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As one chemically castrated because I am in the advanced stages of prostate cancer, I try always to emphasise that these puberty blockers also leech minerals from bones. It usually takes about two years. Osteoporosis is the quick name for it and it hurts with many kinds of pain.

I really have no idea why oncology recognises this as a side effect of these drugs but gender therapy doesn't. Almost as if the latter were deliberately lying to make their thing less scary and dangerous. But of course they wouldn't do that would they? Doctors would never lie to their patients just to make a fast buck .....

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Just wanted to say -- I hope that you are doing as well as you can. I'm sorry you're in pain!

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Thank you. I am fortunate to be under the care of the NHS. I am at home in an hospital bed with many other appliances available to help me out and a GP at the end of the phone line whenever necessary. Although pain of bony mets is excruciating, this is being managed well.

I feel very fortunate that I am able here and at other places to sit on the hill I am going to die on :-) my objections to identity politics go back many years and have been based on close readings and careful analysis of what it all entails. Since identity politics spawned gender ideology and adolescents told me I should really read Butler's dubious interpretation of Foucault, I have been building that hill. There is a good view from the top of my hill, but the orcs and trolls who surround it with their bizarre illogic, passive aggression and barely concealed violence are creeping all over the lower slopes. I do not believe they are well informed of intelligent enough to be able to survive for very long on the upper flanks of my hill, where they might encounter other, more materialist, readings of Foucault, or long case studies of what it is actually like to be permanently medicated as well as all sorts of other goodies. But they don't come up my hill much.

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I am sorry you are so afflicted. My late mother suffered from it as a result of poor nutrition during WW2. Having cared for her during her last few years, I can affirm that it is not a condition which should be treated lightly and there is no aspect of living which is not adversely affected. I do hope you are receiving the best care possible and wish you well for the future.

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Thank you! As I said above I am very fortunate to be under the care of the NHS and happy to have built a GC hill from which I will be launching my dying salvos against the "gender Borg" :-) thank you for your kind words.

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It's DARVO in action.

This is an excellent explanation, which illuminates the thinking behind a story I heard from a survivor of the camps. She was serving as a translator, her skills made her valuable enough to keep her from being sent to the ovens right away. Her adenoids became inflamed, a doctor removed them, without anesthesia. She assumed this was because it was in short supply, needed at the front lines, whatever. No. She bore the pain as well as she could. After the surgery, the doctor said if he'd known a Jew could be that brave, he would have given her anesthetic.

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I had a patient who was a survivor of Aushwitz. A guard kicked her skull in and, for some reason, the doctors saved her and put a plate in her head (they actually did a superb job).

Decades later she realized they saved her because head injuries were a problem for German soldiers so they basically were using her to practise their skills.

She survived Dachau as well, including a “death march” when the Allies were closing in.

As you said, DARVO in action, we’re not the ones performing mix and match, novelty procedures to see what will happen. There isn’t a terf alive who has mutilated a child, or left a mentally ill young women requiring life long medical interventions in order to survive. We also don’t chemically or physically (orchiectomies, hysterectomies) castrate Vulnerable youth.

And don’t get me started on Lupron…I can rant for days about using that sh!t on children. 🤬🤬🤬

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Jun 7, 2022Liked by Eliza Mondegreen

Thank you for that. I have often wondered about why the term nazi is being flung around so freely but have not been able to order and express my thoughts and reservations. You have done a great job. Thanks again.

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The suicide statistics that are oft cited as the number one reason to medically transition are extremely misleading. Whenever I've examined the studies that report "high suicidality among trans" individuals, what I've consistently found is HIGH SUICIDALITY (suicide attempts, thoughts, etc.) AMONG FEMALES -- which tracks with all the information we have about suicide patterns in each sex. Just a couple snippets from the top two Google search results:

From "Suicidality among Trans Youth..." by Austin and Craig: "82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide..." but when you look at the actual numbers, the majority are "trans men" (FEMALE) [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/]

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from "Suicide Thoughts and Attempts Among Transgender Adults": "Respondents who were assigned male sex at birth had a lower prevalence of lifetime suicide thoughts and attempts compared to those assigned female at birth...Comparing respondents of different gender

identities, the highest prevalence of lifetime suicide thoughts and attempts was found among

transgender men and non-binary respondents assigned female at birth, while crossdressers reported substantially lower prevalence of both lifetime and past-year suicide thoughts and attempts." (https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Suicidality-Transgender-Sep-2019.pdf)

It's all about misogyny.

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--It's all about misogyny.

It really is. I wish this was addressed more, but that's misogyny for ya....

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I think of it all the time and also feel frustrated that it's not talked about more. I've been considering doing some writing about it on here or an old blog of mine.

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A great one, Eliza. Thanks. I followed the link on the claim that breasts are "birth defects". Shocking. Well, not really to me, as I've been following this issue (and others like it) for a while. Thanks for the article and for linking to sources; helps all of us in the resistance.

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Watching this nightmare unfold has absolutely given me great insight into Nazi Germany. It’s taken almost nothing to get seemingly intelligent, rational people to twist themselves around with “no debate” in order to support the whole trans package. There must have been some German physicians watching on in horror but staying quiet and uncomfortably comfortable. Having to live with your silence doesn’t feel like adequate retribution when so many have been screaming about the atrocities.

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Thank you for the excellent article! I never knew there was such a thing as Godwin's law. Would you be able to put your entire article onto Twitter in parts? Everyone should read it. Yes, people like Andy Sava are the ones who are okay with chemically (and surgically) sterilizing and castrating people, including children. "Terfs" are actually the ones who care about children's and others' health and welfare. Below, another commenter mentioned this being an example of DARVO in action. Absolutely.

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Brilliant piece of writing.

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