I’ve got a new post over at Genspect (you’ll be reading me there more often…): Doubt is simultaneously all-pervasive and strictly taboo in online trans communities. You’re never supposed to question or doubt anyone else’s gender-identity claims (with
The religious analogy is clear but I also see these fears and behaviors as similar to the ones we experience when we're trying to appease our families or loved ones. We do these type of mental gymnastics when one part of us is struggling with reality and another part of us knows the group/family/friend will reject us if we get too close to the truth. The group/family is so fragile that the slightest bump against their version of reality is interpreted as a threat and must be extinguished immediately. The members of the group/family internalize this unspoken rule and behave/think accordingly. It's an insidious mindset but I'm glad there are people sharing information on how to recognize this and how to shift your mindset.
So many different institutional players on the left have bought so fully into the "transwomen are women" mantra that they simply can't turn the ship around in anything approaching a timely manner. Unfortunately, that means a lot of the negative consequences of that dogma will continue to fall on women and families until the madness is ended.
It is a terrible shame that the doubts are not allowed to see the light of day. From these doubts can grow the path back to learning one's own sexed body is the best and healthiest choice. Those doubts open the eyes to the characters lurking behind the curtains. If it was all so legit, why are the "Dutch studies" used as proof of efficacy, when a sample size of 55 with a death on the record and half lost to follow up, should be the item having "impostor syndrome." All of the studies supporting affirmation so far suffer from impostor syndrome, because they are, in fact not acceptable, foundational proof. As shown in the Michelle Alleva interviews on Jonathan Streeter's channel called Thoughts on Things and Stuff, transgenderism is a cult. It makes doctors and pharma execs wealthy at the expense of vulnerable youth and adults.
The religious analogy is clear but I also see these fears and behaviors as similar to the ones we experience when we're trying to appease our families or loved ones. We do these type of mental gymnastics when one part of us is struggling with reality and another part of us knows the group/family/friend will reject us if we get too close to the truth. The group/family is so fragile that the slightest bump against their version of reality is interpreted as a threat and must be extinguished immediately. The members of the group/family internalize this unspoken rule and behave/think accordingly. It's an insidious mindset but I'm glad there are people sharing information on how to recognize this and how to shift your mindset.
Good points -- some serious pathologies, potential at least, in group-think which tends to be antithetical to free-thought.
Probably part and parcel of Eliza's quote of Orwell about the gramophone mind. Orthodoxies of one form or another.
Somewhat apropos of which, you might have some interest in the Reality and Illusion theme of Albee's classic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf%3F
Freddy deBoer also had illuminating post on how that group-think has played-out in the context of journalism:
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-twitter-files-and-writing-for
So many different institutional players on the left have bought so fully into the "transwomen are women" mantra that they simply can't turn the ship around in anything approaching a timely manner. Unfortunately, that means a lot of the negative consequences of that dogma will continue to fall on women and families until the madness is ended.
more brilliant and original work from you.
New! Trans Widow's Days of Girlhood!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfqiv54bwRI
Great image Eliza.
It is a terrible shame that the doubts are not allowed to see the light of day. From these doubts can grow the path back to learning one's own sexed body is the best and healthiest choice. Those doubts open the eyes to the characters lurking behind the curtains. If it was all so legit, why are the "Dutch studies" used as proof of efficacy, when a sample size of 55 with a death on the record and half lost to follow up, should be the item having "impostor syndrome." All of the studies supporting affirmation so far suffer from impostor syndrome, because they are, in fact not acceptable, foundational proof. As shown in the Michelle Alleva interviews on Jonathan Streeter's channel called Thoughts on Things and Stuff, transgenderism is a cult. It makes doctors and pharma execs wealthy at the expense of vulnerable youth and adults.
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Once again, you show that you are one of the great thinkers of our time. Thank you for being brave with your brilliance.