Saturday PITT Review - June 30 to July 4, 2025
Welcome to the PITT weekly roundup where you’ll find a list of the week’s postings along with links to some of our favorite books, videos, social media, and podcasts. Please continue the fight against the harms of gender ideology by sharing.
Access to all PITT content is free. Our objective is to inform the public of the devastating impact of gender ideology on families through our personal experiences. And it’s working - support for transitioning of children and distressed young adults is crumbling due to evidence-based findings.
Quote of the Week from When Identity Is Shaped by Isolation and Influence: “And when someone who’s feeling unseen finally finds a community that says, “We see you. You belong here. Your feelings define your truth,” — that’s incredibly powerful. But it can also be deeply misleading.”
PITT POSTS THIS WEEK:
Friday, July 4: Schools, back off. It’s my kid you’re transitioning
Wednesday, July 2: Calling All Scottish Parents
Tuesday, July 1: We Didn't see this Coming
Monday, June 30: When Identity Is Shaped by Isolation and Influence
IN THE NEWS
The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine, How the left ended up disbelieving the science, The Atlantic by Helen Lewis, June 29, 2025
Advocates of the open-science movement often talk about “zombie facts”—popular sound bites that persist in public debate, even when they have been repeatedly discredited. Many common political claims made in defense of puberty blockers and hormones for gender-dysphoric minors meet this definition. These zombie facts have been flatly contradicted not just by conservatives but also by prominent advocates and practitioners of the treatment—at least when they’re speaking candidly. Many liberals are unaware of this, however, because they are stuck in media bubbles in which well-meaning commentators make confident assertions for youth gender medicine—claims from which its elite advocates have long since retreated.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
The Trans Debate: When Ideology *Distorts* Reality | Helen Joyce (All your questions answered!)
Helen Joyce, journalist and author of 'Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality' dives into the transgender debate, uncovering key elements of the trans ideology and the harmful effects of gender affirmative care. Some key discussion points:
Gender identity vs. biological sex: What each means and why they're not the same.
Origin of the term 'gender': Exploring where the term came from, why it's useful, and where it allows us to distort our biological reality.
Paradox of gender stereotypes: How trans individuals embody stereotypes while claiming gender isn't binary.
Abstract vs. concrete: The Jungian idea that it is dangerous to turn what is symbolic into the concrete.
Gender clinics: The harmful practices of gender specialists and the slippery slope of puberty blockers, hormones, and invasive surgeries.
Parents are terrorized: Parents are told that their child will commit suicide if the parent does not affirm their child's preferred genders.
Types of transgender: Exploring androphilia and autogynephilia among men, and rapid-onset gender dysphoria and social contagion among teenage girls.
Social media's effect on girls: Platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Tumblr are spreading trans ideology to vulnerable teenage girls.
Fan Fiction Trend: The new trend of erotic fan fiction written by teenage girls for teenage girls, with romantic love stories between male characters from popular books (think a romance story between Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter!)
Trans rights vs. women's rights: Men identifying as trans women are impinging on women's sports and endangering women in prisons.
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