The post is a very helpful road map to what works to get young people caught in the cult to begin to find their way out. This is a public health disaster of immense proportion and needs to be treated as such, with targeted messaging and widely available support for young people like her. We cannot rely on an honest media, or clinicians, …
The post is a very helpful road map to what works to get young people caught in the cult to begin to find their way out. This is a public health disaster of immense proportion and needs to be treated as such, with targeted messaging and widely available support for young people like her. We cannot rely on an honest media, or clinicians, or our legislators. We need a mass deprogramming campaign, and it needs to be based on those exact messages.
There is also a public health disaster more broadly. In addition to presenting with gender dysphoria, many young people who spend a lot of time on social media are presenting with anxiety, depression, suicide ideation and eating disorders. There's even a corner of social media grooming teens into the idea that they have disorders such as Tourette's syndrome. The problem with social media/online forums and teens is much broader than the corner that is trying to persuade teens that they are trans.
Agree, although I do see public outcry about these more “socially acceptable” issues. Trans ideation is politely skipped over because fake Tourette’s is a problem, but a maladaptive, irreversible, evidence-free medical pathway is lifesaving.
According to a recent Statistics Canada survey, less than 2% of teens strongly identify as being trans. 50% of the population are women and have to deal with varying degrees of misogyny in their lives. Between 4% to 8% of the US population struggles with eating disorders. This is more than twice as common for girls than boys.
I would argue that in proportion to the number of people affected, the amount of public attention paid to the trans issue is outsized compared to attention focused on the problem of online misogyny and online unrealistic and hypersexualized images of girls and women.
Trans, in girls, seems to be the cousin of eating disorders, self-harm, hatred towards own body etc, same behavioural patterns, same root-problems - only reason it gets attention and a sort of “holy” status is that so many men think themselves to be trans.
TiM’s have had the political and financial power to run this and “benefit”, and that’s why it’s a big thing - lifted to the holy status.
But it also SHOULD be a big thing and be talked about, reported about and criticised especially when it comes to girls and women because it is one form of the same symptoms of pain-and because it’s the ONE accepted one - thanks to men - it is the most dominant and therefore dangerous as it is made possible and accepted and applauded for girls to self-harm with it.
When men want, men get, even though girls and women would suffer for it.
And if men don’t get, girls and women will suffer for that too.
The post is a very helpful road map to what works to get young people caught in the cult to begin to find their way out. This is a public health disaster of immense proportion and needs to be treated as such, with targeted messaging and widely available support for young people like her. We cannot rely on an honest media, or clinicians, or our legislators. We need a mass deprogramming campaign, and it needs to be based on those exact messages.
There is also a public health disaster more broadly. In addition to presenting with gender dysphoria, many young people who spend a lot of time on social media are presenting with anxiety, depression, suicide ideation and eating disorders. There's even a corner of social media grooming teens into the idea that they have disorders such as Tourette's syndrome. The problem with social media/online forums and teens is much broader than the corner that is trying to persuade teens that they are trans.
Agree, although I do see public outcry about these more “socially acceptable” issues. Trans ideation is politely skipped over because fake Tourette’s is a problem, but a maladaptive, irreversible, evidence-free medical pathway is lifesaving.
Number of reviews of Hadley Freeman's book "Good Girls" about teenage eating disorders: 165
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Girls-Study-Story-Anorexia/dp/B0BJ152457
Number of reviews of Laura Bates book "Men Who Hate Women" about online misogyny: 1560
https://www.amazon.com/Men-Who-Hate-Women-Misogyny/dp/B09VJGJFKH
Number of reviews of Helen Joyce's book "Trans": 2058
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=trans+helen+joyce&i=audible&crid=1F6ILX7TJF4AJ
According to a recent Statistics Canada survey, less than 2% of teens strongly identify as being trans. 50% of the population are women and have to deal with varying degrees of misogyny in their lives. Between 4% to 8% of the US population struggles with eating disorders. This is more than twice as common for girls than boys.
https://health.usnews.com/conditions/eating-disorder/articles/eating-disorder-statistics
I would argue that in proportion to the number of people affected, the amount of public attention paid to the trans issue is outsized compared to attention focused on the problem of online misogyny and online unrealistic and hypersexualized images of girls and women.
Trans, in girls, seems to be the cousin of eating disorders, self-harm, hatred towards own body etc, same behavioural patterns, same root-problems - only reason it gets attention and a sort of “holy” status is that so many men think themselves to be trans.
TiM’s have had the political and financial power to run this and “benefit”, and that’s why it’s a big thing - lifted to the holy status.
But it also SHOULD be a big thing and be talked about, reported about and criticised especially when it comes to girls and women because it is one form of the same symptoms of pain-and because it’s the ONE accepted one - thanks to men - it is the most dominant and therefore dangerous as it is made possible and accepted and applauded for girls to self-harm with it.
When men want, men get, even though girls and women would suffer for it.
And if men don’t get, girls and women will suffer for that too.