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Do you have a tax exempt donation status? I would support this!

I love the idea of this project. It seems you could look at the morphing of key terms and the leading edge of the activist push-- from "just want to pee" to "TWAW"-- and learn a lot.

I'd look to see when funding hit NGOs like ACLU, and when their language & focus changed. When ratio of LGB tipped to TQIA++ How Denton's Document language was taken up by whom and which media pumped what info most..

I think some of this contagion correlates with early life differences in modernity. Most people over 50 were raised by parents/ family - w siblings, not daycare workers in groups of same age baby-peers. I don't know what you'd sort for to find this out but I think 10-15 years ago you might see what was happening in these kids' babyhoods. Suicidality has a 0-3 association according to Dr Allan Schore. What childrearing books were those parents raving about? Cry it out? Obsessions on Mumsnet. Etc.

When I grew up in 1960s and 70's, we had more peace and quiet, more nature, more models of maturity per child, more grandparent presence, more lessons imparted more thoughtfully. More one on one conversations and attention/intimacy.

Even if baby is adjusted & content, group care is simply different and maybe not optimal developmentally. Maybe "dissociation" is an infant-strategy when mildly bothered/stressed in long day in daycare. Something small can have a butterfly effect of later disembodiment.

Thanks for looking into this and LMK re tax deductibility status.

Laura Haynes (suspended from twitter not fairly if you care to amplify... Stephanie Winn posted about it...

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Many of the people saying medical support for transition is a human right do not support healthcare in general as a human right. How can they be so blind to this insane hypocrisy?

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Aug 16, 2022·edited Aug 16, 2022

As I've been researching this, sometimes I follow things on google, like the prompts about "what are the 72 genders" ... to see where it leads. Or I type things that basically relate to how I feel, as someone who feels like some part of my being is not-fully-female (which is separate from the obvious and unchangeable fact that my body is female. How the hell did gender non-conformity become a medical condition?)

Anyway .. the same "health" 'information" sites that have lied all through covid about valid treatments, doctors with integrity, and pretended the injections were "safe and effective", we'll tell you all you need to know in simple bullet points, are quick to be "helpful" in explaining gender.

The clickbait at the end to get to more info are things that can quickly lead a child on a trail, without even the Reddits and Tumblrs and more private spaces, to be reading about gender non-conformity and how to explore that, one can simply - and, reversibly - experiment with clothing, hair, makeup, etc.

No problem there, and that is reversible. Except the next page is about how some people choose to go farther, and there's like a one to the next trail that goes from experiment with clothing to some people choose to use gender "affirming" hormones, and, next page, some choose gender "affirming" surgeries.

I remember reading something that had some quotes from a girl named Nessie who seemed to identify as nonbinary, or something, I don't remember exactly but the article referenced her like she was a typical, helpful, gender non-conforming youth explaining some basic things .. and I looked up more about her out of curiosity, and there she is raising funds for "top surgery". (On the fundraising platform, of course, that tried to take money, based on lies, from the peaceful Canadian truckers)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nessie-get-top-surgery?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

I'm sure there is much to be discovered in this project and so much grooming / coercion lurking in all sorts of places. Yet also in plain sight, in sites and search engines that want our trust to advise about health, are trails where vulnerable kids can one moment feel "affirmed" that not everyone fits into stereotypical gender roles (yes, of course), and the next moment be pressing the button to learn more about medical options.

I came upon this site quickly, I forgot from where, probably google. Remember the same political forces who were spreading the lies that prescribing actually safe medicines to prepare for / treat covid was some sort of crime needing medical license suspension, are just fine with this, online gender clinics - https://www.gendergp.com/

So much respect for all of you. The truth will come out.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers

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What an excellent project

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That's exciting news! Will consider funding this, as it sounds very worthwhile.

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seems to me that "gender dysphoria" creates tribes. "I am THIS." You are THAT. It creates not harmony but tribal conflicts.

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Thank you

This is a very exciting innovation.

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Sounds like a really important piece of research.

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We will be pledging our financial support for this Project directly to Shannon Boschy. However, we will include this link to the following four memos in which we express our concern with using the same language that trans promoters use. www.equality4women.org/sex-change-law

- First Step: Eschew “The Master’s Tools” – His Words

- Second Step: Outlaw legal sex change!

- Third step: Expose 1) what the trans idea promises and 2) what it imposes on everybody

- Fourth step: Please don’t say gender when you mean sex!

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I was just listening to the Hidden Brain episodes on Reframing Your Realty (2 parts) and the science of mindsets. Very interesting to consider in the context of how youth are absorbing the conversations and fulling feeling trans. My daughter is absolutely convinced they are dysphoric (they are mostly definitely not) and play acts being horrified at being misgendered.

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Wow. This is amazing. It seems many teens now are using Discord.

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Amazing

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My son uses Discord and nothing else.

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Aug 15, 2022·edited Aug 15, 2022

Re: Dr Christakis, my son got sucked into gender ideology at Yale. I asked Dr Christakis for his help to stop Yale from hurting students. He said no. It was polite but it was still no. I don’t respect people who want to be experts in theory only.

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If there is a way to include discord I think this is an important location to include. It’s the current hotspot of discussion I believe along with some aspects of IG as well. But discord has tons of groups and teens flocked there during Covid lockdowns and there are entire groups dedicated to trans there now. (Format may be harder to work with though - not sure it’s possible to crawl discord with an ai unless they’re in the groups)

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This is a great project. it will provide a ton of hard data, and give us a trail to follow for a lot of kids, especially those who are neck-deep in social media or will be soon.

But there is another villainous actor already doing tremendous harm right under our noses: the schools. In-class gender education is a plague, at least in the United States. I don’t know how the schools work in Canada, but here, school districts have a lot of autonomy. Trans and allied teachers are committed to the mass indoctrination of children, starting in kindergarten. Since gender ideology is strongly supported in Canada, including through punitive speech codes and the cancelling of gender-critical academics, I imagine the zeal to indoctrinate five year-olds is as strong there are it is in the U.S.

Rather than attach a bunch of links, I’ll provide just one, in order to open the door a crack. Christopher Rufo collects the curricula of specific school districts, sent to him by whistleblowers. Read the articles and visit the links in each one. The curricula themselves are provided. Some of them go on for hundreds of pages. They comprise the nuts and bolts of this ideology and how it is taught to our innocent children. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, you can follow these bread crumbs all the way to hell.

https://christopherrufo.com/gender-soldiers/

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