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Oct 2Edited

Recently, one of my kids told me that if I haven’t questioned my gender identity or transitioned, I can’t understand the subject or even recognize the issues. Therefore, I have no right to comment or judge.

My reply is that I’m fully able to recognize abuse and manipulation when I see them, and I’ll judge them for what they are.

My judgment isn’t aimed at “being trans,” but at those who harm vulnerable people by using their traumas and emotional distress as tools for manipulating them — as happened to Roxanne.

Not to mention the abuse of forcing women to compete against men and a list of other abuses.

Unfortunately, a lot of other people are so blinded by their desire to be “inclusive” and accepting, they can’t see this stuff for what it is. So they signal their luxury beliefs across social media, get emotional highs, and refuse to even consider the possibility that something horrific is happening to real people in the real world.

But their blindness is willful and they’re part of the problem. And when the class action lawsuits start to make the news and the victims finally get a spoonful of justice, the celebrity and other advocates will quietly delete their Facebook and X posts and pretend they never said a thing.

Then they’ll find new virtue bubbles.

So yes, I can judge this ideology, because I see it for what it is: abusive.

Roxanne: if you read this, I’m so sorry for what happened to you. Take comfort in the fact that you have a caring family that will help you recover from this, and from the fact that your courage to speak up will help others caught in this horrible trap. You’re helping end this abuse.

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