My story begins with my father’s childhood. He was born in 1939 to Italian immigrant parents and was the youngest of 15 children—needless to say, there were no family vacations. My parents attended the World's Fair in 1964. It was there that my dad first experienced Walt Disney’s It’s a Small World and The Carousel of Progress. He was awestruck. When Walt Disney World opened in 1971, I was 2 years old. We visited that summer and every summer subsequent to that during my childhood. It was nowhere near as expensive as it is today but I have no idea how my family could afford it even still. We stayed at a hotel off Disney property only once and after that we always stayed on the monorail line or at our favorite place, the Fort Wilderness campground, either in our own camper or in one of the cabins. We looked forward to it every year and have many cherished memories of those trips.
I understand your frustration and, as a fully transitioned trans man, I actually agree with you.
Transgenderism is being equated to homosexuality as if they were the same thing, but they are polar opposites.
Most people who are attracted to the same sex are not able to change their attractions through therapy. Now, people can make a decision on whether to enter into a relationship with someone or not, but the feelings don't change.
Now, wait a second, I do believe that some people experience trauma that pushes them to become homosexual, masking this trauma. No one, in my opinion, should live a life they are not comfortable with, and therapy is needed in such cases. The same goes for a same-sex attracted person who is pushed or has experienced trauma to be in a straight relationship; it goes both ways.
Transgenderism is cosmetic; it's a choice someone makes to take synthetic cross-sex hormones and have surgery to create an illusion of the opposite sex. But in retrospect, wouldn't it be better to just accept that women come in all different types, and so do men? I sure with I would have.
Anyhow, when medical transition is sold as a cure-all, it backfires. The only long-term study ever done on us trans people uncovered that mental health worsens, not improves. The reason? You can't fix the inside with outside things. Imagine if plastic surgeons were selling boob jobs as life saving, forcing insurance to pay for it? Frinzy
The man you are speaking about on the bus? I have no doubt he had autogynephilia, a sexual fetish that some men have about being seen as an overtly feminine sexual object. You have every right to be offended because demanding pronouns and overt actions like wearing wigs are just means to maintain their arousal, and men should be upset.
Also, in the UK, a study came out showing that over 73% of trans women incarcerated were violent sexual offenders. It's about a kinky, sexual fetish and it doesn't belong anywhere, let alone at Disneyland!
Soon, in the next 10 years, all the suicides happening NOW after these kids, who were transitioned as adults, start to reach a crisis point. And when the sexual offenses, the rapes, normalizing pedophilia, the victimized children, and the complicit pharmaceutical industry and politicians on both sides are all exposed.
Society is going to be livid. We are witnessing a historic time in human history.
P.S. I'm sorry for my trans community. The majority of them make me sick too.
Did I read that right? Your 15 year old daughter identifies as a gay man? Is she kind of effeminate and attracted to men? And people argue that there’s no social currency in identifying as trans. I don’t mean to offend you or your daughter, but wrap your critical thinking head around that one.
When you wrote that you didn’t want to surrender Disney over to the LGBTQ, I felt the need to tell you that it wasn’t up to you, DISNEY ALREADY SURRENDERED. Disney is over.
I took my kids to Disneyland in 2016, on an amazing Disney cruise to Alaska in 2017 and got Disney+. I had no compunction telling them that our family was done with Disney about a year ago. The harder part for me was cutting off a youth group I’d supported for decades. I had been a member, a leader, an advisor and a donor at various points. Over the last few years I realized they’d gone Full Woke (including letting kids sleep in the dorm of their choice at overnights according to gender identity...something my buddies and I would have gladly lied about at 17 years old to get into the girls’ dorms!) Anyway, in 2021 I let them know they were cut off from my donations, and that my kids would not be attending events at their local chapter in my town. I only wish I’d let them know that they’re also out of my will, and that represents a lot more money than the annual donations.
I’m in the middle of this with my son. It is pure hell. I feel helpless as these type of “powers that be” have a stranglehold on him. I keep hoping the woke will actually WAKE UP and he will come back to me. But the damage that’s been done by this cult may be too much. Thanks for sharing. It helps to know I’m not alone in my views.
My family is also impacted and I know what you mean. All we can do is try to talk to them and pray that others come into their life with good influence. Maybe part of it is rebellion against parents.
Here’s another stack that gives me encouragement. Maybe it will you too.
Yes, today, they have a "civil right" to dress proactively, sexually, in drag, in front of our children, anytime, anywhere they want....It is obviously wrong....all for CEI scores (https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporate-equality-index) which is pushed by HRC - Human Rights Campaign and is owned by the Open Society Foundation which is owned and funded by George Soros and his family because Soros and Family love children sooo much!
...."It was disturbing to me to think that these men might be acting out their sexual fetishes at a beloved family resort on Disney transportation, working at attractions, and in the hotel lobbies, all in plain sight in front of hundreds of small children"
Ya, we have given up on Disney. I just returned from a European river cruise…I garnered far more attention and commentary because I was traveling without my husband than the cross dressing man with a penchant for cheap costume jewelry that swapped clothes with his girlfriend/wife. True story.
That is the essence of identity. We exist in a narrative and our "name" gives us a description of the role we play in the whole. Also a name is part of the inner dialogue, that with which you identify yourself. These two may be at ease with eachother or at war. When you are young, you search the space of known and desirable for who you want to be. If there is a lot of peer pressure or prejudice of sorts, in order to escape identifications that your ego does not resonate with, you seek an identity that will set you free. The downside is, that too much love can kill you.
She is 15 and identifies as a gay man. Go easy on her. Just acknowledge that she loves her father and mother. She feels like this, because she is told she can. My 14 year old son told me, that he once also thought he was gay, because all the influencers he knew and liked where gay. Then he found out, that he simply has a good taste for fashion and went to recognize himself as straight.
I think it is important that as parents we keep that subjective space free of dogma. Just be open to your kids ideas and feel safe to speak about what you think and feel. Be non-judgemental but obvious in your opinions. Share you perspective, do not impose yourself. Guide by example.
When she feels pressured, she will try to escape and then the pseudocult will take over. Instead be her friend.
And .. is it correct that often Essence / someone's energetic state, which may change, or not - is conflated with what is - or should be according to the cult - their biology?
When they say kids know sometimes as young as toddlers, if they're "trans", what I think they're saying is kids know sometimes as young as toddlers if they have a feminine or masculine essence (altho sometimes that may change, but sometimes, and maybe this is really clear in some kids, it doesn't change). Maybe that essence is feminine but the body is male. (Not saying that's the case with the boy who has good taste in clothes, but with lots of kids, they may have a clear feminine energy in a boy's body / masculine energy in a girls body).
And what the cult says they're about is acceptance and affirmation - but it's the inverse. Acceptance would be saying it's fine and beautiful to be as you are. You don't have to obsess over it, but be as you are.
If there's an element of truth to the essence being the other gender, or somewhere in between, in no sane world would that lead to assuming the solution is hormones and surgeries. Or pronouns - pronouns are about biology.
But I think a lot of well meaning people are conflating essence with sex / or like evolutionary biologist Heather Heying says, conflating the software with the hardware.
(Not saying those creating these agendas and the HRC and Arcus and Pritzkers and others are well meaning, but so many well meaning people are caught up in the gaslighting.)
It used to be OK to just be as you were. Finally. Now there's an obsessive push for labels and agendas.
I was talking to someone who works at a high school in NYC last night, he kept saying he supports people making whatever choices they make, and love, and woke platitudes, but he did hear me, especially about autistic kids, that it's not actually a choice, because there is no informed consent. . .
There are masculine women and effeminate boys. They are not the other sex. I was not a sports kid. I read books. I never confused reading books and not being a sports person with being a girl.
Indeed, I am also watching Dr. Levine...with utter contempt. The list of companies & orgs that are undermining our humanity, and childhood in particular, is staggeringly long. I hope to see existing and new companies exploit this cultural chasm and tap into the robust market of “normies”. There’s a lot of profit to be made if they just have the courage.
I work at Walt Disney World and can confirm all of this. If you click on my Substack, I've written a lot about what is going on. But I have SO MUCH MORE to say. I tread carefully, for fear of losing my job. Like the writer, I still hold memories of Disney's bygone days and hope it changes. And also...I need a job. I work in visual merchandising and there is literally no place to go, as the retail world is captured by gender ideology. (Although Disney does feel like the epicenter.) At times I get so disgusted by it all, I feel like just walking out and getting a job at Twistee Treat or someplace. I thank the writer for writing this and beg more people to do the same. Things won't change until Disney hears from people. Don't just boycott; write to Disney and tell them why you are boycotting and show them the receipts of how much $$$$ you spent elsewhere instead.
Thanks for openly commenting. I think that this is a safe space. However, I would be a little cautious. Now and again, the screening slips up.
So, my question is: How many of your fellow Disney employees are ACTIVE in the trans/gay world? How many "go along to get along" and keep the job? What's the work environment like?
Thanks, I hear you--I’ll try to be careful. I’m already notorious for writing this (attached), which was picked up by news channels, so Disney is aware of me and my position. I’m not sure if they’re watching to see if I slip up or just hoping that I will go away at some point. The best way to answer you is for you to read that (very long, sorry) post. But over a year has passed, so I’ll expand a little:
WDW has something like 70,000 employees so I can only tell you what’s going on in my little area. I can’t answer your question as asked about the trans/gay world because I am gay and I am not part of this world, and do not believe that such a thing (a combined LGB & T community) exists. It seems that the young people who work at Disney are completely captured by the ‘LGBTQIA+ community’ farce, and sadly, so are the many older gay men who work there. People are just ignorant. They believe what their curated news tells them, and all the lies from HRC, GLAAD, PFLAG, etc. The corporate DEI department is relentless with their propaganda. The local DEI volunteers seem to be mostly young women (all with pronouns in their bios, naturally) who think they are doing such good work, by repeating all these lies. It causes me a great deal of stress. Basically, I would sum it up by saying that Disney is full of ‘queers’ and handmaidens. There are a lot of old-timers who have been at Disney for decades, and I think they are pissed off but keep their mouths shut so they can keep their job and collect their pension upon retirement. Going along to get along, as you say.
Hi Gary, I’d love to hear more of your perspective on Disney. I sent you a DM on Twitter (I’m a reporter for Michael Shellenberger’s Substack called Public). Take a look at your DMs when you can!
Read your piece. Very strong. So many are confused about the FL bill.
As you probably know, parents are at the heart of the issue. If parents think that "LGBTQ are coming to harm or queer my children", there will be a huge reaction against all alphabet categories. So voices like yours, who view sexuality as an adult matter (which it is), are very important.
Thanks. I know more and more in the LGB categories who do not go along with T. Q additionally is a new and IMHO bad actor. While LGB had until about 1990 a philosophy of "live and let live", the Q watchword is "your bourgeois ways are in the trash". They want to queer everything up, and believe that children need queering as well. This is the group that supports the Drag Queen Story Hour, which is aimed at queering and pervertifying children.
My cousins love Disney World .. two had Disney Bat Mitzvah's recently, the second was more fancy, with the entertainment geared more towards the kids than the adults. Fair enough. The songs sounded quite intense. I expected to hear "Unholy", but didn't. I asked my 30 year old cousins the names of some songs, and then looked up the lyrics on my phone, out of curiosity. "Low", and "Sexy Bitch" WTF@@*$#!?? For 13 year olds?
I'm not easily offended. If I heard those songs in bars I wouldn't have been horrified, but ... and the kids loved those songs, jumping up and down. Maybe it was just the beat, maybe they didn't know the words.
My cousin dances at a studio that gives kids to Disney. I couldn't begin to say I finally believe that there actually is darkness at the level of child sexual abuse and I believe the people who say Disney is part of that. They would think I was insane.
Disney is creepy. I'm sure in the mix there are theater and dress up loving nice people who want acceptance for everyone and want kids to feel safe and free and creative. Of course that's there.
And they have no idea how they're being manipulated.
I understand your frustration and, as a fully transitioned trans man, I actually agree with you.
Transgenderism is being equated to homosexuality as if they were the same thing, but they are polar opposites.
Most people who are attracted to the same sex are not able to change their attractions through therapy. Now, people can make a decision on whether to enter into a relationship with someone or not, but the feelings don't change.
Now, wait a second, I do believe that some people experience trauma that pushes them to become homosexual, masking this trauma. No one, in my opinion, should live a life they are not comfortable with, and therapy is needed in such cases. The same goes for a same-sex attracted person who is pushed or has experienced trauma to be in a straight relationship; it goes both ways.
Transgenderism is cosmetic; it's a choice someone makes to take synthetic cross-sex hormones and have surgery to create an illusion of the opposite sex. But in retrospect, wouldn't it be better to just accept that women come in all different types, and so do men? I sure with I would have.
Anyhow, when medical transition is sold as a cure-all, it backfires. The only long-term study ever done on us trans people uncovered that mental health worsens, not improves. The reason? You can't fix the inside with outside things. Imagine if plastic surgeons were selling boob jobs as life saving, forcing insurance to pay for it? Frinzy
The man you are speaking about on the bus? I have no doubt he had autogynephilia, a sexual fetish that some men have about being seen as an overtly feminine sexual object. You have every right to be offended because demanding pronouns and overt actions like wearing wigs are just means to maintain their arousal, and men should be upset.
Also, in the UK, a study came out showing that over 73% of trans women incarcerated were violent sexual offenders. It's about a kinky, sexual fetish and it doesn't belong anywhere, let alone at Disneyland!
Soon, in the next 10 years, all the suicides happening NOW after these kids, who were transitioned as adults, start to reach a crisis point. And when the sexual offenses, the rapes, normalizing pedophilia, the victimized children, and the complicit pharmaceutical industry and politicians on both sides are all exposed.
Society is going to be livid. We are witnessing a historic time in human history.
P.S. I'm sorry for my trans community. The majority of them make me sick too.
It’s not the same, and it’s ok to let it go...
Did I read that right? Your 15 year old daughter identifies as a gay man? Is she kind of effeminate and attracted to men? And people argue that there’s no social currency in identifying as trans. I don’t mean to offend you or your daughter, but wrap your critical thinking head around that one.
When you wrote that you didn’t want to surrender Disney over to the LGBTQ, I felt the need to tell you that it wasn’t up to you, DISNEY ALREADY SURRENDERED. Disney is over.
I took my kids to Disneyland in 2016, on an amazing Disney cruise to Alaska in 2017 and got Disney+. I had no compunction telling them that our family was done with Disney about a year ago. The harder part for me was cutting off a youth group I’d supported for decades. I had been a member, a leader, an advisor and a donor at various points. Over the last few years I realized they’d gone Full Woke (including letting kids sleep in the dorm of their choice at overnights according to gender identity...something my buddies and I would have gladly lied about at 17 years old to get into the girls’ dorms!) Anyway, in 2021 I let them know they were cut off from my donations, and that my kids would not be attending events at their local chapter in my town. I only wish I’d let them know that they’re also out of my will, and that represents a lot more money than the annual donations.
I’m in the middle of this with my son. It is pure hell. I feel helpless as these type of “powers that be” have a stranglehold on him. I keep hoping the woke will actually WAKE UP and he will come back to me. But the damage that’s been done by this cult may be too much. Thanks for sharing. It helps to know I’m not alone in my views.
My family is also impacted and I know what you mean. All we can do is try to talk to them and pray that others come into their life with good influence. Maybe part of it is rebellion against parents.
Here’s another stack that gives me encouragement. Maybe it will you too.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/idea-wars-monday-june-19-2023-c-and?r=18hvfb&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Thanks so much JBR I’ll check it out. Good luck to you and your family ❤️
Yes, today, they have a "civil right" to dress proactively, sexually, in drag, in front of our children, anytime, anywhere they want....It is obviously wrong....all for CEI scores (https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporate-equality-index) which is pushed by HRC - Human Rights Campaign and is owned by the Open Society Foundation which is owned and funded by George Soros and his family because Soros and Family love children sooo much!
...."It was disturbing to me to think that these men might be acting out their sexual fetishes at a beloved family resort on Disney transportation, working at attractions, and in the hotel lobbies, all in plain sight in front of hundreds of small children"
God help us all!
Ugly men who try to be women remain ugly for life.
It's good to hate on people who're so high on power trips that they demand you think they're beautiful when so few would truthfully agree with them.
Ya, we have given up on Disney. I just returned from a European river cruise…I garnered far more attention and commentary because I was traveling without my husband than the cross dressing man with a penchant for cheap costume jewelry that swapped clothes with his girlfriend/wife. True story.
It's an upside-down world. :(
That is the essence of identity. We exist in a narrative and our "name" gives us a description of the role we play in the whole. Also a name is part of the inner dialogue, that with which you identify yourself. These two may be at ease with eachother or at war. When you are young, you search the space of known and desirable for who you want to be. If there is a lot of peer pressure or prejudice of sorts, in order to escape identifications that your ego does not resonate with, you seek an identity that will set you free. The downside is, that too much love can kill you.
Here’s a 2023 list of Woke companies. Even Bass Pro Shop? Chick Fillet now going woke?
https://daveseminara.com/complete-list-of-woke-companies-condemning-so-called-racist-voting-laws/
It getting extremely challenging to participate in the economy without funding woke-ism.
Thank you for these lists. There aren’t many near me that aren’t woke but you better believe we will shop them!!
She is 15 and identifies as a gay man. Go easy on her. Just acknowledge that she loves her father and mother. She feels like this, because she is told she can. My 14 year old son told me, that he once also thought he was gay, because all the influencers he knew and liked where gay. Then he found out, that he simply has a good taste for fashion and went to recognize himself as straight.
I think it is important that as parents we keep that subjective space free of dogma. Just be open to your kids ideas and feel safe to speak about what you think and feel. Be non-judgemental but obvious in your opinions. Share you perspective, do not impose yourself. Guide by example.
When she feels pressured, she will try to escape and then the pseudocult will take over. Instead be her friend.
Good luck.
This is such a key point. The LABEL that a child uses is limiting.
Your son thought he was "gay", but just has "good taste in colors and clothes".
It's a point that I think about a fair amount. What is the impact of using a label for yourself?
And .. is it correct that often Essence / someone's energetic state, which may change, or not - is conflated with what is - or should be according to the cult - their biology?
When they say kids know sometimes as young as toddlers, if they're "trans", what I think they're saying is kids know sometimes as young as toddlers if they have a feminine or masculine essence (altho sometimes that may change, but sometimes, and maybe this is really clear in some kids, it doesn't change). Maybe that essence is feminine but the body is male. (Not saying that's the case with the boy who has good taste in clothes, but with lots of kids, they may have a clear feminine energy in a boy's body / masculine energy in a girls body).
And what the cult says they're about is acceptance and affirmation - but it's the inverse. Acceptance would be saying it's fine and beautiful to be as you are. You don't have to obsess over it, but be as you are.
If there's an element of truth to the essence being the other gender, or somewhere in between, in no sane world would that lead to assuming the solution is hormones and surgeries. Or pronouns - pronouns are about biology.
But I think a lot of well meaning people are conflating essence with sex / or like evolutionary biologist Heather Heying says, conflating the software with the hardware.
(Not saying those creating these agendas and the HRC and Arcus and Pritzkers and others are well meaning, but so many well meaning people are caught up in the gaslighting.)
It used to be OK to just be as you were. Finally. Now there's an obsessive push for labels and agendas.
I was talking to someone who works at a high school in NYC last night, he kept saying he supports people making whatever choices they make, and love, and woke platitudes, but he did hear me, especially about autistic kids, that it's not actually a choice, because there is no informed consent. . .
There are masculine women and effeminate boys. They are not the other sex. I was not a sports kid. I read books. I never confused reading books and not being a sports person with being a girl.
Indeed, I am also watching Dr. Levine...with utter contempt. The list of companies & orgs that are undermining our humanity, and childhood in particular, is staggeringly long. I hope to see existing and new companies exploit this cultural chasm and tap into the robust market of “normies”. There’s a lot of profit to be made if they just have the courage.
I work at Walt Disney World and can confirm all of this. If you click on my Substack, I've written a lot about what is going on. But I have SO MUCH MORE to say. I tread carefully, for fear of losing my job. Like the writer, I still hold memories of Disney's bygone days and hope it changes. And also...I need a job. I work in visual merchandising and there is literally no place to go, as the retail world is captured by gender ideology. (Although Disney does feel like the epicenter.) At times I get so disgusted by it all, I feel like just walking out and getting a job at Twistee Treat or someplace. I thank the writer for writing this and beg more people to do the same. Things won't change until Disney hears from people. Don't just boycott; write to Disney and tell them why you are boycotting and show them the receipts of how much $$$$ you spent elsewhere instead.
Thanks for openly commenting. I think that this is a safe space. However, I would be a little cautious. Now and again, the screening slips up.
So, my question is: How many of your fellow Disney employees are ACTIVE in the trans/gay world? How many "go along to get along" and keep the job? What's the work environment like?
Thanks, I hear you--I’ll try to be careful. I’m already notorious for writing this (attached), which was picked up by news channels, so Disney is aware of me and my position. I’m not sure if they’re watching to see if I slip up or just hoping that I will go away at some point. The best way to answer you is for you to read that (very long, sorry) post. But over a year has passed, so I’ll expand a little:
WDW has something like 70,000 employees so I can only tell you what’s going on in my little area. I can’t answer your question as asked about the trans/gay world because I am gay and I am not part of this world, and do not believe that such a thing (a combined LGB & T community) exists. It seems that the young people who work at Disney are completely captured by the ‘LGBTQIA+ community’ farce, and sadly, so are the many older gay men who work there. People are just ignorant. They believe what their curated news tells them, and all the lies from HRC, GLAAD, PFLAG, etc. The corporate DEI department is relentless with their propaganda. The local DEI volunteers seem to be mostly young women (all with pronouns in their bios, naturally) who think they are doing such good work, by repeating all these lies. It causes me a great deal of stress. Basically, I would sum it up by saying that Disney is full of ‘queers’ and handmaidens. There are a lot of old-timers who have been at Disney for decades, and I think they are pissed off but keep their mouths shut so they can keep their job and collect their pension upon retirement. Going along to get along, as you say.
https://open.substack.com/pub/flashinggreen/p/i-am-a-gay-employee-at-walt-disney?r=2261q&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Hi Gary, I’d love to hear more of your perspective on Disney. I sent you a DM on Twitter (I’m a reporter for Michael Shellenberger’s Substack called Public). Take a look at your DMs when you can!
Read your piece. Very strong. So many are confused about the FL bill.
As you probably know, parents are at the heart of the issue. If parents think that "LGBTQ are coming to harm or queer my children", there will be a huge reaction against all alphabet categories. So voices like yours, who view sexuality as an adult matter (which it is), are very important.
Thanks. I know more and more in the LGB categories who do not go along with T. Q additionally is a new and IMHO bad actor. While LGB had until about 1990 a philosophy of "live and let live", the Q watchword is "your bourgeois ways are in the trash". They want to queer everything up, and believe that children need queering as well. This is the group that supports the Drag Queen Story Hour, which is aimed at queering and pervertifying children.
Good luck to you.
Yes, they want to, "leave a trail of glitter that won't ever come out of the carpet." And rifht now, they're succeeding.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2020.1864621
My cousins love Disney World .. two had Disney Bat Mitzvah's recently, the second was more fancy, with the entertainment geared more towards the kids than the adults. Fair enough. The songs sounded quite intense. I expected to hear "Unholy", but didn't. I asked my 30 year old cousins the names of some songs, and then looked up the lyrics on my phone, out of curiosity. "Low", and "Sexy Bitch" WTF@@*$#!?? For 13 year olds?
I'm not easily offended. If I heard those songs in bars I wouldn't have been horrified, but ... and the kids loved those songs, jumping up and down. Maybe it was just the beat, maybe they didn't know the words.
My cousin dances at a studio that gives kids to Disney. I couldn't begin to say I finally believe that there actually is darkness at the level of child sexual abuse and I believe the people who say Disney is part of that. They would think I was insane.
Disney is creepy. I'm sure in the mix there are theater and dress up loving nice people who want acceptance for everyone and want kids to feel safe and free and creative. Of course that's there.
And they have no idea how they're being manipulated.
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/child-rape-in-hollywood
https://trance-formation.com/ - this woman was freed from horrific abuse, and has said Disney is part of targeting kids.
"Normies, can you hear me?"
Loud and clear, my friend.