There has been a media blackout on the phenomenon of pre-teens and teens suddenly deciding they are the opposite sex–typically, after binging on trans-related social media.
For the first time, a professional researcher is going to take a look at the issue of social contagion and “rapid-onset” gender dysphoria.
It’s a damn shame the mainstream (let alone liberal) press won’t touch stories like this. This mom (whose story was featured on 4thWaveNow a few weeks ago) has decades of experience advocating for the rights of people with autism. She is speaking out because her formerly lesbian-identified autistic daughter has been hospitalized multiple times since starting medical transition.
Dr. Levinstein is incredibly brave to tell her story. Breitbart is rabidly right-wing, but their reporter conducted the interview without descending into homophobia or liberal-baiting.
Isn’t it high time the left-liberal press took off its blinders and started investigating what’s going on? Especially since more and more girls and young women are being swept up into the trans trend?
NO WONDER Burleton is so mad about me posting publicly about my detransition. They claim that TransActive has a 0% detransition rate and that their completely unscientific unpublished “research” contradicts years of studies on childhood gender dysphoria. Can’t claim that any more. Too bad.
“Gender clinics” have a responsibility to face up to the fact that some of their clients will regret transition. And we are talking about kids and teenagers, not just adults here. Pretending that detransitioners don’t exist,or that they weren’t “truly trans” just won’t cut it.
Thank you, Cari. @transactive owes you a lot more than their usual propaganda. Maybe if they listened carefully to ex-clients like you, they might begin to question the ethics of medically transitioning kids and teens. Because they DON’T KNOW…they can’t know…who will regret in 5, 10, 15, or 20 years down the road.
A compilation of things I wish my therapist had said to me while I was pursuing medical transition. Unfortunately the text came out tiny when I scanned it, but should still be readable if you zoom in.
This could be trauma. Women feel this way too. Stop running from yourself. THERE ARE OTHER WAYS.
4 words x 4. Succinct, powerful, useful. Could be the 4 words that unlock the pain, that allow a teen to feel ok in her body, to grow up unencumbered by self hate. Yet every institution in Western society–the law, the media, medicine, mental health, the school system–all of them want to label these words “conversion therapy.” They want to outlaw the 4 words. They want to silence every doubt.
@transactive, what say you to Cari and women like her, whom you hurried along the transition highway? What do you owe the girls who changed their minds, who were only trying to decipher their own pain?
I’m not on Tumblr too much anymore, but when I step back in, I can’t help but laugh bitterly that hostile reblogs of my posts, along with idiotic comments in my Ask box (”fucking TERF your blog is a cesspit lmao”) are nearly all from the teen and young-adult experts who are themselves unwitting victims of a cultural trend. Fish swimming in the ocean don’t think, “Gee, this stuff around me is the ocean.” Trans-trending youth are immersed in something they have no perspective on: the vast sea of transactivist-driven propaganda that surrounds them.
I thought I had a good handle on everything important when I was 18 (or 20 or 23 or..) too. Guess what? I didn’t.
History is littered with scarred victims of discarded medical fads. Lawsuits, recriminations, and regrets abound. The AMA, APA, and formerly well respected doctors and psychiatrists have eaten their words over and over again. Young people have zero understanding of the historical depth perception that develops over a lifetime; a perspective that enables thinking adults to recognize when another well-funded fad is seizing society. We are cutting, drugging, and sterilizing kids in service to the ideology of adult activists, and it’s plain to see to anyone who cares enough to consider the evidence.
I get requests all the time for evidence that most trans-identified kids grow out of it, the vast majority of them going on to be gay or lesbian adults. Here you go. Plenty of studies, helpfully compiled by Dr. James Cantor at this link:
Of course, nowadays, we’re influencing kids to STAY trans by “socially transitioning” them, using “preferred pronouns,” and puberty blockers. Wouldn’t it be interesting to just leave them alone instead of reassuring them that they really ARE the opposite sex, given how high the medical stakes are?
dude…. even if trans kids “grow out of it” (and this is one source, which isn’t good enough to convince me)…. you can detransition rather easily by going off blockers/hormones and switching pronouns back…
41 percent of trans or gender non-conforming people surveyed have attempted suicide (x). even if the above were true, which is worse? someone having to detransition, or someoneliterally killing themselves?
Hostile reblogs like this are based on ignorance. First, a child/teen who goes directly from puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones will be permanently sterilized; this is not even a question up for debate among medical professionals (gametes never mature without natural puberty). Second, especially for girls, “detransitioning easily” makes no sense, because testosterone results in permanent changes (including but not limited to voice changes, body hair, and genital changes). Ask any detransitioned woman if this is not true.
Most importantly, the 41% rate that is constantly utilized to terrify parents into medically transitioning their kids is misused on a daily basis. All gender nonconforming people (which includes gay/lesbian and trans-identified, among others) have a higher rate of self harm (different from actual suicide attempts), and the reasons are multifaceted. Even the authors of the 41% survey that is constantly touted/misrepresented (see link below) acknowledge this. They also found that people who have sought or obtained medical transition services have a higher rate of self harm.
One thing is certain: There is NO evidence that kids who are
medically transitioned will have a lower self-harm or suicide rate in
the long term.
There’s no data on that, because only in the last decade have kids been used as guinea pigs in this respect.
Read the link below, and then see what you think. In the meantime, hostile rebloggers ought to examine their own consciences and see whether vilifying concerned parents who question whether the current rush to transition little kids is the right thing to do.
i'm an angry dyke and i refuse to apologize to it. i lost one of my best friends to the trans movement, she claims she's "pansexual" but i know she still loves girls exclusively, like she always has. our community is being torn apart, this is conversion therapy disguised a rights movement.
Exactly right: young lesbians are being swept up into queer culture and turning into trans men, and all we see are celebratory media stories. Anger is exactly the right response, because it IS conversion therapy, but it seems no one will acknowledge it.
But that is changing because more people are speaking up, as you just have. And the more women who speak up, the louder we are–and eventually, someone will listen who can do something about it.
I’m doing what I can to expose what’s happening via my main WordPress blog. If you haven’t already, please read this account by Max Robinson; you can contact her via her websites (see intro to post). And I know there are many people who follow me on Tumblr who feel the same as you do and would like to connect with you.
Your anger can be used as fuel to help fight this. Thanks for writing.
