While GLAD and other advocates for the LGB community went on the Trans detour - the right wingers continuously condemned homosexuality in their churches. Right now Marriage Equality is at risk to be overturned by SCOTUS. Will GLAD & other NGOs return to their senses if Marriage Equality is overturned? Already Trans folks are not allowed to have their IDs changed - so there will be a lot of marriages invalidated if the Marriage Equality act is overturned. Will enemies become allies? Or will GLAD, etc deprioritize the transing of trouble kids.
To me what should be most disturbing are the legacy groups that have betrayed both LGB and women. This is a wound inflicted within your own tent, not brought about from the outside,. Organizations that once supported LGB have been taken over by the transtapo. Groups that rallied around women have decided that real women are secondary to the needs of men in womanface. The enemies are close at hand.
If gay people do not love and accept themselves they will remain in this hell. We know we are gay when we are young. We have crushes on our same sex friends.
"HIV" was fake. It still is. Gay people are being murdered and this has been going on for decades. It is only getting worse now.
We need to wake up to the truth and accept it. We have all been lied to and manipulated. The only way out is self love. Straight people are not better than gay people. All humans have imperfections. If we are to become perfect we must grow in God's Divine Love. This is the only way to salvation.
You wrote: "This is a wicked, sneaky assault - trans the gay kids and in a generation there will be no more gays." I think you might be right! Your theory makes perfect sense, so why aren't the leaders and activists of the gay communities fighting back? My niece is gay, I have second cousins who are gay, I have high school friends who are gay, colleagues who are gay - but they all seem to support the sneaky "T" which is in hindsight their enemy. When AIDS first was discovered, our Government did nothing to help find a cure because many people honestly thought it was "God's way of punishing the gays for their evil desires." Hard to fathom! It wasn't until heterosexuals started to become infected through blood transfusions, prostitutes, and infidelity that anyone took notice. I still remember the day Magic Johnson made the announcement that he had AIDS - the world sat up and took notice. What is it going to take for the world to sit up and take notice that the young gays in our society are being groomed, tricked, poisoned, and manipulated? Your essay speaks volumes. Thank you for sharing it with all of us here on this sub stack.
Some of us have been fighting back for years. Many of us who have risen have been deplatformed, doxxed, fired, sued and/or attacked. The minute LGB Alliance formed in the UK they were labelled a hate group and had to fight trans activists who tried to take away their charitable status.
Many do not realize that in some Western nations, laws have been passed that prohibit us from speaking out. We’re up against such well funded, politically connected groups of trans activists it’s been really hard to make headway. Especially so when left leaning media will still not give us a voice.
Thank you for mentioning the AIDS crisis. It was a remarkably sad time for so many of us as the world watched in deafening silence while we a good percentage of gay men die the most hideous death until the Magic Johnson moment. It’s like we were seen as expendable persons. Much like what we face now.
Thank you to the author for recognizing groups like the LGB Courage Coalition for their work speaking out against gender ideology and pediatric gender medicine. They do great work and provide an important voice on this issue. I'm a straight dad of an trans identifying adult child. I am proud to call members of the Courage Coalition my friends. A number of other parents support their efforts as well.
Discussions about the position of the "gay community" on trans issues are likely to miss the mark because there is no more a "gay community" than there is a "straight community." The author seems genuinely interested in how attitudes about homosexuality impact trans identification, so I would encourage you to subscribe to the Coalition's substack , as well as Jamie Reed's. They offer excellent perspectives.
If you want an explanation of how the legacy gay rights organizations were captured by trans rights activists, you should check out Glenna Goldis' substack. She has been covering this issue for years. Here's a good place to start: https://badfacts.substack.com/p/how-ftms-hijacked-gay-rights-part.
I had spent most of my adult life as a “trans” individual but I took on that identity as a child~ 14 or so years old. Also now realizing I have neurodivergent traits I’m going to get tested for soon. This is a serious problem. A lot of people are fighting this fight and I’m glad to see the push back.
Why are sexual identities being pushed on children at all? Countless people come in and out of their sexual identities. There is no gay test as there is no trans test. The LGB groups in the 80s began growing astronomically due to pharma funding thanks to the AIDS agenda. There were and are many hundreds of them with Human Rights Campaign being one of the largest. Their AIDS/HIV medical agenda is built on lies and deceit. See rethinking aids, see the work of Celia Farber, and of Rebecca Culshaw-Smith. Trans is the newest lie with artificial reproductive technologies and transhumanism agendas on the horizon. Families are in charge of their children, not governments, not NGOs, not schools, not pharma. Transsexual morphed to transgender as a marketing ploy to capture a wider net. They began transing heterosexuals and younger cohorts through the years. Many of the AIDS NGOs press on today with heavy funding from the technocratic elite for their science projects. They want bodies.
Focusing on natural healthy children in families is I believe key.
We are all sexual. The education system failed greatly by not teaching that gay people exist. Instead they taught fear around "HIV," thanks to Bill Gates the biggest murderer on the planet. Gay people get bullied into being straight. We don't need a test for being gay, we know how we feel just like straight people do.
That we are a sexually dimorphic species is true. That human life depends on this fact is true. That Bill Gates has quite a rap sheet (growing ..) is true. That modern scientists are keen on all forms of ART including in vitro gametogenesis (creating life outside of the womb using blood or skin cells transformed into egg or sperm) is true.
This is a science war using a cultural war to fuel their experimental agenda. Teaching homosexuality IMO does not belong in child education. I am hardly alone on this matter. The fact it was allowed made it so easy to slide in the 'T.' These efforts are so well funded and orchestrated it is mind boggling. Take away the industries that have been born from it, I suspect the NGOs would dry up and so too the push to install it in education because the funding would not exist. That will not happen because the power is in the hands of the scientific and technocratic elite today. They do not care about me or about you.
The evidence is right here in front of you. It's not a problem of the western world. There is a dark force on this Earth that is going after gay people. Humans are insecure and healing this is the only answer. If gay people were more secure in their feelings they would not be so easily manipulated. We have to own our truth or it will be erased.
During my time at an elite extremely progressive university in the late 2010s-early 2020s, the word lesbian was so taboo that I barely heard it spoken. Women who were lesbian called themselves queer, but women who were straight also did, so it was hard to know who was actually attracted to women.
When I did use the word lesbian to describe myself to others, I was usually immediately asked if I would date trans women (biological males). I refused to lie and I was often met with judgmental comments, grimaces, and was even blackballed from a student organization. I could call myself the word “lesbian” and be accepted, as long as what I actually meant was bisexual.
Meanwhile people were calling me “they” because of my obvious butchness, and I was singled out individually often in groups and asked my pronouns. Queer identified students would try to speak with me about trans topics often, relating to me as if I identified as trans when I didn’t.
After sincerely trying to fight this for years and finding myself socially isolated, lonely, guilty for my orientation, and all of this weighing on me to the point where I was struggling through college, I decided to listen to the experts and transition to male, hoping it would improve my life. I have since detransitioned, but I am still dealing with the medical aftermath.
Homophobia in America is alive and well. It’s just a different form.
I would have done anything as a child to not be gay. Most gay children are not the "fabulous" obvious types that the mass media parades around on TV. Most of us just want to be accepted as normal people & not the clownish caricatures we are told by 95% of society that we are. Most of us go through serious phases of regret & trying to make our experience as painless for us as possible.
And I had it good. There are seriously troubled gay children with untreated autism, depression &/or careless parents that are left to the internet to attempt to identify a fix for their broken lives. And there is an army of 10s of millions of transactivist adults waiting for them, laying down the primrose path in front of them.
Children are different than adults. Most gay and lesbian adults went through a phase in childhood when they believe they were meant to be the other sex, because otherwise they can't make sense of their lack of interest in marrying/being with the opposite sex. Taking kids at that vulnerable moment and pouring lies into their ears about "changing genders" is evil, manipulative, and stupid.
Few adults who's gone through puberty and accepted his or her sexual orientation will be drawn to transgenderism. But kids who have no concept of sexual attraction and the power of sex? They're easy marks, especially if they're already viewed as "different," and not in a good, "diversity" way.
" Taking kids at that vulnerable moment.is evil . . . they're easy marks . . "
Nobody would say otherwise, and nobody did.
What I'm saying is that I can't believe in the motivation the article suggests is behind that evil . If there still were in the West a wholesale prejudice against homosexuality, then perhaps. But there isn't.
I think you underestimate how easy it is to bully kids by calling them gay, whether they're actually homosexual or not. Some aspects of adult culture has changed, but kid culture seems just as homophobic as ever.
If you follow Glenna Goldis here at Bad Facts, she writes about her irritation that few people, even gender critics, seem to care that young lesbians' bodies and sex organs are being distorted or removed. In her view, the concern seems to be with all of the straight girls who might be duped into transition.
Children are still rampantly bullying each other in all Western cultures regarding being gay. It is still probably the most common insult. By the time any child realizes they might be gay they have already internalized how bad it is in western society to be gay. It is a second class state of being.
The money to be made from transing youth is also a powerful motivation. The medical profession makes no money off of gay people. Being gay doesn't require hormones or surgeries or lifelong medical care for complications from same.
Perhaps it's the FEAR of homophobia that they instill to make transition seem desirable, even though the reality doesn't really support it anymore.
They do use homosexuals to push prophylaxis HIV drugs, drugs with a high risk profile that have many lawsuits. First it was AZT for AIDS, a drug with the highest risk profile ever. The money from HIV is far less than what trans can fetch that leads to ART and transhumanist ventures but it is not nothing.
Despite the substantial investment, no widely effective HIV vaccine has been developed, and research continues.
About one billion dollars is spent annually on HIV vaccine research. It has not even been proved that a virus causes HIV, as such a virus has not been isolated. The occurrence of immunodeficiency is observable by tracking white blood cell counts, which vary wildly from week to week in a person with AIDS. AIDS is the syndrome; that is the cluster of symptoms experienced by the patient. But the existence of the HIV virus is a theory not proven.
The similarity to the trans issue is we have a medical system that makes a mistake and puts time and money and employs a huge number of people to try fixing a problem with methods that are not a fix, and are actually doing a lot of harm. The teens who are being pushed onto the trans train, many of them have very real problems such as autism, abuse, poor nutrition. But instead of getting help, they get so-called gender affirming care that makes things much worse.
There is a saying, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That is what is happening with gender. Everything kind of emotional discomfort, whether it is illness related or normal psychological growth, is treated with the hammer of trans grooming and medicalization.
If I were growing up now, I'd almost certainly have been convinced I was "born in the wrong body," would have undergone transition procedures, and then come to regret it.
I have always loathed the term tomboy. I would say to people who called me that, "My name isn't Tom, and I'm not a boy." I was simply a girl who was interested in mechanical devices such as heavy equipment, and I liked to run and climb trees. Let hobbies be hobbies, let toys be toys, and let kids be kids without placing rigid stereotypes on them.
I never thought I was a boy. I never really wanted to be a boy, but I hated the way girls were ignored and belittled. I was also a "weird kid" who was bullied by my peers. Although I was branded a lesbian for my interests in "boy stuff," I was actually straight. Even in those unenlightened times (I was born in 1965), I wondered what was so wrong with being a homosexual. Since the boys at my school were mostly idiots that I had no interest in, and I had a rebellious streak, I never bothered refuting the lesbian label, although it meant I was in for even more bullying.
When I was in my fifties, I discovered that I have ADHD and am on the autism spectrum. I would say that many girls in this category have complex PTSD because of bullying. When I was fifteen, I was sexually assaulted by a nineteen-year-old guy, and I really started acting out. If I'd been offered the opportunity to become part of a special, protected class of people (trans kids), I almost certainly would have taken it. I was tired of fighting. I would have done just about anything to become someone else rather than myself, whom I had learned to despise.
The thing is, though, no matter where you go, there you are.
Some people do have severe, persistent dysphoria about their biological sex. The majority of adolescents presenting with rapid-onset gender dysphoria will desist. These young people need counseling to explore the reasons for their dysphoria, not cross-sex hormones and surgeries.
Transing away the LGB, the autistic, and the gender-nonconforming is not a joke. It's ironic that TRAs are always shrieking about "trans genocide" when they are the most celebrated oppressed class ever.
I went last week to Australia’s landmark women’s rights case that no one here knows about because the national broadcaster has still not mentioned it- Giggle V Tickle. I sat in the public gallery with some brilliant, funny and interesting women. Out drinking with them after, it came to light that lots of us, gay or straight, are grown up tomboys. We were always swimming against the tide just doing what came naturally.
People can search out Giggle v. Tickle, to learn about it, but here is the context. Giggle is the name of a phone app that connects women in a mutual support group. Tickle is the trans name of a biological male claiming to be female. He claims the right to join Giggle on the premise that the law in Australia accepts him as a women. The court case arose because Giggle refused him membership because Giggle is for women only, and he is not a woman.
Australia is next level captured by gender ideology. In court, it was excruciating and shocking to hear supposedly learned people doing insane mental gymnastics to pretend that Tickle is in fact a woman, and that “woman” is nothing more than a concept anyway. It upset me to the point I was surprised when my eyes actually filled up with tears. I’m so sick of the fakery and ignorance of middle class privileged men and women arrogantly complicit with socially engineering the end of women’s rights. Sall has only grass roots funding, but Tickle is funded with thousands of taxpayer dollars. Anyone who would like to can donate to Sall Grover’s crowd fund here: https://gigglecrowdfund.com/InTheNews.html
“Infiltrate the target group, pretend to be their ally…” This applies to autism as well. I’ve spoken with parents of autistic children who have shared how trans activists are aggressively pushing their agenda and propaganda in these groups. I think it was autism specialist Tony Attwood who said a few years back, “This is beginning to look worryingly like backdoor eugenics.”
This is full on eugenics. A group of people is alleged to be defective, and the “solution” is to sterilize them. Got autism? Let’s sterilize. Depression? Sterilize! Attention deficit disorder? Sterilize. Gay? Sterilize.
The impact on autistic children is the most devastating to me. Instead of getting treatment for autism they are being redirected towards a lifetime of plastic surgeries & hormone therapy. The vast majority aren't even required to have any interaction at all with any behavioral health services. Straight to the endo.
Our son’s university lined him up with a “gender affirming” counselor but she totally disregarded the thorough evaluation we put him through and told us she felt he wasn’t really autistic but rather trans. He was sent straight to the endo while the university was working to provide him with free hormones. (This was 2014.) Little did we know that while he was being enabled by them in this delusion, he was also being groomed online by a predator. He disappeared suddenly six months later and we haven’t seen him since. It was bad enough to see this happen to our son at the college level but it makes me furious to see how they are now preying on younger and younger children.
“There is a political party and professional apparatus that put male rapists and murderers in women's prisons, propagandized kindergartners that any of them could change sex, forced taxpayers and insurance customers to fund electrolysis and facial feminization surgeries, put any boy or man who claimed to be female into changing rooms with your daughters, forced you to declare the gender identity of your toddler at the doctor's office, deceived parents about the social transition of their children at school, banned psychological exploration of the mental health comorbidities that manifest as trans-ideation in the midst of an online social contagion generating 5000 percent increases in trans identification among youth, fined all-female nude spas run by immigrants for excluding men with penises who claimed to be women for violating the human rights of those men, imposed men on the athletic playing fields with your daughters, told thousands of parents to submit to the chemical castration of their children to avert imminent suicide risk for which no evidence has ever existed, subjected thousands of children to macabre sex changes procedures while lying about the existence of an evidence base where none ever existed while claiming on the basis of no evidence that the procedures were life-saving, investigated parents who refused to put their children on a pipeline to a lifetime of medicalized self-harm by pretending they had changed sex and sought to seize custody of them, and threatened to unperson you, attack your livelihood and leave you ostracized if you resisted it in any way with the aid of the monopolistic tech platforms that control the circulation of speech and money around the globe in a new surveillance and censorship regime that sought to dismantle biological reality in the name of narcissistic fantasies that it intended to entrench as the only truth while corrupting the truth-seeking apparatus of science itself -- and there is a majority of normal people in both parties who oppose this nonsense and want it stopped.”
6/20/2025
“Transgenderism must revert to being a form of private eccentricity. Recognition as one's preferred gender can be privately negotiated but with no coercion by any entity private or public. We all have an absolute right to affirm or not affirm, believe or not believe, that gender identity exists, that no one can infringe.
Sex segregated spaces and activities remain segregated by sex, not "gender identity."
Adults are free to inflict bodily self-harm on themselves in pursuit of an appearance they like but outside of any pretense of a medical protocol -- these are cosmetic procedures that come with no promises to relieve dysphoria or unlock an authentic self and the cost is borne solely by the person seeking them. Any such promises constitute consumer fraud. Children are of course unable to consent to such procedures.
The state has no role in affirming any aspect of cross-gender ideation, avoids proselytizing to children in schools or to anyone else in any interface it has with the public. The person who has inflicted bodily self-harm on his sex traits is no more a distinct class of person to whom special privileges or protections can be conferred than a person who has covered his face in tattoos. The person who believes with all his heart that he is a woman at heart and would die if others don't recognize him as such imposes no duty on any other person to share in that belief or to pretend to share in it. That person must develop resiliency about living in a pluralistic, liberal, democratic society where every person has a right to belief and a corollary right to unbelief that no one may legitimately infringe.
Any and all deviations from this resolution are morally illegitimate and practically untenable.
The attempt to turn a private eccentricity into a social cause that justified the remaking of society was a ghastly and destructive mistake. It was made inevitable by certain facets of the culture and certain aspects of our politics. We must learn the lesson that experience has now taught us.”
Linda, I am so, so sorry. It hurts my soul to read this. Once again, it reminds me of just how evil gender ideology can be, how it 360 degrees robs people of so much and how it negatively changes the trajectory of lives.
While GLAD and other advocates for the LGB community went on the Trans detour - the right wingers continuously condemned homosexuality in their churches. Right now Marriage Equality is at risk to be overturned by SCOTUS. Will GLAD & other NGOs return to their senses if Marriage Equality is overturned? Already Trans folks are not allowed to have their IDs changed - so there will be a lot of marriages invalidated if the Marriage Equality act is overturned. Will enemies become allies? Or will GLAD, etc deprioritize the transing of trouble kids.
Thank you for citing the BBC article.
To me what should be most disturbing are the legacy groups that have betrayed both LGB and women. This is a wound inflicted within your own tent, not brought about from the outside,. Organizations that once supported LGB have been taken over by the transtapo. Groups that rallied around women have decided that real women are secondary to the needs of men in womanface. The enemies are close at hand.
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www.enlightenedgays.org
If gay people do not love and accept themselves they will remain in this hell. We know we are gay when we are young. We have crushes on our same sex friends.
"HIV" was fake. It still is. Gay people are being murdered and this has been going on for decades. It is only getting worse now.
We need to wake up to the truth and accept it. We have all been lied to and manipulated. The only way out is self love. Straight people are not better than gay people. All humans have imperfections. If we are to become perfect we must grow in God's Divine Love. This is the only way to salvation.
You wrote: "This is a wicked, sneaky assault - trans the gay kids and in a generation there will be no more gays." I think you might be right! Your theory makes perfect sense, so why aren't the leaders and activists of the gay communities fighting back? My niece is gay, I have second cousins who are gay, I have high school friends who are gay, colleagues who are gay - but they all seem to support the sneaky "T" which is in hindsight their enemy. When AIDS first was discovered, our Government did nothing to help find a cure because many people honestly thought it was "God's way of punishing the gays for their evil desires." Hard to fathom! It wasn't until heterosexuals started to become infected through blood transfusions, prostitutes, and infidelity that anyone took notice. I still remember the day Magic Johnson made the announcement that he had AIDS - the world sat up and took notice. What is it going to take for the world to sit up and take notice that the young gays in our society are being groomed, tricked, poisoned, and manipulated? Your essay speaks volumes. Thank you for sharing it with all of us here on this sub stack.
Some of us have been fighting back for years. Many of us who have risen have been deplatformed, doxxed, fired, sued and/or attacked. The minute LGB Alliance formed in the UK they were labelled a hate group and had to fight trans activists who tried to take away their charitable status.
Many do not realize that in some Western nations, laws have been passed that prohibit us from speaking out. We’re up against such well funded, politically connected groups of trans activists it’s been really hard to make headway. Especially so when left leaning media will still not give us a voice.
Thank you for mentioning the AIDS crisis. It was a remarkably sad time for so many of us as the world watched in deafening silence while we a good percentage of gay men die the most hideous death until the Magic Johnson moment. It’s like we were seen as expendable persons. Much like what we face now.
Thank you to the author for recognizing groups like the LGB Courage Coalition for their work speaking out against gender ideology and pediatric gender medicine. They do great work and provide an important voice on this issue. I'm a straight dad of an trans identifying adult child. I am proud to call members of the Courage Coalition my friends. A number of other parents support their efforts as well.
Discussions about the position of the "gay community" on trans issues are likely to miss the mark because there is no more a "gay community" than there is a "straight community." The author seems genuinely interested in how attitudes about homosexuality impact trans identification, so I would encourage you to subscribe to the Coalition's substack , as well as Jamie Reed's. They offer excellent perspectives.
If you want an explanation of how the legacy gay rights organizations were captured by trans rights activists, you should check out Glenna Goldis' substack. She has been covering this issue for years. Here's a good place to start: https://badfacts.substack.com/p/how-ftms-hijacked-gay-rights-part.
I had spent most of my adult life as a “trans” individual but I took on that identity as a child~ 14 or so years old. Also now realizing I have neurodivergent traits I’m going to get tested for soon. This is a serious problem. A lot of people are fighting this fight and I’m glad to see the push back.
This is a thoughtful article.
Looking to the parasexual collective for a solution to the trans problem is like asking a team of arsonists for a fire protection plan for your home.
Why are sexual identities being pushed on children at all? Countless people come in and out of their sexual identities. There is no gay test as there is no trans test. The LGB groups in the 80s began growing astronomically due to pharma funding thanks to the AIDS agenda. There were and are many hundreds of them with Human Rights Campaign being one of the largest. Their AIDS/HIV medical agenda is built on lies and deceit. See rethinking aids, see the work of Celia Farber, and of Rebecca Culshaw-Smith. Trans is the newest lie with artificial reproductive technologies and transhumanism agendas on the horizon. Families are in charge of their children, not governments, not NGOs, not schools, not pharma. Transsexual morphed to transgender as a marketing ploy to capture a wider net. They began transing heterosexuals and younger cohorts through the years. Many of the AIDS NGOs press on today with heavy funding from the technocratic elite for their science projects. They want bodies.
Focusing on natural healthy children in families is I believe key.
https://www.rethinkingaids.com/
We are all sexual. The education system failed greatly by not teaching that gay people exist. Instead they taught fear around "HIV," thanks to Bill Gates the biggest murderer on the planet. Gay people get bullied into being straight. We don't need a test for being gay, we know how we feel just like straight people do.
That we are a sexually dimorphic species is true. That human life depends on this fact is true. That Bill Gates has quite a rap sheet (growing ..) is true. That modern scientists are keen on all forms of ART including in vitro gametogenesis (creating life outside of the womb using blood or skin cells transformed into egg or sperm) is true.
This is a science war using a cultural war to fuel their experimental agenda. Teaching homosexuality IMO does not belong in child education. I am hardly alone on this matter. The fact it was allowed made it so easy to slide in the 'T.' These efforts are so well funded and orchestrated it is mind boggling. Take away the industries that have been born from it, I suspect the NGOs would dry up and so too the push to install it in education because the funding would not exist. That will not happen because the power is in the hands of the scientific and technocratic elite today. They do not care about me or about you.
I can't quite believe this as an explanation. In Iran yes, because we know how they view these things.
But where are any signs that Western society as a whole any longer has a problem with homosexuality, or would go to such lengths to eradicate it?
I would have said the reverse is true.
The evidence is right here in front of you. It's not a problem of the western world. There is a dark force on this Earth that is going after gay people. Humans are insecure and healing this is the only answer. If gay people were more secure in their feelings they would not be so easily manipulated. We have to own our truth or it will be erased.
During my time at an elite extremely progressive university in the late 2010s-early 2020s, the word lesbian was so taboo that I barely heard it spoken. Women who were lesbian called themselves queer, but women who were straight also did, so it was hard to know who was actually attracted to women.
When I did use the word lesbian to describe myself to others, I was usually immediately asked if I would date trans women (biological males). I refused to lie and I was often met with judgmental comments, grimaces, and was even blackballed from a student organization. I could call myself the word “lesbian” and be accepted, as long as what I actually meant was bisexual.
Meanwhile people were calling me “they” because of my obvious butchness, and I was singled out individually often in groups and asked my pronouns. Queer identified students would try to speak with me about trans topics often, relating to me as if I identified as trans when I didn’t.
After sincerely trying to fight this for years and finding myself socially isolated, lonely, guilty for my orientation, and all of this weighing on me to the point where I was struggling through college, I decided to listen to the experts and transition to male, hoping it would improve my life. I have since detransitioned, but I am still dealing with the medical aftermath.
Homophobia in America is alive and well. It’s just a different form.
I would have done anything as a child to not be gay. Most gay children are not the "fabulous" obvious types that the mass media parades around on TV. Most of us just want to be accepted as normal people & not the clownish caricatures we are told by 95% of society that we are. Most of us go through serious phases of regret & trying to make our experience as painless for us as possible.
And I had it good. There are seriously troubled gay children with untreated autism, depression &/or careless parents that are left to the internet to attempt to identify a fix for their broken lives. And there is an army of 10s of millions of transactivist adults waiting for them, laying down the primrose path in front of them.
Children are different than adults. Most gay and lesbian adults went through a phase in childhood when they believe they were meant to be the other sex, because otherwise they can't make sense of their lack of interest in marrying/being with the opposite sex. Taking kids at that vulnerable moment and pouring lies into their ears about "changing genders" is evil, manipulative, and stupid.
Few adults who's gone through puberty and accepted his or her sexual orientation will be drawn to transgenderism. But kids who have no concept of sexual attraction and the power of sex? They're easy marks, especially if they're already viewed as "different," and not in a good, "diversity" way.
" Taking kids at that vulnerable moment.is evil . . . they're easy marks . . "
Nobody would say otherwise, and nobody did.
What I'm saying is that I can't believe in the motivation the article suggests is behind that evil . If there still were in the West a wholesale prejudice against homosexuality, then perhaps. But there isn't.
I think you underestimate how easy it is to bully kids by calling them gay, whether they're actually homosexual or not. Some aspects of adult culture has changed, but kid culture seems just as homophobic as ever.
If you follow Glenna Goldis here at Bad Facts, she writes about her irritation that few people, even gender critics, seem to care that young lesbians' bodies and sex organs are being distorted or removed. In her view, the concern seems to be with all of the straight girls who might be duped into transition.
Children are still rampantly bullying each other in all Western cultures regarding being gay. It is still probably the most common insult. By the time any child realizes they might be gay they have already internalized how bad it is in western society to be gay. It is a second class state of being.
The money to be made from transing youth is also a powerful motivation. The medical profession makes no money off of gay people. Being gay doesn't require hormones or surgeries or lifelong medical care for complications from same.
Perhaps it's the FEAR of homophobia that they instill to make transition seem desirable, even though the reality doesn't really support it anymore.
They do use homosexuals to push prophylaxis HIV drugs, drugs with a high risk profile that have many lawsuits. First it was AZT for AIDS, a drug with the highest risk profile ever. The money from HIV is far less than what trans can fetch that leads to ART and transhumanist ventures but it is not nothing.
Ongoing Research:
Despite the substantial investment, no widely effective HIV vaccine has been developed, and research continues.
About one billion dollars is spent annually on HIV vaccine research. It has not even been proved that a virus causes HIV, as such a virus has not been isolated. The occurrence of immunodeficiency is observable by tracking white blood cell counts, which vary wildly from week to week in a person with AIDS. AIDS is the syndrome; that is the cluster of symptoms experienced by the patient. But the existence of the HIV virus is a theory not proven.
The similarity to the trans issue is we have a medical system that makes a mistake and puts time and money and employs a huge number of people to try fixing a problem with methods that are not a fix, and are actually doing a lot of harm. The teens who are being pushed onto the trans train, many of them have very real problems such as autism, abuse, poor nutrition. But instead of getting help, they get so-called gender affirming care that makes things much worse.
There is a saying, when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That is what is happening with gender. Everything kind of emotional discomfort, whether it is illness related or normal psychological growth, is treated with the hammer of trans grooming and medicalization.
Well said, AJH.
If I were growing up now, I'd almost certainly have been convinced I was "born in the wrong body," would have undergone transition procedures, and then come to regret it.
I have always loathed the term tomboy. I would say to people who called me that, "My name isn't Tom, and I'm not a boy." I was simply a girl who was interested in mechanical devices such as heavy equipment, and I liked to run and climb trees. Let hobbies be hobbies, let toys be toys, and let kids be kids without placing rigid stereotypes on them.
I never thought I was a boy. I never really wanted to be a boy, but I hated the way girls were ignored and belittled. I was also a "weird kid" who was bullied by my peers. Although I was branded a lesbian for my interests in "boy stuff," I was actually straight. Even in those unenlightened times (I was born in 1965), I wondered what was so wrong with being a homosexual. Since the boys at my school were mostly idiots that I had no interest in, and I had a rebellious streak, I never bothered refuting the lesbian label, although it meant I was in for even more bullying.
When I was in my fifties, I discovered that I have ADHD and am on the autism spectrum. I would say that many girls in this category have complex PTSD because of bullying. When I was fifteen, I was sexually assaulted by a nineteen-year-old guy, and I really started acting out. If I'd been offered the opportunity to become part of a special, protected class of people (trans kids), I almost certainly would have taken it. I was tired of fighting. I would have done just about anything to become someone else rather than myself, whom I had learned to despise.
The thing is, though, no matter where you go, there you are.
Some people do have severe, persistent dysphoria about their biological sex. The majority of adolescents presenting with rapid-onset gender dysphoria will desist. These young people need counseling to explore the reasons for their dysphoria, not cross-sex hormones and surgeries.
Transing away the LGB, the autistic, and the gender-nonconforming is not a joke. It's ironic that TRAs are always shrieking about "trans genocide" when they are the most celebrated oppressed class ever.
I went last week to Australia’s landmark women’s rights case that no one here knows about because the national broadcaster has still not mentioned it- Giggle V Tickle. I sat in the public gallery with some brilliant, funny and interesting women. Out drinking with them after, it came to light that lots of us, gay or straight, are grown up tomboys. We were always swimming against the tide just doing what came naturally.
People can search out Giggle v. Tickle, to learn about it, but here is the context. Giggle is the name of a phone app that connects women in a mutual support group. Tickle is the trans name of a biological male claiming to be female. He claims the right to join Giggle on the premise that the law in Australia accepts him as a women. The court case arose because Giggle refused him membership because Giggle is for women only, and he is not a woman.
Australia is next level captured by gender ideology. In court, it was excruciating and shocking to hear supposedly learned people doing insane mental gymnastics to pretend that Tickle is in fact a woman, and that “woman” is nothing more than a concept anyway. It upset me to the point I was surprised when my eyes actually filled up with tears. I’m so sick of the fakery and ignorance of middle class privileged men and women arrogantly complicit with socially engineering the end of women’s rights. Sall has only grass roots funding, but Tickle is funded with thousands of taxpayer dollars. Anyone who would like to can donate to Sall Grover’s crowd fund here: https://gigglecrowdfund.com/InTheNews.html
Wonder if this is discussed in gender studies courses where do many of our daughters have lost their minds and bodies.
Definitely not. That is where this started - in academia. All debate has been silenced. All dissenters fired.
“Infiltrate the target group, pretend to be their ally…” This applies to autism as well. I’ve spoken with parents of autistic children who have shared how trans activists are aggressively pushing their agenda and propaganda in these groups. I think it was autism specialist Tony Attwood who said a few years back, “This is beginning to look worryingly like backdoor eugenics.”
Backdoor? They are at the front door with ramrods. And a warrant. :-(
This is full on eugenics. A group of people is alleged to be defective, and the “solution” is to sterilize them. Got autism? Let’s sterilize. Depression? Sterilize! Attention deficit disorder? Sterilize. Gay? Sterilize.
No kidding!
The impact on autistic children is the most devastating to me. Instead of getting treatment for autism they are being redirected towards a lifetime of plastic surgeries & hormone therapy. The vast majority aren't even required to have any interaction at all with any behavioral health services. Straight to the endo.
Our son’s university lined him up with a “gender affirming” counselor but she totally disregarded the thorough evaluation we put him through and told us she felt he wasn’t really autistic but rather trans. He was sent straight to the endo while the university was working to provide him with free hormones. (This was 2014.) Little did we know that while he was being enabled by them in this delusion, he was also being groomed online by a predator. He disappeared suddenly six months later and we haven’t seen him since. It was bad enough to see this happen to our son at the college level but it makes me furious to see how they are now preying on younger and younger children.
These are a series of posts by Wesley Yang on X:
1/29/2025
“There are no "anti-trans extremists."
“There is a political party and professional apparatus that put male rapists and murderers in women's prisons, propagandized kindergartners that any of them could change sex, forced taxpayers and insurance customers to fund electrolysis and facial feminization surgeries, put any boy or man who claimed to be female into changing rooms with your daughters, forced you to declare the gender identity of your toddler at the doctor's office, deceived parents about the social transition of their children at school, banned psychological exploration of the mental health comorbidities that manifest as trans-ideation in the midst of an online social contagion generating 5000 percent increases in trans identification among youth, fined all-female nude spas run by immigrants for excluding men with penises who claimed to be women for violating the human rights of those men, imposed men on the athletic playing fields with your daughters, told thousands of parents to submit to the chemical castration of their children to avert imminent suicide risk for which no evidence has ever existed, subjected thousands of children to macabre sex changes procedures while lying about the existence of an evidence base where none ever existed while claiming on the basis of no evidence that the procedures were life-saving, investigated parents who refused to put their children on a pipeline to a lifetime of medicalized self-harm by pretending they had changed sex and sought to seize custody of them, and threatened to unperson you, attack your livelihood and leave you ostracized if you resisted it in any way with the aid of the monopolistic tech platforms that control the circulation of speech and money around the globe in a new surveillance and censorship regime that sought to dismantle biological reality in the name of narcissistic fantasies that it intended to entrench as the only truth while corrupting the truth-seeking apparatus of science itself -- and there is a majority of normal people in both parties who oppose this nonsense and want it stopped.”
6/20/2025
“Transgenderism must revert to being a form of private eccentricity. Recognition as one's preferred gender can be privately negotiated but with no coercion by any entity private or public. We all have an absolute right to affirm or not affirm, believe or not believe, that gender identity exists, that no one can infringe.
Sex segregated spaces and activities remain segregated by sex, not "gender identity."
Adults are free to inflict bodily self-harm on themselves in pursuit of an appearance they like but outside of any pretense of a medical protocol -- these are cosmetic procedures that come with no promises to relieve dysphoria or unlock an authentic self and the cost is borne solely by the person seeking them. Any such promises constitute consumer fraud. Children are of course unable to consent to such procedures.
The state has no role in affirming any aspect of cross-gender ideation, avoids proselytizing to children in schools or to anyone else in any interface it has with the public. The person who has inflicted bodily self-harm on his sex traits is no more a distinct class of person to whom special privileges or protections can be conferred than a person who has covered his face in tattoos. The person who believes with all his heart that he is a woman at heart and would die if others don't recognize him as such imposes no duty on any other person to share in that belief or to pretend to share in it. That person must develop resiliency about living in a pluralistic, liberal, democratic society where every person has a right to belief and a corollary right to unbelief that no one may legitimately infringe.
Any and all deviations from this resolution are morally illegitimate and practically untenable.
The attempt to turn a private eccentricity into a social cause that justified the remaking of society was a ghastly and destructive mistake. It was made inevitable by certain facets of the culture and certain aspects of our politics. We must learn the lesson that experience has now taught us.”
Excellent! Thanks for sharing.
Linda, I am so, so sorry. It hurts my soul to read this. Once again, it reminds me of just how evil gender ideology can be, how it 360 degrees robs people of so much and how it negatively changes the trajectory of lives.