My country, and others, found there is no solid evidence supporting the medical transitioning of young people. Why aren’t American clinicians paying attention?
The 'Gender-Affirming Care' medical professionals are cultists. A result of radical progressive ideologies & DEI indoctrination in our universities and now in full bloom in the medical field with many doctors, nurses, administrators and oversight boards completely bought in. Some of the most indoctrinated by this insanity IMO are the psychologists and psychiatrists. Not only do they co-sign this craziness, they dole out loads of very powerful psychotropic drugs to their patients. We can now see how the big pharma companies are jumping on the bandwagon with this movement as it provides them a customer for life.
In the medical profession, this seemed to happen slowly at first and then all at once with the COVID hysteria and the politicization of vaccines. Of course there are plenty physicians and medical professionals that oppose, or are concerned, about the gender affirming care movement but can't speak out as they'll be called bigots or nazis by their progressive piers and run the chance of having their careers ruined.
The same thing is happening in our pre-schools, middle schools and high schools. There are many parents that are calling bullshit on this and recognize the social contagion of ROGD (rapid-onset gender dysphoria), but progressive teachers, teachers unions and school boards seem to have totally adopted this craziness. The captured parents of this ideology will continue to feed their children into this medical meat grinder and wreck their lives forever. This is probably going to be pretty ugly once this thing plays out over the next decade or so.......God help them.
PS - This looks to be driven primarily by white liberal middle/upper class women and progressive couples. It's almost like a badge of honor with these people that they have a trans or non-binary kid. This is not something that is seen widely in black and hispanic communities at all. They seem to be outwardly and loudly opposed to this movement. Try to figure that one out......
I hope I live long enough to see the movie representing the story of the pharmaceutical industry that pushed the “gender affirming “ scam and how they were prosecuted for their crimes.
Also the book Dreamland by Sam Quinones and the supposed "science" behind much of the gender issue is on the same level of the teeny tiny medical journal "note" that was manipulated to propel the opioid devastation.
Don't exclusively bang on "Big Pharma" (a leftist trope, by the way). The Pharmaceutical industry reacts to the medical field that is looking for an easy solution to a complex problem. They are just responding to a perceived need and are more than willing to sink millions into drug development in order to turn a profit. But they are not blameless, to be sure. The pursuit of profit is a powerful goad.
I disagree with you here, Robert. Look for essays and videos by Jennifer Bilek, who has researched this money trail extensively. Doctors are very vulnerable to pressure from pharma companies. And the majority of hormone treatments are pushed by two companies headed by trans-identifying men.
Also medical schools are heavily funded by the pharmaceutical industry. Clearly they favor being sure medical students are brain washed to see the practice of medicine through that lens.
Also most medical schools are funded by the pharmaceutical industry. You can bet that’s to drive home the idea of better living through chemistry and not so much about what’s really good for ppl.
Industry always seeks to increase profits. I am a big believer in capitalism yet not with out checks and balances. Greed is as old as humanity. It’s one of our flaws so I doubt that can be regulated but undue and underhanded tactics to manipulate the public can be. The big problem there is lobbyists.
They undermine the oversight by paying (read bribing) regulators and politicians to act in their favor.
Doctors are very vulnerable to the pressure from their professional associations on which are vested the ability to "certify" a doctor in the practice area.
Drug companies have to play follow-the-leader until they have developed the little blue (green, purple, white, tan, etc.) pill, or capsule that delivers the magic bullet.
"U.S. Sex Reassignment Surgery Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Gender Transition (Male To Female, Female To Male), And Segment Forecasts, 2022 - 2030"
The Left abandoned its hate of Big Pharma during COVID. They never act based on love of principle, but in shared hate of a declared enemy, which transitioned from large corporations to anything and anyone affiliated with Donald Trump.
They simply Memory Holed the fact that it was his policies that enabled the rapid development of these injections. For my part, I am very content with this particular decision.
Trump is neither saint not genius, and he got bamboozled, but in his defense its hard to formulate good policy when surrounded by back stabbing liars, and I honestly believe that he consistently tries both to tell the truth and to do the right thing.
Pharma is looking pretty guilty. I am all for capitalism, but there is also a such thing as ethics.
Please take a look at this one:
"U.S. Sex Reassignment Surgery Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Gender Transition (Male To Female, Female To Male), And Segment Forecasts, 2022 - 2030"
Great article. No one can deny that transition is already a multi-billion dollar business and projected to get a lot bigger in coming years. It's outrageous that American physicians and their professional organizations fail to recognize that gender transition strategies that may have been beneficial for males with early onset sustained gender dysphoria as reported by the Dutch aren't necessarily appropriate for the multitude of teen girls with rapid onset gender dysphoria. There is a strong social contagion element here and I hope more patients unhappy with their transition will come forward publically and will also sue those who prescribed and administered irreversible changes on minors.
"Another way to estimate the number of patients is to look at clinics. America has 400 pediatric gender clinics. (Activists tried to erase that fact. Again, funny if they’re doing such good and important work...) You can't support hundreds of medical practices and thousands of highly skilled workers without a lot of patients – the economics alone dictate that currently active child gender patients must number ten thousand or more nationwide."
And, politicians also drive this:
"Today, fueled by exciting and idealistic new fake-Science (gender theory), California progressives like Attorney General Rob Bonta are aggressively using the power of the state to circumvent informed consent. That has already led, and will continue to lead, directly to the sterilization of thousands of Californians – including children. [2] Minors by definition cannot give informed consent, just ask the Nuremberg lawyers. Bonta doesn't mention eugenics (he'd never come within a million miles of that word) but the result is the same as before: state-approved non-consensual sterilizations. Californians today are so enlightened we are letting it happen again. We’re cheering. And we’re electing leaders like Bonta."
Yet it can be a two way street as long as the government elements involved don’t just roll over for and in favor of corporate interests.
I read about the Dutch Study by the woman assigned to develop the task force surrounding the trans community. I think it was here on Substack. It was very illuminating.
One needs also to look that the many thousands, millions of people for whom opioid medications make normal like possible.
I personally have been one of those who have found relief from one of those little white pills four times a day.
Chronic back pain/sciatica is one of those conditions that cannot be ignored. The pain is real whether one is sitting or standing, and lying flat is an exercise in seeing how little you can move. Rolling on one's side is not an answer.
As the author suggests, the gender dysphoria industry has been created as a result of misguided, erroneous, and downright disingenuous "clinical" studies that underpin the hysteria-based treatment on which the trans movement has thrived. If you are going to hang someone for the error, it is the reputation of the clinicians and doctors who worked around their oaths to do no harm to assure that flow of research dollars continued unabated.
I suspect if one were allowed to delve deeply into this issue that there stands, in current parlance, at the intersection of power, governance, and oversight, a set of gnomes much like Dr. Anthony Fauci pulling the strings and overbalancing the scales in the name of "sound practice" and "greater good".
The author alludes to some of them...Without more sunshine, I doubt we will see the others. They are a slippery, pettifogging bunch.
yes for some opioids are essential but hopefully your Dr took and still takes great care to help you manage the pain. That is far different than the way one very short anecdotal "note" in a journal was misused to promiscously promote handing out those white pills by the millions willy nilly as was done.
WPATH is funded in large part by the Pritzker family...as in JB, the governor of IL. For them it is as an investment because the surgeries will continue to for a lifetime. They are truly despicable.
Pritzker the modern day Frankenstiens go back far enough they probably had family in the trans humanism crap hundreds of years ago . Money and fanatics are a dangerous combo . This whole trans movement should be called voluntary population control , maybe they are doing the world a favour ?
I’d love to see anyone held responsible for the crimes against humanity we’ve seen over the past decade. The legalized drug dealers is a good place to start.
Better living can be achieved through chemistry but remember that we have all we need to thrive in nature. The pharmaceutical industry, including their very unsafe puberty blockers, are killing more ppl than they are saving.
I thank this writer for her courage and conviction in coming forward to speak some sanity back not the conversation. History will not remember the self serving “champions” who have heaped this pile of dung on society.
My husband is a pediatric surgeon and the children’s hospital where he practices had a discussion about whether to begin performing these gender (mutilating) surgeries. My husband - who is not in favor, but instead of being critical of the surgery-informed the administrators that Europe was curtailing this care and law suits were increasing. Thankfully, it was enough to discourage the hospital from going forward with surgery, although they do have a “gender affirming” clinic with hormone “therapy”
Your husbands saved lives. Decent people must simply speak out against this insanity. The phenomenon of mass formation, as described by Matias Desmet seems to explain this process, and he claims that just a few people speaking out is the only way to stop the process.
That is great that they listened and took his advice. Sadly that is not the case at many hospitals,. In some instances, mastectomies are being done on girls at age 18 to avoid operating on minors. But (barely) young adults at this age are often not really fully formed in their beliefs and I think many of these patients will regret their decisions later in life. The lawsuits will come. It is tragic that healthy breast tissue is being removed in adolescent and very young adult females who can't yet know whether they will change their mind and want to have children in their twenties or thirties .
That people are willing to make money to mutilate children even over the objections of their parents is a moral rot so severe that I believe that (along with the revival of Nazi Jew-hatred) that Western Civilization is dead.
"Today, fueled by exciting and idealistic new fake-Science (gender theory), California progressives like Attorney General Rob Bonta are aggressively using the power of the state to circumvent informed consent. That has already led, and will continue to lead, directly to the sterilization of thousands of Californians – including children. [2] Minors by definition cannot give informed consent, just ask the Nuremberg lawyers. Bonta doesn't mention eugenics (he'd never come within a million miles of that word) but the result is the same as before: state-approved non-consensual sterilizations. Californians today are so enlightened we are letting it happen again. We’re cheering. And we’re electing leaders like Bonta.
Bonta today is aggressively promoting and expanding policies that three years ago had already outpaced [2] the "sad and regrettable chapter in the state's history that must never be repeated again." By 2020 California had already hit 13 per 100K, and rising. (Actually it’s worse: today California is sterilizing 13 per 100K children; in the 20th century we were sterilizing 13 per 100K of mostly adults.) Are we now shooting for Germany's record?"
People are making money, no doubt, but this is the victim mentality where someone is designated as a victim and everyone else has to fall in line. Gender confused kids were identified as the victims so the 99.9% have to not only accommodate them, but celebrate them. This becomes a cause and doctors specializing in transitions become heroes for the first times in their lives. The attention (and the money) becomes a drug they have to inject daily but there aren't enough trans kids to go around, so they make more. The Left could shut this down today, but it is too intoxicating.
"This becomes a cause and doctors specializing in transitions become heroes for the first times in their lives. The attention (and the money) becomes a drug they have to inject daily but there aren't enough trans kids to go around, so they make more." Yes!
"3. Since the beginning of the conspiracy, certain of the Defendants, including Defendants Dr. Jason Rafferty and Dr. Michelle Forcier, were testing their radical new approach on patients like Isabelle—which included immediate, no-questions-asked “affirming” of a child’s desired gender and quickly placing them on a conveyor belt of life-altering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or experimental surgeries. "
"23. Notably, at least four of the six members of the Committee—including Defendants Dr. Rafferty, Dr. Forcier, Dr. Allen, and Dr. Sherer—worked at pediatric gender clinics that prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to patients as young as 10 and 14, Naturally, creating a new model of treatment that would promote and encourage the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for gender dysphoric children would stand to benefit those Committee members, and others like them, tremendously."
"37. Dr. Rafferty, for example, has gone from a little-known resident during his time drafting the Gender Policy Statement to having a highly successful practice in pediatric gender care and considered a leading authority on the subject, all while operating under the imprimatur of the authority he falsely created. He has also published numerous articles on one of the AAP’s websites (http://www.healthychildren.org) promoting the “affirmative care model.”9
38. Dr. Forcier has similarly parlayed her newly bolstered authority status into furthering her own successful private practice as well as paid speaking events. In fact, she was prominently featured in one of the most viewed documentaries of all time in 2022 as a leading expert in pediatric gender care and puberty blockers (which she described as “completely reversible” and “don’t have any permanent effects”).10 Other Defendants have enjoyed similar commercial and reputational benefits.
Follow the money on The 11th Hour Blog, (https://www.the11thhourblog.com) which details the white male billionaire funding of this destructive "gender identity" ideology. Jennifer Bilek is the expert in this. Has the entire Democratic Party, all the once LGB organizations (now taken over by the TQ), all the US medical associations, all the once women focused organizations etc. etc. all been bought and paid for by the "genderists"? I think so.
yep just like the non-science that hucksters used to fuel the Opioid epidemic and somehow conned vast numbers of doctors to buy into the fantasy that opioids weren't addictive to people who really have pain. Look at the mess there and how the few docs who tried to raise cautions were ignored. And Big Pharma just filled their pockets. Last note : don't just blame liberal upper class women - there are tons of men from the same demographic that have bought in big time as well.
I dislike the term socialized medicine. In this situation the reason the Finns and other European countries are course correcting is because they have a centralized system where all the data is kept and can be studied if an honest academic was so inclined. In the US the contagion continues to spread precisely because it is decentralized and totally profit driven.It’s a big money maker and therefore there is zero incentive to even accurately and honestly collect the data never mind analyze it objectively.
I will now actively fight "socialized medicine" after seeing what happened during the pandemic. There were politicians and many people wanting to deny ALL healthcare to those who refused the COVID vax. Centralized power means psychopaths who desire power will eventually take them over and use that power to punish those who don't agree with them.
I'd assumed socialized medicine would lead to quicker shutting down of all of this, but in the US I don't think that'd be the case. Federal health centers are exempt from medical liability I believe, and it's possible with a socialized system everyone would escape liability. More problematically, after watching our federal government throw its weight behind this trans insanity, I have no confidence we'd be able or willing to set up a socialized medical program that was able to police itself like the Finns, Swedes, etc.
Excuse me. As a physician I can independently decide who I wish to treat just as a patient can decline to see me. Those who refuse vaccinations are not a good fit for me and vice versa. Has nothing to do with the system in place.
I don't know if you are from the US, but my point is that you won't have that latitude if we aren't very careful. If politicians run the medical system they will abuse it and run you over. See how they pulled medical licenses of doctors prescribing ivermectin and California tried to violate doctors freedom of speech if they offered perspectives outside the mainstream. The courts had to step in to stop it.
The medical profession has definitely changed. We now have the “not a good fit doctors.” How about nurses? Can they also decline to help those with different beliefs?
Do you still feel this way after the results are in that the vaccines were not safe or effective and new research out of Italy is finding even more disturbing data that shows ppl who received more than two jabs were more likely to die from everything and not just COVID?
Doctors who just believe the CDC (or any other government agency) verbatim are not the kind of doctor I trust anyway. I want a doctor who knows enough to tell me if there is an effective homeopathic alternative to any medication that causes me adverse reactions. Trusting the pharmaceutical industry to openly disclose its product efficacy/safety is like trusting a wolf to guard your sheep.
Just look north to Kanada , you can see the problem Gov backs trans crap mainly due to the wannabe trans PM , many people had surgeries , life saving in many cases because they would not take the vax . When the gov runs health care watch out ! I know because in the 80's and 90's i built new wings on existing hospitals , talking 100's of millions of $$$ only to have those hospitals shut down 15 years later . then they go spend 2 billion or more on 2 "super" hospitals , only problem is ? Not enough nurses and Drs to staff them .If you want something done right keep the gov 10 light years away
Course correction can occur in our system too. And quite rapidly once the lawsuits start coming. In Finland’s case it was the honest academic, not the centralized records that spurred the correction. And let us point out that the whole push for pediatric gender reassignment started with the effort to help men pass as women which would never have been covered here but for the socialized aspects of Obamacare and his admin’s role in pushing for gender identity to be covered under the civil rights umbrella and the incestuous network of NGO activists and government.
I have heard that trial lawyers are hesitant to take "detransitioner" cases for one reason or another, but I do not know if this is true. I can imagine, though, that even they have friends and social lives that would be disrupted by taking on such a case.
That is probably true and where I live have been told that education lawyers would take the case but for the fact they also work for the school district and do not want to reduce their income stream. This is just hearsay so please don’t take this as fact and is limited to cases where parents found out schools had initiated and promoted the idea of “transitioning.”
We have plenty of data. The CDC and FDA for example have plenty of data on the harms of these COVID injections; and for that matter had and have plenty of data on the harms of masks.
But they are corrupt. And a single point if corruption is manifestly very dangerous.
The FDA had data about the dangers of the covid mRNA shots, and suppressed it. Even that data is a gross underestimation of the harms, because they made it extremely difficult for study volunteers to report problems post injection. If something occurs but is not reported and catalogued then it isn’t counted. There was terrible follow up on the general population once the shots were rolled out and often mandated. Now we know the companies changed the manufacturing process from the batches used in the study group to a process using DNA plasmids for the large batches for the general public. People were injected with foreign DNA, ramifications of which are starting to be seen ( ie aggressive malignancies)
It is hard to fight a thing when data is hidden and/or suppressed. Part of that has to do with "news" and social media. Even I was shocked by the number 400 in today's PITT article:
"Another way to estimate the number of patients is to look at clinics. America has 400 pediatric gender clinics. (Activists tried to erase that fact. Again, funny if they’re doing such good and important work...) You can't support hundreds of medical practices and thousands of highly skilled workers without a lot of patients – the economics alone dictate that currently active child gender patients must number ten thousand or more nationwide."
In our private system, the doctors are the beneficiary. That leads to highly profitable
scam surgeries and other non-necessary medical procedures being performed. I feel like in a socialized or nationalized system, the doctor is not the customer, and therefore, has no incentive to overprescribe medical treatments.
As if greed exists only in market economies. Ha! Have you been in environment of scarcity? Have you seen what greed looks like and the extent of dehumanization in scarcity markets? You’re barking up the wrong tree.
We had a neighbor with a “trans” teenager and the parents were exactly the empty-headed progressive liberals you’d expect. The mother told me about her kid’s transition with pride. You could tell a big driver for her was the social status points she gets from parenting a trans kid.
Seems with parents like this there is an element of Munchausen by proxy going on. I wonder how many kids who later as adults regretted their decision will harbor anger and resentment toward their parents who pushed them in that direction.
How do you know? Hey - I’m weirded out by all of this crap, but I do NOT stoop to presume I have ANY idea what “driver” is behind a parent’s care of their kid. It’s serious, not a source of amusement, and deserves a lot better than tsk-tsk-ing from all of us. Every parent makes all of it up as they go along, with no prior experience, after all! 😀
I’m definitely making some assumptions in this particular case, but this is from years of living near these people and observing and interacting with them.
In general it’s pretty obvious that peer pressure plays a major role in being “trans.” That peer pressure extends to parents and includes parent pressure.
Just look at the "trans kids influencers" on IG. They are adored and idolized. That's a huge driver for Munchausen mommies, and many of them are actresses (Charlize Theron, Megan Fox).
True. My kids came without instruction manuals!! Even the toaster had a one page operation guide.
But parents are responsible for safeguarding their kids from undue pressures to engage in unhealthy/unsafe activities. Allowing a minor child (or letting bully tactics from transition/gender affirming care facilities) push you or a child into making unalterable surgical therapies that are just as likely to be harmful as helpful is bad parenting. We don’t appease children taking illicit drugs just because they really want to as it’s dangerous destructive behavior.
Somebody has to be the adult and speak up for kids rights when they don’t know what’s best and think they want something that can have permanent consequences.
We are moving into a vacuum where parents have fewer rights to speak on behalf of their children and are sometimes reported to agencies like child protective services for declining medical treatments. I’ve seen this in action here where I live.
It’s good to have the village looking out for kids in general but parents should be the final say in what happens to them.
We do not “make up all of it” as we go along. There are ideas about child rearing that are lasting for good reason and passed through the generations. This is serious business so I do not care what the parents’ feelings are at the moment. The children need to be kept safe and if that means social opprobrium then so be it. Weird how you focus on not hurting parents feelings!
That is plain gross! Does she care that said person will struggle with relationships, possibly be sterile and maybe never enjoy sex! This is an unnatural process that should be reserved for adults that are very well informed! My heart breaks for the true transpeople out there who are being diminished by all this backlash for fake transitioners!
I agree with you. It is extra stressful when this affects your own daughter and everybody else around you just beams about it regarding your family situation and theirs even as you are in pain (because wherever this occurs it occurs with a number of girls). So, wherever you see these parents celebrating there are other parents trying to keep a low profile for themselves and their kid.
But, the laws of the land are starting to work against sane parents:
"With laws like AB665 (lowering the age of consent to 12 for gender counseling and residential shelter, without parental consent or even notification) California's leaders (Newsom, Bonta, Wiener, Thurmond) have allied with the real-life Child Catchers and Comprachicos. [4][5] (Erin Friday is on the case: “The parents will have no idea what happened to their child. Imagine their fear and anxiety. These parents are criminalized without an accusation, evidence or trial.”) With SB107 (giving CA custody of out-of-state children who come to CA for gender-affirming care, with or without a parent) California's leaders are becoming Child Catchers and Comprachicos. The stuff of nightmares."
Gee, we have the same situation with neighbors. First, the 15 yr old kid legally changed his name to a female name, instructed every one in the household to refer to him as she/her and the father proudly visited each neighbor on the street requesting that each of us use the new feminine pronouns. His parents are white liberal educated professionals. Go figure!
This is pretty much what happened with our daughter's childhood friend. I work around it by saying "your child" or something. Then, our daughter caught the contagion. I was not for it.
Or, the family lives among that demographic. If you have ever scanned the PITT substack you will know that many parents are not for it - but the kids get socially transitioned behind backs at school and then it is a wild ride...
I just want to make clear that your kids and grandkids are not necessarily "safe" just because you are not Woke. They can still hit a bump and get indoctrinated. People in cults have not come from only one demographic. The schools are basically training the next Red Guard.
100 Gender clinics? What?? Obviously there’s lots of money to be made in child mutilation. I watched a video of a surgeon ( butcher) who had established clinics in SF and Austin. He described how he turns boys into Ken dolls. How does he keep a medical license?
Progressives have seized on the controversial and divisive practice of genital mutilation as a core element of their political ideology. Faith in genital mutilation is a central tenet of progressive group identity. The money is important but it the problem runs deeper, and is more insidious, than that.
It’s an unpopular view, but it bears similarity to the gnostic cults view of shedding the body to reveal and free the soul. Except people are not committing suicide as the gnostics advocated, but changing the body to reflect the soul instead.
“Progressives have seized on the controversial and divisive practice of genital mutilation as a core element of their political ideology”
When you consider that the initial practice was designed to transition men to women, it shouldn’t be surprising that Progressives and their feminist acolytes seized upon it. They have been attacking our “patriarchal” society for decades. Psychologically castrating men has always been part of their strategy. Cutting off the balls of resisters is their dream.
That's painting a lot of people with a narrow brush. I'm a feminist who was tired of being discriminated against at work, tired of seeing double standards for rape victims, female athletes (oh the irony) etc.
Where we do agree, I think, is on the danger of a movement with minimal/no cause left to fight. You have to make a mountain out of an anthill. It's how I felt when the ACLU sued prisons to let convicted rapists and pedophiles have porn. If that's the worst injustice you can find, time to close up shop and go fly fishing.
Actually my comment was pretty specific, much more so than the term “feminist”. It seems to me the issues that caused you to adopt the term have long been remedied. Now all a woman has to do is claim rape and men are guilty until proven innocent, like the Duke lacrosse players and Brett Kavanaugh. Crack a joke containing the tiniest of sexual innuendo and a man can be fired. The WNBA is hemorrhaging money because no one, not even women want to watch it.
I’m not sure how you define the term “feminist” but if you take issue with my post ,your definition is different than mine
Last year in Thailand there was a tv program that interviewed a dr. that did transition surgery. He was so proud of the fact that he could turn males into females. He said it was more difficult to turn females into males because attaching a penis was more difficult than creating a vagina. That was the last time I watched a tv program. There are many things that I don't need to know about.
Thailand is in the process of legalizing prostitution, including lady-boys. It's true that it's not the worst place in the world, far from, but it one of the most corrupt countries in the world. The PM has recently shaken hands with Putin in China and has extended the 30 day visas to 90 day free visas for Russians.
And gender clinics have one goal in mind. Put this "gender identity" issue front and center. No looking at other issues causing distress in the child. Affirming the mismatched gender identity - and that is it.
Regular family doctors and pediatricians don't know how to deal with this cohort so they refer to a gender specialist assuming that person will know how best to deal with it, but it puts them right on the path to affirmation and transition.
Stories and accounts from parents confirm this.
Parents should avoid the gender clinics at all cost.
Yeah that’s true. My daughters bf from middle school is a trans girl. He wasn’t when they became friends but as time went by he was convinced he was a she. I cared about this kid so I went online for guidance about how best to support him. I found a lot of parent testimony about feeling railroaded into obtaining puberty blockers, looking at surgical interventions and never counseling to sort out any possible other psychiatric issues. When the parents hesitated they were assailed with threats that their child would likely commit suicide if they didn’t agree to this transitioning.
Excellent article and comment. Having recently lived in and ran for school board in a wealthy outer ring suburb of Minneapolis, you are right on when you suggest it is a badge of honor for many white women to have a child in the LGBTQ community. They will say and do anything to tear down anyone who isn’t fully supportive of this ideology. Unbelievably blinded and nasty. Needless to say, I lost by 45 votes after running an amazing campaign due to Nextdoor and Facebook slander. Thank God, because if I had won, we would still be there. As it is, we have moved to Middle Tennessee. It isn’t perfect, but I am thankful every day to be surrounded by common sense people. I often think of the verses in Romans 1...He gave them over to their depravity (paraphrased). After fighting awhile we realized life is too short, that place is lost. Move on to where you have a chance of making a difference.
Good on you for running, Jen. After that happens, the only thing to do is move because that community is lost.
The Nextdoor slander is insane where I live: Albemarle county, VA. We have a nonpartisan school board race with the self-declared Democrat running the kind of nasty tv ads you see in state and national races. Her opponent happens to be one of Justice Scalia’s children and you’d think Hitler and Donald Trump had a baby the way they defame her, a mom who is fed up with mediocre schools. It makes me sick.
Look no further than the ADD/ADHD craze, which now has its tentacles embedded in or society. We did end the repressed memory craze, but we are still drugging boyhood into oblivion.
That is hard to hear. It was tried on me in some training I was going through in 2007 to be a navy drug and alcohol counselor. The staff was unprofessional, unethical and manipulative. I was a grown woman near retiring, and these dirtbags decided, I assume due to my attitude and independence, I must have been sexually abused by my father. They literally tried implanting false memories and even threatened me with being removed if I wouldn't consider the possibility. I was eventually removed for not admitting to the fantasy they fabricated. I was called a "disruptor." I can't imagine a child being browbeaten by these scum to spout whatever they want them to say. I believe this scummy behavior stems from a "savior" need. If there's no victim to rescue, then create some victims so they can ride in on their white horses.
This about says it all. It’s in every institution where democrats/progressives have control, and that’s pretty much everywhere. Mind boggling how they took over the country. We only thought it was quickly because it was hardly talked about, but Covid/lockdowns put progressives on a power trip, proudly talk about gender affirming care (I could barely write those words…sickening). Conservatives either didn’t have a clue what was going on or thought it would go away due to the insanity of it all.
"The same thing is happening in our pre-schools, middle schools and high schools. There are many parents that are calling bullshit on this and recognize the social contagion of ROGD (rapid-onset gender dysphoria), but progressive teachers, teachers unions and school boards seem to have totally adopted this craziness."
Yes! Our daughter got the mind bug from kids at school before Lisa Littman coined the term ROGD and then Abigail Shrier wrote her article in the WSJ. The teachers were all progressive and behaved terribly in my opinion. I don't think it would have gone on for years and been so painful for us all if they had not worked against us and gas lit our child. Like, maybe they could have let us look into what was really going on with our kid instead? It is hard to believe it has taken so much time for a backlash to begin.
I am so glad that the American Academy of Pediatrics and the quacks they allow to set policy finally face a lawsuit. Institutions, not just individuals need to be held to account, including other medical associations, the teachers unions, and the federal (Admiral Levine) and state governments.
We’ll said. I am so sorry that your daughter was caught up in this insanity. We managed to escape it as our sons are older. My heart goes out to all parents who have to deal with this now.
It is frustrating that no one seems to get it or even mind it very much until it strikes them personally. Somehow, we still have "sex assigned at birth" on official forms and "listing pronouns" everywhere with Gender Queer Theory taught in the schools like it is proven scientific fact. It is such a harmful cult. And, all of society plays along with it whether they like it, hate it, or think it is something of a silly joke.
I hope that it is all gone by the time that your sons have children. It is primarily girls who get taken in by the cult.
Hi again. I really feel for you LM. My grandkids are old enough to be in the middle of this, unfortunately, but one of my daughters-in-law homeschools her 3 kids and the other is sending hers to a Christian school that can get around our province’s mandate to teach this absolute nonsense. I am old enough now that I don’t care what others think of me and can state what I think with no worries about offending. I just do it with grace and a smile. My gray hair and quiet words help me get away with it. I am thinking that I would like to do more to try to oppose the ideology overtake though not yet sure how to go about it.
Thank you, Jan. Good for you. Your family has a good plan. Although less common, there are home school parents on PITT with kids who caught the mind bug. It is sort of like in every country where girls heard about anorexia and bulimia they started seeing cases, only no one affirmed the girls in their belief that they were too fat.
It sounds like you are in Canada. I am in the US. Maybe you could interact with someone from Canada on PITT.substack.com Some Canadians have published articles there as well as comments on articles.
Long past time to know your enemy and treat them accordingly. These fools hate you, your children and your grandchildren and work day and night to destroy them and you.
You are so spot on with the issue of white liberal middle/upper-class women. They live in the way the world should be rather than the they the world really is. Two cases in point are from yesterday. If you get a chance, go to YouTube and watch Kristen Welker's interview with Desanits when he tries to explain that a Federal Background check should have stopped the man from getting the gun. It didn't register with her. The second was Margret Brennan lecturing guests about Gaza and her inability to grasp Sen. Vance's point that we can't do everything she thinks should happen. They are two of the most visible examples of people in power to shape news events who are smart enough to have them.
Don't let off the hook the billionaires like Pritzker, Stryker, et al and more who are massively funding this transhumanism movement. Those upper/upper middle class women are the useful idiots. The masterminds are these madmen. Megyn Kelly did a deep reporting on this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNq7dYOdQyQ
Guess who is pushing this gender transformation bullshit on minors The party of evil is. That's who.
If an adult wants a sex change that is one thing. If a minor wants it that is entirely different. Children aren't known for making good decisions and peer pressure more times than not drives their decisions. And keeping this condition secreted from the parents is criminal. As a parent it is MY duty to steer MY child in what I believe is the right direction, not some radical left wing emotionally unstable, touchy feely teacher or counselor.
I'm sorry...but if an adult wants a sex change, they should be able to get it ONLY if they pay entirely out of pocket and can find a doctor who will stand behind the medical decision to transition them. This should not be covered by public or private insurance. Insurance only covers care that is a medical necessity. Gender transition is elective medical care not medically (or psychiatrically) necessary given the evidence.
Evan, “it’s almost like a badge of honor with these people that they have a trans or non-binary kid.”
This statement reminds me of high school and the cool crowd cliques.
Adolescence to adulthood can be a messy transition time requiring adults in the room to treat the mental stress before implementing irreversible changes.
This article is the wake up call to make informed decisions not fear driven decisions.
"The 'Gender-Affirming Care' medical professionals are cultists."
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They are also capitalists. This is a money making enterprise being exploited for the gain of the medical community. The children are the market. Changing them is the product. Follow the money.
I’m not so sure about your claim that most are White. From what I’ve seen, it’s pretty well spread out across races. UCLA alleges “ We find that adults who are African-American or black (0.8%), Latino or Hispanic (0.8%) and of another race or ethnicity (0.6%), are more likely than White adults (0.5%) to identify as transgender.”
"Gender dysphoria" is only one of the immediately recognizable MSM/surveillance state cover up's in the manipulated and schizoid American national dialogue. We all know that human trauma, harm and consequence has never been a consideration for criminal finance. Its' target of opportunity avarice and commodification of all things human will readily devour the old as quickly as the young. As in all cash dollar enterprises, to quote Bobby D.: "money doesn't talk it screams". This article is the exact reason we're gathered around and stoking this fire called subscription journalism. Truth/fact vs.the psyop. The literal translation: A cabal of corrupt politicians and slavers are talking over the top of human moral reason. Uncomfortable with the word slaver? The boys at BlackRock, Bezos, Gates and the rest of the DNC/CCP fascist crowd are literally buying up block upon block of American residential housing, shutting young and first time buyers out and raising rental prices to ensure that every hard earned dollar in America is transferred upward. Did criminal finance not loot and destroy the America housing market in 2008? The perps looted pension funds and life savings, destroyed lives, drove people from their homes and got paid, with your money, to do it. They're back. In the slave quarters only food and clothing. All other resources go to the master.
What does this have to do with "gender dysphoria" and the butchery of youth? 4% of deaths (and growing) in Canada now happen in euthanasia centers. Not for the terminally ill and suffering but for those depressed, anxious, addicted or broke. China cloaks and maintains a vast network of prison/re-education centers. The WEF/EU/Davos crowd is well on the way to destroying Europe and their DNC affiliate in America is clearly on board. The treasured child is literally the only human future. For them, the child means nothing. As do you.
No one here is shocked by the authors lament and clear voicing of the well financed attacks on human moral reason and legitimate scientific concern by the D.E.I. mind butchers and the psychotics they manipulate. Shock at the machinations of these monsters and the people who fund them (DNC/CCP/WEF/EU/Davos) no longer serves "we the people". We need to somehow acquire the same clarity and objectivity Ms. Kaltiala demonstrated as she witnessed the escalating sterility and madness. surrounding her. Moral lepers are stealing the American future. They deserve no sympathy.
Thank you Dr. Kaltiala for speaking out. My family and many others have been touched by this and so much harm has been done and continues to be done here in the US. Gender Clinics and providers saw an opportunity for profit and they took the “gold standard” Dutch Protocol and adapted it to this cohort of teenagers with mental health conditions unrelated to gender. I once had a beautiful, healthy, strong, athletic daughter. Puberty and isolation due to covid caused her to come across the idea that she was a boy. While I questioned this she demeaned me and accused me of “transphobia” and of rejecting her “true self”. As I stood firmly on the side of reality, teachers, friends, dentists, and doctors have played along with her and asked “what are your pronouns?” She is 15 and crushes her breasts daily with 3 or 4 tightly fitting sports bras. She longs for a double mastectomy. She aspires to take testosterone and believes that a phalloplasty will result in a working penis. The for profit medical system here in the US seeks to push her down the medical pathway. As a parent, I continue to encourage her to think critically but she has been indoctrinated into this harmful belief system which has taken over her life to the exclusion of everything else. It’s heartbreaking. Your article and the documentary along with the recent lawsuit naming the American Academy of Pediatrics give me hope. I hope that the gender house of cards is falling- and it cannot happen soon enough.
Keep at it. My daughter was your daughter. Now 18, will not even mention the 2 years she claimed being a boy. I can feel the humiliation and embarrassment from her soul. She is a she again, beautiful and embracing her feminine essence. It was the 2 hardest years of my life. Along with this crazy idea she was trans, she also would self harm daily, restrict eating, have crippling panic attacks, rip her hair out, attempted suicide and went through 7 therapists/psychiatrists. I replaced her smart phone with a flip phone, forced her to get her drivers license and a job, found a therapist on GETA who does DBT weekly with her. I didnt care how much she hated me, I wasnt giving in to this cruel lie.
Today she likes boys, and girls. Who cares. She thinks critically, weighing in both sides. She's preparing for college, hoping to pursue psychology to help save lives like hers. She is my girl, the one I knew and loved before she was captured. She is joyful and kind. Free from this lie finally. Hang in there to all the parents. I pray this for you too♡
This^. I realize that I can't call Jenny and Coco gold star parents -- but they deserve gold stars. If the police are a thin blue line, strong parents are a thin gold one.
The thing that jumps out to me as likely one of the most effective ways you arrested her spiral was taking away the smart phone. The constant access to the internet can be devastating for kids' mental health. Good for you for diagnosing it and taking action.
I doubt any combination of words can sooth your angst, I will only say God bless you and your daughter and don’t give up. Keep speaking the truth to her and be strong .
I know. I understand. I feel a guilt to have come through this nightmare because I know so many parents are still in it. Sending my love and care to you.
Any suggestions for what someone observing this from the outside should do? One of my 12-year-old daughter’s soccer teammates is “transitioning.” New name, he/him, “identifies as male” per the parents’ email to the rest of us. Everyone is supportive on the surface, using the new name. If they pursue hormonal treatment in addition to the social transitioning, I’ll feel bad never to have spoken up. But it’s so delicate and I don’t know them well, although we are friendly at the games and practices. I have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes or how they feel about the whole thing, other than their asking for our support for their child’s social transition. I’ve thought about sending a link to Genspect, just saying that it’s a resource I heard about that they might find helpful. But even that feels intrusive, and also “unsupportive” if they are resentful of skepticism. Anyway, even though my 2 cents will probably make no difference one way or the other in this situation, I do struggle with what to do.
If / when approached I would say “I am sorry, I am too old for that sh$t.”
My daughter came to me with pronouns in 2021 at a tender age of 11.. We went through cycles of suicidal ideation hospitalizations for her and I held back on several therapy programs because they featured gender affirming agenda.
That made me and my husband go through several episodes of her severe depression, suicidal attempts and panic attacks completely on our own, without any help. We were the psychiatric ward for her.
We managed. I share this to let you know I am very familiar with the problem.
And I stood firm.
I told her I am too old for this pronouns gender thing and it doesn’t fit my cultural profile;
If I had to do it for someone outside my family then I would also say, “ I am sorry, it is too difficult for me; let’s just not communicate at all.”
As my daughter got better, we were in a group parent + child therapy at Stanford university when the therapist, a PhD asked everyone in the group to say their name and their pronoun. Everyone obediently said their pronounces. I just said my name. I knew that had they forced me to say a pronoun I would have said “good bye” to Stanford, the only therapy we could find for my daughters suicidal ideation. But they didn’t. I said no pronouns and the therapist didn’t make medo it. I think they all are on a fence about it.
This summer we left US for one year to help her rid of all this.
Good job Natalia!! I deal w/ this a lot at work. A number of us (older folk!) just refuse to go there. The younger crowd are very happy to announce pronouns in order to virtue signal and be "supportive." It's a contagion and mass hysteria.
You’re a gold star mom Jenny. Sorry you and your daughter had to go through that period. So happy to hear your story at least had a happy ending. What of the people that created this mess? A combination of cowardice, grossly irresponsible behavior, economic opportunism, inability to think as individuals, and worst of all I think are the politicians (all democrats) and journalists who argue for it and criticize and attack those who question it - the harm they have caused, and continue to cause will be felt and analyzed for decades.
This is it . There is no instant fix , life takes time to work things out , good thing you hung in there for this , you did not take the easy road . Your daughter is lucky , one day she will look back and see all the broken 'friends she had that took the easy road and appreciate the time and effort you put in
I pray your daughter finds the help she needs. In the mean time, as happened to my family, time has its own healing properties. Please have patience and hope that her issues resolve with time, as did my granddaughter's.
In your case and in the responses any insight into whether social media caused or contributed to the behavior? One thing Jenny, another reply here, did was replace her daughter's smart phone with a flip phone. I'm inclined to believe that must've helped tremendously!
Taking the phone away is not nearly as easy as it may seem. Schools actually require check ins and code verification only through the phone, forcing her to use mine for those type of things. Phones are how this generation communicates with each other and us. The smart phone came about right as many of these kids were becoming adolescents. As a parent, I had no idea the dangers. I limited. I was strict. I had the passwords. I warned about the obvious stranger danger types. I didn't understand the capacity of social media and the dangers. When I took her off it all, I stood in solidarity with her and also took myself off all social media. We, together, began digging into the way the world was changing with the information we received. Starting with climate, covid, vaccines, abortion and now Israel. We could find any and every angle on opposing sides and many many lies. Critical thinking at its best. We dove into intuition, gut feelings and forming our own opinions first and foremost. She has a smart phone now. She is 18. She's on social media again. Even has a Twitter x account. But now she sees it for what it is. Entertainment at best. A brief convo with a friend. The days of hours on her phone are long gone. It almost repulses her now and I hear her say often, I hate when so and so is always on their phone. Her nose in the books is all I see now.
And I, personally, never went back to social media. I dont think I could stomach it. Always hope my journey is helpful. ♡xo
Your story gives me hope. It’s so difficult for parents like me who feel like we are fighting against the tide. We love our kids too much to surrender them to this madness. Hopefully in time she will learn to think critically and see this movement for what it really is- misogynistic, dangerous, and all about the drs and big pharmaceutical companies lining their pockets with no regard for the long term health consequences to these vulnerable children and young adults...
Congratulations on surviving the cancer called social media. There is a lot of good it can be used for but it's downsides have far outweighed the positives.
Yes definitely! Social media is huge in the spreading of this as a social contagion. I’ve tried to limit as much as possible. It’s how it started in my opinion but it’s so much more than that now. It’s a societal problem- kids today are taught to “be kind” above all else. This includes lying to people just to affirm their delusional beliefs about themselves... teachers and drs are in on it too. That along with the social status gained if you are considered “oppressed”. It is so frustrating. If schools didn’t participate in encouraging this it would not be happening!
The one thing that helped me build a strong relationship with my kid is empathy. Even though sometimes the only way I could relate was to imagine my own childhood when I felt my problem was the most important thing in the world and no one understood how it felt. I used to get into advice mode and sometimes all she wanted was to be heard and understood. At best this helps open a communication channel which can be explored to having honest conversations.
Thank you for sharing your journey. Stay strong and I wish you and your daughter my very best!
You have my prayers for you and your daughter that she comes to understand and accept that she is a female human being and that there is no mistake about that.
Retired now, as a teacher for 40 years saw a lot of "social contagion" that ended up in bathrooms: One girl would run out of the classroom crying "My teacher hates me!," and ten others would follow her into the bathroom, and they'd all be crying.
(Thankfully, I was usually not the teacher they were complaining about.)
But it's a real thing. In the 1980s, it was anorexia: One girl stopped eating, then another, then it was the only thing anyone could talk about, and a good number would fast to keep them company.
It might even be that the first case or two were real: After that, it was fashion.
A function of, If I feel it, it must be true. A philosophy that has wreaked havoc in America.
I am in the thick of it right now. Had CPS visit because my daughter-who-wants-to-be-a-boy complained to the school counselor about me being "unsupportive" and also claimed I had said some pretty awful things to her (which was not true and she is now recanting). But damage done - now her dad (my ex) is looking to get more custody for her and I am looking for an excellent family attorney to help me fight this madness 🤞🏼
I’m so sorry you are going through that. It’s just crazy to me that because we love our kids we have questions about these serious interventions and counselors have the nerve to intervene in that way. Definitely find a good family attorney and stand your ground. I am hopeful that the tide is turning and truth is on our side!
Dr. Kalitiala is obviously caring and intelligent, and kudos to her for doggedly pursuing the truth instead of going along with the medical groupthink. But how on earth everything she says here isn't blatantly obvious to everyone will forever be byond me. Who knew you needed so many intensive medical studies to discover that gender isn't a social construct, no matter how many times Leftists chant that it is!
"The young people we were treating were not thriving. Instead, their lives were deteriorating. We thought, what is this? Because there wasn’t a hint in studies that this could happen."
You mean the study on youth gender transitions - something that has literally never existed before this recent insanity - didn't reveal that mutilating children was a bad idea?! I'm sure whoever did that study has faced severe professional reprucussions for this oversight.
"Sometimes the young people insisted their lives had improved and they were happier. But as a medical doctor, I could see that they were doing worse. They were withdrawing from all social activities. They were not making friends. They were not going to school."
Yeah, because the people in your field turned them into freaks, and called themselves compassionate for doing so. Congratulations!
"But how on earth everything she says here isn't blatantly obvious to everyone will forever be byond me."
I feel the same way. But literally right now we have almost all the sports authorities not seeing any problem with men and teenage boys competing and winning female sports. And major newspapers are saying people who object are trying to "ban" these men and boys from playing, when they are free to play in they male categories where they belong.
Yup. Woman have fought and still are fighting to be taken seriously and treated equally with medical research/problems, in sports, so many areas in life. But as soon as a boy or man wants something (a uterus, to win a title when he's a mediocre athlete) for some reason it becomes the Most Urgent Problem and "she" must get what "she" wants immediately. It's baffling.
Just another example of the business side of medicine taking priority over risky treatment and interventions that can permanently scar someone both mentally and physically. COVID and vaccines are a perfect example of following this model.
The doctors own follow up studies shows the happiness parents and patients were promised was elusive and not backed up by any studies.
An important bit of information was her mentioning that in 80% of cases the gender “distress” was resolved after the individual went naturally through puberty, thus avoiding any risky intervention.
This “get them while they’re young” approach is mirrored in our public educational systems that confront children with information they aren’t at a level of maturity to understand or process.
With most doctors in gender care the motive is obviously financial. With school teachers and administrators pushing gender agendas to elementary students the motive seems perversely sinister in a different way.
A huge problem with medicine today is that the light reflecting off a huge pile of money blinds and clouds judgment. But this is nothing new to the human condition. It explains all the gold rushes seen since time began and other “get rich quick” schemes.
This is something I had pointed out recently. Apparently Thomas Sowell said it. Basically people are in 2 groups. Those that think that humans are, well, humans. All the good and bad that we have done is part of who we are as a species. The other group thinks of humans more like robots that can be fixed and reprogrammed to behave however we want and we just need to figure out how to 'fix' them.
The Firefly movie Serenity has this as well...that some people will come back around to the idea that they can make us 'better'.
Half the equation is the parents - many parents who brought their underage children to these clinics were ready and willing to be “supportive allies”. Even in the face of evidence that totally refuted the premise that their children would be happier after transitioning (aka watching their own children continue to self harm and not make friends and avoid school), they STILL insist it’s the trans thing. Such is the power of our will to be part of a tribe - Bari had an article about deaf community parents to purposely TRY to make a deaf child. All to be part of a tribe.
How can the US be so adamantly wrong on gender care? Because a majority of the “elites” are of a single ideology. The group think and partisan feedback loop makes them more and more extreme. Also, we are a society that judges our correctness, not by fact and analysis, but by who disagrees with us. If Donald Trump were to announce he’s a dog person, I think millions of liberals would instantly become cat owners.
Thank you for this wonderful article. This is a sad chapter in medicine. Unfortunately, the tragedy is based on a fundamental misconception about biology, i.e., that it is ultimately malleable. As a biological psychologist, I can assure you that it is not. No intervention is without its risks and unintended consequences, some of which can be profoundly detrimental. Thank you again for your very thoughtful and thought-provoking article. Sincerely, Frederick
Totally agree with you Frederick. This one was of the most well thought out and masterfully constructed articles I have read in a long time and that includes many, many incredible articles here on the Free Press. I applaud Dr. Kaltiala for her courage.
All of this makes more sense when you realize that the ideology that supports "gender-affirming care" is the same one that wants to destroy Western civilization (and build their Marxist "utopia" on its ashes). It's also the same ideology that supports depopulation. And what better way to depopulate than to convince kids to beg to be sterilized.
Lack of reproductive ability and encouraging suicide will help trim the population. Add to that the lack of sex and decreasing sperm counts in the younger generation and it seems the plan is going in the right direction for them.
It is indeed. My experiences with the Far-Left people who dominated my department when I was in grad school were eerily similar to my experiences with my Evangelical Fundamentalist birthmother and her friends. The tactics and rhetoric were the same--the only difference was the details of WHAT I "had" to believe in order to be "saved" (or even, in my department, considered a decent human being).
So I called their ideology "Liberal Fundamentalism," although I later came to realize that there is actually nothing "liberal" about the Left.
What took her so long? Another adolescent psychiatrist, Dr Miriam Grossman, called BS on transitioning kids a long time ago. She called it what it so obviously is--psychopathology in need of serious psychotherapy. Not hormones and surgery.
Sorry, anyone who could have gone down this path, ignoring all common sense, genuflecting to social pressures, needs to do a lot more than write a confession. She need to become a full time zealot fighting the trans ideology.
I am a pediatrician and I find the whole gender ideology thing a huge embarrassment and infuriating. I got to hear the phrase ‘people with a uterus’ spoken by a seemingly intelligent person. I’m so sick of virtue signaling pronoun colleagues. And none of this as bad as mutilating confused and disturbed children. It’s nauseating
Well thank God for you! I have been a pediatric nurse in a large pediatric hospital in the Midwest for years. It’s absolutely shocking to me how DEI and gender issues have taken over.
I've relayed this story elsewhere on The Free Press, but I had the most surreal experience last June when I brought my 12 month old son for a blood draw at the Boston Children's Hospital's ("BCH") Weymouth location.
When I entered the waiting room of this preeminent CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, it was quite literally bedecked with LGBTQ+ flags in celebration of Pride month. I counted at least nine, including one that likely exceeded 3 x 5 feet in dimension.
Notably, BCH Weymouth is co-located with a Brigham & Women's Hospital (BWH) satellite, and the decoration of the Boston Children's waiting room contrasted sharply with other areas of the medical building, including the BWH phlebotomy lab, where I initially went as a mistake. In short, no other area that I entered/traversed in the satellite location of these two premiere hospitals displayed even a tiny fraction of the LGBTQ+ signage of the Boston Children's waiting room.
Because it appears that most people don't understand that this "gender dysphoria" is not gender dysphoria at all, but a bona fide social contagion, I started posting about it on Facebook. I follow the PITT substack, Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans, which just put out an anthology of anguished parents' essays. I've posted primary source accounts of detransitioning. And the reaction, from a few frothing "left-wing" "friends" is that "the right wing has lost its mind" -- in response to an anthology of firsthand accounts that their kids got eaten by a hysteria.
The gas lighting is beyond the pale. "This isn't happening." "This isn't real."
It IS real. And it should be obvious to anyone that messing with a child's development is just plain wrong, whether they are truly dysphoric or not.
Frankly, I'm not for adults transitioning either. They never truly pass. The condition appears to be a mad hybrid of extreme narcissism and schizophrenia. The 'transgender' people I knew in the 80s and 90s were certifiably insane death cultists. Why anyone would encourage their kid to do this is proof that the most "educated" among us are merely cogs in an ideological wheel, incapable of critical thinking and much more concerned with how they appear to others -- another aspect of narcissism. Note in this article that it's mostly mothers who truck their kids into the "gender clinic." (Gee, if my kid is showing too much interest in heroin, how about taking him to the methadone truck?)
To put it country simple, this gender craze is so blatantly misguided, I've utterly lost respect for most of the useful idiots who believe in it. An old friend transed his son. HIs wife's profile picture is the transgender flag with a candle in the middle. This is her RELIGION. The kid is baby Jesus. They puberty blocked him, which means that his penis hasn't grown. My friend told me that he's going to get bottom surgery soon. That comes with a nearly 100% complication rate. How cool he'll look with a colostomy bag.
"Now they were coming to us because their parents, usually just mothers, had been told by someone in an LGBT organization that gender identity was their child’s real problem, or the child had seen something online about the benefits of transition." - What is really amazing to me is the defensive position when someone declares that you should not have an opinion about the efficacy of this because you are not a physician - and then we discover that single mothers and LGBT groupies are the key stakeholders here. You can't make this stuff up.
This seems to be driven mostly by white liberal middle/upper class moms and progressive couples. This is not something that is seen widely in black and hispanic communities. They seem to be outwardly and loudly opposed to this craziness. Try to figure that one out.
There's the one lunatic "Real Housewife Of Who Gives A Shit" woman that has like 4 of her 4 kids either trans, non-binary, or fluid (whatever that is). I mean.....what's the odds? The other interesting thing is that this phenomenon is also regional. Guess which regions see the highest numbers?
"Blue America dominates supply. Blue America dominates demand. But it’s not 100%." It is everywhere now.
My concern, Evan, is that if you dismiss the entire problem as one that only happens to nutto families in deep blue places - then people & organizations like Newsom & Bonta, the AAP, and the teachers unions will get away with reshaping society. It has gone very far already
Evan, liberal upper/upper middle class women are the troops and police of this mass hysteria. But the masterminds are billionaires like Pritzkers, Stryker, et al dumping tons of $$$$$$$ into universities and hospitals, liberal nonprofits like ACLU and all "feminist" organizations, and giving political donations. Megyn Kelly did a deep report on this. Here's the segment but she delve into it much more in episode 647.
Although there is some truth to that - it is not quite as simple. The Williams Institute reports that “The racial/ethnic distribution of youth and adults who identify as transgender appears generally similar to the U.S. population, though our estimates mirror prior research that found transgender youth and adults are more likely to report being Latinx and less likely to report being White compared to the U.S. population.”
They report that 0.5% of White adults, 0.6% of Black adults, and 0.7% of Latino adults are trans-identified. Among youth it’s 1.3% White, 1.4% Black, and 1.8% Latino. So that is a significant differential, 40 percent.
Source: How Many Adults and Youth Identify As Transgender in the United States? UCLA School of Law Williams Institute (June 2022)
And, today it is enforced by politicians, for instance in CA: With laws like AB665 (lowering the age of consent to 12 for gender counseling and residential shelter, without parental consent or even notification) California's leaders (Newsom, Bonta, Wiener, Thurmond) have allied with the real-life Child Catchers and Comprachicos. [4][5] (Erin Friday is on the case: “The parents will have no idea what happened to their child. Imagine their fear and anxiety. These parents are criminalized without an accusation, evidence or trial.”) With SB107 (giving CA custody of out-of-state children who come to CA for gender-affirming care, with or without a parent) California's leaders are becoming Child Catchers and Comprachicos. The stuff of nightmares."
I have written my story on these pages and others, describing my family's experience with this "gender dysphoria". We were so lucky as to have also been part of the "double whammy" of "recovered memory".... My family has been shredded. These charlatan psychologists and psychiatrists must be exposed. In my story, neither I nor my son-in-law bought into the hype and was able to prevent transitioning, and can report that my granddaughter is only gay..... not the wrong gender.
People need to wake up and STOP this damage to our children!
JBell. My family was horribly impacted as well with the "recovered memory" mythology. It was the beginning of my eyes opening to the fake mantle of "science" that supposedly supports all psychology practice. The harm done to my once intact family, has been irrevocable, all at the hands of purportedly compassionate and trained "professionals"
"Medicine, unfortunately, is not immune to dangerous groupthink that results in patient harm."
So I guess we can put medicine in the same category as generally agreeing to be against terrorist attacks and calling for the genocide of the Jews. Leftist groupthink always results in innocents being harmed. They're just always too busy congratulating themselves for "bending the arch of history" to notice.
Groupthink seems to be an interesting form of ‘mass hysteria’ in slow motion. Mass hysteria is a well-recognized phenomenon that has occurred throughout history (an interesting Google exercise). Trained professionals should have been able to do better than to fall for a form of mass hysteria - it is too bad it has come to the point where only the legal system is available to hold them accountable.
The legal system is slow, cumbersome, corrupt, and extremely expensive to access unless a law firm takes a case on contingency. This field NEEDS a dramatic course correction based on the facts stated in this article that many already know to be the truth.
I'm not always a fan of the legal profession, but "gender affirming care" seems to be an issue custom made for litigation. I hope that the dam breaks and the courts are flooded with Detransitioners suing these "medical professionals" and their controlling organizations for every penny they have. Only then, will our cowardly politicians finally pass legislation to outright ban these vile medical procedures.
I think we need to remove the term "transition" from the discussion. There is no transition. There is cosmetic surgery followed by likely very damaging hormonal therapy that is necessary for that person as long as they want to maintain the pretense; and which can be assumed to be a profitable long term revenue stream for the Big Pharma companies who have presumably played a large role in this whole fiasco, which consists mainly in manipulating vulnerable children into a lifelong dependence on something they sell.
It is worth noting, too, that nothing is EVER gained in these cosmetic surgeries--which to state the obvious carry all the inherent risks of any other surgery.
If you are a man, you get your penis and testicles cut off. They won't grow back. They cannot easily be reattached. All the pleasure and fun that so many men experience below the belt is gone for you, permanently. You still have your anus, but you had that before. Nothing has been gain and something important has been lost.
You may get breast surgery, such that you sport, say, a pair of D cup breasts. But loss of sensitivity in the nipples--which sensually is the most important part--is a common feature for women, and there is every reason to assume it is an equal or greater risk for men. You may have larger breasts, but you can't feel them is a very possible outcome.
And if you were just gay, half of gay sex just disappeared for you, didn't it? You can be a catcher but never a pitcher. And to the extent gay men seem to be turned on by male phalluses, you have nothing to offer. You are neither man nor woman. The benefits of both have been denied you BY YOU, by your own decision, made in a hormonal moment (adolescence) and abetted by idiots and sociopaths.
And you speak out, but everyone tells you you are a hater and a loser and to just shut up. THAT THERE is the real suicide risk.
And women lose their breasts entirely, and whatever weird magic some plastic surgeon may be able to work "down there" will never be the equal of what you had. Women are naturally very orgasmic, so they likely retain much more than men do, but it's still never again what it should have been, even ignoring the lost chance of having children.
This whole thing is a mass distraction, a hallucination, an induced psychosis. Nobody is winning but those making bank lying to naive youth on the front end, and suppressing their later righteous indignation on the back end, with the help of medical "professionals" who amount to well trained and well paid whores.
Excess testosterone sends these girls and women into premature menopause, resulting in more severe vaginal atrophy than anything I've heard of from menopausal women. They also can experience abdominal pain during orgasm, which might result from what the hormone is doing to their internal organs. (Most are advised to have complete hysterectomies down the road). If that's not bad enough, premature menopause is linked to dementia.
I really think these hormonal treatments are going to cut DECADES off the lives of these kids. It's like being a 3 pack a day smoker combined with a couple quarts of booze.
Most of these kids are just trying to avoid pain--the pain of adulthood, of adult sexuality, of the anxieties of that moment. But the horrible truth is that these decisions made in moments of stress under the advisement of what can only be called ghouls makes their lives in total much worse.
The data was clear ten years ago that suicidality goes UP following cosmetic surgery. And the reasoning that seemed to apply then applies now: they take this thing as far as it can go, and it isn't enough. And it isn't what they wanted. And they can't go back. There is no forward or back, so the next direction is out.
Decent human beings take responsibility for their actions. They look, as the author of this article did, at what is happening downstream from interventions they allowed and facilitated, and if those results are on balance bad, they feel guilt, and stop doing those things.
Most of these men who "transition" now are not gay. They have autogynephilia. Also they don't do medical transition anymore. They just "identify as women" with the genitals intact.
This started out as a tiny minority group of gay men or men with serious mental issues of gender dysphoria. Since the political normalization of it by the Woke Left into LGBTQXYZalphabetsoup+++, all sorts of people with kinks are now "part of the community" including a much larger segment of men with autogynephilia but are still heterosexuals (they now are "lesbians") and pedophiles (sorry was I supposed to say the politically correct term, "Minor Attracted People" or "MAP"?)
The big issue is that a young person does not yet have the experience or wisdom to fully understand the choice that they are making. Telling a 14 year old boy that he may never have kids does hit that hard to many of them. They don't have the frame of reference to even start to understand how much more of their lives are ahead of them, let alone understand that they may regret not being able to have children.
But as OX said below, many of the men these days are not the ones getting the actual medical stuff done. They just get the label and wear a wig and/or women's clothing. The transitioning issues are more for women. These girls are the ones taking hormones and getting their breasts cut off and then finding out how much those things forever impact their lives. To never be able to create life inside of themselves.
“Transitioning” is marketing language. My prescription glasses have transition lenses. They are the same lens, only darker in sunlight. If I were required to have my lower leg amputated I would hope the surgeon would tell me exactly that rather than saying my leg would be transitioning to a shorter version.
It is NOT "Big Pharma" that is doing the manipulation! Look to the ones PRESCRIBING these drugs and PUSHING these butcheries! THESE are the actual enablers, the practitioners of the false "science" of psychiatry and sociology. And when you add into the mix the leftist groups that thrive on the atomization of the population you will find that the issue is MUCH deeper than a pharmaceutical industry that is responding to a perceived "need".
I won't disagree, but by and large Big Pharma buys the doctors it needs. Were you aware that medical doctors get almost no training in medicines? An average pharmacist knows vastly more about pharmaceuticals than an average doctor. If they are GP's there is a good chance much of their "training" is done by some combination of blondes with big boobs and paid technicians for the deeper sales.
And to my mind the main motivating factor of the Left is nihilistic destructiveness. If they make a fetish of power it is solely to prevent anything growing back. Look at Cuba. Castro went scorched Earth, and nothing has grown back, and nothing will grow back as long as psychotic sadists are in charge.
And obviously disrupting such a BASIC, foundational element of human culture as gender has to be a huge source of pleasure for them.
But in our society nearly everyone is for sale, and the main culprits in most social maladies are those who have monetized one mental illness or another.
But I can't really feel confident diagnosing the cause at its root. I speak what is on my mind that day--as I did this morning--but it's always possible I will see things differently tomorrow. My views evolve, as I think all views should.
The obsession with gender has been a bizarre phenomenon from the beginning. It has been no different than other fads such as hula hoops or nose rings, but with far more devastating consequences. Unless the charlatans in the medical community who pushed this stuff are ruined financially and professionally there will never be a return to sanity. How could so many of us non-medical professionals have known this was a sick, twisted fraud from the beginning, while the media, government and medical community declared it to be “life saving”? Yet another form of mass hysteria which has historically led to atrocities beyond human imagining.
Mass hysteria sounds apt. A monstrous red flag should have been the hundred fold increase in gender dysphoria cases in the last ten/fifteen years. So what happened all of a sudden? Why wasn’t the medical community suspicious? A likely correlation would be the explosion in social media, but to my knowledge this avenue of enquiry was never explored, at least not publicly. All they did, at least in this country, was double down on an ideology to correct a problem that thirty years ago did not exist.
I have been thinking the same thing. It is like a psychological breakout of a disease. The normal response would be to say "hey, something is going on here" and to stop and study it. Instead they enable it to spread.
What the medical community and activists will tell you is that children now feel freer to acknowledge their inner gender. Of course, that tells me that neither of these groups really knows kids.
The 'Gender-Affirming Care' medical professionals are cultists. A result of radical progressive ideologies & DEI indoctrination in our universities and now in full bloom in the medical field with many doctors, nurses, administrators and oversight boards completely bought in. Some of the most indoctrinated by this insanity IMO are the psychologists and psychiatrists. Not only do they co-sign this craziness, they dole out loads of very powerful psychotropic drugs to their patients. We can now see how the big pharma companies are jumping on the bandwagon with this movement as it provides them a customer for life.
In the medical profession, this seemed to happen slowly at first and then all at once with the COVID hysteria and the politicization of vaccines. Of course there are plenty physicians and medical professionals that oppose, or are concerned, about the gender affirming care movement but can't speak out as they'll be called bigots or nazis by their progressive piers and run the chance of having their careers ruined.
The same thing is happening in our pre-schools, middle schools and high schools. There are many parents that are calling bullshit on this and recognize the social contagion of ROGD (rapid-onset gender dysphoria), but progressive teachers, teachers unions and school boards seem to have totally adopted this craziness. The captured parents of this ideology will continue to feed their children into this medical meat grinder and wreck their lives forever. This is probably going to be pretty ugly once this thing plays out over the next decade or so.......God help them.
PS - This looks to be driven primarily by white liberal middle/upper class women and progressive couples. It's almost like a badge of honor with these people that they have a trans or non-binary kid. This is not something that is seen widely in black and hispanic communities at all. They seem to be outwardly and loudly opposed to this movement. Try to figure that one out......
To put it bluntly: “follow the money”. The business of medicine took over this area.
I hope I live long enough to see the movie representing the story of the pharmaceutical industry that pushed the “gender affirming “ scam and how they were prosecuted for their crimes.
With any luck, they'll televise the executions.
With better luck, they won't be executions; the perpetrators will all undergo involuntary gender transitions.
I often think of this. A gender version of "Dope sick"
"Dick Sick"?
The story of how Opiods were marketing and pushed on doctors and the consequence that we are now dealing with.
This is exactly the same type of situation. We'll be dealing with this for years.
Also the book Dreamland by Sam Quinones and the supposed "science" behind much of the gender issue is on the same level of the teeny tiny medical journal "note" that was manipulated to propel the opioid devastation.
I specifically think of that note (I think it was even a letter to the editor?) as similar to what is going on in gender medicine
Don't exclusively bang on "Big Pharma" (a leftist trope, by the way). The Pharmaceutical industry reacts to the medical field that is looking for an easy solution to a complex problem. They are just responding to a perceived need and are more than willing to sink millions into drug development in order to turn a profit. But they are not blameless, to be sure. The pursuit of profit is a powerful goad.
I disagree with you here, Robert. Look for essays and videos by Jennifer Bilek, who has researched this money trail extensively. Doctors are very vulnerable to pressure from pharma companies. And the majority of hormone treatments are pushed by two companies headed by trans-identifying men.
Here are some links directly to Bilek's work—she's fantastic!
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-lgbt-nonprofits-and-their-billionaire-patrons-are-reshaping-the-world/
holy Mother!!! This world is going nuts. Thanks for these links.
Also medical schools are heavily funded by the pharmaceutical industry. Clearly they favor being sure medical students are brain washed to see the practice of medicine through that lens.
Also most medical schools are funded by the pharmaceutical industry. You can bet that’s to drive home the idea of better living through chemistry and not so much about what’s really good for ppl.
Industry always seeks to increase profits. I am a big believer in capitalism yet not with out checks and balances. Greed is as old as humanity. It’s one of our flaws so I doubt that can be regulated but undue and underhanded tactics to manipulate the public can be. The big problem there is lobbyists.
They undermine the oversight by paying (read bribing) regulators and politicians to act in their favor.
Nothing new under the sun...
Doctors are very vulnerable to the pressure from their professional associations on which are vested the ability to "certify" a doctor in the practice area.
Drug companies have to play follow-the-leader until they have developed the little blue (green, purple, white, tan, etc.) pill, or capsule that delivers the magic bullet.
It's a billion dollar market:
"U.S. Sex Reassignment Surgery Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Gender Transition (Male To Female, Female To Male), And Segment Forecasts, 2022 - 2030"
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-sex-reassignment-surgery-market
Great lawsuit listed in this FP: https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/10/Ayala-v-AAP-Complaint_stamped.pdf
Let's hope the monsters setting policy at places like the AAP become financially vulnerable along with their associations.
The Left abandoned its hate of Big Pharma during COVID. They never act based on love of principle, but in shared hate of a declared enemy, which transitioned from large corporations to anything and anyone affiliated with Donald Trump.
They simply Memory Holed the fact that it was his policies that enabled the rapid development of these injections. For my part, I am very content with this particular decision.
Trump is neither saint not genius, and he got bamboozled, but in his defense its hard to formulate good policy when surrounded by back stabbing liars, and I honestly believe that he consistently tries both to tell the truth and to do the right thing.
Pharma is looking pretty guilty. I am all for capitalism, but there is also a such thing as ethics.
Please take a look at this one:
"U.S. Sex Reassignment Surgery Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Gender Transition (Male To Female, Female To Male), And Segment Forecasts, 2022 - 2030"
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-sex-reassignment-surgery-market
Great article. No one can deny that transition is already a multi-billion dollar business and projected to get a lot bigger in coming years. It's outrageous that American physicians and their professional organizations fail to recognize that gender transition strategies that may have been beneficial for males with early onset sustained gender dysphoria as reported by the Dutch aren't necessarily appropriate for the multitude of teen girls with rapid onset gender dysphoria. There is a strong social contagion element here and I hope more patients unhappy with their transition will come forward publically and will also sue those who prescribed and administered irreversible changes on minors.
Do check out this one:
https://pitt.substack.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
"Another way to estimate the number of patients is to look at clinics. America has 400 pediatric gender clinics. (Activists tried to erase that fact. Again, funny if they’re doing such good and important work...) You can't support hundreds of medical practices and thousands of highly skilled workers without a lot of patients – the economics alone dictate that currently active child gender patients must number ten thousand or more nationwide."
And, politicians also drive this:
"Today, fueled by exciting and idealistic new fake-Science (gender theory), California progressives like Attorney General Rob Bonta are aggressively using the power of the state to circumvent informed consent. That has already led, and will continue to lead, directly to the sterilization of thousands of Californians – including children. [2] Minors by definition cannot give informed consent, just ask the Nuremberg lawyers. Bonta doesn't mention eugenics (he'd never come within a million miles of that word) but the result is the same as before: state-approved non-consensual sterilizations. Californians today are so enlightened we are letting it happen again. We’re cheering. And we’re electing leaders like Bonta."
Amen to that. I do not think these girls who self diagnose "have gender dysphoria" per se.
Amen. Money is the root of all evil
Yet it can be a two way street as long as the government elements involved don’t just roll over for and in favor of corporate interests.
I read about the Dutch Study by the woman assigned to develop the task force surrounding the trans community. I think it was here on Substack. It was very illuminating.
Sometimes a trope is a truth, sir.
One needs also to look that the many thousands, millions of people for whom opioid medications make normal like possible.
I personally have been one of those who have found relief from one of those little white pills four times a day.
Chronic back pain/sciatica is one of those conditions that cannot be ignored. The pain is real whether one is sitting or standing, and lying flat is an exercise in seeing how little you can move. Rolling on one's side is not an answer.
As the author suggests, the gender dysphoria industry has been created as a result of misguided, erroneous, and downright disingenuous "clinical" studies that underpin the hysteria-based treatment on which the trans movement has thrived. If you are going to hang someone for the error, it is the reputation of the clinicians and doctors who worked around their oaths to do no harm to assure that flow of research dollars continued unabated.
I suspect if one were allowed to delve deeply into this issue that there stands, in current parlance, at the intersection of power, governance, and oversight, a set of gnomes much like Dr. Anthony Fauci pulling the strings and overbalancing the scales in the name of "sound practice" and "greater good".
The author alludes to some of them...Without more sunshine, I doubt we will see the others. They are a slippery, pettifogging bunch.
yes for some opioids are essential but hopefully your Dr took and still takes great care to help you manage the pain. That is far different than the way one very short anecdotal "note" in a journal was misused to promiscously promote handing out those white pills by the millions willy nilly as was done.
Follow the money and the POWER. Please see today's PITT: "Eugenics in California: Never Again (just kidding lol)
THEN: Nonconsensual sterilizations in the 20th century"
https://pitt.substack.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
The politicians pushing GI have much to answer for.
WPATH is funded in large part by the Pritzker family...as in JB, the governor of IL. For them it is as an investment because the surgeries will continue to for a lifetime. They are truly despicable.
Pritzker the modern day Frankenstiens go back far enough they probably had family in the trans humanism crap hundreds of years ago . Money and fanatics are a dangerous combo . This whole trans movement should be called voluntary population control , maybe they are doing the world a favour ?
A movie?! How about in real life?
I’d love to see anyone held responsible for the crimes against humanity we’ve seen over the past decade. The legalized drug dealers is a good place to start.
Better living can be achieved through chemistry but remember that we have all we need to thrive in nature. The pharmaceutical industry, including their very unsafe puberty blockers, are killing more ppl than they are saving.
I thank this writer for her courage and conviction in coming forward to speak some sanity back not the conversation. History will not remember the self serving “champions” who have heaped this pile of dung on society.
I hope they drown in it.
I have long awaited a docu-drama like that made about NXIVM.
My husband is a pediatric surgeon and the children’s hospital where he practices had a discussion about whether to begin performing these gender (mutilating) surgeries. My husband - who is not in favor, but instead of being critical of the surgery-informed the administrators that Europe was curtailing this care and law suits were increasing. Thankfully, it was enough to discourage the hospital from going forward with surgery, although they do have a “gender affirming” clinic with hormone “therapy”
Its lawsuits that will put an end to this fiasco.
lawsuits against institutions like the AAP, not just against people.
Lawsuits against people can focus institutions like the AAP as the individuals attempt to pass-off some of the liability.
I would counsel aggressive responsees.
Have you read the filing in RI?
https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/10/Ayala-v-AAP-Complaint_stamped.pdf
People are trying!
Your husbands saved lives. Decent people must simply speak out against this insanity. The phenomenon of mass formation, as described by Matias Desmet seems to explain this process, and he claims that just a few people speaking out is the only way to stop the process.
That is great that they listened and took his advice. Sadly that is not the case at many hospitals,. In some instances, mastectomies are being done on girls at age 18 to avoid operating on minors. But (barely) young adults at this age are often not really fully formed in their beliefs and I think many of these patients will regret their decisions later in life. The lawsuits will come. It is tragic that healthy breast tissue is being removed in adolescent and very young adult females who can't yet know whether they will change their mind and want to have children in their twenties or thirties .
Fear of lawsuits is a powerful thing and now we are beginning to see them popping up- including the American Academy of Pediatrics!
Strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) can work both ways.
Yeah. But hey, hospitals are in business so often have boards who are more interested in profits than patients.
Smart move putting the term "therapy" in quotes!
good for your husband - more power to him
Tell your spouse thank you for having the presence of mind and the courage to speak effectively against this.
Glad to hear there are still some out there who are putting the brakes on this serious issue.
Ah...The word that can assure that common sense prevails: Lawsuit.
This is something far worse than money.
That people are willing to make money to mutilate children even over the objections of their parents is a moral rot so severe that I believe that (along with the revival of Nazi Jew-hatred) that Western Civilization is dead.
RIP freedom and sanity. I really hate that you may well be right but as they say”money talks” but here we have money and BS doing all the talking.
You may be right. It makes political careers and that is a problem:
"Eugenics in California: Never Again (just kidding lol)
THEN: Nonconsensual sterilizations in the 20th century"
https://pitt.substack.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
"Today, fueled by exciting and idealistic new fake-Science (gender theory), California progressives like Attorney General Rob Bonta are aggressively using the power of the state to circumvent informed consent. That has already led, and will continue to lead, directly to the sterilization of thousands of Californians – including children. [2] Minors by definition cannot give informed consent, just ask the Nuremberg lawyers. Bonta doesn't mention eugenics (he'd never come within a million miles of that word) but the result is the same as before: state-approved non-consensual sterilizations. Californians today are so enlightened we are letting it happen again. We’re cheering. And we’re electing leaders like Bonta.
Bonta today is aggressively promoting and expanding policies that three years ago had already outpaced [2] the "sad and regrettable chapter in the state's history that must never be repeated again." By 2020 California had already hit 13 per 100K, and rising. (Actually it’s worse: today California is sterilizing 13 per 100K children; in the 20th century we were sterilizing 13 per 100K of mostly adults.) Are we now shooting for Germany's record?"
People are making money, no doubt, but this is the victim mentality where someone is designated as a victim and everyone else has to fall in line. Gender confused kids were identified as the victims so the 99.9% have to not only accommodate them, but celebrate them. This becomes a cause and doctors specializing in transitions become heroes for the first times in their lives. The attention (and the money) becomes a drug they have to inject daily but there aren't enough trans kids to go around, so they make more. The Left could shut this down today, but it is too intoxicating.
"This becomes a cause and doctors specializing in transitions become heroes for the first times in their lives. The attention (and the money) becomes a drug they have to inject daily but there aren't enough trans kids to go around, so they make more." Yes!
https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/10/Ayala-v-AAP-Complaint_stamped.pdf
"3. Since the beginning of the conspiracy, certain of the Defendants, including Defendants Dr. Jason Rafferty and Dr. Michelle Forcier, were testing their radical new approach on patients like Isabelle—which included immediate, no-questions-asked “affirming” of a child’s desired gender and quickly placing them on a conveyor belt of life-altering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or experimental surgeries. "
"23. Notably, at least four of the six members of the Committee—including Defendants Dr. Rafferty, Dr. Forcier, Dr. Allen, and Dr. Sherer—worked at pediatric gender clinics that prescribe puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to patients as young as 10 and 14, Naturally, creating a new model of treatment that would promote and encourage the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for gender dysphoric children would stand to benefit those Committee members, and others like them, tremendously."
"37. Dr. Rafferty, for example, has gone from a little-known resident during his time drafting the Gender Policy Statement to having a highly successful practice in pediatric gender care and considered a leading authority on the subject, all while operating under the imprimatur of the authority he falsely created. He has also published numerous articles on one of the AAP’s websites (http://www.healthychildren.org) promoting the “affirmative care model.”9
38. Dr. Forcier has similarly parlayed her newly bolstered authority status into furthering her own successful private practice as well as paid speaking events. In fact, she was prominently featured in one of the most viewed documentaries of all time in 2022 as a leading expert in pediatric gender care and puberty blockers (which she described as “completely reversible” and “don’t have any permanent effects”).10 Other Defendants have enjoyed similar commercial and reputational benefits.
no question about it.
“follow the money”.
Grifters like that used to be called “Snake Oil Salesmen". The current lot are just snakes.
Jennifer Bilek has followed the money.
Follow the money on The 11th Hour Blog, (https://www.the11thhourblog.com) which details the white male billionaire funding of this destructive "gender identity" ideology. Jennifer Bilek is the expert in this. Has the entire Democratic Party, all the once LGB organizations (now taken over by the TQ), all the US medical associations, all the once women focused organizations etc. etc. all been bought and paid for by the "genderists"? I think so.
yep just like the non-science that hucksters used to fuel the Opioid epidemic and somehow conned vast numbers of doctors to buy into the fantasy that opioids weren't addictive to people who really have pain. Look at the mess there and how the few docs who tried to raise cautions were ignored. And Big Pharma just filled their pockets. Last note : don't just blame liberal upper class women - there are tons of men from the same demographic that have bought in big time as well.
I dislike the term socialized medicine. In this situation the reason the Finns and other European countries are course correcting is because they have a centralized system where all the data is kept and can be studied if an honest academic was so inclined. In the US the contagion continues to spread precisely because it is decentralized and totally profit driven.It’s a big money maker and therefore there is zero incentive to even accurately and honestly collect the data never mind analyze it objectively.
I will now actively fight "socialized medicine" after seeing what happened during the pandemic. There were politicians and many people wanting to deny ALL healthcare to those who refused the COVID vax. Centralized power means psychopaths who desire power will eventually take them over and use that power to punish those who don't agree with them.
I'd assumed socialized medicine would lead to quicker shutting down of all of this, but in the US I don't think that'd be the case. Federal health centers are exempt from medical liability I believe, and it's possible with a socialized system everyone would escape liability. More problematically, after watching our federal government throw its weight behind this trans insanity, I have no confidence we'd be able or willing to set up a socialized medical program that was able to police itself like the Finns, Swedes, etc.
Excuse me. As a physician I can independently decide who I wish to treat just as a patient can decline to see me. Those who refuse vaccinations are not a good fit for me and vice versa. Has nothing to do with the system in place.
I don't know if you are from the US, but my point is that you won't have that latitude if we aren't very careful. If politicians run the medical system they will abuse it and run you over. See how they pulled medical licenses of doctors prescribing ivermectin and California tried to violate doctors freedom of speech if they offered perspectives outside the mainstream. The courts had to step in to stop it.
The medical profession has definitely changed. We now have the “not a good fit doctors.” How about nurses? Can they also decline to help those with different beliefs?
Do you still feel this way after the results are in that the vaccines were not safe or effective and new research out of Italy is finding even more disturbing data that shows ppl who received more than two jabs were more likely to die from everything and not just COVID?
Doctors who just believe the CDC (or any other government agency) verbatim are not the kind of doctor I trust anyway. I want a doctor who knows enough to tell me if there is an effective homeopathic alternative to any medication that causes me adverse reactions. Trusting the pharmaceutical industry to openly disclose its product efficacy/safety is like trusting a wolf to guard your sheep.
So not much of a Dr
Amen
Just look north to Kanada , you can see the problem Gov backs trans crap mainly due to the wannabe trans PM , many people had surgeries , life saving in many cases because they would not take the vax . When the gov runs health care watch out ! I know because in the 80's and 90's i built new wings on existing hospitals , talking 100's of millions of $$$ only to have those hospitals shut down 15 years later . then they go spend 2 billion or more on 2 "super" hospitals , only problem is ? Not enough nurses and Drs to staff them .If you want something done right keep the gov 10 light years away
Course correction can occur in our system too. And quite rapidly once the lawsuits start coming. In Finland’s case it was the honest academic, not the centralized records that spurred the correction. And let us point out that the whole push for pediatric gender reassignment started with the effort to help men pass as women which would never have been covered here but for the socialized aspects of Obamacare and his admin’s role in pushing for gender identity to be covered under the civil rights umbrella and the incestuous network of NGO activists and government.
I have heard that trial lawyers are hesitant to take "detransitioner" cases for one reason or another, but I do not know if this is true. I can imagine, though, that even they have friends and social lives that would be disrupted by taking on such a case.
That is probably true and where I live have been told that education lawyers would take the case but for the fact they also work for the school district and do not want to reduce their income stream. This is just hearsay so please don’t take this as fact and is limited to cases where parents found out schools had initiated and promoted the idea of “transitioning.”
We have plenty of data. The CDC and FDA for example have plenty of data on the harms of these COVID injections; and for that matter had and have plenty of data on the harms of masks.
But they are corrupt. And a single point if corruption is manifestly very dangerous.
The FDA had data about the dangers of the covid mRNA shots, and suppressed it. Even that data is a gross underestimation of the harms, because they made it extremely difficult for study volunteers to report problems post injection. If something occurs but is not reported and catalogued then it isn’t counted. There was terrible follow up on the general population once the shots were rolled out and often mandated. Now we know the companies changed the manufacturing process from the batches used in the study group to a process using DNA plasmids for the large batches for the general public. People were injected with foreign DNA, ramifications of which are starting to be seen ( ie aggressive malignancies)
but it is a Dr and am sure it picks what it wants to read , something that does not "fit' its world is not read , not a good 'fit"
It is hard to fight a thing when data is hidden and/or suppressed. Part of that has to do with "news" and social media. Even I was shocked by the number 400 in today's PITT article:
"Another way to estimate the number of patients is to look at clinics. America has 400 pediatric gender clinics. (Activists tried to erase that fact. Again, funny if they’re doing such good and important work...) You can't support hundreds of medical practices and thousands of highly skilled workers without a lot of patients – the economics alone dictate that currently active child gender patients must number ten thousand or more nationwide."
https://pitt.substack.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
Check out the graph.
Well said, Good points.
In our private system, the doctors are the beneficiary. That leads to highly profitable
scam surgeries and other non-necessary medical procedures being performed. I feel like in a socialized or nationalized system, the doctor is not the customer, and therefore, has no incentive to overprescribe medical treatments.
As if greed exists only in market economies. Ha! Have you been in environment of scarcity? Have you seen what greed looks like and the extent of dehumanization in scarcity markets? You’re barking up the wrong tree.
if only that were true
BS, where are you? Which country?
We had a neighbor with a “trans” teenager and the parents were exactly the empty-headed progressive liberals you’d expect. The mother told me about her kid’s transition with pride. You could tell a big driver for her was the social status points she gets from parenting a trans kid.
Seems with parents like this there is an element of Munchausen by proxy going on. I wonder how many kids who later as adults regretted their decision will harbor anger and resentment toward their parents who pushed them in that direction.
How do you know? Hey - I’m weirded out by all of this crap, but I do NOT stoop to presume I have ANY idea what “driver” is behind a parent’s care of their kid. It’s serious, not a source of amusement, and deserves a lot better than tsk-tsk-ing from all of us. Every parent makes all of it up as they go along, with no prior experience, after all! 😀
I’m definitely making some assumptions in this particular case, but this is from years of living near these people and observing and interacting with them.
In general it’s pretty obvious that peer pressure plays a major role in being “trans.” That peer pressure extends to parents and includes parent pressure.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Just look at the "trans kids influencers" on IG. They are adored and idolized. That's a huge driver for Munchausen mommies, and many of them are actresses (Charlize Theron, Megan Fox).
True. My kids came without instruction manuals!! Even the toaster had a one page operation guide.
But parents are responsible for safeguarding their kids from undue pressures to engage in unhealthy/unsafe activities. Allowing a minor child (or letting bully tactics from transition/gender affirming care facilities) push you or a child into making unalterable surgical therapies that are just as likely to be harmful as helpful is bad parenting. We don’t appease children taking illicit drugs just because they really want to as it’s dangerous destructive behavior.
Somebody has to be the adult and speak up for kids rights when they don’t know what’s best and think they want something that can have permanent consequences.
We are moving into a vacuum where parents have fewer rights to speak on behalf of their children and are sometimes reported to agencies like child protective services for declining medical treatments. I’ve seen this in action here where I live.
It’s good to have the village looking out for kids in general but parents should be the final say in what happens to them.
We do not “make up all of it” as we go along. There are ideas about child rearing that are lasting for good reason and passed through the generations. This is serious business so I do not care what the parents’ feelings are at the moment. The children need to be kept safe and if that means social opprobrium then so be it. Weird how you focus on not hurting parents feelings!
That is plain gross! Does she care that said person will struggle with relationships, possibly be sterile and maybe never enjoy sex! This is an unnatural process that should be reserved for adults that are very well informed! My heart breaks for the true transpeople out there who are being diminished by all this backlash for fake transitioners!
I agree with you. It is extra stressful when this affects your own daughter and everybody else around you just beams about it regarding your family situation and theirs even as you are in pain (because wherever this occurs it occurs with a number of girls). So, wherever you see these parents celebrating there are other parents trying to keep a low profile for themselves and their kid.
But, the laws of the land are starting to work against sane parents:
"With laws like AB665 (lowering the age of consent to 12 for gender counseling and residential shelter, without parental consent or even notification) California's leaders (Newsom, Bonta, Wiener, Thurmond) have allied with the real-life Child Catchers and Comprachicos. [4][5] (Erin Friday is on the case: “The parents will have no idea what happened to their child. Imagine their fear and anxiety. These parents are criminalized without an accusation, evidence or trial.”) With SB107 (giving CA custody of out-of-state children who come to CA for gender-affirming care, with or without a parent) California's leaders are becoming Child Catchers and Comprachicos. The stuff of nightmares."
https://pitt.substack.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
Gee, we have the same situation with neighbors. First, the 15 yr old kid legally changed his name to a female name, instructed every one in the household to refer to him as she/her and the father proudly visited each neighbor on the street requesting that each of us use the new feminine pronouns. His parents are white liberal educated professionals. Go figure!
This is pretty much what happened with our daughter's childhood friend. I work around it by saying "your child" or something. Then, our daughter caught the contagion. I was not for it.
When a kid is “trans,” most of the time the parents are the same demographic. Gross.
Or, the family lives among that demographic. If you have ever scanned the PITT substack you will know that many parents are not for it - but the kids get socially transitioned behind backs at school and then it is a wild ride...
I just want to make clear that your kids and grandkids are not necessarily "safe" just because you are not Woke. They can still hit a bump and get indoctrinated. People in cults have not come from only one demographic. The schools are basically training the next Red Guard.
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Ugh! Child abuse!
100 Gender clinics? What?? Obviously there’s lots of money to be made in child mutilation. I watched a video of a surgeon ( butcher) who had established clinics in SF and Austin. He described how he turns boys into Ken dolls. How does he keep a medical license?
Progressives have seized on the controversial and divisive practice of genital mutilation as a core element of their political ideology. Faith in genital mutilation is a central tenet of progressive group identity. The money is important but it the problem runs deeper, and is more insidious, than that.
It’s an unpopular view, but it bears similarity to the gnostic cults view of shedding the body to reveal and free the soul. Except people are not committing suicide as the gnostics advocated, but changing the body to reflect the soul instead.
James Lindsay has several very detailed analyses of this phenomenon - look up his New Discourses lectures on YT.
Hi name sounds familiar -- I will definitely look into it. Thanks for the recommendation!
“Progressives have seized on the controversial and divisive practice of genital mutilation as a core element of their political ideology”
When you consider that the initial practice was designed to transition men to women, it shouldn’t be surprising that Progressives and their feminist acolytes seized upon it. They have been attacking our “patriarchal” society for decades. Psychologically castrating men has always been part of their strategy. Cutting off the balls of resisters is their dream.
That's painting a lot of people with a narrow brush. I'm a feminist who was tired of being discriminated against at work, tired of seeing double standards for rape victims, female athletes (oh the irony) etc.
Where we do agree, I think, is on the danger of a movement with minimal/no cause left to fight. You have to make a mountain out of an anthill. It's how I felt when the ACLU sued prisons to let convicted rapists and pedophiles have porn. If that's the worst injustice you can find, time to close up shop and go fly fishing.
Actually my comment was pretty specific, much more so than the term “feminist”. It seems to me the issues that caused you to adopt the term have long been remedied. Now all a woman has to do is claim rape and men are guilty until proven innocent, like the Duke lacrosse players and Brett Kavanaugh. Crack a joke containing the tiniest of sexual innuendo and a man can be fired. The WNBA is hemorrhaging money because no one, not even women want to watch it.
I’m not sure how you define the term “feminist” but if you take issue with my post ,your definition is different than mine
Yeah, but in doing what they have, they have basically hurt women by allowing men into their spaces.
Last year in Thailand there was a tv program that interviewed a dr. that did transition surgery. He was so proud of the fact that he could turn males into females. He said it was more difficult to turn females into males because attaching a penis was more difficult than creating a vagina. That was the last time I watched a tv program. There are many things that I don't need to know about.
Phalloplasty-- but first the victim’s wrist must be flayed of tissue to create a tube. I can’t imagine any medical profession approving this.
A phallus that does not work! It is just for show.
Talk to married guys - lots of them have the same condition… 😂
The complications from these surgeries are legion.
Thailand, and Korea, are not the US and corruption via money, is the name of the game throughout the entire society.
Was his last name Frankenstein or Mengele?
It was one of those 5 sylable unpronounable Thai names.
Look, Thailand is not the worst place in the world - it's not totalitarian and nobody has ever accused it of genocide.
But the whole lady-boy thing is something that Thailand should be ashamed of and it should not be emulated here.
Thailand is in the process of legalizing prostitution, including lady-boys. It's true that it's not the worst place in the world, far from, but it one of the most corrupt countries in the world. The PM has recently shaken hands with Putin in China and has extended the 30 day visas to 90 day free visas for Russians.
And gender clinics have one goal in mind. Put this "gender identity" issue front and center. No looking at other issues causing distress in the child. Affirming the mismatched gender identity - and that is it.
Regular family doctors and pediatricians don't know how to deal with this cohort so they refer to a gender specialist assuming that person will know how best to deal with it, but it puts them right on the path to affirmation and transition.
Stories and accounts from parents confirm this.
Parents should avoid the gender clinics at all cost.
Yeah that’s true. My daughters bf from middle school is a trans girl. He wasn’t when they became friends but as time went by he was convinced he was a she. I cared about this kid so I went online for guidance about how best to support him. I found a lot of parent testimony about feeling railroaded into obtaining puberty blockers, looking at surgical interventions and never counseling to sort out any possible other psychiatric issues. When the parents hesitated they were assailed with threats that their child would likely commit suicide if they didn’t agree to this transitioning.
This is a world gone crazy.
And there is not much you can do , can imagine the trouble you could get into if you try to talk to this kid about what he is going through , sad
Excellent article and comment. Having recently lived in and ran for school board in a wealthy outer ring suburb of Minneapolis, you are right on when you suggest it is a badge of honor for many white women to have a child in the LGBTQ community. They will say and do anything to tear down anyone who isn’t fully supportive of this ideology. Unbelievably blinded and nasty. Needless to say, I lost by 45 votes after running an amazing campaign due to Nextdoor and Facebook slander. Thank God, because if I had won, we would still be there. As it is, we have moved to Middle Tennessee. It isn’t perfect, but I am thankful every day to be surrounded by common sense people. I often think of the verses in Romans 1...He gave them over to their depravity (paraphrased). After fighting awhile we realized life is too short, that place is lost. Move on to where you have a chance of making a difference.
Good on you for running, Jen. After that happens, the only thing to do is move because that community is lost.
The Nextdoor slander is insane where I live: Albemarle county, VA. We have a nonpartisan school board race with the self-declared Democrat running the kind of nasty tv ads you see in state and national races. Her opponent happens to be one of Justice Scalia’s children and you’d think Hitler and Donald Trump had a baby the way they defame her, a mom who is fed up with mediocre schools. It makes me sick.
Follow the money…
word.
Look no further than the ADD/ADHD craze, which now has its tentacles embedded in or society. We did end the repressed memory craze, but we are still drugging boyhood into oblivion.
Oh.... it's still happening
We are the most prescribed land in the world and the sickest at the same time, what does that tell you?
I'll bite! Perhaps that treatment is an ongoing revenue stream and cure is not?
That is hard to hear. It was tried on me in some training I was going through in 2007 to be a navy drug and alcohol counselor. The staff was unprofessional, unethical and manipulative. I was a grown woman near retiring, and these dirtbags decided, I assume due to my attitude and independence, I must have been sexually abused by my father. They literally tried implanting false memories and even threatened me with being removed if I wouldn't consider the possibility. I was eventually removed for not admitting to the fantasy they fabricated. I was called a "disruptor." I can't imagine a child being browbeaten by these scum to spout whatever they want them to say. I believe this scummy behavior stems from a "savior" need. If there's no victim to rescue, then create some victims so they can ride in on their white horses.
This about says it all. It’s in every institution where democrats/progressives have control, and that’s pretty much everywhere. Mind boggling how they took over the country. We only thought it was quickly because it was hardly talked about, but Covid/lockdowns put progressives on a power trip, proudly talk about gender affirming care (I could barely write those words…sickening). Conservatives either didn’t have a clue what was going on or thought it would go away due to the insanity of it all.
"The same thing is happening in our pre-schools, middle schools and high schools. There are many parents that are calling bullshit on this and recognize the social contagion of ROGD (rapid-onset gender dysphoria), but progressive teachers, teachers unions and school boards seem to have totally adopted this craziness."
Yes! Our daughter got the mind bug from kids at school before Lisa Littman coined the term ROGD and then Abigail Shrier wrote her article in the WSJ. The teachers were all progressive and behaved terribly in my opinion. I don't think it would have gone on for years and been so painful for us all if they had not worked against us and gas lit our child. Like, maybe they could have let us look into what was really going on with our kid instead? It is hard to believe it has taken so much time for a backlash to begin.
I am so glad that the American Academy of Pediatrics and the quacks they allow to set policy finally face a lawsuit. Institutions, not just individuals need to be held to account, including other medical associations, the teachers unions, and the federal (Admiral Levine) and state governments.
We’ll said. I am so sorry that your daughter was caught up in this insanity. We managed to escape it as our sons are older. My heart goes out to all parents who have to deal with this now.
That is kind of you, Jan. Thank you very much :)
It is frustrating that no one seems to get it or even mind it very much until it strikes them personally. Somehow, we still have "sex assigned at birth" on official forms and "listing pronouns" everywhere with Gender Queer Theory taught in the schools like it is proven scientific fact. It is such a harmful cult. And, all of society plays along with it whether they like it, hate it, or think it is something of a silly joke.
I hope that it is all gone by the time that your sons have children. It is primarily girls who get taken in by the cult.
Hi again. I really feel for you LM. My grandkids are old enough to be in the middle of this, unfortunately, but one of my daughters-in-law homeschools her 3 kids and the other is sending hers to a Christian school that can get around our province’s mandate to teach this absolute nonsense. I am old enough now that I don’t care what others think of me and can state what I think with no worries about offending. I just do it with grace and a smile. My gray hair and quiet words help me get away with it. I am thinking that I would like to do more to try to oppose the ideology overtake though not yet sure how to go about it.
And, I recommend https://genspect.org/
They say they are in 25 countries!
Thank you, Jan. Good for you. Your family has a good plan. Although less common, there are home school parents on PITT with kids who caught the mind bug. It is sort of like in every country where girls heard about anorexia and bulimia they started seeing cases, only no one affirmed the girls in their belief that they were too fat.
It sounds like you are in Canada. I am in the US. Maybe you could interact with someone from Canada on PITT.substack.com Some Canadians have published articles there as well as comments on articles.
Long past time to know your enemy and treat them accordingly. These fools hate you, your children and your grandchildren and work day and night to destroy them and you.
You are so spot on with the issue of white liberal middle/upper-class women. They live in the way the world should be rather than the they the world really is. Two cases in point are from yesterday. If you get a chance, go to YouTube and watch Kristen Welker's interview with Desanits when he tries to explain that a Federal Background check should have stopped the man from getting the gun. It didn't register with her. The second was Margret Brennan lecturing guests about Gaza and her inability to grasp Sen. Vance's point that we can't do everything she thinks should happen. They are two of the most visible examples of people in power to shape news events who are smart enough to have them.
Don't let off the hook the billionaires like Pritzker, Stryker, et al and more who are massively funding this transhumanism movement. Those upper/upper middle class women are the useful idiots. The masterminds are these madmen. Megyn Kelly did a deep reporting on this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNq7dYOdQyQ
Edit:: They live in the way THEY THINK the world should be.... (To the degree that they actually think.)
Guess who is pushing this gender transformation bullshit on minors The party of evil is. That's who.
If an adult wants a sex change that is one thing. If a minor wants it that is entirely different. Children aren't known for making good decisions and peer pressure more times than not drives their decisions. And keeping this condition secreted from the parents is criminal. As a parent it is MY duty to steer MY child in what I believe is the right direction, not some radical left wing emotionally unstable, touchy feely teacher or counselor.
I'm sorry...but if an adult wants a sex change, they should be able to get it ONLY if they pay entirely out of pocket and can find a doctor who will stand behind the medical decision to transition them. This should not be covered by public or private insurance. Insurance only covers care that is a medical necessity. Gender transition is elective medical care not medically (or psychiatrically) necessary given the evidence.
Evan, “it’s almost like a badge of honor with these people that they have a trans or non-binary kid.”
This statement reminds me of high school and the cool crowd cliques.
Adolescence to adulthood can be a messy transition time requiring adults in the room to treat the mental stress before implementing irreversible changes.
This article is the wake up call to make informed decisions not fear driven decisions.
"The 'Gender-Affirming Care' medical professionals are cultists."
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They are also capitalists. This is a money making enterprise being exploited for the gain of the medical community. The children are the market. Changing them is the product. Follow the money.
I’m not so sure about your claim that most are White. From what I’ve seen, it’s pretty well spread out across races. UCLA alleges “ We find that adults who are African-American or black (0.8%), Latino or Hispanic (0.8%) and of another race or ethnicity (0.6%), are more likely than White adults (0.5%) to identify as transgender.”
For kids: https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/2166/transgender-race/table#fmt=2667&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=134&ch=7,11,70,10,72,9,73,127,1177,1176,1602,1603
For adults: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Race-Ethnicity-Trans-Adults-US-Oct-2016.pdf. (These numbers are so insane, I don’t even know how to process them!).
but are they transitioning young? Or over 18?
"Gender dysphoria" is only one of the immediately recognizable MSM/surveillance state cover up's in the manipulated and schizoid American national dialogue. We all know that human trauma, harm and consequence has never been a consideration for criminal finance. Its' target of opportunity avarice and commodification of all things human will readily devour the old as quickly as the young. As in all cash dollar enterprises, to quote Bobby D.: "money doesn't talk it screams". This article is the exact reason we're gathered around and stoking this fire called subscription journalism. Truth/fact vs.the psyop. The literal translation: A cabal of corrupt politicians and slavers are talking over the top of human moral reason. Uncomfortable with the word slaver? The boys at BlackRock, Bezos, Gates and the rest of the DNC/CCP fascist crowd are literally buying up block upon block of American residential housing, shutting young and first time buyers out and raising rental prices to ensure that every hard earned dollar in America is transferred upward. Did criminal finance not loot and destroy the America housing market in 2008? The perps looted pension funds and life savings, destroyed lives, drove people from their homes and got paid, with your money, to do it. They're back. In the slave quarters only food and clothing. All other resources go to the master.
What does this have to do with "gender dysphoria" and the butchery of youth? 4% of deaths (and growing) in Canada now happen in euthanasia centers. Not for the terminally ill and suffering but for those depressed, anxious, addicted or broke. China cloaks and maintains a vast network of prison/re-education centers. The WEF/EU/Davos crowd is well on the way to destroying Europe and their DNC affiliate in America is clearly on board. The treasured child is literally the only human future. For them, the child means nothing. As do you.
No one here is shocked by the authors lament and clear voicing of the well financed attacks on human moral reason and legitimate scientific concern by the D.E.I. mind butchers and the psychotics they manipulate. Shock at the machinations of these monsters and the people who fund them (DNC/CCP/WEF/EU/Davos) no longer serves "we the people". We need to somehow acquire the same clarity and objectivity Ms. Kaltiala demonstrated as she witnessed the escalating sterility and madness. surrounding her. Moral lepers are stealing the American future. They deserve no sympathy.
Look no further than the Pritzker family and their desire to turn the whole planet trans. They stand to make billions ($).
Thank you Dr. Kaltiala for speaking out. My family and many others have been touched by this and so much harm has been done and continues to be done here in the US. Gender Clinics and providers saw an opportunity for profit and they took the “gold standard” Dutch Protocol and adapted it to this cohort of teenagers with mental health conditions unrelated to gender. I once had a beautiful, healthy, strong, athletic daughter. Puberty and isolation due to covid caused her to come across the idea that she was a boy. While I questioned this she demeaned me and accused me of “transphobia” and of rejecting her “true self”. As I stood firmly on the side of reality, teachers, friends, dentists, and doctors have played along with her and asked “what are your pronouns?” She is 15 and crushes her breasts daily with 3 or 4 tightly fitting sports bras. She longs for a double mastectomy. She aspires to take testosterone and believes that a phalloplasty will result in a working penis. The for profit medical system here in the US seeks to push her down the medical pathway. As a parent, I continue to encourage her to think critically but she has been indoctrinated into this harmful belief system which has taken over her life to the exclusion of everything else. It’s heartbreaking. Your article and the documentary along with the recent lawsuit naming the American Academy of Pediatrics give me hope. I hope that the gender house of cards is falling- and it cannot happen soon enough.
Keep at it. My daughter was your daughter. Now 18, will not even mention the 2 years she claimed being a boy. I can feel the humiliation and embarrassment from her soul. She is a she again, beautiful and embracing her feminine essence. It was the 2 hardest years of my life. Along with this crazy idea she was trans, she also would self harm daily, restrict eating, have crippling panic attacks, rip her hair out, attempted suicide and went through 7 therapists/psychiatrists. I replaced her smart phone with a flip phone, forced her to get her drivers license and a job, found a therapist on GETA who does DBT weekly with her. I didnt care how much she hated me, I wasnt giving in to this cruel lie.
Today she likes boys, and girls. Who cares. She thinks critically, weighing in both sides. She's preparing for college, hoping to pursue psychology to help save lives like hers. She is my girl, the one I knew and loved before she was captured. She is joyful and kind. Free from this lie finally. Hang in there to all the parents. I pray this for you too♡
I saw a poster that said “Parenting is only difficult for people who are good parents”. Thank God your daughter had/has a good parent.
This^. I realize that I can't call Jenny and Coco gold star parents -- but they deserve gold stars. If the police are a thin blue line, strong parents are a thin gold one.
The thing that jumps out to me as likely one of the most effective ways you arrested her spiral was taking away the smart phone. The constant access to the internet can be devastating for kids' mental health. Good for you for diagnosing it and taking action.
I doubt any combination of words can sooth your angst, I will only say God bless you and your daughter and don’t give up. Keep speaking the truth to her and be strong .
Thank you! Hearing your story means so much!
I know. I understand. I feel a guilt to have come through this nightmare because I know so many parents are still in it. Sending my love and care to you.
Any suggestions for what someone observing this from the outside should do? One of my 12-year-old daughter’s soccer teammates is “transitioning.” New name, he/him, “identifies as male” per the parents’ email to the rest of us. Everyone is supportive on the surface, using the new name. If they pursue hormonal treatment in addition to the social transitioning, I’ll feel bad never to have spoken up. But it’s so delicate and I don’t know them well, although we are friendly at the games and practices. I have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes or how they feel about the whole thing, other than their asking for our support for their child’s social transition. I’ve thought about sending a link to Genspect, just saying that it’s a resource I heard about that they might find helpful. But even that feels intrusive, and also “unsupportive” if they are resentful of skepticism. Anyway, even though my 2 cents will probably make no difference one way or the other in this situation, I do struggle with what to do.
If / when approached I would say “I am sorry, I am too old for that sh$t.”
My daughter came to me with pronouns in 2021 at a tender age of 11.. We went through cycles of suicidal ideation hospitalizations for her and I held back on several therapy programs because they featured gender affirming agenda.
That made me and my husband go through several episodes of her severe depression, suicidal attempts and panic attacks completely on our own, without any help. We were the psychiatric ward for her.
We managed. I share this to let you know I am very familiar with the problem.
And I stood firm.
I told her I am too old for this pronouns gender thing and it doesn’t fit my cultural profile;
If I had to do it for someone outside my family then I would also say, “ I am sorry, it is too difficult for me; let’s just not communicate at all.”
As my daughter got better, we were in a group parent + child therapy at Stanford university when the therapist, a PhD asked everyone in the group to say their name and their pronoun. Everyone obediently said their pronounces. I just said my name. I knew that had they forced me to say a pronoun I would have said “good bye” to Stanford, the only therapy we could find for my daughters suicidal ideation. But they didn’t. I said no pronouns and the therapist didn’t make medo it. I think they all are on a fence about it.
This summer we left US for one year to help her rid of all this.
Good job Natalia!! I deal w/ this a lot at work. A number of us (older folk!) just refuse to go there. The younger crowd are very happy to announce pronouns in order to virtue signal and be "supportive." It's a contagion and mass hysteria.
It's hard to say anything if the parents are on board. Sigh.
You’re a gold star mom Jenny. Sorry you and your daughter had to go through that period. So happy to hear your story at least had a happy ending. What of the people that created this mess? A combination of cowardice, grossly irresponsible behavior, economic opportunism, inability to think as individuals, and worst of all I think are the politicians (all democrats) and journalists who argue for it and criticize and attack those who question it - the harm they have caused, and continue to cause will be felt and analyzed for decades.
❤️❤️❤️Awesome story so happy for you all
This is it . There is no instant fix , life takes time to work things out , good thing you hung in there for this , you did not take the easy road . Your daughter is lucky , one day she will look back and see all the broken 'friends she had that took the easy road and appreciate the time and effort you put in
I pray your daughter finds the help she needs. In the mean time, as happened to my family, time has its own healing properties. Please have patience and hope that her issues resolve with time, as did my granddaughter's.
Sounds like a classic cult to me.
Progressive liberalism is a mental illness
In your case and in the responses any insight into whether social media caused or contributed to the behavior? One thing Jenny, another reply here, did was replace her daughter's smart phone with a flip phone. I'm inclined to believe that must've helped tremendously!
Taking the phone away is not nearly as easy as it may seem. Schools actually require check ins and code verification only through the phone, forcing her to use mine for those type of things. Phones are how this generation communicates with each other and us. The smart phone came about right as many of these kids were becoming adolescents. As a parent, I had no idea the dangers. I limited. I was strict. I had the passwords. I warned about the obvious stranger danger types. I didn't understand the capacity of social media and the dangers. When I took her off it all, I stood in solidarity with her and also took myself off all social media. We, together, began digging into the way the world was changing with the information we received. Starting with climate, covid, vaccines, abortion and now Israel. We could find any and every angle on opposing sides and many many lies. Critical thinking at its best. We dove into intuition, gut feelings and forming our own opinions first and foremost. She has a smart phone now. She is 18. She's on social media again. Even has a Twitter x account. But now she sees it for what it is. Entertainment at best. A brief convo with a friend. The days of hours on her phone are long gone. It almost repulses her now and I hear her say often, I hate when so and so is always on their phone. Her nose in the books is all I see now.
And I, personally, never went back to social media. I dont think I could stomach it. Always hope my journey is helpful. ♡xo
Your story gives me hope. It’s so difficult for parents like me who feel like we are fighting against the tide. We love our kids too much to surrender them to this madness. Hopefully in time she will learn to think critically and see this movement for what it really is- misogynistic, dangerous, and all about the drs and big pharmaceutical companies lining their pockets with no regard for the long term health consequences to these vulnerable children and young adults...
Keep fighting. Dont waiver.
When you get through this, and you will, you will be amazed and dare I say grateful, at all the life lessons you learned during this time.
Coco, did you hear Megyn Kelly talking to the psychologists from Genspect the other day? It's a great listen and a fabulous resource.
Yes! Thank you! I came across it but haven’t listened yet.
Congratulations on surviving the cancer called social media. There is a lot of good it can be used for but it's downsides have far outweighed the positives.
Yes definitely! Social media is huge in the spreading of this as a social contagion. I’ve tried to limit as much as possible. It’s how it started in my opinion but it’s so much more than that now. It’s a societal problem- kids today are taught to “be kind” above all else. This includes lying to people just to affirm their delusional beliefs about themselves... teachers and drs are in on it too. That along with the social status gained if you are considered “oppressed”. It is so frustrating. If schools didn’t participate in encouraging this it would not be happening!
The one thing that helped me build a strong relationship with my kid is empathy. Even though sometimes the only way I could relate was to imagine my own childhood when I felt my problem was the most important thing in the world and no one understood how it felt. I used to get into advice mode and sometimes all she wanted was to be heard and understood. At best this helps open a communication channel which can be explored to having honest conversations.
Thank you for sharing your journey. Stay strong and I wish you and your daughter my very best!
Sending you and your child my best wishes.
So so sorry to hear. Maybe some senses may come to your daughter is she sees this: https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/
The adults indulging her in this should all be in jail.
Dear Coco,
You have my prayers for you and your daughter that she comes to understand and accept that she is a female human being and that there is no mistake about that.
Gary Creamer
I weep for you and your daughter. And pray.
Retired now, as a teacher for 40 years saw a lot of "social contagion" that ended up in bathrooms: One girl would run out of the classroom crying "My teacher hates me!," and ten others would follow her into the bathroom, and they'd all be crying.
(Thankfully, I was usually not the teacher they were complaining about.)
But it's a real thing. In the 1980s, it was anorexia: One girl stopped eating, then another, then it was the only thing anyone could talk about, and a good number would fast to keep them company.
It might even be that the first case or two were real: After that, it was fashion.
A function of, If I feel it, it must be true. A philosophy that has wreaked havoc in America.
Such a sad story, keep the faith and don't give up on her, she is worth it. God Bless you both.
I am in the thick of it right now. Had CPS visit because my daughter-who-wants-to-be-a-boy complained to the school counselor about me being "unsupportive" and also claimed I had said some pretty awful things to her (which was not true and she is now recanting). But damage done - now her dad (my ex) is looking to get more custody for her and I am looking for an excellent family attorney to help me fight this madness 🤞🏼
I’m so sorry you are going through that. It’s just crazy to me that because we love our kids we have questions about these serious interventions and counselors have the nerve to intervene in that way. Definitely find a good family attorney and stand your ground. I am hopeful that the tide is turning and truth is on our side!
So sorry.
Amen. I feel ya. I hope she comes back to reality before it’s too late.
Dr. Kalitiala is obviously caring and intelligent, and kudos to her for doggedly pursuing the truth instead of going along with the medical groupthink. But how on earth everything she says here isn't blatantly obvious to everyone will forever be byond me. Who knew you needed so many intensive medical studies to discover that gender isn't a social construct, no matter how many times Leftists chant that it is!
"The young people we were treating were not thriving. Instead, their lives were deteriorating. We thought, what is this? Because there wasn’t a hint in studies that this could happen."
You mean the study on youth gender transitions - something that has literally never existed before this recent insanity - didn't reveal that mutilating children was a bad idea?! I'm sure whoever did that study has faced severe professional reprucussions for this oversight.
"Sometimes the young people insisted their lives had improved and they were happier. But as a medical doctor, I could see that they were doing worse. They were withdrawing from all social activities. They were not making friends. They were not going to school."
Yeah, because the people in your field turned them into freaks, and called themselves compassionate for doing so. Congratulations!
"But how on earth everything she says here isn't blatantly obvious to everyone will forever be byond me."
I feel the same way. But literally right now we have almost all the sports authorities not seeing any problem with men and teenage boys competing and winning female sports. And major newspapers are saying people who object are trying to "ban" these men and boys from playing, when they are free to play in they male categories where they belong.
We're living in bizzaro world.
Yup. Woman have fought and still are fighting to be taken seriously and treated equally with medical research/problems, in sports, so many areas in life. But as soon as a boy or man wants something (a uterus, to win a title when he's a mediocre athlete) for some reason it becomes the Most Urgent Problem and "she" must get what "she" wants immediately. It's baffling.
Just another example of the business side of medicine taking priority over risky treatment and interventions that can permanently scar someone both mentally and physically. COVID and vaccines are a perfect example of following this model.
The doctors own follow up studies shows the happiness parents and patients were promised was elusive and not backed up by any studies.
An important bit of information was her mentioning that in 80% of cases the gender “distress” was resolved after the individual went naturally through puberty, thus avoiding any risky intervention.
This “get them while they’re young” approach is mirrored in our public educational systems that confront children with information they aren’t at a level of maturity to understand or process.
With most doctors in gender care the motive is obviously financial. With school teachers and administrators pushing gender agendas to elementary students the motive seems perversely sinister in a different way.
Paedophiles who have discovered a wonderful new cloak for their activities.
A huge problem with medicine today is that the light reflecting off a huge pile of money blinds and clouds judgment. But this is nothing new to the human condition. It explains all the gold rushes seen since time began and other “get rich quick” schemes.
This is something I had pointed out recently. Apparently Thomas Sowell said it. Basically people are in 2 groups. Those that think that humans are, well, humans. All the good and bad that we have done is part of who we are as a species. The other group thinks of humans more like robots that can be fixed and reprogrammed to behave however we want and we just need to figure out how to 'fix' them.
The Firefly movie Serenity has this as well...that some people will come back around to the idea that they can make us 'better'.
Half the equation is the parents - many parents who brought their underage children to these clinics were ready and willing to be “supportive allies”. Even in the face of evidence that totally refuted the premise that their children would be happier after transitioning (aka watching their own children continue to self harm and not make friends and avoid school), they STILL insist it’s the trans thing. Such is the power of our will to be part of a tribe - Bari had an article about deaf community parents to purposely TRY to make a deaf child. All to be part of a tribe.
How can the US be so adamantly wrong on gender care? Because a majority of the “elites” are of a single ideology. The group think and partisan feedback loop makes them more and more extreme. Also, we are a society that judges our correctness, not by fact and analysis, but by who disagrees with us. If Donald Trump were to announce he’s a dog person, I think millions of liberals would instantly become cat owners.
Thank you for this wonderful article. This is a sad chapter in medicine. Unfortunately, the tragedy is based on a fundamental misconception about biology, i.e., that it is ultimately malleable. As a biological psychologist, I can assure you that it is not. No intervention is without its risks and unintended consequences, some of which can be profoundly detrimental. Thank you again for your very thoughtful and thought-provoking article. Sincerely, Frederick
Totally agree with you Frederick. This one was of the most well thought out and masterfully constructed articles I have read in a long time and that includes many, many incredible articles here on the Free Press. I applaud Dr. Kaltiala for her courage.
I agree. Very clear and straightforward, thorough but concise.
All of this makes more sense when you realize that the ideology that supports "gender-affirming care" is the same one that wants to destroy Western civilization (and build their Marxist "utopia" on its ashes). It's also the same ideology that supports depopulation. And what better way to depopulate than to convince kids to beg to be sterilized.
“Two birds with one stone” strategy.
Lack of reproductive ability and encouraging suicide will help trim the population. Add to that the lack of sex and decreasing sperm counts in the younger generation and it seems the plan is going in the right direction for them.
I recently heard the ideology referred to as “social justice fundamentalism.” I think this is the perfect term.
It is indeed. My experiences with the Far-Left people who dominated my department when I was in grad school were eerily similar to my experiences with my Evangelical Fundamentalist birthmother and her friends. The tactics and rhetoric were the same--the only difference was the details of WHAT I "had" to believe in order to be "saved" (or even, in my department, considered a decent human being).
So I called their ideology "Liberal Fundamentalism," although I later came to realize that there is actually nothing "liberal" about the Left.
Given that I hold classical liberal values, I agree with you. Their ideology is decidedly illiberal. I think social justice fundamentalism fits.
What took her so long? Another adolescent psychiatrist, Dr Miriam Grossman, called BS on transitioning kids a long time ago. She called it what it so obviously is--psychopathology in need of serious psychotherapy. Not hormones and surgery.
Sorry, anyone who could have gone down this path, ignoring all common sense, genuflecting to social pressures, needs to do a lot more than write a confession. She need to become a full time zealot fighting the trans ideology.
She appears to be -- at least attempting -- to do so.
I am a pediatrician and I find the whole gender ideology thing a huge embarrassment and infuriating. I got to hear the phrase ‘people with a uterus’ spoken by a seemingly intelligent person. I’m so sick of virtue signaling pronoun colleagues. And none of this as bad as mutilating confused and disturbed children. It’s nauseating
Well thank God for you! I have been a pediatric nurse in a large pediatric hospital in the Midwest for years. It’s absolutely shocking to me how DEI and gender issues have taken over.
It’s terrifying.
I've relayed this story elsewhere on The Free Press, but I had the most surreal experience last June when I brought my 12 month old son for a blood draw at the Boston Children's Hospital's ("BCH") Weymouth location.
When I entered the waiting room of this preeminent CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, it was quite literally bedecked with LGBTQ+ flags in celebration of Pride month. I counted at least nine, including one that likely exceeded 3 x 5 feet in dimension.
Notably, BCH Weymouth is co-located with a Brigham & Women's Hospital (BWH) satellite, and the decoration of the Boston Children's waiting room contrasted sharply with other areas of the medical building, including the BWH phlebotomy lab, where I initially went as a mistake. In short, no other area that I entered/traversed in the satellite location of these two premiere hospitals displayed even a tiny fraction of the LGBTQ+ signage of the Boston Children's waiting room.
It is absolutely deranged.
Because it appears that most people don't understand that this "gender dysphoria" is not gender dysphoria at all, but a bona fide social contagion, I started posting about it on Facebook. I follow the PITT substack, Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans, which just put out an anthology of anguished parents' essays. I've posted primary source accounts of detransitioning. And the reaction, from a few frothing "left-wing" "friends" is that "the right wing has lost its mind" -- in response to an anthology of firsthand accounts that their kids got eaten by a hysteria.
The gas lighting is beyond the pale. "This isn't happening." "This isn't real."
It IS real. And it should be obvious to anyone that messing with a child's development is just plain wrong, whether they are truly dysphoric or not.
Frankly, I'm not for adults transitioning either. They never truly pass. The condition appears to be a mad hybrid of extreme narcissism and schizophrenia. The 'transgender' people I knew in the 80s and 90s were certifiably insane death cultists. Why anyone would encourage their kid to do this is proof that the most "educated" among us are merely cogs in an ideological wheel, incapable of critical thinking and much more concerned with how they appear to others -- another aspect of narcissism. Note in this article that it's mostly mothers who truck their kids into the "gender clinic." (Gee, if my kid is showing too much interest in heroin, how about taking him to the methadone truck?)
To put it country simple, this gender craze is so blatantly misguided, I've utterly lost respect for most of the useful idiots who believe in it. An old friend transed his son. HIs wife's profile picture is the transgender flag with a candle in the middle. This is her RELIGION. The kid is baby Jesus. They puberty blocked him, which means that his penis hasn't grown. My friend told me that he's going to get bottom surgery soon. That comes with a nearly 100% complication rate. How cool he'll look with a colostomy bag.
"Now they were coming to us because their parents, usually just mothers, had been told by someone in an LGBT organization that gender identity was their child’s real problem, or the child had seen something online about the benefits of transition." - What is really amazing to me is the defensive position when someone declares that you should not have an opinion about the efficacy of this because you are not a physician - and then we discover that single mothers and LGBT groupies are the key stakeholders here. You can't make this stuff up.
This seems to be driven mostly by white liberal middle/upper class moms and progressive couples. This is not something that is seen widely in black and hispanic communities. They seem to be outwardly and loudly opposed to this craziness. Try to figure that one out.
Ever noticed how many celebrities have “queer” kids, and not just one but multiples?
There's the one lunatic "Real Housewife Of Who Gives A Shit" woman that has like 4 of her 4 kids either trans, non-binary, or fluid (whatever that is). I mean.....what's the odds? The other interesting thing is that this phenomenon is also regional. Guess which regions see the highest numbers?
Munchausen by proximity
Evan, I can guarantee that hunting and fishing are not a popular pastime in those regions!!!
You certainly have a point about a family where 4/4 kids have transed-out.
About regions - check out the graphs:
https://pitt.substack.com/p/why-is-this-happening-and-who-can
"Blue America dominates supply. Blue America dominates demand. But it’s not 100%." It is everywhere now.
My concern, Evan, is that if you dismiss the entire problem as one that only happens to nutto families in deep blue places - then people & organizations like Newsom & Bonta, the AAP, and the teachers unions will get away with reshaping society. It has gone very far already
And, the Glitter mothers can lure kids to CA where it is home free: https://pitt.substack.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
Also, once the State has this much power, what is next?
They view their trans kids as an accessory to virtue signal with. The more they have, the "better person" they are.
Evan, liberal upper/upper middle class women are the troops and police of this mass hysteria. But the masterminds are billionaires like Pritzkers, Stryker, et al dumping tons of $$$$$$$ into universities and hospitals, liberal nonprofits like ACLU and all "feminist" organizations, and giving political donations. Megyn Kelly did a deep report on this. Here's the segment but she delve into it much more in episode 647.
Segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNq7dYOdQyQ
Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPng5vskhSQ
Although there is some truth to that - it is not quite as simple. The Williams Institute reports that “The racial/ethnic distribution of youth and adults who identify as transgender appears generally similar to the U.S. population, though our estimates mirror prior research that found transgender youth and adults are more likely to report being Latinx and less likely to report being White compared to the U.S. population.”
They report that 0.5% of White adults, 0.6% of Black adults, and 0.7% of Latino adults are trans-identified. Among youth it’s 1.3% White, 1.4% Black, and 1.8% Latino. So that is a significant differential, 40 percent.
Source: How Many Adults and Youth Identify As Transgender in the United States? UCLA School of Law Williams Institute (June 2022)
And, today it is enforced by politicians, for instance in CA: With laws like AB665 (lowering the age of consent to 12 for gender counseling and residential shelter, without parental consent or even notification) California's leaders (Newsom, Bonta, Wiener, Thurmond) have allied with the real-life Child Catchers and Comprachicos. [4][5] (Erin Friday is on the case: “The parents will have no idea what happened to their child. Imagine their fear and anxiety. These parents are criminalized without an accusation, evidence or trial.”) With SB107 (giving CA custody of out-of-state children who come to CA for gender-affirming care, with or without a parent) California's leaders are becoming Child Catchers and Comprachicos. The stuff of nightmares."
https://pitt.substack.com/p/eugenics-in-california-never-again
And, driven by schools: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/school_district_says_that_parents_not_entitled_to_know_their_kids_gender_identity.html
I have written my story on these pages and others, describing my family's experience with this "gender dysphoria". We were so lucky as to have also been part of the "double whammy" of "recovered memory".... My family has been shredded. These charlatan psychologists and psychiatrists must be exposed. In my story, neither I nor my son-in-law bought into the hype and was able to prevent transitioning, and can report that my granddaughter is only gay..... not the wrong gender.
People need to wake up and STOP this damage to our children!
JBell. My family was horribly impacted as well with the "recovered memory" mythology. It was the beginning of my eyes opening to the fake mantle of "science" that supposedly supports all psychology practice. The harm done to my once intact family, has been irrevocable, all at the hands of purportedly compassionate and trained "professionals"
I am sorry to hear this. I am waiting on the "time heals all wounds" part to commence.
"Medicine, unfortunately, is not immune to dangerous groupthink that results in patient harm."
So I guess we can put medicine in the same category as generally agreeing to be against terrorist attacks and calling for the genocide of the Jews. Leftist groupthink always results in innocents being harmed. They're just always too busy congratulating themselves for "bending the arch of history" to notice.
Groupthink seems to be an interesting form of ‘mass hysteria’ in slow motion. Mass hysteria is a well-recognized phenomenon that has occurred throughout history (an interesting Google exercise). Trained professionals should have been able to do better than to fall for a form of mass hysteria - it is too bad it has come to the point where only the legal system is available to hold them accountable.
a legal system the Left delegitimizes and insists be abolished every single time a decision goes against them
The legal system is slow, cumbersome, corrupt, and extremely expensive to access unless a law firm takes a case on contingency. This field NEEDS a dramatic course correction based on the facts stated in this article that many already know to be the truth.
We just saw it with the COVID vax.
Logic is dead; so is reason. Sorry.
This is what happens when academia pushes the notion that there are no objective truths.
Spot on!
I wish this was the only result!
I'm not always a fan of the legal profession, but "gender affirming care" seems to be an issue custom made for litigation. I hope that the dam breaks and the courts are flooded with Detransitioners suing these "medical professionals" and their controlling organizations for every penny they have. Only then, will our cowardly politicians finally pass legislation to outright ban these vile medical procedures.
I think we need to remove the term "transition" from the discussion. There is no transition. There is cosmetic surgery followed by likely very damaging hormonal therapy that is necessary for that person as long as they want to maintain the pretense; and which can be assumed to be a profitable long term revenue stream for the Big Pharma companies who have presumably played a large role in this whole fiasco, which consists mainly in manipulating vulnerable children into a lifelong dependence on something they sell.
It is worth noting, too, that nothing is EVER gained in these cosmetic surgeries--which to state the obvious carry all the inherent risks of any other surgery.
If you are a man, you get your penis and testicles cut off. They won't grow back. They cannot easily be reattached. All the pleasure and fun that so many men experience below the belt is gone for you, permanently. You still have your anus, but you had that before. Nothing has been gain and something important has been lost.
You may get breast surgery, such that you sport, say, a pair of D cup breasts. But loss of sensitivity in the nipples--which sensually is the most important part--is a common feature for women, and there is every reason to assume it is an equal or greater risk for men. You may have larger breasts, but you can't feel them is a very possible outcome.
And if you were just gay, half of gay sex just disappeared for you, didn't it? You can be a catcher but never a pitcher. And to the extent gay men seem to be turned on by male phalluses, you have nothing to offer. You are neither man nor woman. The benefits of both have been denied you BY YOU, by your own decision, made in a hormonal moment (adolescence) and abetted by idiots and sociopaths.
And you speak out, but everyone tells you you are a hater and a loser and to just shut up. THAT THERE is the real suicide risk.
And women lose their breasts entirely, and whatever weird magic some plastic surgeon may be able to work "down there" will never be the equal of what you had. Women are naturally very orgasmic, so they likely retain much more than men do, but it's still never again what it should have been, even ignoring the lost chance of having children.
This whole thing is a mass distraction, a hallucination, an induced psychosis. Nobody is winning but those making bank lying to naive youth on the front end, and suppressing their later righteous indignation on the back end, with the help of medical "professionals" who amount to well trained and well paid whores.
Excess testosterone sends these girls and women into premature menopause, resulting in more severe vaginal atrophy than anything I've heard of from menopausal women. They also can experience abdominal pain during orgasm, which might result from what the hormone is doing to their internal organs. (Most are advised to have complete hysterectomies down the road). If that's not bad enough, premature menopause is linked to dementia.
I really think these hormonal treatments are going to cut DECADES off the lives of these kids. It's like being a 3 pack a day smoker combined with a couple quarts of booze.
Most of these kids are just trying to avoid pain--the pain of adulthood, of adult sexuality, of the anxieties of that moment. But the horrible truth is that these decisions made in moments of stress under the advisement of what can only be called ghouls makes their lives in total much worse.
The data was clear ten years ago that suicidality goes UP following cosmetic surgery. And the reasoning that seemed to apply then applies now: they take this thing as far as it can go, and it isn't enough. And it isn't what they wanted. And they can't go back. There is no forward or back, so the next direction is out.
Decent human beings take responsibility for their actions. They look, as the author of this article did, at what is happening downstream from interventions they allowed and facilitated, and if those results are on balance bad, they feel guilt, and stop doing those things.
Most of these men who "transition" now are not gay. They have autogynephilia. Also they don't do medical transition anymore. They just "identify as women" with the genitals intact.
This started out as a tiny minority group of gay men or men with serious mental issues of gender dysphoria. Since the political normalization of it by the Woke Left into LGBTQXYZalphabetsoup+++, all sorts of people with kinks are now "part of the community" including a much larger segment of men with autogynephilia but are still heterosexuals (they now are "lesbians") and pedophiles (sorry was I supposed to say the politically correct term, "Minor Attracted People" or "MAP"?)
And there it IS! The end game that nobody speaks of. An adolescent who has yet to experience sex is now denied that joy forever!
Nothing to add -- but a "like" does not do it justice.
The big issue is that a young person does not yet have the experience or wisdom to fully understand the choice that they are making. Telling a 14 year old boy that he may never have kids does hit that hard to many of them. They don't have the frame of reference to even start to understand how much more of their lives are ahead of them, let alone understand that they may regret not being able to have children.
But as OX said below, many of the men these days are not the ones getting the actual medical stuff done. They just get the label and wear a wig and/or women's clothing. The transitioning issues are more for women. These girls are the ones taking hormones and getting their breasts cut off and then finding out how much those things forever impact their lives. To never be able to create life inside of themselves.
“Transitioning” is marketing language. My prescription glasses have transition lenses. They are the same lens, only darker in sunlight. If I were required to have my lower leg amputated I would hope the surgeon would tell me exactly that rather than saying my leg would be transitioning to a shorter version.
Yet another Loss of Language instance.
It is NOT "Big Pharma" that is doing the manipulation! Look to the ones PRESCRIBING these drugs and PUSHING these butcheries! THESE are the actual enablers, the practitioners of the false "science" of psychiatry and sociology. And when you add into the mix the leftist groups that thrive on the atomization of the population you will find that the issue is MUCH deeper than a pharmaceutical industry that is responding to a perceived "need".
I won't disagree, but by and large Big Pharma buys the doctors it needs. Were you aware that medical doctors get almost no training in medicines? An average pharmacist knows vastly more about pharmaceuticals than an average doctor. If they are GP's there is a good chance much of their "training" is done by some combination of blondes with big boobs and paid technicians for the deeper sales.
And to my mind the main motivating factor of the Left is nihilistic destructiveness. If they make a fetish of power it is solely to prevent anything growing back. Look at Cuba. Castro went scorched Earth, and nothing has grown back, and nothing will grow back as long as psychotic sadists are in charge.
And obviously disrupting such a BASIC, foundational element of human culture as gender has to be a huge source of pleasure for them.
But in our society nearly everyone is for sale, and the main culprits in most social maladies are those who have monetized one mental illness or another.
But I can't really feel confident diagnosing the cause at its root. I speak what is on my mind that day--as I did this morning--but it's always possible I will see things differently tomorrow. My views evolve, as I think all views should.
The obsession with gender has been a bizarre phenomenon from the beginning. It has been no different than other fads such as hula hoops or nose rings, but with far more devastating consequences. Unless the charlatans in the medical community who pushed this stuff are ruined financially and professionally there will never be a return to sanity. How could so many of us non-medical professionals have known this was a sick, twisted fraud from the beginning, while the media, government and medical community declared it to be “life saving”? Yet another form of mass hysteria which has historically led to atrocities beyond human imagining.
At least nose rings and tattoos don't leave you sterile.
Mass hysteria sounds apt. A monstrous red flag should have been the hundred fold increase in gender dysphoria cases in the last ten/fifteen years. So what happened all of a sudden? Why wasn’t the medical community suspicious? A likely correlation would be the explosion in social media, but to my knowledge this avenue of enquiry was never explored, at least not publicly. All they did, at least in this country, was double down on an ideology to correct a problem that thirty years ago did not exist.
I have been thinking the same thing. It is like a psychological breakout of a disease. The normal response would be to say "hey, something is going on here" and to stop and study it. Instead they enable it to spread.
What the medical community and activists will tell you is that children now feel freer to acknowledge their inner gender. Of course, that tells me that neither of these groups really knows kids.
Atrocities are all human imagining.
Where does that come from?