I'm always surprised to hear Brits blame transgenderism on America.
The transgenderist lobby is based on French queer philosophy. It was incubated in Canada. It was adopted around the world through the Yogyakarta principles. The UK embraced it so enthusiastically that they established the largest children's transgenderist clinic in the world. The UK even sent transgenderist Joseph Lavery to America--and America would very much like the Brits to come collect their garbage.
Meanwhile, the first person to significantly sound the alarm about the dangers of transgenderism was American feminist Janice Raymond, in her 1979 book The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male.
I understand that many Brits look down on Americans. According to those people, everything negative that the British do is somehow magically Americans' fault. However, Americans don't do the same to the Brits.
Certainly, this situation embarrasses my British friends who live in America, and my British relatives are heartily ashamed of it.
There are people all around the world fighting the transgenderist lobby. It makes no sense for one country to blame another for it. All that does is divide and conquer us. So if you absolutely HAVE to blame any one country for transgenderism--although why would you?--blame us.
Deeply worrying times in the UK with the likely approach of a government receptive to trans ideology... as you rightly implicitly note this Conservative government has been close to useless on this values issue. We have become unmoored from traditional values and culture and to common sense.
Thank you for sharing your experience , as your own children have escaped this scourge you might easily have not taken the trouble to write. I’m grateful you did. It will take as many people as possible to speak up against the madness of gender ideology if it is to end. Too many vulnerable young people have been harmed already. The focus should perhaps be on the medical practitioners. If it weren’t for them and their ‘gender affirming care’ of wrong sex hormones and surgery these kids’ ‘trans’ identity’ might be no different to being a Goth or Punk.
The UK is waking up and so is America! Dr Phil has slammed the US Medical Authorities for promoting this crap (probably the best thing he’s done for years!) Hopefully at least his audience of millions agrees. My 18 year old daughter has been captured and is currently being fed “off label”male hormones by a gender clinic attached to one of our “highly regarded” Sydney Hospitals. It’s despicable that drug companies like BAYER are producing testosterone for men with low testosterone levels then happily taking the profits from “Gender Clinics” who prescribe it for young women who think they can become men to fix their mental health problems!!! This is preposterous! Our GP, her Therapist (recommended by the GP) and the so called “Gender Clinic” clinicians(?) are all complicit in this internet social contagion. I have one question: How can altering your sexual presentation fix your mental health? It doesn’t make sense which means it isn’t true! Try telling that to an 18 year old “Cult” member with no clue. It’s soo frustrating as a parent watching your child being sucked down this pit of degradation. There is a reckoning coming.
How can a top hospital prescribe off-label meds to young people? I don't get it. I am not medically or legally trained but I would have thought this was not legal and doctors' licences to practice should be at stake. But yes, Dr Phil's strong statement against the rubbish of 'affirming' gender treatment is hopeful of some dawning in the US as to the epic con being sold everyone and the harms being committed against children in its name for the sake of, well, nobody can probably even say anymore what it's all for, other than money not talking but swearing on steroids again.
This aptly describes my detransitioned adult son. I believe the tribe was his university at age 18.
I'm glad your daughter avoided the harm and your family has been spared the devastation this has caused so many families. We are working on repairing what was lost over the past few years. Thank you for your insights. You're right, we can't rest until policies protect the young and those older children who are vulnerable, even adults who are in pain, and that we acknowledge biological reality.
Exactly. I had to move my kid out of a public elementary school we really loved but among other issues, I could see the trans train a-coming. I took her out in the middle of fourth grade (age 9.) The following year the school started a “gender and sexuality alliance” lunch time club (so no parent permission or knowledge required) for grade 4 (yes, again, 9 year olds) and up. How this is not illegal is beyond me. In the least surprising development ever, last week I learned that a little girl from my daughter’s former class is now saying she is a boy, and her classmates, who have known her for years, have to pretend it’s true or be punished.
There is a popular opinion that the brain is completely mature at age 25 by the medical community. I would argue that any of this transition talk by the psychiatric community should be held off until that age. I also find it ironic that here is a place where all these parents affected by this insanity with their own families, can name all the conditions these "transitioners" have been diagnosed with, and lo and behold they are the same issues, over and over again.
I agree with the person who said that lawsuits against these doctors/psychiatrists who are doing this to otherwise healthy bodied individuals may be the way we can get this under control. It is complete insanity. We need to get these children and adults alike the care they actually need.
I, too, am embarrassed of this country. Wishing you the best in the UK.
I suspect autistic girls read about the male brain theory of autism and decided their brains were really male so they needed bodies to match. More likely, autistic children are just more vulnerable to feeling they do not fit in. The internet has been spreading lies about hormones changing the bodies to match the heads. Evil eugenics spread by a cult.
Yes, I believe he mentioned looking into chemical agents in the vaccines and they use this to smear him.
I suspect anti depressants have something to do with it. In the meantime it looks like it’s being taken as a given rather than finding a way to stop it.
Folks, this is a Substack that speaks heavily from an evidenced, factual, pro-science view, esp as they debunk trans nonsense. It doesn't help when folks offer up a conspiracy group like Children's Health Defense.
"Sources in the Conspiracy-Pseudoscience category may publish unverifiable information that is not always supported by evidence. These sources may be untrustworthy for credible/verifiable information; therefore, fact-checking and further investigation is recommended on a per article basis when obtaining information from these sources. See all Conspiracy-Pseudoscience sources."
I'm sorry that the over the top response to this ideology in the US has affected the UK and other countries. I wish, as an American, that were not the case. And as the mother of a trans identified young man I wish everyday this ridiculous ideology never reared its ugly head in the US or anywhere else.
We have a chance to put a dagger in the heart of this in California. As California goes, so does the USA and the rest of the world... There is a ballot initiative that will stop child transition, protect girls in sports and protect parents in schools. Please support if you can. If you are in California, please sign the petition. If you are not, any financial contribution will help. We have to get a LOT of signatures. Please share. https://protectkidsca.com
I wanted to add that, besides the obvious benefit of hopefully getting the protect kids act on the ballot, it is so important to have these conversations, in public, out loud, unafraid, and using reality based language.
Yes, we mustn’t get comfortable just sitting at home with our thoughts on the matter, relying on others to act. We can act too, in any way possible no matter how seemingly small eg searching out and signing petitions, donating $1/£1, etc. to non-captured, campaigning organisations, volunteering, writing letters of complaint to captured companies, educational boards or elected political reps (even anonymously and stating WHY you were forced to write anonymously), refuse to buy from/or limit spending at captured companies (so many are so it can be hard but we can adapt and still make a smaller impact rather than none), etc. and get our families and friends involved where possible in doing the same. It all counts and is mightily valued as impactful ‘support’ to fight this very destructive and damaging social virus.
It sounds a tad dramatic but in reality it’s not, given this current outlandish and spiritually challenged environment. Our small actions can literally contribute to saving the natural order of humanity as we know it and maintain objective reality ie good mental health and wellbeing. As well as maintaining how the human condition is meant to be, meant to operate as (forget male secretions and ‘trans milk’ for babies) and meant to look like ie 101 in basic human biology.
I'm really concerned the slow steps we're taking in the right direction will be overturned by a Labour government. Our progress towards the light at the end of the tunnel feels so fragile.
Maybe sport will be the issue that ultimately undermines the cult - obvious unfairness and safety problems for women backed by clear biological differences between the sexes.
It is too bad that the school club is labeled as LGBTQ. Many children would benefit from just having a "Social Club" to belong to where any child could go to be accepted. Labels. I hate them. You are wise and kind and I am glad that you can be a "fly on the wall" so to speak, and I hope that you can make a difference. This evil cult continues to fight for attention, and I hope we can all fight harder. Our voices need to be the heard above their voices. I had never heard the saying "When America sneezes, the UK catches a cold" very interesting and very true it seems. I hope that the trans-gender virus will die out soon and spread to the UK quickly. Best wishes.
"What finally helped her was a diagnosis of ADHD at 22 and her maturing brain"
A genuine question: How does getting a formal diagnosis help a young adult? I never encouraged my possibly autistic young adult daughter to get a diagnosis because I didn't think it would matter and I don't want her to dwell on it anyway. Can it actually do something helpful for an adult? I always assumed that a diagnosis is only helpful to a young child who may get some skills/therapy.
It matters - we realized we were on the spectrum when we were figuring out our kids. It explained SO much about our difficulties as children and teens. You don't turn in homework - you're lazy and bad. You discover you have executive disfunction (a subset of ASD and ADHD), and suddenly there's a REASON that doesn't mean you're a bad person. You can now focus on strategies to get around the quirks in your brain. You don't outgrow ASD or ADHD, you learn to cope. How much better to learn coping skills as young as possible? We were in our 40s by the time we understood this about ourselves - to learn it in our 20s? Life-changing.
Us too. ADHD at 15, Asperger's at 16, learning about it all is safe to talk about and brings confidence (empowering) and reasons for why "peopleing" and other tasks are so hard. Less shame (I am a mistake) even if there is a little guilt (I made a mistake) when she is late or forgets or doesn't do something. Trans is not as safe to talk about. She said she thought she might be trans at age 13 which had me trying to figure this out in secret and simply working on our relationship. She is almost 18 now and our family has never affirmed. My goal is to keep her out of "typical"
American college until her brain can see through this clearly. Alexithymia is a trait of autism and we work on naming emotions as she has them. This would have been helpful when at 13 she didn't feel like she measured up as a girl. Anxiety and the extreme need for control are also under the ASD umbrella and even before the diagnosis, I figured out she can't be motivated by punishment, rewards or even consequences. She has to be in control so I just offer limited choices.
Dealing with someone who has “an extreme need for control” demands the patience of a saint. Before my daughter was diagnosed with autism the health visitor told me I needed the patience of a saint. I still need that and more.
What a life we parents have! A psychologist asked me “why is my daughter so cruel?” Could it be that this need to have control results in cruelty to others?
I am noticing this behaviour in a brother. A friend pointed out she thinks he is on the spectrum. Now I see that, it explains the recent temper tantrum.
Many trans people have temper tantrums. Everybody must conform to what they want or they have tantrums. If we know they are on autistic spectrum we better understand why they behave this way.
Autistic people acknowledging their difficulties could be enabled to better manage their behaviour.
Changing bodies to treat autism is insane. The “trans” person still has autism. This is a medical scandal.
I'm always surprised to hear Brits blame transgenderism on America.
The transgenderist lobby is based on French queer philosophy. It was incubated in Canada. It was adopted around the world through the Yogyakarta principles. The UK embraced it so enthusiastically that they established the largest children's transgenderist clinic in the world. The UK even sent transgenderist Joseph Lavery to America--and America would very much like the Brits to come collect their garbage.
Meanwhile, the first person to significantly sound the alarm about the dangers of transgenderism was American feminist Janice Raymond, in her 1979 book The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male.
I understand that many Brits look down on Americans. According to those people, everything negative that the British do is somehow magically Americans' fault. However, Americans don't do the same to the Brits.
Certainly, this situation embarrasses my British friends who live in America, and my British relatives are heartily ashamed of it.
There are people all around the world fighting the transgenderist lobby. It makes no sense for one country to blame another for it. All that does is divide and conquer us. So if you absolutely HAVE to blame any one country for transgenderism--although why would you?--blame us.
signed,
Canada
Excellent Article
Thankyou! I believe she will wake up and I continue to love her with all her craziness! My baby!
Deeply worrying times in the UK with the likely approach of a government receptive to trans ideology... as you rightly implicitly note this Conservative government has been close to useless on this values issue. We have become unmoored from traditional values and culture and to common sense.
Thank you for sharing your experience , as your own children have escaped this scourge you might easily have not taken the trouble to write. I’m grateful you did. It will take as many people as possible to speak up against the madness of gender ideology if it is to end. Too many vulnerable young people have been harmed already. The focus should perhaps be on the medical practitioners. If it weren’t for them and their ‘gender affirming care’ of wrong sex hormones and surgery these kids’ ‘trans’ identity’ might be no different to being a Goth or Punk.
The UK is waking up and so is America! Dr Phil has slammed the US Medical Authorities for promoting this crap (probably the best thing he’s done for years!) Hopefully at least his audience of millions agrees. My 18 year old daughter has been captured and is currently being fed “off label”male hormones by a gender clinic attached to one of our “highly regarded” Sydney Hospitals. It’s despicable that drug companies like BAYER are producing testosterone for men with low testosterone levels then happily taking the profits from “Gender Clinics” who prescribe it for young women who think they can become men to fix their mental health problems!!! This is preposterous! Our GP, her Therapist (recommended by the GP) and the so called “Gender Clinic” clinicians(?) are all complicit in this internet social contagion. I have one question: How can altering your sexual presentation fix your mental health? It doesn’t make sense which means it isn’t true! Try telling that to an 18 year old “Cult” member with no clue. It’s soo frustrating as a parent watching your child being sucked down this pit of degradation. There is a reckoning coming.
There is indeed a reckoning coming.
I'm so sorry your daughter is caught up in the madness. I am holding onto hope for her.
How can a top hospital prescribe off-label meds to young people? I don't get it. I am not medically or legally trained but I would have thought this was not legal and doctors' licences to practice should be at stake. But yes, Dr Phil's strong statement against the rubbish of 'affirming' gender treatment is hopeful of some dawning in the US as to the epic con being sold everyone and the harms being committed against children in its name for the sake of, well, nobody can probably even say anymore what it's all for, other than money not talking but swearing on steroids again.
Thank you for your piece.
1. Obviously autistic/ADHD or ADD
2. Clearly experiencing some mental health issues
3. Suffering difficulties at home
4. Simply quirky and looking for a tribe
This aptly describes my detransitioned adult son. I believe the tribe was his university at age 18.
I'm glad your daughter avoided the harm and your family has been spared the devastation this has caused so many families. We are working on repairing what was lost over the past few years. Thank you for your insights. You're right, we can't rest until policies protect the young and those older children who are vulnerable, even adults who are in pain, and that we acknowledge biological reality.
Outrageous that anywhere there could be an “LGBTQ club” for 11 and 12 year olds.
Exactly. I had to move my kid out of a public elementary school we really loved but among other issues, I could see the trans train a-coming. I took her out in the middle of fourth grade (age 9.) The following year the school started a “gender and sexuality alliance” lunch time club (so no parent permission or knowledge required) for grade 4 (yes, again, 9 year olds) and up. How this is not illegal is beyond me. In the least surprising development ever, last week I learned that a little girl from my daughter’s former class is now saying she is a boy, and her classmates, who have known her for years, have to pretend it’s true or be punished.
You got her out just in time.
There is a popular opinion that the brain is completely mature at age 25 by the medical community. I would argue that any of this transition talk by the psychiatric community should be held off until that age. I also find it ironic that here is a place where all these parents affected by this insanity with their own families, can name all the conditions these "transitioners" have been diagnosed with, and lo and behold they are the same issues, over and over again.
I agree with the person who said that lawsuits against these doctors/psychiatrists who are doing this to otherwise healthy bodied individuals may be the way we can get this under control. It is complete insanity. We need to get these children and adults alike the care they actually need.
I, too, am embarrassed of this country. Wishing you the best in the UK.
Why are so many kids autistic???????
I suspect autistic girls read about the male brain theory of autism and decided their brains were really male so they needed bodies to match. More likely, autistic children are just more vulnerable to feeling they do not fit in. The internet has been spreading lies about hormones changing the bodies to match the heads. Evil eugenics spread by a cult.
RFK Jr's research group, Children's Health Defense, has done a ton of research on the topic and it all points to childhood vaccines. Very credible.
Yes, I believe he mentioned looking into chemical agents in the vaccines and they use this to smear him.
I suspect anti depressants have something to do with it. In the meantime it looks like it’s being taken as a given rather than finding a way to stop it.
Folks, this is a Substack that speaks heavily from an evidenced, factual, pro-science view, esp as they debunk trans nonsense. It doesn't help when folks offer up a conspiracy group like Children's Health Defense.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/childrens-health-defense/
"Sources in the Conspiracy-Pseudoscience category may publish unverifiable information that is not always supported by evidence. These sources may be untrustworthy for credible/verifiable information; therefore, fact-checking and further investigation is recommended on a per article basis when obtaining information from these sources. See all Conspiracy-Pseudoscience sources."
If you start with the primary source, there's no need to go to that "fact check" site.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/members-only/vaccine-safety-project-6-steps-overview/
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789217/
https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/autism-vaccine-link-debunked
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-amish-dont-get-autism/
https://www.factcheck.org/issue/autism/
(Includes: https://www.factcheck.org/2023/08/scicheck-what-rfk-jr-gets-wrong-about-autism/)
https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/do-vaccines-cause-autism
Re VAERS, one of the two cited 'primary sources': https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/what-vaers-is-and-isnt
Folks, this CDF stuff is *nonsense*.
Thank you for the list of Straw Men. Much appreciated.
I'm sorry that the over the top response to this ideology in the US has affected the UK and other countries. I wish, as an American, that were not the case. And as the mother of a trans identified young man I wish everyday this ridiculous ideology never reared its ugly head in the US or anywhere else.
We have a chance to put a dagger in the heart of this in California. As California goes, so does the USA and the rest of the world... There is a ballot initiative that will stop child transition, protect girls in sports and protect parents in schools. Please support if you can. If you are in California, please sign the petition. If you are not, any financial contribution will help. We have to get a LOT of signatures. Please share. https://protectkidsca.com
I spent the weekend gathering signatures. Many are are very grateful and excited by the effort.
I wanted to add that, besides the obvious benefit of hopefully getting the protect kids act on the ballot, it is so important to have these conversations, in public, out loud, unafraid, and using reality based language.
Yes, we mustn’t get comfortable just sitting at home with our thoughts on the matter, relying on others to act. We can act too, in any way possible no matter how seemingly small eg searching out and signing petitions, donating $1/£1, etc. to non-captured, campaigning organisations, volunteering, writing letters of complaint to captured companies, educational boards or elected political reps (even anonymously and stating WHY you were forced to write anonymously), refuse to buy from/or limit spending at captured companies (so many are so it can be hard but we can adapt and still make a smaller impact rather than none), etc. and get our families and friends involved where possible in doing the same. It all counts and is mightily valued as impactful ‘support’ to fight this very destructive and damaging social virus.
It sounds a tad dramatic but in reality it’s not, given this current outlandish and spiritually challenged environment. Our small actions can literally contribute to saving the natural order of humanity as we know it and maintain objective reality ie good mental health and wellbeing. As well as maintaining how the human condition is meant to be, meant to operate as (forget male secretions and ‘trans milk’ for babies) and meant to look like ie 101 in basic human biology.
I'm really concerned the slow steps we're taking in the right direction will be overturned by a Labour government. Our progress towards the light at the end of the tunnel feels so fragile.
Maybe sport will be the issue that ultimately undermines the cult - obvious unfairness and safety problems for women backed by clear biological differences between the sexes.
I think this won't end until law suits start holding the "professionals" accountable-financially and otherwise.
Really useful article for summarising what to look for in teens presenting with gender dysphoria.
It is too bad that the school club is labeled as LGBTQ. Many children would benefit from just having a "Social Club" to belong to where any child could go to be accepted. Labels. I hate them. You are wise and kind and I am glad that you can be a "fly on the wall" so to speak, and I hope that you can make a difference. This evil cult continues to fight for attention, and I hope we can all fight harder. Our voices need to be the heard above their voices. I had never heard the saying "When America sneezes, the UK catches a cold" very interesting and very true it seems. I hope that the trans-gender virus will die out soon and spread to the UK quickly. Best wishes.
‘Many children would benefit from just having a "Social Club" to belong to where any child could go to be accepted.’
Old school. That simple.
However, that’s not the goal of this aggressive agenda.
You are so right on. Common sense with no agenda, a novel concept any more!
"What finally helped her was a diagnosis of ADHD at 22 and her maturing brain"
A genuine question: How does getting a formal diagnosis help a young adult? I never encouraged my possibly autistic young adult daughter to get a diagnosis because I didn't think it would matter and I don't want her to dwell on it anyway. Can it actually do something helpful for an adult? I always assumed that a diagnosis is only helpful to a young child who may get some skills/therapy.
It matters - we realized we were on the spectrum when we were figuring out our kids. It explained SO much about our difficulties as children and teens. You don't turn in homework - you're lazy and bad. You discover you have executive disfunction (a subset of ASD and ADHD), and suddenly there's a REASON that doesn't mean you're a bad person. You can now focus on strategies to get around the quirks in your brain. You don't outgrow ASD or ADHD, you learn to cope. How much better to learn coping skills as young as possible? We were in our 40s by the time we understood this about ourselves - to learn it in our 20s? Life-changing.
Us too. ADHD at 15, Asperger's at 16, learning about it all is safe to talk about and brings confidence (empowering) and reasons for why "peopleing" and other tasks are so hard. Less shame (I am a mistake) even if there is a little guilt (I made a mistake) when she is late or forgets or doesn't do something. Trans is not as safe to talk about. She said she thought she might be trans at age 13 which had me trying to figure this out in secret and simply working on our relationship. She is almost 18 now and our family has never affirmed. My goal is to keep her out of "typical"
American college until her brain can see through this clearly. Alexithymia is a trait of autism and we work on naming emotions as she has them. This would have been helpful when at 13 she didn't feel like she measured up as a girl. Anxiety and the extreme need for control are also under the ASD umbrella and even before the diagnosis, I figured out she can't be motivated by punishment, rewards or even consequences. She has to be in control so I just offer limited choices.
Dealing with someone who has “an extreme need for control” demands the patience of a saint. Before my daughter was diagnosed with autism the health visitor told me I needed the patience of a saint. I still need that and more.
What a life we parents have! A psychologist asked me “why is my daughter so cruel?” Could it be that this need to have control results in cruelty to others?
I am noticing this behaviour in a brother. A friend pointed out she thinks he is on the spectrum. Now I see that, it explains the recent temper tantrum.
Many trans people have temper tantrums. Everybody must conform to what they want or they have tantrums. If we know they are on autistic spectrum we better understand why they behave this way.
Autistic people acknowledging their difficulties could be enabled to better manage their behaviour.
Changing bodies to treat autism is insane. The “trans” person still has autism. This is a medical scandal.
omg the control thing -- can't be motivated by punishment, rewards, consequences. totally