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< Back Dysphoric (2021) - a four-part documentary series Scott Newgent Interview India Dysphoric (2021) - a four-part documentary series ‘Dysphoric’ is a four-part documentary series on the rise of Gender Identity Ideology, its effects on women and girls - especially in developing countries. Synopsis: In this dystopian world where misogyny is rampant, and womanhood is commodified, being female comes at a cost. Corporates capitalise on women's bodies blurring the lines of biological sex, and profiting from the emperically untested pseudo-science of queer theory. This gaslighting is aided by the complicity of media, academia, legal and the political world. It is no surprise that young girls are fleeing womanhood like a house on fire. The past decade has seen a steep rise in the number of young girls seeking to transition by undergoing life-threatening, irreversible procedures. ‘Dysphoric’ is a four-part documentary series on the rise of Gender Identity Ideology, its effects on women and girls - especially in developing countries. The film explores gender transition, the permanent medical side-effects of hormones and surgeries, the propaganda by 'woke' corporations that glorifies thousands of stereotypical gender presentations coalesced as fashion, a surge in pronoun policing; language hijacking that calls women ‘menstruators’, and the many hurdles women face while trying to question this modern-day misogyny. The film amplifies the voices of detransitioners, clinicians, psychiatrists, sociologists, feminists, academics and concerned citizens. ‘Dysphoric’ was made over the course of a year during COVID lockdown, amid cancellations. Your support is appreciated: http://www.paypal.me/vaishax For more information: www.limesodafilms.com limesodafilms@gmail.com Original Link

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< Back Testosterone Prescribed-A Body Destroyed, But A Mind Awoken To Save Others By, Scott Newgent US Before I begin, I would like to prefix by asserting this post is raw, real, and comes from a place of total honesty. We all have the voice inside our head that helps us navigate through the world. The internal voice we have can be denied if we are embarrassed and lifted when it's correct, "I always knew I was right about, blank." We all know about this little voice, and this little voice is ours to hold close inside the confounds of our minds. I am sharing my little voice with you, not out of weakness; it comes from a place of power. I cannot tell you with indefinite why kids are claiming to be trans at a staggering rate, but I do know a huge part has to do with the fact that we still do not accept gay and lesbians yet and we need to. With that said I will share my why and why I believe a vast preponderance of children and adults are looking to change genders. My insight is not scientific, which comically mirrors the whole definition of what transgender is. You might be laughing, but as someone who has medically transitioned, my laughter is nil when it comes to what we are doing to a generation of children. I don't believe Jesus Christ was the son of God, but that doesn't make me a version of their evil. I don't think children should be anywhere near surgery or hormones; I don't care how transgender they believe they are. I believe the LGBT community has back-handed the entire world into being scared of anyone with opposing views to speak up. But, I understand the cause, the pain, and the generation after generation of misery that gays and lesbians have been put through. Before I transitioned, I imagined I was known as the Lesbian Devil to Lynette's Catholic Family. I believe people are born gay, but I also think some are conditioned into same-sex attractions. I might have been manipulated to change my sex by an extremely religious Catholic woman that could not accept her sexuality, but that doesn't mean genuine transgender people are not walking among us. I have always been able to reach both sides; I was blessed with the ability to see both sides of situations. But, I didn't understand that inside an organization, a belief, a person you hate is common ground and someone beautiful, and someone scared and someone who has something useful to say. I didn't understand the gravity of this until I transitioned. Lesbian Devil to Straight Man Saint They wanted to do an intervention on a woman that finally understood why she never felt the love she saw her friends experience. Until me, she just went through the motions with her husband, hating her life and feeling apathetic only to come alive with that first sip of wine. She laughed and giggled and seemed like the most festive person, but she was a tragic person once you knew her. Such a depressed person, a woman that looked like the sunshine of light, was the darkest human being I had ever met. I listened to her phone calls with her family spewing hate, begging her to be cleansed and get rid of her demons, manipulating her with the thought of spending an eternity in hellfire for loving me. I can say that I despised those people, Lynette's people, with every fiber of my being. I just knew that they understood the suffering they were causing for her and didn't care. Convinced they only wanted the perfectly straight, elegant Catholic woman to go back to a husband she didn't love, never loved, they didn't care that she was pained, they didn't care that she couldn't breathe without me. They cared only for getting her back into a box that made them feel comfortable. I transitioned to take that all away for her. I never met Lynette's family as a woman. I met them for the first time as Scott; Lesbian Devil to Straight Man Saint. I was so scared to meet them for the first time, and all I kept hearing was the torture I heard when Lynette was speaking to them, and I wanted to despise them, I wanted to hate every last one of them and, I just knew I would. But something happened. My far reach to see both sides became vastly wider. I loved them, each one of them, and I still do. I watched them with their children, and I learned about their lives and struggles and the belief system they had; I began to understand why they felt the way they did. The experiences they had mixed in with the blessing of being born normal became who they were. They couldn't comprehend what Lynette was feeling; how could they. I loved them, and I still do, and I miss them, but I went from Lesbian Devil to Straight Man Saint to just something they laugh at while eating dinner, the weirdo transgender person. I remember the night like it just happened. I remember the air, the desperation. I wanted to save her from what she went through the years prior when she was trying to break free from the hold that her former life had on her. I wanted to save her from her soon to be ex-husband's phone calls that lasted for hours and hours pounding and pounding her with terror about how it was going to feel on her flesh when Satan burned her into a never-ending pit of fire. I wanted to save her from looking at me and being so in love but conflicted with the voices in her head. I never in my life experienced someone told over and over repeatedly that he was not loved like a wife should love a husband and that she loved another and wanted another, but he refused to let go, even though he knew it was going to cause her nothing but pain. Mark did not care. It was cruel. Some in her family thought of it as a devoted Catholic man, but from the inside looking out, it was self-indulgent and hurtful, he was breaking her down, and he knew it. He didn't care; he wanted her back; she filled a locality in his life that gave him pleasure. He refused to succumb, and he was prepared to do what it took, even if the cost was splitting her limb from limb. He would do what he had to do to get what he wanted, so the barbaric device to pull her limbs off was strapped down, administered, and once the pulling began, it didn't take long for him to succeed. With the help of her family spewing words and creating an image of her flesh burning in a fiery pit of hell, it was useless; she could not resist. Lynette would start conversations with her husband on the phone standing, shoulders back, and ready to take on the challenge. Within 15 minutes, her body would shrink into a ball in the corner of a room, and the self-sufficient woman echoed a child browbeaten; it was awful to watch. The dynamic was as if I was watching a child scolded by her Dad. Lynette didn't speak; she just listened, nodded, and agreed with submissive shrieks of recognition. Lynette wasn't even able to discuss; she just winced and endured the storm until Mark felt his position made, and opinion received as the only truth. It was a strange relationship with her ex-husband; it wasn't normal; it matched the movie "The Truman Show." All the streets decorated, the clothes ironed, but something was missing, and Truman knew that just as Lynette did. Lynette had doubted her ex-husband's sexuality before they married but threw it aside. He fit; he fit all the things to look for in a man. They were not in love, and they had never been, and you don't desire what you never knew you had. So, the years went on, and Lynette recommenced to question his sexuality and found his characteristics off but never stirred because to discover someone on an intimate level, you must have the ability to be intimate. Affection was absent, always was with their marriage. Before I first left Lynette, before my transition, when I was still Kellie, something hit me like a ton of bricks. You see, I had endured the numerous conversations with Lynette, by her side listening to Mark's phone calls, her family, and I felt as battered as she did. But our love was beyond what I had ever experienced. Most would have left much earlier, but neither one of us could part. This morning, as Lynette leaned over and rested her head on my chest, she glanced into my eyes. I noticed how calm and at peace she was, embracing me. Her eyes, her brown eyes, I have never understood how an uncomplicated color like brown could make eyes dance as she could with hers. As her breathing began to rhythm, in sleep is when it hit me. She can't do it These words traversed my eyes, and I shook out of bed. It was at that moment that I knew that I had to leave. I knew at that moment, Lynette would not be able to live an genuine life with me; she didn't have it in her, and her husband and family were NEVER going to let her live in peace. Staying with her was not the right thing to do for her, me, or her husband, for that matter. I did my best and left the apartment. I tried to remain solid, but the texts from Lynette with pictures of hearts or her intoxicating body would lure me to her bed. As she was packing to go back to her husband, she was seducing me, while going to marriage classes at night, she was making love to me during the day. At this time, I lost it; I couldn't take the lies, the deceit, everything was too much. I have never understood how Lynette could lie to everyone, and it never got to her; for me, it was something that broke me. I packed my family and moved 1000 miles away. I wanted Lynette; Lynette wanted me, but I knew it was never going to happen, and I didn't want to put her through what I saw her husband doing. My intentions were good, but the reality was nothing how I wanted to act. It had been two years since we ended our affair, and she went back to her husband. I was a mess in those two years. I would go from crying from missing her to insanely pissed off that she went back because I told her to. I knew deep down that no matter how much she loved me, how much she needed me, how much she wanted me, she was never going to be able to be authentic. I didn't want to torture her the same way, but differently than her husband and family had. Authenticity has never been something Lynette has been able to accomplish. Finely crafted lies to keep the nicely furnished life she created was a full-time job for her, and she was obsessed, and I have never been one to live unauthentic. Back then, I was angry at Lynette for not breaking out of the box everyone had built for her. With new eyes, I understand she did what she was able to do and, it didn't matter how much she loved me; she didn't have to tools to live life with the white light of transparency. In the two years that we were apart, I survived, not well, but I survived. Every two to three months, Lynette would contact me and profess her love and tell me she was ready, and she was going to tell her husband and family she was a lesbian, and she was coming to me. The next day she would disappear; it was one of, if not the most painful times in my life. All made me feel crazy. I would send texts obsessively asking if she was ok, concerned that something might have happened to her. Then her number would change, and I'd get a call from her best friend telling me she was going back to her husband, and they just left for some tropical vacation. When she would do that to me, it felt scurrilous, cold, and accustomed to expect it. We were like children sneaking out of our house at night, and our parents would find us ground us from speaking to each other. I think back on this with a different mind, and I understand how cold this was for Lynette to do. She couldn't handle being with me, but she didn't want to lose me. Lynette cruelty was in the highest form, and I believe it was not the most significant reason our marriage didn't work. I was insanely angry with her, but I never expressed it; I swallowed it. Lynette lead the dance, and both Mark and I followed; she was always the single factor to all this pain. This got so bad that anytime Lynette would reach out to me, I would tell her husband. Of course, he didn't believe me, but I have never lied to Mark. I have been the only one who has never lied to him. Some days I would open a bottle of wine to finish it and wake up the next morning horrified with emails I would write to her husband about how awful he was. They were disgusting; no one deserves the words I would say to him. Somethings people just don't need to know, even if they are the truth. I didn't understand what he was going through; I didn't allow myself to see what Lynette and I were putting him through. He was fighting his truth; our truth was blind to him, and he was to us. Funny how that works when passion, anger, betrayal, love, hate, longing, and confusion get smashed together in one bite you must swallow. Somewhere in my heart, I knew what Lynette was doing was wrong. She wanted me but didn't want anyone to know and was so focused on what others thought of her; she ripped apart two people and one that she professed to be heaven-sent to her. Ya me, crazy, huh? After two years, she returned to me, she finally left her husband, and I could tell something was different. This entire fiasco weighed heavily on us all, and her husband was pushed further than anyone should be, but we all were in different ways. He finally pushed back one night after too much to drink, and Lynette's face was where he lost it. He had never been physical with her before, but it was all too much. Her husband could tell she didn't want to be with him; she was there out of obligation, familiarity, to please her family, to fit in, to enjoy the more beautiful things money could buy. But not because she was in love with him. When Lynette went back to Mark, he tried with all he had to bring passion to their marriage. He read all the right books, made all the right reservation, attempted all the right positions in life emotionally and physically, but the passion was never there. That is the crazy thing about the passionate side of love; you can't will it. A couple either has it, or they do not. When she came back to me after that night, we both were exhausted. We just wanted to love each other, that's all. I had spent my whole life being judged as a lesbian, criticized, understanding that the first conversations with strangers that I wanted to get to know would eventually lead to the, "So, when did you know you were a lesbian." I was exhausted, Lynette was exhausted. Love can only take so much; love cannot conquer all; we are the proof. The night I decided to transition was a decision that was made soon into our reunion. That night, I call it a night, because it was the night that changed everything, everything changed. I was watching TV, and I heard Lynette talking with her son. Her son was getting married, and they were pregnant and expecting Lynette's first grandchild. Everyone was so excited; I could see it on Lynette's face when she would talk to anyone about the baby. Suddenly, the laughter stopped, and silence began. I yelled up the stairs. "Lynette, is everything ok." No response, my face twinged with confusion, and I made my way to her. When I turned the corner to the bedroom, I saw her. Her face had lost all color and turned grey. I ran to her and grabbed her hands, and looked at her directly in the eyes, and she said, What if my son doesn't allow me to see my grandbaby if they find out I'm a lesbian? My heart sank. I could not allow that to happen. That was the night I decided to transition for her children for her family. I loved her that much. What I do know about this entire experience is that we were all at fault. I should have walked away eight to nine years ago and never let this start. Lynette should have faced her demons instead of emotionally ripping two people apart. Mark should have allowed Lynette to leave him in peace; she was not a possession that completed his perfectly decorated home. No one did the right thing, and I'm left with looking into the mirror every day, not knowing whose's reflection I am looking at. If I was to sit down with Mark and talk to him, I bet I would understand that he is left with scars that he didn't deserve as well. Very few people in this world are evil; I am not one, Mark is not one, and Lynette is not one. I am remorseful for many reasons; I did many things wrong, and they have eaten at me since the beginning. I could never express these to Lynette because it was always about her throughout the whole process. Saving her, ensuring her lies were kept, I agreed to things like marriage counseling and camps understanding her and Mark were attending so she could prove to him they were not in love and not meant for each other. I agreed to the dates she would go on with Mark when we were living together to prove that they were not good together. I had to sit in the apartment and wait for her to get back from these dates that Mark would plan to win her back. Mark didn't know it was all a ploy; it was cruel. This was awful to do someone, and I agreed to it, and it ate and ate at me and still does to this day. The lies and deception and the amount I had to swallow to be with her were too much. It's a strange feeling looking at someone you love and wanting to scream at the top of your lungs, "Why did you do this to us, me and Mark? WHY!" Things I remember haunt me. The time I told her to go back to Mark initially and calling her to see when I could pick my stuff up from the apartment, and she giggled, "When we get another place, I am going to put up the pictures; you put too many holes in the walls." I wish at the time I could have told her, "Lynette, that's cruel, do you know that?" Do you know that you want to keep me with you just enough so that you don't lose me? Telling me repeatedly that you know that God wants us together, and that's why you see so many hearts, and you send me those pictures. Do you know that's cruel? That's cruel to me, and that's cruel to Mark. Do you know it's insensitive to Mark going back to him to prove to him that you guys aren't good together? Do you know that's cruel and wrong? It's offensive to tell me that you can't be in a relationship with a woman, but you can't be without me. Do you know these things, the cruelty?" Looking back, I can see that Mark and I were played like a fiddle, both of us. The center point of the cruelty started with Lynette. The further I getaway, the more remorse I feel and the tremendous sense of regret I have. The sorrow and guilt dial point the most to Mark. Mark had no idea what was happening, and Lynette was not strong enough to be honest, if she were just honest from the beginning with herself, she would have never married Mark. Mark was a backup plan and always has been for Lynette, and the cruelty of that alone is astronomical. Lynette wasted ten years of my life, and she wasted even more of Mark's life by not being honest. Mark will always be Lynette's back up plan; he has the finances and experience she desires, and as cruel as it is to say it; it's the truth. In all of this, I pray for Marks' happiness. However, it is that he finds it. Sure, he wasn't perfect who is, but he was blindsided, lied to, manipulated, and used. I hope Mark figures out who he is and what it takes for him to be happy, and I hope he finds it. If Mark were in front of me today, I would say one thing and one thing alone, "I am sorry." To Lynette: I would say I forgive you; I hope you find whatever you need to be happy in this life, but please be honest, it's the only way anyone ever finds peace. You might be surprised by how people you love will react. Allow your family and children to know who you are because they deserve the real Lynette. You have to stop lying to people to create a false reality; in the end, all it does is hurt people. In conclusion, I tell this story to help people understand that transgenderism has become reverse bigotry to gays and lesbians. We have pre-teens not understanding that same sex attraction and transgenderism are not the same. We have straight parents that don't grasp that every homosexual person at some time in their lives wanted to be the opposite sex, to be the same, and just fit in. We are creating a Disney fairy tale ending for kids that does not exist. Although I have decided not to de-transition and do have some points in a Gender Dysphoria diagnosis, it doesn't stop the fact that my decision to transition was due to homophobia. It took the LGBT community 30 years to earn the trust from the society that we were not after their kids, that we did not want to turn anyone homosexual; we just wanted the same rights as others. Currently, homosexual children are targeted by powerful pharmaceutical corporations and, vast revenue channels created to transition our homosexual youth medically. Being homosexual does not = being gender dysphoric. As far as you believe we have come with homophobia, we still have that far to go to get it right. In 2008, 40 UK children were on hormone blockers, resulting in an $800,000 revenue generation. Fast forward to 2018, and the number increased by 4000% up to 36 million in the city of London and surrounding areas if you take those numbers and spread them over the US, that comes to a 1.7 billion revenue jump for kids prescribed blockers in a ten-year span. Medically transition kids are not about acceptance; it's about money. It's time to put the glitter fairies away within the LGBTQ and come and face reality. While the LGBTQ has been coining record number of sexual fetish flags, a snake has appeared and burrowed in our community and celebrated and this needs to be stopped. We cannot allow our children to transition because we refuse to accept homosexuality. We are in a crazy time; if you step back from what we are doing to kids with understanding it's not about rights, it's about backward rights. As a parent and as someone who has medically transitioned, I am trying to warn you. Gender Dysphoria is real, and some benefit from medical transitioning, but not many and not enough for this new medical revenue channel they have created with your children. We have to give kids time to grow up and understand who and what they are. We DO NOT want homosexual children medically transitioning because of homophobia. I read a quote on twitter recently that made me think; "If I knew everyone's story, I would love and understand everyone." I am the same as others, and I judge, and each day I have to sit back and re-align myself to understand this compelling quote. Original Link

< Back Why a Generation of Girls Is Fleeing Womanhood JEAN C. LLOYD UK Abigail Shrier has given us a gift—a valuable and costly one. Her decision to write on transgender issues has introduced her to the abuse heaped on those who inquire more deeply into the popular trans narrative. As an opinion writer, she initially passed on telling this story, trusting someone else would. Yet when she received an e-mail from a mother desperate to get the word out about her beloved daughter identifying as trans “out of the blue,” she couldn’t get it out of her head. Shrier began meticulously researching, conducting almost 200 interviews and consulting with dozens of affected families. This book is not about transgender adults, nor is it shaped by a particular faith perspective. Rather, it is an investigative report on the diagnostic craze of “gender dysphoria” that has swept over adolescent girls in the past decade. Shrier uses the term “craze” in its technical sociological sense, referring to “a cultural enthusiasm that can spread” like a contagion. As she reminds us, numerous maladies have affected and been passed on by adolescent females throughout history, such as the eating disorders that plagued my generation. While these young women are dealing with genuine distress, their “self-diagnosis” is as influenced by others as it is erroneous, and the prescribed cure can take the form of “self-harm.” Transgenderism is the latest manifestation of this phenomenon. As Shrier points out, only eight years ago, there was no clinical literature on females ages eleven to twenty-one suffering from gender dysphoria. None. Now, there are exponential increases in the number of girls who suddenly discover that they’ve been “born in the wrong body,” although they exhibited no hint of gender dysphoria before adolescence. In the space of one year, 2016–2017, “the number of gender surgeries for natal females in the U.S. quadrupled.” Currently, 70 percent of “sex-change” surgeries are performed on women. Shrier dared to ask the question: “What’s ailing these girls?” This book details her search for an answer. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters is an invaluable resource for parents, educators, church and community leaders, and anyone else who cares about the well-being of young women. Shrier has examined the transgender teen phenomenon from every conceivable angle, and she has woven her findings into a readable narrative that is as accessible as it is informative. Although regular Public Discourse readers are likely to be knowledgeable about transgender issues in general, this book—with its specific focus on girls and young women—is still well worth your time. Do not miss it. The Pieces of the Puzzle After introducing the “contagion,” Shrier begins with several stories of girls who have been affected. She immediately draws her readers in. You will care about these girls, and you’ll be grateful to find an update on their status in the afterword. Where is “Lucy,” whose Southern lawyer mother’s e-mail had started it all? What happened to “Julie,” the precocious ballet dancer whose adoring friendship with a trans-identified girl helped lead her to declare the same? Chapter by chapter, Shrier introduces the major players involved in this complex drama, highlighting the parents, professionals, young trans social media “influencers,” and those who push radical gender ideology in school settings. Who knew that teachers’ associations were voting to allow minors to leave campus to access cross-sex hormones without parental consent? Drawing from her robust interview collection, she lets each person speak in his or her own words. Pro-affirmation therapists articulate their views of adolescent gender identity declarations as unquestionable and inviolable, arguing that the only response should be agreement and support. Numerous professional “dissidents” also share their perspectives, each one giving a compelling case for their dissent. Shrier has gathered an impressive array of renowned experts in the field. There are too many to name here, but all are worth hearing on these matters. For instance, psychologist Kenneth Zucker explains that social transition is not a “risk-free” and “nothing to lose” step, as it is commonly portrayed, but rather an “experiment in nurture.” Psychotherapist Lisa Marchiano explains the fascinating concept of “symptom pools,” which are defined as “lists of culturally acceptable ways of manifesting distress that lead to recognized diagnoses.” As humans, she observes, we are drawn to “prescribed narratives,” seeking to explain our troubles in ways that others will recognize, because that will make it more likely for us to “receive care and attention.” As Marchiano points out, “being born in the wrong body” has entered our current “symptom pool” with overwhelming force via the media (more evidence for this is continually emerging). She also shares great insights about therapy, dealing with suicide risk, and more. Shrier’s research thoroughly demonstrates how differently transgender medicine operates from any other area of medicine. Patients are essentially placed in the driver’s seat, prescribing their own treatments. The doctor’s role is simply to affirm and enable patients’ access to the medicine chest and surgical procedures of their choosing. For instance, one Canadian plastic surgeon, Hugh McClean, readily admits on his website that “for us, the diagnosis is made by the patient, not the doctor.” Since 1999, McClean has conducted well over 1,000 “masculinizing mastectomies” for women as young as sixteen. Shrier also highlights professionals who have displayed admirable courage in this arena. Lisa Littman—whose exploratory study into what she observed and termed “rapid onset gender dysphoria” created a firestorm—initially thought it was great when she heard that two girls had come out as trans in her small local community. However, when that number climbed to six, she grew curious. These numbers greatly exceeded expected prevalence rates. Given her knowledge of epidemiology, she began to investigate what was going on, and what she found was deeply troubling. Despite all the attacks, “nevertheless, she persisted” because of her concern for children and families. The Aftermath of Medical Transition Shrier also devotes an entire chapter to the perspectives of medically transitioned transgender adults. Scott Newgent, who has publicly acknowledged he is “Blake” in the book, speaks frankly about the benefits he feels he gained from testosterone. However, his arm is permanently handicapped from being sourced for his phalloplasty, and he nearly died from post-surgical complications. He emphasizes the stark contrast of the risks and difficult realities of transitioning versus the way it is “glamorized” in the media (and marketed, I would add) to children. He has become one of the most impassioned warriors in the battle to protect children from medical transitioning before they have the adult capacity to consent. Critically, Shrier amplifies the voices of the rapidly growing number of “desisters” and “detransitioners”—voices that are regularly denied, suppressed, and shunned by their former communities of trans-identified individuals. Benji describes her six years of trans-identification (from ages thirteen to nineteen) as time spent in a “cult.” Erin discusses her experience with testosterone as one would a drug addiction. Helena maps a trajectory of internet immersion and a shift from an eating disorder to trans-identification over the course of just two weeks, describing how her profile popularity skyrocketed when she announced the change. Psychologist and well-known researcher Ray Blanchard points out that there is “there is no apparent way to record a detransitioned patient for clinical or research purposes.” Trans activists don’t want people to know that detransitioners exist, but they do, and their numbers are growing. A subreddit web forum for detransitioners to discuss their experiences now has over 7,000 members. Many of these young women experienced same-sex attraction and, after detransitioning, come to identify as lesbians, which raises another question: what of the “L” in “LGBT” these days? According to the young people that Shrier interviewed, if a girl comes out as lesbian, she gets a status demotion. But if she comes out as trans, she gets an immediate promotion. One girl shared that at her all-girls school of 500, there were fifteen trans students. That translates into 3 percent of the school being “born in the wrong body.” Compare these numbers to the DSM-5, published less than ten years ago, which listed an expected rate of 0.002–0.003 percent—less than 1 in 10,000. How many lesbians attend the school? None. What will this “upgrade” to transgender cost a girl? Only her name; her natural voice, which will be permanently altered even if she one day gets off testosterone; her breasts, with their erogenous capacity and ability to breastfeed; and perhaps her ability to bear children at all. These are lifelong sacrifices, doled out on an “informed consent” basis to girls too young to legally get tattoos. Shrier poignantly writes, “No adolescent should pay this high a price for having been, briefly, a follower.” The Bigger Picture: Girls Lose, Boys Win No one is faring worse in the cultural landscape of the twenty-first century than girls. Citing numerous studies and hard data, Shrier exposes a multi-faceted, full-blown crisis for girls of this generation. They are lonelier, less valued, and increasingly depressed. Life is more online and less in person than ever, and social media, their main connection to others, is an instrument of angst—a megaphone and microscope that amplifies and exposes their (and others’) every flaw. Violence in pornography is ubiquitous; the girls are not unaware and are rightly frightened. Consider the horrifying practice of choking during sexual activity—now the porn du jour, and which a full 13 percent of sexually active girls ages fourteen to seventeen report already having experienced. Just as they do against the girls currently being forced to race against trans-identifying biological males, in our culture, boys seem destined to win every time. As Shrier eloquently writes, girls today “flee womanhood like a house on fire, their minds fixed on escape, not on any particular destination.” Cue the siren call of transition, beckoning over the Internet and media waves, with doctors and therapists standing ready to encourage—and profit. According to Sasha Ayad, who works exclusively with gender-dysphoric adolescents, many of her clients are unsure they want to be boys, they only know they don’t want to be girls. Nearly all of the families that Shrier interviewed identified as progressives and supporters of LGBT rights in general. From the PFLAG leader mom to the pair of lesbian moms, almost none were religious conservatives. Still, as one Christian mom whose daughter has been captured by the trans scene for years told me, “Don’t think this can’t happen to you. If it happened to our family, it can happen to anyone.” I have a number of friends whose daughters are trans-identified: some were homeschooled and came out as trans in college, others were in public schools and the disaffection with their natal sex (and their parents) began earlier. All of their stories share themes similar to those Shrier describes. This is a sweeping contagion, and no girl is immune. Cause for Hope But Shrier does not leave us without hope. She encourages detransitioners as they settle back into themselves, as well as those questioning whether to start the journey home, that wholeness can be found again. She shares wisdom that will benefit all parents, including the recommendations to “reintroduce privacy to the home.” Parents should start with themselves, giving up posting everything about their children’s lives online in favor of sharing updates and photos in private emails. She advises us on how to protect our girls and avoid troubles (begin with “no smartphones”) and shares practical steps taken by families who have successfully helped their girls escape the snare. These issues hit home for me in a very deep way. At fifteen, I was hurting from childhood sexual abuse, same-sex attracted, and donning a tux for my high school dance. If transgenderism had been the “craze” of my day, I could easily have gone down the path of my own de-sexing. Instead, I got to simply grow up, which allowed me to navigate my life, sexual attractions, and choices in consonance with reality: as a woman. I now have two children, born of my body and nursed by my bosom. They are both girls, born into a culture that both devalues and “pathologizes girlhood.” I am determined to teach them the truth that, as Shrier puts it, “being a woman is a gift, containing far too many joys to pass up.” Amazon blocked sponsored advertising for Irreversible Damage, even as the site advertises physically harmful chest-binders and trans-affirmative books to get our daughters started on their flight from themselves. Read Shrier’s book and then pass it on to pastors, parents, and grandparents. Let’s pay forward the costly gift she has given us. Because she is right—Irreversible Damage is “a story Americans need to hear.” And we need to hear it now. Original Link

Get to know trans people, the real trans living day to day, what they believe, and how they feel. You will find that most older trans people believe what is happening to kids, and transgender ideology is hurtful. The media leaders you currently see do not represent most trans people. Reality Is Not Bigotry < Back Trans Woman Rene Jax TReVoices.org - A Trans Activist Making Waves With Reason An Logic. Author, philosopher, lecturer. I'm not the first person to wish life came with an instruction manual. I openly confess to being a stupid child, and have through a natural curiosity built a solid foundation of knowledge under my life. But the more I learn and understand, the more I know that I know nothing. I have studied and practiced all of the world's great religions, yet I know less now about the true nature of God and the divine than I did when I was a barbarian. So I keep looking, keep learning, keep trying to understand myself and the world I live in. My books are not milestones, but are instead mileage markers to indicate the distance I've traveled. I hope you enjoy the journey with me.' Amazon Bio Don't get on the plane: Why a sex change will ruin your life The Soulful Traveler

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Get to know trans people, the real trans living day to day, what they believe, and how they feel. You will find that most older trans people believe what is happening to kids, and transgender ideology is hurtful. The media leaders you currently see do not represent most trans people. Reality Is Not Bigotry < Back Trans Woman Jenn Smith TReVoices.org - A Trans Activist Making Waves With Reason An Logic. Jenn Smith is a 56 year-old transgender identified male. Born in Oliver, British Columbia. He has degrees in history and political science, and is a well-known transgender identified activist, writer and pubic speaker in British Columbia and Canada having led campaigns to get National Inquiries into and bring an end to the medical transitioning of youths. He has been writing and speaking on the dangers that transgender ideology poses to women and children, and more recently has focused his efforts on exposing SOGI 123 in schools and its assault on parental rights, freedom of religion, and freedom of conscience. He has been pushing for provincial and national inquiries into the mass medical transitioning of foster children and children with psychological and emotional problems. He has done countless public talks all across BC, staged rallies and protests, and presented to School Boards and the Supreme Court. The title of his most recent public talk is “Synanon, The Brainwashing “Game”, and Assault on Our Most Vulnerable Children: How transgender Ideology and Big Pharma is Assaulting Reality and Victimizing Our Most Vulnerable Children.” Website Facebook YouTube Contact Latest Work: Updated: Call for National Inquiry into Mass "Sex Reassignment" & Sterilization of Vulnerable Youths Immolating Parental Rights and Overruling Truth: How the Jailing of a BC Father Shows the Extremes of Transgender Ideology and the Failure of the Media. By Jenn Smith. (Title art by Jessy Renney). Abstract: There are important parallels between the 1963 case of the self-immolation of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức and the recent case in British Columbia (2021) of a father who was forced against his will by the court and the state to facilitate the pharmaceutical “sex reassignment” of his teenage daughter. Both cases speak to the desperation of people whose rights were trampled by an invasive all-powerful state and who were ignored by an indifferent and corrupt establishment beholden media. A Strange and Distant Memory. “[Civil Disobedience] seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to so dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Read The Rest

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back BBC Staff Writer Original Article BBC News ​ Belgian helped to die after three sex change operations A transsexual has been helped to die by doctors in Belgium, after a series of failed sex-change operations. Nathan Verhelst, born a girl, asked for help to end his life on grounds of psychological suffering. He died in a Brussels hospital on Monday. Two doctors concluded the 44-year-old did not have temporary depression. His case received scant media coverage. Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002. There were 52 cases of euthanasia on psychological grounds last year. A transsexual has been helped to die by doctors in Belgium, after a series of failed sex-change operations. Nathan Verhelst, born a girl, asked for help to end his life on grounds of psychological suffering. He died in a Brussels hospital on Monday. Two doctors concluded the 44-year-old did not have temporary depression. His case received scant media coverage. Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002. There were 52 cases of euthanasia on psychological grounds last year. He had three operations to change sex between 2009 and 2012. "The first time I saw myself in the mirror I felt an aversion for my new body," he was quoted as saying. The hospital said there was an "extremely rigorous procedure" in place before any patient was put to death. "When we have a case which is... complicated, we ask ourselves more questions in order to be certain about the diagnosis," Dr Jean-Michel Thomas said. Uncontroversial The BBC's Matthew Price in Brussels says the number of people opting for euthanasia in Belgium has risen steadily since legalisation. Most candidates are over 60 years old and have cancer. Voluntary euthanasia for those over 18 is relatively uncontroversial in Belgium. Parliament is now considering expanding the law to under 18s as well. Patients must be capable of deciding for themselves. They must be conscious and have to give a "voluntary, considered and repeated" request to die. There were 1,432 recorded cases of euthanasia in Belgium in 2012; a 25% increase on the previous year's figure. They represented 2% of all deaths, the AFP news agency reported.

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back Rachel Original Article Detrans Voices Rachel is a 30-year-old woman living in the Pacific Northwest. She identified as transgender for 5 years and has been detransitioned for 3 years. Rachel works as a preschool teacher and enjoys film, videogames, and spending time with her pets, a parrot named Ziggy and a dog named Sputnik. Rachel A Story I Wish Wasn't Real I want to write this like a story, but it’s not. I lived it, I’m still living it. It was a choice I made and, now, I’m here. I came out (for the first time) as a lesbian in 2012. I was 22 and had already had a lot of reckless adventures. I had previously dated mostly men, but never felt right about it. Growing up, I experienced a lot of homophobia from my father and the church we were in. I repressed my sexual orientation for a long time, smothering the flame of my true nature in order to keep to the standards I was raised with. But, slowly, the cage I had built up slowly began to crumble. I tip-toed out of the closet and nervously started dating women exclusively. It never occurred to me that I’d still have to navigate males in my dating pool, until I met a young transwoman. Her profile said nothing about being trans, so I was more than surprised on our first date. In fact, I felt a bit deceived. It seemed like anyone other than women shouldn’t expect to be dating lesbians. I asked her a lot of questions, some of which were definitely inappropriate, but I thought it went well aside from the fhttps://www.detransvoices.org/detrans-story-rachel/act that I didn’t feel attracted to her. The only exposure I’d had to the T part of LGBT was through the ever-glamorous Maury and Jerry Springer. I’d never met anyone like that in person. I quickly began to feel pressured by her to have sex. She insinuated that I couldn’t be a lesbian if I wasn’t attracted to transwomen and went as far as to tell me she’d self-harm if I didn’t sleep with her. I didn’t pick up on it at the time, but all the tell-tale signs of abusive behavior were there. Regardless, I wanted to be an empathic person, capable of understanding the journey of others. I dug deep by watching YouTube videos and getting into Reddit discussions. I started becoming interested in the stories of female-to-male transsexuals and reached out personally to some of them. The more I talked with them personally, the more I felt I could relate to them. In these personal exchanges, they revealed so much of what I found in my own story- young women from abusive homes, girls with eating disorders, women who walked throughout the world, looking to shrug the spotlight off for just a moment of peace and quiet. Since I was four, I can’t remember a time I wasn’t sexualized by an older man. First, I was molested by my father. He often made comments about how I was going to grow up to be a prostitute or how I deserved to be raped. I got a lot of these comments from other adult men in my life, too, from such a young age. I was raped for the first time when I was fourteen, and then raped by three other men at separate times. That shit sticks to you. I’d do anything for a family that didn’t shuck me like corn. My parents raised me in their own brand of Christianity with very rigid gender roles. I was homeschooled until the age of twelve, with very limited interactions with the world. All I knew was that I wasn’t like the girl my parents wanted me to be. By the time I was seventeen, my father found out I was dating a girl and kicked me out. For a long time, I felt homeless. It’s no wonder I was so easily lured in by the “chosen family” of the transgender community. Many transgender people find their place in the community through social media, particularly Tumblr. While I had individual communications through Reddit and emails, I didn’t get very involved in other modes of social media. Instead, I relied a lot on psychological and medical journals. For me, statistics and scientifically-framed information has always gone further to change my mind than personal stories. I fell into the belief that the brain is heavily influenced by sex, and that transsexuals have a diagnosable different-sexed brain pattern. I started testosterone three months after the first time I’d heard anything about transgender identity. I saw a therapist for a month before I was approved for a prescription. At the time, a person was supposed to live in the role of the desired sex for 6 months before receiving the letter that allocated approval of hormones for a consenting adult. My therapist, after a few sessions, decided we could lie about that. Any practitioner who is willing to lie about your health, saying it’s for your own benefit, is either misguided or blinded by another motivation. My therapist was connected to a primary care physician who was known to prescribe hormone therapy with a very quick turnaround. My first visit, I was so nervous. I wanted to make sure I knew all the right things to say. The goal was to get the testosterone and I was willing to fudge a bit in order to get what I was so convinced I needed. After starting cross-sex hormones, the changes came on fast. My voice dropped within weeks. It was crackling and unfinished. I started growing facial hair shortly after. My body fat changed from hourglass to pole, no thanks to the eating disorder that continued to aggravate my mind. My body started to change so quickly, I got whiplash. My mental health, which was pretty bad to start with, started to get worse. I had thought I’d get better. I thought I would begin to think clearly, be happy in my own body. I even thought I’d be more comfortable with men, as though I would be more comfortable with men if I could garner more respect as a gay man than as a woman. But everything started to get worse. I couldn’t recognize myself, on top of feeling like my skin was on fire and the piercing sting of the groping eyes of men hadn’t gone away. Learning that being female means oppression is innate, that is a hard lesson. Year after year, I kept up my expectations that things would get better. And, year after year, the anxiety and depression of starting something that would never be finished took hold. But, really, I could never escape the prison of an oppressed body. I couldn’t escape the violence and abuse I’d experienced, and the world didn’t see the new me as anything different. I got to bathe in the light of trans oppression, which I never really faced. The most I got was being intentionally misgendered and, boo-hoo, that didn’t really change my life for the worse. Sticks and stones, right? After years of hoping and waiting and nothing inside myself changing, I started to feel like something was wrong. The doctor never told me about health problems like increased risk of heart disease, stroke, or osteoporosis. Nevertheless, I believed my doctor when she told me that the worst to come was balding and body hair. Presently, there’s still not much information about the effects of taking cross-sex hormones and long-term health. Eventually, the health issues popped up like fucking daisies. I hurt all over, I was tired all the time, I got jaundice and urinated blood. I had a series of three trans ischemic attacks (otherwise called “mini strokes”), kidney infections, and liver failure. This was the first indicator to me that something was truly wrong. I was twenty-five, on a healthy diet and no other medications. After a consultation with my doctor, she proved unhelpful beyond telling me I should drink more water. I decided to lessen my testosterone dosage, though my doctor wouldn’t offer me an endocrinologist referral. I noticed a significant difference in my health, so I decided to stop hormones altogether. In 2019, the American Heart Association confirmed in an article that individuals on cross-sex hormones are at a higher risk of cardiovascular problems. Although there is still so much unknown regarding the health of females who take testosterone, I have no doubt in my mind that it negatively impacted my long-term health. The only prescription I was on- a high dose of depo testosterone. So, I decided to slow it down and eventually quit. I had no guidance from my therapist, who thought it was a bad idea. Or, from my primary care doctor, who refused my request for an endocrinologist and was not about to give me a detransition action plan. I had to figure it out on my own. So, I once again turned to research. I read stories on women whose names I won’t mention here for their own privacy, but they spoke words that I understood. These women had come into trans identity much like myself, with histories of pain, looking for family and truth. But they made a point that should have been obvious from the start- changing your body doesn’t change the damage you hold. I was scared that I was falling into the same trap of finding empathetic souls who understood me in a field of shallow lies. Still, I caught whatever bug they had and started to feel more secure as a woman. And, I became angry. Angry that I had been told that I needed to fix my body in order to be happy and treated right, not told that I was deserving of human kindness and that my body was my own to lay the boundaries for. I decided to detransition altogether. The feeling of being out of control of my body didn’t just go away, with either my trans identity or with my initial detransition. I had to wrangle that horse on my own, and I’m still working with it. I get asked so often “If you knew _____, would you do it again?” The answer is, yes. I would do it again. Because I would not know what my body or my mind or my spirit of endurance could handle if it hadn’t been for transitioning. It broke down my last resources to run away from the cruelty of how I’ve been treated for being female. It wore down the walls I built around my sexual orientation. It left me raw and without any other fast fixes, or insta-cures. I had to deal with my shit on my own. And that’s all I can say. Get therapy. Face what’s been done to you. It’s awful and it deserves the respect of being awful. You get to mourn. But you also get to be free. Follow on Twitter: @HabituallyFemme On YouTube: HabituallyFemme Email: habituallyfemme@gmail.com

< Back Daily Surge By Michael Brown - Quotes From Scott Newgent US Surge Summary: Some advocates of transgender “transitioning”, nonetheless, are coming forward and urging caution when it comes to recommending these procedures for children. What are their motives for this sudden, surprising outspokenness? Some are suspicious – but it’s still a dramatic development. by Michael L. Brown In a surprising editorial published in the Washington Post, two transgender activists and psychologists, Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson, are now advocating for “gender-exploratory therapy” for trans-identified youth before rushing into puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and sex-change surgery. Shades of what we conservatives have been saying for years! Except that when we said it, we were vilified as bigoted transphobes who wanted to implement the barbaric and primitive practice of – get ready! – “conversion therapy.” But when pro-trans psychologists say, “Many of our health professionals are affirming kids too quickly in their trans identity,” they are now enlightened thinkers whose views should be embraced with respect. How ironic. To be absolutely clear, Edwards-Leeper and Anderson remain staunchly opposed to people like me (and you?). They write, “Together, across decades of doing this work, we’ve helped hundreds of people transition their genders. This is an era of ugly moral panic about bathrooms, woke indoctrination and identity politics in general. In response, we enthusiastically support the appropriate gender-affirming medical care for trans youth, and we are disgusted by the legislation trying to ban it.” So, we are still the really bad guys in their eyes. But what cannot be denied is that they are witnessing all too many horror stories of young people who have destroyed their lives, and as psychologists and activists, they cannot be silent any longer. They claim that the medical profession is at fault, as stated clearly in the title and sub-title of their editorial: “The mental health establishment is failing trans kids. Gender-exploratory therapy is a key step. Why aren’t therapists providing it?” The op-ed starts with the story of Patricia, who at 13 told her parents she was actually a boy. When her parents brought her to a therapist, rather than perform an in-depth assessment of Patricia’s mental and emotional health, on the very first meeting, “the therapist simply affirmed her new identity, a step that can lead to hormonal and eventually surgical treatments.” This is all too common, with absolutely heartbreaking and disastrous, long-term results. Thankfully, the parents brought Patricia to another therapist, “one who was more curious and less certain, one who listened closely. After a year of exploring who she was, Patricia no longer felt she was a boy. She decided to stop binding her breasts and wearing boys’ clothes.” Yet that is the very thing we have been advocating for years, urging parents and therapists and others to do their best to help the children find wholeness from the inside out.Unfortunately, “A flood of referrals to mental health providers and gender medical clinics, combined with a political climate that sees the treatment of each individual patient as a litmus test of social tolerance, is spurring many providers into sloppy, dangerous care. Often from a place of genuine concern, they are hastily dispensing medicine or recommending medical doctors prescribe it — without following the strict guidelines that govern this treatment. Canada, too, is following our lead: A study of 10 pediatric gender clinics there found that half do not require psychological assessment before initiating puberty blockers or hormones.” Again, I fully understand the radical differences between my worldview and the worldview of Edwards-Leeper and Anderson. And I do not minimize for a moment that, in the end, while our goals overlap, they also greatly differ. Specifically, if a boy transitioned to female and was happy and fulfilled, they would consider this a successful outcome. My heart would still break for the child, convinced that God had a better plan for him. That being said, the so-called “conversion therapy” for which we are vilified (focusing here on trans issues) is very similar to what the op-ed authors call for: in-depth, comprehensive, and patient exploring of why the child feels as he or she does to help them find internal wholeness. And if they can be spared a lifetime of hormones and surgeries, wonderful. The question that might be asked now is, “Why are these pro-trans activists suddenly speaking out?”Some readers will remember that in October, two other, prominent trans-activists, one of whom was Dr. Marci Bowers, who performed sex-change surgery on Jazz Jennings, are also saying, “We need to slow things down with the children!” (See here for my relevant article.) Why the sudden change of heart? Scott (Kellie) Newgent believes that she knows why. (For the record, I’m in regular contact with Newgent, who will literally give her last breath to fight for these trans-identified kids. She is not the least bit offended by me referring to her as “she,” even though she is a female-to-male transgender. I do not know that I have ever met anyone more devoted to this cause than Newgent.) According to Newgent, the reason that the medical industry has been so quick to transition kids is simple: they make a lot of money doing it, and they gain lifetime income in the form of hormone (and other drug) prescriptions) Being pro-trans in the medical industry can be quite lucrative. As for these activists now speaking out, Newgent does not believe that they suddenly grew a conscience. Rather, she is convinced some are coming clean now for one reason only: she exposed their moral and intellectual compromise while filming a forthcoming documentary with them.And what should we make of shocking news reports like this? “Children being treated for transgender issues at Sweden’s Karolinska University Hospital have allegedly suffered severe injuries as a result of hormone puberty blockers. “Doctors at Karolinska University Hospital have reportedly long been aware of the injuries suffered by children as a result of hormone treatments, however, the injuries were not . . . made public until this week.” Does this not sound criminal? No wonder Newgent tweeted, “We need a legal system that challenges Dr. [Marci] Bowers, who for ten years butchered gender-confused people without regard or held accountable of admittance in the experimental nature and only did so when she was outed.” Are these words too strong? Perhaps we should ask the mutilated, harmed-for-life, young adults what their opinions are. In a 2019 interview in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Paul McHugh, the iconic professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University, then 87-years-old, and an early opponent of sex-change surgery, was asked if he would be troubled to realize that he had been wrong in his position. He answered, “Either the plastic surgeons and the transgender psychiatrists are right and I’m wrong—and if that’s the case, they will have done a lot of good by opposing me, and I will have been a drag on the system—or the opposite. Suppose they’re wrong and I’m right? They will have mutilated thousands of children, and I will look good. Who do you think is sleeping better at night?” Yes, who, indeed, is sleeping better tonight? The views here are those of the author and not necessarily Daily Surge Originally posted here. Image: Adapted from: Omoeko Media – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82739996 Dr. Michael Brown(www.askdrbrown.org ) is the host of the nationally syndicated Line of Fire radio program. His latest book is Revival Or We Die: A Great Awakening Is Our Only Hope. Connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. Original Link

TReVoices Is The Leading Org Fighting To Stop Childhood Medical Transition World Wide! ​ Led by transman/lesbian Scott Newgent, our relentless SCREAMING to 'STOP Medically Transitioning Children' has been and continues to be heard everyday World - Wide! Make sure we can continue - We Need Your Help - Donate Today. Button Lift The Veil. Parents Get Busy & Learn Why 'Medical Transition Is Not Place For a child.' Sincerely, TReVoices & Everyone Else < Back BERNARD LANE Original Article The Australian Bernard Lane edits pages across the newspaper, writes editorials and covers the global debate over youth gender clinics. His work has won prizes including Higher Education Journalist of the Year, the Elizabeth O'Neill Journalism Award and Law Council of Australia awards. He has qualifications in data journalism, Indonesian, psychology and Spanish. About a girl and the decision to detransition Let’s start with a caveat: I love passion. I do. And I have a deep, strong instinct to stick up for people whom I think are ignored or mistreated. I’m a typical bleeding-heart liberal. You know me: coexistence bumper sticker and a cloth grocery sack. I feel your pain, I do. So let me assure you, I love those incredibly self-assured, brash, righteous, young activists who are screaming for trans rights. I see you. I’ve been one of you, too, believe it or not. And occasionally, I still go out with my protest sign and my sensible sneakers to make some noise on behalf of those who are ignored or mistreated. That’s all okay – and it’s good, and it’s necessary. But today, I’d like you all to just take a deep breath and center some voices that are being silenced and ignored: the moms of the world. Because we moms might have a few things we’ve learned along the way, and you might save yourself a hoarse voice and some embarrassment by just stopping for a minute and listening. You might just shift your idea of who needs our protection right now. A few weeks ago, I published an open letter about my Weird Son and his sudden and very unlikely self-diagnoses of being transgender. To my surprise, it was blocked as “Hate Speech” by Medium. Apparently, acknowledging that someone is weird (by the way we all are) is just too too much for our society to hear. It was picked up by New Discourses (thanks James!) where it has had a good run. Among the many comments was the theme: “Her son is probably trans and she just can’t tell. She’s just oblivious. She’s probably just been ignoring the signs. She should just believe him. She’s a bad mom.” Beside the laughable idea that a stranger on the internet could adequately diagnose a teenager from afar by reading a description of him written by his mother, I was bothered by the dismissal of a mother’s observations and insights. As if what mothers observe, note, and infer is somehow not to be trusted or valued. There is a knee-jerk reaction out there against the moms of the world. Let’s just call this “misomatery,” a hatred of mothers. (My apologies to the Classics majors of the world.) It is time to stop dismissing mothers. Because these women are the experts on their children. And yes, no person can read the thoughts inside another person’s head, nor perfectly measure every emotion someone else feels, but moms are as close to that as it gets. The survival of our species has depended on moms being able to read their children accurately. Was that newborn’s cry hunger or a wet diaper? Is that strange cough and fever within the normal range, or should we blast off to the doctor? Are you really too sick to go to school? There is even a fancy term for this: “mother’s intuition.” But amazingly, within the context of transgender politics and medicine, these insights are dismissed. The broader culture’s wide-spread misomateric attitude tells teens: if your parents question your self-diagnosed gender dysphoria and are skeptical about your trans identity, they are transphobic and you should ignore them. Trans activists reject parental surveys as being inaccurate or irrelevant (unlike, say, parent reports of a child having depression or tics). Schools begin to socially transition kids without parents’ approval because they think they know these kids better than the parents do. And incredibly, within mothers, internalized misomatery begins to build. We start to doubt ourselves. Did we really miss evidence of our child’s true nature for years and years? Are we really those bad mothers who have been blind to years and years of our children’s deep distress? Let me tell you, that’s possible, but it’s just not probable. Too many of us are seeing the same thing. Over the past few months, I’ve joined a community of parents working to help support our trans-identified sons. We’re up to around seventy now, and we’ve coordinated to uncover research studies, track down experts, build surveys and gather data, share ideas and insights, and grapple with the possible ramifications of different treatment options. Here’s what we see: there is something else going on with this spike of transgender teen boys. These are kids who were “typical” boys in early childhood. They did not cross-dress, they did not demand nor even show much interest in the toys of the other sex. They were completely “normal” until their sudden announcement between ages 14-16. Well – not completely normal. 100% of the boys in our group are socially awkward. 64% have anxiety, 52% have depression, 40% have ADHD, and around 50% have Autism or Autism-like behaviors (our survey total is 67). Amazingly, over 85% of these kids are gifted (IQ above 130). Sadly, 20% of them have recently experienced a significant trauma such as the death or chronic illness of a parent or sibling. But generally, these are nerdy, awkward boys on the edges of their social circles. Some of them have no friends at all. Despite their announcements, these boys still strongly lean towards the “masculine”: we’ve got lots of video gamers, chess players, computer programmers, D&D, debate club and math club kids. Some of these boys might be gay, and a few say they’re straight, but mostly they’re just sexually inexperienced and/or late-bloomers. This is not your grandma’s transgenderism. This has nothing to do with Caitlyn Jenner. This is not Jazz Jennings. These are not boys with a strange sexual fetish. These are not porn addicts. These are boys who acknowledge they had never even questioned their gender until quite recently. Most of them have not changed their public behavior or requested female pronouns. These are lonely, isolated, and confused boys, trying to understand why they feel so different. They need our help and our sympathy – but they don’t need your “affirmation.” Because we should all agree that kids with mental health issues should have treatments that are safe and effective. And the “affirmation” model is a complete mess. There is no “brain scan” for being trans – there is no biological marker – this is just based on a “feeling.” Affirming doesn’t actually decrease suicide. Puberty-blocking hormones are being used off-label to treat gender-dysphoric children, and the latest study from Tavistock show they don’t actually improve mental health. Cross-sex hormones and surgeries permanently alter a child’s body, by stunting growth (always) and weakening bones (often), and by decreasing IQ (likely), increasing cardio risks (likely), and sterilizing and eliminating sexual function. And even then, they don’t always work. Just ask the over 17,000 desisters and detransitioners in their twenties on reddit! The old model of watchful waiting seemed to work, though. We know that most (60-85%) young children with gender dysphoria who were left alone came to terms with their birth sex by the time they were 18. We know that psychotherapy has a long history of helping people deal with their mental distress. And these kids are in distress. They’re lonely, they’re sad, and they are vulnerable. Most of them are struggling with underlying mental health issues. A fair number of them are “weird.” All of them are struggling with the growing pains of adolescence. Perhaps some of them will persist. But a fair chunk of them will not. But we do know that kids and teens do not have the emotional or cognitive capacity to make these choices themselves. Our teen boys can’t even remember to put the ice cream away – let alone floss their teeth or wear coats on cold days. Their brains are literally not capable of accurately assessing risks or predicting consequences. That’s why they have mothers (and fathers)! So here’s my idea: let’s start listening to mothers. Let’s center their voices. Let’s overthrow the misomateric idea that what mothers think and observe doesn’t matter. Let’s believe moms, and trust moms. So when a mom says “hey, my kid isn’t trans, he’s just weird, and he’s just fine” we say yes – we believe you. Because you are a mom. Now put down your “trans women are women” posters. Stop shouting TERF at me. Stop it with the blind affirmation. And get your drugs and surgery and pathology and cult-like messaging away from my vulnerable kid. Stop, and really listen. There are some voices that need to be heard – and they aren’t yours.

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Get to know trans people, the real trans living day to day, what they believe, and how they feel. You will find that most older trans people believe what is happening to kids, and transgender ideology is hurtful. The media leaders you currently see do not represent most trans people. Reality Is Not Bigotry < Back Trans Man Aaron Kimberly TReVoices.org - A Trans Activist Making Waves With Reason An Logic. Aaron has been a mental health clinician since 2008 after 15 yrs as a graphic designer. He lives in Canada, with a banjo on his knee. He medically transitioned in 2006. "I’ve had gender dysphoria (GD) for as long as I can remember. At least since age 3. I was raised female, but when I was 19, I was diagnosed with a rare intersex condition called an otovestibular disorder of sex development. I think my GD is related to that, though I have no way of knowing for sure. I tried to live with my GD as a young adult and identified as a lesbian, though it never felt right to me, and I wasn’t happy. I experimented with ways to express my masculinity. I changed my name to Aaron when I was 22." Aaron runs GDAC in Canada to bring awareness about the OTHER side of trans. You know the sane side. Website Twitter Email TReVoices Contributions: A Butch Lesbian Transitioned Into A Transman -"Gender Ideology Hurts More Than It Helps" Latest Work: Transparency Podcast With Guest 'Kathleen Stock'

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< Back A Trans Campaigner Speaks Out against Biden’s Transgender Activism​ By, Madeleine Kearns & Scott Newgent US Madeleine Kearns: Hey, Scott. Thank you so much for speaking with me today. We’ve been in touch for quite a while, but it seems that I’m not the only writer interested in your perspective and efforts to educate the public about the dangers of transgender extremism. J. K. Rowling described you as a “hero.” The comedy writer Graeme Linehan said he recognized in you “a similar soul.” And I believe you may even have appeared in an excellent new book that lots of us worried about transgender ideology have been reading. For those who don’t know who you are, I’ll just explain how you got involved in the transgender debate. You were born female and had a medical and surgical “sex-change” intervention six years ago at the age of 41. In the interest of time, I’ll just list some of the consequences of the transition (as it’s called), as you yourself have described them (and have kindly provided evidence of in the form of medical records, pictures, and other documentation): Seven surgeries A pulmonary embolism An induced stress heart attack Sepsis A 17-month recurring infection 16 rounds of antibiotics Three weeks of daily IV antibiotics Complete hair loss Loss of arm function Arm reconstructive surgery Permanent lung and heart damage Bladder damage Insomnia Hallucinations Hair growth on the inside of your urethra PTSD $1 million in medical expenses Lost home, car, job, career Marriage break-down Temporarily unable to look after your children So far, unable to sue the surgeon responsible in part because there is no baseline for care for transgender patients Does that about sum it up? Scott Newgent: Yeah. And passing out multiple times from pain. MK: I think that one of the first questions at the forefront of our readers’ minds on being confronted with that list is: Why did you do it? What were you hoping to get out of transition? Did you understand the risks of these complications before you started the process? SN: Barbara Kay, a writer in Canada who has become a friend of mine, asked me that question recently. She was like, “Have you ever thought of why you did this?” And I wrote it down as a draft chapter of a memoir and sent it to her, to which she said, “There’s gotta be more reason than that.” And then I started to write it again and as I started to write it again, I just started to break down and just bawl my eyes out. I realized that there are so many more reasons why I did this. The family that I come from is a very male-dominated family that has produced a lot of male athletes. And I saw at a very young age how that male dominant personality caused problems in my childhood everywhere. Like “Kellie, you need to do this, this way. Kellie, you need to do it this way.” And I started to think, after talking with Barbara, how much easier it would have been for me to be born male. I started to look at the structures of my life and the struggles of my life and realize that if I had swapped chromosomes in my mother’s stomach, I would have been the quintessential male. I would have been a professional athlete, a college star. I would have been everything. I knew that, and because I wasn’t, I struggled with it. When I was seven years old, I said to my uncle that I wanted to be a boy for Christmas. And he was like, “Well, you can’t be that. Do you want me to get you a guitar?” All the women in my family dressed really feminine and I learned to carry myself as a woman. Later, when I came out as lesbian, I was never a butch lesbian. Then my wife, who I got divorced from, was a devout Catholic. I mean, almost over the top to the point where I thought it was a kind of mental illness. And she couldn’t handle the idea that she was a lesbian. She would say that I seemed more like a male. And I’d come to a place in my life where I was tired of being a lesbian. I reflected on all my childhood stuff and started to think that maybe she’s right. I started to see some of the whole transgender craze. I thought maybe there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was born in the wrong body. MK: So, let me ask this as a follow-up. When you were getting these surgeries and medically transitioning, were you under the impression that you were going to literally change your sex? SN: Yeah. They actually tell you that. MK: Right. Let’s move from the personal to the political. President Biden has promised to pass the Equality Act which would redefine sex to include gender identity in federal anti-discrimination law. Obviously, you’ve been through transition. Are sex and “gender identity” the same thing in the way the — SN: Maddy, you know I don’t even know what people really consider sex or consider gender. I can give you my own ideas on it. I don’t get caught up in all that crap. I don’t know what all that is. Can you just ask me something in English? MK: The reason I’m asking this is that the effort on the political level is to redefine sex in the way that it was presented to you by your surgeons — as “gender identity” — as this thing that is going to cure all your problems. It is this same kind of thinking is being enshrined into law. Do you think that is going to help people? SN: No, it’s not going to help. Here’s the thing. You can’t transition genders. You are who you are biologically. If I die and you bury me in the dirt and dig up my bones a hundred years later, they are going to say, “That was a female.” That doesn’t change. But what you can do is make a person look different. I call it like a hybrid, which is that you can take females and remove estrogen and pour on testosterone and it creates a totally different effect. The way I think is different, the way I look is different, but it’s also different than being a male. I’ve created something unique. And what I don’t understand in the trans community is why that reality is not accepted. MK: One of the things that the Equality Act is going to do, similar to the executive order on “gender identity” that’s just passed, is force women’s only spaces, shelters, sports teams, and all the rest of it to include people who are biologically male. I know that you of all people can truly empathize with people who struggle to accept their biological sex. Given that, do you think that such a policy is helpful or fair? All Our Opinion in Your Inbox NR Daily is delivered right to you every afternoon. No charge. SN: No, it’s not going to help. And it’s not fair because what we’re essentially doing is we’re allowing males to go into female spaces. There is no baseline for, “Hey, you know what? This person has been on estrogen for 20 years. This person has been on estrogen for ten years. We have this study here that says that this is when the body uses all its strength from a male standpoint.” What we’re doing in society right now is allowing a thought, a feeling, a delusion to dictate legislation. We are not going back to reality. We’re not doing studies because when we actually do, those very studies go against what all the transgender activists are saying. It’s basically saying, “Hey, you know what, women, you guys should have fought all these years for all these rights and we’re going to give them to men, too.” It’s absolutely wrong. And it’s creating this thing in society — which I think is hilarious — where people who have never transitioned, never watched anybody transition, want to jump on the LGBTQ rights train and argue with me about what transgenderism is and what it is not. And they seem to believe in this mass hysteria that you can swap genders and that it’s not that big of a deal. Oh, and that if you don’t like it, you can de-trans, which is another fantasy that people are putting out. It is a major, major medical undertaking and it fixes nothing. That’s what I don’t think people understand. It does not fix mental health. It does not fix anxiety. It actually makes it worse. MK: There is another transgender policy that’s topical right now. The Trump administration said that you can identify as trans in the military, so long as you are willing to bunk with your biological sex, but what you can’t have is continued treatment for gender dysphoria or require “special accommodations.” What do you think of Biden’s recent decision to repeal that? SN: And have transgender people in the military? MK: Yes, and people with gender dysphoria. SN: And gender dysphoria is basically feeling like you were born in the wrong body, that you are the opposite sex? MK: The American Psychiatric Association would define gender dysphoria as clinically significant feelings of that nature, the sort that requires ongoing treatment. SN: I know the answer to this, but I’m asking you if gender dysphoria is believing you are the opposite sex and you are not, or believing that you are the opposite sex and you were born in the wrong body? What is gender dysphoria? MK: Gender dysphoria is defined clinically as a marked feeling of incongruence between your gender identity and your sex — which is rather circular in my view, because the fundamental questions still remains: What is gender identity? I’ve been studying gender identity for years now and the closest I can get to defining it is by its mysterious, unfalsifiable, and potentially determinative association with sex. SN: Right. So here’s what Trump’s Department of Defense did. They looked at “gender dysphoria.” They looked at the military. They tried to find studies. They tried to figure out where gender dysphoric people should be, where transgender people should be. And they found what everybody else has found, which is nothing but, “I feel, I felt.” So, what he did was he eliminated people from the military and for good reason. Until society is able to define what transgenderism is and what it is not, we need to be the people that step back and say, “You know, we’re gonna let the studies come out. We’re going to step away from sports. We’re going to step away from the military. We’re going to make everybody else feel comfortable because we are a small portion of society.” Once these studies come out that define what we are, what we are not, how we can transition, then let’s figure out how we work into society. Biden is simply giving in to all the trans activists who say trans women are women. But no, they’re not. The reality is that trans women are men who take estrogen. That’s functionally different. It’s not bigotry, it’s reality. It’s called protecting women. So, I agree with Trump on it: 100 percent, 150 percent as a trans person. MK: Throughout the 2020 presidential campaign, various Democratic candidates expressed the desire to assist and facilitate child transition. What do you make of that? SN: This was really hard for me because I’ve done it. I deal with people who have done it. I’ve known a couple of kids who became adults and killed themselves, realizing that only then [after transition] were they in the wrong body. I’ve got three kids who are at the age where it is legal and possible to medically transition in the United States. If I could get up and shake Biden … I would do it. He is a total idiot to allow kids to do this. An absolute idiot. Transgenderism, medical transitioning, is plastic surgery. It creates an illusion. If you go into it, thinking that it changes anything, you come out at the end with the only long-term study that tells us the highest suicidal ideation is seven to ten years after medical transition. Why do you think that is? Because you have to face reality at some time. So, we’re taking children that suffer from mental illness, that suffer from a dysphoria, that don’t fit in, and we’re clumping them into a group of people that are listed like superheroes right now to medically transition. And they’re going to grow up and they’re going to hit 25. And they’re going to say, “Hey, mom and dad, I can’t have kids. 90 percent of the population won’t date me. I have early onset osteoporosis. My heart is the size of a twelve-year-old, because you paused my puberty. I have anxiety. I have all these things and you know what? Now I’m in the wrong body. Now I’m going to kill myself.” So, we have a president that is pushing this because he’s too much of an idiot to say, “You know what, maybe we should study this.” You may not like Trump, but what you can say about him is that he does the tough things. Biden does not. He has a portion of his party that accepts transgenderism, that doesn’t even know what the f*** it is. And it bothers me. The kids thing bothers me. MK: One of the reasons this debate is obscured over here is a false left/right division that seems to be applied to every issue. In the United Kingdom, Keira Bell, a young woman who began the process of irreversible treatments similar to yours before the age of 16 recently won her case in the U.K. Supreme Court, which ordered that Britain’s National Health Service to stop all these treatments for those under 16. Would you like to see similar laws passed in the United States? SN: Yes, I’m very familiar with that case. First of all, Keira is so strong, and she saved so many people. I’m so thankful for her. But what happened in the U.K. is something that is not happening in the United States. It’s not happening in Canada. Which is, this: People brought that situation forward as a united front. So, there were women, there were men, there were people from all the different parties, there was a judge. And the reason why it passed, by the way, is because that judge said, “Hey guys, we’re not going to talk about, ‘I feel, I felt.’ What we are going to talk about are the facts.” So, every time Mermaids [a U.K. charity promoting sex-changes for children] and the transgender activists argued, “But people are going to kill themselves!” The court said, “Where’s the study?” “Well, hormone blockers are safe.” Where’s the study? “Well it helps mental illness. Here’s the study!” You mean the study that was retracted? “How about this study?” No, that one was retracted, too. Do you have a study that wasn’t retracted that says it helped mental health? No? Okay, we’re not going to do that. So basically, it came down to the fact that we have no firm understanding of what happens to people when they medically transition. What we do have is the documented list of problems, mental illness, this and that, and guess what? It’s not a good idea. And it had nothing to do with a political stance. The thing that bothers me is that right now we have five bills that are trying to halt medical transition here in the United States, and each one of them is run by conservative, evangelical Republicans. All the people supporting them are all Christian. And I’ve talked to several people about this. What they do is they try to talk about this as a religious issue. Like “I’m representing Christianity, I’m representing evangelicalism,” or whatever. And I’m saying, “Hey, how about bringing this to the forefoot, representing children, to keep children safe?” Here’s a transgender person. Here’s a gay person. Here’s the evangelical person. Here’s the Republican person. Here’s a Democrat. We have everybody covered. Okay. So, you can’t call us a bigot. Cause we got the whole circle around it. We’re all here. Now let’s talk about facts. Like they did in the U.K. But they’re not doing that. The politicians that are bringing these bills know that they will not pass. They know it. I was actually on a call that I dropped off because the senator, I won’t say his name, laughed when I said, “Are we going to get a hearing?” Laughed. Why are you doing it then? What is it you’re after? Your name in the paper? Is that why? Because I’ll tell you, I’ve got about 20 kids I’m talking to that that want to shoot their heads off and you want to laugh because you’re not getting a hearing because all you want is for the other evangelists to say, “Good boy! Good Christian!” What about the kids? MK: Final question. Most people would accept, especially with the list I read out at the beginning, that you’ve had a really hard time. And most people would not want to make your life any harder. The reason I mention this is that while the activist types can’t be reasoned with, there are many people out there who are very well-meaning who just want to help minorities, who are maybe being taken in by some of this. What laws, policies, or social attitudes would help people in similar situations to yours? SN: Well, I want to say, first of all, gender dysphoria is a mental illness. There’s no way medical transition can help anybody with gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is an inside out problem. You have to fix it on the inside. You don’t fix it on the outside. Now with that said, since the beginning of time, we’ve all changed our looks. Like we’ve been wearing lipstick for how many years? We’ve been wearing mascara for how long? We have all been trying to enhance the way that we look. So, we need to look at trans people, in reality. Trans people are people who are not comfortable with the way that they look, so they take synthetic hormones to create an illusion of the opposite sex. It will never be a biological switch. It is an illusion. To say so is not hateful; it is reality. I’ve lived it. I’ve talked to several hundred people who’ve lived it. It’s a very small portion of transgender people who are making all the fuss. Unfortunately, people who don’t want to make a fuss, don’t come out. They don’t need to, they don’t want to. Most women who get breast augmentations are not walking down the street going, “I was born with these bad boys. Can you believe how awesome I am?” No. You had a breast augmentation! They’re not yours! Don’t run down the street drawing attention to them, that’s craziness. If you want to get plastic surgery, do it. If you want to create an illusion of the opposite sex, do it — do it as an adult, get it regulated, have medical guidelines for care. Don’t allow anybody to get into the business. But don’t say, “Hey, you know what? 99.99 percent of society is going to cower to the 0.01 percent that has a mental illness that we are trying to treat the wrong way.” It’s idiotic. It’s politics. Biden is doing nobody any favors. Original Link

< Back Abigail Shrier - Scott Newgent Chapter "Blake" by Abigail Shrier US Irreversible Damage is an exploration of a mystery: Why, in the last decade, has the diagnosis "gender dysphoria," transformed from a vanishingly rare affliction, applying almost exclusively to boys and men, to an epidemic among teenage girls? Author Abigail Shrier presents shocking statistics and stories from real families to show that America and the West have become fertile ground for a "transgender craze" that has nothing to do with real gender dysphoria and everything to do with our cultural frailty. Teenage girls are taking courses of testosterone and disfiguring their bodies. Parents are undermined; experts are over-relied upon; dissenters in science and medicine are intimidated; free speech truckles under renewed attack; socialized medicine bears hidden consequences; and an intersectional era has arisen in which the desire to escape a dominant identity encourages individuals to take cover in victim groups. Every person who has ever had a skeptical thought about the sudden rush toward a non-binary future but been afraid to express it—this book is for you. Original Link