The main problem for left of center politicians is that individuals like Rachel Levine have invented a lexicon of captured language. We hear "trans-gender" instead of cross-sex ideation. We hear "transition" instead of "schedule of hormones injections or pills culminating in irreversible surgeries,"
We hear that adults who do all of the above on a shockingly close calendar are happy with the results for the rest of their lives. We do not hear that Davina Anne Gabriel, an early cross-sex ideating man and loud advocate for men to attend a women's music fest, (Mich Fest) detransitioned and committed suicide a few months later. He wrote a manifesto of regrets "I regret it all. All transsexualism is sociological and not biological. I regret it all. I would not do it again." This he gave to friends to be read at memorials. Where was the news report on that death, in early 2016, of an activist who had harassed many, many women trying to protect female only spaces? There's a huge machine, promoting the opposite narrative to the truth we read here. The kids are going to need this truth even more than elected politicians. Davina A Gabriel originated the term "transphobia" in 1989.
How do we get the left to listen? When I talk with liberals/democrats (and until the midterms I have always voted a straight Democrat ticket), they all seem to have versions of the same response: they immediately agree it is a social contagion; they’ve believed it was a fad or a trend for a long time; all of these kids aren’t really trans; kids are being rushed into this; there needs to be more nuance; they’re afraid to say anything and it’s wrong people are made to feel afraid. They believe there are people being harmed by this. But they also know someone who is trans and that person told them they knew they were trans or wanted to be the opposite sex from their earliest childhood memories and now they feel so much better now that they’ve transitioned, and they believe and care about this person. They also don’t want to sound, talk like, or seen in any way associated with anything being said about this issue that comes from republicans, even the parts they agree with, because they believe the Republican messaging comes from a place of hate even if they ultimately share many of the same opinions (Trump’s recent speech on this issue will be a huge obstacle to overcome). There’s a LOT of inner conflict there and I don’t think we can make any progress until we find a way to address all those concerns and inner conflicts they’re dealing with and I don’t know where to start.
I would happily share Jamie's essay with my progressive friends, family, and elected officials. Except that I can predict what objections they will raise:
1. Jamie is not a doctor, so how much does she actually know about these lifesaving treatments?
2. What she describes is mostly her own gut feelings based on a few incidents of harm to individual patients. Where are the data to support her claims?
3. The comorbidities she cites—depression, anxiety, eating disorders, etc.—are likely the result of being forced to live as a gender that doesn't feel right.
4. The rapid rise in girls presenting at gender clinics is simply due to the reduced stigma attached to being trans.
5. Jamie is just one person out of thousands who work at gender clinics. If these treatments are so harmful, why aren't dozens of whistleblowers coming forward?
6. She is just reciting right-wing, transphobic talking points.
To be very clear, I am NOT saying that these are legitimate reasons to dismiss this essay, and I know there are very good rebuttals to all of this. I'm just afraid that no one who blows the whistle on gender clinics, unless it's Rachel Levine or Chase Strangio, is going to make a dent in the "progressive" belief that these treatments are lifesaving interventions.
I wholeheartedly agree that we need a "bipartisan commission to gather all the information on youth transition in America, so that good laws and policies can follow."
Like with the Sacklers, we have to look at the *sellers* of this bad idea, their $/power/grandeur/ narcissistic motives, and how they skillfully used the Left's inclusivity and knee jerk LGB support AGAINST us, in a criminally broken chain of medical trust, NGO certainty, plus a deluge of word salad and suicide threats.
Who on Left was co-opted, cultified, &/or paid (Victor Madrigal? Turban? Rafferty? etc.) This idea was **Trojan Horsed** into Left with professional, surgical skill by people motivated to profit and also to hurt the left. A bunch of teen AGPs and ASD girls living in their parents' basements did not author this coordinated, worldwide disinformation re children and gender and see it seize the western world inside 15 years.
No Leftie WANTS to maim kids... but remember, it was sold as "save kids!" (Identical come-on to QAnon...) Beyond an immediate call for a systematic review from those on the Left-- what must be done, yesterday-- we have to look at what happened to us, and by whom, those profiteering off monetizing mentally ill kids and swindling them and their desperate parents. Jail time for the guilty.
Send this essay to your Representative, Senators, our President and vice President, along with the original article, and if you live in an area with a big gender clinic, send it to the governor, mayor, everyone there too.
Genuine Whistleblowers have done this exposé work before. Stories from the inside plus detransitioner lawsuits will be the way to interrupt this madness. Circulate Jamie's story widely. It's VERY hard to go first and only a little easier to go 2nd and 3rd. Then there's a tipping point and people can come forward easier. Remember me-too!
Also point them to quotations from the interview which Lane reports, this introduction (above) and then the article and then quotations from the interview here:
The main problem for left of center politicians is that individuals like Rachel Levine have invented a lexicon of captured language. We hear "trans-gender" instead of cross-sex ideation. We hear "transition" instead of "schedule of hormones injections or pills culminating in irreversible surgeries,"
We hear that adults who do all of the above on a shockingly close calendar are happy with the results for the rest of their lives. We do not hear that Davina Anne Gabriel, an early cross-sex ideating man and loud advocate for men to attend a women's music fest, (Mich Fest) detransitioned and committed suicide a few months later. He wrote a manifesto of regrets "I regret it all. All transsexualism is sociological and not biological. I regret it all. I would not do it again." This he gave to friends to be read at memorials. Where was the news report on that death, in early 2016, of an activist who had harassed many, many women trying to protect female only spaces? There's a huge machine, promoting the opposite narrative to the truth we read here. The kids are going to need this truth even more than elected politicians. Davina A Gabriel originated the term "transphobia" in 1989.
How do we get the left to listen? When I talk with liberals/democrats (and until the midterms I have always voted a straight Democrat ticket), they all seem to have versions of the same response: they immediately agree it is a social contagion; they’ve believed it was a fad or a trend for a long time; all of these kids aren’t really trans; kids are being rushed into this; there needs to be more nuance; they’re afraid to say anything and it’s wrong people are made to feel afraid. They believe there are people being harmed by this. But they also know someone who is trans and that person told them they knew they were trans or wanted to be the opposite sex from their earliest childhood memories and now they feel so much better now that they’ve transitioned, and they believe and care about this person. They also don’t want to sound, talk like, or seen in any way associated with anything being said about this issue that comes from republicans, even the parts they agree with, because they believe the Republican messaging comes from a place of hate even if they ultimately share many of the same opinions (Trump’s recent speech on this issue will be a huge obstacle to overcome). There’s a LOT of inner conflict there and I don’t think we can make any progress until we find a way to address all those concerns and inner conflicts they’re dealing with and I don’t know where to start.
I would happily share Jamie's essay with my progressive friends, family, and elected officials. Except that I can predict what objections they will raise:
1. Jamie is not a doctor, so how much does she actually know about these lifesaving treatments?
2. What she describes is mostly her own gut feelings based on a few incidents of harm to individual patients. Where are the data to support her claims?
3. The comorbidities she cites—depression, anxiety, eating disorders, etc.—are likely the result of being forced to live as a gender that doesn't feel right.
4. The rapid rise in girls presenting at gender clinics is simply due to the reduced stigma attached to being trans.
5. Jamie is just one person out of thousands who work at gender clinics. If these treatments are so harmful, why aren't dozens of whistleblowers coming forward?
6. She is just reciting right-wing, transphobic talking points.
To be very clear, I am NOT saying that these are legitimate reasons to dismiss this essay, and I know there are very good rebuttals to all of this. I'm just afraid that no one who blows the whistle on gender clinics, unless it's Rachel Levine or Chase Strangio, is going to make a dent in the "progressive" belief that these treatments are lifesaving interventions.
ETA: I really hope I am wrong about this!
"The way we are creating a generation of young people with intersex conditions by way of medical interventions."
This sent shivers down my spine. How accurate. I never thought of it this way.
I wholeheartedly agree that we need a "bipartisan commission to gather all the information on youth transition in America, so that good laws and policies can follow."
Like with the Sacklers, we have to look at the *sellers* of this bad idea, their $/power/grandeur/ narcissistic motives, and how they skillfully used the Left's inclusivity and knee jerk LGB support AGAINST us, in a criminally broken chain of medical trust, NGO certainty, plus a deluge of word salad and suicide threats.
Who on Left was co-opted, cultified, &/or paid (Victor Madrigal? Turban? Rafferty? etc.) This idea was **Trojan Horsed** into Left with professional, surgical skill by people motivated to profit and also to hurt the left. A bunch of teen AGPs and ASD girls living in their parents' basements did not author this coordinated, worldwide disinformation re children and gender and see it seize the western world inside 15 years.
No Leftie WANTS to maim kids... but remember, it was sold as "save kids!" (Identical come-on to QAnon...) Beyond an immediate call for a systematic review from those on the Left-- what must be done, yesterday-- we have to look at what happened to us, and by whom, those profiteering off monetizing mentally ill kids and swindling them and their desperate parents. Jail time for the guilty.
Send this essay to your Representative, Senators, our President and vice President, along with the original article, and if you live in an area with a big gender clinic, send it to the governor, mayor, everyone there too.
Genuine Whistleblowers have done this exposé work before. Stories from the inside plus detransitioner lawsuits will be the way to interrupt this madness. Circulate Jamie's story widely. It's VERY hard to go first and only a little easier to go 2nd and 3rd. Then there's a tipping point and people can come forward easier. Remember me-too!
Thank you, Lisa. I hope your post saves many lives of our children. I intend to share it as far and wide as I can.
Also point them to quotations from the interview which Lane reports, this introduction (above) and then the article and then quotations from the interview here:
https://genderclinicnews.substack.com/p/lies-and-suicide-scare-tactics