I agree wholeheartedly about these very odd beliefs, but I wonder why this is in written the past tense. My daughter still thinks these things (sex is a spectrum and some people are in bodies that don’t reflect their true selves, etc.) because this is still the prevailing view in our “liberal”!(complete misnomer) society.
The lies that have pushed vulnerable youth to make rash, irresponsible, self-destructive decisions are still out there. We desperately need to set the record straight.
Not one of these young people could possibly have provided informed consent for the medical interventions they have embarked on with reckless abandon because they have, in fact, been quite misinformed.
As one small example, Mamdami is in the lead for mayor of NYC and he wants to put $65 million dollars aside to poison and cut up youth who are uncomfortable in their healthy bodies - sorry to be so dramatic, but that is how I see his platform.
I can’t wait until this is truly in the past tense, but that time has not yet come.
Any dips in trans identity are probably because it’s less cool, not because the messages (the lies) have stopped being told. Institutional enforcement is a very current problem.
My question is how can we reach bright lights like Mamdani with reality? How do we reach any of them? I wrote to my senator, Patty Murray, expressing dismay about a pro-transgender law putting a women-only Korean day spa in jeopardy. Twice her office replied with a long email telling me of all the things they've done to support transgender rights. They all got the memo and swallowed it whole.
Looking at the picture you posted in your weekly roundup, I was struck by how clever and clear their messaging is: "save the trans kids." Who can be against that? How do we say, "save the gay, lesbian and neurodivergent kids?" When we say "save the gay, lesbian and neurodivergent kids from trans ideology?" all they hear is hate.
Saying "save the trans kids" is like saying "save the unicorn kids." What are we talking about? I tried to use the message "save the vulnerable kids. Help them to feel comfortable in their bodies and to know they are fine just as they are. Save them from unnecessary chemicals and surgeries." Trans activists can't seem to understand what that means.
They have been brainwashed (and by "they" I include the many parents who think of themselves as "allies" to their trans-identified kids) to believe that anything less than pro-trans rhetoric or efforts are genocidal. They counter with an automatic "why are you trying to erase my kid?"
Yes, same with my daughter. She's still very much entrenched as a 19 year old, she even had a double mastectomy over the summer courtesy of Kaiser Permanente who diagnosed her with gender incongruence on the second visit with their "gender affirming therapist". This is medical malpractice and fraud.
Having spent decades studying American and Western propaganda operations in both foreign policy and on the domestic scene - I came to this same conclusion. When studying propaganda operations the following has become a truism for me. If all the MSM, all the major corporations, all of academia, all the big NGO's, Federal and state government offices, medical and psychological associations and licensing bodies, right down to my local YMCA - are all suddenly as if on command singing the same song - and that song is completely irrational, unscientific, detached from material reality and ideological in nature - you can be sure of "one thing" - you are being "gaslighted" by the big boys - by the oligarchy at the helm of Western societies.
The question to ask at that point is - "to what end?" Is this just the latest in "divide & conquer" tactics used to keep us at each other's throats? Or, is Jennifer Bilek correct that this is being used by "our betters" as a way to "normalize" unnecessary surgeries and body modification in service to a "brave & stunning" future of transhumanist surgical implants, chips and mutilation. I will admit that I have become cynical enough at this point to suspect we will one day see the evolving medical/tech/AI industries ride in on their white horse posing as "heroes" as they offer our youth the latest in chips and brain implants that will allow thousands of mutilated children to finally experience sexual pleasure as adults - after having earlier surrendered their physical sexual organs to castration on the alter of the gender-gods. One can almost bet on it. Create the problem - create the solution - and then tally your profits.
The optimist in me is hoping that doctors can help detransitioners but the pessimist in me says their will be doctors who will be doing it for the money because this their new clientele.
I also wish more people would publish this information.
Indeed - all very well put, Hippiesq. And no apologies needed - that's exactly what the Mamdani plan proposes, and - as I understand them - what's behind each school, city hall, place of worship that flies the progress pride flag (of which there are many in my area).
Thank you, Lisa. What you have written here is perfectly pitched toward liberals and progressives, who most need to hear this and grasp honestly with what they are supporting. I also appreciate Hippiesq’s amendment from past to present tense, as well as her noting of Mamdani’s egregious platform plank, which is very much alive and which he has done nothing to address. Too few people know, let alone understand, what Mamdani is proposing (which Hippiesq describes accurately, in my view).
It has become virtually impossible to discuss this with those who support Mamdani, as there is so much hyper-politicized overlay about his candidacy. The fact remains that, while Mamdani has made efforts to reach out to other concerned constituent groups, he does not appear even to recognize that this particular concerned constituent group exists. At a minimum, he should be called upon to drop this plank and convene a meeting with those who have not been heard on the utterly valid concerns Hippiesq notes here.
The progressive political sites I visit, Slate, TPM Media, Brian Beutler's column on substack and others are steadfast in their support of trans ideology though I sometimes think it's because broaching the subject head on would lead to rifts within these communities rather than full-fledged support. The result is the same however. Young people who have grown up in that spike period will be loathe to give up their friends to the enemy. Changing their minds will be difficult because it means giving up that part of their identity they put at their moral center.
I imagine there will be many doctors willing to help as awareness grows of the harms done to this population and once they no longer risk their livelihood to offer their services to help those still struggling with gender dysphoria
I think all the time about a young woman I know who declared a trans identity at age 16 and within a year was put on testosterone and had her breasts removed. She then decided she wasn’t actually a man (at age 18) but was nonbinary. She has changed how she identifies and the pronouns she prefers at least once since then (I use “she” for simplicity and because she is female) and also has gone back and forth between wearing women’s clothing, hairstyles and makeup and a more gender neutral or masculine coded presentation. I got to know her this summer and she is an incredibly intelligent, interesting, likely autistic person, and extremely sensitive. She’s having a hard time in life and I wonder what goes on in her mind when she thinks about all of this. I hate that she will never be able to undo the harm done to her body but there has also been harm done to her mind. And everyone involved were good liberals, on the right side of history etc.
Additional useful terms include: cross sex ideation, captured language, Piaget denial. This last I just invented, for the fact that the long-accepted stages of child development, sensory motor, pre-operational, concrete operational and formal operational, from Swiss researcher, Jean Piaget cannot fit with the concepts of "born in the wrong body" and "known since birth." Another concept of Piaget's is object permanence, which starts developing around age 4.
Sorry to disagree, but I had long expected this to be in no small part a social contagion. I am almost 70 and gay and I can tell you you that coming out never led to the small clusters of homosexuals as it did the trans issue.
My question is how can we reach bright lights like Mamdani with reality? How do we reach any of them? I wrote to my senator, Patty Murray, expressing dismay about a pro-transgender law putting a women-only Korean day spa in jeopardy. Twice her office replied with a long email telling me of all the things they've done to support transgender rights. They all got the memo and swallowed it whole.
I agree wholeheartedly about these very odd beliefs, but I wonder why this is in written the past tense. My daughter still thinks these things (sex is a spectrum and some people are in bodies that don’t reflect their true selves, etc.) because this is still the prevailing view in our “liberal”!(complete misnomer) society.
The lies that have pushed vulnerable youth to make rash, irresponsible, self-destructive decisions are still out there. We desperately need to set the record straight.
Not one of these young people could possibly have provided informed consent for the medical interventions they have embarked on with reckless abandon because they have, in fact, been quite misinformed.
As one small example, Mamdami is in the lead for mayor of NYC and he wants to put $65 million dollars aside to poison and cut up youth who are uncomfortable in their healthy bodies - sorry to be so dramatic, but that is how I see his platform.
I can’t wait until this is truly in the past tense, but that time has not yet come.
Any dips in trans identity are probably because it’s less cool, not because the messages (the lies) have stopped being told. Institutional enforcement is a very current problem.
Fair point! It's not like just because there's a line on a graph that it's all evaporated. My kids were taught this stuff last year!
My question is how can we reach bright lights like Mamdani with reality? How do we reach any of them? I wrote to my senator, Patty Murray, expressing dismay about a pro-transgender law putting a women-only Korean day spa in jeopardy. Twice her office replied with a long email telling me of all the things they've done to support transgender rights. They all got the memo and swallowed it whole.
I wish Mamdani were reachable. I'm working on an open letter to him but...he has moved to the center but not on that.
Looking at the picture you posted in your weekly roundup, I was struck by how clever and clear their messaging is: "save the trans kids." Who can be against that? How do we say, "save the gay, lesbian and neurodivergent kids?" When we say "save the gay, lesbian and neurodivergent kids from trans ideology?" all they hear is hate.
Saying "save the trans kids" is like saying "save the unicorn kids." What are we talking about? I tried to use the message "save the vulnerable kids. Help them to feel comfortable in their bodies and to know they are fine just as they are. Save them from unnecessary chemicals and surgeries." Trans activists can't seem to understand what that means.
Exactly. If they took the time to understand, their whole world view would shatter.
They have been brainwashed (and by "they" I include the many parents who think of themselves as "allies" to their trans-identified kids) to believe that anything less than pro-trans rhetoric or efforts are genocidal. They counter with an automatic "why are you trying to erase my kid?"
Mamdani is no bright light.
Yes, same with my daughter. She's still very much entrenched as a 19 year old, she even had a double mastectomy over the summer courtesy of Kaiser Permanente who diagnosed her with gender incongruence on the second visit with their "gender affirming therapist". This is medical malpractice and fraud.
Great points, as usual Hippiesq.
Well noted, Hippiesq. Thank you.
Hippiesq, I believe both of our daughters were captured years ago. It's not easy to let go--especially after medicalization.
My hope is that this trans train shuts down.
It's both absurd and tragic.
"Institutional enforcement" is an excellent characterization. I'll start using it and crediting you.
Having spent decades studying American and Western propaganda operations in both foreign policy and on the domestic scene - I came to this same conclusion. When studying propaganda operations the following has become a truism for me. If all the MSM, all the major corporations, all of academia, all the big NGO's, Federal and state government offices, medical and psychological associations and licensing bodies, right down to my local YMCA - are all suddenly as if on command singing the same song - and that song is completely irrational, unscientific, detached from material reality and ideological in nature - you can be sure of "one thing" - you are being "gaslighted" by the big boys - by the oligarchy at the helm of Western societies.
The question to ask at that point is - "to what end?" Is this just the latest in "divide & conquer" tactics used to keep us at each other's throats? Or, is Jennifer Bilek correct that this is being used by "our betters" as a way to "normalize" unnecessary surgeries and body modification in service to a "brave & stunning" future of transhumanist surgical implants, chips and mutilation. I will admit that I have become cynical enough at this point to suspect we will one day see the evolving medical/tech/AI industries ride in on their white horse posing as "heroes" as they offer our youth the latest in chips and brain implants that will allow thousands of mutilated children to finally experience sexual pleasure as adults - after having earlier surrendered their physical sexual organs to castration on the alter of the gender-gods. One can almost bet on it. Create the problem - create the solution - and then tally your profits.
100%
The optimist in me is hoping that doctors can help detransitioners but the pessimist in me says their will be doctors who will be doing it for the money because this their new clientele.
I also wish more people would publish this information.
Thank you.
Indeed - all very well put, Hippiesq. And no apologies needed - that's exactly what the Mamdani plan proposes, and - as I understand them - what's behind each school, city hall, place of worship that flies the progress pride flag (of which there are many in my area).
Thank you, Lisa. What you have written here is perfectly pitched toward liberals and progressives, who most need to hear this and grasp honestly with what they are supporting. I also appreciate Hippiesq’s amendment from past to present tense, as well as her noting of Mamdani’s egregious platform plank, which is very much alive and which he has done nothing to address. Too few people know, let alone understand, what Mamdani is proposing (which Hippiesq describes accurately, in my view).
It has become virtually impossible to discuss this with those who support Mamdani, as there is so much hyper-politicized overlay about his candidacy. The fact remains that, while Mamdani has made efforts to reach out to other concerned constituent groups, he does not appear even to recognize that this particular concerned constituent group exists. At a minimum, he should be called upon to drop this plank and convene a meeting with those who have not been heard on the utterly valid concerns Hippiesq notes here.
The progressive political sites I visit, Slate, TPM Media, Brian Beutler's column on substack and others are steadfast in their support of trans ideology though I sometimes think it's because broaching the subject head on would lead to rifts within these communities rather than full-fledged support. The result is the same however. Young people who have grown up in that spike period will be loathe to give up their friends to the enemy. Changing their minds will be difficult because it means giving up that part of their identity they put at their moral center.
I imagine there will be many doctors willing to help as awareness grows of the harms done to this population and once they no longer risk their livelihood to offer their services to help those still struggling with gender dysphoria
I think all the time about a young woman I know who declared a trans identity at age 16 and within a year was put on testosterone and had her breasts removed. She then decided she wasn’t actually a man (at age 18) but was nonbinary. She has changed how she identifies and the pronouns she prefers at least once since then (I use “she” for simplicity and because she is female) and also has gone back and forth between wearing women’s clothing, hairstyles and makeup and a more gender neutral or masculine coded presentation. I got to know her this summer and she is an incredibly intelligent, interesting, likely autistic person, and extremely sensitive. She’s having a hard time in life and I wonder what goes on in her mind when she thinks about all of this. I hate that she will never be able to undo the harm done to her body but there has also been harm done to her mind. And everyone involved were good liberals, on the right side of history etc.
Additional useful terms include: cross sex ideation, captured language, Piaget denial. This last I just invented, for the fact that the long-accepted stages of child development, sensory motor, pre-operational, concrete operational and formal operational, from Swiss researcher, Jean Piaget cannot fit with the concepts of "born in the wrong body" and "known since birth." Another concept of Piaget's is object permanence, which starts developing around age 4.
Sorry to disagree, but I had long expected this to be in no small part a social contagion. I am almost 70 and gay and I can tell you you that coming out never led to the small clusters of homosexuals as it did the trans issue.
Beautiful piece full of hope.
My question is how can we reach bright lights like Mamdani with reality? How do we reach any of them? I wrote to my senator, Patty Murray, expressing dismay about a pro-transgender law putting a women-only Korean day spa in jeopardy. Twice her office replied with a long email telling me of all the things they've done to support transgender rights. They all got the memo and swallowed it whole.
An important perspective. These children were lied to and indoctrinated by adults. They cannot now be blamed and abandoned.