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Pediatric transition skeptics. 'Like samizdat for the sane & ideologically uncowed'. Free speech. Science.

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4thWaveNow@4th_WaveNow·
They chose to threaten women’s sports, destroying dreams & scholarships of girl athletes. They call us “bigots” for having a sexual orientation. They treat gay & autistic minors as acceptable collateral damage. It didn’t have to be this way, but now they reap what they sowed.
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Haviv Rettig Gur@havivrettiggur

A lot of subscribers have asked what I made of the Nick Kristof oped. So much has already been said. What more is there to say? My first thought was everyone else's. Horrifying. Testimonies of pain and torture. We know that the Israeli Prisons Service is notoriously incompetent. There have been cases of Hamas prisoners abusing each other, and even famous cases of them abusing female Israeli guards. We know, too, that all prison systems struggle with the problem: New York prisons face 2,000 claims against them. So abuse of prisoners isn't merely possible, it's guaranteed. October 7 and the ensuing war sent thousands of detainees into the prisons. And in the early months, drafted into the system undertrained reservist guards. Guards who had seen Hamas's videos gleefully documenting their crimes. I expected, therefore, a hard-hitting story of real abuse, something Israeli leaders must take notice of. And then I came across the first obvious lie. And then the second. And then an odd claim -- maybe possible, but how exactly? -- and then another just like it. And a famed Hamas propagandist laundered as a reliable source. And then another. Why, if there is no doubt that abuse occurred -- and there is no doubt -- was there so much obvious propaganda in Kristof's oped? I won't pretend the lies weren't a relief. They were. It's agony to read about Israeli criminality, and the lies let me cast doubt on the whole narrative. There's an obvious propaganda campaign at work here. But as claim followed claim, it became hard not to wonder: Despite the propaganda, what part is nevertheless true? How bad has it gotten? So here's what we know, or at least what I think I know. This is a campaign that seeks our destruction. Kristof quotes people who celebrated October 7 and want Israel destroyed, and will lie to achieve that goal. We know how the lies in this story made their way into it, where they came from and what purpose they serve. Even so, I'm not willing to conclude there's no truth at all in there, just because there are lies. Dogs did not rape anyone. The people who invented that particular inanity claimed it without evidence, knowing that no one, certainly not self-appointed moral arbiters like Nick Kristof, would ever bother checking the provenance of the claim. Because they never, ever do. Because why would they? So the claim spreads through the millions-strong activist network without investigation, exciting and mobilizing -- not because anyone understands how it might be possible but for the sheer thrill of it. And it's cited by Kristof as a reliable report. A recent report by a Norwegian NGO, also referenced, claimed "systemic sexual violence" in the West Bank by citing just 16 cases across three years in a geographic region containing as many as three million Palestinians and over half a million Israelis. And some of the examples scarcely cleared the bar for harassment. But the NGO in question knew for a fact that no journalist would look too deeply into any of it. And indeed, no journalist did. Because they never, ever do. Because why would they? Friends, a paper trail is being created. Just like they created a paper trail on mass starvation in Gaza -- mass starvation first claimed in early 2024, and then claimed again and again by NGOs, the UN, everybody. Some were nuanced warnings of a "possibility," some declared it had arrived. The headlines from both were largely the same. And then, in thundering silence, the mass starvation claim just faded away, never having materialized -- while billions of ordinary people around the world who don't follow too closely remain convinced that countless Gazans died of starvation. So they moved on. A Lancet letter claiming hundreds of thousands of deaths spread like wildfire, mostly because (a) nobody actually read or understood what it claimed and (b) nobody cared enough to check if it was remotely plausible. Then, just in case anyone forgot Lancet, came the claim by UN rapporteurs of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children -- 380,000 infants under five allegedly died, more than the entire population of infants in Gaza. Stupid, right? But it was repeated again and again by activists and protestors. No one checks, no costs are exacted for the never-ending barrage of fakery. Because why would they? A wild religious frenzy has taken hold. Hatred of Israel is now definitional to the left, and to parts of the right. Greta Thunberg has forgotten all about climate change. An enemy of humanity has been identified just in time to unleash all the pent-up religious rage that this troubled secular age won't allow against anyone else. And by complete and utter coincidence, that enemy you're suddenly allowed to hate is vaguely associated with the Jews. Yes, alas, it really is that simple. But also, dear friends -- bear with me -- it isn't. All the above is true. They're fucking liars and bigots. They marched in their millions, again and again and again, for weeks and months and years -- marches completely unprecedented in their size, regularity and duration in all the history of the West, in all the history of war, larger by orders of magnitude than all other marches for all other conflicts and wars and suffering combined, even those caused by their own governments. And no serious person pretends that anything similar could ever have coalesced or will ever coalesce again unless Israel is involved. "But we fund you," shouts the American activist to explain this mind-numbing selectivity. Then why did one-third of the city of Amsterdam march? Or millions of Spaniards, Brazilians and Indonesians? It was unprecedented and it was everywhere. And Kristof has joined the new religion. Not by being concerned about abuse, but by not caring one whit whether he's trafficking in truths or lies. Only the Jews will ask to distinguish between the two. He just needs to throw it all on the page, and his membership in the glorious crusade is assured. Alas, the Jews are correct about the nature of this moment. Some things are so big and fundamental, so assumed and widespread, that they become hard to see. Fish don't notice the water. Activists who can only ever march against Jews are convinced they are merely righteous people enraged by war, without ever pausing to wonder why the only war that ever enraged them or ever made its way to their phones was one particular war, and not larger and deadlier wars also conducted with Western weapons and money. And so the Jew is made fearful once more. Throughout Christendom and Islam, he is being returned to his proper place in the social hierarchies of old, complete with anxious conversos and ideological purity tests. And yet, still, despite it all, their lies aren't the end of the story. Their lies are a separate story. A campaign of lies that constitutes a return to the mean for the Jewish condition in the West. A campaign meant to justify brutality against us, not to end war or suffering. And despite all of it, dear Jews, there really is abuse. It's nowhere near as much as the psychotic claims of these fantasists. Not by orders of magnitude. If it was, they wouldn't need to lie so much. But it's there nonetheless. Many dozens of cases at least, probably in the low hundreds by now, most of them without any sexual aspect, but still wanton violence. Exact numbers are hard to come by, but the army gave a few estimates to the courts a couple of times over the past three years. There have been many indictments filed against soldiers, serious ones. I know something about a handful of those cases. I know that the problem is real. It's there, it's real, and it doesn't seem to be stopping. And if it isn't stopped with an iron will and uncompromising hand, it will continue to fester and grow. And it must be said: neither Ben Gvir nor Netanyahu are interested in fixing it. Nobody at the top cares about the rights of prisoners. Let me be clear: For the first time in my life, I support a death penalty. No one who crossed over the border to massacre and kidnap on October 7 should be left alive; they came to kidnap children precisely because they sought the release of mass murderers kept alive in our prisons. Hamas, as always, in its totalizing brutality, forces the choice: If their murderers live, our children may die. I choose our children. And those who came for our children cannot be deterred, reformed or deradicalized. They murder their own to clear a path to murdering ours. And so I believe they must die. We must try, convict and destroy them. And even I, radicalized in this narrow, specific way, say we cannot collapse into torture or abuse. That's not justice. It isn't even vengeance. It is participation in Hamas's way of war. Nor do our leaders seem to care about the simple breakdown of discipline that these abuses represent, the kind of breakdown we saw again and again with the incidents of looting in Gaza and in the early cases of prisoner abuse that came to light. No, dogs aren't being trained to systematically rape prisoners, you nattering halfwits. And no, Hamas propaganda operatives are not reliable sources on the question of Israeli crimes. The vast, vast majority of soldiers are honorable men who walked into fire so our families may live. The whole world may turn on them; I will stand with them, grateful for their sacrifice. And Kristof, a willing purveyor of propaganda happily feigning that he can't see the water and thrilling to a moral crusade engineered by would-be genocidaires he pretends not to understand -- is no messenger of moral reckoning. But friends, so fucking what. Let the narcissistic guttersnipes strut their moral emotions before the world, let the UN publish endless reports that don't hold up to basic scrutiny, let the NGOs dream their rabid, sick dreams that no journalist ever fact-checks -- yes, they're lying. But so fucking what. We still, for ourselves -- because fuck them -- must see that it isn't all fake. The problem is real. It's far smaller than they claim, but real nonetheless. And when discipline and morality break down, it can only get worse. We either crack down now or we watch it fester and grow. And our own Ben Gvirs are stubbornly refusing to fix what is actually broken, the real thing in the real world. And so we are caught in a strange sort of vise, the same vise we find ourselves in with the genocide lie: A vast propaganda machine that seeks to destroy us -- countless activists too high on their own self-regard to see the irony of raging against a "genocide" while calling for the erasure of a people -- all while our own incompetent, venal, self-absorbed political class insist in their mindless chatter on confirming every claim of our enemies for sheer, bald egomania. I'm sick of it all. I know you're all sick of it too. And that, in a nutshell, is what I think about this. Just because they're lying, just because a vast perfidious campaign has overwhelmed global elites in a bid to clear the way for our removal, just because they're still, after two millennia, building their visions of redemption on The Evil Jew -- doesn't mean there isn't also, separately, a problem on the ground. So what do we do now? Simple. We see it, we acknowledge it's happening, we bring our rage to our inept leaders until they bend to our will and act to stop the breakdown... And we soldier on. We soldier on because the enemy really is coming to murder us. Because Hamas must still go if Gaza is ever to rise to a new day. Because Hezbollah will yet destroy Lebanon on the altar of destroying us. Because the ayatollahs built their whole damn religion on the extermination of our children. We fix the broken things within us as if the pogromists and their simpering Kristofs don't exist. We owe no answers to the propagandists who seek to clear a path to our deaths. But we do owe answers to ourselves. Let the screaming mob rage and churn like so much sea-foam. Despite that raging mob, despite the enemy who still seeks our destruction, and yes, despite feckless incompetents like Ben Gvir, our minister of prisons, who claim to lead us -- we remain the strongest, freest Jews who ever lived, more capable and committed than our self-destructive enemies ever imagined. And the task is still before us, yet to be completed, the sacred duty given to our generation to ensure our children don't have to face the genocidaires who now surround us. We do not waver, we do not stumble. We soldier on. Because fuck them all.

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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
If you look at the ten most electorally potent moderations identified by @dbroockman & @j_kalla they are basically all compatible with the theory (if not the practice) of left-populist anti-oligarchy politics — proponents just need the courage to actually assemble the coalition.
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4thWaveNow@4th_WaveNow·
@elegationvain @AmandaSamuels4 @McGonagall4eva @lostfem80 @DuncanHenry78 it's a waste of time to engage w/ you. You cherry pick, dismiss data that conflicts w/your priors. There is no evidence majority of lesbians routinely do these activities. In fact, the evidence is the opposite: Below paper refers to a 2012 international survey of 3116 women.⬇️
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Duncan
Duncan@DuncanHenry78·
Aaron making the idiotic argument of nature having a “purpose” at the individual level again. 🙄 Humans are social creatures. The requirement for every person to procreate doesn’t exist. Some adult humans not raising babies is a potential asset to early hominids and possibly even before that, homosexuality evolved because it’s either on the whole a net benefit or a non detriment. That’s why it basically doesn’t move in terms of percentage (ignoring the fashion for “LGBTQ” nonsense). It’s not a pathology because it doesn’t cause the organism (me!) a problem. It’s also not infertility because - I’m not. It’s a natural variation which WOULD be a problem if it affected everyone. But it doesn’t. And the reason you’ll never find a “gay gene” is because that would be far too vulnerable to a sudden outbreak of “gay”. No it’s a many pathway - a certain number of people will be gay. In social evolution terms - a certain… surplus number of people will be gay. Bees of course take this idea of social surplus to the ultimate level with only one member reproducing. It’s such a weak and immature argument it’s usually reserved for traditional “right wing” bigots. But even they only do it so the men can continue to claim control over women. No idea what Aaron is spouting this guff. Anyway bored of her silliness now I’ll return to ignoring.
Aaron Terrell@elegationvain

Sexual desire exists for the purpose of procreation. Sometimesthis physiological process develops erroneously and fires toward a non-reproductive target (members of one’s own sex, prepubescents, non-humans, objects, etc). In the mid-late 20th century, activists such as John Money, Harvey Milk, etc. intentionally pushed the postmodern concept of “sexual orientation” to obscure the fact that these desires are counter productive to the purpose of sexuality & to give the impression they’re just as legitimate as sexual desires and behaviors that are reproductive. Did humans prior to the last 50 to 100 years always grow up with healthy, reproductive sexualities & behaviors? No. These errors in sexual development have occurred since the dawn of history or even before. But it’s a brand new notion, specific to “WEIRD” societies to believe a man having sexual desires for another man is just as healthy and normal as reproductive sexuality. It’s truly bizarre if you think about it.

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4thWaveNow@4th_WaveNow·
Planned Parenthood is sharing "facts" for parents on Facebook and other social media--including this one: Gender identity is formed "for everyone" in their toddler years. They encourage parents to ASK their preschooler "are you a boy or a girl" to "create a safer space."
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Jonathan Kay
Jonathan Kay@jonkay·
Remember when the Cass Review came out, activists said it was full of mistakes & no one should follow it? The British Medical Assoc. did a review *of the Cass Review*… a meta-review, in response to activist critics Result: BMA vindicates every one of Cass’ 82 recommendations
Hannah Barnes@hannahsbee

🧵In July 2024 I broke news that the BMA was planning to vote on a motion to "disavow" the Cass Review & work with others to oppose implementation of its recommendations. Nearly two years' later, the union has officially dropped its opposition, after conducting its own review.

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4thWaveNow@4th_WaveNow·
@DuncanHenry78 @elegationvain @lostfem80 @AmandaSamuels4 Study on passionate love experiences ("deep romantic attachment") "[heterosexual] men reported slightly more experiences than women...Among gay, lesbian, and bisexual participants, the number of experiences did not differ by gender." Link below⬇️
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Leor Sapir
Leor Sapir@LeorSapir·
I'm often asked: “What makes pediatric gender doctors do what they do?" Good question. Here are 9 overlooked factors, to add to the obvious one: ideological agreement with the “gender-affirming” outlook. These are unsystematic observations, so take with a grain of salt. 🧵
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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker@sapinker·
In my experience the desire of many parents of autistic children to believe that their inner lives are normal but they are locked in by an inability to communicate is so intense as to overwhelm critical faculties. I've watched a dad pathetically jiggle an iPad under his son's stationary hand and insist the young man was communicating with me. This opens the door for charlatans to mislead and exploit these people with "Facilitated Communication" and related techniques, repeatedly shown to be worthless. nytimes.com/2026/05/01/opi…
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4thWaveNow@4th_WaveNow·
@prof_curiosity1 @LeorSapir Agree with this. "Gender bending" while not denying one's bio sex expands the definition of what a man or woman can be--the opposite of claiming sex-atypical behavior means you aren't really your bio sex. It's why the "non-binary" fad is just that--a fad. Androgyny isn't new.
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Read some Piaget please!
Read some Piaget please!@prof_curiosity1·
Not sure I agree about the inevitability. Bowie, Lennox et al. never pushed the idea that they were a different sex (gender identity). They were far more radical than that. They presented that is possible to be a man and dress as a woman (and vice versa) and remain the same sex. This is so far removed from transgender ideology, which, in fact, pushes the opposite view.
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Leor Sapir
Leor Sapir@LeorSapir·
This is a superb, must-read post. I will disagree with one point, however, which is not central to the thesis of the article but still very relevant. "The gender benders of the 1980s were doing something genuinely radical. They demonstrated that biological sex and gender presentation could be separated without requiring a claim about inner identity. Boy George did not claim to be a woman. Annie Lennox did not claim to be a man. The affirmative model collapses precisely this distinction, insisting that cross-sex presentation is evidence of cross-sex identity and that discomfort with gender norms is evidence of gender incongruence. The gender benders suggested something different and developmentally more liberating. They suggested that the norms themselves were the problem, not the person failing to fit them." The distinction being described here, even if possible in theory, seems to me very hard if not impossible to maintain in practice. I don't think it's an accident that Judith Butler, who helped lay the theoretical foundations for the erasure of sex, gained prominence in the context of 1980s gender bending culture. At some point, radical gender bending is bound to invite speculation followed by forthright criticism of the very idea that humans are sexually dimorphic and that sex is defined by the organization of the body toward production of one of two distinct gamete types. (Trans, in the contemporary sense, is the theoretically incongruent marriage of this idea to that of "gender identity," which evolves out of 1960s psychology.) That's not to suggest that deviation from traditional sex roles is bad or should be condemned. It can, of course, be liberating and, up to a point, good. And it must be tolerated in a society that values free expression. But the notion that a clear, bright line can be drawn and--crucially--enforced between David Bowie-like gender bending and what we've come to know as gender ideology is one I find unconvincing. The attitudes and institutions that permit the one will, with time, almost certainly compel the other.
Read some Piaget please!@prof_curiosity1

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4thWaveNow@4th_WaveNow·
@AmericasCousin @DuncanHenry78 Besides the 100% certainty only S/HE has "studied" sexuality well and has the ultimate answer, there's the hubris to "diagnose" strangers on the Internet (including their actual biological sex) so they neatly fit the "theory". The confirmation bias is obvious to everyone else.
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Brian from Pennsylvania
Brian from Pennsylvania@AmericasCousin·
If it were ever necessary I could dig up the receipts but I can attest that The Paraphilic Woman Aaron Terrell had an opportunity to debate her ideas last winter with a brilliant mind named Faustina/Alex and in doing so, she was exposed for not understanding how to properly read part of a study and reacted by blocking Faustina/Alex and pretending it didn’t happen. Despite engaging her amicably, she blocked me for pointing out the baselessness of her increasingly unmoored “theories” whose evidence base appears to be only her superstitions and subjective “insights.” Rather than responding to substantive critique she deflected to armchair psychoanalysis including an absurd idea that I am secretly nonbinary as if there’s even such thing. It’s possible she may have a good take occasionally but engaging her as a serious good faith actor is wasteful and many of us who once gave her a chance have reached identical conclusions.
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Duncan
Duncan@DuncanHenry78·
Really don’t think people trying to disguise themselves as the opposite sex are in any position to lecture me about wanting false things to be true and wanting others to believe it. 😐👀 The homophobia from the quoted post is so off the chart bonkers I’m not even offended.
Aaron Terrell@elegationvain

@DuncanHenry78 Just because you want something to be true (and crucially, want others to believe it’s true), does not make it true.

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SEGM
SEGM@segm_ebm·
This seems like a good time to re-share our letter in response to @splcenter labeling Segm a “hate group”. The label has been used to shut down scientific inquiry, intimidate academics and clinicians, mislead the gender public, and foreclose thinking. We are grateful to all those who have been able to see past Splc’s attacks and have continued to support SEGM’s mission to improve the quality of care for children, adolescents and young adults suffering from gender- related distress. segm.org/SPLC-SEGM-Resp…
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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker@sapinker·
We should oppose the Trump administration's abuse of the law to intimidate and cripple private advocacy organizations they don't like. But what they say about the Southern Poverty Law Center (which I used to donate to) is, unfortunately, correct: It “long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine.” Among the targets in its McCarthyite "Hate Watch" list are ordinary academic behavioral geneticists whose research challenges the blank slate. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/…
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4thWaveNow@4th_WaveNow·
@stellaomalley3 @genspect Just yesterday, they published a piece smearing Genspect again as a "hate group" and denouncing the latest detrans awareness day. Have you thought about suing?
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Stella O'Malley
Stella O'Malley@stellaomalley3·
The SPLC caused us enormous stress when they called @genspect a hate group. But now the SPLC has been indicted in federal charges because they’re liars and fraudsters. It’s good to see the truth emerging. It’s sad that most of the media didn’t do their job when it mattered
Graham Linehan@Glinner

In 2024, the SPLC designated Stella's organisation @Genspect and the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (@segm_ebm ) — as anti-LGBTQ+ "hate groups," calling them "key hubs of anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience." Haha, now they're going to jail.

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Benjamin Ryan
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter·
Exclusive: AMA Documents Expose Internal Schism and Uproar Over Its Youth-Gender-Surgery Position benryan.substack.com/p/exclusive-am… This follow-up to my investigation in The Free Press details the fallout within the American Medical Association after it declared that gender surgeries should generally be delayed until adulthood. This Substack includes a lot of extra details about the surrounding politics that appear to have given rise to the imbroglio at the AMA. It also includes the two key pieces of internal documentation on which I based my reporting for The Free Press: 1. The official transcript from a February 10 AMA town hall at which the CEO, Dr. John Whyte, and the director of communications, Josh Zembik, each addressed the media’s reporting of the AMA’s position on youth gender surgeries. 2. Comprehensive records from the message board of the AMA’s LGBTQ+ affinity group, on which numerous members expressed their upset that the AMA had gone against policy by at least generally advising against gender surgeries for minors.
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Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter

The Medical Establishment Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Youth Gender Surgeries The American Medical Association said it supported restricting gender surgeries for minors. Then it said it didn’t. We still don’t know where it stands, I report for @TheFP.

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