I salute you for doing this and for your patience and fortitude in fighting against all this obvious nonsense. The Gender zealots are not particularly bright people and the best way to combat them is just to ask simple pointed questions like you did and then see how stupid it all sounds. All they can do is talk in circles about their feelings, either purposely or accidentally admit that their entire program is founded on regressive sex stereotypes, and then finish with the same Think of the Children! emotional blackmail.
If lies, nonsense, circular thinking, emotional manipulation and ignorance were weather events, it would mean you'd just survived a hurricane!
I always knew viruses, bacterial infections, parasites could be caught by coming into contact with these things, and sometimes certain ones make you physically sick, especially if you have immature or weak immune system. This whole article makes me wonder if these harmful social contagions aren’t actually better described as contagions of mental illness one is more likely to catch if they have a weak or immature mind..............
Fantastic work here laying out the entire mess and asking these questions. I’m in Toronto, Canada and I am ashamed but not surprised at all that this workshop was put on by Canadians. It shows you how bad things are up here. These types of workshops are used to educate teachers.
I’m mom to ROGD teen and work for a “progressive” company so I’ve heard all of this garbage for years now.
I’ve also attended these things online and tried to ask what I think are questions that will expose them for the deluded garbage peddlers that they are but it doesn’t happen, in part because of the way other parents seem to be on board.
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The "Gender Galaxy" is a new one to me. I'll keep my language civil...that is BAD. The whole thing is a horror show.
Edit: I came back later when I had time to read the whole thing. It's HORRIFYING. My eyes popped out of my head a few times, and I had to put them back into their sockets. It's beyond Kubrick or Kafka or Orwell. So, "male" and "female" are "colonialist" constructs, yes? And nobody in the room laughed out loud? Or vomited? I can't even believe we're living through this. Did you go out for a stiff drink after suffering this for two hours IRL? I can't even take the replay.
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This gender-identity stuff is 100% a religion, and not just because it doesn't make rational sense. It has many of the earmarks of a religion:
1. An esoteric belief system
2. A highly specialized language for discussing that belief system
3. A method of punishing heretics
4. No sense of humor about any of it
The only thing that distinguishes gender identity theory from a cult is that cults usually seem to have a central authority figure who hands down judgments on what is right and wrong. These gender people lack such a figure, and in fact always seem to be constantly monitoring each other for the least sign of heresy. Those who are found wanting are summarily reviled and exiled.
Thanks for enduring this seminar, and for sharing what you found.
I received almost exact same training by my employer except that my similar questions and statements that sex exists and that it is not the same as gender (roles) was seen as “transphobic.” Right before the Dobbs decision came out, I got involved in an abortion discussion initiated by the executive director of our agency who welcomed staff comment. After I stated that abortion bans harm women as a sex, all hell broke loose, I was called a “TERF” and bigot because lots of genders can get pregnant. A few days later without warning after 20 years of employment I was fired. I would be glad to share more information if you are interested.
I listened to your article on the Substack reader. What stood out for me other than the seminar leader's inability to define anything cogently, was the heavy reliance on verbal crutches: "like" and especially ending sentences with the word "right?". Tagging "right" to the end of every sentence is such a manipulative move. I hate it. The speaker had no real evidence to back up their points so they follow every statement with the word "right?". They are trying to gain credibility from the listener by eliciting passive agreement to each statement. If someone was to keep saying "right?" all the time in conversation, I would interject, "not necessarily" every time to avoid being drawn in to agreement when there is none. I think they like to take the listeners empathetic listening style and use it against them. Anyway, thank you Colin, for taking on the task of sitting through this and asking the tough questions that truly any normal person can answer in a sane world.
It’s amazing that the idea that kids will kill themselves en masse if they can’t “transition” to the opposite sex is so prevalent. How does such a lightweight theory become so commonly held?
Is being trans a biological phenomenon? I always assumed trans activists believed it to be. If so, why hasn’t human history been peppered with suicide in children and adolescents with so-called gender dysphoria? Even before we knew what it was--in Mesopotamia, Machu Picchu, Renaissance Florence, Victorian London, pre-colonial Australia, Weimar Berlin--human culture would have been dominated by art and literature relating to this mysterious affliction causing so many children to kill themselves.
But that didn’t happen, suggesting this is merely a social phenomenon--a decadent contagion. The idea that children will kill themselves when they can’t “become” the opposite sex is completely new, and to the extent that does happen it is very likely to be a self-fulfilling prophecy caused by gender theorists brainwashing kids into thinking they’re miserable.
"So yes, “man” and “woman” are defined by social roles and stereotypes, and you are a man or a woman if your “internal sense of self” reflects those stereotypes."
- I can't believe how incredibly regressive this ideology is. Feminism fought decade after decade to leave these "social roles" and "stereotypes" to the dustbin of history and gender ideology has pulled them out of the trash, dusted them off and now presents them as something radical and new and oh so 'post-modern.' I would call it "post-reality." Amazing and frightening in equal measure!
Wow! I hope you connect with Jonathan Streeter, of the YouTube channel, Thoughts on Things and Stuff. He has a long form survey format for detransitioners and cult survivors to examine whether they were indoctrinated into a cult. Michelle Alleva, a re-identified female, goes through this, step by step. It is a cult. Very, very same. The money, the pressure, the love bombing, the denials of reality.
With thanks and gratitude from Ute Heggen of <<New YouTube channel (lots of butterfly shorts for Colin, as well as 8 minute clips on mind/body moves for relief from PTSD, what the above causes)
Brilliant analysis. Thank you so much for exposing this nonsense and taking the time to do it so incisively. I'm wondering if you or anyone else you know has done a comprehensive review/critique of the so-called National Sex Education Standards? See https://advocatesforyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NSES-2020-web.pdf . This has actually been statutorily mandated to be taught in Illinois public schools. In other words, the State of Illinois has actually farmed out the teaching of sex education in our public schools to a private gender-ideology advocacy coalition that produced this thing. It's absolutely shocking. I am doing legal research on a possible legal challenge to try to get the law struck down as a violation of the Illinois constitution. I welcome any input or suggestions. Meanwhile, Colin, I applaud you for standing up for science and reality.
It is very important to use every platform to get the word out. I highlight others of great importance, such as Ritchie Herron, detransitioner in the UK, and Jonathan Streeter, of YouTube channel, Thoughts on Things and Stuff. He exposes the cult characteristics of trans ideology. Just for your information, trans widows, some of us near suicidal at times ourselves, have contacted me with their stories and gotten support from a sister who knows. I find this train of thought to be expressed by males much more often than females. Just sayin
You’re doing a great job at chipping away at this “rock” of insanity. Sooner or later it will crumble.
I think there is a parallel to this in what is happening in the crypto space, which is another cultish mania now collapsing. Just a year ago there was a feeling of inevitability to it - a virtually certain “fortune favours the brave” kind of future but now it’s starting to look like the emperor has no clothes.
Reality has a funny way of reasserting itself when you least expect it.
Colin- all the questions you asked were excellent and they couldn’t answer a single one. But the answers are critical before justifying “social transition” or any medical or surgical interventions.
Not surprised, but seeing it reminds me that we are in deep shit if most people accept any of this as worthy of consideration. What a complete and total mess.
I salute you for doing this and for your patience and fortitude in fighting against all this obvious nonsense. The Gender zealots are not particularly bright people and the best way to combat them is just to ask simple pointed questions like you did and then see how stupid it all sounds. All they can do is talk in circles about their feelings, either purposely or accidentally admit that their entire program is founded on regressive sex stereotypes, and then finish with the same Think of the Children! emotional blackmail.
If lies, nonsense, circular thinking, emotional manipulation and ignorance were weather events, it would mean you'd just survived a hurricane!
I always knew viruses, bacterial infections, parasites could be caught by coming into contact with these things, and sometimes certain ones make you physically sick, especially if you have immature or weak immune system. This whole article makes me wonder if these harmful social contagions aren’t actually better described as contagions of mental illness one is more likely to catch if they have a weak or immature mind..............
Hi Colin,
Fantastic work here laying out the entire mess and asking these questions. I’m in Toronto, Canada and I am ashamed but not surprised at all that this workshop was put on by Canadians. It shows you how bad things are up here. These types of workshops are used to educate teachers.
I’m mom to ROGD teen and work for a “progressive” company so I’ve heard all of this garbage for years now.
I’ve also attended these things online and tried to ask what I think are questions that will expose them for the deluded garbage peddlers that they are but it doesn’t happen, in part because of the way other parents seem to be on board.
Really effing depressing.
The "Gender Galaxy" is a new one to me. I'll keep my language civil...that is BAD. The whole thing is a horror show.
Edit: I came back later when I had time to read the whole thing. It's HORRIFYING. My eyes popped out of my head a few times, and I had to put them back into their sockets. It's beyond Kubrick or Kafka or Orwell. So, "male" and "female" are "colonialist" constructs, yes? And nobody in the room laughed out loud? Or vomited? I can't even believe we're living through this. Did you go out for a stiff drink after suffering this for two hours IRL? I can't even take the replay.
This gender-identity stuff is 100% a religion, and not just because it doesn't make rational sense. It has many of the earmarks of a religion:
1. An esoteric belief system
2. A highly specialized language for discussing that belief system
3. A method of punishing heretics
4. No sense of humor about any of it
The only thing that distinguishes gender identity theory from a cult is that cults usually seem to have a central authority figure who hands down judgments on what is right and wrong. These gender people lack such a figure, and in fact always seem to be constantly monitoring each other for the least sign of heresy. Those who are found wanting are summarily reviled and exiled.
Thanks for enduring this seminar, and for sharing what you found.
There is nothing scientific about any of this. It is pathetic this ideology has captured all institutions of power in the west
I received almost exact same training by my employer except that my similar questions and statements that sex exists and that it is not the same as gender (roles) was seen as “transphobic.” Right before the Dobbs decision came out, I got involved in an abortion discussion initiated by the executive director of our agency who welcomed staff comment. After I stated that abortion bans harm women as a sex, all hell broke loose, I was called a “TERF” and bigot because lots of genders can get pregnant. A few days later without warning after 20 years of employment I was fired. I would be glad to share more information if you are interested.
Also I urge that you add two gender critical groups to your list of supporting groups: Feminists in Struggle (https://feminist struggle.org) and Green Alliance for Sex Based Rights. https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org.
I listened to your article on the Substack reader. What stood out for me other than the seminar leader's inability to define anything cogently, was the heavy reliance on verbal crutches: "like" and especially ending sentences with the word "right?". Tagging "right" to the end of every sentence is such a manipulative move. I hate it. The speaker had no real evidence to back up their points so they follow every statement with the word "right?". They are trying to gain credibility from the listener by eliciting passive agreement to each statement. If someone was to keep saying "right?" all the time in conversation, I would interject, "not necessarily" every time to avoid being drawn in to agreement when there is none. I think they like to take the listeners empathetic listening style and use it against them. Anyway, thank you Colin, for taking on the task of sitting through this and asking the tough questions that truly any normal person can answer in a sane world.
It’s amazing that the idea that kids will kill themselves en masse if they can’t “transition” to the opposite sex is so prevalent. How does such a lightweight theory become so commonly held?
Is being trans a biological phenomenon? I always assumed trans activists believed it to be. If so, why hasn’t human history been peppered with suicide in children and adolescents with so-called gender dysphoria? Even before we knew what it was--in Mesopotamia, Machu Picchu, Renaissance Florence, Victorian London, pre-colonial Australia, Weimar Berlin--human culture would have been dominated by art and literature relating to this mysterious affliction causing so many children to kill themselves.
But that didn’t happen, suggesting this is merely a social phenomenon--a decadent contagion. The idea that children will kill themselves when they can’t “become” the opposite sex is completely new, and to the extent that does happen it is very likely to be a self-fulfilling prophecy caused by gender theorists brainwashing kids into thinking they’re miserable.
"So yes, “man” and “woman” are defined by social roles and stereotypes, and you are a man or a woman if your “internal sense of self” reflects those stereotypes."
- I can't believe how incredibly regressive this ideology is. Feminism fought decade after decade to leave these "social roles" and "stereotypes" to the dustbin of history and gender ideology has pulled them out of the trash, dusted them off and now presents them as something radical and new and oh so 'post-modern.' I would call it "post-reality." Amazing and frightening in equal measure!
Wow! I hope you connect with Jonathan Streeter, of the YouTube channel, Thoughts on Things and Stuff. He has a long form survey format for detransitioners and cult survivors to examine whether they were indoctrinated into a cult. Michelle Alleva, a re-identified female, goes through this, step by step. It is a cult. Very, very same. The money, the pressure, the love bombing, the denials of reality.
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXv4xvHw8E&t=22s
With thanks and gratitude from Ute Heggen of <<New YouTube channel (lots of butterfly shorts for Colin, as well as 8 minute clips on mind/body moves for relief from PTSD, what the above causes)
Brilliant analysis. Thank you so much for exposing this nonsense and taking the time to do it so incisively. I'm wondering if you or anyone else you know has done a comprehensive review/critique of the so-called National Sex Education Standards? See https://advocatesforyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NSES-2020-web.pdf . This has actually been statutorily mandated to be taught in Illinois public schools. In other words, the State of Illinois has actually farmed out the teaching of sex education in our public schools to a private gender-ideology advocacy coalition that produced this thing. It's absolutely shocking. I am doing legal research on a possible legal challenge to try to get the law struck down as a violation of the Illinois constitution. I welcome any input or suggestions. Meanwhile, Colin, I applaud you for standing up for science and reality.
It is very important to use every platform to get the word out. I highlight others of great importance, such as Ritchie Herron, detransitioner in the UK, and Jonathan Streeter, of YouTube channel, Thoughts on Things and Stuff. He exposes the cult characteristics of trans ideology. Just for your information, trans widows, some of us near suicidal at times ourselves, have contacted me with their stories and gotten support from a sister who knows. I find this train of thought to be expressed by males much more often than females. Just sayin
You’re doing a great job at chipping away at this “rock” of insanity. Sooner or later it will crumble.
I think there is a parallel to this in what is happening in the crypto space, which is another cultish mania now collapsing. Just a year ago there was a feeling of inevitability to it - a virtually certain “fortune favours the brave” kind of future but now it’s starting to look like the emperor has no clothes.
Reality has a funny way of reasserting itself when you least expect it.
Colin- all the questions you asked were excellent and they couldn’t answer a single one. But the answers are critical before justifying “social transition” or any medical or surgical interventions.
Not surprised, but seeing it reminds me that we are in deep shit if most people accept any of this as worthy of consideration. What a complete and total mess.