven from their jobs through stress, doxing and dishonestly representing their positions in the worst light all the while simultaneously maintaining that “there is no such thing as cancel culture”. Women in particular, like Maya Forstater, Professor Kathleen Stock and Professor Jo Pheonix are to be particularly targeted as they will engage in a reasonable manner and attempt to show kindness. As many BD adherents are fundamentally cowardly by nature, they will just about be able to add to the voices harassing these women where they would likely steer clear of a biological male. Only in this field, paradoxically, will the faithful unerringly recognise the biological demarcation between male and female. These public humiliations should chill freedom of speech and people should be afraid to say what they want with accusations of “hate speech” or “phobia” being made at the least provocation and on a hair trigger in order to silence any dissent.
Gay Rights position:Â An equal age of consent, gays in the military, equal marriage and employment protections required precisely zero women to lose their jobs nor did they require that anyone who opposed these measures be cancelled. We engaged in freedom of speech and a debate which is healthy and proper in a democracy. We note two of the women (Professors Stock and Phoenix) named above are lesbians, that is no accident. Lesbians were the first target of the biology denial movement particularly in the form of the demand they stop being lesbians and start sleeping with male bodies persons. That is homophobic. Chilling freedom of speech more generally and harassing people brings the gay rights movement into disrepute and squanders the goodwill brave lesbians and gay men built up over decades as it recasts itself as a bullying, authoritarian enemy of free speech.
(5) Biology denial believes in legislative change by deception
Biology denial position: There is no popular mandate for medicalising mostly gay kids or introducing the concept of gender souls into legislation such that the concept of “woman” is reduced to a self-declared feeling. If the public are left with a normal functioning legislative process, most would be horrified about matters such as homophobia as a child safeguarding concern at gender clinics or the reality of female prisoners forced to share cells with male bodies persons. The democratic process should therefore be subverted and far reaching legislative changes should be snuck into the law by abusing the close and unhealthy connections biology denial lobby groups have with legislators. Speaking to the public or actual gay people should be avoided as gay people in particular are likely to recognise and highlight the homophobia of biology denial. A vivid example is Stonewall’s campaign for there to be no public consultation on the “conversion therapy ban” (in reality a charter for gay conversion by gender).
Gay Rights position: Legislation in a democracy should be made on the basis of evidence, not ideology and normal consultation processes should be followed. The public should know what legislation contains and debates should be open and clear about what is being proposed. When the Gay Men’s Network and many other organisations responded to the government’s consultation on the “conversion therapy ban” we made the case that it amounted to conversion by gender. This is what gay rights organisations should be doing - fighting homophobia wherever it threatens gay people. Any policy that has to be snuck through a legislative process is, by definition, a change with something to hide. Gay rights movements have nothing to hide and we have never had to lie or obscure our policy objectives.
(6) Biology denial targets children for indoctrination
Biology denial position:Â Despite there being no evidence for this proposition and its far reaching consequences, children should be taught at school that they have a gender identity and this spiritual belief should be reinforced across youth media and through as much mainstream television as possible. Children are pliant and impressionable and less likely to ask questions. They should get the impression biology denial is fun and fashionable and present in ever increasing numbers at gender clinics so this movement can sustain a moral civil rights / safeguarding claim. Any suggestions of social contagion or harm should be met with as per (4) above with the claim that such concerns are hate.
Gay Rights position:Â Teaching children unscientific pseudo-religious dogma about gender souls is morally wrong and tantamount to using education as a way of proselyting a new religion. It is no accident the number of children presenting at biology denial clinics has risen in the UK in one instances of 5000% and in Scotland 1000%. To imagine that this increase is purely coincidental with these matters being taught in schools stretches credulity far beyond breaking point. Many of the children targeted in this way are gay. It is homophobic to teach gay children that they have the wrong bodies because they do not fit a sex stereotype. This is thus simply another homophobic religious belief which has no place in schools and it amounts to a serious safeguarding concern.
[ Above: The CEO of Stonewall equating lesbianism with a “societal prejudice”. ]
(7) Biology denial is racist
Biology denial position:Â Black people are a subset of the sex class to which they belong. The interests primarily of a group of white men with biology denier related identities come first. Countries that were colonised did not have a concept of male and female before white Western imperialism and were in a noble state prior to such corruption. What they now need is a new group of (mainly white) biology deniers to explain this to them and they should be re-educated in the ways of biology denial.
Gay Rights position: Allison Bailey was right to say in her keynote address at LGB Alliance conference that she had never known racism such as that emanating from biology denial / gender ideology. Her quote “if black women can be women, why can’t I” is a shocking illustration of the obvious racism of this movement. The targeting of Allison Bailey , Sonia Appleby, Kiera Bell and the public vilification of Baroness Kishwer Falkner is beginning to suggest that women of colour who speak out against biology denial face particularly harsh consequences. White men adopting biology denial identities seem to be at the forefront of this movement and many of them appear to be heterosexual.
(8) Biology denial is misogynist
Biology denial position: The word “woman” has no fixed definition and anyone who says they are woman is one, except adult human females who may only say that they are “menstruators”, “cervix havers” etc. Women should have no sex-based boundaries at all from toilets to bathrooms to prison cells or rape shelters, women who challenge this position at rape shelters should be called “bigots” who should “reframe their trauma”. The concept “woman” should primarily be understood with reference to sexual stereotypes and the performance of a particularly porn-based understanding of femininity. Women in particular who dissent (see (4) above) should especially be targeted for cancellation and silencing.
Gay Rights position: A woman is an adult human female. As homosexuals, same sex spaces and boundaries are not just necessary, they are the existential framework of our minority community. It is demeaning and morally wrong to existentially acid strip meaning from the word “woman”. The male Gay Rights movement has no interest in, or desire to compromise, female sexual boundaries or spaces. The lesbian Gay Rights movement has no interest in, or desire to compromise, male sexual boundaries or spaces. That is what makes us gay. The fact biology denial is preoccupied with this quintessentially heterosexual endeavour makes it a straight rights movement, not a gay rights one. The open harassment and abuse of women that goes on in the name of biology denial should be a source of shame to it. The fact it is not demonstrates aptly the contempt in which it truly holds women.
[ Above: A statement so utterly homophobic of course the author wasn’t cancelled ]
(9) Biology denial is homophobic
Biology denial position: Gay people are second class members of the movement who lack the determination to embrace one of biology denial’s ultimate goal, the surgical transformation of homosexuals into ostensible heterosexuals. Gender nonconformity should be medicalised. Lesbians and gays who disagree with this should be cancelled and excluded from their movement, charities and any social spaces where they might organise. Those who go along with this should be rewarded and encouraged to engage in woke conversion therapy propaganda.
Gay Rights position: Homosexuality is not a medical problem, our same-sex attraction is in fact a protected characteristic pursuant to s.12 of the Equality Act 2010 in the UK. Gay people owe it to the next generation to speak up in the face of our political vehicles being taken from us and we must make our own new organisations where necessary and form such groups/alliances as are necessary to protect our community. Biology denial is an existential attack on our minority community and it regards us as second class citizens. We must challenge and defeat it. We have to.
(10) Biology denial makes only pornography, not art
Biology denial position: As this in an inorganic, top-down movement it stunts creativity and blunts free thinking because both are threats to cult-like religions. Self-expression is limited to pre-designed identities and flags, each of which constrain and categorise human creativity while giving the illusion of choice. Biology denial produces a vast army of adherents who check and double check each other’s language/adherence to the core doctrines so will produce endless videos as to categorisation (what one can and cannot say without causing offence for example) and identities. This will keep followers in a state of fear where the primary concern is regulation of thought/language all the time purporting to celebrate authentic expression while completely annihilating that by the bureaucratic allocation of people into pre-approved conceptual categories. Because adherents will be in a state of fear and incapable of art, they will have less sex than the generation before so pornography and anime should be deployed to fulfil such needs as obtain.
Gay Rights position:Â Every era of gay rights has produced artists, poets, playwrights, singers, etc. who have produced world-changing art, music and prose. Gay Rights has never encouraged or been of a mind which makes or recycles mediocre memes. The free expression most gay people treasure from their first ever trip to a gay bar is mirrored in the free expression many treasure in our words, paintings or music. We have nothing in common with a bureaucratic allocation exercise endlessly obsessed with labels and we are very far away from a world view which deprecates or diminishes the perfectly normal appetite for sex.
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It should be unsurprising that the Gay Rights position mirrors liberalism, while the Biology denial position is explicity anti-liberal.
“Whereas most of the literature on gender non-conforming children was about boys who had a lifelong sense of gender incongruence, GID’s waiting room was overpopulated with teenage girls whose distress around their gender had only started in adolescence. Many of them were same-sex attracted - the same was true for boys attending GIDs-and many were autistic. Their lives were complicated too. So many seemed to have other difficulties - eating disorders, self-harm, depression-or had suffered abuse and trauma. How could such different lives and presentations lead to the same answer-puberty blockers?” - Hannah Barnes, Time to Think on the Tavistock
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