Secrets of the Libs of TikTok, Part 2

The article blames "right-wing demagogues" for "inflaming the debate," but that's something the NYT says every single day.

The Admission Against Interest here is that trans demagogues are pushing their own "extremist" agenda.

As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.

Feb. 2, 2024

By Pamela Paul

Opinion Columnist

Growing up in a relatively conservative community in Grand Rapids, Mich., Powell, like many teenagers, didn't feel comfortable in her own skin. She was unpopular and frequently bullied. Puberty made everything worse. She suffered from depression and was in and out of therapy.

"I felt so detached from my body, and the way it was developing felt hostile to me," Powell told me. It was classic gender dysphoria, a feeling of discomfort with your sex.

Reading about transgender people online, Powell believed that the reason she didn't feel comfortable in her body was that she was in the wrong body. Transitioning seemed like the obvious solution. The narrative she had heard and absorbed was that if you don't transition, you'll kill yourself.

At 17, desperate to begin hormone therapy, Powell broke the news to her parents. They sent her to a gender specialist to make sure she was serious. In the fall of her senior year of high school, she started cross-sex hormones. She had a double mastectomy the summer before college, then went off as a transgender man named Grayson to Sarah Lawrence College, where she was paired with a male roommate on a men's floor. At 5-foot-3, she felt she came across as a very effeminate gay man.

At no point during her medical or surgical transition, Powell says, did anyone ask her about the reasons behind her gender dysphoria or her depression. At no point was she asked about her sexual orientation. And at no point was she asked about any previous trauma, and so neither the therapists nor the doctors ever learned that she'd been sexually abused as a child.

"I wish there had been more open conversations," Powell, now 23 and detransitioned, told me. "But I was told there is one cure and one thing to do if this is your problem, and this will help you."

Progressives often portray the heated debate over childhood transgender care as a clash between those who are trying to help growing numbers of children express what they believe their genders to be and conservative politicians who won't let kids be themselves.

But right-wing demagogues are not the only ones who have inflamed this debate. Transgender activists have pushed their own ideological extremism, especially by pressing for a treatment orthodoxy that has faced increased scrutiny in recent years. Under that model of care, clinicians are expected to affirm a young person's assertion of gender identity and even provide medical treatment before, or even without, exploring other possible sources of distress.

Many who think there needs to be a more cautious approach -- including well-meaning liberal parents, doctors and people who have undergone gender transition and subsequently regretted their procedures -- have been attacked as anti-trans and intimidated into silencing their concerns.

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Powell's story shows how easy it is for young people to get caught up by the pull of ideology in this atmosphere.

"What should be a medical and psychological issue has been morphed into a political one," Powell lamented during our conversation. "It's a mess."

Per this next passage, you'd almost think that transgenderism was now a social contagion or something:

Laura Edwards-Leeper, the founding psychologist of the first pediatric gender clinic in the United States, said that when she started her practice in 2007, most of her patients had longstanding and deep-seated gender dysphoria. Transitioning clearly made sense for almost all of them, and any mental health issues they had were generally resolved through gender transition.

"But that is just not the case anymore," she told me recently.

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Most of her patients now, she said, have no history of childhood gender dysphoria. Others refer to this phenomenon, with some controversy, as rapid onset gender dysphoria, in which adolescents, particularly tween and teenage girls, express gender dysphoria despite never having done so when they were younger. Frequently, they have mental health issues unrelated to gender. While professional associations say there is a lack of quality research on rapid onset gender dysphoria, several researchers have documented the phenomenon, and many health care providers have seen evidence of it in their practices.

"The population has changed drastically," said Edwards-Leeper, a former head of the Child and Adolescent Committee for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the organization responsible for setting gender transition guidelines for medical professionals.

I see this stated all the time by real doctors: That there is a thing called "gender dysphoria," but it shows itself very early and it's persistent. That is, a kid makes this claim early in life and hardly ever wavers.

This new social-contagion form of transgenderism seems to strike teenagers right at the point when most teenagers are anxious and confused. And it's very sudden, with no prior indications.

Almost like these kids got swept up into an online cult which recruited them by telling them that all of their anxieties, inadequacies, depressions and pains could be cured just by changing genders.

The rest of the article is here.

Colorado is plotting to allow trans people with felony sexual criminal histories to escape their pasts by legally changing their names.

Note that felons are usually not permitted to legally change their names, for the very reason that we don't want criminals to be able to slip off their identity and pass as law-abiding citizens.

But we must break all the rules to Affirm Trannies!

Lorena Garcia @RepLorenaGarcia

Jan 28

I am proud and honored to sponsor HB24-1071 making sure that a right that already exists is truly accessible to everyone. Trans ppl with felonies should be able to access the right to change their name to match their gender. Before you go all hater, learn more about the process.

Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored

The man this bill was named after has had his name changed and made it very difficult for ANYONE to find his criminal past. More steps had to be taken. That's not okay.

You're not going to believe this, but trans people, who are totally not under the influence of a social contagion, are 109% more likely to claim they have the largely-social-contagion "disease" "long covid."

I'm not saying it doesn't exist.

I'm just saying that every hypochondriac claims to have it.

I know you'll have trouble believing this, but a study shows that 80%+ of trannies have personality disorders.

This study is out of Iran. Which may give one pause, but: In what country, except a homophobic Muslim country, would any doctors or psychiatrists feel safe in reporting anything negative about transgenders? It literally gets people fired and their articles de-published in the Queer West.

Remember that "transgender care" doctors completely ignore psychological comorbidities -- which just means other forms of mental illness -- that people claiming to be transgender have. Instead of trying to cure these underlying mental illnesses, they rush to "affirm" the claimed transgender identity, and tell the patient that if they just transgender, all their other mental illnesses will just dissolve away.

It's 10x more insane than anything Dianetics would tell you.

The champion female surfer who had been attacked by a shark at age 13, but went on to win championships while missing an arm objected to men competing in the women's surf category. Bear in mind, her livelihood is at stake.

In return, her longtime sponsor "Rip Curl" dropped her.

And guess who Rip Curl replaced her with as a "spokeswoman"?

That's right, you got it, the replaced the real woman with a tranny fake woman.

Progress!

What happened to Believe All Women, I wonder?

The good news is -- not great news, but good-ish news -- is that Australia has reacted badly to this and Rip Curl is doing damage control and attempting to erase evidence of the replacement spokestranny from the internet.

It's amazing that people claiming to be "real women, seriously you guys" have absolutely no respect or regard for the feelings of actual women.

Why, you'd almost begin to suspect that these alleged "Real Women" are actually despise actual women or something.

Gavin Newsom witnesses a shoplifter walking out of a store without paying. When someone ask "Why am I paying if he can just walk out," the clerk, not recognizing Newsom, answers, because of "the governor."

Newsom then attempts to spin that his penalties for theft are "the tenth harshest in the nation" so it must be someone else's fault.

That story from Victoria Taft:

Newsom was purchasing his $380 worth of merchandise when the clerk noticed a thief, with his arms full of stolen merchandise, had dropped an item. Newsom said the clerk told the thief, "sir, you dropped this." The thief rushed back to get the stolen item.

Newsom claims to have been surprised by the scene. "As we're checking out, the woman says, 'Oh, he's just walking out. He's not paying for them.'" Newsom told her, "Why aren't you stopping him? And she goes 'the governor.' Swear to God, true story."

The clerk then supposedly told him, "The governor lowered the threshold, there's no accountability." He replied, "That's just not true." He then explained to the clerk that a thief can steal $950 worth of merchandise without committing a felony "and that's the tenth toughest [law] in America." He repeated the claim to her again because he thinks saying it twice will make this point land better. "She didn't even know what I was talking about," he exclaimed.

Well, maybe she doesn't "know" because in real life where the rest of us live, there are entire branches of stores closing down in San Francisco, for example, that have so much organized retail theft they leave. Maybe he doesn't "know" that the state's law enforcement is letting criminals out of jail at record rates while importing more criminals from across an open border.

Adam Carolla talks about that story and the "narcissistic sociopath" Gavin Newsom with Megyn Kelly.

Carolla points out that In-and-Out closed its first location in its "70-year storied history," because of rampant theft in Oakland.

How did this happen? Gavin Newsom has no idea.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:45 PM

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