If society has learned anything from the disasters of chopping down rainforests or tampering with the delicate ecosystems of wetlands, grasslands, coral reefs, forests, and a multitude of other habitats and natural treasures of planet Earth, it is this: when we upset the balance of an ecosystem, it leads to harm and destruction.
Bravo, you linked the environment issue to the human environment issue, probably to appeal certain bracket of the population. The thing is you also support women rights and usually when we talk about women rights are talking about women to have the right to abortion, no as women as human beings. And putting different unresolved topics together may be misleading. I like to separate everything not put all in the same bag. I don't know if that is your case and I am not accusing you of doing that but just clarifying. I am all for protect humans first so I do not think that a woman neither a man should decide if another human being have the right to live or not (abortion). In some cultures women do not have the right to decide if they can have their babies and their governments or husband/men in general have the right over women to make them abort and women fight for their rights to protect their babies in the womb, we in the west have all wrong, that right is not a right but a pushed agenda of human extermination. We are barbaric not sophisticate, specially if women see how an abortion is performed. I did so I know, not that I needed any convincing when you are a rational woman you understand that countries should be setting in place ways to protect a woman who in ignorance of biology got pregnant at the same time teach more biology and less sex, responsibility would be a good idea too, but still if in the rare case that an "unwanted" pregnancy happens it should be some support. We are sending billions of money to help to continue with wars that are not "our" wars, I guess we can help women to get in the right track again and a pregnancy should be an obstacle at all.
I also support all the environmental causes that have sense. I don't like pollution, or garbage in the streets, neither humans excrements or fesses. All human beings, specially in a rich country like this that have so much money to send oversees, should have a place to live. Period. I do not like chemical engineering, all the planes that pollute OUR skies with chemicals for the so called, weather modification, also I do not like the injustice of the West carbon print when China and other huge countries like India do no have the same policies. Why do we have to pay to breath while most half of the world don't? But I will tell you what another thing the East has NOT- transgenderism or a transgender agenda. Do you think that this is aleatory? How many Chinese or Indian children who do not live in America wants to be from the opposite sex? NONE!
This is by design, wake up people. There is a war against the West and its destruction. It is time that the West reacts but being more assertive in the values that created the West Civilization in the first place, one of the more unique civilization in the world, in which used to be PEACE, because to live in peace with other countries was important and collaboration with other countries so those can prosper too, to not be injured by politics of any kind, respect for others and their private property, equal opportunities, government transparency, congressmen who represent the interests of the people, and politics that secure the well being of the citizens not their harm, you get the picture. (I believe that doctors do not have to do the Oath any longer, but I am not completely sure where do I read that). Anyway I support all the people who are fighting back this diabolical agenda of transgenderism and try to support the children of America and the rest of the West. I will continue speaking out too because my vagina hurts every time I remember the gender regret humans talking about having vagina plastic surgery (men) and what do they have to do to keep it out open, and that never will be able to have an orgasm because if they have one is so painful, that is what happens when you mess up with nature. Much worst , there are out there people who talk kids into this, kids who do not know nothing about life. I make them responsables, all the adults around these victims. It is a freak show now but this started many decades ago slowly and now it is like a pandemic. I know personally five cases, it was inimaginable ten years ago so we know that are "social mechanisms in place".
It is a federal and state offense to disturb, mutilate, destroy or harass a sand turtle. If only children received this much protection from ambitious activists, doctors and psychiatrists. I support protecting the environment, but priorities, please!
The heartbreaking stories of detransitioners should be printed and casually left in bathrooms, waiting rooms, libraries, and subways for people to stumble upon. People are sleepwalking and need to wake up to the horror of gender affirming butchery.
Can’t thank you enough for all the links to resources & as always, makes perfect sense to me, the converted. But I am at pains to spread the word. My own family don’t ’get it’ Even after 3 years of conversations with my mother she said just yesterday that ‘they are just born that way & if never came to light until puberty’ This, after talking to her friend who is a mental health nurse. I just get pitiful looks from people who shake their heads in sympathy & say ‘it must be so hard to accept, but accept it you must, he is your child’. Exhausting.
That happened to me 4 years ago when I started sharing our story with people after one year of the insanity. So many said "You need to love your child for whoever he/she turns out to be." Today? I would say - "Go f-ck yourself. You have no idea what you are saying, besides the fact that you are implying that my love is conditional and my pain is not worthy of your empathy."
Ugh…me too…I vote with my feet, but then I berate myself for being weak & non confrontational. But some people are so blind, it’s exhausting trying to explain.
> Did these people, some of whom are doctors, forget their Hippocratic Oath of “Do No Harm”, thinking that giving a girl testosterone or a boy estrogen is a good idea or even ethical?
The Hippocratic Oath has not been a part of modern medical training for a long time now, in no small part due to the way the Oath specifically forbids modern practices such as euthanasia and abortion.
Not supporting abortion is just as bad as supporting TRAs! No half-way on rights and freedoms, either we get them all or we are all crushed by evil. DO NOT COMPROMISE!!!
That's one mind twisting mixed, strained analogy! Both environmentalism and gender ideology have the same toxic ideological sources, rooted in Marxism, and the same posthumanist goal. Both tend to be wrapped with "be kind" ribbon.
This is not correct! While some radical environmentalists are definitely Marxist agitators, environmentalism itself comes from the same scientific place as being against "trans." In fact, denying environmentalism is basically identical to "trans!"
Not the way I see environmentalism. Do you care about the condition of the environment and how it affects you, your children or maybe grandchildren? Do you see environmental degradation where you live, such as destruction of natural habitats, polluted rivers or lakes, or poor air quality? Do you care about preserving natural resources? Do you ever visit parks or spend time outdoors? If you do, then you care about the environment.
Thank you for this. We are nature, not separate. And thank you for mentioning the sunk cost fallacy; I needed that reminder for why so many people are digging in their heels in the face of the mounting evidence.
HUG A KID!!!!! Brilliant. You wrote "If you can’t hug a kid, hug a parent who is working hard to prevent the harm of a child, or hug a parent who lost their kid to this ideology and is grieving. Or hug a detransitioner who has been hurt and is trying to heal. Or hug a confused kid on the brink of making irreversible changes to their body and future health and guide them away from the danger. Help them love themselves again." This is so powerful. Yes, please get involved. Doing NOTHING is not helping. I agree with you that we are at crossroads with nature and the future of our children. Thery can both heal or both be destroyed.
Thank you for this very thoughtful essay. As a biological psychologist, I agree with you 100% that the human body can be viewed as an integrated ecosystem which, by the way, is embedded in an integrated external ecosystem. They are inextricable. Further, it is impossible to tinker with one small component of these integrated systems and not to damage to other interconnected components. That's why all medications have unwanted side effects just as all (even well-meaning) perturbations of the external ecosystem — for instance, introducing a new predator — always have unforeseen deleterious consequences. Misunderstanding this complexity has in great part led to the dilemma you're addressing. Thank you again for your thoughtful essay. Sincerely, Frederick
You are so right about the nature around us and the nature within us. www.gapsdiet.com is one of the most successful diets, and it is based on the best available research on how our internal microbiome is so similar to our external environment.
I love the idea of calling ourselves "kid huggers" to show how much we truly care about all children, not just our own! The evils of "gender ideology" must be stopped !!
My family was "not broken" or "failing in some way" before my son was preyed upon by the trans cult. Please do not blame parents. That adds salt to terrible wounds.
Hmm…some interesting observations & I am all about seeing ‘the big picture’. Is it really marginal..or is it not cause to raise the alarm bells & stop it from happening. Surely we must strive to prevent the annihilation of our species!
You’re assuming it’s natural evolution which is debatable. You say ‘solve the problem’ but is it really a problem? Birth rate is dropping significantly in a great many countries around the world, notably in Japan & Italy to name a few. And to your point, it is not absurd to think that our entire civilization could be wiped out. Is that what we want? Goes against my natural instinct that’s for sure.
"children falling into this have families that are broken or failing in some way."
NO. Just no.
Guess what -- every person who ever lived was raised and taken care of by parent(s) or other adult(s); and guess what else -- NOT A SINGLE ONE of those, EVER throughout history, was perfect. Yet it's only within about the last 15 years that there have suddenly been absurd numbers of young females trying to turn themselves into boys and men, and legions of young males who want to transform into girls or women.
I think what makes kids most vulnerable to gender nonsense is not a "broken" or "failed" family but simply adolescent angst -- which every child experiences to some degree or other because it is and always has been part of growing up! In recent years, the literal marketing of "trans" as the cure for all forms of adolescent angst has claimed many thousands of victims. NO child, teen or young adult today is safe from getting sucked in -- no matter how great their families are.
The real cure for adolescent angst is growing up, without interference with that process.
Put the blame on the current culture, not parents. If we could raise our children in a bubble, none would ever think to reject their natural body.
I know it's popular in therapy these days to blame everything that's wrong in one's life on one's parents. I disagree with this creation of permanent friction between children and parents because -- well, where do you go from there? You can't go back and re-do your upbringing, only this time with other, more "perfect" parents. Therapy should be about moving forward from wherever you've ended up.
I agree, however I must point out that the way those south american countries are "curing" "trans" is by affirming! They are giving taxpayer funded "gender affirming care" rather than helping the confused people to realize they are confused, not "trans." So even there it is not being healed in a true sense.
I do not think any modern TRAs actually claim that "trans" is either a "lifestyle" or comparable to being gay – I think they are actually very close to seeing it the way we do as an illness comparable to anorexia. Unfortunately that actually seems to make it HARDER to win them over to our side. :( And yes, Peru is classifying it as a mental illness, but rather than healing them the proper way, they are treating it with the very same "treatments" given to our confused youth in less forward-thinking countries! It is like a trojan horse, good on headlines, but the actual results are terrifying.
Bravo, you linked the environment issue to the human environment issue, probably to appeal certain bracket of the population. The thing is you also support women rights and usually when we talk about women rights are talking about women to have the right to abortion, no as women as human beings. And putting different unresolved topics together may be misleading. I like to separate everything not put all in the same bag. I don't know if that is your case and I am not accusing you of doing that but just clarifying. I am all for protect humans first so I do not think that a woman neither a man should decide if another human being have the right to live or not (abortion). In some cultures women do not have the right to decide if they can have their babies and their governments or husband/men in general have the right over women to make them abort and women fight for their rights to protect their babies in the womb, we in the west have all wrong, that right is not a right but a pushed agenda of human extermination. We are barbaric not sophisticate, specially if women see how an abortion is performed. I did so I know, not that I needed any convincing when you are a rational woman you understand that countries should be setting in place ways to protect a woman who in ignorance of biology got pregnant at the same time teach more biology and less sex, responsibility would be a good idea too, but still if in the rare case that an "unwanted" pregnancy happens it should be some support. We are sending billions of money to help to continue with wars that are not "our" wars, I guess we can help women to get in the right track again and a pregnancy should be an obstacle at all.
I also support all the environmental causes that have sense. I don't like pollution, or garbage in the streets, neither humans excrements or fesses. All human beings, specially in a rich country like this that have so much money to send oversees, should have a place to live. Period. I do not like chemical engineering, all the planes that pollute OUR skies with chemicals for the so called, weather modification, also I do not like the injustice of the West carbon print when China and other huge countries like India do no have the same policies. Why do we have to pay to breath while most half of the world don't? But I will tell you what another thing the East has NOT- transgenderism or a transgender agenda. Do you think that this is aleatory? How many Chinese or Indian children who do not live in America wants to be from the opposite sex? NONE!
This is by design, wake up people. There is a war against the West and its destruction. It is time that the West reacts but being more assertive in the values that created the West Civilization in the first place, one of the more unique civilization in the world, in which used to be PEACE, because to live in peace with other countries was important and collaboration with other countries so those can prosper too, to not be injured by politics of any kind, respect for others and their private property, equal opportunities, government transparency, congressmen who represent the interests of the people, and politics that secure the well being of the citizens not their harm, you get the picture. (I believe that doctors do not have to do the Oath any longer, but I am not completely sure where do I read that). Anyway I support all the people who are fighting back this diabolical agenda of transgenderism and try to support the children of America and the rest of the West. I will continue speaking out too because my vagina hurts every time I remember the gender regret humans talking about having vagina plastic surgery (men) and what do they have to do to keep it out open, and that never will be able to have an orgasm because if they have one is so painful, that is what happens when you mess up with nature. Much worst , there are out there people who talk kids into this, kids who do not know nothing about life. I make them responsables, all the adults around these victims. It is a freak show now but this started many decades ago slowly and now it is like a pandemic. I know personally five cases, it was inimaginable ten years ago so we know that are "social mechanisms in place".
well that's a word salad and a half! I understood absolutely none of it.
It is a federal and state offense to disturb, mutilate, destroy or harass a sand turtle. If only children received this much protection from ambitious activists, doctors and psychiatrists. I support protecting the environment, but priorities, please!
Personally I think sand turtles are cute enough to justify such protection, but so are kids!
The heartbreaking stories of detransitioners should be printed and casually left in bathrooms, waiting rooms, libraries, and subways for people to stumble upon. People are sleepwalking and need to wake up to the horror of gender affirming butchery.
Great post.
Can’t thank you enough for all the links to resources & as always, makes perfect sense to me, the converted. But I am at pains to spread the word. My own family don’t ’get it’ Even after 3 years of conversations with my mother she said just yesterday that ‘they are just born that way & if never came to light until puberty’ This, after talking to her friend who is a mental health nurse. I just get pitiful looks from people who shake their heads in sympathy & say ‘it must be so hard to accept, but accept it you must, he is your child’. Exhausting.
That happened to me 4 years ago when I started sharing our story with people after one year of the insanity. So many said "You need to love your child for whoever he/she turns out to be." Today? I would say - "Go f-ck yourself. You have no idea what you are saying, besides the fact that you are implying that my love is conditional and my pain is not worthy of your empathy."
Hahaha you sound like me, I guess we have nothing more to lose at this point. I just quit my job
Congrats!! I wish you continued success!!!
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Ugh…me too…I vote with my feet, but then I berate myself for being weak & non confrontational. But some people are so blind, it’s exhausting trying to explain.
..gosh it’s hard isn’t it.
> Did these people, some of whom are doctors, forget their Hippocratic Oath of “Do No Harm”, thinking that giving a girl testosterone or a boy estrogen is a good idea or even ethical?
The Hippocratic Oath has not been a part of modern medical training for a long time now, in no small part due to the way the Oath specifically forbids modern practices such as euthanasia and abortion.
Not supporting abortion is just as bad as supporting TRAs! No half-way on rights and freedoms, either we get them all or we are all crushed by evil. DO NOT COMPROMISE!!!
That's one mind twisting mixed, strained analogy! Both environmentalism and gender ideology have the same toxic ideological sources, rooted in Marxism, and the same posthumanist goal. Both tend to be wrapped with "be kind" ribbon.
This is not correct! While some radical environmentalists are definitely Marxist agitators, environmentalism itself comes from the same scientific place as being against "trans." In fact, denying environmentalism is basically identical to "trans!"
Not the way I see environmentalism. Do you care about the condition of the environment and how it affects you, your children or maybe grandchildren? Do you see environmental degradation where you live, such as destruction of natural habitats, polluted rivers or lakes, or poor air quality? Do you care about preserving natural resources? Do you ever visit parks or spend time outdoors? If you do, then you care about the environment.
Thank you for this. We are nature, not separate. And thank you for mentioning the sunk cost fallacy; I needed that reminder for why so many people are digging in their heels in the face of the mounting evidence.
HUG A KID!!!!! Brilliant. You wrote "If you can’t hug a kid, hug a parent who is working hard to prevent the harm of a child, or hug a parent who lost their kid to this ideology and is grieving. Or hug a detransitioner who has been hurt and is trying to heal. Or hug a confused kid on the brink of making irreversible changes to their body and future health and guide them away from the danger. Help them love themselves again." This is so powerful. Yes, please get involved. Doing NOTHING is not helping. I agree with you that we are at crossroads with nature and the future of our children. Thery can both heal or both be destroyed.
Thank you for this very thoughtful essay. As a biological psychologist, I agree with you 100% that the human body can be viewed as an integrated ecosystem which, by the way, is embedded in an integrated external ecosystem. They are inextricable. Further, it is impossible to tinker with one small component of these integrated systems and not to damage to other interconnected components. That's why all medications have unwanted side effects just as all (even well-meaning) perturbations of the external ecosystem — for instance, introducing a new predator — always have unforeseen deleterious consequences. Misunderstanding this complexity has in great part led to the dilemma you're addressing. Thank you again for your thoughtful essay. Sincerely, Frederick
You are so right about the nature around us and the nature within us. www.gapsdiet.com is one of the most successful diets, and it is based on the best available research on how our internal microbiome is so similar to our external environment.
God Bless
This is beautiful. Thank you so much for mentioning WDI.
I love the idea of calling ourselves "kid huggers" to show how much we truly care about all children, not just our own! The evils of "gender ideology" must be stopped !!
I'm not sure "kid hugger" has the best optics, but I do think your analogy is a very good one.
My family was "not broken" or "failing in some way" before my son was preyed upon by the trans cult. Please do not blame parents. That adds salt to terrible wounds.
Hmm…some interesting observations & I am all about seeing ‘the big picture’. Is it really marginal..or is it not cause to raise the alarm bells & stop it from happening. Surely we must strive to prevent the annihilation of our species!
You’re assuming it’s natural evolution which is debatable. You say ‘solve the problem’ but is it really a problem? Birth rate is dropping significantly in a great many countries around the world, notably in Japan & Italy to name a few. And to your point, it is not absurd to think that our entire civilization could be wiped out. Is that what we want? Goes against my natural instinct that’s for sure.
Well, on the bright side, there would no longer be any "trans" kids if all of humanity was to die out! 🤣
..we are on the same page..it’s all insane..& seriously devastating
"children falling into this have families that are broken or failing in some way."
NO. Just no.
Guess what -- every person who ever lived was raised and taken care of by parent(s) or other adult(s); and guess what else -- NOT A SINGLE ONE of those, EVER throughout history, was perfect. Yet it's only within about the last 15 years that there have suddenly been absurd numbers of young females trying to turn themselves into boys and men, and legions of young males who want to transform into girls or women.
I think what makes kids most vulnerable to gender nonsense is not a "broken" or "failed" family but simply adolescent angst -- which every child experiences to some degree or other because it is and always has been part of growing up! In recent years, the literal marketing of "trans" as the cure for all forms of adolescent angst has claimed many thousands of victims. NO child, teen or young adult today is safe from getting sucked in -- no matter how great their families are.
The real cure for adolescent angst is growing up, without interference with that process.
Put the blame on the current culture, not parents. If we could raise our children in a bubble, none would ever think to reject their natural body.
I know it's popular in therapy these days to blame everything that's wrong in one's life on one's parents. I disagree with this creation of permanent friction between children and parents because -- well, where do you go from there? You can't go back and re-do your upbringing, only this time with other, more "perfect" parents. Therapy should be about moving forward from wherever you've ended up.
I agree that the ideal would be to raise our children in a bubble with onyl vetted sources from outside!
Seriously. So much to say on this.
I agree, however I must point out that the way those south american countries are "curing" "trans" is by affirming! They are giving taxpayer funded "gender affirming care" rather than helping the confused people to realize they are confused, not "trans." So even there it is not being healed in a true sense.
I do not think any modern TRAs actually claim that "trans" is either a "lifestyle" or comparable to being gay – I think they are actually very close to seeing it the way we do as an illness comparable to anorexia. Unfortunately that actually seems to make it HARDER to win them over to our side. :( And yes, Peru is classifying it as a mental illness, but rather than healing them the proper way, they are treating it with the very same "treatments" given to our confused youth in less forward-thinking countries! It is like a trojan horse, good on headlines, but the actual results are terrifying.
I do not think so, thankfully. From what I read it is like transgender medicine elsewhere, but the taxpayers fund it instead of insurance.