I have a new piece up over at UnHerd on the US Democratic party’s embrace of ‘gender-affirming care’ and what medical providers have to believe to transition children: Rather than bending the arc of history toward justice, the Biden administration has put the full force of the federal government behind a treatment model that amounts to little more than an unregulated medical experiment on vulnerable children and adolescents. Don’t let the language of civil rights fool you.
Jul 5, 2022·edited Jul 5, 2022Liked by Eliza Mondegreen
I couldn't post on Unheard, so I'm posting this comment here:
The "true self" -- I could puke when I hear that term. People are so changeable that a person's "true self" can change every few months. By "true self" they really mean "what I want for myself today". But what a child wants for itself at eight years old might be very different from what the adult-yet-to-come wants for itself. This is the bottom line: No minor child has the wisdom or insight to make life-changing decisions about itself and its future. Changing genders (to the extent possible) is for the adult to choose.
What Olson-Kennedy says about diabetics is the most fundamental misinformation and gaslighting imaginable. Diabetes is a physical disease, while gender dysphoria is a psychological state. There is absolutely no similarity between the two. The treatment for most psychological illnesses is THERAPY, NOT "AFFIRMATIVE CARE". Accepting a child's self-diagnosis is MEDICAL MALPRACTICE.
Jul 5, 2022·edited Jul 5, 2022Liked by Eliza Mondegreen
It is having a disastrous effect on_all_children:
Primary pupils are being bullied and called transphobic for using wrong pronouns
Mark Macaskill
Sunday July 03 2022, 12.00pm BST, The Sunday Times
Children as young as 11 — including those with learning disabilities — are being bullied in Scottish schools for questioning transgender ideology and failing to use appropriate pronouns, it has been claimed.
Safeguarding Our Schools Scotland (SOSS), a campaign body, said dozens of parents had raised concerns in recent months over pupils being ostracised by their peers and branded “transphobic”.
It said the cases it was aware of did not include malicious behaviour towards trans children but involved young people who struggled to understand and accept the decision of their peers to switch gender.
They include a primary six pupil in Inverclyde who was abused verbally and on social media for refusing to acknowledge that a girl she had known for five years had self-identified as a boy. The stress caused her to self-harm. In another case, a pupil with dyslexia was bullied for continuing to refer to a boy as “he” after the individual identified as a girl.
Lucie Phillips, from SOSS, said the reports highlighted a worrying trend that the national anti-bullying service, Respect Me, appeared unwilling to confront. [...]
Great article. Thanks for writing it. I think the number of mental health clinicians who are blindly providing "gender affirming care" is quite high. The training clinicians are required to have in order to provide it is little to none, maybe a class or workshop in grad school. The trainings I've been to are a really mixed bag when it comes to the information they provide, with some of it being completely wrong. Well-meaning mental health providers who feel over-confident to provide this type of care may not feel they need to do their own research or even give a cursory glance to websites like mayoclinic.org to learn that puberty blockers are not "completely reversible" as stated in some trainings. And NOBODY asks why the vast majority of trans kids are female much less what might be happening to young girls that's making them flee girlhood and womanhood in record numbers.
The arc of history bends towards lifelong medical addiction. What will happen when we go bankrupt and can no longer afford to dole out luxury goods to an increasing population?
If this was in the UK, I can assure you that the first person to approach a 3-year-old in this manner would not be able to speak again for some time.
In my opinion, it's a grooming of sorts. If they are saying that a child under 12 is capable of understanding the human body and sexual orientation and preferences, then they should be driving trucks, buses, working and paying mortgages then. It's wrong on so many levels.
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I love this. Particularly the part about people, formerly known as children, being allowed to freely roam around the global digital village, that we all live in, as a disembodied entity. Unlike those of us who grew up without the internet, children now develop psyches that are formed without the vital interaction which our bodies give us; smell, pheromones, body language, physical signals and contact which enable us to develop trust and relationships. No wonder they are confused and suicidal.
This is a great video about the robot. It is based on the virus, its sequence, the test, the code for the vaccine and the fear existing only insilco, which they do, but please stick with it if you don't agree with this.
I believe that this 'virus' of transgender also exists only in the digital world and not in reality.
It made me see how these clinicians are totally unaware of their own countertransference. Gender-affirming care isn’t so much about affirming the gender of their clients as it is about affirming their own "gender identity" so that they can avoid confronting their ambivalence about their own identifications.
I couldn't post on Unheard, so I'm posting this comment here:
The "true self" -- I could puke when I hear that term. People are so changeable that a person's "true self" can change every few months. By "true self" they really mean "what I want for myself today". But what a child wants for itself at eight years old might be very different from what the adult-yet-to-come wants for itself. This is the bottom line: No minor child has the wisdom or insight to make life-changing decisions about itself and its future. Changing genders (to the extent possible) is for the adult to choose.
What Olson-Kennedy says about diabetics is the most fundamental misinformation and gaslighting imaginable. Diabetes is a physical disease, while gender dysphoria is a psychological state. There is absolutely no similarity between the two. The treatment for most psychological illnesses is THERAPY, NOT "AFFIRMATIVE CARE". Accepting a child's self-diagnosis is MEDICAL MALPRACTICE.
It is having a disastrous effect on_all_children:
Primary pupils are being bullied and called transphobic for using wrong pronouns
Mark Macaskill
Sunday July 03 2022, 12.00pm BST, The Sunday Times
Children as young as 11 — including those with learning disabilities — are being bullied in Scottish schools for questioning transgender ideology and failing to use appropriate pronouns, it has been claimed.
Safeguarding Our Schools Scotland (SOSS), a campaign body, said dozens of parents had raised concerns in recent months over pupils being ostracised by their peers and branded “transphobic”.
It said the cases it was aware of did not include malicious behaviour towards trans children but involved young people who struggled to understand and accept the decision of their peers to switch gender.
They include a primary six pupil in Inverclyde who was abused verbally and on social media for refusing to acknowledge that a girl she had known for five years had self-identified as a boy. The stress caused her to self-harm. In another case, a pupil with dyslexia was bullied for continuing to refer to a boy as “he” after the individual identified as a girl.
Lucie Phillips, from SOSS, said the reports highlighted a worrying trend that the national anti-bullying service, Respect Me, appeared unwilling to confront. [...]
- LINK to full article (archived/non-paywalled): https://archive.ph/XTsDW#selection-853.0-877.157
Great article. Thanks for writing it. I think the number of mental health clinicians who are blindly providing "gender affirming care" is quite high. The training clinicians are required to have in order to provide it is little to none, maybe a class or workshop in grad school. The trainings I've been to are a really mixed bag when it comes to the information they provide, with some of it being completely wrong. Well-meaning mental health providers who feel over-confident to provide this type of care may not feel they need to do their own research or even give a cursory glance to websites like mayoclinic.org to learn that puberty blockers are not "completely reversible" as stated in some trainings. And NOBODY asks why the vast majority of trans kids are female much less what might be happening to young girls that's making them flee girlhood and womanhood in record numbers.
The arc of history bends towards lifelong medical addiction. What will happen when we go bankrupt and can no longer afford to dole out luxury goods to an increasing population?
Such a great piece! Thanks Eliza (and Wesley)!
If this was in the UK, I can assure you that the first person to approach a 3-year-old in this manner would not be able to speak again for some time.
In my opinion, it's a grooming of sorts. If they are saying that a child under 12 is capable of understanding the human body and sexual orientation and preferences, then they should be driving trucks, buses, working and paying mortgages then. It's wrong on so many levels.
Please subscribe to my stack.
I have so much information that they don't want you to know.
Pfizers documents etc
Hi,
https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/all-hail-the-robot the perils of disembodiment allowing children to freely roam the digital world
Jo
Hi,
I love this. Particularly the part about people, formerly known as children, being allowed to freely roam around the global digital village, that we all live in, as a disembodied entity. Unlike those of us who grew up without the internet, children now develop psyches that are formed without the vital interaction which our bodies give us; smell, pheromones, body language, physical signals and contact which enable us to develop trust and relationships. No wonder they are confused and suicidal.
This is a great video about the robot. It is based on the virus, its sequence, the test, the code for the vaccine and the fear existing only insilco, which they do, but please stick with it if you don't agree with this.
I believe that this 'virus' of transgender also exists only in the digital world and not in reality.
https://odysee.com/@hipsterious:3/Dr.-Sam-Bailey-interviews-Eric-Coppolino---The-Digital-Seduction-of-COVID-19:1
The effects of the technology is the real problem
Jo
An outstanding piece!
It made me see how these clinicians are totally unaware of their own countertransference. Gender-affirming care isn’t so much about affirming the gender of their clients as it is about affirming their own "gender identity" so that they can avoid confronting their ambivalence about their own identifications.