Psychologists whose brains have been eaten by gender zombies

(This is a revision of a post from March 2015)

Below you will find a nearly verbatim conversation I had with a therapist some 2 years ago when looking for someone to help my child. Trans activists insist that therapists and doctors are careful not to misdiagnose a person as transgender who is merely “gender nonconforming,” but this has not been my experience. I had similar conversations with 3 other “gender therapists,” all of which went pretty much the same as the one below.

I would caution any parent of a child who claims to be transgender to do your homework first before entrusting your offspring to the care of a psychologist, psychiatrist, or medical doctor. Get on the phone and ask lots of questions. If they say they must meet your child first, run the other way.

Finding a professional who hasn’t jumped on the transgender bandwagon will likely be a hunt for a needle in a haystack. What you want is a professional who is interested in working on underlying issues that may be causing your child pain–not just someone who will fast-track your daughter or son onto the transition conveyer belt.

Be wary of any therapist who supports “informed consent” for minors. In a nutshell, this is the latest push by trans activists to shorten the “transition” process, relying mostly on the child’s avowed self identification as the one and only criterion.

Be aware that online communities on Reddit, Tumblr, and YouTube are actively inciting young, gender-questioning people to identify as transgender, and to demand immediate hormones, surgery, and other interventions. Active recruitment and coaching is a reality, including encouragement to threaten self harm.  See the excellent blog, Transgender Reality for examples.

“Gender” therapist: Oh, it is VERY VERY rare for a 16-year-old who says they are transgender to really be lesbian.

Me: Hm. Oh, really? Well, she has only had relationships with girls, watches nothing but lesbian love stories on TV, and, um, just started talking about all this last week. She never talked about wanting to be a boy before that YouTube binge.

“Gender” therapist: Well, I know you’re scared and it must be so hard to accept this.

Me: No, actually, I just don’t buy it. I’m not scared. I’m angry.

“Gender” therapist (nodding sympathetically, while thinking, “what a transphobe”): Uh, huh. Well, you know, there is nothing you or I can do if she is actually transgender.

Me: So, all she has to do is SAY she is and that’s it?

“Gender” therapist: I’m sorry, we’re out of time. That will be $150.

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Doctors "assigning" gender at birth: the new child abuse slate.com
Imagine you are in recovery from labor, lying in bed, holding your infant. In your arms you cradle a stunningly beautiful, perfect little being. Completely innocent and totally vulnerable, your baby is entirely dependent on you to make all the choices that will define their life for many years to come….

I got halfway through reading this, thinking it HAD to be satire, before realizing it was written in absolute seriousness. How long will it be before doctors are jailed or fined for daring to declare a newborn male or female?  And where the HELL are the reporters with the courage to push back against this nonsense?? [Bracketed comments by me] 

“Obstetricians, doctors, and midwives commit this procedure on infants every single day, in every single country. In reality, this treatment is performed almost universally without even asking for the parents’ consent, making this practice all the more insidious. It’s called infant gender assignment: When the doctor holds your child up to the harsh light of the delivery room, looks between its legs, and declares his opinion: It’s a boy or a girl, based on nothing more than a cursory assessment of your offspring’s genitals.”

[It’s just the doctor’s OPINION, readers!  He barely glanced at the kid’s genitals, not that those matter, anyway. Humans are exempt from sexual dimorphism, unique among mammals!]

“… With infant gender assignment, in a single moment your baby’s life is instantly and brutally reduced from such infinite potentials down to one concrete set of expectations and stereotypes, and any behavioral deviation from that will be severely punished—both intentionally through bigotry, and unintentionally through ignorance. That doctor (and the power structure behind him) plays a pivotal role in imposing those limits on helpless infants, without their consent, and without your informed consent as a parent. This issue deserves serious consideration by every parent, because no matter what gender identity your child ultimately adopts, infant gender assignment has effects that will last through their whole life.”

[Oh, just come out and say it: This is a “brutal” conspiracy by the medical profession–the “power structure”–and pure infant child abuse.  Call child protective services!]

“… Infant gender assignment is a willful decision, and as a maturing society we need to judge whether it might be a wrong action. Why must we force this on kids at birth? What is achieved, besides reinforcing tradition? What could be the harm in letting a child wait to declare for themself who they are, once they’re old enough (which is generally believed to happen around age 2 or 3)?”

[“Generally believed” by increasing numbers of people (and journalists), but absolutely refuted by decades of data indicating that the vast majority of 2-year-olds who claim they are the opposite sex grow out of it!]

“Is it better to play the odds, or play it safe? Think carefully. Infant gender assignment might just be Russian roulette with your baby’s life. “

[You bad, abusive parent! Don’t you dare let some sinister midwife or OB-GYN misgender your newborn baby!]

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Skipping The Puberty Blockers: American “Transgender Children” Doctors are Going Rogue gendertrender.wordpress.com

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vulvapeople:

immortaltransprincess:

4thwavenow:

“Last month, in a program specifically addressed to medical students, Dr. Johanna Olson, director of the LA Children’s Hospital transgender children clinic, admitted that she has been “skipping the blockers” and placing children as young as twelve directly on cross-sex hormones, starting with her very first patient…

Prior to her work transgendering children Dr. Olson …used her medical credentials to testify against a …platform to lower the voting age. Dr. Olson testified that the brains of those under eighteen were not yet competent for the complex decision making involved in choosing a political candidate. “

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A 17-year-old is too immature to vote, but has the wisdom to make a medical decision that will require lifetime treatment, and permanently alter the brain and body. 

Ok….

Trans children and adults have to strongly push for a diagnosis. It is not easy. If parents or doctors pushed children into identifying as transgender when they are simply non-conforming, that would definitely be child abuse, but there is no evidence that this happens

Doctors have been diagnosing GID in kids as young as 18 months.

The doctor this article is about, Johanna Olson, is administering HRT to adolescents, sterilizing them, in defiance of WPATH standards, and she claims that no child ever changes his/her mind about transitioning.  Excuse me if I don’t believe your claim that it’s hard to get a diagnosis, especially in Johanna Olson’s office.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3028690/Children-referred-NHS-transgender-feelings-quadruples.html

From the Daily Mail article that you link here (which says children as young as three are “receiving treatment” in the UK):

“Children and adults who believe they are the opposite sex are said to have a condition known as gender dysphoria. Scientists think it is caused by the abnormal development of the baby in the womb, as a result of either genetics or hormones.”

What? What? How can a major daily paper in the UK not even mention the established research that most gender dysphoric children outgrow it and become gay, lesbian, or bisexual adults? I’m just some blogger and it was easy enough for me to find that information. It’s what I harp on practically every time I post. Are all these reporters just lazy, or are they on the take?

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bitchflowers2017-deactivated202 asked:

Trans men are assigned female at birth, they are not "biologically female" (lmao, the whole concept of biological sex is flawed). Gender is something that is imposed on you throughout your life, it is not something you were born with. It develops, for some people.

shamelesslyunladylike answered:

Look, you’re 15. I know you mean well. I know you want to be inclusive and accomodating to everybody, and that everybody deserves to be what they want. I believe in your good intentions.

But you are just plain wrong.

You see, sex exists. It does not depend on human concepts or even on human society. Sex is just a way organism reproduction evolved because it was an advantage. It ensured a more varied gene pool, which is good for the survival of the species. Even plants have sexes, though their sexed reproduction works different than human does.

Humans are mammals, sexually dimorphic, divided into males and females. We were like this way before we formed societies, before we developed languages, before we could even be considered human. So no, the concept of biological sex is not “flawed”. It’s reality, and all you have to do is observe nature to see it’s true.

The part you’re absolutely right about is that gender is something imposed on you throughout your life. This is the social construct, the idea that males should behave a certain way and females should behave another way. What is assigned to you when you’re born, sometimes before you’re even born, is a gender. You will still have a sex if you’re abandoned in the woods and raised by wolves, even though you will not have a word for it. But gender depends on society. It’s the expectations and constrictions that are laid upon you because of your sex.

Gender is not without purpose. It doesn’t happen naturally or randomly. It’s a system that ensures males will be raised to be dominating, aggressive and entitled, and females will be raised to be subservient, meek and non-confrontational. Gender is Patriarchy’s form of self-replicating, in a way, as it ensures each generation will be indocrinating into upholding the system. This is why gender needs to be done away with.

You might thing I’m “mean” or “exclusionary” when I say trans men are female, but this is a reality no one can escape. If a regular, gender conforming male finds out that his mate is trans, he will change the way he treats his friend. Not because of “identity”, but because he knows that this person is female, and he’s been indocrinated from birth to treat females with contempt. This is why trans men suffer misogynistic violence, including rape and forced pregnancy. This is why they’re ignored in the trans community itself, as males are socialized to take the spotlight and shove female issues aside. This is why trans men have to worry about testosterone atrophying their cervixes and causing life-threatening uterine infections.

You can’t escape from your biology. You can have all the surgery and HRT in the world, but in the end your sex is coded in your DNA, in each one of your cells. But you can do away with gender. You can refuse to play into the roles that are forced upon you. You can refuse to be feminine and not take on masculinity instead. You can just be.

Once you look at it the right way, you’ll see that gender is bullshit.

never-obey:

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T also increases a transman’s chances of ovarian cysts, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, osteoporosis. It also messes with the vagina and other self regulating parts of the body increasing frequency of yeast infections and UTIs. In addition it can have a long term effect on your heart and blood pressure and there have been many studies showing an increase in depression once on T.

All things most transmen don’t know before going on T which is fucking horrifying.

Is the ignorance of the harms of testosterone related to the “biological sex is a social construct” fallacy or is it just plain old unethical doctors?  A little bit of both?

I have no idea about anything on the Dr end of things except that there’s a lot of ignorance on the subject and there’s money involved. But T isn’t that expensive, like easily $20 for 3 months I’ve heard. But HRT for transwomen is VERY profitable and it’s all the same industry and the same culture. The culture is really the problem. We’re told “you feel like a man? Take this!” And it’s not that hard to get either, once you get to the drs and therapists. I”nformed consent” is becoming more of a big thing now, all you need to know is what to say and they’ll give you a prescription. Ppl are so quick to “match their body to their mind” or whatever. There are quiet a few detransitioned transmen but not many ppl talk about them. Ppl generally don’t talk about the problems with T bc no one cares about females, we’re outnumbered and transwoman dominate all convos in the trans community. In addition to this, transition is a generally new field and there’s very little research or long term studies. Even within that, most of them aren’t done on transmen. Even outside of the medical friend, this is true. It’s impossible to find a study about domestic violence against transmen, rape statistics etc. There are statics about ppl’s satisfaction with medical transition, rates of suicide before and after and no one pays attention to that.

It really just comes down to the whole mentality and culture. Sorry to ramble on so much lol

Why are trans activists so eager to push new gender id bills but never bother to demand research about the longterm health effects of the hormones they take. One would think that someone who “cares” so much about the safety of trans people would want to make sure that the hormones they take their entire lives are safe for them.

Take children for example: they want minors to transition and yet there is not a single research about how the puberty blockers and hormones affect the childrens health.

The only thing we have a personal experiences from people who had to take puberty blockers as children because of precocious puberty. And oh boy that really fucked their health up.

But what do trans activists say instead? The blockers are safe and reversible. How can someone believe this? It takes just a quick google search to learn more about the devastating effects these “blockers” have on peoples health.

Why even bother to call them puberty blockers? They are chemotherapy for cancer patients. And that alone should make people with common sense suspicious.

It often seems to me that, in order to fiercely defend gender politics, transactivists deactivate the rational, deductive parts of their brains, because their arguments can be blown over with a feather. Ideology over actual thinking. 

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“it helps me separate sex and gender in my head”

shadycatz:

uteropolis:

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biologyweeps:

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biologyweeps:

uteropolis:

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*Biologist voice* Well we call plants sex organs male and female because…I dont actually know but if I ever meet an alien Im going to ask it if its a boy or a girl

biologyweeps

we’re calling those sex organs male and female because there are actual definitions for these terms and these definitions are gamete based.

Small, numerous, mobile gametes: male

Big, few, immobile ones: female. 

That’s it, that’s the whole magic, so far we’ve on this planet not found anything with a third gamete type.

To wit: unicellular organisms with sexual (read: genetic recombination) reproduction are classed into mating types which are highly individual to the species because surprisingly enough, something that’s made up of only one cell doesn’t have gametes and thus we can’t use the definition of sex that we normally operate under. It’s more than possible that extraterrestrial life would have evolved differently and would therefore class entirely differently. 

But yes please keep blabbering because you can’t be arsed to do a fucking google search for the proper defintions.

This post is commenting on the fact that we call gametes and sex organs as a whole male or female. Im complaining about the fact that biologists are so wrapped up in the Western gender binary that they apply it to fucking bees and flowers.

But yes just keep assuming that Im an idiot who doesnt understand simple biology rather than someone who is frustrated with language used to describe things

If we’d call them anything else we’d still have those two things because there are two types of gametes on this planet as far as we know. You could call them red and blue and would still end up being a binary because lo and behold there are two kinds of gametes, meaning there are two types of sexes which are, by course of history named by the terms ‘male’ and ‘female’. Naming them tow other things wouldn’t change anything about the basic facts that these things calls into two groups, in a way that spans all sexually reproducing multicellular life on this planet as far as we’re aware. 

Also has nothing to do with gender because we’re talking about sex here and yes sex is binary, intersex conditions are not a third sex because they do not meet the definition for being a sex. 

Hence why I will never use ‘male’ or ‘female’ to describe gender. These are scientific terms that I only use to describe sex. It helps me separate sex and gender in my head.

plus intersex conditions are uncommon.
Intersex people exist, and they are valid, but the fact is that most people fit neatly into either male or female. If over 95% of the population fits neatly into one of those binaries, then it makes sense that biologists and scientists would group them under those different categories.

Lmaoooo, a genderist tried to act like they know more about biology than a BIOLOGIST.

These posts are my light entertainment reading. 

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krismichelle429: “transcynical: “notyourqueertheoryposterchild: “incorrectusage: “explosives-b: “ urls-areoverrated: “ Can we talk about this ” This is why gender compass type talk is bullcrap and hurtful. If you struggle living with a female body...

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Can we talk about this

This is why gender compass type talk is bullcrap and hurtful. If you struggle living with a female body day to day, but have no issue with engaging with femininity and crap, you shouldn’t have to live with that struggle when transitioning would give you a significantly better quality of life. This is why “cis” cannot mean “conforms to stereotypes of one’s birth sex.”

we’ve done it kids the trans umbrella no longer contains people with sex dysphoria

What the actual fuck is this shit

This just in: trans people aren’t really trans. Any problems you have with the configuration of your body are your problem. Medical transition is only useful as a correction for gender non conforming people. What the actual fuck? This is the exact opposite of progress.

Every time I’ve read a post like this it’s the same thing: people twisting themselves into cognitive-semantic pretzels trying to “explain” or prescribe or justify some identity that must be claimed or denied. And the means always justify the ends: Trans=good! Often, the thread starts with some 13-year-old asking the Tumblr experts who and what to identify as.

I just don’t understand what happened in the last few decades. Poisoning of the water supply seems as likely an explanation as any.

I recommend reading all the added notes on the thread for full effect. There’s even one that says, with no sarcasm, “This is why I’m still confused about gender identities.” Ya think?

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Anonymous asked:

Bisexual woman here, and I've found that many, many pansexual/genderqueer people say that bisexuals are bigoted because "bi" means two and that makes us bigoted against the whole gender rainbow. Or they'll magnanimously say you may call yourself bisexual if you're attracted to exactly two genders. Odd how they focus on the "bi" and ignore that it's not "bigenderal".

Since when did the Gender Squad decide they get to police someone’s sexual orientation and/or who someone is attracted to? WTF. 

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50% of Millennials believe gender falls on a spectrum fusion.net

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Not just male and female.


Half of all Millennials believe that gender exists on a spectrum, and shouldn’t be limited to the categories of male and female, according to Fusion’s Massive Millennial Poll, which surveyed 1,000 people aged 18-34 about everything from politics to dating to race issues.

The findings suggest young people are moving away from a binary conception of gender, a major shift from previous generations. (For more poll stories, click here.)

Some subsets of Millennials are even more progressive on the issue: 57 percent of female Millennials believe that gender falls on a spectrum, according to the poll, compared with 44 percent of men. And Millennials in the Northeast were even more likely to say so, at 58 percent. (In the South, that number fell to 42 percent.)

The poll found that race created substantial differences on views of gender identity.

White Millennials were the most likely to support the concept of a non-binary gender system — 55 percent of whites said gender is on a spectrum, compared to 47 percent of Latinos and 32 percent of African Americans.

We’re doomed at this rate.

Holy fuck. Brainwashed generation.

^what she said.

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Are you a stamen or a pistil?

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dykemongering:

Vagina owner? Vagina haver? I didn’t go and pick this up in store, this wasn’t some clearance item I tossed into my cart not thinking about it. This is something that I was born with and has shaped every experience in this life thus far. I’m a woman, I’m a female, don’t belittle me. 

yeah but not every female has a vagina and not every person with a vagina is female

Females have vaginas. That’s a fact of life, whether it harshes your mellow or not.

It is literally one of the biological criteria for being “female”.

Now, I don’t care if you choose to fail biology, but do that on your own time.

Fail biology? A flower has both the female and male sex organs. What does that make it? Male? Female? It makes it whatever that flower chooses and feels comfortable being, just like humans.

It makes it a fucking flower, are you completely nuts or just deliberately ignorant?

The day I look in the mirror and notice I’ve turned into a fucking orchid, I’ll let you know—but until then, the fact that a flower has both a stamen and a pistil isn’t proof of hermaphroditism in humans, and certainly not a refutation of human biology.

Jesus fucking christ, did you go to school at /all/?

OH MY GOD

This is a new one: Flowers can “choose” and “feel comfortable being” either a stamen or a pistil. WHO KNEW?

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