Transgender Issues

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.

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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.


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

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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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Was TQ+ Surge a Fad or Contagion?

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A 4 percent rate of trans self-identification for American college students is still ridiculously high.




Stop the celebration?


Prof. Kaufmann discusses his report:



Related and worth repeating:

His high school “gay-straight alliance,” instead of focusing on homophobia and acceptance of being gay, promoted transitioning for students who were gender nonconforming. In college, he became further immersed in the gender-transition ideology pushed by faculty and supported by administrators.



Lauren Leggierico, co-executive director of the LGB Courage Coalition, tells Mariah Burton Nelson: >>Gay functions nowadays are mostly trans. You go to a lesbian party – and it’s not even called a lesbian party. It’s called a queer women’s party. There’s no one under thirty that looks like me: gender nonconforming. They are all medicalized. They’re all “trans men.”<< https://strongerwomen.substack.com/p/when-girls-who-would-have-been-lesbians

– Stephen Henry Miller

Read on Substack

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‘Conversion Therapy’ Before the Supreme Court

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The U.S. Supreme Court just heard arguments on a Colorado law that bans “conversion therapy” for those under age 18, defined as efforts to change a minor client’s gender identity or sexual orientation, including “behaviors or gender expressions.” The law, however, allows therapy that provides “assistance to a person undergoing gender transition.”
The problem, once again, is the facile comparison of attempts to change sexual orientation, which have been proven to cause harm, and therapy aimed at helping gender-nonconforming kids find peace with their physical sex. In the latter case, we know that most gender-confused minors outgrow any bodily dysphoria and many, perhaps most, come to recognize they are gay, not transgender, if they are not socially and medically transitioned.
Combining “change therapy” 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+ advocacy.

Added: The media reporting on this case uniformly doesn’t acknowledge that two very different types of therapy for minors are being commingled — attempts to change sexual orientation (bad and anti-gay) and attempts to help gender nonconforming kids (largely proto-gay) to be more at ease with their physical sex (good and pro-gay).





The Free Press gets it rights:





Related: His high school “gay-straight alliance,” instead of focusing on homophobia and acceptance of being gay, promoted transitioning for students who were gender nonconforming. In college, he became further immersed in the gender-transition ideology pushed by faculty and supported by administrators.



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In Key November Elections, the ‘Pro-LGBTQ+’ Democrats Aren’t ‘Pro-Gay’

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Virginia’s Democratic nominee for governor, Abigail Spanberger, can’t bring herself to oppose biological males in women’s sports.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/abigail-spanberger-virginia-dem-gov-hopeful-ripped-for-weak-kamala-answer-on-trans-athletes



Spanberger has also urged her supporters to “let your rage fuel you” against political opponents. Hint: “rage” rarely leads to constructive engagement, but in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder and rising violence on the left, it’s, let’s say, deplorable.

Meanwhile, the Democratic candidate for Attorney General running with her, Jay Jones, sent text messages in 2022 discussing shooting then-Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert and wishing death to his children because “only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.”

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