Justice for Victims Means Holding Perpetrators to Account

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Should have been $20 million.






Detransitioner Chloe Cole’s story is similarly tragic — assigned puberty blockers and given a double mastectomy at 16, she now suffers from chronic pain and struggles with sexual functioning:


And this:

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Reasserting Gender Common Sense in Girls’ and Women’s Sports

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And summing it up:



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How We Got to Where We Are

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Excellent analysis by Art Morty. A few excerpts:

>>Millions of teenagers were handed smartphones and left to congregate largely unsupervised on social media platforms like Tumblr and Reddit, where ordinary adolescent anxieties about sex and identity collided with the abstractions of queer theory. En masse, young people began to ruminate over their supposedly “wrong” bodies….<<

>>A vast medical infrastructure has risen to cater to this new market. “Gender clinics” have sprouted across the continent, generating billions in revenue by prescribing lifelong drug regimens and performing surgeries that permanently alter healthy bodies and frequently result in sterility. ….<<

>>At the same time that transgender identification emerged as a novel mass phenomenon among young people, the original adult male population from which transgender ideology first emerged — men with an eroticized internal self-concept of “womanhood” — underwent an explosive expansion into public life. Men who had previously kept cross-dressing practices in private began, in numbers never before seen, to demand recognition not merely as transgender, but as actual women in law and material fact — a categorical shift in how sex itself was defined and enforced. The consequences have been far-reaching, particularly for women’s rights, gay rights, and freedom of speech, as private self-conceptions were elevated into public, legal, and institutional demands.<<


All too common these days:

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Understanding ‘Useful Idiocy’

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And more of Alexander’s examples:

Ideology is how useful idiots know what to think about things they don’t understand. Perhaps “From the river to the sea” sounds poetic to the “Free Palestine” activist, but ask them which river and which sea and you’ll likely get a blank stare. It’s the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, of course, but the point is that chanting the slogan effectively calls for the elimination of Israel and its people. It’s a bit genocidal when you think about it, which they don’t.
“Trans women are women” works in the same way. It’s not a claim about biological reality but an unfalsifiable redefinition of the word woman. It also functions as a sort of loyalty oath. Ask for a definition of woman, and it quickly falls apart. That’s because slogans are engineered to short-circuit thought and leave reason at the door.

Also worth sharing:

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What We’re Up Against

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“Jack of Shadows,” the handle of a gay man who worked in sexual health and HIV prevention in a midsize Northeastern U.S. city, shares his story via LGB Courage Coalition:

My STI testing booth at the Pride festival was overrun by obviously autistic women on testosterone, so-called “trans children,” their very proud parents, all manner of Queers for Palestine, and, of course, Furries. This parade of mentally confused kids, oblivious parents, and—Furries—was just too strange to ignore. I often say that gender ideology is a mile wide but paper thin. Once you see it for what it is, you can’t unsee it. And I had seen too much. …

My advisor, a child-maternal health expert with a PhD in epidemiology, was censored by journal editors when she submitted papers using “controversial” words such as “mother” or “woman.” If she refused to use preferred terms such as “birthing person,” “uterus haver,” or my least favorite, “chest feeder,” her reputation and employment would be endangered. In secret, we vented our disgust at these dehumanizing, dystopian terms that the public health sector had so rapidly embraced. …

As [a required training] ended, I politely pointed out that “trans men” have different concerns than men do. Women who believe they are gay men are still women with all of the same sexual and reproductive concerns women have (pregnancy, cervical health). Furthermore, sex matters when it comes to infectious disease. … When I carefully, painstakingly pointed this out—like walking on eggshells—the pushback was swift and severe. …

I entered this field because, as a Gen X gay man who lived through the AIDS crisis, I wanted to help others in a way the generation before me had not. … Yet the moment I questioned the dogma, even privately, I was pushed out of the field I had dedicated almost a decade of my life to.


Related:


Tragic:

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‘Youth Gender Medicine’ Is Driven by Ideology (and Profits)

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And:



Appalling, but true. Mia Hughes recounts: “[N]o one expresses any concern about allowing young people to sacrifice their fertility and their sexual function before their old enough to understand what that means, because ‘first, do no harm’ has no place in their ideological quest.”



People of conscience are organizing and fighting back against the new gender ideology:

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