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Ben Appel puts it on the line in this excerpt from his newsletter:

Click above for his full article, which is well worth reading.

Expect more sad stories such as this on about detransitioners who recognize they are gay, not trans:

Relatedly, worth noting. Wesley Yang writes:

The transgender issue only affects a small handful of people directly. But it’s more important than any other cultural issue, with the widest implications. All those who scoff at my single-minded focus on it are wrong.
It touches on every aspect of American political economy and knowledge formation, every aspect of its manners and mores, every aspects of American character formation, and is the linchpin of the Therapeutic Statism that is the new secularized pseudo-theology at the foundation of institutional America’s warrant to rule.
Any understanding of this issue that does not credit its overarching importance is profoundly defective.

The transgender issue only affects a small handful of people directly. But it's more important than any other cultural issue, with the widest implications. All those who scoff at my single-minded focus on it are wrong.

It touches on every aspect of American political economy…

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 29, 2024

Here’s Ben Appel’s speech at the rally outside the Supreme Court:

Speaking truth to power through the shivers!! Go @benappel !!! pic.twitter.com/FDD6yX7FVq

— MaryCate Delvey (@marycatedelvey) December 4, 2024

And this:

An older transwoman talked to me when I was 21 or so about my interest in transitioning.

'You'll spend the rest of your life asking yourself why you gave up being a cute, but insecure, gay man and trapped yourself in the body of someone who kind of looks like a woman.'

— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) December 4, 2024

I'm grateful every day I didn't transition.

I didn't give up a future I could have never imagined for myself.

I didn't trap myself.
I didn't find out too late that it wasn't the answer to my pain.

Someone who knew, told me the truth.

That's why I speak out today.

— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) December 4, 2024

Unbelievable, and absolutely believable:

Rice: "How many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits?"

Sotomayor: "Every medical treatment has risk. Even taking Aspirin." pic.twitter.com/I4k8ujr5Hl

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 4, 2024

Put more simply: https://t.co/8PV9JLTsef

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 5, 2024

When one parent wants to trans their child, and the other parent wants to save their child from life-long medicalization, bodily mutilation, sterility and the inability to experience orgasm as adults, guess who woke judges side with:

Worth repeating:

Plus:

Andrew Sullivan explains how so-called gender-affirming chemical and surgical treatment:

…overwhelmingly targets gay kids. In Britain they became the vast majority of the children sent for sex reassignment, before it was banned outside a clinical trial. And we know that these “doctors” have no way of objectively knowing whether a child is actually trans or gay or depressed or autistic — and yet they also oppose any broad mental health assessment of a child, if that child has simply declared himself or herself the opposite sex.

This is not forgivable. It demands accountability. These “doctors” know full well that their experiments have no basis in science, that thousands of gay detransitioners have had their lives and bodies destroyed, and yet continue to experiment on children, without knowing if they are actually trans, of if they are gay, or bi, or autistic, or in a social contagion. Worse, every allegedly gay group — GLAAD, HRC, Trevor Project, Lambda Legal, ACLU, et al. — supports this as an ideological transqueer “necessity” and will allow no debate and no dissent.

Sullivan concludes, “What has happened — what is still happening — is the worst attack on gay kids since Anita Bryant. But this time, the danger is coming from inside the house.”

Andrew Doyle, along similar lines:

And worth repeating:

And the band plays on: