Bravo, Colin! We trans widows (ex-wives of the now middle aged men who dictated this pseudoscience to the institutions, based on their own psychiatric illness and fetishist obsessions) will find our voices. Dr. Stephen B. Levine, psychiatrist who changed his mind after working to "affirm" for decades testified before the Pennsylvania state legislature regarding the fact that, even in the mind of that individual, he does not believe he's changed sex. Transcribed for your convenience.
Excellent speech, Colin. In less than ten years, the once extremely rare "transgender" cancer has metastasized and spread like wildfire throughout the land. We must excise this cancer before any more lives are destroyed. The mental and physical health of our country's children and young adults hangs in the balance. We must fight against all the nonsense and all the lies.
A friend of mine just told me today that her healthy daughter was forced to pick pronouns when she was in-patient for depression. They would not allow her to use she/her so she picked something ridiculous just to get them off her back. However what was truly alarming was the hospital seemed determined to force this heterosexual child to say she was gay or trans and that was the cause of her depression. (She did not comply). I was shocked to learn that this is how they are treating mental health issues and crises now. Trying to connect it all to sexuality? What the heck is going on? And preying on vulnerable teens is criminal. I hope more people will come forward about this happening. I’m sure this child is not the only one this has happened to.
Finally the people are having a voice against this insanity. Many thanks to Dr. Wright, the Daily Wire and Matt Walsh (the Sweet Daddy) for leading the charge!
End the surgeries then go after the medical institutions that greenlit this lysenkoist madness. Heads have to roll. We need accountability: Massive class action lawsuits. Revoked Licenses. Resignations and all the internal documents detailing how this happened.
Thanks for speaking Colin. I wonder if you knew when you moved to Tennessee that it would be the eye of the storm of this movement? Glad you were there to say what I wanted to hear - that this is all absurd!
For every advance we see in Europe, the US doubles down. The UK shifts to psychological support for young people instead of drugs and surgery, and here, the AAP asks the DOJ to clamp down on dissent. Disturbing and demoralizing that the MSM continues to hide what's happening. Until that shifts, we will need to keep fighting this.
Watched your speech, Colin...THANK YOU for everything you’re doing on this existential matter! As a country, we must resoloutly stand against this creeping evil, never backing down, no matter the costs....
RN here. The medical community should be the foremost stalwart vanguard against this pseudoscientific insanity. Healthcare is the most frequent and practical way in which most people encounter biological science, making healthcare workers the most important stewards of this knowledge and information (if we are to concede that it’s not self-evident common sense!) Every doctor and nurse that does not speak against this ideology (which has been trumping actual science) is derelict of their duty to defend and promote truth and health.
There’s far too much respect given to ‘top doctors’ and their views. Medical experts have perpetrated some awful things in the past. And as you point out they continue to do so today. There are a great many medical practices, particularly in surgery, that lack a solid randomised trial evidence base. Which is precisely why any intervention that leads to permanent change in children must be so carefully considered. Even more so where psychological problems are to be treated by surgery- remember frontal lobotomy as a treatment for psychiatric illnesses of all sorts. It’s main protagonist even won a Nobel prize for this now discredited mutilation. It was mostly done on women, who also fell foul of surgeons performing hysterectomies for ‘hysteria’- whatever that was supposed to be.
It’s absurd to pretend that medics are driven only by scientific evidence. They are not. We are influenced by bias and prejudice like everyone else, as well a prevailing social fashions; factors that disadvantaged womens’ health for generations.
Another example- prior to 1973 the American Psychiatric Association held homosexuality to be a mental ‘disorder’, with the same enthusiasm they now include gender dysphoria in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). What changed among homosexuals in 1973? Nothing. Was there new scientific data- no. What changed was small group political pressure from gay lobbyists and a change to prevailing social attitudes. So homosexuality stopped being a disease on a vote- a show of hands as scientific evidence!
So you are on firm historical ground when you challenge fashionable dogma particularly of psycho-babble-ologists who stand to benefit financially from a practice bereft of large scale multi centre trials. We should not let children become the new victims of ideologues and zealots just because these folk have MDs.
Conflict of interest: a hospital specialist for 26 years.
As a once and future Nashvillian, I watched the rally video with interest and some dismay. I appreciated your remarks, Colin, and was glad to hear from Scott Newgent and Chloe Cole, but I was dismayed by the number of far-right politicians and activists on stage. Calling it a rally to end "mutilation" of kids, while perhaps technically correct, just gives the trans activitsts more reason to paint those of us who oppose gender mythology as hysterical right-wing nutjobs. And the repeated claim that the medical establishment is motivated only by greed comes across as a wacky conspiracy theory. Of course none of this is surprising, given that this was a Daily Wire event, but it's still very frustrating to realize that it's now considered progressive to think that "real" men or women must conform to sex stereotypes.
“persons whose expression or behavior does not conform to that which is typically associated with their sex.”
Sorry but although I am absolutely on your side of this issue, I have no problem with the above definition. There is a lot of room between non-conforming behavior and a claim that a non-conforming person is *actually* a member of the other sex. I'm fine with a 'transwoman' being defined as a MAN who acts like and pretends to be a woman, but that's a mile short of the claim that a transwoman is *actually* a woman.
It is IMO worse than a "medical scandal", it is a crime against humanity.
Bravo, Colin! We trans widows (ex-wives of the now middle aged men who dictated this pseudoscience to the institutions, based on their own psychiatric illness and fetishist obsessions) will find our voices. Dr. Stephen B. Levine, psychiatrist who changed his mind after working to "affirm" for decades testified before the Pennsylvania state legislature regarding the fact that, even in the mind of that individual, he does not believe he's changed sex. Transcribed for your convenience.
https://wordpress.com/post/uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com/4922
Excellent speech, Colin. In less than ten years, the once extremely rare "transgender" cancer has metastasized and spread like wildfire throughout the land. We must excise this cancer before any more lives are destroyed. The mental and physical health of our country's children and young adults hangs in the balance. We must fight against all the nonsense and all the lies.
A friend of mine just told me today that her healthy daughter was forced to pick pronouns when she was in-patient for depression. They would not allow her to use she/her so she picked something ridiculous just to get them off her back. However what was truly alarming was the hospital seemed determined to force this heterosexual child to say she was gay or trans and that was the cause of her depression. (She did not comply). I was shocked to learn that this is how they are treating mental health issues and crises now. Trying to connect it all to sexuality? What the heck is going on? And preying on vulnerable teens is criminal. I hope more people will come forward about this happening. I’m sure this child is not the only one this has happened to.
Finally the people are having a voice against this insanity. Many thanks to Dr. Wright, the Daily Wire and Matt Walsh (the Sweet Daddy) for leading the charge!
End the surgeries then go after the medical institutions that greenlit this lysenkoist madness. Heads have to roll. We need accountability: Massive class action lawsuits. Revoked Licenses. Resignations and all the internal documents detailing how this happened.
What else is there to say?
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Thanks for speaking Colin. I wonder if you knew when you moved to Tennessee that it would be the eye of the storm of this movement? Glad you were there to say what I wanted to hear - that this is all absurd!
For every advance we see in Europe, the US doubles down. The UK shifts to psychological support for young people instead of drugs and surgery, and here, the AAP asks the DOJ to clamp down on dissent. Disturbing and demoralizing that the MSM continues to hide what's happening. Until that shifts, we will need to keep fighting this.
great job. thanks
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Watched your speech, Colin...THANK YOU for everything you’re doing on this existential matter! As a country, we must resoloutly stand against this creeping evil, never backing down, no matter the costs....
RN here. The medical community should be the foremost stalwart vanguard against this pseudoscientific insanity. Healthcare is the most frequent and practical way in which most people encounter biological science, making healthcare workers the most important stewards of this knowledge and information (if we are to concede that it’s not self-evident common sense!) Every doctor and nurse that does not speak against this ideology (which has been trumping actual science) is derelict of their duty to defend and promote truth and health.
There’s far too much respect given to ‘top doctors’ and their views. Medical experts have perpetrated some awful things in the past. And as you point out they continue to do so today. There are a great many medical practices, particularly in surgery, that lack a solid randomised trial evidence base. Which is precisely why any intervention that leads to permanent change in children must be so carefully considered. Even more so where psychological problems are to be treated by surgery- remember frontal lobotomy as a treatment for psychiatric illnesses of all sorts. It’s main protagonist even won a Nobel prize for this now discredited mutilation. It was mostly done on women, who also fell foul of surgeons performing hysterectomies for ‘hysteria’- whatever that was supposed to be.
It’s absurd to pretend that medics are driven only by scientific evidence. They are not. We are influenced by bias and prejudice like everyone else, as well a prevailing social fashions; factors that disadvantaged womens’ health for generations.
Another example- prior to 1973 the American Psychiatric Association held homosexuality to be a mental ‘disorder’, with the same enthusiasm they now include gender dysphoria in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). What changed among homosexuals in 1973? Nothing. Was there new scientific data- no. What changed was small group political pressure from gay lobbyists and a change to prevailing social attitudes. So homosexuality stopped being a disease on a vote- a show of hands as scientific evidence!
So you are on firm historical ground when you challenge fashionable dogma particularly of psycho-babble-ologists who stand to benefit financially from a practice bereft of large scale multi centre trials. We should not let children become the new victims of ideologues and zealots just because these folk have MDs.
Conflict of interest: a hospital specialist for 26 years.
As a once and future Nashvillian, I watched the rally video with interest and some dismay. I appreciated your remarks, Colin, and was glad to hear from Scott Newgent and Chloe Cole, but I was dismayed by the number of far-right politicians and activists on stage. Calling it a rally to end "mutilation" of kids, while perhaps technically correct, just gives the trans activitsts more reason to paint those of us who oppose gender mythology as hysterical right-wing nutjobs. And the repeated claim that the medical establishment is motivated only by greed comes across as a wacky conspiracy theory. Of course none of this is surprising, given that this was a Daily Wire event, but it's still very frustrating to realize that it's now considered progressive to think that "real" men or women must conform to sex stereotypes.
“persons whose expression or behavior does not conform to that which is typically associated with their sex.”
Sorry but although I am absolutely on your side of this issue, I have no problem with the above definition. There is a lot of room between non-conforming behavior and a claim that a non-conforming person is *actually* a member of the other sex. I'm fine with a 'transwoman' being defined as a MAN who acts like and pretends to be a woman, but that's a mile short of the claim that a transwoman is *actually* a woman.