I know it's controversial here to suggest that more than a "social contagion" might be going on, but I really urge parents to look into the research I've accumulated on the potential role folic acid (synthetic folate) might be playing into the high rates of co-morbid autism and transgender identification. Because if I and the LGBTQ+ specialist doctor I profiled are correct, there may be a way to help at least some of your kids through dietary interventions, especially if you catch this while they're still young.
The doctor I profiled has coined a new "syndrome" he believes is caused by folic acid. I tried my best to piece together a possible mechanism, but more research into this is clearly needed.
Symptoms of what he calls "Meyer-Powers Syndrome" include (not everyone will have all):
- Deficiencies in B vitamins and Vitamin D, zinc deficiency
- Family history of: ADHD, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes, schizophrenia and/or autoimmune conditions such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, multiple sclerosis, and Sjögren syndrome
- Tend to have interests in fantasy worlds / gaming, nerd culture, otakus/anime, non-traditional relationship structures, and BDSM, “related to these people being faintly dissociated all the time, often related to VDR/COMT/MAO mutations amplified by MTHFR defects.”
I think the kids in question would have also been far more likely to have been born with a tongue tie and to have childhood asthma and/or allergies.
If this describes your kid, many issues may be due to the combination of a diet high in folic acid (so processed foods and grains enriched with folic acid), the use of prenatal vitamins with folic acid during pregnancy, low sunlight exposure (low Vitamin D), and certain gene mutations that are easy to test for -- in particular a MTHFR C677T (rs1801133) gene polymorphism or a A1298C (rs1801131) polymorphism.
He describes two phenotypical subtypes. I've noticed that a lot of the kids described on this Substack seem to fit his "Type I" description in particular.
Quote:
The first (Type I) is a “pixie” or “elf”-like appearance in “skinny, low muscular” natal males and females; FTM transgender people of this type tend to come out as gay men; “the tall spindly 6’4 transgender woman with no muscle mass will have an absolutely enormous Adam’s apple, and significantly above average length penis is the same variant but in MTF.” The second (Type II) is a “dwarf”-like appearance in “stocky” people; FTM transgender people of this type tend to remain attracted to women, and the “gay men of this subtype that have the elevated DHT end up having an early puberty, have a short, thicker penis, are short in height, have male pattern baldness, and basically look like Burl Ives.”
This essay also presents some research and anecdotal evidence that a B vitamin deficiency (in particular combined with or caused by high stress levels) might trigger temporary or late-onset same-sex attraction or bisexuality in girls and women (I'm not sure about boys and men). Think about how many queer girls are also vegan or vegetarian!!
If we're correct, or even partially correct, your children might be at an increased risk of several cancers as well (especially colon, breast, and lung).
Does your son still eat a lot of fortified foods? I'm not sure if dietary changes at this point can help dysphoria, but they should be able to alleviate other mental health issues and prevent various health problems down the line (e.g. high risk of cancer with these mutations).
I think it's possible to pull off a healthy vegan diet while pregnant, but extremely difficult. I'm pregnant right now and my energy starts to crash if I skip meat/seafood and eggs for even a day or two (I also have one of the more severe MTHFR mutations).
No, I've always avoided anything fortified, well except maybe some supposedly whole foods based prenatal vits, which should have contained folate unless they were misrepresenting. I don't think my son buys anything with fake vitamins either. I was raised on natural foods, so I basically dropped the most important ones to go vegan at age 15. I think the most detrimental of my staples was organic tofu. This was from 85- 95 so the info being pushed was different from today. No one told me I wasn't healthy. And my son was born at home without complication. It was a "slow kill", I realized later.
Congratulations on your pregnancy! I read Chinese women would traditionally eat 5 eggs a day if available. I should have listened. Glad you are!
I'm pretty sure whole-foods based prenatals wouldn't contain the synthetic folic acid the research I was referring to was focussed on. It sounds like this doesn't (necessarily) apply here. Though I kind of touched on the possibility that B vitamin deficiencies can cause same-sex attraction, I only had evidence for this in natal females so IDK about boys. Tofu is a whole other thing -- if you haven't looked into it already, the Weston A Price Foundation has a bunch of articles on why it can be damaging in high doses :-(
Thank you! I wasn't as careful with my diet with first (unfortunately) and the pregnancy had a lot of complications but she seems okay (so far). This one is going WAY better with more meat and eggs and being way more careful about fortified foods, refined sugar, and glyphosate-contaminated foods. Fingers crossed. I'm only eating 2-3 eggs per day though, so maybe this is a sign I should try to up that (wish I liked eggs more lol).
It occurs to me that there's a cohort of young middle-class men who are entering a world in which they will almost certainly not have the creature comforts they grew up with. A world that doesn't have the slack in the economy that we enjoyed in the 60s and 70s. I could see choosing trans as a way of coping with that realization, self-crippling oneself as a way of avoiding the entire competition and possible failure. It's a surrender that signals an unwillingness to enjoin while it lobbies for special non-competitive status. I dunno. I'm just writing off the top of my head here. Does this many sense to anyone?
Yes, I see them everywhere, too, usually at menial jobs, trying too hard to keep up the facade. One of these lost boys is mine. He went down that awful rabbit hole at 19 and I just couldn't stop him. That was 10 years ago. He no longer even tries to work a menial job. His trans identified partner (female) managed to get him enough government disability payments to just get by. He's unemployed and online all day. He estranged himself from us for not affirming. I see him in the face of every lost boy I meet. The only emotion I have left is sadness. I miss him so much.
"Behind every one of the lost boys, I see a grieving parent." And sadly ahead of them is a shortened life full of pain, frustration, and misery. Most of the causes of Trans Mania have been touched on here, but one of the biggest and most difficult to address is blind faith in tech and progress. There's this false perception that anything that the Modern Age serves up (philosophical or material) is good for humanity. And that Utopia is right around the corner if we simply muscle through the diminishing returns of pursuing individual "liberty" and "rights". And tolerating luxury beliefs and defining deviancy down.
I wonder if all of these children you ran into said to themselves, "I think I feel like a woman." But of course, no one asked them what that meant, and they had no idea. So they just barreled down the hill, full steam ahead, with no idea what was coming. And now they're stuck in a place that they probably regret and have no way to get out of.
I see that too. I was watching a YT video today where a Christian evangelist/missionary was talking to these two boys. One of the boys was fem and all I could think of was what his parents must be going through. Behind many of these young men is a family shattered, so sad.
It's an odd thing to be the mother of one of these lost boys — to live in that series of parallel universes where you're enraged at your child for appropriating womanhood, for having such a self-centered, entitled view of what life as a female is about and how little is required to claim it for himself; where you're in a constant state of confusion and rage at how things could have gone so wrong that adults, who in almost any other scenario you could have trusted, seem dead-set on damaging, or helping others damage, your precious child's perfectly healthy — and perfect — body; where you're overcome with fear about the path your son is careening down, knowing that eventually the landing will be hard, knowing just how much damage can be done and that at a certain point, there will be no recovery and no ability to turn around. There are still fleeting shadows of the son I have adored since I saw his tiny heartbeat, but he has largely become a vicious monster. That's what the gender lie does to some of these young people. It tells them to hate and reject those who love them and to hate and reject themselves. Having to bear witness to it is one of the more cruel aspects of this experience.
Even our girls are lost boys. Like some disembodied spirit came and trapped our girls inside and took over their bodies. I cry every time I see them. No matter which thing they “identify” or what pronouns they claim. I look at them in the eyes and I see my child. In my heart I say I love you and let the tears come up on behalf of the grieving parent who likely doesn’t get to do that. I hope there are eyes doing the same for me all the way across the country. Her sister & I were speaking within our prayer circle the other night. We adopted our own pronouns in that group. They are “we, ours, & us”
What are “we” going to do about all this? How are “we” doing? What is all of this doing to “us”? This is “our” family, “our” city, “our” heartache. These are “our” children. We are in them and they are in us via DNA, or our choice to adopt from love. So I said to her about a problem, “what are we going to do now? This is us important to us. The solution is ours. What will it be?
They, them he, her, etc it’s all separation, not inclusion. They cry out they want inclusion, but then structure language that divides. What is more loving and inclusive than WE, US, OURS? We are now pulling WE/US into our hearts and loving US enough to cry over what WE have lost and are suffering? We will take a moment to look into eyes and find the fragment of true identity and lend courage and strength to our we/US. I might even hug US. This thing infiltrated to steal identity. We can fight, we can stand but we must also love our broken children, as a collective; they are all of ours, they are us and we too. I’m tired of hiding the very legitimate tears. Maybe it’s cleansing, something…the answer to “who are these kids?” Is they are ours.
It’s a terrible tragedy, all the kids who have been lost to this. I do not understand how any parent could watch their child’s obvious decline and still affirm them. How deeply indoctrinated into this cult would you have to be to see what it has done to your child and lie to yourself?
Beautifully written. And so terribly sad.
I know it's controversial here to suggest that more than a "social contagion" might be going on, but I really urge parents to look into the research I've accumulated on the potential role folic acid (synthetic folate) might be playing into the high rates of co-morbid autism and transgender identification. Because if I and the LGBTQ+ specialist doctor I profiled are correct, there may be a way to help at least some of your kids through dietary interventions, especially if you catch this while they're still young.
https://thecassandracomplex.substack.com/p/down-the-folic-acid-rabbit-hole
The doctor I profiled has coined a new "syndrome" he believes is caused by folic acid. I tried my best to piece together a possible mechanism, but more research into this is clearly needed.
Symptoms of what he calls "Meyer-Powers Syndrome" include (not everyone will have all):
- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH), subclinical hypocortisolism, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome / hypermobility, POTS, anorexia (and/or ARFID), PTSD symptoms, spider veins, chronic inflammation, IBS, hair thinning / loss, PCOS, severe acne, cherry angioma, TMJ, rheumatoid arthritis, MCAS,
- Deficiencies in B vitamins and Vitamin D, zinc deficiency
- Family history of: ADHD, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes, schizophrenia and/or autoimmune conditions such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, multiple sclerosis, and Sjögren syndrome
- Queer identification / homosexuality / bisexuality / gender dysphoria
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Increased intelligence
- Tend to have interests in fantasy worlds / gaming, nerd culture, otakus/anime, non-traditional relationship structures, and BDSM, “related to these people being faintly dissociated all the time, often related to VDR/COMT/MAO mutations amplified by MTHFR defects.”
I think the kids in question would have also been far more likely to have been born with a tongue tie and to have childhood asthma and/or allergies.
If this describes your kid, many issues may be due to the combination of a diet high in folic acid (so processed foods and grains enriched with folic acid), the use of prenatal vitamins with folic acid during pregnancy, low sunlight exposure (low Vitamin D), and certain gene mutations that are easy to test for -- in particular a MTHFR C677T (rs1801133) gene polymorphism or a A1298C (rs1801131) polymorphism.
He describes two phenotypical subtypes. I've noticed that a lot of the kids described on this Substack seem to fit his "Type I" description in particular.
Quote:
The first (Type I) is a “pixie” or “elf”-like appearance in “skinny, low muscular” natal males and females; FTM transgender people of this type tend to come out as gay men; “the tall spindly 6’4 transgender woman with no muscle mass will have an absolutely enormous Adam’s apple, and significantly above average length penis is the same variant but in MTF.” The second (Type II) is a “dwarf”-like appearance in “stocky” people; FTM transgender people of this type tend to remain attracted to women, and the “gay men of this subtype that have the elevated DHT end up having an early puberty, have a short, thicker penis, are short in height, have male pattern baldness, and basically look like Burl Ives.”
This essay also presents some research and anecdotal evidence that a B vitamin deficiency (in particular combined with or caused by high stress levels) might trigger temporary or late-onset same-sex attraction or bisexuality in girls and women (I'm not sure about boys and men). Think about how many queer girls are also vegan or vegetarian!!
If we're correct, or even partially correct, your children might be at an increased risk of several cancers as well (especially colon, breast, and lung).
Yes, I'm sure I predisposed my son through my vegan prenatal & breastfeeding diet. And I do carry one of the more severe mthfr mutations.
Does your son still eat a lot of fortified foods? I'm not sure if dietary changes at this point can help dysphoria, but they should be able to alleviate other mental health issues and prevent various health problems down the line (e.g. high risk of cancer with these mutations).
I think it's possible to pull off a healthy vegan diet while pregnant, but extremely difficult. I'm pregnant right now and my energy starts to crash if I skip meat/seafood and eggs for even a day or two (I also have one of the more severe MTHFR mutations).
No, I've always avoided anything fortified, well except maybe some supposedly whole foods based prenatal vits, which should have contained folate unless they were misrepresenting. I don't think my son buys anything with fake vitamins either. I was raised on natural foods, so I basically dropped the most important ones to go vegan at age 15. I think the most detrimental of my staples was organic tofu. This was from 85- 95 so the info being pushed was different from today. No one told me I wasn't healthy. And my son was born at home without complication. It was a "slow kill", I realized later.
Congratulations on your pregnancy! I read Chinese women would traditionally eat 5 eggs a day if available. I should have listened. Glad you are!
I'm pretty sure whole-foods based prenatals wouldn't contain the synthetic folic acid the research I was referring to was focussed on. It sounds like this doesn't (necessarily) apply here. Though I kind of touched on the possibility that B vitamin deficiencies can cause same-sex attraction, I only had evidence for this in natal females so IDK about boys. Tofu is a whole other thing -- if you haven't looked into it already, the Weston A Price Foundation has a bunch of articles on why it can be damaging in high doses :-(
Thank you! I wasn't as careful with my diet with first (unfortunately) and the pregnancy had a lot of complications but she seems okay (so far). This one is going WAY better with more meat and eggs and being way more careful about fortified foods, refined sugar, and glyphosate-contaminated foods. Fingers crossed. I'm only eating 2-3 eggs per day though, so maybe this is a sign I should try to up that (wish I liked eggs more lol).
It occurs to me that there's a cohort of young middle-class men who are entering a world in which they will almost certainly not have the creature comforts they grew up with. A world that doesn't have the slack in the economy that we enjoyed in the 60s and 70s. I could see choosing trans as a way of coping with that realization, self-crippling oneself as a way of avoiding the entire competition and possible failure. It's a surrender that signals an unwillingness to enjoin while it lobbies for special non-competitive status. I dunno. I'm just writing off the top of my head here. Does this many sense to anyone?
I see these kids or young adults and express only kindness and love. Being part of this group has reminded me that each of them is loved by parents.
Yes, I see them everywhere, too, usually at menial jobs, trying too hard to keep up the facade. One of these lost boys is mine. He went down that awful rabbit hole at 19 and I just couldn't stop him. That was 10 years ago. He no longer even tries to work a menial job. His trans identified partner (female) managed to get him enough government disability payments to just get by. He's unemployed and online all day. He estranged himself from us for not affirming. I see him in the face of every lost boy I meet. The only emotion I have left is sadness. I miss him so much.
Me too.
I just told you. Do some research.
"Behind every one of the lost boys, I see a grieving parent." And sadly ahead of them is a shortened life full of pain, frustration, and misery. Most of the causes of Trans Mania have been touched on here, but one of the biggest and most difficult to address is blind faith in tech and progress. There's this false perception that anything that the Modern Age serves up (philosophical or material) is good for humanity. And that Utopia is right around the corner if we simply muscle through the diminishing returns of pursuing individual "liberty" and "rights". And tolerating luxury beliefs and defining deviancy down.
Yes the young man who was posing as a woman working at my regular hair salon didn't last long, for all the same type of thing.
I wonder if all of these children you ran into said to themselves, "I think I feel like a woman." But of course, no one asked them what that meant, and they had no idea. So they just barreled down the hill, full steam ahead, with no idea what was coming. And now they're stuck in a place that they probably regret and have no way to get out of.
I see that too. I was watching a YT video today where a Christian evangelist/missionary was talking to these two boys. One of the boys was fem and all I could think of was what his parents must be going through. Behind many of these young men is a family shattered, so sad.
It's an odd thing to be the mother of one of these lost boys — to live in that series of parallel universes where you're enraged at your child for appropriating womanhood, for having such a self-centered, entitled view of what life as a female is about and how little is required to claim it for himself; where you're in a constant state of confusion and rage at how things could have gone so wrong that adults, who in almost any other scenario you could have trusted, seem dead-set on damaging, or helping others damage, your precious child's perfectly healthy — and perfect — body; where you're overcome with fear about the path your son is careening down, knowing that eventually the landing will be hard, knowing just how much damage can be done and that at a certain point, there will be no recovery and no ability to turn around. There are still fleeting shadows of the son I have adored since I saw his tiny heartbeat, but he has largely become a vicious monster. That's what the gender lie does to some of these young people. It tells them to hate and reject those who love them and to hate and reject themselves. Having to bear witness to it is one of the more cruel aspects of this experience.
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“They are the collateral damage of a culture gone very wrong.” Yes! It’s deeply sad
Even our girls are lost boys. Like some disembodied spirit came and trapped our girls inside and took over their bodies. I cry every time I see them. No matter which thing they “identify” or what pronouns they claim. I look at them in the eyes and I see my child. In my heart I say I love you and let the tears come up on behalf of the grieving parent who likely doesn’t get to do that. I hope there are eyes doing the same for me all the way across the country. Her sister & I were speaking within our prayer circle the other night. We adopted our own pronouns in that group. They are “we, ours, & us”
What are “we” going to do about all this? How are “we” doing? What is all of this doing to “us”? This is “our” family, “our” city, “our” heartache. These are “our” children. We are in them and they are in us via DNA, or our choice to adopt from love. So I said to her about a problem, “what are we going to do now? This is us important to us. The solution is ours. What will it be?
They, them he, her, etc it’s all separation, not inclusion. They cry out they want inclusion, but then structure language that divides. What is more loving and inclusive than WE, US, OURS? We are now pulling WE/US into our hearts and loving US enough to cry over what WE have lost and are suffering? We will take a moment to look into eyes and find the fragment of true identity and lend courage and strength to our we/US. I might even hug US. This thing infiltrated to steal identity. We can fight, we can stand but we must also love our broken children, as a collective; they are all of ours, they are us and we too. I’m tired of hiding the very legitimate tears. Maybe it’s cleansing, something…the answer to “who are these kids?” Is they are ours.
It’s a terrible tragedy, all the kids who have been lost to this. I do not understand how any parent could watch their child’s obvious decline and still affirm them. How deeply indoctrinated into this cult would you have to be to see what it has done to your child and lie to yourself?
I see the gender cult as mass destruction!! It also saddens me to see it play out in everyday life and in my own home! Gut wrenching!
All the critical thinkers, the Detransitioners and some of the Conservative and Moderate Democrats on YouTube.