The Real ‘Conversion Therapy’ Threat

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Conversion therapy bans conflate sexual orientation and gender identity, and so also seek to ban talk therapy to help gender-confused kids, including gay and proto-gay kids, to feel comfortable with their bodies. Instead, they want “gender-affirming” medical intervention as the only allowed treatment for distress experienced by minors who don’t conform to traditional gender stereotypes (i.e., “masculine” girls and “effeminate” boys). That’s why growing numbers of LGB people oppose “conversion therapy” bans by local and national governments.



And this:

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Battle Lines

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Gay community and gay rights activism/politics were once intricately bound together. Now, what passes for gay community and LGBTQ+ activism/politics seem to be worlds apart, although many older gay men still heavily fund LGBTQ+ activist organizations, apparently unaware of the agenda these groups now support, such as transing gender-nonconforming gay and proto-gay kids and putting physically intact males who self-identify as female into girl’s and women’s locker rooms and sports.

From the Down Under, “Battle Lines Drawn as Gay, Trans Camps Square Off.”

But trans vs. gay may be the future generally. Via LGB Alliance Australia:

“Let’s be clear. ‘LGBTQIA+ no longer represents us. It now encompasses institutions that oppose the rights of lesbians, gay man and bisexual people, erasing our language, distorting our reality and mischaracterizing our rights as hate.”





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And On It Goes …

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True, not all trans kids detransition (so far), but that doesn’t justify the continuing unfairness of allowing bio males who identify as female to compete in girls’ and women’s sports. Or, as below, pretending that a female who competes on the women’s team is a male!:



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May the Truth Set Them Free

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A new Finnish report on the aftermath of medical transitioning of minors and young adults is making waves. Here, from Any Ngo:

A new academic study published in Acta Paediatrica followed over 2,000 trans teens and young people who received “gender-affirming” care.
After treatment, mental health problems became more common, not less, and these trans people remained several times more likely to need psychiatric care than their non-trans peers. Psychiatric morbidity surged especially among those who transitioned medically through surgeries and/or cross-sex hormones.
The study’s findings are part of a growing body of research showing no improvements or even worse outcomes for people who transition, contradicting the claims from the ACLU, GLAAD, and leftist trans activists.

Rich Guggenheim points out that:

Finland has some of the best national health records in the world. Every specialist psychiatric visit, diagnosis, medication purchase, and procedure is logged. There is no loss to follow up. Researchers followed these young people for an average of 5.5 years after their first clinic visit (up to 25 years for the earliest cases).

Guggenheim adds:

Major LGBTIQA+ organizations have abandoned their original mission. Groups like GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign, and GLSEN once fought for basic rights for gays and lesbians: decriminalization, marriage equality, and protection from discrimination. Today they have shifted almost entirely to pragmatic outreach that targets children and pushes the radical trans queer agenda.


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And what the truth is up against:



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Here’s my latest at Substack: May the Truth About Trans Treatments for Kids Set Them Free:

Call it “medical gender reassignment,” “sex-trait-altering procedures,” or “transgender medical interventions.” Just don’t call it “gender-affirming care.”

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Supreme Court Punts on ‘Conversion Therapy’

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Combining “change therapies” targeting sexual orientation and gender identity under the same rubric is one of the worst consequences of replacing the lesbian and gay rights movement with LGBTQ+.



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As I’ve said, if Trump wants to allow therapists to help kids with gender confusion realize they can be a gender-nonconforming boy or girl, then “progressives” want to outlaw such counseling and only allow puberty blockers and breast/genital surgery as state-permitted treatment options.



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The Ultimate Agenda

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But of course:

University of California, Riverside associate professor Brandon Robinson argued that a sexual identity label like “gay” or “lesbian” “harms trans people” and called for abolishing sexual identities altogether. …
Robinson, who uses they/them pronouns, explained the importance of moving beyond “gender essentialism” from sexual identities, which the professor claims can be built around gender “stereotypes.”
“If being ‘gay’ means being a man attracted to men, it assumes ‘man’ is a stable, inherent category, when history shows the definition of manhood is constantly changing,” Robinson said. “Gender essentialism also harms trans people, who often complicate those binary boundaries.”
Robinson included traditional labels like “gay” or “lesbian” as ones to abolish, wanting readers to question “why we privilege gender and genitals above all other attributes” in our desires.


For those who discount conservative-leaning news sources, here’s the UC Riverside press release.

Similarly:

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Defending Effeminate Boys

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Kevin Waldman writes that he:

…conducted a mixed-methods study on the University of Michigan campus examining identity formation, belonging, and psychological safety within campus LGBTQ coalition structures. …
Put plainly: the data suggest that gay students experience pressure to align with trans-centered frameworks, while trans students do not report a comparable expectation to align with gay-centered frameworks. … Gay male participants in interviews did not describe hostility toward trans peers. They described vigilance. They described scanning their speech before speaking. They described calculating reputational risk. They described fatigue. …
The findings from this study suggest that universities should consider restoring orientation-specific spaces for gay youth – spaces organized explicitly around same-sex relational development and psychosocial experience – alongside broader LGBTQ coalitions.

While I question whether “broader LGBTQ+ coalitions” make sense given the conflicting interests of those of us who are gay and those who are trans-identifying, particularly transactivists (i.e., protecting and safeguarding the natural development of gender-nonconforming kids vs. encouraging them to trans-identify and socially/medically transition), kudos to the author for going so far as to encourage gay-specific social spaces for gay students. I hope the pushback from the TQ+ side isn’t overwhelming.

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Gays Faced Forced Sex-Reassignment in Iran

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Just a reminder: Under the Islamic Republic’s penal code, sexual relations between people of the same sex are illegal and strictly punished by imprisonment, corporal punishment, or execution. But there is a legal and socially approved option for homosexuals: they can undergo state-sanctioned sex-reassignment surgery to avoid persecution.

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