So happy to hear about this. You're right. The focus is always on minors with most ppl saying "once an adult you can do whatever you want" (even tho many do think transition services should be limited, even as an adult,since the brain doesn't fully develop until 25yo). I don't live in a state where trans healthcare is covered under Medicaid (at least not to my knowledge) so this aspect is something I've never really heard much about. Thanks for sharing about it.
You have such an important message, to address the legal and insurance policies allowing this malpractice. And so beautifully written.
Thank you so much. I'm forwarding this to a pediatrician. I hope others will consider forwarding this to a pediatrician or other MD, also. Or to a politician.
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On Sunday, I spent an hour in front of Safeway, handing out quarter-sheet fliers to people exiting the store.
Because I'm afraid of the very real danger of approaching people about this in my almost all-blue County, the topic you raised about insurance for detransitioner's healthcare is what I lead with because it's safest, although I'm concerned about all the related issues of cross-sex identification, as well.
For others interested in doing similar, the flier I use is on the DetransAwareness.org site, under Resources (or similar). It has the names, addresses, and phone numbers of Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, with the sample message, "Fund healthcare for Detransitioners." It also lists some websites for more information.
I ask people, "May I give you a flier?:
If they say yes, I say, "This is about Detransitioners. These are people who believed they were transgender, then changed their minds, and decided that wasn't the right pathway for them. They can get public or private insurance to cover the risky hormones and surgeries, but can't get coverage for the counseling and medical care they need to address what's been done to them, to the extent possible. There's information here about it. We're asking people to contact Biden and other electeds, to ask them to provide healthcare for Detransitioners."
And if they express concern or outrage, I tell them, "Call Biden and give him a piece of your mind. He needs to know what you're thinking."
~50 people took fliers in an hour, and ~10-15 said they'd make those calls. Not one person disagreed. Almost all seemed saddened, concerned, or pissed!
It was a gratifying way to spend an hour, and felt good to be raising consciousness in my local community, where I feel completely isolated.
I share this because I hope that if anyone else here has been struggling to get up the courage to reach out to the public in person, as I have, this will provide some ideas and encouragement to do so as well, however works for you.
I love reading about the actions others are taking, and hope to read whatever of you are doing.
Thanks again to the author of this, for providing us with a great article for sharing.
Thanks! You have a much tougher battle in CA than we do in TX, but ultimately, it is a battle for our entire country and we are blessed to have each other in fighting it. This is my way of honoring my truth and knowing my son will know I fought.
He is lucky to have you fighting for him. Sadly, not all sons or daughters realize that of their parents, because this is, I think, truly a cult. Or a mass propaganda campaign with excessive influence. I'm looking forward to listening to a recent interview by Julian Vigo with Janja Lalich, who teaches about cults at Chico State in N. Calif. For years, Lalich has said cross-sex identity isn't a cult, but apparently now she has come to see it is, or at least cult-like. You might look for it online and find it interesting. There are definitely people profiting off of capturing young people. And now, in an article I saw yesterday, perhaps middle-agers.
I'm so grateful for all the good work happening in your state regarding cross-sex identity. Thank goodness for Texas and Florida!
Janja Lalich, an international authority on cults, discusses gender ideology, comparing it to 1950s McCarthyism where similar political backlash caused people to lose their families, careers, communities, and lives. @SavageMindsMag
4:19 AM · Mar 4, 2023
Anyway, thanks so much for the reference to this interview in your comment above as I didn't know about Janja Lalich's work on cults. Lots of Lalich interviews on youtube re: cults if folks are interested in following up more with all of her related research.
Like this one > Cult Culture with Cult Expert Dr. Janja Lalich
Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in cults and extremist groups, with a particular focus on charismatic relationships, political and other social movements, ideology and social control, and issues of gender and sexuality. She has been a consultant to educational, mental health, business, media, and legal professionals, as well as having worked with current members, former members, and families of members of controversial groups.
And everyone needs to read Abigail Shrier's critically important book "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" (June 2021) if they haven't already. Interview on Shrier's book here >
Irreversible Damage? | Abigail Shrier - Jordan B. Peterson Podcast S4 E11
Thanks to everyone here who is fighting back against this dangerous, ongoing trans cult that is destroying so many of our families & our children's minds & lives right now . <3
Thank you for these links. I cant wait to listen to them. I'm glad you're interested in Janja Laljch's work on cults. I've only read the book, Cults in Our Midst, which she co-autbored with Margaret Singer. It sounds like Janja has written very interesting other books, too, on cults.
I am curious if there are any groups devoted just to the subject of sex-role identity and mind control (or cults). I think mind control would perhaps be the most appropriate term.
I think the sex-role critical movement needs to have a group devoted just to exploring, researching, and exposing the mind-control techniques being used to suck people into this ideology and keep them there.
I suspect the people developing and orchestrating the use of these techniques are not just rabid sex-role identity activists, but the rich men that Jennifer Bilek has exposed, who are involved in order to make a lot of money. If these men can get people hooked on the belief that they aren't who they are, and that there's therefore something wrong with their bodies, they can sell them dangerous drugs and surgeries to alter themselves. So they have a huge financial incentive to control people's minds and make them rabid and frantic to alter their bodies.
I think those of us who are biological realists should do research on the mind control techniques being used: compiling all the information on this.
My pleasure - thanks for your encouragement! It has taken awhile to figure out something I'd feel safe doing, and the leaflets really help. So far I haven't gotten anyone responding negatively or dangerously.
This is motivating me to set up a private FB page or email list for my county.
Do you do anything like this, or how do you go about communicating about this, please?
I’m mostly sharing with one person at a time but as word has gotten out, I have been able to connect with families from one side of the continent to the other. A year ago I began sharing periodic posts on Facebook of what I’ve learned coming alongside families for these past eight years. Thankfully, I am now able to share stories of individuals who have been delivered.
Meaning they “have been delivered” from the ideology and a trans identity. I had the privilege of coming alongside a sweet woman whose husband lived the trans life for 5 years. He is now back as her husband and the farther of their children. In spite 5 years on hormones they recently had another child.
What if it's the Government doing the funding? Our VA is funding transitions, egg harvesting and in vitro fertilization for veterans who want this! My 30 y/o veteran daughter. She would not be doing this if they weren't funding it, as she has no resources.
Thank you, so much, for your efforts. I’m fairly new to this arena & still trying to wrap my head around so much. I’ve learned more about transgender, since Nov. ‘2022, than I fathomed possible. I feel as I’ve been much more naive than I thought. I’m somewhat overwhelmed and equally disgusted by what I’ve learned. As, I’m guessing, most parents out there, my husband and I were blindsided by our 23 year old daughter’s announcement. I’ve scrolled through past photos, text conversations, emails, etc. looking for missed clues, questioning my parenting, and so on. I’ve asked our son if he saw clues. We all agreed we saw possibilities of lesbianism or confusion, but not the desire or inclination to be the opposite sex. As a nurse, it’s difficult to treat patients that have physical ailments, like breathing difficulties, so intent on making sure I use correct pronouns prior to addressing their inability to breathe. How did we get here? I’ve submitted videos to nursing instructors, requesting they show them to their psych students, addressing these issues. I’ve written letters to government officials requesting further investigation into affirming practices. Yet, the most frustrating aspect is when showing those same videos to my daughter it’s met with the accusations of transphobia. No matter how much I emphasize the surgical & hormonal risks it’s met with emphatic resistance. This is the same person with anxiety towards driving a car. I’m baffled, to say the least.
What would you suggest in terms of being the most effective way to push forward on prevention? I’m happy to see greater awareness starting. Yet, I kept getting pop ups declaring 3/13 as detrans day & when I searched for outcomes in the news I found little to no coverage.
Sorry to ramble on. I’m just so perplexed by ALL of this. To me it’s simply big pharma & money along with abhorrent medicalization.
Wow your story is so much like ours. You are not alone. You didn’t miss anything- your child just joined a new cult, and is trying to rewrite their history according to their new cult world view. You don’t have to agree with the obvious untruths. If they suddenly became Hari Krishna’s would you put on orange robes and chant with them if they threatened you with estrangement? I doubt it - you’d think they were nuts. And you would be right.
It's a toxic stew. Internet bubble starting on Tumblr, then off to Twitter. Then news media thinks if something trends on Twitter it's important to report on, and reflects actual public opinion rather than a bunch of activists in a circle jerk. So the media treats the Twitter outrage like a real thing. Then people who lean left, and don't pay a lot of attention just latch onto the reporting and reinforce their opinion via confirmation bias.
As for the kids getting into this, my younger kid indicated that googling depression routed her to trans influencers videos after like the third video watched, and the influencers are very persuasive to people with preexisting conditions. That "Gender Euphoria" will come with passing as the opposite sex, and cure all their mental health issues.
Wow, yikes. Thank you for sharing. Your description of how this happens is great. I'm going to try googling for depression and see where it takes me. And see how quickly it takes me to this...madness. Thanks.
#DetransAwarenessDay, which is annually on 12 March, is omitted from the pinprick.shop 2023-lgbt-calendar. How odd. But hey, it's probably nothing compared to International Pronoun Day on the third Wednesday in October or Gay Uncle Day on second Sunday in August.
Linked here below are the LGBT+ Calendar of Pride, Awareness, Visibility and Remembrance Days in 2023. As they say, you can "Celebrate Pride all year in 2023!" - except #DetransAwarenessDay, obviously.
I will be trying to bring this point to any brainbow-washed people I meet in the coming year of Pride.
(Comment 3/3) Depression, mental disorders, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, and increased suicidal thoughts – no wonder the overall mortality risks of transgender women are so much higher than the general population (bit.ly/3YKYiUz - this landmark study looked at the mortality risks of transgender people in the Netherlands over five decades, between 1972 and 2018). The deaths were attributed to cardiovascular disease (21%), cancer (32%), HIV-related disease (5%), and suicide (7.5%). Significantly, even though, thanks to medical advances, the risks of dying from HIV have gone down over the past few decades (and, presumably, the stigma against transgender people is lower now than it was 50 years back), the mortality risks did not reduce over time. These results have been replicated among US transgender patients in research from Duke University published in 2022 (bit.ly/3FlJqoE).
The mortality rates are even worse after surgery than they are after hormones – which is ironic since, if the activists were to be believed, the surgeries should have led to a more fulfilling life for a transgender woman in their quest to become their “authentic” self. One reason behind these deaths? The postoperative complications, which are widespread, right from the very beginning.
From earlier this year, the results from Canada's first vaginoplasty postoperative care clinic indicate that nearly a quarter of the trans women who were operated on accessed care in the first three after surgery, and more than half sought care within the first year. More than three-fifths (61.3%) were seen for more than one visit and presented with more than two symptoms or concerns (bit.ly/402iAup).
Common patient-reported symptoms during clinical visits included pain (53.8%), dilation concerns (46.3%) (the body identifies the neovagina as a gaping wound, and so it has to be dilated for life, including multiple times daily during the first year – do take a look at the linked aftercare regimen that runs into eight pages! - bit.ly/3yE68Vy), and surgical site/vaginal bleeding (42.5%). Sexual function concerns were also common (33.8%), with anorgasmia (inability to orgasm) (11.3%) and dyspareunia (painful intercourse) (11.3%) being the most frequent complications. The most common adverse outcomes identified by healthcare providers included hypergranulation (38.8%), urinary dysfunction (18.8%), and wound healing issues (12.5%).
We aren’t done yet. A review of the literature from 2018 (bit.ly/3YOlOQL) on complications of the neovagina in trans women after surgery show an overall complication rate of 32.5% (i.e., about one in three cases) and a reoperation rate of 21.7% (more than one in five cases) for “non-aesthetic reasons.” Another paper from 2018 (bit.ly/3ZMlza5) discusses various neovaginal complications in transwomen: 15% suffered from the stricture of the neo-urethra, leading to urinary tract infections. 10% of the cases developed scar tissues in the neovagina, causing it to become narrower and shorter. Another significant concern was “intravaginal hairballs.” Other complications include vaginal prolapse (when the top of the vagina weakens and collapses into the vaginal canal) and recto-vaginal fistulas (a tunnel between the vagina and rectum, leading to rectal discharge through the vagina).
It is difficult for anyone to come to terms with these setbacks – especially if they had been promised a life of fulfillment afterward.
But those who do muster the courage to talk mention that their life has been a “living hell since then.” (bit.ly/3ZNgX3w) Another detransitioner asserts, “This is not rare.” (bit.ly/42p8s0n)
Many of these complications will remain with the patients for life, affecting their basic day-to-day activities from morning till night (one such account makes for harrowing reading: “managing the trickle of urine from my constricted urethra after going to the toilet, the occasional shooting pain and the despair of my own stupidity”). (bit.ly/42p8s0n) It is no wonder that so many succumb to these complications – or commit suicide – so early in their lives.
mungeribabu - Horrifying information to share but so necessary in order for society to have a realistic view of the consequences of this damaging & irreversible surgery. How can anyone think that drastic trans surgeries are a good idea when mental health therapies can help alleviate the mental health problems & overturn the trans-washing causing the emotional/gender confusions?
Again, Abigail Shrier's book "Irreversible Damage" outlines how the brain-washing around the trans ideology never covers the real physical damages to a person's psyche & sexual responses. So how can any young person - esp one who is not sexually active yet - determine their choices around a physical mutilation that will absolutely affect the rest of their sexual/reproductive lives?
Social contagion of young, impressionable teen girls re: trans identity is discussed here by Shrier.
Jul 13, 2021 - Abigail Shrier Worries Teenage Gender Transitions Lead to 'Irreversible Damage'
The controversial author on her acclaimed and condemned book, being deplatformed, and the future of free expression in an increasingly polarized marketplace of ideas.
This is all fascinating, and I appreciate so much you pulling all this data together. Thank you!
However, please do not call men any kind of "women." These are trans-identifying men. The word woman is taken.
Also, as Jennifer Bilek has pointed out, there is no such thing as a "transgender" person. There are only trans-identifying people and this bizarre religious ideology of "transgenderism."
And please do not use the word "neovagina" without quotation marks (or, better yet, a medically-accurate term). A vagina is an organ, while a surgical wound is just a wound. And the word vagina is taken.
It is tragic reading. I beg God to open the minds and hearts of the media who can expose this dreadful, dreadful, agenda so that it stops. ONLY the genuine cases should ever be treated, and never surgically. They were always a minority until ten years ago. The whole thing has become a cult, nothing less. It is dreadful. Thank you for doing this research.
(Comment 2/3) Another effect of estrogen that is extremely concerning is its role in autoimmune diseases. Adult women are disproportionately more prone to allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases than men (growing up, boys have more allergies than girls, but the ratios flip completely after puberty), but the huge spike of synthetic estrogen hormones changes that equation for trans women (bit.ly/3TcHtkk). For example, one parent I talked to mentioned how their son used to be the prime caretaker of the cats in their house and is now (after hormones) completely allergic to them. Estrogen skews the body’s immune responses toward allergy and worsens asthma attacks, and its deleterious effects gradually progress to more severe autoimmune diseases (bit.ly/3mPzwW4).
There are case studies of increased immune-mediated rheumatic diseases (IMRD) (bit.ly/402w6xy) such as rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis (characterized by low back pain), systemic lupus erythematosus (the most common type of lupus, where the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues in joints, skin, brain, lungs, kidneys, and blood vessels), systemic sclerosis, and vasculitis (where blood vessels – both arteries and veins – are destroyed), as well as the onset of other autoimmune diseases among trans women. One parent I met at a parent group mentioned how their son suddenly developed Crohn’s disease after starting hormone therapy. A 31-year-old male detransitioner (bit.ly/3JG0Ijd) mentions developing scoliosis and osteoporosis after hormone therapy, both of which, while not autoimmune diseases themselves, are linked to (as outcomes of) autoimmune diseases.
Our understanding of these diseases (there are 76 of them, by the last count), when the immune systems that are supposed to defend our bodies from diseases but attack us instead, is still evolving. Many of them have no known cure. However, we now know that nearly 80% of the autoimmune sufferers are female, and it is now clear that many autoimmune diseases “are driven by estrogen,” specifically by spikes of estrogen in the body. (bit.ly/3l9fDJg)
As far as VTE goes, a large-scale study from 2018 among transgender patients (bit.ly/409x8YL) in the US showed that, compared to men, the incidence of venous thromboembolism or VTE (or blood clots, which include deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) among trans women is 50% higher within the first two years of hormone treatment and more than five times higher in follow-ups beyond two years. The incidence of ischemic stroke (which occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is interrupted or reduced, resulting in the brain cells dying within minutes) is 30% higher within the first two years and nearly ten times higher in follow-ups beyond two years. The authors conclude that "these results… indicate the need for long-term vigilance in identifying vascular side effects of cross-sex estrogen." These results weren’t outliers either – they were replicated by researchers at the Amsterdam clinic in 2019 (bit.ly/3yE5KGA).
Let me mention here that I recently spoke to a 70-year-old trans woman (who now identifies as a man after forty years of hormones and surgeries and living as a woman). He suffers from many of the diseases I mentioned above: several heart attacks (the first one before 40), hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, low back pain, allergies, asthma, retinal detachment in one eye and loss of sight in another, and a cocktail of medication for his heart. He has had stones in his liver ("the doctors had never seen anything like that"), kidney, gallbladder, and saliva ducts ("the size of lime pits, and they had to operate inside my mouth to get them out."). He has not been intimate with a woman for over 30 years - all of that went away after his orchiectomy. He called himself a "eunuch without any sexual desires." Several of his friends (all trans) have either succumbed to disease or committed suicide. Fortunately, as a vet, he has the VA to go to: many of our sons won't have the luxury of the government to take care of their ailments.
We should remind ourselves that the recent research probably vastly undercounts both the number of disease incidences and the diseases themselves. Historically, the medical establishment could be least bothered by what is happening to an impoverished, marginalized population that stayed in the shadows and was considered freaks by the general public. There was no money there. When a transgender person died, nobody cared, and there was no autopsy or investigation. Any "research" carried out was by a few "doctors" who handed out off-label drugs or performed surgeries away from the spotlight. If these doctors came to know or suspect anything, they had no incentive to publicize those findings to the general public and "out" themselves. There were no gullible journals or conferences to virtue-signal their junk research in. All the while, these people died an early death. And those early deaths are staggering.
(Comment 1/3) While not focused specifically on transgender issues, the research in the last few years in the areas of endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, and neuroscience have given us a much better understanding of the effect of excess estrogen on the brain. In 2018, researchers from Germany showed that increased estrogen levels are associated with depression in males (bit.ly/3yFaQlG). No wonder the recent highly-touted (by the transgender activists) NEJM study (bit.ly/3JjYYKK) showed no improvement among males.
Two years later, in 2020, researchers from Spain found out why that is so by administering pharmacological doses of estradiol in adult male rats (bit.ly/3mUdVvy). They found that when treated with estrogen, the brains of adult male rats show changes that are similar to those observed in the brains of trans women. One of the effects of estrogen is to reduce the water content within the glial or “glue” cells as well as the axons in the brain, thereby reducing the cortical white matter integrity (bit.ly/3JjOX0c) in the brain. This is important because reduced white matter integrity has been found to be related to cognitive instability (bit.ly/3YOzFpU).
Specifically, by reducing the water content, the estradiol increased the relative concentration of glutamate and glutamine in the brain, an excess of which, as the Cleveland Clinic notes (cle.clinic/3JBEmiG), is associated with such diseases as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Huntington’s disease. Estradiol also decreased the brain cortical volume, which, from recent neuroimaging studies (in 2020), has been linked to patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (bit.ly/3TgIGH9).
Evidence from the real world backs up these findings. In 2020, at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2020, researchers from the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health presented their findings showing a 37% higher prevalence of subjective cognitive decline (bit.ly/3Fnh8dr), which is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease, among transgender and gender nonbinary adults in the US.
Going back to those glial cells, in the past few years, there has been a wealth of research on these cells in our brains, and this research indicates that these cells do much more than merely being the “glue” that binds everything in the brain (econ.st/3JECwxu). We now know that misbehaving glial cells are the culprit behind a range of conditions, from autism to multiple sclerosis to obsessive-compulsive disorder. Astrocytes play a crucial role in memory formation, consolidating relevant short-term memories into long-term ones (those of us who have noticed that our sons have suddenly started having "brain fog," you know the culprit – estrogen). Disorders in astrocytes (bit.ly/3FjDYCQ) are related to a wide range of different neuropathologies. There is evidence that malfunctioning astrocytes contribute to mental disorders like schizophrenia, mood disorders such as depression and anxiety, drug dependence, mental retardation, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Interestingly, it has been shown that the brains of depressed suicide victims had a markedly lesser volume of astrocytes as compared to healthy brains (bit.ly/3YM6PGT). So, when estrogen reduces the water content in astrocytes, not only do many neuropathologies follow, but the subjects also become depressed and more liable to commit suicide. Transgender activists would have us believe that suicide among transgender people stems from their marginalization. That is definitely a possibility. However, the research from the past few years provides a much better explanation: those suicides stem from the hormones themselves.
I created an account in Substack, but I never thought about writing independently. I hope to write about this in a PITT article if the editors find it interesting.
Thank you for your wealth of research and excellent writing. Please do consider writing your own Substack as your research continues. Doctors, parents, boys and men need this info, and having your own Sibstack would be a great place for them to learn and rrombehich to organize, as is this Substack. I'm going to copy and paste your info into an article to give to doctors, and to show the public when I'm leafletting, until you write your own article, which I hope will be very soon! That would be much easier for me to use than having to cut and paste, myself:).
Thank you. I hope to write an article in PITT, which will probably give it much more visibility than writing in my own substack. And please feel free to copy and paste from my three comments without any attribution at all. The Bit.ly URLs all link to peer-reviewed journals (except one Economist article, one Cleveland clinic page, and a few detransitioner comments), so that should be leafletting-friendly.
Corinna Cohn is working on a suit to make doctors vulnerable to being sued for, I believe, 30 years after transitioning a patient, instead of the current 1 or 2 years. Does anyone know if there are any new developments with that?
If I'm not mistaken, as long as the courts continue to accept WPATH's Standard's of Care as the authority on transition, doctors run almost no risk of getting sued. The standards are worded to protect doctors, even in cases of pediatric transition.
The points raised in this article are so important. Doctors and activists like to call detransition "retransition" to remove any implication that transition might have been a mistake (instead, it was a stage along the journey of self-discovery). How, then, can it be justifiable to only fund the first leg of that "journey?" And, if transition is just a step on a journey, how can they talk about "the trans child" as though a person's gender identity were fixed in childhood? There are so many contradictions. I agree with the premise of this article that a way to try to put an end to all this harm is to make it too expensive for insurers (or for the American people, since we all pay for it through our insanely expensive premiums and deductibles) in the short term. Maybe that would finally wake people up.
Agree completely, and while we're at it, I'd like to know why my friend's daughter's treatments for a severe disability get delayed by needing "prior authorizations" all the time and yet anyone's "journey to self-discovery" is funded in a second, without question, as "medically necessary"? It's so horrid that ignorance, fraud, and stupidity live at these levels in our societal institutions. Okay, that's my rant for today. I need to do something. Will check out Our Duty and start being a counter-activist. I can't just sit, cry, and despair. My 18 yo has gone on testosterone since leaving for college and I find myself dreading seeing her next week on spring break--literally viewing physical changes in her body--because I know I will cry and upset her and our relationship even more. 💔
I'm so sorry. We're cut off and don't see what the hormones are doing to our son. I guess that's a blessing as well as a curse. It must be so hard to witness the changes in your daughter from T. I would give you a hug if I could.
Thank you for what you are doing! Yes, the medical companies need to be held accountable and should be forced to correct the damage they caused. The detransitioners need the same care, consideration and treatment as the "gung-ho trans patients" who were tricked into thinking drugs and surgery would make them happy. The medical field must be responsible to reverse and correct what was done to these bodies of the confused boys and girls who were desperate to find a solution but who were led to the slaughter house instead. I applaud you for taking this legislative stand. We must stay strong - together we are a force to be reckoned with!
So happy to hear about this. You're right. The focus is always on minors with most ppl saying "once an adult you can do whatever you want" (even tho many do think transition services should be limited, even as an adult,since the brain doesn't fully develop until 25yo). I don't live in a state where trans healthcare is covered under Medicaid (at least not to my knowledge) so this aspect is something I've never really heard much about. Thanks for sharing about it.
Thank you for sharing.
You have such an important message, to address the legal and insurance policies allowing this malpractice. And so beautifully written.
Thank you so much. I'm forwarding this to a pediatrician. I hope others will consider forwarding this to a pediatrician or other MD, also. Or to a politician.
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On Sunday, I spent an hour in front of Safeway, handing out quarter-sheet fliers to people exiting the store.
Because I'm afraid of the very real danger of approaching people about this in my almost all-blue County, the topic you raised about insurance for detransitioner's healthcare is what I lead with because it's safest, although I'm concerned about all the related issues of cross-sex identification, as well.
For others interested in doing similar, the flier I use is on the DetransAwareness.org site, under Resources (or similar). It has the names, addresses, and phone numbers of Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, with the sample message, "Fund healthcare for Detransitioners." It also lists some websites for more information.
I ask people, "May I give you a flier?:
If they say yes, I say, "This is about Detransitioners. These are people who believed they were transgender, then changed their minds, and decided that wasn't the right pathway for them. They can get public or private insurance to cover the risky hormones and surgeries, but can't get coverage for the counseling and medical care they need to address what's been done to them, to the extent possible. There's information here about it. We're asking people to contact Biden and other electeds, to ask them to provide healthcare for Detransitioners."
And if they express concern or outrage, I tell them, "Call Biden and give him a piece of your mind. He needs to know what you're thinking."
~50 people took fliers in an hour, and ~10-15 said they'd make those calls. Not one person disagreed. Almost all seemed saddened, concerned, or pissed!
It was a gratifying way to spend an hour, and felt good to be raising consciousness in my local community, where I feel completely isolated.
I share this because I hope that if anyone else here has been struggling to get up the courage to reach out to the public in person, as I have, this will provide some ideas and encouragement to do so as well, however works for you.
I love reading about the actions others are taking, and hope to read whatever of you are doing.
Thanks again to the author of this, for providing us with a great article for sharing.
Thanks! You have a much tougher battle in CA than we do in TX, but ultimately, it is a battle for our entire country and we are blessed to have each other in fighting it. This is my way of honoring my truth and knowing my son will know I fought.
He is lucky to have you fighting for him. Sadly, not all sons or daughters realize that of their parents, because this is, I think, truly a cult. Or a mass propaganda campaign with excessive influence. I'm looking forward to listening to a recent interview by Julian Vigo with Janja Lalich, who teaches about cults at Chico State in N. Calif. For years, Lalich has said cross-sex identity isn't a cult, but apparently now she has come to see it is, or at least cult-like. You might look for it online and find it interesting. There are definitely people profiting off of capturing young people. And now, in an article I saw yesterday, perhaps middle-agers.
I'm so grateful for all the good work happening in your state regarding cross-sex identity. Thank goodness for Texas and Florida!
GenCrit in N. California - Julian Vigo's substack has this mentioned interview with Dr Janja Lalich here > https://savageminds.substack.com/p/janja-lalich#details
Link here too> Tweet Julian Vigo @_JVigo
https://twitter.com/_JVigo/status/1631234676479127553
Janja Lalich, an international authority on cults, discusses gender ideology, comparing it to 1950s McCarthyism where similar political backlash caused people to lose their families, careers, communities, and lives. @SavageMindsMag
4:19 AM · Mar 4, 2023
Anyway, thanks so much for the reference to this interview in your comment above as I didn't know about Janja Lalich's work on cults. Lots of Lalich interviews on youtube re: cults if folks are interested in following up more with all of her related research.
Like this one > Cult Culture with Cult Expert Dr. Janja Lalich
May 7, 2021 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAXAZzeg8WA
Janja Lalich, Ph.D. is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in cults and extremist groups, with a particular focus on charismatic relationships, political and other social movements, ideology and social control, and issues of gender and sexuality. She has been a consultant to educational, mental health, business, media, and legal professionals, as well as having worked with current members, former members, and families of members of controversial groups.
And everyone needs to read Abigail Shrier's critically important book "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" (June 2021) if they haven't already. Interview on Shrier's book here >
Irreversible Damage? | Abigail Shrier - Jordan B. Peterson Podcast S4 E11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKQfATa-1I
Thanks to everyone here who is fighting back against this dangerous, ongoing trans cult that is destroying so many of our families & our children's minds & lives right now . <3
Hi Lucinda,
Thank you for these links. I cant wait to listen to them. I'm glad you're interested in Janja Laljch's work on cults. I've only read the book, Cults in Our Midst, which she co-autbored with Margaret Singer. It sounds like Janja has written very interesting other books, too, on cults.
I am curious if there are any groups devoted just to the subject of sex-role identity and mind control (or cults). I think mind control would perhaps be the most appropriate term.
I think the sex-role critical movement needs to have a group devoted just to exploring, researching, and exposing the mind-control techniques being used to suck people into this ideology and keep them there.
I suspect the people developing and orchestrating the use of these techniques are not just rabid sex-role identity activists, but the rich men that Jennifer Bilek has exposed, who are involved in order to make a lot of money. If these men can get people hooked on the belief that they aren't who they are, and that there's therefore something wrong with their bodies, they can sell them dangerous drugs and surgeries to alter themselves. So they have a huge financial incentive to control people's minds and make them rabid and frantic to alter their bodies.
I think those of us who are biological realists should do research on the mind control techniques being used: compiling all the information on this.
Thanks for the work you are doing!
My pleasure - thanks for your encouragement! It has taken awhile to figure out something I'd feel safe doing, and the leaflets really help. So far I haven't gotten anyone responding negatively or dangerously.
This is motivating me to set up a private FB page or email list for my county.
Do you do anything like this, or how do you go about communicating about this, please?
I’m mostly sharing with one person at a time but as word has gotten out, I have been able to connect with families from one side of the continent to the other. A year ago I began sharing periodic posts on Facebook of what I’ve learned coming alongside families for these past eight years. Thankfully, I am now able to share stories of individuals who have been delivered.
Fantastic. What do you mean in the last sentence, please, about "delivered", please?
Meaning they “have been delivered” from the ideology and a trans identity. I had the privilege of coming alongside a sweet woman whose husband lived the trans life for 5 years. He is now back as her husband and the farther of their children. In spite 5 years on hormones they recently had another child.
Ok, thank you. And I'm glad her husband returned to accepting biological reality..
What if it's the Government doing the funding? Our VA is funding transitions, egg harvesting and in vitro fertilization for veterans who want this! My 30 y/o veteran daughter. She would not be doing this if they weren't funding it, as she has no resources.
It is terrible, in 26 states, Medicaid covers it in full also, but not the detransition.
Worth more than Gold! Thank you!
Check out some things you can do right now...https://ourduty.group/five-ways-you-can-help-right-now/
Thank you for what you are doing. This is a problem all of us parents need help with to end the insanity.
I would like to help
Thank you, so much, for your efforts. I’m fairly new to this arena & still trying to wrap my head around so much. I’ve learned more about transgender, since Nov. ‘2022, than I fathomed possible. I feel as I’ve been much more naive than I thought. I’m somewhat overwhelmed and equally disgusted by what I’ve learned. As, I’m guessing, most parents out there, my husband and I were blindsided by our 23 year old daughter’s announcement. I’ve scrolled through past photos, text conversations, emails, etc. looking for missed clues, questioning my parenting, and so on. I’ve asked our son if he saw clues. We all agreed we saw possibilities of lesbianism or confusion, but not the desire or inclination to be the opposite sex. As a nurse, it’s difficult to treat patients that have physical ailments, like breathing difficulties, so intent on making sure I use correct pronouns prior to addressing their inability to breathe. How did we get here? I’ve submitted videos to nursing instructors, requesting they show them to their psych students, addressing these issues. I’ve written letters to government officials requesting further investigation into affirming practices. Yet, the most frustrating aspect is when showing those same videos to my daughter it’s met with the accusations of transphobia. No matter how much I emphasize the surgical & hormonal risks it’s met with emphatic resistance. This is the same person with anxiety towards driving a car. I’m baffled, to say the least.
What would you suggest in terms of being the most effective way to push forward on prevention? I’m happy to see greater awareness starting. Yet, I kept getting pop ups declaring 3/13 as detrans day & when I searched for outcomes in the news I found little to no coverage.
Sorry to ramble on. I’m just so perplexed by ALL of this. To me it’s simply big pharma & money along with abhorrent medicalization.
Wow your story is so much like ours. You are not alone. You didn’t miss anything- your child just joined a new cult, and is trying to rewrite their history according to their new cult world view. You don’t have to agree with the obvious untruths. If they suddenly became Hari Krishna’s would you put on orange robes and chant with them if they threatened you with estrangement? I doubt it - you’d think they were nuts. And you would be right.
It's a toxic stew. Internet bubble starting on Tumblr, then off to Twitter. Then news media thinks if something trends on Twitter it's important to report on, and reflects actual public opinion rather than a bunch of activists in a circle jerk. So the media treats the Twitter outrage like a real thing. Then people who lean left, and don't pay a lot of attention just latch onto the reporting and reinforce their opinion via confirmation bias.
As for the kids getting into this, my younger kid indicated that googling depression routed her to trans influencers videos after like the third video watched, and the influencers are very persuasive to people with preexisting conditions. That "Gender Euphoria" will come with passing as the opposite sex, and cure all their mental health issues.
Wow, yikes. Thank you for sharing. Your description of how this happens is great. I'm going to try googling for depression and see where it takes me. And see how quickly it takes me to this...madness. Thanks.
#DetransAwarenessDay, which is annually on 12 March, is omitted from the pinprick.shop 2023-lgbt-calendar. How odd. But hey, it's probably nothing compared to International Pronoun Day on the third Wednesday in October or Gay Uncle Day on second Sunday in August.
Linked here below are the LGBT+ Calendar of Pride, Awareness, Visibility and Remembrance Days in 2023. As they say, you can "Celebrate Pride all year in 2023!" - except #DetransAwarenessDay, obviously.
I will be trying to bring this point to any brainbow-washed people I meet in the coming year of Pride.
http://roadlesstraveller.blogspot.com/2023/03/LGBT-Calendar-omits-Detrans-Awareness.html
Thank you. We should make our own d!@# calendar and fill it with events all year.
(Comment 3/3) Depression, mental disorders, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, and increased suicidal thoughts – no wonder the overall mortality risks of transgender women are so much higher than the general population (bit.ly/3YKYiUz - this landmark study looked at the mortality risks of transgender people in the Netherlands over five decades, between 1972 and 2018). The deaths were attributed to cardiovascular disease (21%), cancer (32%), HIV-related disease (5%), and suicide (7.5%). Significantly, even though, thanks to medical advances, the risks of dying from HIV have gone down over the past few decades (and, presumably, the stigma against transgender people is lower now than it was 50 years back), the mortality risks did not reduce over time. These results have been replicated among US transgender patients in research from Duke University published in 2022 (bit.ly/3FlJqoE).
The mortality rates are even worse after surgery than they are after hormones – which is ironic since, if the activists were to be believed, the surgeries should have led to a more fulfilling life for a transgender woman in their quest to become their “authentic” self. One reason behind these deaths? The postoperative complications, which are widespread, right from the very beginning.
From earlier this year, the results from Canada's first vaginoplasty postoperative care clinic indicate that nearly a quarter of the trans women who were operated on accessed care in the first three after surgery, and more than half sought care within the first year. More than three-fifths (61.3%) were seen for more than one visit and presented with more than two symptoms or concerns (bit.ly/402iAup).
Common patient-reported symptoms during clinical visits included pain (53.8%), dilation concerns (46.3%) (the body identifies the neovagina as a gaping wound, and so it has to be dilated for life, including multiple times daily during the first year – do take a look at the linked aftercare regimen that runs into eight pages! - bit.ly/3yE68Vy), and surgical site/vaginal bleeding (42.5%). Sexual function concerns were also common (33.8%), with anorgasmia (inability to orgasm) (11.3%) and dyspareunia (painful intercourse) (11.3%) being the most frequent complications. The most common adverse outcomes identified by healthcare providers included hypergranulation (38.8%), urinary dysfunction (18.8%), and wound healing issues (12.5%).
We aren’t done yet. A review of the literature from 2018 (bit.ly/3YOlOQL) on complications of the neovagina in trans women after surgery show an overall complication rate of 32.5% (i.e., about one in three cases) and a reoperation rate of 21.7% (more than one in five cases) for “non-aesthetic reasons.” Another paper from 2018 (bit.ly/3ZMlza5) discusses various neovaginal complications in transwomen: 15% suffered from the stricture of the neo-urethra, leading to urinary tract infections. 10% of the cases developed scar tissues in the neovagina, causing it to become narrower and shorter. Another significant concern was “intravaginal hairballs.” Other complications include vaginal prolapse (when the top of the vagina weakens and collapses into the vaginal canal) and recto-vaginal fistulas (a tunnel between the vagina and rectum, leading to rectal discharge through the vagina).
It is difficult for anyone to come to terms with these setbacks – especially if they had been promised a life of fulfillment afterward.
But those who do muster the courage to talk mention that their life has been a “living hell since then.” (bit.ly/3ZNgX3w) Another detransitioner asserts, “This is not rare.” (bit.ly/42p8s0n)
Many of these complications will remain with the patients for life, affecting their basic day-to-day activities from morning till night (one such account makes for harrowing reading: “managing the trickle of urine from my constricted urethra after going to the toilet, the occasional shooting pain and the despair of my own stupidity”). (bit.ly/42p8s0n) It is no wonder that so many succumb to these complications – or commit suicide – so early in their lives.
mungeribabu - Horrifying information to share but so necessary in order for society to have a realistic view of the consequences of this damaging & irreversible surgery. How can anyone think that drastic trans surgeries are a good idea when mental health therapies can help alleviate the mental health problems & overturn the trans-washing causing the emotional/gender confusions?
Again, Abigail Shrier's book "Irreversible Damage" outlines how the brain-washing around the trans ideology never covers the real physical damages to a person's psyche & sexual responses. So how can any young person - esp one who is not sexually active yet - determine their choices around a physical mutilation that will absolutely affect the rest of their sexual/reproductive lives?
Social contagion of young, impressionable teen girls re: trans identity is discussed here by Shrier.
Jul 13, 2021 - Abigail Shrier Worries Teenage Gender Transitions Lead to 'Irreversible Damage'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk-1iqa1jbY
The controversial author on her acclaimed and condemned book, being deplatformed, and the future of free expression in an increasingly polarized marketplace of ideas.
This is all fascinating, and I appreciate so much you pulling all this data together. Thank you!
However, please do not call men any kind of "women." These are trans-identifying men. The word woman is taken.
Also, as Jennifer Bilek has pointed out, there is no such thing as a "transgender" person. There are only trans-identifying people and this bizarre religious ideology of "transgenderism."
And please do not use the word "neovagina" without quotation marks (or, better yet, a medically-accurate term). A vagina is an organ, while a surgical wound is just a wound. And the word vagina is taken.
Thank you!
It is tragic reading. I beg God to open the minds and hearts of the media who can expose this dreadful, dreadful, agenda so that it stops. ONLY the genuine cases should ever be treated, and never surgically. They were always a minority until ten years ago. The whole thing has become a cult, nothing less. It is dreadful. Thank you for doing this research.
PS: May I share to my FB?
Please feel free to! And you don't have to attribute them either.
(Comment 2/3) Another effect of estrogen that is extremely concerning is its role in autoimmune diseases. Adult women are disproportionately more prone to allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases than men (growing up, boys have more allergies than girls, but the ratios flip completely after puberty), but the huge spike of synthetic estrogen hormones changes that equation for trans women (bit.ly/3TcHtkk). For example, one parent I talked to mentioned how their son used to be the prime caretaker of the cats in their house and is now (after hormones) completely allergic to them. Estrogen skews the body’s immune responses toward allergy and worsens asthma attacks, and its deleterious effects gradually progress to more severe autoimmune diseases (bit.ly/3mPzwW4).
There are case studies of increased immune-mediated rheumatic diseases (IMRD) (bit.ly/402w6xy) such as rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis (characterized by low back pain), systemic lupus erythematosus (the most common type of lupus, where the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues in joints, skin, brain, lungs, kidneys, and blood vessels), systemic sclerosis, and vasculitis (where blood vessels – both arteries and veins – are destroyed), as well as the onset of other autoimmune diseases among trans women. One parent I met at a parent group mentioned how their son suddenly developed Crohn’s disease after starting hormone therapy. A 31-year-old male detransitioner (bit.ly/3JG0Ijd) mentions developing scoliosis and osteoporosis after hormone therapy, both of which, while not autoimmune diseases themselves, are linked to (as outcomes of) autoimmune diseases.
Our understanding of these diseases (there are 76 of them, by the last count), when the immune systems that are supposed to defend our bodies from diseases but attack us instead, is still evolving. Many of them have no known cure. However, we now know that nearly 80% of the autoimmune sufferers are female, and it is now clear that many autoimmune diseases “are driven by estrogen,” specifically by spikes of estrogen in the body. (bit.ly/3l9fDJg)
As far as VTE goes, a large-scale study from 2018 among transgender patients (bit.ly/409x8YL) in the US showed that, compared to men, the incidence of venous thromboembolism or VTE (or blood clots, which include deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) among trans women is 50% higher within the first two years of hormone treatment and more than five times higher in follow-ups beyond two years. The incidence of ischemic stroke (which occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is interrupted or reduced, resulting in the brain cells dying within minutes) is 30% higher within the first two years and nearly ten times higher in follow-ups beyond two years. The authors conclude that "these results… indicate the need for long-term vigilance in identifying vascular side effects of cross-sex estrogen." These results weren’t outliers either – they were replicated by researchers at the Amsterdam clinic in 2019 (bit.ly/3yE5KGA).
Let me mention here that I recently spoke to a 70-year-old trans woman (who now identifies as a man after forty years of hormones and surgeries and living as a woman). He suffers from many of the diseases I mentioned above: several heart attacks (the first one before 40), hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, low back pain, allergies, asthma, retinal detachment in one eye and loss of sight in another, and a cocktail of medication for his heart. He has had stones in his liver ("the doctors had never seen anything like that"), kidney, gallbladder, and saliva ducts ("the size of lime pits, and they had to operate inside my mouth to get them out."). He has not been intimate with a woman for over 30 years - all of that went away after his orchiectomy. He called himself a "eunuch without any sexual desires." Several of his friends (all trans) have either succumbed to disease or committed suicide. Fortunately, as a vet, he has the VA to go to: many of our sons won't have the luxury of the government to take care of their ailments.
We should remind ourselves that the recent research probably vastly undercounts both the number of disease incidences and the diseases themselves. Historically, the medical establishment could be least bothered by what is happening to an impoverished, marginalized population that stayed in the shadows and was considered freaks by the general public. There was no money there. When a transgender person died, nobody cared, and there was no autopsy or investigation. Any "research" carried out was by a few "doctors" who handed out off-label drugs or performed surgeries away from the spotlight. If these doctors came to know or suspect anything, they had no incentive to publicize those findings to the general public and "out" themselves. There were no gullible journals or conferences to virtue-signal their junk research in. All the while, these people died an early death. And those early deaths are staggering.
(Comment 1/3) While not focused specifically on transgender issues, the research in the last few years in the areas of endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, and neuroscience have given us a much better understanding of the effect of excess estrogen on the brain. In 2018, researchers from Germany showed that increased estrogen levels are associated with depression in males (bit.ly/3yFaQlG). No wonder the recent highly-touted (by the transgender activists) NEJM study (bit.ly/3JjYYKK) showed no improvement among males.
Two years later, in 2020, researchers from Spain found out why that is so by administering pharmacological doses of estradiol in adult male rats (bit.ly/3mUdVvy). They found that when treated with estrogen, the brains of adult male rats show changes that are similar to those observed in the brains of trans women. One of the effects of estrogen is to reduce the water content within the glial or “glue” cells as well as the axons in the brain, thereby reducing the cortical white matter integrity (bit.ly/3JjOX0c) in the brain. This is important because reduced white matter integrity has been found to be related to cognitive instability (bit.ly/3YOzFpU).
Specifically, by reducing the water content, the estradiol increased the relative concentration of glutamate and glutamine in the brain, an excess of which, as the Cleveland Clinic notes (cle.clinic/3JBEmiG), is associated with such diseases as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Huntington’s disease. Estradiol also decreased the brain cortical volume, which, from recent neuroimaging studies (in 2020), has been linked to patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (bit.ly/3TgIGH9).
Evidence from the real world backs up these findings. In 2020, at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2020, researchers from the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health presented their findings showing a 37% higher prevalence of subjective cognitive decline (bit.ly/3Fnh8dr), which is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease, among transgender and gender nonbinary adults in the US.
Going back to those glial cells, in the past few years, there has been a wealth of research on these cells in our brains, and this research indicates that these cells do much more than merely being the “glue” that binds everything in the brain (econ.st/3JECwxu). We now know that misbehaving glial cells are the culprit behind a range of conditions, from autism to multiple sclerosis to obsessive-compulsive disorder. Astrocytes play a crucial role in memory formation, consolidating relevant short-term memories into long-term ones (those of us who have noticed that our sons have suddenly started having "brain fog," you know the culprit – estrogen). Disorders in astrocytes (bit.ly/3FjDYCQ) are related to a wide range of different neuropathologies. There is evidence that malfunctioning astrocytes contribute to mental disorders like schizophrenia, mood disorders such as depression and anxiety, drug dependence, mental retardation, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Interestingly, it has been shown that the brains of depressed suicide victims had a markedly lesser volume of astrocytes as compared to healthy brains (bit.ly/3YM6PGT). So, when estrogen reduces the water content in astrocytes, not only do many neuropathologies follow, but the subjects also become depressed and more liable to commit suicide. Transgender activists would have us believe that suicide among transgender people stems from their marginalization. That is definitely a possibility. However, the research from the past few years provides a much better explanation: those suicides stem from the hormones themselves.
Precisely. Stop taking drugs.
Your substack doesn't seem to be started. Will you be writing about this issue?
I created an account in Substack, but I never thought about writing independently. I hope to write about this in a PITT article if the editors find it interesting.
Thank you for your wealth of research and excellent writing. Please do consider writing your own Substack as your research continues. Doctors, parents, boys and men need this info, and having your own Sibstack would be a great place for them to learn and rrombehich to organize, as is this Substack. I'm going to copy and paste your info into an article to give to doctors, and to show the public when I'm leafletting, until you write your own article, which I hope will be very soon! That would be much easier for me to use than having to cut and paste, myself:).
It is online, at https://mungeribabu.substack.com/p/estrogen-is-really-bad-for-men. It will get much more visibility on PITT and I hope to have that up one day.
Thank you. I hope to write an article in PITT, which will probably give it much more visibility than writing in my own substack. And please feel free to copy and paste from my three comments without any attribution at all. The Bit.ly URLs all link to peer-reviewed journals (except one Economist article, one Cleveland clinic page, and a few detransitioner comments), so that should be leafletting-friendly.
Let me connect you with PITT. Will email you.
Thanks. I am in touch with them.
Incredible comments! I saved them to help me learn.
Corinna Cohn is working on a suit to make doctors vulnerable to being sued for, I believe, 30 years after transitioning a patient, instead of the current 1 or 2 years. Does anyone know if there are any new developments with that?
If I'm not mistaken, as long as the courts continue to accept WPATH's Standard's of Care as the authority on transition, doctors run almost no risk of getting sued. The standards are worded to protect doctors, even in cases of pediatric transition.
The points raised in this article are so important. Doctors and activists like to call detransition "retransition" to remove any implication that transition might have been a mistake (instead, it was a stage along the journey of self-discovery). How, then, can it be justifiable to only fund the first leg of that "journey?" And, if transition is just a step on a journey, how can they talk about "the trans child" as though a person's gender identity were fixed in childhood? There are so many contradictions. I agree with the premise of this article that a way to try to put an end to all this harm is to make it too expensive for insurers (or for the American people, since we all pay for it through our insanely expensive premiums and deductibles) in the short term. Maybe that would finally wake people up.
Agree completely, and while we're at it, I'd like to know why my friend's daughter's treatments for a severe disability get delayed by needing "prior authorizations" all the time and yet anyone's "journey to self-discovery" is funded in a second, without question, as "medically necessary"? It's so horrid that ignorance, fraud, and stupidity live at these levels in our societal institutions. Okay, that's my rant for today. I need to do something. Will check out Our Duty and start being a counter-activist. I can't just sit, cry, and despair. My 18 yo has gone on testosterone since leaving for college and I find myself dreading seeing her next week on spring break--literally viewing physical changes in her body--because I know I will cry and upset her and our relationship even more. 💔
I'm so sorry. We're cut off and don't see what the hormones are doing to our son. I guess that's a blessing as well as a curse. It must be so hard to witness the changes in your daughter from T. I would give you a hug if I could.
Thank you for what you are doing! Yes, the medical companies need to be held accountable and should be forced to correct the damage they caused. The detransitioners need the same care, consideration and treatment as the "gung-ho trans patients" who were tricked into thinking drugs and surgery would make them happy. The medical field must be responsible to reverse and correct what was done to these bodies of the confused boys and girls who were desperate to find a solution but who were led to the slaughter house instead. I applaud you for taking this legislative stand. We must stay strong - together we are a force to be reckoned with!