Anonymous asked:

"The World Health Organization Issues New Guidelines on Caring for Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation" - article in Slate. Wondering where we can find the guidelines on caring for detransitioners.

When hell freezes over?

Or in a decade or two, when some of the “false positive” kids (those who were incorrectly diagnosed as trans and medically transitioned pre-puberty) sue as adults, because they were sterilized and permanently altered when too young to understand the future consequences.

I do think detransitioners might want to lobby for similar WHO guidelines to be put in place for survivors of medical transition. At the very least, all the gender clinics ought to have such programs, because no medical intervention is ever 100% correct, without errors…or without regretters.

Even if you believe there is such a thing as a “truly trans” person, the medical/psychological professions should be forced to provide services to those who eventually need help coping with the changes done to their bodies that they now no longer feel good about.

guideonragingstars

Anonymous asked:

Just read about the Oregon law allowing surgery at 15 without parental permission. What is going on? Who will be deciding that the surgery is required? Doesn't anyone believe that kids might need more gate-keeping than 40 year olds?

4thwavenow answered:

TransActive, a child-transition-pushing organization in Portland, Oregon, lobbied hard for that change. They believe these kids have the cognitive wherewithal to make these decisions. They celebrate parents being cut out of the process. The director of that organization believes that 2-year-olds have innate gender identity. And they want to help other states lower the age of medical consent, as it is in Oregon. The general public needs to understand where this is all heading. See more here:

http://4thwavenow.com/2015/08/19/coming-soon-to-a-state-near-you-double-mastectomy-for-your-15-year-old-without-parental-consent/

guideonragingstars:

4thwavenow:

anticipatedrepudiation:

kristen-the-rageful:

Yet my state is one of the worst in the nation for sexual assault, almost 50% of women in Oregon are sexually assaulted in their lifetime, and don’t seem to give one little fuck about that

TransActive has nothing to do with it. Oregon recognizes a teenager’s right to medical privacy. It’s the same policy that allows girls to get abortions and birth control without their parents’ involvement.

TransActive has *everything* to do with it, with their incessant pushing of the idea that kids have the cognitive wherewithal to decide to be permanently sterilized, and to make other irreversible changes via hormones and surgeries. Suggesting that this comes down to a simple question of “medical privacy”, and equating abortions and birth control with these kinds of irrevocable decisions, makes no sense at all. This is a NEW addition to Oregon law, and child transition pushers like TransActive want to see kids able to do this in every state in the nation. Sorry, but until recently, no one in their right mind would advocate for kids with primitive executive function skills to cut their parents out of extreme medical treatments like this.  Read the linked article. Adult transgenders are using kids to validate their own ADULT choices, not to mention to make money for surgeons, endocrinologists, and “gender therapists.” Since when is turning kids into permanent medical patients a good thing? Yeah, kids can get birth control as teens, but until this trans thing, no surgeon would have given a girl a complete hysterectomy as a teen as “birth control.” Right? But now, because everyone is collaborating in a delusion that a girl is really a boy, she gets to go get a hysterectomy with no questions asked. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Okay. I don’t know if I should say this since it runs the risk of exposing my identity. But I’m going to anyway, because holy shit. I went to TransActive for my therapy, they were the ones to write my hormone letter and my letter to get my driver’s license marker changed. I was given these at 17. During the course of my therapy, I started having flashbacks of the CSA I experienced for the first time. The therapist there gave me one amateur session of EMDR (which, uh, doesn’t work in one session, it’s supposed to be an ongoing thing) and that was about it. No processing or recovery necessary before getting this traumatized teenager on hormones!

Thank you for your courage in writing this response. You aren’t the only one with an experience like this (as I’m sure you likely know). Amongst trans activists (and TransActive is an activist organization), it has become taboo to talk about other issues that might contribute to a young person wanting to escape his or her sexed body. “Transition” is marketed as the answer to all a teen’s problems, and it’s no wonder the kid–and their parents–believe it.

Thanks again for speaking up. I hope your willingness to do so will help others to do the same.

guideonragingstars

Anonymous asked:

hi, i just wanted to let you know that the work you are doing is amazing. when i was 16, i was firmly convinced that i was a "gay trans man" and that transition was the only way to get over my sex dysphoria. i realized after immersion into gender critical/radical feminist ideology that there were other ways to cope, and i saw the glaring flaws in transactivist ideology. i realize now that i am a butch lesbian, coerced into identifying as trans.

Thank you. The mainstream media has no interest in letting the public know that women like you are out there. The meme is that any girl who thinks she is trans at adolescence will not change her views, and should be allowed (more like, strongly encouraged) to pursue medical transition.

At some point, if enough women like you speak out as publicly as you can, the “experts” will have to stop ignoring you. The media and the trans lobby try to tell the public that it’s only old, second-wave feminist “dinosaurs” who are concerned about the trans’ing of young women (especially young lesbian women).

It is critically important that young women with stories like yours keep speaking up. Your message has to reach the general public.

Anonymous asked:

Are you aware that collagen scaffold synthesis and recellularisation technologies are rapidly advancing and that twenty years from now, when those transed kids you're talking about have grown up, they'll be available to fully reverse the physical damage? As much as I get that being volunteered as a guinea pig in a social experiment by imbecile parents who have nothing but scathing disdain for "little" things like social integration will have a battery of other consequences... take heart, y'know?

Oh, I have no doubt that plastic surgeons and endocrinologists are already busy at work on all sorts of methods for manipulating the human form even more. The trans media outlets (the same publications that used to be the “gay press”–now dead as a door nail) are already publishing frothy articles about uterus transplants for trans women and advances in penile prostheses. After all, the real answer to self hatred, profound body dysmorphia, and internalized homophobia and misogyny can no longer be therapy to help resolve those feelings of disconnection. No, we have to carve and mold and reconstruct all those “wrong bodies.”  And hey–maybe in a few decades, they will even do chromosome transplants, so the pesky TERFs won’t be able to talk about XX=female and XY=male anymore. And–think of the profits!

Of course, the way things are going with the ongoing destruction of planet earth and climate change, we’ll be lucky if we still have an electric grid (vs a few survivors cooking over open fires), so I’m not particularly hopeful that the sterilized regretters will have high-tech surgeries available to reverse the damage. But given how the genderists are now in the business of brainwashing 3-year-olds and their parents to believe they are the opposite sex, will there even be any regretters? The surgically and pharmaceutically constructed humans won’t have any concept of what it would be like to not have to do daily neovagina dilations or neophallus pumping; to not have to inject themselves with hormones every week. They will never know what it would have been like to have a fully functioning body and mind unaltered by human technological ingenuity. and greed. Happy campers, all!

We’re in a Brave New World now, where research “studies” of trans kids have no control groups (because it’s now “unethical” to help kids feel ok about their natal bodies), where it’s “normal” to be sterilized at 13.

But then, maybe it will also become “normal” to want to reverse all the damage when you’re 40. A whole new industry for detransitioners might spring up, so that flip-flopping back and forth between “presenting” as male or female will be as “normal” as can be… A detransition industry would open up a whole new field of practice profit. Surely, some intrepid research surgeon must already be writing grants!

Anonymous asked:

Could you post this in the comments on your recent blog post? So we have 55 happy kids, 1 dead kid, 1 who dropped out of treatment, 2 who refused to do the follow-up and 2 who didn't complete the questionnaire. On what fucking planet is this treatment a success? One kid is DEAD. I have never read about this in any news story. Why not? Shouldn't we parents know this? Shouldn't our kids know this? This treatment sucks. Therapists should be trying to find something better.

This comment is in reference to a post examining/critiquing a recent study showing improved psychological wellbeing in kids who had transitioned, here:

http://4thwavenow.com/2016/02/19/the-trans-kid-honeymoon-is-sweet-while-it-lasts/

Apart from all the other important things that were pointed out in the post above (e.g., the fact that the kids had all been socially transitioned by “supportive” parents, that 100% of the PREPUBESCENT kids on puberty blockers chose to be sterilized via cross-sex hormones, that 100% of the kids were same-sex attracted), this commenter draws our attention to the fact that someone DIED due to complications of SRS surgery.

All major surgery carries a risk of serious complications, including death, but the question isn’t even raised whether that risk is truly worth it for a young person–likely a formerly healthy young person who went under a surgeon’s knife, to have functioning, healthy body parts removed or rejiggered.

The underlying assumption is always that the issue has been settled: That extreme medical treatments are always worth it for trans-identified people. But remember: We are talking about young people here. The average age at last assessment in this study was 20 years old and at least 1 year after SRS surgery. Meaning they had surgery at an average age of 19 (all between ages 18-21).

For any readers who are middle aged here: Do you remember your life at age 19? Can you honestly say that elective, major surgery would have been a wise choice at that age?

And to hammer a point I’ve made many times in the past: There is broad consensus that judgment, reasoning, impulse control, and other aspects of executive function are not fully developed until at least age 25.  Car rental companies know this–you can’t even rent a car until you’re 25. How about we think about raising the age of consent for these huge decisions, instead of lowering it, which seems to be the main goal of trans activists nowadays?

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Girl believes she's not like other girls because she's not interested in makeup and boys in middle school; after coming out as a lesbian, receiving homophobic bullying, identifies as male reddit.com

transgender-harms-women:

driftwood-aesthetics:

say-no-to-cookie-boredom:

transgender-harms-women:

Sid said life was much simpler in his younger years, when he was labeled a tomboy for playing with trucks instead of Barbie dolls.

“I was just very masculine growing up as a child, but I had no knowledge of what it was to be transgender,” Sid said. “I had no wanting to be a boy or really even a girl—I was just being a kid. No one really cared about what I looked like. But you hit middle school and the peer pressure and influence starts.”

In sixth grade, Sid began realizing that he didn’t look or act like other girls—they were fascinated with wearing makeup, straightening their hair and talking about boys, while he had short hair and wore boy shorts and baggy shirts to school every day. Sid remembers trying, for a time, to conform to what seemed normal by growing long locks and maintaining a more feminine appearance.

“It was just really fake. I didn’t have much depth to myself as a person,” he said. “I wasn’t really sure who I was, but then again, I didn’t think about it too much because I was like, 11 or 12 years old. I thought this was something everyone goes through.”

Sid’s transition began in eighth grade, when he came out as a lesbian to his friends and family. He began facing instances of cyber bullying on the site Ask.fm, where peers sent him hateful messages. Rather than becoming depressed about the negativity, Sid said he began embracing who he is and truly understanding the separation of gender and orientation.

“I realized that I was born a male—that’s what it is to be transgender,” Sid said. “We are born the identity we’re supposed to live as. It took me a long time, but the epiphany I had was that I was born in the wrong body, not that my mind was wrong.”

Girl believes she’s not like other girls because she’s not interested in makeup and boys in middle school; after coming out as a lesbian, receiving homophobic bullying, identifies as male

As a girl who grew up not conforming to gender roles, this is really fucking outrageous and sad to me.

It’s okay to be a girl and not care about boys, makeup, dresses, and dolls. It’s normal. It’s okay. We’re human beings and we’re diverse and we’re not all going to fit in the little gender role boxes that were crafted for us.

Transing children for not conforming to gender roles is sick.

This is the one big thing that bothers me

because I had lesbian friends tell me their stories, and had a trans acquaintance tell me and my girlfriend that -oh, not to worry- i, drift, will be transitioning soon because i am a boyish lesbian. (Yes i had a period where i looked much much less femme).

If you feel that your body is somehow wrong and should be different, i accept that and i believe that the option of changing it should be available for all, without question.

But for gods sake, do not use transitioning as an excuse to reinforce gender roles. Gender roles are bullshit. We are allowed to enjoy things that are traditionally “for the other gender”. You can love people of the same sex. You can wear skirts if you are a man and you can be into makeup. You can be a mechanic if you are a woman, you can hate makeup and skirts. NONE of those things define womanhood and manhood. And implying so would be misogynistic, homophobic and, well, transphobic.

I dont actually know, and I would like to find out if there is any solid data quantifying this pressure to transition if you dont fit in. Let me know if you got anything, any studies?
But it definitely exists. And I really hope that it is not a frequent thing.

A magical pill to bypass suffering: how teens are persuaded to start transition - TransgenderReality

“The trans test”: self-medicating in the trans community - Transgender Reality

“At least get on blockers. At the very least! You’ll regret waiting further” - Transgender Reality

Peer Pressure to Transition - 4thWaveNow

There is no pressure to transition..there is no pressure to transition… - GenderTrender

FTM Detransitioner : The Subcultural Pressure On Young Women To Medically “Transition”- Gender Trender

“How much pressure do you feel to transition?” - 4thWaveNow

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tightbra

Anonymous asked:

Hey! I found myself on your blog and am so curious... Could you please tell me what de transitioned trans man means? What's your journey if you don't mind sharing? I'm just trying to become as informed as possible. Lots of love!

tightbra answered:

If someone is detransitioned, it means that they transitioned (either fully or partially) to another gender, and later decided to transition back. I never got very far in my transition, fortunately. I started when I was around 14, and by the time I was 18, I began my detransition.

I realized that gender dysphoria is a mental illness like any other: and that it can be overcome with proper psychological treatment. Gender transition is a coping mechanism, but not all coping mechanisms are healthy or sustainable in the long-term. I also realized much of my ideas of gender were rooted in stereotypes.

My mother supported me when I explained my dysphoria and intention to transition. One day though, she asked me a vital question. She asked me why I had to be a boy. “What will you be able to do as a boy, that you can’t do now? Why do you need people to see you as a boy? What is the difference between a boy and a girl?” At the time, I interpreted it as transphobia, due to old age and ignorance. I dismissed the questions, assuming that she was too dense to understand my struggle. What I realized later though, was that those questions were valid, and had to be answered if I were to continue with my transition. I needed to understand why I felt the way I did.

After two years of introspection, therapy, and learning, I found the answers I needed.


What will you be able to do as a boy, that you can’t do now?

Live, free from the oppression inevidably tied to being female.


Why do you need people to see you as a boy?

I don’t. I need people to see me as a person. An individual. A whole.

What is the difference between a boy and a girl?

Nothing, not really. The only difference is in how we’re perceived and treated.

What I learned was that there is nothing wrong with me, or the way I was born. Rather, it was a problem with society: the way they viewed me, and all women. 

14 year old me didn’t want to be a woman. I wanted to be a person. Only now, years later, have I come to understand that women are people, we are individuals, we are whole. Despite the way society pushes us down and demands we wither. 

“My mother … asked me a vital question. She asked me why I had to be a boy. “What will you be able to do as a boy, that you can’t do now? Why do you need people to see you as a boy? What is the difference between a boy and a girl?” At the time, I interpreted it as transphobia, due to old age and ignorance. I dismissed the questions, assuming that she was too dense to understand my struggle. What I realized later though, was that those questions were valid, and had to be answered if I were to continue with my transition. I needed to understand why I felt the way I did.”

tightbra
The surgical suite: Modern-day closet for today’s teen lesbian 4thwavenow.com

According to several peer-reviewed studies,

  • 95-100% of girls who “persist” in gender dysphoria at adolescence are same-sex attracted; these girls are typically offered cross-sex hormones by age 16, and  surgeries as young as 18.
  • The typical age that a young lesbian has her first sexual experience and/or claims her sexual orientation is between the ages of 19 and the early 20s.

Let those two statements sink in for a moment.

Trans activists like to say that gender identity and sexual orientation are completely unrelated. But obviously, it just ain’t so. Study after study, anecdote after anecdote, media story after media story, tells us that most “trans men” start off as same-sex attracted adolescents. But no one outside the blogosphere—no one –is pointing out the obvious: that girls who would naturally mature into lesbian adults are having the process of realizing their sexual orientation short-circuited by medical transition.

Who will step forward to stop this? Who with power in our society—the Congress, the President, the publisher of the New York Times¸ the child and adolescent psychologists–will raise their voices? Where are the lesbian doctors, lawyers, heads of LGBT organizations? Which of you will name this preemptive conversion therapy for what it is?