As light begins to emerge on the horizon, and the world awakens to question the to-date-undebatable concept of trans, it’s time to start thinking about the off-ramp from the resistance highway. What is “success” in our endeavor? When can the parent resistance disband and disperse? When is PITT no longer needed?
I’d like to groups form that help parents teach their children the power of their natural sex. I think part of the trans movement fad is we are still a Misogynist country etc.
Just get to the end: (1) sue the schools (2) sue the medics and psychiatrists (3) extirpate "gender identity" out of all Gov documents and policies (4) disband Stonewall and US equivalent(s) (4) reinforce reality of sex (important, binary, immutable)..... I'd say there is still a LOT of work to do before the mission of PITT is accomplished. Don't you think so?
A well-run, effective child advocacy and protection organization run by parents is always needed to provide oversight. I could see an org like this pivoting when transgenderism is defeated. The issue is the direction of the pivot. The fight for LGB civil rights, for instance, after the success in Western countries achieving marriage equality, could have pivoted as a movement to help same-sex attracted people in countries where same sex behavior is still a crime. There are many.
Instead, the LGB movement was Trojan horsed by the T, which piggybacked on the LGB movement with "forced teaming," creating an army of foot soldiers for these bad ideas.
I think keeping the infrastructure and momentum of a parents' activist org would be valuable, as there are always issues to address. But even oversight orgs need oversight!
I sure agree with this: "the LGB movement was Trojan horsed by the T, which piggybacked on the LGB movement with "forced teaming," creating an army of foot soldiers for these bad ideas."
If you don't mind me saying, I think that parents who walk away from this fight, once their child is safe, are extremely selfish.
This ideology affects so many different aspects of Society. It has only just started to become apparent to most people. How many more lives will be ruined.
Selfless, brave, mostly women, but some men, have been fighting this battle for over seven years. They are exhausted. Every decent person, needs to step up, and do what they can to expose this dangerous, authoritarian, totalitarian, homophobic, misogynist movement.
It doesn't matter, if it doesn't affect you personally.
People must do what they can to help.
We can't let this dystopian nightmare become a reality.
"Fighting this scourge means attacking it at its roots. We’re not just concerned about women’s sports or bathrooms or whatever. Gender ideology itself is the cancer at the core of this. We have to go after that, the very idea of it."
Someone responds:
"@MisterMedusa
Replying to
@MattWalshBlog
The good thing is that the entire ideology is linked. To destabilise any one part of it is to bring the entire house of cards down. It's why they can't admit, for example, that Lia Thomas shouldn't compete as a woman, as to question one aspect is to question any or all aspects.
It will take one domino to fall, and to truly fall completely, for the cascade to happen and the whole ideology to get seen for what it is."
MisterMedusa, above, put into words something I've been thinking. Unfairness in sports is capturing general attention for people who may have thought GI was some harmless fringe inclusiveness thing that must somehow have something to do with being gay. "Queer" now seems to take in all manner of people whether gay or straight.
Coercion is a big part of this whole thing.
None of us should live in this sort of fear, whether it's an academic or a woman in prison, or whatever.
And, anyone concerned about future generations in their family or extended family will continue to find this a personal matter. Plus, I know I'm never getting over how my kid was messed with, either - even as I worry whether she's truly ok now or not.
The whole cult ideology must go - roots & all - and I think maybe we start by taking reality based language back. I even find "gender critical" silly. Gender is made up. We can be kind to confused people and not cave to a cult and affirm people whose issue may in part be an excessive need for attention. None of us would have heard of WilLiam without all this - if he'd simply switched to a nickname, worn a gal's outfit and competed with the fellas.
There should be a fund for survivors. I don't know whether it will come out of straight forward lawsuits or out of something like a Gender Truth and Reconciliation Commission like that mentioned in https://pitt.substack.com/p/international-right-to-truth-day?s=r but we must have some lawyers who understand how to go about this.
Hmm. I'm just a bystander but what brought me here started 90 yrs ago, with a lonely awkward young woman, who would one day be my grandmother. She never felt right and rarely fit in. She spent her life and thousands of dollars trying to make herself feel better. Along the way she was taken advantage of, shocked and put into straight jackets. She danced in the woods and walked in circles. She was over medicated for ease. I now think she was on the spectrum. Some of her great grandkids are.
For me, this is the latest iteration of medical failure, hubris, greed. Its now GI. It was many things. It will be more. I want victory but I know there will be something else. And that something may not be your battle.
Autism is and always has been problematic. Young women were not diagnosed 90 years ago. Instead of being given electric shock treatment they would now be led into taking testosterone to suppress menstruation and given a new identity. “ Gender change” is the latest experimental treatment. Superficially it might seem to work for those observing, but as it is my 23 year old who is affected, I see it is unethical. Just eugenics in disguise.
Great article! These questions *will* need to be addressed at some point. Is now the right time? Well, that question deserves some careful thought. There's clearly a risk of diverting attention from more urgent issues, as long as the ideology is still alive and kicking children in the teeth. On the other hand, once the urgency has diminished, we could, as you say so clearly, "inadvertently spawn something in the future that’s even worse for our kids or grandkids."
Perhaps a way out of this dilemma involves incorporating the *right* structure, both in kind and quantity, today. A slightly different way to frame the concern is as revolving around the proper *scope* of the activities we need to include, to achieve our (right-sized) objectives. That way of thinking about these questions helps in two ways. First, we can clearly specify the "definition of done" - the markers that will indicate we have succeeded. Secondly, it can also help us to limit and prioritize the ways we expend limited resources on our way to achieving that outcome.
To my mind, at least as big a danger as outliving our effective usefulness is that we damage our current effectiveness by attempting to achieve too many different goals, thereby spreading ourselves too thin and increasing the likelihood of internal divisions. If the goals of this movement are clear, defined, and limited to only what is most critical, we will certainly be a movement of strange bedfellows, but we might also be a movement that keeps everyone in the same bed long enough to succeed.
I think we need to take back language. For instance, WilLiaM Thomas did not "transition to female". He took feminizing hormones and adopted a nickname. It is hard to fight against cult ideology in schools and medicalization when words based on reality have been taken from us. And, "using pronouns" has to go.
It is useful to envision victory however far off it is.
"It’s too soon to disband now—society is still captured and too many young people are at risk—"
Yes, the entire non-science Cult surrounding "Gender" is thriving. It must be irradicated and parental authority must again be respected. Our institutions including Education, Medicine, and Government need a reckoning along the lines of the "Truth" essay from the other day. The State does not love your child more than you do and if it appears to - it is a sure sign of grooming. If a handful of adults are determined to undergo dreadful cosmetic surgery after serious lengthy therapy to examine why they want to do that - and if they have their eyes wide open to the fact that it does not change their sex - that is another matter. And, I have have to ask the question: how is it that in every other aspect of life - including being on parental health plans - we recognize that the brain is still maturing until about age 26 - but when it comes to the fiction of "Gender" that age of "consent" (with no therapy at all) gets lower and lower?
All that said, I love that this article both:
1) looks beyond right now (in a serious way - it was done with satire recently) & envisions victory; and
2) clearly illustrates how we got in this terrible nightmare "We get trans - the cause that latched on to the LGB rights movements when their original goals achieved widespread acceptance." It seems that everything that starts out good turns bad eventually. Look at the ACLU. Making us think about that possibility with PITT makes us think about how LGB jumped the rails into "alphabet cult".
Post victory PITT might end by forming a museum so that the world never forgets what happened. PITT might have in it's "charter" that once victory is achieved it may no longer engage in matters of the post GI "present" but stick with documenting the past (that we currently live in) only.
P.S. Most doctors will not correct myopia with laser eye surgery before age 25 as the eyes are still changing. And, I don't think any insurance pays for that. In the case of our bodies nothing is being corrected with cosmetic gender surgery. It is infuriating how new outlets write about how WilLiaM Thomas "transitioned to female" as if that where a thing that is possible to do.
NO. This is NOT a good thing at this point. In NO SENSE is the transinsanity defeated. Will Thomas just set a "woman's 500 M" record yesterday. Today, Will will swim in another woman's race, and he will set another record. WE MUST NOT TAKE OUR EYES OFF THE BALL.
It is galling. Even conservative media report that he "transitioned to female" which is a scientific impossibility. If there were some way to convince people to say "took feminizing hormones" and "adopted a new nickname" that would be a Big step. The Gender Ideologists own language right now and taking language back would do much good.
I understand and to some degree agree with your point. However I don’t think we are anywhere near that point or done with this issue. The medical, psychological and educational institutions must first be brought to task regarding ‘affirmative’ care, so that they follow the science and reject being captured by the trans ideology. Changing those systems is paramount in order to protect our children. I don’t see that happening without some legal comeuppance. Based on recent articles in Time magazine and the NYTIMES the trans narrative is alive and well.
This. The pressure that is needed is to ensure that the medical world, in particular, has its collective nose rubbed into their maxim...First Do No Harm.
Maybe systems need to be pushed onto them that makes them immediately questions, test and challenge the *next* fad that is in the stable from lobotomies, false memory syndromes, trans "health" care. If the medical world is so prepared to bow down to the "gender is real, sex is not" concept, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, what else is the medical world going to accept unquestioningly.
So, maybe the exit strategy first looks at "What is needed to prevent such a scandal happening again? What areas need to be looked at and measures pushed into place (Yes probably through laws), to prevent their capture? What are the kinds of questions that such bodies need to be asking before bringing in a new "thought" that can affect human lives on such a fundamental basis. How can bodies, society, law, politics, medical, education etc, be made to remember the lessons of the past"
That could be a great legacy to leave - something in place that can in as unbiased a way as possible - prevent such insanity occurring again.
PITT can't do it on its own. It can be working with other like minded groups to create that braking system so that no more children are hurt, so no more vulnerable adults are hurt, so that society doesn't ever have to deal with the fall out that is about to happen from those who have been materially harmed by such insane concepts, riding on the coat tails of legitimate civil rights movements.
I knew from the beginning where this article was going because it makes so much sense. We watched the trans movement latch onto the hard fought gains and successes of the gay rights movement and take these organizations in directions that, ironically, are often most hostile to gay and lesbian individuals. I don’t know what movement would attach itself to ours, but I can imagine one that is also homophobic and might seek to take down all the gains of the gay rights movement in the name of some sort of morality, implausibly arguing that “encouraging” young people to be gay/lesbian/bisexual will socially sterilize them, or some other crazy thing. The problem is that, as we see, crazy arguments sometimes take hold of society. And we don’t want the world to go backwards again. So I would say that we need a clear mission statement and make clear thst whatever we as parents fight for under that mission, we stop once we succeed. I see our mission as: to prevent the unnecessary medicalization and sterilization of young people (or anyone really) who simply feel discomfort with their bodies, don’t fit gender stereotypes or just feel like they are not like the other girls/boys. These people deserve compassion and care. That may sometimes involve just the passing of time (particularly when it’s 12 and 13 year old girls with this issue - which happens to most young girls). It may involve family and close friends giving extra emotional support and, for some, it may involve therapy to explore why the person is having such difficulty accepting their own biology. We also need to expand people’s minds about what behaviors are acceptable in society, which will relieve the struggle for many who are simply gender non-conforming. Boys who want to wear dresses to school should be allowed and should not be hurt for doing so. Girls who can’t stand dresses should be allowed to wear a nice suit to a wedding instead. You get the idea. Nobody should be spreading the ridiculous notion to children they they may be born in the wrong body. Adults who choose to medically alter their bodies should be allowed - but should be armed with correct information about the side effects and dangers and should not be given false promises about how such interventions will relieve their emotional Problems or allow them to be their true self. It’s cosmetic surgery. It will perhaps allow one to pass as the opposite sex in society if that is their goal. Once messages from the medical community are clear, schools no longer spout false notions, and young people are not pushed to chemically and surgically alter healthy bodies to achieve “happiness,” we will have achieved our goal and can disband.
I’ve been looking for a way to reach you beyond simply commenting. There is an upcoming bill introduced in CA that is coming up for committee that requires sensitivity training for medical professionals. It requires “gender affirmation”. Please consider writing your state representatives… https://www.californiafamily.org/2022/03/new-bill-forces-all-ca-healthcare-workers-to-attend-transgender-indoctrination-training/
I’d like to groups form that help parents teach their children the power of their natural sex. I think part of the trans movement fad is we are still a Misogynist country etc.
Just get to the end: (1) sue the schools (2) sue the medics and psychiatrists (3) extirpate "gender identity" out of all Gov documents and policies (4) disband Stonewall and US equivalent(s) (4) reinforce reality of sex (important, binary, immutable)..... I'd say there is still a LOT of work to do before the mission of PITT is accomplished. Don't you think so?
A well-run, effective child advocacy and protection organization run by parents is always needed to provide oversight. I could see an org like this pivoting when transgenderism is defeated. The issue is the direction of the pivot. The fight for LGB civil rights, for instance, after the success in Western countries achieving marriage equality, could have pivoted as a movement to help same-sex attracted people in countries where same sex behavior is still a crime. There are many.
Instead, the LGB movement was Trojan horsed by the T, which piggybacked on the LGB movement with "forced teaming," creating an army of foot soldiers for these bad ideas.
I think keeping the infrastructure and momentum of a parents' activist org would be valuable, as there are always issues to address. But even oversight orgs need oversight!
I sure agree with this: "the LGB movement was Trojan horsed by the T, which piggybacked on the LGB movement with "forced teaming," creating an army of foot soldiers for these bad ideas."
If you don't mind me saying, I think that parents who walk away from this fight, once their child is safe, are extremely selfish.
This ideology affects so many different aspects of Society. It has only just started to become apparent to most people. How many more lives will be ruined.
Selfless, brave, mostly women, but some men, have been fighting this battle for over seven years. They are exhausted. Every decent person, needs to step up, and do what they can to expose this dangerous, authoritarian, totalitarian, homophobic, misogynist movement.
It doesn't matter, if it doesn't affect you personally.
People must do what they can to help.
We can't let this dystopian nightmare become a reality.
Thank you for listening.
Or, we can't let this dystopian nightmare continue but must all fight for Reality. All of us who show up on PITT are fighting!
Matt Walsh on Twitter today:
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1504800647497064455
"Fighting this scourge means attacking it at its roots. We’re not just concerned about women’s sports or bathrooms or whatever. Gender ideology itself is the cancer at the core of this. We have to go after that, the very idea of it."
Someone responds:
"@MisterMedusa
Replying to
@MattWalshBlog
The good thing is that the entire ideology is linked. To destabilise any one part of it is to bring the entire house of cards down. It's why they can't admit, for example, that Lia Thomas shouldn't compete as a woman, as to question one aspect is to question any or all aspects.
It will take one domino to fall, and to truly fall completely, for the cascade to happen and the whole ideology to get seen for what it is."
What about rapists being sent to women's prisons?
What about homosexuals, being abused and being treated like pariahs, for speaking up?
What about all the academics who are being silenced, and are losing their jobs?
What about all the workers that are being forced to lie?
What about young lesbians being coerced / forced into accepting males as sexual partners?
What about women, who are concerned about safeguarding, being silenced?
There are endless ways, that this ideology is impacting decent people.
Of course, the medicalising of children is one of the worst manifestations, but there is so much more. Please don't walk away.
Absolutely true.
MisterMedusa, above, put into words something I've been thinking. Unfairness in sports is capturing general attention for people who may have thought GI was some harmless fringe inclusiveness thing that must somehow have something to do with being gay. "Queer" now seems to take in all manner of people whether gay or straight.
Coercion is a big part of this whole thing.
None of us should live in this sort of fear, whether it's an academic or a woman in prison, or whatever.
And, anyone concerned about future generations in their family or extended family will continue to find this a personal matter. Plus, I know I'm never getting over how my kid was messed with, either - even as I worry whether she's truly ok now or not.
The whole cult ideology must go - roots & all - and I think maybe we start by taking reality based language back. I even find "gender critical" silly. Gender is made up. We can be kind to confused people and not cave to a cult and affirm people whose issue may in part be an excessive need for attention. None of us would have heard of WilLiam without all this - if he'd simply switched to a nickname, worn a gal's outfit and competed with the fellas.
It is a catastrophe.
There should be a fund for survivors. I don't know whether it will come out of straight forward lawsuits or out of something like a Gender Truth and Reconciliation Commission like that mentioned in https://pitt.substack.com/p/international-right-to-truth-day?s=r but we must have some lawyers who understand how to go about this.
Hmm. I'm just a bystander but what brought me here started 90 yrs ago, with a lonely awkward young woman, who would one day be my grandmother. She never felt right and rarely fit in. She spent her life and thousands of dollars trying to make herself feel better. Along the way she was taken advantage of, shocked and put into straight jackets. She danced in the woods and walked in circles. She was over medicated for ease. I now think she was on the spectrum. Some of her great grandkids are.
For me, this is the latest iteration of medical failure, hubris, greed. Its now GI. It was many things. It will be more. I want victory but I know there will be something else. And that something may not be your battle.
Take your time. Good work is still to be done.
Autism is and always has been problematic. Young women were not diagnosed 90 years ago. Instead of being given electric shock treatment they would now be led into taking testosterone to suppress menstruation and given a new identity. “ Gender change” is the latest experimental treatment. Superficially it might seem to work for those observing, but as it is my 23 year old who is affected, I see it is unethical. Just eugenics in disguise.
I have no doubt. She would've been right on the GI wagon.
Great article! These questions *will* need to be addressed at some point. Is now the right time? Well, that question deserves some careful thought. There's clearly a risk of diverting attention from more urgent issues, as long as the ideology is still alive and kicking children in the teeth. On the other hand, once the urgency has diminished, we could, as you say so clearly, "inadvertently spawn something in the future that’s even worse for our kids or grandkids."
Perhaps a way out of this dilemma involves incorporating the *right* structure, both in kind and quantity, today. A slightly different way to frame the concern is as revolving around the proper *scope* of the activities we need to include, to achieve our (right-sized) objectives. That way of thinking about these questions helps in two ways. First, we can clearly specify the "definition of done" - the markers that will indicate we have succeeded. Secondly, it can also help us to limit and prioritize the ways we expend limited resources on our way to achieving that outcome.
To my mind, at least as big a danger as outliving our effective usefulness is that we damage our current effectiveness by attempting to achieve too many different goals, thereby spreading ourselves too thin and increasing the likelihood of internal divisions. If the goals of this movement are clear, defined, and limited to only what is most critical, we will certainly be a movement of strange bedfellows, but we might also be a movement that keeps everyone in the same bed long enough to succeed.
I think we need to take back language. For instance, WilLiaM Thomas did not "transition to female". He took feminizing hormones and adopted a nickname. It is hard to fight against cult ideology in schools and medicalization when words based on reality have been taken from us. And, "using pronouns" has to go.
It is useful to envision victory however far off it is.
"It’s too soon to disband now—society is still captured and too many young people are at risk—"
Yes, the entire non-science Cult surrounding "Gender" is thriving. It must be irradicated and parental authority must again be respected. Our institutions including Education, Medicine, and Government need a reckoning along the lines of the "Truth" essay from the other day. The State does not love your child more than you do and if it appears to - it is a sure sign of grooming. If a handful of adults are determined to undergo dreadful cosmetic surgery after serious lengthy therapy to examine why they want to do that - and if they have their eyes wide open to the fact that it does not change their sex - that is another matter. And, I have have to ask the question: how is it that in every other aspect of life - including being on parental health plans - we recognize that the brain is still maturing until about age 26 - but when it comes to the fiction of "Gender" that age of "consent" (with no therapy at all) gets lower and lower?
All that said, I love that this article both:
1) looks beyond right now (in a serious way - it was done with satire recently) & envisions victory; and
2) clearly illustrates how we got in this terrible nightmare "We get trans - the cause that latched on to the LGB rights movements when their original goals achieved widespread acceptance." It seems that everything that starts out good turns bad eventually. Look at the ACLU. Making us think about that possibility with PITT makes us think about how LGB jumped the rails into "alphabet cult".
Post victory PITT might end by forming a museum so that the world never forgets what happened. PITT might have in it's "charter" that once victory is achieved it may no longer engage in matters of the post GI "present" but stick with documenting the past (that we currently live in) only.
P.S. Most doctors will not correct myopia with laser eye surgery before age 25 as the eyes are still changing. And, I don't think any insurance pays for that. In the case of our bodies nothing is being corrected with cosmetic gender surgery. It is infuriating how new outlets write about how WilLiaM Thomas "transitioned to female" as if that where a thing that is possible to do.
NO. This is NOT a good thing at this point. In NO SENSE is the transinsanity defeated. Will Thomas just set a "woman's 500 M" record yesterday. Today, Will will swim in another woman's race, and he will set another record. WE MUST NOT TAKE OUR EYES OFF THE BALL.
It is galling. Even conservative media report that he "transitioned to female" which is a scientific impossibility. If there were some way to convince people to say "took feminizing hormones" and "adopted a new nickname" that would be a Big step. The Gender Ideologists own language right now and taking language back would do much good.
Tutto vero e tutto chiaro,
Il movimento che serve a tutti dovrebbe sbarazzarsi dell'ideologia di genere.
I understand and to some degree agree with your point. However I don’t think we are anywhere near that point or done with this issue. The medical, psychological and educational institutions must first be brought to task regarding ‘affirmative’ care, so that they follow the science and reject being captured by the trans ideology. Changing those systems is paramount in order to protect our children. I don’t see that happening without some legal comeuppance. Based on recent articles in Time magazine and the NYTIMES the trans narrative is alive and well.
This. The pressure that is needed is to ensure that the medical world, in particular, has its collective nose rubbed into their maxim...First Do No Harm.
Maybe systems need to be pushed onto them that makes them immediately questions, test and challenge the *next* fad that is in the stable from lobotomies, false memory syndromes, trans "health" care. If the medical world is so prepared to bow down to the "gender is real, sex is not" concept, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, what else is the medical world going to accept unquestioningly.
So, maybe the exit strategy first looks at "What is needed to prevent such a scandal happening again? What areas need to be looked at and measures pushed into place (Yes probably through laws), to prevent their capture? What are the kinds of questions that such bodies need to be asking before bringing in a new "thought" that can affect human lives on such a fundamental basis. How can bodies, society, law, politics, medical, education etc, be made to remember the lessons of the past"
That could be a great legacy to leave - something in place that can in as unbiased a way as possible - prevent such insanity occurring again.
PITT can't do it on its own. It can be working with other like minded groups to create that braking system so that no more children are hurt, so no more vulnerable adults are hurt, so that society doesn't ever have to deal with the fall out that is about to happen from those who have been materially harmed by such insane concepts, riding on the coat tails of legitimate civil rights movements.
I knew from the beginning where this article was going because it makes so much sense. We watched the trans movement latch onto the hard fought gains and successes of the gay rights movement and take these organizations in directions that, ironically, are often most hostile to gay and lesbian individuals. I don’t know what movement would attach itself to ours, but I can imagine one that is also homophobic and might seek to take down all the gains of the gay rights movement in the name of some sort of morality, implausibly arguing that “encouraging” young people to be gay/lesbian/bisexual will socially sterilize them, or some other crazy thing. The problem is that, as we see, crazy arguments sometimes take hold of society. And we don’t want the world to go backwards again. So I would say that we need a clear mission statement and make clear thst whatever we as parents fight for under that mission, we stop once we succeed. I see our mission as: to prevent the unnecessary medicalization and sterilization of young people (or anyone really) who simply feel discomfort with their bodies, don’t fit gender stereotypes or just feel like they are not like the other girls/boys. These people deserve compassion and care. That may sometimes involve just the passing of time (particularly when it’s 12 and 13 year old girls with this issue - which happens to most young girls). It may involve family and close friends giving extra emotional support and, for some, it may involve therapy to explore why the person is having such difficulty accepting their own biology. We also need to expand people’s minds about what behaviors are acceptable in society, which will relieve the struggle for many who are simply gender non-conforming. Boys who want to wear dresses to school should be allowed and should not be hurt for doing so. Girls who can’t stand dresses should be allowed to wear a nice suit to a wedding instead. You get the idea. Nobody should be spreading the ridiculous notion to children they they may be born in the wrong body. Adults who choose to medically alter their bodies should be allowed - but should be armed with correct information about the side effects and dangers and should not be given false promises about how such interventions will relieve their emotional Problems or allow them to be their true self. It’s cosmetic surgery. It will perhaps allow one to pass as the opposite sex in society if that is their goal. Once messages from the medical community are clear, schools no longer spout false notions, and young people are not pushed to chemically and surgically alter healthy bodies to achieve “happiness,” we will have achieved our goal and can disband.