“Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person makes someone else doubt their own perceptions, memories, or understanding of reality.
Excellent essay and so sad that the harm continues.
One thing that needs to happen is that $$$ for "GAC" needs to be drained from insurance. Insurance money and ideology were both absent during the lobotomy era unlike this one. Here is a good ruling (if not required to cover this medical harm perhaps insurance will drop it):
"Tennessee AG Skrmetti Applauds U.S. District Court Ruling Striking Down Biden-Era HHS Rule on Gender Identity in Healthcare"
"it was the close proximity of the relief of their cravings that intensified those cravings. The closer they got to that first satisfying inhale, the more desperate they were to get it.
I immediately saw the parallel to “gender-affirming care.” Until medical interventions became available that allowed people to look more like the opposite sex, people who were uncomfortable with their sex had to come to terms with the reality of their bodies. They didn’t pine for and obsess over something they couldn’t have. They got on with the business of living, and in time the distress disappeared or at least abated."
To me, this implies that the more parents offer intermediate palliatives and baby steps, the closer the child will feel they are to a more extensive medical approach, and the more intense their feelings will become.
Of course this concept could be applied to everything under the sun that a child could want, from risky sports to contemporary fashion to being allowed to pick their own electives. The most extreme opposite to the conciliatory parent would be the parent who is completely rigid about everything: fundamentalism. I'm not suggesting that this is a good idea. It is a bad idea.
*why is rigid authoritarianism a bad idea? Several reasons. A practical reason that is realistic and forward thinking is that rigid authoritarianism diminishes one's actual authority and reduces the respect one's given, in one's own family.
Any child is capable of identifying some facts and truths about the world. That's what the Catholic "age of reason" refers to. Any adult, parent or not, cannot be correct 100% of the time. A parent who is rigid in their knowledge (true things) and beliefs (ie, things they think are true but are not, therefore have no good evidence available for them) will inevitably be wrong about some of these items. As soon as a child correctly identifies a mismatch between what the rigid parent asserts and what reality is, all trust in that parent's assertions are weakened.
Remember, a child and indeed every person their entire life is working towards better, more complete knowledge. A child who has been *told* a set of things but hasn't had the opportunity to check many of them, themselves, will find it rationally necessary to doubt all the things a parent had said but which haven't been personally verified, if the parent is rigid and if the parent insists that a verified untrue thing is true.
When a parent is less rigid, and is able to admit the possibility of being wrong, and is able to demonstrate good reasons for what they do hold to be true, the child is not forced to assign uncertainty to everything they say.
The gaslighting is surreal. Besides the gaslighting from the school and medical professionals. I was gaslit by my own child discussing sex, gender and reality.
I have found most of those that a gender critical are “real.” There is no faking like a narcissist. No faking like a professional who “cares” and is “kind.” No faking like a trans identified person.
I found my people watching conversations from who are those gender critical. They are real, have real thoughts, real mistakes, and REALLY care. Narcissists are fake.
Pretending you’re a different sex is faking it.
I want a relationship with my child that isn’t fake. I don’t want to fake I don’t know what people’s sex is.
Just brilliant! I keep trying to say that we are living in a patriarchy where males are worshipped at the expense of females and have massive amounts of power over girls and women, while females are treated as inferior on every level. (Seeing that even the richest and most popular women in the media are pornifying themselves into caricatures show how bad it is.)
What girl would not want to escape this, and be treated as an equal and not be constantly sexually harassed? For too many, the only answer is to become one of their oppressors. It's so clear to those who aren't afraid to think about it.
The idea that the brain can show degrees of masculinization or feminization not fully aligned with biological sex has been around for decades and has some empirical support. So it’s not a “deception” when professionals suggest that certain children might have a degree of brain–body incongruence. The real issue lies in how large or significant these differences actually are, and what therapeutic implications are drawn from them.
As the article rightly points out, there is no historical evidence of children taking their own lives due to gender dysphoria or anything remotely similar. Most children who experienced discomfort with their sex eventually reconciled with their bodies by the end of puberty, becoming generally well-adjusted adults—often homosexual, and with varying degrees of masculine or feminine traits.
This pattern is consistent with the findings of Steensma et al. (2013), Singh et al. (2021), and Green (1987), among others.
## Key Scientific Studies on Sex Differences in the Human Brain
Research over the last four decades has identified consistent, though overlapping, structural and functional differences between male and female brains. Below is a summary of some of the most influential studies.
Reported sex differences in the **corpus callosum** (larger proportionally in women), suggesting greater interhemispheric communication. Later studies debated the magnitude of this finding.
Found sex differences in the **planum temporale**, with women showing more symmetry—possibly linked to language processing.
3. **Gur et al. (1999) – *PNAS***
Demonstrated that men tend to have higher total **gray matter volume**, while women show a higher proportion of **white matter** and **cerebral blood flow**, implying differences in processing efficiency and integration.
---
### 🔹 Modern Neuroimaging Research
4. **Ingalhalikar et al. (2014) – *PNAS***
Using DTI tractography, found that male brains show stronger **intrahemispheric connectivity** (within hemispheres), while female brains show stronger **interhemispheric connectivity** (between hemispheres). This may underlie tendencies toward analytical vs. integrative processing.
5. **Ruigrok et al. (2014) – *Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews***
A meta-analysis of 126 MRI studies confirmed sex-based differences in several regions, including the **amygdala**, **hypothalamus**, **hippocampus**, and **orbitofrontal cortex**.
6. **Joel et al. (2015) – *PNAS***
Introduced the idea of a **“brain mosaic”**: while average differences exist between sexes, most individual brains exhibit a mix of features typical of both males and females.
One of the largest studies to date. Found significant differences in total brain volume, cortical surface area, and functional connectivity, though with **substantial individual overlap** between sexes.
---
### 🔹 Hormonal and Developmental Influences
8. **Hines (2011) – *Hormones and Behavior***
Reviewed how **prenatal androgen exposure** shapes brain development and influences later cognitive and behavioral traits.
9. **Sisk & Zehr (2005) – *Journal of Neuroendocrinology***
Demonstrated that puberty plays a critical role in the **organization and activation** of sexually dimorphic brain circuits.
Explored sex differences in specific **hypothalamic nuclei** (e.g., INAH3, SCN), linking them to both sexual identity and orientation.
---
### 🔹 Summary
While sex differences in brain anatomy and connectivity are robust and reproducible, they exist on a **statistical continuum** rather than as categorical separations. Biology sets certain predispositions, but individual variation and experience shape the final outcome.
---
Tomorrow, with more time, I can search for essays on the topic.
Ah I recall much of this information in college but it seems like much other research-not really saying much🤣but thank you! Scary thought-can we use MRIs to support or deny gender dysphoria?
What I wanted to point out is a weakness I see in the essay’s argument: the denial that there are biological bases for brain dimorphism. This is a recurring flaw I find among many people who oppose so-called “gender medicine.”
Brain dimorphism exists for the same reasons as bodily dimorphism. It is the result of countless generations in which individuals with certain sex-linked advantages achieved greater reproductive success. Because of the division of labor historically associated with sex, men and women who possessed particular traits had more offspring than those who did not. Over millennia, these traits—being partly heritable—became more common. That’s why men, on average, are taller and stronger, while women, on average, are more careful and protective. The details are many, but what matters is the evolutionary mechanism: the advantages of each sex are not limited to the body below the neck; they also manifest in our brains and in our dimorphic psychology.
That said, the biological pathways through which these differences develop are complex enough to produce wide individual variation within each sex. That’s why we find different degrees of masculinity and femininity among both men and women.
What I’m describing does not mean that some people are born with the “wrong brain in the wrong body.” It simply means that natural variation exists, just as it does with height or temperament. And even if we could identify these patterns through brain scans (which we currently cannot), it would not follow that the appropriate response is to chemically or surgically alter healthy bodies to make them conform to those variations.
This article is excellent - 5-Stars! Your comparison the study described by Nir Ayal to “gender affirming care” is truly insightful. That, and gas lighting, especially when applied to the experience of puberty, is simply not on the radar of young people, particularly those with Autism.
Excellent article! Thanks for writing and I hope your daughter wakes up soon. As a side note, my daughter also spent a lot of time on Deviant Art as a young teen. In hindsight, I cannot believe how naive and careless I was, letting her do so unsupervised. So many artsy websites are evil and full of groomers.
I'm very disturbed by that seeming animus toward homosexuals that sometimes appears in the comments on Pitt.
Here's an article that will remind everyone of the ugliness of such hatred & how in the past such hatred was used as license to kill & also to claim that "God" was on the side of the haters.
Let's put all such hatred in the dust bin of history, please.
Hi AlexEsq - I tend to agree with your comments, and ugliness towards same sex attracted or other people is certainly ugly - but I feel we were lied to regarding that horrific murder - and the kids are programmed with it at school. I once believed the lie.
1) "Stephen Jimenez didn’t set out to be the most dangerous journalist on earth.
Or, more to the point, the most dangerous gay journalist.
But Jimenez unearthed a story that few people wanted to hear. And it calls into question everything you think you know about the life and death of one of the leading icons of our age.
Matthew Shepard, college student. Killed, at 21, for being gay.
Or was he?"
from "‘Uncomfortable truth’ in Matthew Shepard’s death"
2) "In other words, Shepard's murder was almost certainly fueled by disagreements over money and drugs rather than gay identity, something that Henderson confirmed in an interview from prison with the Associated Press in 2018."
from:
"Matthew Shepard's Murder Was Almost Certainly Not an Anti-Gay Hate Crime
President Biden commemorated the 25th anniversary of his tragic death by celebrating legislation passed in Shepard's name. But it was based on a major falsehood."
I'm curious how most lesbians and gays perceived the LGB alliance with transgenderism. Did they see it as something forced or natural? And at what point did they realize that the rights of women (especially lesbians) were being violated under the banner of transgender rights, and that young gays and lesbians were being led down the path of self-destruction?
Those shadowy parasite/elites controlling the puppet politicians, the corrupt media and the corrupt education system, who are pushing the trans agenda, know that they are targeting children when they are most confused and vulnerable. What a different outcome if the truth were widely told; that the awkwardness and confusion children feel, sorts itself out with time and nature.
Oh they’re just the tip of the iceberg-it keeps me alive, seething, for the day all these manipulated innocents realize the mengele level of atrocities born unto them, & their uprising to revenge
Yes, indeed. Jennifer Bilek has researched and written extensively about the Pritzker family and the money behind the push to transition children and vulnerable young adults, at her 11th Hour Blog:
There are such obvious fallacies at the root of the trans rhetoric.
Born in the wrong body? really? what other body might a person have? One body, one person, that's the way humanity lives on earth.
Suicides? really? when in the long history of humanity have teens or children killed themselves over "gender dysphoria?" Never that's when. Never. There is no historical record of such suicides. None whatsoever.
It's "normal" to want to cut off your genitals? Really? No, it is not.
That so-called medical professionals are selling such idiocy as "medical treatment" is a huge fraud. They should all be prosecuted & lose their licenses to practice.
In my mind, this is the most disturbing part of this hysteria: not only are well-educated, medically trained doctors and scientists going along with this clear contagion, they are actively promoting it and gaslighting parents, children with gender dysphoria, politicians, and the rest of the public. It is unconscionable and unforgivable.
> These true-believer members of society don’t stop to consider the fact that, until the last 15 years or so, they had never heard of a transgender child. And yet, according to the 2023 data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, more than 3.3% of U.S. high school students are transgender, and another 2.2% have at one time or another questioned whether they were.
This is because, whether or not a lot of people here want to hear this, the widespread societal push for acceptance of transgender ideology has a single, very clear and specific cause and birthdate: June 26, 2015, when the Obergefell v. Hodges decision was handed down. It was immediately after this when "you must accept transgenderism or you're an evil bigot" first began to show up as official dogma in media, schools, and workplace "sensitivity training" courses.
This is not a coincidence; it was a deliberate strategic move by Leftists, a cynical decision that "it's better to fight them over there than over here," distracting opponents of gay marriage with something even worse to keep them from effectively organizing and pushing back on the Obergefell decision.
A lot of self-proclaimed "LGB" advocates today like to deny that, trying to hide from the horrifying ramifications of what they did ten years ago, but that doesn't make it any less true. Homosexual activists unleashed the Golem, and now the Golem has turned on them and is rampaging through their own homeland.
"This is not a coincidence; it was a deliberate strategic move by Leftists, a cynical decision that "it's better to fight them over there than over here," distracting opponents of gay marriage with something even worse to keep them from effectively organizing and pushing back on the Obergefell decision."
is uncalled for. You are putting for a conspiracy theory that is anti-gay ... why? Don't you understand that most kids who ID with the opposite sex are in fact GAY?
What is your problem with gay kids?
Homosexuality is completely distinct from this transgender medicalization that ruins health, ruins sexual capacities and sterilizes.
Keep your anti-gay rhetoric off the PITT page, please. Most of our kids are gay or lesbian. Just stop.
And right on cue, here come the desperate denials.
> You are putting for a conspiracy theory that is anti-gay
No I'm not. I'm stating facts that you don't want to hear, not about gay people, but about the practice of homosexual political activism.
> Don't you understand that most kids who ID with the opposite sex are in fact GAY?
I've heard that claim. I've seen precious little evidence put forth to support it, though.
> Homosexuality is completely distinct from this transgender medicalization that ruins health, ruins sexual capacities and sterilizes.
Agreed. Which is why homosexual activists threw transgenderism out there as a shield; they expected it to largely target other people and give them time to consolidate newly-won territory.
Bob, I think you've got your last point backwards. It's actually trans activists that attached themselves to the LGB cause, in order to make the idea of "trans" more palatable to society. Google Dentons law firm and their part in this. There are many in the LGB camp who want nothing to do with trans activists and their push to "queer" society.
> Bob, I think you've got your last point backwards. It's actually trans activists that attached themselves to the LGB cause, in order to make the idea of "trans" more palatable to society.
This may or may not be the case, but "the LGB cause" was all too willing to accept them with open arms. And again, this claim does not explain the timing. If you were around 10 years ago, actively participating in and aware of the world around you, you'll remember how "trans" appeared out of nowhere, virtually overnight going from the fringiest of fringe issues that barely anyone was even aware of to the latest piece of dogma that everyone was compelled to swear allegiance to, in the middle of 2015.
Why? Because that's precisely what happened. Homosexual activists took the existing outrage machinery they'd spent decades building and slotted a new sexual-minority-adjacent concept into it, and turned it loose on our society.
> There are many in the LGB camp who want nothing to do with trans activists and their push to "queer" society.
*Want,* present tense, I'm sure that's true. Ten yeas ago, when this was all happening, though?
Well said and I actually woke up this morning thinking about all the gaslighting I’ve been through. Your piece is timely and it needed to be said. I’m not gonna let anybody guess like me anymore. I’m done with that.
Gaslighting is exactly what came to my mind when our family was hit by trans. That and "Cult".
I was right there reading 4thwavenow.com with you.
Excellent essay and so sad that the harm continues.
One thing that needs to happen is that $$$ for "GAC" needs to be drained from insurance. Insurance money and ideology were both absent during the lobotomy era unlike this one. Here is a good ruling (if not required to cover this medical harm perhaps insurance will drop it):
"Tennessee AG Skrmetti Applauds U.S. District Court Ruling Striking Down Biden-Era HHS Rule on Gender Identity in Healthcare"
https://tennesseestar.com/justice/tennessee-ag-skrmetti-applauds-u-s-district-court-ruling-striking-down-biden-era-hhs-rule-on-gender-identity-in-healthcare/khousler/2025/10/23/
"it was the close proximity of the relief of their cravings that intensified those cravings. The closer they got to that first satisfying inhale, the more desperate they were to get it.
I immediately saw the parallel to “gender-affirming care.” Until medical interventions became available that allowed people to look more like the opposite sex, people who were uncomfortable with their sex had to come to terms with the reality of their bodies. They didn’t pine for and obsess over something they couldn’t have. They got on with the business of living, and in time the distress disappeared or at least abated."
To me, this implies that the more parents offer intermediate palliatives and baby steps, the closer the child will feel they are to a more extensive medical approach, and the more intense their feelings will become.
Of course this concept could be applied to everything under the sun that a child could want, from risky sports to contemporary fashion to being allowed to pick their own electives. The most extreme opposite to the conciliatory parent would be the parent who is completely rigid about everything: fundamentalism. I'm not suggesting that this is a good idea. It is a bad idea.
I am speaking of notions such as "allowing social transitioning" and the "use it to wait and see" argument that's made for "puberty blocking" (setting aside that it is medically harmful on its own). The study seems to demonstrate a psychological basis for the camel-in-the-tent proverb. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19181/what-does-camel-gets-his-nose-under-the-tent-mean
*why is rigid authoritarianism a bad idea? Several reasons. A practical reason that is realistic and forward thinking is that rigid authoritarianism diminishes one's actual authority and reduces the respect one's given, in one's own family.
Any child is capable of identifying some facts and truths about the world. That's what the Catholic "age of reason" refers to. Any adult, parent or not, cannot be correct 100% of the time. A parent who is rigid in their knowledge (true things) and beliefs (ie, things they think are true but are not, therefore have no good evidence available for them) will inevitably be wrong about some of these items. As soon as a child correctly identifies a mismatch between what the rigid parent asserts and what reality is, all trust in that parent's assertions are weakened.
Remember, a child and indeed every person their entire life is working towards better, more complete knowledge. A child who has been *told* a set of things but hasn't had the opportunity to check many of them, themselves, will find it rationally necessary to doubt all the things a parent had said but which haven't been personally verified, if the parent is rigid and if the parent insists that a verified untrue thing is true.
When a parent is less rigid, and is able to admit the possibility of being wrong, and is able to demonstrate good reasons for what they do hold to be true, the child is not forced to assign uncertainty to everything they say.
The gaslighting is surreal. Besides the gaslighting from the school and medical professionals. I was gaslit by my own child discussing sex, gender and reality.
I have found most of those that a gender critical are “real.” There is no faking like a narcissist. No faking like a professional who “cares” and is “kind.” No faking like a trans identified person.
I found my people watching conversations from who are those gender critical. They are real, have real thoughts, real mistakes, and REALLY care. Narcissists are fake.
Pretending you’re a different sex is faking it.
I want a relationship with my child that isn’t fake. I don’t want to fake I don’t know what people’s sex is.
Just brilliant! I keep trying to say that we are living in a patriarchy where males are worshipped at the expense of females and have massive amounts of power over girls and women, while females are treated as inferior on every level. (Seeing that even the richest and most popular women in the media are pornifying themselves into caricatures show how bad it is.)
What girl would not want to escape this, and be treated as an equal and not be constantly sexually harassed? For too many, the only answer is to become one of their oppressors. It's so clear to those who aren't afraid to think about it.
Very moving essay. Insightful, clear. Thanks
What an excellent and comprehensive piece!
Wish it was in The New York Times.
The idea that the brain can show degrees of masculinization or feminization not fully aligned with biological sex has been around for decades and has some empirical support. So it’s not a “deception” when professionals suggest that certain children might have a degree of brain–body incongruence. The real issue lies in how large or significant these differences actually are, and what therapeutic implications are drawn from them.
As the article rightly points out, there is no historical evidence of children taking their own lives due to gender dysphoria or anything remotely similar. Most children who experienced discomfort with their sex eventually reconciled with their bodies by the end of puberty, becoming generally well-adjusted adults—often homosexual, and with varying degrees of masculine or feminine traits.
This pattern is consistent with the findings of Steensma et al. (2013), Singh et al. (2021), and Green (1987), among others.
How are masculine vs feminine brains defined? How were those definitions decided?
A search request to the AI:
## Key Scientific Studies on Sex Differences in the Human Brain
Research over the last four decades has identified consistent, though overlapping, structural and functional differences between male and female brains. Below is a summary of some of the most influential studies.
---
### 🔹 Foundational Studies
1. **De Lacoste-Utamsing & Holloway (1982) – *Science***
Reported sex differences in the **corpus callosum** (larger proportionally in women), suggesting greater interhemispheric communication. Later studies debated the magnitude of this finding.
2. **Allen, Damasio & Grabowski (1991) – *Cerebral Cortex***
Found sex differences in the **planum temporale**, with women showing more symmetry—possibly linked to language processing.
3. **Gur et al. (1999) – *PNAS***
Demonstrated that men tend to have higher total **gray matter volume**, while women show a higher proportion of **white matter** and **cerebral blood flow**, implying differences in processing efficiency and integration.
---
### 🔹 Modern Neuroimaging Research
4. **Ingalhalikar et al. (2014) – *PNAS***
Using DTI tractography, found that male brains show stronger **intrahemispheric connectivity** (within hemispheres), while female brains show stronger **interhemispheric connectivity** (between hemispheres). This may underlie tendencies toward analytical vs. integrative processing.
5. **Ruigrok et al. (2014) – *Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews***
A meta-analysis of 126 MRI studies confirmed sex-based differences in several regions, including the **amygdala**, **hypothalamus**, **hippocampus**, and **orbitofrontal cortex**.
6. **Joel et al. (2015) – *PNAS***
Introduced the idea of a **“brain mosaic”**: while average differences exist between sexes, most individual brains exhibit a mix of features typical of both males and females.
7. **Ritchie et al. (2018) – *Cerebral Cortex*** (UK Biobank, n≈5,200)
One of the largest studies to date. Found significant differences in total brain volume, cortical surface area, and functional connectivity, though with **substantial individual overlap** between sexes.
---
### 🔹 Hormonal and Developmental Influences
8. **Hines (2011) – *Hormones and Behavior***
Reviewed how **prenatal androgen exposure** shapes brain development and influences later cognitive and behavioral traits.
9. **Sisk & Zehr (2005) – *Journal of Neuroendocrinology***
Demonstrated that puberty plays a critical role in the **organization and activation** of sexually dimorphic brain circuits.
10. **Bao & Swaab (2011) – *Nature Reviews Neuroscience***
Explored sex differences in specific **hypothalamic nuclei** (e.g., INAH3, SCN), linking them to both sexual identity and orientation.
---
### 🔹 Summary
While sex differences in brain anatomy and connectivity are robust and reproducible, they exist on a **statistical continuum** rather than as categorical separations. Biology sets certain predispositions, but individual variation and experience shape the final outcome.
---
Tomorrow, with more time, I can search for essays on the topic.
Ah I recall much of this information in college but it seems like much other research-not really saying much🤣but thank you! Scary thought-can we use MRIs to support or deny gender dysphoria?
No, that’s impossible.
What I wanted to point out is a weakness I see in the essay’s argument: the denial that there are biological bases for brain dimorphism. This is a recurring flaw I find among many people who oppose so-called “gender medicine.”
Brain dimorphism exists for the same reasons as bodily dimorphism. It is the result of countless generations in which individuals with certain sex-linked advantages achieved greater reproductive success. Because of the division of labor historically associated with sex, men and women who possessed particular traits had more offspring than those who did not. Over millennia, these traits—being partly heritable—became more common. That’s why men, on average, are taller and stronger, while women, on average, are more careful and protective. The details are many, but what matters is the evolutionary mechanism: the advantages of each sex are not limited to the body below the neck; they also manifest in our brains and in our dimorphic psychology.
That said, the biological pathways through which these differences develop are complex enough to produce wide individual variation within each sex. That’s why we find different degrees of masculinity and femininity among both men and women.
What I’m describing does not mean that some people are born with the “wrong brain in the wrong body.” It simply means that natural variation exists, just as it does with height or temperament. And even if we could identify these patterns through brain scans (which we currently cannot), it would not follow that the appropriate response is to chemically or surgically alter healthy bodies to make them conform to those variations.
This article is excellent - 5-Stars! Your comparison the study described by Nir Ayal to “gender affirming care” is truly insightful. That, and gas lighting, especially when applied to the experience of puberty, is simply not on the radar of young people, particularly those with Autism.
Excellent article! Thanks for writing and I hope your daughter wakes up soon. As a side note, my daughter also spent a lot of time on Deviant Art as a young teen. In hindsight, I cannot believe how naive and careless I was, letting her do so unsupervised. So many artsy websites are evil and full of groomers.
I'm very disturbed by that seeming animus toward homosexuals that sometimes appears in the comments on Pitt.
Here's an article that will remind everyone of the ugliness of such hatred & how in the past such hatred was used as license to kill & also to claim that "God" was on the side of the haters.
Let's put all such hatred in the dust bin of history, please.
Here's the article about the murder of Matthew Shepard: https://feminismandreligion.com/2025/10/24/from-the-archives-matthew-shepard-is-a-friend-of-mine-part-iby-marie-cartier/
Hi AlexEsq - I tend to agree with your comments, and ugliness towards same sex attracted or other people is certainly ugly - but I feel we were lied to regarding that horrific murder - and the kids are programmed with it at school. I once believed the lie.
1) "Stephen Jimenez didn’t set out to be the most dangerous journalist on earth.
Or, more to the point, the most dangerous gay journalist.
But Jimenez unearthed a story that few people wanted to hear. And it calls into question everything you think you know about the life and death of one of the leading icons of our age.
Matthew Shepard, college student. Killed, at 21, for being gay.
Or was he?"
from "‘Uncomfortable truth’ in Matthew Shepard’s death"
https://nypost.com/2013/10/28/uncomfortable-truth-behind-matthew-shepards-death/
2) "In other words, Shepard's murder was almost certainly fueled by disagreements over money and drugs rather than gay identity, something that Henderson confirmed in an interview from prison with the Associated Press in 2018."
from:
"Matthew Shepard's Murder Was Almost Certainly Not an Anti-Gay Hate Crime
President Biden commemorated the 25th anniversary of his tragic death by celebrating legislation passed in Shepard's name. But it was based on a major falsehood."
https://reason.com/2023/10/12/matthew-shepards-murder-was-almost-certainly-not-an-anti-gay-hate-crime/
I'm curious how most lesbians and gays perceived the LGB alliance with transgenderism. Did they see it as something forced or natural? And at what point did they realize that the rights of women (especially lesbians) were being violated under the banner of transgender rights, and that young gays and lesbians were being led down the path of self-destruction?
Those shadowy parasite/elites controlling the puppet politicians, the corrupt media and the corrupt education system, who are pushing the trans agenda, know that they are targeting children when they are most confused and vulnerable. What a different outcome if the truth were widely told; that the awkwardness and confusion children feel, sorts itself out with time and nature.
Read about the Pritzker family I you haven’t already. There’s the money behind a lot of this. Yes, JB Pritzker.
Oh they’re just the tip of the iceberg-it keeps me alive, seething, for the day all these manipulated innocents realize the mengele level of atrocities born unto them, & their uprising to revenge
Yes, indeed. Jennifer Bilek has researched and written extensively about the Pritzker family and the money behind the push to transition children and vulnerable young adults, at her 11th Hour Blog:
https://x.com/Jacksonwilde303/status/1949996135302467679
This is an excellent essay. Thank you for writing it.
thank you for an excellent essay.
There are such obvious fallacies at the root of the trans rhetoric.
Born in the wrong body? really? what other body might a person have? One body, one person, that's the way humanity lives on earth.
Suicides? really? when in the long history of humanity have teens or children killed themselves over "gender dysphoria?" Never that's when. Never. There is no historical record of such suicides. None whatsoever.
It's "normal" to want to cut off your genitals? Really? No, it is not.
That so-called medical professionals are selling such idiocy as "medical treatment" is a huge fraud. They should all be prosecuted & lose their licenses to practice.
In my mind, this is the most disturbing part of this hysteria: not only are well-educated, medically trained doctors and scientists going along with this clear contagion, they are actively promoting it and gaslighting parents, children with gender dysphoria, politicians, and the rest of the public. It is unconscionable and unforgivable.
> These true-believer members of society don’t stop to consider the fact that, until the last 15 years or so, they had never heard of a transgender child. And yet, according to the 2023 data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, more than 3.3% of U.S. high school students are transgender, and another 2.2% have at one time or another questioned whether they were.
This is because, whether or not a lot of people here want to hear this, the widespread societal push for acceptance of transgender ideology has a single, very clear and specific cause and birthdate: June 26, 2015, when the Obergefell v. Hodges decision was handed down. It was immediately after this when "you must accept transgenderism or you're an evil bigot" first began to show up as official dogma in media, schools, and workplace "sensitivity training" courses.
This is not a coincidence; it was a deliberate strategic move by Leftists, a cynical decision that "it's better to fight them over there than over here," distracting opponents of gay marriage with something even worse to keep them from effectively organizing and pushing back on the Obergefell decision.
A lot of self-proclaimed "LGB" advocates today like to deny that, trying to hide from the horrifying ramifications of what they did ten years ago, but that doesn't make it any less true. Homosexual activists unleashed the Golem, and now the Golem has turned on them and is rampaging through their own homeland.
This type of reasoning:
"This is not a coincidence; it was a deliberate strategic move by Leftists, a cynical decision that "it's better to fight them over there than over here," distracting opponents of gay marriage with something even worse to keep them from effectively organizing and pushing back on the Obergefell decision."
is uncalled for. You are putting for a conspiracy theory that is anti-gay ... why? Don't you understand that most kids who ID with the opposite sex are in fact GAY?
What is your problem with gay kids?
Homosexuality is completely distinct from this transgender medicalization that ruins health, ruins sexual capacities and sterilizes.
Keep your anti-gay rhetoric off the PITT page, please. Most of our kids are gay or lesbian. Just stop.
And right on cue, here come the desperate denials.
> You are putting for a conspiracy theory that is anti-gay
No I'm not. I'm stating facts that you don't want to hear, not about gay people, but about the practice of homosexual political activism.
> Don't you understand that most kids who ID with the opposite sex are in fact GAY?
I've heard that claim. I've seen precious little evidence put forth to support it, though.
> Homosexuality is completely distinct from this transgender medicalization that ruins health, ruins sexual capacities and sterilizes.
Agreed. Which is why homosexual activists threw transgenderism out there as a shield; they expected it to largely target other people and give them time to consolidate newly-won territory.
Bob, I think you've got your last point backwards. It's actually trans activists that attached themselves to the LGB cause, in order to make the idea of "trans" more palatable to society. Google Dentons law firm and their part in this. There are many in the LGB camp who want nothing to do with trans activists and their push to "queer" society.
> Bob, I think you've got your last point backwards. It's actually trans activists that attached themselves to the LGB cause, in order to make the idea of "trans" more palatable to society.
This may or may not be the case, but "the LGB cause" was all too willing to accept them with open arms. And again, this claim does not explain the timing. If you were around 10 years ago, actively participating in and aware of the world around you, you'll remember how "trans" appeared out of nowhere, virtually overnight going from the fringiest of fringe issues that barely anyone was even aware of to the latest piece of dogma that everyone was compelled to swear allegiance to, in the middle of 2015.
Why? Because that's precisely what happened. Homosexual activists took the existing outrage machinery they'd spent decades building and slotted a new sexual-minority-adjacent concept into it, and turned it loose on our society.
> There are many in the LGB camp who want nothing to do with trans activists and their push to "queer" society.
*Want,* present tense, I'm sure that's true. Ten yeas ago, when this was all happening, though?
your logic is tortured. adios.
In other words, you can't refute my logic and so you're switching to insults as a distraction. Got it.
Well said and I actually woke up this morning thinking about all the gaslighting I’ve been through. Your piece is timely and it needed to be said. I’m not gonna let anybody guess like me anymore. I’m done with that.