Good timing for this article since I'm currently watching, "What is a Woman?".
Social work is one of the most worthless degrees out there. Statistically speaking they are one of the most prone to mental illness and they have the lowest IQ out of all of Academia.
I think things in society are finally beginning to change and we will see a massive turn in the next couple years. People are done with DEI, woke indoctrination, and and virtue signaling corporations.
My only concern is that it continues and people don't give up. The Bud light and Target brands need to be destroyed to set an example for others. I truly hope more people also support school choice and realize that the humanities and social sciences are completely broken.
Follow the money. The billionaire Pritzker family is the Sackler family of trans. They fund trans health initiatives and profit from trans drugs. The corrupted doctors, health systems, and big pharma companies view trans as a cash cow. Until we hold them accountable, the madness will continue to destroy children's lives: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-do-no-harm-part-2
Also look at the Stryker family, whose John (net worth 4 Billion) heads the Arcus Foundation, another leading funder of trans rights (& curiously, primate habitat conservation). What does Stryker Corp. do? Leading manufacturer of surgical instruments.
Jennifer Bilek, being one of the earliest (and bravest) voices in the debate, has been smeared with many things. I don't know how much the Stryker family benefits from the emerging medical apparatus of trans but it is a fact that Arcus Foundation money was instrumental in the corruption of the UK gay rights organisation Stonewall. The donations are visible in the published accounts.
Arcus is, of course, a Stryker family charitable trust.
Yes, and he is still a man whatever he calls himself - Jennifer/James - and regardless of what cosmetic surgeries he may or may not have. If it were just a matter of wanting their pals to call these dudes "she" nobody would care - but these men need the enforced "affirmation" of all of humanity. And, this is not mental illness/narcissism?
Also, they seem to need the validation of transing the girls:
Look at the people trying to take down the above study. They wrote a letter threatening that they will no longer review academic papers if the real scientists are not taken down. How about we take them at their word? Let them find other employment or or a nice mental institution. Anyone who has viewed "What is a Woman" will find it interesting to see "Marci" Bowers name on the letter against the academic paper on ROGD. These mentally ill and fetished folks are trying to "Lisa Littman" the paper in order to justify their own choices in lifestyle and also profit making (harming others).
We need to insist that Biden remove "Rachael" Richard Levine as health secretary as he promotes harming children - not that Biden would understand - so his handlers need to do this - NOW.
More than gender issues, Mr Levine should be removed because as a health official in Pennsylvania during the pandemic, he issued a regulation prohibiting nursing homes from screening visitors and new patients for COVID, on the grounds that the virus was already prevalent in nursing homes.
The morning before he issued the regulation, he took his mother out of a nursing home and brought her home.
I chose my pronouns carefully, in the hope Mr Levine will find them offensive. It will be the only penalty he's likely to face for his actions during the pandemic.
This! I believe Levine is a toxic force where President Biden is concerned. Joe Biden is a caring man with good intentions who has a supposed expert telling him that transing children will prevent them from committing suicide, and that the caring, Progressive thing to do is support the child's own choices. Levine is his only source of information. I would give anything for a Gender Critical writer like Ms. Shrier, Kara Dansky, etc. to have a chance to show President Biden the harm gender ideology is doing to Women's Rights and to the lives and bodies of confused, sick children.
No, Joe Biden is not a caring man. He is a corrupt, greedy, profoundly dishonest creep who has his own bizarre invasive thing going on with underage girls. He's also affected by senile dementia and wouldn't even have the mental capacity to understand what Ms. Shrier would have to say.
They won’t because: 1. campaigns are being funded by the people mentioned above 2. Millennials and Gen Z are believers so this is how they buy their vote. Another point is this started back with Obama allowing trans to serve in the military & have the SRS paid for by tax payer dollars.
Joe Biden hasn't the foggiest understanding of the trans debate. He's got a bunch of woke kiddie aides telling him what to think about this & he doesn't have time to do his own research as he's got *real* problems to deal with. Someone adult needs to pull him aside and point out he's harming women and children.
I'm not voting Democrat next year. I'll 'throw away' my vote on an indy rather than vote against women and chilren (which is one of the many reasons why I don't vote Republican).
If you are interested in the social contagion aspect, you might be interested in this article out not long ago in The TransAtlantic – "Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?". If you get something from it, please do share...
Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Illinois where the Pritzker demons oppress their people?
Howdy, stop going to Hyatt Hotels.
No worries, this fat wealthy man will meet his match, and then bow down like the low dog he is. And then grovel and screech as King Jesus sends him to the Lake of Fire.
Yes. The Federalist put out a very detailed expose back in '18. Trans billionaire Pritzker, trans millionaire Rothblatt, gay billionaire Stryker and gay millionaires Gill, Pike and Bonham, as well as the estate of deceased gay millionaire Weiland.
If only it was just limited to big business elites. The truth is much darker than this. Take another example, most educated people have learned to attribute the madness of the Cultural Revolution to Mao and his gang of acolytes. The real problem though was the tens of millions of biddable, favour-seeking, grudge-bearing 'ordinary folk' who made Mao important in the first place. Its exactly the same now with millions of tertiary 'educated' bureaucrats and administrators etc etc who do these gender fanatics' bidding. Why did our wonderful Western 'free' media ever give voice and traction to this tiny tiny minority's obsessions in the first place. THAT is the real Western disease
My own answer - for what it's worth - is that it is a downside inherent in mass media that it will give a disproportionately large voice to certain kinds....the politico-obsessive, the mouthy and malcontent especially. More balanced people will simply be far less likely to be forever spouting their opinions. A tragedy really.
MAGA has a new sheriff in town. America confirmed the mandate. The insanity of gender dysphoria is coming to its demonic end. This kind of leaching off the teat of American wealth is going to end, and soon.
Well said, especially "The billionaire Pritzker family is the Sackler family of trans." My wife and I listened to a radio adaption of a book about the Sackler's crimes. We are in the UK and I had not been aware. I was appalled.
I dearly hope you’re right, but I FEAR that Ms. Shrier is... We are SO much further down the rabbit hole than people realize. Wokeism is now baked into every facet of the structure of our society: education (K-12 onwards); the economy (ESG in both private and public sectors); government (how about Biden’s extensive regulations -- via executive orders -- to embed cadres of DEI commissars into every department of every government agency); sports (Title IX, anyone); the arts; the mainstream media (Substack is one of the few places of truth left, and it’s not actually “mainstream”); etc. We have truly undergone a bloodless coup.
Once it becomes a Belief when people think they’re going to get some sort of salvation at the end of the gender journey. It’s very hard to get people to stop believing with so much sunk cost,
Please do not use the moniker Ms. It is an extreme insult to actual women and an insult their own psyche. I prefer to use the ancient terms of endearment. Miss, for young women before they marry, or even much older women who never do marry. Or Mrs, for women who fulfill their ancient purpose in life. To create a home. Welcoming to their husband and their children. And grandchildren. It is honorable to be a Miss. some are too shy to be married. Some devote themselves to God for life.
Men do not share a similar moniker. But they also have stations in life. Virulent men always prefer marriage to procreate and prosper our species. Some men are damaged in health or body. Some men are perpetually single men.
Jesus Christ spoke on this topic in Matthew 19. We are not all the same. But we are also not deviant freaks like the trans whatevers or the homosexual deviants.
I'm offended if I'm not called Ms. The titles Miss & Mrs. are indicative of ownership in a patriarchal system. I am neither the property of a father or a husband. I have my own agency. Mixing extreme religious ideology with opposition to gender ideology gives the Trans Activists a powerful slur to use against Liberals who might otherwise speak out against it. If you want to accomplish a cultural shift, it's going to take Centrists of both parties acting together.
Democrats love the centralization of power in Washington.
OTOH they use the promise of centrism as a tactic. Real compromise with Leftists is not really possible because Leftists never really compromise. They sometimes agree to compromise, but after the Right has moved Left, the Left never move Right; the Left always just moves farther Left.
most the females write emails to for work or business i will never meet and its none of my business if their married or their age. so i cant use miss or mrs.
Please. I might communicate with women professionally but do not know whether or not they're married. I may assume one way or the other, but it's an assumption I could easily get wrong.
And with women having entered the work force in massive numbers since the 60s, 'Ms.' became the preferred professional reference. Not to denigrate the institution of marriage, but bc we don't judge the value of a woman's working contributions by making note of her marital status. In that way, men and women remain on equal footing. And thank heaven!
I'm also not referring to a 60-yr old, unmarried woman as 'Miss.' To do so has the ring of saying 'hey you old spinster.' 'Miss' today, connotes a young woman. 'Ms.' (as does Mrs.) tends to connote adult competency.
One need not be on board with all the gender hyperventilating without it also requiring reversion to all anachronistic language -- especially professionally.
It’s very disturbing!I am not brave enough to talk with my Unitarian liberal friends who are totally converted to this new religion. Only a very few realize what is happening.
Tom, your stupidity is in believing that Christianity is the true religion. I believe in God, and there is evidence for God, but "he" is not what people expect. "He" is a multidimensional creature composed of living energy, the same energy we are all composed of. Christianity is an ancient religion filled with the twisted and prejudiced ideas of an ancient culture. Quoting the Bible will get you nowhere when dealing with rational people. This "deviant" has more wisdom than you do.
You seem to be interested in the ways and means in how these things spread. If you are interested in the social contagion aspect of this, you might be interested in this article out not long ago in The TransAtlantic – "Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?". If you get something from it, please do share...
Bud Light’s decision to feature the misogynistic mug of a prancing pony on its beer can and Target’s perverse desire to market “trans-friendly” swimwear to children serve as the latest confirmation of the blue-collar suspicion that liberalism is no longer organized around working-class economic interests, further encouraging conservatives in their feeling of cultural besiegement and the sense that all major institutions of American life are arrayed against their mores and values and traditions.
I hope you don't mind if I throw a spanner in the works.
As someone with eight decades of personal experience with the issue, I'd like to point out that there can be a distinction between being transgender and living with gender dysphoria.
I don't believe that gender dysphoria is defined as a mental illness, although many in the public sector would dismiss it at as such. It can come and go, disappearing for long periods and then returning with greater urgency. Those who think it's a choice don't understand how the accompanying confusion and stress can dominate one's thoughts and make day-to-day living more difficult. I would not wish the condition upon anyone.
Seeking relief, one may well experiment with presenting as the "other" gender because it feels like the right path to take. And then, when the urgency subsides, that person can feel shame and believe that he (most commonly) can and should control the impulse that pushed him in that direction. Can one accurately apply the label of "transgender" to someone without a clear-cut desire to change?
Depending upon the individual, hormone treatment may help to alleviate the dysphoria. It can make it feel less important and more easily controlled. Or, it might reinforce the feelings of those whose urges are stronger and may lead them to consider transition. I think it's important not to paint with too broad a brush and assume that every gender dysphoric person is transgender. One doesn't "grow out of" gender dysphoria. Some can find a way to live with it and some cannot, and a lot depends upon how it impacts the person's life.
I write this hoping to make the point that some who society would deem "transgender" are just as much as odds with what's happening today as is anyone else. The concepts of "transgenderism" and "trans agenda" are foreign to me. I don't favor giving puberty blockers to minors.
I am not gay and I don't live a "lifestyle". I've always been gender dysphoric, but that's not something I'm proud of. I don't need a flag.
Anyone who would define me as a "pervert", "sinner", "child groomer", et al., is - in scientific terms - a blithering idiot.
Real & important stories like this are key to all our understanding of this issue & I really feel for you. Personally I would never dismiss any mental health condition, whether it be ‘gender dysphoria’, schizophrenia or clinical depression. They are all conditions of misperception of reality & must be awful to experience.
As for ‘transitioning’ I think is a misnomer. Nothing is actually crossed over too. Hormones will change your body shape, voice etc, but they will never change your sex. So it becomes a palimpsest, a veil that can partially fool the person themselves but, crucially, it’s to gain affirmation from the rest of the world, from whom the person seeks validation. The problems come when the affirmation is sought for nefarious reasons, as we see in the activist set of people now trying to push an agenda, but also those who would use the conceit in order to disrupt social ‘rules’ ie, entering women’s toilets, changing rooms, hospitals, prisons etc, in order to prey on & abuse women. It becomes an easy route for fetishists & it’s this safeguarding aspect that women seek to address. There is also of course the issue of paedophiles using ‘trans’ ideology to encourage children, usually via social media, into a gender-confused state in order to ‘recruit’ them to their cause.
The word ‘transgender’ is equally problematic. I wear jeans & sweatshirts most of the time, I have short (ish) hair & I only wear make up rarely (weddings, funerals & Christmas mainly!) Does that make me a man? No, because I’m not dysphoric. But you could say I’m not gender conforming either. Because women of my generation (born in the 50s) have been dressing however they like since the 70s. We’ve been wearing trousers & other stereotypically ‘male’ clothing for decades. So now we see men in dresses & lipstick but we’re supposed to think that they actually are women? Or more importantly - THEY think they’re women. But skirts, lipstick, long hair, nail polish… these things don’t ‘make’ a woman. They’re just presentation. And they’re a 50s stereotype. By this definition we’re all ‘transgender’ now, because gender stereotypes are just superficial.
My point is that a man’s urge to ‘be’ a woman can’t come from knowing how a it feels to be a woman. Only a woman can know that. So it probably comes from a need to ‘present’ as a woman - but a throwback woman from the 1950s when they wore skirts & dresses & looked like something out of a 50s soap advert… it’s as if men never got the memo 50 years ago that said it’s ok now - dress how you like, women. As in ‘wear a dress - be fabulous!’
(Check out the song ‘My Conviction’ from the musical ‘Hair’.)
So, if women have broken through the gender ceiling & can wear whatever they like & still be women, man should equally be able to wear whatever they like without anxiety or shame .. and just be men. Gay, straight, bi, whatever. Men who, like women, just want to smash gender stereotypes.
As a person who's very much grounded in logic and reality, I don't understand to this day why I felt such an intense need to appear in public as female mode. I knew it was a masquerade and was certain it would be seen as such by others. I constantly feared for my personal safety when not among people who (to their great credit) accepted my presentation at face value and were unfailingly kind. A psychologist whose advice I sought pronounced me one of the most well-adjusted clients she'd ever had. And yet I was in the grips of something mental that overwhelmed my common sense and stoic nature to push me out the door to risk disaster in many forms. I hated the feeling of being driven to action by something I could not control, and I'm very thankful that my particular flavor of gender dysphoria turned out to be cyclical and has now - at my advanced age - essentially dissipated.
Yes re book. But you’re conflating transgenderism with homosexuality. Check out Michael Bailey’s work on autogynephelia- they are primarily heterosexual men.
Social Workers serve as the middle men and "fixers" between the people looking for handouts and Big Mommy Government. A symbiotic relationship that's so complicated and out of control now, (thanks to thoughtless job, family, and human will destruction) that a job had to be created to meet demand.
I have a friend who is a psychologist, a profession he actually left about 30 years ago and became a chef. While very proud of that doctorate, he became disillusioned. He told me, long before the madness of trans ideology, that most social workers are mentally unstable, psychologists are worse and psychiatrists are the most mentally unfit people he has ever been exposed to.
Most psychiatrists have had to go through their own intense therapy experience as part of their training. Got to ‘fix’ your own head before you can claim to be able to ‘fix’ other people’s .
Is that intense therapy with ‘affirming care’ ? 🤣🤣🤣. These days we have trans psychologists. That tells you how the profession has fallen. It’s a shit show. Choosing a decent psychologist or psychiatrist is extremely important and these days there are not enough with spine who fight against the social insanity, especially now that insanity is baked into our law and policy. Those that fight against the insanity are usually older and at the end of their careers. They have so many people trying to get on their books they are overworked and going down for the count.
Matt Walsh would not respond well to a similar documentary taking apart his religious delusions and his complete rejection of evidence. This guy isn't an honest ally in the fight for evidence to matter for policy. He also believes introspection trumps evidence for ascertaining truth.
My experience with trying to stop a particularly brutal pop psychotherapy ("Attachment Therapy") is that social workers are most prone to adopting crank therapies and relying on their intuition rather than good research.
I think there is shift underway. If you are interested in the social contagion aspect of the trans phenomenon, you might be interested in this article out not long ago in The TransAtlantic – "Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?". If you get something from it, please do share...
Same here; "What is a Woman" primed me for this blog post.
The Church of Gender Ideology has Satan's fingerprints all over it.
I think iI'll start referring to people as scientific descriptions rather than pronouns, ie. "Is biological male ready to start the meeting?"
Really, I exist in a location in which people are not giving thought to such foundational questions of "what am I," like we all figured it out early on and moved to larger issues such as short and long term investing, but if I ever have a reason to respond to a GI church member, I'll have my vocabulary in order.
I am not waiting for the gender pendulum to swing back either.
I am testifying against bills in the Oregon legislature that would irreparably harm children, and working to get others to join organizations fighting for women and children, who are being harmed by transgender ideology.
Women's Declaration has remained steadfast in its support for the rights of women. Unfortunately many other organisatons, e.g. Planned Parenthood, Stonewall (UK), have been capureed by transgenderism.
By 'capureed' I meant 'captured', of course. Here in the UK, that is the term used for all the people, organisations and institutions that have fallen into the gender identity trap: the BBC, the universities, the health service (one man who went to donate blood was asked if he might possibly be pregnant), etc.
There are several groups that you could join, depending on what you want your focus to be and where you will be living in Oregon. Contact me when you get here: hollymhart@gmail.com
WoLF (Women's Liberation Front, one of the groups Holly mentioned) is doing great work in general and is well deserving of support: https://womensliberationfront.org
Today my daughter competed in her first track and field tournament. She won first place with three of her classmates in the grade four girls 4x100m relay.
When they handed her a blue ribbon it took her a moment in all of the excitement and confusion to realize what she was holding in her hand. Then, knowing that her dad and I were just on the other side of the track watching, she bolted to us as fast as she had run in the race. She ran into our waiting arms absolutely elated. It was one of those magical moments you don’t easily forget as a parent.
Later in the day it occurred to me that someday she could have these important moments sullied by a circumstance that she should never have to face - losing to a biological boy who shouldn’t be competing with her. I pray that never happens to her.
Thank you so much for fighting the good fight. Thank you for putting up with this nonsense for our girls. They are worth it.
Congratulations to your daughter. It must've been a wonderful experience for all of you. As the father of a daughter, myself, I certainly hope that she will never lose in an unfair competition... BTW, you may find this essay intersting... https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/beauty-pageants-rarely-make-me-sad
Yes, Andrea, I think about this every day. I was always terrible at sports—so I can’t relate directly—but I think of this generation of girls growing up and I think of their parents, how sad it is that some are being forced to compete against biological males. and it’s so so so sad—I think of people in your situation every day, and my heart breaks for you.
I agree - but the silver lining is that the sports issue gets more broad attention in society and has a chance of bringing GI down. Somehow, the 100 child "Gender Clinics" in the US do not catch enough attention or outrage, nor does the Gender Evangelism in the classroom as most people buy into the lie that the matter is somehow about "civil rights" and "not denying healthcare" for a very few. But, sports competitions... people are noticing the unfairness there.
Yes, and once one leg of this falls, they all do. How can the culture say, for example, that a 'transman" can't compete against women but he can go to a women's prison? Hopefully, the sports issue is the first card to fall.
You’re right. I wish the mutilation of kids were enough to outrage the centre. It makes me very angry. It was the reason we moved our daughter out of the public school system where we live. Not for one more day did I want to risk her being indoctrinated. But even after moving her to a better school we still live in fear that her experience as a girl is under threat.
Trans ideology has far reaching impacts for girls and woman.
I had an argument with a 49 year old friend the other day who wanted me to “prove” that men had a physical advantage over women in sports. The total denial of reality is seeping into everything.
Creeping and creeping and slowly sinking into consciousness. Slow and easy. The way of Satan. Steady and slow. Going to and fro across the planet earth.
Stop it. Your religion is yours - my religion is mine. Stop proselytizing. I’m Jewish and don’t need you telling me about the Jewish carpenter being my savior.
So what is the antidote to people like you? meaning, people who adopt their religion as the truth without questioning any of it? God gave us brains because he wants us to think, and you aren't doing that.
Well, let's see. Taking estrogen does make men weaker, but it doesn't erase all their advantages. Men have larger hearts, lungs, bones and muscles than women. Men are taller, have longer legs and longer arms, which means they can run faster and have a stronger grip. Their reach is also greater, which gives them an advantage in racket sports.
Question: How many are actually taking estrogen as compared to those just wearing a dress? And I’ll say this: I would never want to run into an angry Kaitlyn Jenner in an ally, despite her estrogen intake!
I'm assuming that a lot of trans women take estrogen, since it is available and probably not too expensive -- even covered by insurance in some instances.
I'm assuming that Jenner has autogynephilia. I just can't understand the impulses that would make a man go in that direction. He is attracted to women; but once he "becomes" a woman, he must attract Lesbians (since he is basically heterosexual) -- yet, what Lesbian would want a woman with fake body parts? It makes no sense to me.
Ask your friend why sports teams are divided into men's and women's. If there one sex doesn't have an advantage over the other, why should they be separate at all?
There should be objective, physical criteria about who should compete with whom in sports. As in the Paralympics. Other sports may be open to mixed teams. We should move away from identifying a person by gender above all else. If you can compete (or socialize) with people who are your peers in whatever discipline, it takes off the pressure to "identify" with a gender.
Here's what I don't understand about this, though: for 50 or 60 years (pretty much the entire lifetime of your friend), it was feminists who insisted that there wasn't really any difference between males and females and females should be allowed to do everything males could do, and then some. The refusal to admit basic differences between males and females actually started with feminists. How can they now turn around and say that the sexes really are different, after all?
Good timing for this article since I'm currently watching, "What is a Woman?".
Social work is one of the most worthless degrees out there. Statistically speaking they are one of the most prone to mental illness and they have the lowest IQ out of all of Academia.
I think things in society are finally beginning to change and we will see a massive turn in the next couple years. People are done with DEI, woke indoctrination, and and virtue signaling corporations.
My only concern is that it continues and people don't give up. The Bud light and Target brands need to be destroyed to set an example for others. I truly hope more people also support school choice and realize that the humanities and social sciences are completely broken.
Follow the money. The billionaire Pritzker family is the Sackler family of trans. They fund trans health initiatives and profit from trans drugs. The corrupted doctors, health systems, and big pharma companies view trans as a cash cow. Until we hold them accountable, the madness will continue to destroy children's lives: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-do-no-harm-part-2
Also look at the Stryker family, whose John (net worth 4 Billion) heads the Arcus Foundation, another leading funder of trans rights (& curiously, primate habitat conservation). What does Stryker Corp. do? Leading manufacturer of surgical instruments.
Jennifer Bilek, being one of the earliest (and bravest) voices in the debate, has been smeared with many things. I don't know how much the Stryker family benefits from the emerging medical apparatus of trans but it is a fact that Arcus Foundation money was instrumental in the corruption of the UK gay rights organisation Stonewall. The donations are visible in the published accounts.
Arcus is, of course, a Stryker family charitable trust.
And the woman Pritzker who used to be a man (Jennifer?) OWNS a company which supplies implants and medical devices for gender surgeries. 😤😡
Yes, and he is still a man whatever he calls himself - Jennifer/James - and regardless of what cosmetic surgeries he may or may not have. If it were just a matter of wanting their pals to call these dudes "she" nobody would care - but these men need the enforced "affirmation" of all of humanity. And, this is not mental illness/narcissism?
Also, they seem to need the validation of transing the girls:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02576-9
Look at the people trying to take down the above study. They wrote a letter threatening that they will no longer review academic papers if the real scientists are not taken down. How about we take them at their word? Let them find other employment or or a nice mental institution. Anyone who has viewed "What is a Woman" will find it interesting to see "Marci" Bowers name on the letter against the academic paper on ROGD. These mentally ill and fetished folks are trying to "Lisa Littman" the paper in order to justify their own choices in lifestyle and also profit making (harming others).
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/24/major-journal-retracts-study-on-socially-contagious-transgenderism-among-kids-following-activist-threats/
We need to insist that Biden remove "Rachael" Richard Levine as health secretary as he promotes harming children - not that Biden would understand - so his handlers need to do this - NOW.
More than gender issues, Mr Levine should be removed because as a health official in Pennsylvania during the pandemic, he issued a regulation prohibiting nursing homes from screening visitors and new patients for COVID, on the grounds that the virus was already prevalent in nursing homes.
The morning before he issued the regulation, he took his mother out of a nursing home and brought her home.
I chose my pronouns carefully, in the hope Mr Levine will find them offensive. It will be the only penalty he's likely to face for his actions during the pandemic.
This! I believe Levine is a toxic force where President Biden is concerned. Joe Biden is a caring man with good intentions who has a supposed expert telling him that transing children will prevent them from committing suicide, and that the caring, Progressive thing to do is support the child's own choices. Levine is his only source of information. I would give anything for a Gender Critical writer like Ms. Shrier, Kara Dansky, etc. to have a chance to show President Biden the harm gender ideology is doing to Women's Rights and to the lives and bodies of confused, sick children.
No, Joe Biden is not a caring man. He is a corrupt, greedy, profoundly dishonest creep who has his own bizarre invasive thing going on with underage girls. He's also affected by senile dementia and wouldn't even have the mental capacity to understand what Ms. Shrier would have to say.
They won’t because: 1. campaigns are being funded by the people mentioned above 2. Millennials and Gen Z are believers so this is how they buy their vote. Another point is this started back with Obama allowing trans to serve in the military & have the SRS paid for by tax payer dollars.
They will never do that until he loses the 2024 election bigly. And then we won't need them to do that.
I fear you are right. I also hope for a President DeSantis and not another Biden type regime.
Joe Biden hasn't the foggiest understanding of the trans debate. He's got a bunch of woke kiddie aides telling him what to think about this & he doesn't have time to do his own research as he's got *real* problems to deal with. Someone adult needs to pull him aside and point out he's harming women and children.
I'm not voting Democrat next year. I'll 'throw away' my vote on an indy rather than vote against women and chilren (which is one of the many reasons why I don't vote Republican).
Good one: "‘Fat Guy In A Costume’: Tucker Carlson Mocks Rachel ‘Rick’ Levine For Pushing Trans Ideology" https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/30/tucker-carlson-rachel-levine-trans-ideology/
It's TC episode 8.
If you are interested in the social contagion aspect, you might be interested in this article out not long ago in The TransAtlantic – "Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?". If you get something from it, please do share...
https://thetransatlantic.substack.com/p/ideology-and-anxiety-what-can-we
Jennifer Pritzker is a man. Just say it.
💯 and looks like one too, of course
A man named James.
A pig in a wig. Although I think Rachel Levine whatever his real name is is uglier.
Which is not saying much.
Money is the root of all evil. And evil has taken root.
Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Illinois where the Pritzker demons oppress their people?
Howdy, stop going to Hyatt Hotels.
No worries, this fat wealthy man will meet his match, and then bow down like the low dog he is. And then grovel and screech as King Jesus sends him to the Lake of Fire.
God is good, all the time….
Our friends own a Caterpillar franchise here in VA. I love that Cat has now moved HQ to TX.
As Jay Pritzker is rather large there will be quite a splash!
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/01/14/jay-robert-pritzker/
Yes. The Federalist put out a very detailed expose back in '18. Trans billionaire Pritzker, trans millionaire Rothblatt, gay billionaire Stryker and gay millionaires Gill, Pike and Bonham, as well as the estate of deceased gay millionaire Weiland.
https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/rich-white-men-institutionalizing-transgender-ideology/
If only it was just limited to big business elites. The truth is much darker than this. Take another example, most educated people have learned to attribute the madness of the Cultural Revolution to Mao and his gang of acolytes. The real problem though was the tens of millions of biddable, favour-seeking, grudge-bearing 'ordinary folk' who made Mao important in the first place. Its exactly the same now with millions of tertiary 'educated' bureaucrats and administrators etc etc who do these gender fanatics' bidding. Why did our wonderful Western 'free' media ever give voice and traction to this tiny tiny minority's obsessions in the first place. THAT is the real Western disease
And that remains a mystery. It's crucial to understand what's going on here, yet it remains inscrutable. At least to this troubled observer...
My own answer - for what it's worth - is that it is a downside inherent in mass media that it will give a disproportionately large voice to certain kinds....the politico-obsessive, the mouthy and malcontent especially. More balanced people will simply be far less likely to be forever spouting their opinions. A tragedy really.
The sack of shyts have murdered hundreds of thousands.
MAGA has a new sheriff in town. America confirmed the mandate. The insanity of gender dysphoria is coming to its demonic end. This kind of leaching off the teat of American wealth is going to end, and soon.
Well said, especially "The billionaire Pritzker family is the Sackler family of trans." My wife and I listened to a radio adaption of a book about the Sackler's crimes. We are in the UK and I had not been aware. I was appalled.
I did look into Pritzker though.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/01/14/jay-robert-pritzker/
I dearly hope you’re right, but I FEAR that Ms. Shrier is... We are SO much further down the rabbit hole than people realize. Wokeism is now baked into every facet of the structure of our society: education (K-12 onwards); the economy (ESG in both private and public sectors); government (how about Biden’s extensive regulations -- via executive orders -- to embed cadres of DEI commissars into every department of every government agency); sports (Title IX, anyone); the arts; the mainstream media (Substack is one of the few places of truth left, and it’s not actually “mainstream”); etc. We have truly undergone a bloodless coup.
Once it becomes a Belief when people think they’re going to get some sort of salvation at the end of the gender journey. It’s very hard to get people to stop believing with so much sunk cost,
Please do not use the moniker Ms. It is an extreme insult to actual women and an insult their own psyche. I prefer to use the ancient terms of endearment. Miss, for young women before they marry, or even much older women who never do marry. Or Mrs, for women who fulfill their ancient purpose in life. To create a home. Welcoming to their husband and their children. And grandchildren. It is honorable to be a Miss. some are too shy to be married. Some devote themselves to God for life.
Men do not share a similar moniker. But they also have stations in life. Virulent men always prefer marriage to procreate and prosper our species. Some men are damaged in health or body. Some men are perpetually single men.
Jesus Christ spoke on this topic in Matthew 19. We are not all the same. But we are also not deviant freaks like the trans whatevers or the homosexual deviants.
I'm offended if I'm not called Ms. The titles Miss & Mrs. are indicative of ownership in a patriarchal system. I am neither the property of a father or a husband. I have my own agency. Mixing extreme religious ideology with opposition to gender ideology gives the Trans Activists a powerful slur to use against Liberals who might otherwise speak out against it. If you want to accomplish a cultural shift, it's going to take Centrists of both parties acting together.
Do Democrats have centralists?
Democrats love the centralization of power in Washington.
OTOH they use the promise of centrism as a tactic. Real compromise with Leftists is not really possible because Leftists never really compromise. They sometimes agree to compromise, but after the Right has moved Left, the Left never move Right; the Left always just moves farther Left.
most the females write emails to for work or business i will never meet and its none of my business if their married or their age. so i cant use miss or mrs.
Tom Potts: Please don't be stupid. I know I'm asking for something you are not able to do, but perhaps it will help if you try.
Hey Tom, the Victorian era called and wants its rigid social hierarchy back.
You should respect whatever honorific a woman chooses to use. Her marital status is none of your business.
Please. I might communicate with women professionally but do not know whether or not they're married. I may assume one way or the other, but it's an assumption I could easily get wrong.
And with women having entered the work force in massive numbers since the 60s, 'Ms.' became the preferred professional reference. Not to denigrate the institution of marriage, but bc we don't judge the value of a woman's working contributions by making note of her marital status. In that way, men and women remain on equal footing. And thank heaven!
I'm also not referring to a 60-yr old, unmarried woman as 'Miss.' To do so has the ring of saying 'hey you old spinster.' 'Miss' today, connotes a young woman. 'Ms.' (as does Mrs.) tends to connote adult competency.
One need not be on board with all the gender hyperventilating without it also requiring reversion to all anachronistic language -- especially professionally.
It’s very disturbing!I am not brave enough to talk with my Unitarian liberal friends who are totally converted to this new religion. Only a very few realize what is happening.
But then, but. Who controls the orbits of the quarks ?
Every so often, Yahweh sends out new prophets to preach truth to His people.
Alone and isolated, we have no power. Who has to actually power to change things?
So, don’t go all stupid folks. “Vengeance is mine saith the Lord, I will repay.”
Tom, your stupidity is in believing that Christianity is the true religion. I believe in God, and there is evidence for God, but "he" is not what people expect. "He" is a multidimensional creature composed of living energy, the same energy we are all composed of. Christianity is an ancient religion filled with the twisted and prejudiced ideas of an ancient culture. Quoting the Bible will get you nowhere when dealing with rational people. This "deviant" has more wisdom than you do.
You seem to be interested in the ways and means in how these things spread. If you are interested in the social contagion aspect of this, you might be interested in this article out not long ago in The TransAtlantic – "Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?". If you get something from it, please do share...
https://thetransatlantic.substack.com/p/ideology-and-anxiety-what-can-we
You're absolutely right....an Invasion of the Virtue Signallers https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers
Bud Light’s decision to feature the misogynistic mug of a prancing pony on its beer can and Target’s perverse desire to market “trans-friendly” swimwear to children serve as the latest confirmation of the blue-collar suspicion that liberalism is no longer organized around working-class economic interests, further encouraging conservatives in their feeling of cultural besiegement and the sense that all major institutions of American life are arrayed against their mores and values and traditions.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/the-bud-light-brew-haha-is-the-latest
pony or gelding?
Re "liberalism is no longer organized around working-class economic interests"
I am not sure it ever really was.
FYI most pedophiles are heterosexual, as are the trans who insist on being in women’s spaces.
That is utter bs.
School choice is critical. Home schooling is great!!
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"Statistically speaking they are one of the most prone to mental illness and they have the lowest IQ out of all of Academia."
Lmao I can totally believe that. A lot of them certainly seem that way.
Where can I find those statistics? I'd like to use them to win some internet arguments lol.
I hope you don't mind if I throw a spanner in the works.
As someone with eight decades of personal experience with the issue, I'd like to point out that there can be a distinction between being transgender and living with gender dysphoria.
I don't believe that gender dysphoria is defined as a mental illness, although many in the public sector would dismiss it at as such. It can come and go, disappearing for long periods and then returning with greater urgency. Those who think it's a choice don't understand how the accompanying confusion and stress can dominate one's thoughts and make day-to-day living more difficult. I would not wish the condition upon anyone.
Seeking relief, one may well experiment with presenting as the "other" gender because it feels like the right path to take. And then, when the urgency subsides, that person can feel shame and believe that he (most commonly) can and should control the impulse that pushed him in that direction. Can one accurately apply the label of "transgender" to someone without a clear-cut desire to change?
Depending upon the individual, hormone treatment may help to alleviate the dysphoria. It can make it feel less important and more easily controlled. Or, it might reinforce the feelings of those whose urges are stronger and may lead them to consider transition. I think it's important not to paint with too broad a brush and assume that every gender dysphoric person is transgender. One doesn't "grow out of" gender dysphoria. Some can find a way to live with it and some cannot, and a lot depends upon how it impacts the person's life.
I write this hoping to make the point that some who society would deem "transgender" are just as much as odds with what's happening today as is anyone else. The concepts of "transgenderism" and "trans agenda" are foreign to me. I don't favor giving puberty blockers to minors.
I am not gay and I don't live a "lifestyle". I've always been gender dysphoric, but that's not something I'm proud of. I don't need a flag.
Anyone who would define me as a "pervert", "sinner", "child groomer", et al., is - in scientific terms - a blithering idiot.
Real & important stories like this are key to all our understanding of this issue & I really feel for you. Personally I would never dismiss any mental health condition, whether it be ‘gender dysphoria’, schizophrenia or clinical depression. They are all conditions of misperception of reality & must be awful to experience.
As for ‘transitioning’ I think is a misnomer. Nothing is actually crossed over too. Hormones will change your body shape, voice etc, but they will never change your sex. So it becomes a palimpsest, a veil that can partially fool the person themselves but, crucially, it’s to gain affirmation from the rest of the world, from whom the person seeks validation. The problems come when the affirmation is sought for nefarious reasons, as we see in the activist set of people now trying to push an agenda, but also those who would use the conceit in order to disrupt social ‘rules’ ie, entering women’s toilets, changing rooms, hospitals, prisons etc, in order to prey on & abuse women. It becomes an easy route for fetishists & it’s this safeguarding aspect that women seek to address. There is also of course the issue of paedophiles using ‘trans’ ideology to encourage children, usually via social media, into a gender-confused state in order to ‘recruit’ them to their cause.
The word ‘transgender’ is equally problematic. I wear jeans & sweatshirts most of the time, I have short (ish) hair & I only wear make up rarely (weddings, funerals & Christmas mainly!) Does that make me a man? No, because I’m not dysphoric. But you could say I’m not gender conforming either. Because women of my generation (born in the 50s) have been dressing however they like since the 70s. We’ve been wearing trousers & other stereotypically ‘male’ clothing for decades. So now we see men in dresses & lipstick but we’re supposed to think that they actually are women? Or more importantly - THEY think they’re women. But skirts, lipstick, long hair, nail polish… these things don’t ‘make’ a woman. They’re just presentation. And they’re a 50s stereotype. By this definition we’re all ‘transgender’ now, because gender stereotypes are just superficial.
My point is that a man’s urge to ‘be’ a woman can’t come from knowing how a it feels to be a woman. Only a woman can know that. So it probably comes from a need to ‘present’ as a woman - but a throwback woman from the 1950s when they wore skirts & dresses & looked like something out of a 50s soap advert… it’s as if men never got the memo 50 years ago that said it’s ok now - dress how you like, women. As in ‘wear a dress - be fabulous!’
(Check out the song ‘My Conviction’ from the musical ‘Hair’.)
So, if women have broken through the gender ceiling & can wear whatever they like & still be women, man should equally be able to wear whatever they like without anxiety or shame .. and just be men. Gay, straight, bi, whatever. Men who, like women, just want to smash gender stereotypes.
That would be a win for everyone.
As a person who's very much grounded in logic and reality, I don't understand to this day why I felt such an intense need to appear in public as female mode. I knew it was a masquerade and was certain it would be seen as such by others. I constantly feared for my personal safety when not among people who (to their great credit) accepted my presentation at face value and were unfailingly kind. A psychologist whose advice I sought pronounced me one of the most well-adjusted clients she'd ever had. And yet I was in the grips of something mental that overwhelmed my common sense and stoic nature to push me out the door to risk disaster in many forms. I hated the feeling of being driven to action by something I could not control, and I'm very thankful that my particular flavor of gender dysphoria turned out to be cyclical and has now - at my advanced age - essentially dissipated.
I'm sorry if I misled you to assume that I was seeking your advice.
I’m sorry if it felt that I was patronising you.
I hoped to empathise. Everything else was just my own personal thoughts on the issue.
A large number of the APA members were closet homosexuals and wanted to come out. This also played a role.
Wtf planet are you on? You must be old and stuck in the 70’s.
Yes re book. But you’re conflating transgenderism with homosexuality. Check out Michael Bailey’s work on autogynephelia- they are primarily heterosexual men.
Social Workers serve as the middle men and "fixers" between the people looking for handouts and Big Mommy Government. A symbiotic relationship that's so complicated and out of control now, (thanks to thoughtless job, family, and human will destruction) that a job had to be created to meet demand.
I have a friend who is a psychologist, a profession he actually left about 30 years ago and became a chef. While very proud of that doctorate, he became disillusioned. He told me, long before the madness of trans ideology, that most social workers are mentally unstable, psychologists are worse and psychiatrists are the most mentally unfit people he has ever been exposed to.
Your typical shrink could easily get diagnosed with at least one personality disorder. If any took their own tests. :)
Most psychiatrists have had to go through their own intense therapy experience as part of their training. Got to ‘fix’ your own head before you can claim to be able to ‘fix’ other people’s .
Is that intense therapy with ‘affirming care’ ? 🤣🤣🤣. These days we have trans psychologists. That tells you how the profession has fallen. It’s a shit show. Choosing a decent psychologist or psychiatrist is extremely important and these days there are not enough with spine who fight against the social insanity, especially now that insanity is baked into our law and policy. Those that fight against the insanity are usually older and at the end of their careers. They have so many people trying to get on their books they are overworked and going down for the count.
Matt Walsh would not respond well to a similar documentary taking apart his religious delusions and his complete rejection of evidence. This guy isn't an honest ally in the fight for evidence to matter for policy. He also believes introspection trumps evidence for ascertaining truth.
My experience with trying to stop a particularly brutal pop psychotherapy ("Attachment Therapy") is that social workers are most prone to adopting crank therapies and relying on their intuition rather than good research.
Well said.
'lo sir wacko' is anagram of 'social work', I just checked. Might explain the mental illness.
I think there is shift underway. If you are interested in the social contagion aspect of the trans phenomenon, you might be interested in this article out not long ago in The TransAtlantic – "Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?". If you get something from it, please do share...
https://thetransatlantic.substack.com/p/ideology-and-anxiety-what-can-we
Same here; "What is a Woman" primed me for this blog post.
The Church of Gender Ideology has Satan's fingerprints all over it.
I think iI'll start referring to people as scientific descriptions rather than pronouns, ie. "Is biological male ready to start the meeting?"
Really, I exist in a location in which people are not giving thought to such foundational questions of "what am I," like we all figured it out early on and moved to larger issues such as short and long term investing, but if I ever have a reason to respond to a GI church member, I'll have my vocabulary in order.
Me too, I also just saw it a few hours ago.
I think you could use some counseling.
I am not waiting for the gender pendulum to swing back either.
I am testifying against bills in the Oregon legislature that would irreparably harm children, and working to get others to join organizations fighting for women and children, who are being harmed by transgender ideology.
https://womensliberationfront.org https://womensdeclarationusa.com https://www.partnersforethicalcare.com
https://segm.org
Thank you for fighting. Wishing you much strength and success. And resilience.
Women's Declaration has remained steadfast in its support for the rights of women. Unfortunately many other organisatons, e.g. Planned Parenthood, Stonewall (UK), have been capureed by transgenderism.
By 'capureed' I meant 'captured', of course. Here in the UK, that is the term used for all the people, organisations and institutions that have fallen into the gender identity trap: the BBC, the universities, the health service (one man who went to donate blood was asked if he might possibly be pregnant), etc.
Holly Hart, is there an organization in Oregon fighting the bills? I’m moving to the state soon and want to be involved.
There are several groups that you could join, depending on what you want your focus to be and where you will be living in Oregon. Contact me when you get here: hollymhart@gmail.com
I will! Thank you!
WoLF (Women's Liberation Front, one of the groups Holly mentioned) is doing great work in general and is well deserving of support: https://womensliberationfront.org
Thank you!
Today my daughter competed in her first track and field tournament. She won first place with three of her classmates in the grade four girls 4x100m relay.
When they handed her a blue ribbon it took her a moment in all of the excitement and confusion to realize what she was holding in her hand. Then, knowing that her dad and I were just on the other side of the track watching, she bolted to us as fast as she had run in the race. She ran into our waiting arms absolutely elated. It was one of those magical moments you don’t easily forget as a parent.
Later in the day it occurred to me that someday she could have these important moments sullied by a circumstance that she should never have to face - losing to a biological boy who shouldn’t be competing with her. I pray that never happens to her.
Thank you so much for fighting the good fight. Thank you for putting up with this nonsense for our girls. They are worth it.
Congratulations to your daughter. It must've been a wonderful experience for all of you. As the father of a daughter, myself, I certainly hope that she will never lose in an unfair competition... BTW, you may find this essay intersting... https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/beauty-pageants-rarely-make-me-sad
Yes, Andrea, I think about this every day. I was always terrible at sports—so I can’t relate directly—but I think of this generation of girls growing up and I think of their parents, how sad it is that some are being forced to compete against biological males. and it’s so so so sad—I think of people in your situation every day, and my heart breaks for you.
I agree - but the silver lining is that the sports issue gets more broad attention in society and has a chance of bringing GI down. Somehow, the 100 child "Gender Clinics" in the US do not catch enough attention or outrage, nor does the Gender Evangelism in the classroom as most people buy into the lie that the matter is somehow about "civil rights" and "not denying healthcare" for a very few. But, sports competitions... people are noticing the unfairness there.
Yes, and once one leg of this falls, they all do. How can the culture say, for example, that a 'transman" can't compete against women but he can go to a women's prison? Hopefully, the sports issue is the first card to fall.
You’re right. I wish the mutilation of kids were enough to outrage the centre. It makes me very angry. It was the reason we moved our daughter out of the public school system where we live. Not for one more day did I want to risk her being indoctrinated. But even after moving her to a better school we still live in fear that her experience as a girl is under threat.
Trans ideology has far reaching impacts for girls and woman.
Yes. Our daughter was indoctrinated in a private school years ago before we understood TI to be a thing. I think she is ok now?
Girls need to “stand-down “ and not participate in competitions that involve boys. Do this collectively and we could win. Bravo on your daughter!
I had an argument with a 49 year old friend the other day who wanted me to “prove” that men had a physical advantage over women in sports. The total denial of reality is seeping into everything.
i was about to tell you to show them this:
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/
then i remembered it's useless to use facts or reasons against religious beliefs.
We should start calling these people flat-earthers; that's the only other example I can think of right now that reaches that level of denial.
Love it!
Creeping and creeping and slowly sinking into consciousness. Slow and easy. The way of Satan. Steady and slow. Going to and fro across the planet earth.
The only antidote is Jesus Christ, King of Kings.
Stop it. Your religion is yours - my religion is mine. Stop proselytizing. I’m Jewish and don’t need you telling me about the Jewish carpenter being my savior.
I don’t think this was a personal message to you. This person was stating their belief…fellow tribesman.
Mute and block. The constant repetition of it is as annoying as a mosquito whine.
So what is the antidote to people like you? meaning, people who adopt their religion as the truth without questioning any of it? God gave us brains because he wants us to think, and you aren't doing that.
Well, let's see. Taking estrogen does make men weaker, but it doesn't erase all their advantages. Men have larger hearts, lungs, bones and muscles than women. Men are taller, have longer legs and longer arms, which means they can run faster and have a stronger grip. Their reach is also greater, which gives them an advantage in racket sports.
Question: How many are actually taking estrogen as compared to those just wearing a dress? And I’ll say this: I would never want to run into an angry Kaitlyn Jenner in an ally, despite her estrogen intake!
I'm assuming that a lot of trans women take estrogen, since it is available and probably not too expensive -- even covered by insurance in some instances.
I'm assuming that Jenner has autogynephilia. I just can't understand the impulses that would make a man go in that direction. He is attracted to women; but once he "becomes" a woman, he must attract Lesbians (since he is basically heterosexual) -- yet, what Lesbian would want a woman with fake body parts? It makes no sense to me.
I like the new lavender color.
Ask your friend why sports teams are divided into men's and women's. If there one sex doesn't have an advantage over the other, why should they be separate at all?
Yep. I’ve had that same discussion. I was just shut down. I was incredulous. I was told, flat out, “there is no difference.”
At some point one realizes there is no point in “casting pearls before swine.”
or in playing chess with a pigeon.
If men didn’t have a physical advantage over women, rape wouldn’t happen nearly as often. Is your friend a man or a woman?
Woman. Makes it even more baffling.
There should be objective, physical criteria about who should compete with whom in sports. As in the Paralympics. Other sports may be open to mixed teams. We should move away from identifying a person by gender above all else. If you can compete (or socialize) with people who are your peers in whatever discipline, it takes off the pressure to "identify" with a gender.
Here's what I don't understand about this, though: for 50 or 60 years (pretty much the entire lifetime of your friend), it was feminists who insisted that there wasn't really any difference between males and females and females should be allowed to do everything males could do, and then some. The refusal to admit basic differences between males and females actually started with feminists. How can they now turn around and say that the sexes really are different, after all?
Tell him to prove a man can be a woman first