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Transgenderism. A movement to support men in their quest to become the pornography that they consume.

Many still believe that immediate "gender affirmation" is the only compassionate path for a child in distress. However, a massive longitudinal study from Germany (Bachmann et al., 2024) proves that this "care" model is built on a foundation of shifting sand. doi.org/10.3238/arzteb… By tracking nearly 14 million young people over a decade, the researchers found that the "affirmation-only" route ignores a critical biological reality: adolescence is fluid, not fixed. The Evidence the "Affirmers" Ignore: • The 72% Desistance Rate: In the largest group of concern—females aged 15–19—72.7% of those diagnosed in 2017 no longer had a gender diagnosis five years later. If we "affirm" a child with permanent medical interventions, we are interfering with a condition that, for the vast majority, resolves on its own within five years. • Explosive, Unexplained Growth: Diagnoses skyrocketed by 800% in just ten years. This isn't a natural biological shift; it's a social and clinical phenomenon that demands skepticism, not immediate medicalization. • The Complexity of the Child: Over 70% of these minors were already struggling with documented issues like depression, anxiety, ADHD, or autism. When we "affirm" a gender identity first, we risk masking and neglecting the underlying mental health struggles that require real help. The Call to Action: Stop the Medicalization of Minors This study is a wake-up call. The truth is that "affirming care" is often a fast track to life-altering medical consequences for a condition that the data shows is temporary for most teenagers. We must stop treating temporary adolescent distress with permanent medical solutions. It is time to return to a model of careful, paced assessment that prioritizes the long-term physical and mental health of the child over the immediate demands of an ideological "affirmation" model. Our children deserve a childhood free from irreversible medical experiments. Follow the data. Protect the children. Speak the truth. Don’t just take one study’s word for it. The evidence for adolescent desistance and the need for caution is backed by major health reviews worldwide: • The Cass Review (UK, 2024): A comprehensive independent review concluding that the evidence for pediatric medical transition is "remarkably weak" and calling for a holistic, therapy-first approach. Read the Final Report: [ARCHIVED CONTENT] Final Report Cass Review webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20250310… • The Dutch "Life-Span" Study (Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2024): Researchers followed over 2,700 children for 15 years and found that "gender non-contentedness" is common in early adolescence but decreases significantly with age. View the Study Details: link.springer.com/article/10.100… • Swedish National Board of Health (2022/2024): Sweden, a pioneer in this field, has officially pivoted away from hormones for minors, citing a lack of evidence and the high rate of desistance and comorbidities. Read the Swedish Policy Shift: socialstyrelsen.se/en/about-us/ne… • The Finnish Medical Guidelines (PALKO/COHERE): Finland now prioritizes psychosocial support as the first-line treatment, noting that identity development is a natural part of adolescence that should not be medicalized. Read the Finnish Guidelines: palveluvalikoima.fi/en/gender-dysp…

@carla_denyer Amazing how many points raised by Carla about PBs fly in the face of the Cass review and many systematic reviews of the evidence. Yet she talks with such certainty. Ideology over evidence.

Trans people are so often excluded from decisions made about them. I am concerned the puberty blockers trial has been paused not for clinical reasons, nor because govt listened to trans people's constructive concerns about how it will be run, but as a political decision...

@elegationvain Hmmm. These detransitioners are often in intimate same sex relationships. Is it really something one can simply lean into like a hobby? Surely the urges and aversion responses baked into sexual orientation are too fixed and strong to be overridden like that.

@abitindifferent In the video I explain how homosexuality is how people historically mitigated the dysphoria caused by autoheterosexuality. Post transition people lean on it for the same exact reason.

The Dangerous Myth of "Transing the Gay Away". I explain why this simply is not happening and why it is counterproductive to claim it is.

@Jade2000cute I remember friends telling me a similar thing once so I decided to find out for myself. I read her tweets and her essays and found her to be incredibly moderate, reasonable and fair. As well as inspiring.

JK Rowling and the others are a disgrace to feminism. Repost if you agree.

@adamndsmith “Women should be ok with being punched in the face by heffing big blokes or they are transphobic” right, ok

One TERF complained that, theoretically, a trans person could take part in this course. As a result, the entire course has been shut down. Just another example of transphobia harming women

“I am painted black on the outside. I identify as black. So why can't I preside over the anti-racism commission? Why can't I take care of this agenda? Because I am not black.” Politician Fabiana Bolsonaro protests the selection of trans-identified male Erika Hilton as president of the Women’s Rights Committee. Hilton, whose real name is Felipe Santos Silva, attempted to have a woman imprisoned for 25 years for calling him a man. He lodged five criminal counts of “social racism” complaints against feminist activist Isabela Cêpa. Last year, Cêpa was granted full refugee protections by the European Union Agency for Asylum.

@daniellismore Most people when asked believe in biological reality. They don’t believe self perception should trump that.

Terfs will die out. They will one day be seen like the kkk.

@BevJacksonAuth @ConfusedThing_ @ruhunaxxine Good point. Would that be the same as gender dysphoria but without the trans ideation? If so I suppose it shows how GD is a pretty common vulnerability exploited by trans ideology. I don’t think young gay men have the same rate of bodily distress perhaps as do young lesbians.

@abitindifferent @ConfusedThing_ @ruhunaxxine Nonsense. Many girls do. I certainly did. For many years. Fortunately no one labeled me “trans” or encouraged me to adopt that label - and to think drugs, hormones and surgery were the solution. I am so incredibly lucky - as are thousands of other older lesbians just like me.

NATIONAL WIDE PROTEST CALL!!!

@PeterTatchell Both contradict as one is material reality and the other entirely subjective. So no, both are not equally valid.

Biology & gender identity are 2 different realities. BOTH are valid Trans men & women are not the same as cisgender men & women. They are different but equally valid Trans people can be proud they are unique & special The right to be different is a fundamental human right

She couldn't have done these things as a woman?

@ConfusedThing_ @BevJacksonAuth @ruhunaxxine Both are cosmetic surgery. One about body image norms, the other centred on cognitive distortions arising from false beliefs in the social construct of gender identity. A boob-job for aesthetic reasons is very different to a mastectomy from belief one is magically a man inside.

@abitindifferent @BevJacksonAuth @ruhunaxxine Someone can be distressed about a specific part of their body without wanting to switch genders entirely. And if it is specifically a gender thing for them, it's gender dysphoria. That's how it works 💀

@ConfusedThing_ @BevJacksonAuth @ruhunaxxine Augmenting a physical characteristic, like getting braces, has nothing to do with distress about feeling ‘born in the wrong body’. Don’t be silly.

@abitindifferent @BevJacksonAuth @ruhunaxxine That's extreme gender dysphoria, you know. Gender dysphoria can be wanting a bigger dick. It's literally just being uncomfortable with something regarding your gender, only in severe cases does it become wanting to completely change it.

@BriannaWu Allowing you to live ‘unobtrusively, beside women’ would mean allowing any man who claims to be a woman the same right. Some TW commit crimes against women/kids. We can’t know which will be unobtrusive and which a danger. And societally women don’t want to take the risk anymore.

Gender is not a spectrum and non-binary is a political idea, not a medical one. This is academic, gender ideologist nonsense. It has literally nothing to do with transsexuals or our health care. I was born with a mathematically rare medical condition. I went to a doctor, I got help. And I want to just live my life. Unobtrusively, beside women. I do not wish to change language. I don’t want to eliminate sex from law. I do not want to play sports. I actually do not want my transsexuality to be something you even notice or have to accommodate. The thing that horrifies me most about gender ideology is how it treats women as a political opposition that must be defeated. Not cherished friends we are hoping to earn acceptance from.

@ConfusedThing_ @BevJacksonAuth @ruhunaxxine Distress caused by acknowledging your own sex and wishing you were the opposite sex is not something non-trans people experience.

@BevJacksonAuth @ruhunaxxine Here, I'll help ya out. Gender dysphoria is not trans exclusive. Not every trans person has it. Cîs people can have gender dysphoria. That's why trans people aren't a diagnosis.

The Detransition Wave: What Developmental Psychology Predicted All Along The rates of detransition - reversing a gender transition and returning to one's biological sex - are growing rapidly, particularly among young women who transitioned in their teens. Forums for detransitioners now number in the tens of thousands. The phenomenon is not surprising. Five foundational frameworks in developmental psychology effectively predicted it. Their common message: adolescence is characterised by social contagion, conformity pressure, and identity instability. Gender identity ideology both ignored all of this and then exploited it, and young people are paying the price. Bandura: Social Contagion is Not Self Knowledge Bandura showed that adolescents construct identity primarily through observing and imitating others, not through genuine introspection. Online communities have created a near perfect reinforcement loop: transition narratives earn affirmation, community membership, and status. Behaviours adopted through social modelling rather than authentic self knowledge are prone to revision when the individual escapes the modelling environment. The documented clustering of transgender identification in female peer groups, consistent with Lisa Littman's research on rapid onset gender dysphoria, is a textbook Bandura phenomenon. Gender identity theory, which treats self report as the sole diagnostic criterion, has no framework for distinguishing real distress from socially transmitted identity. Kohlberg: Conformity Is Not Conviction Kohlberg established that adolescents reason at the conventional level, they make decisions to secure peer approval, not from independent reflection. Post conventional reasoning, which involves genuinely autonomous judgement, develops only in late adolescence and adulthood. A teenager immersed in communities that celebrate transition and frame hesitation as bigotry is operating under conditions of maximal conventional pressure. Treating that teenager's self report as a reliable clinical guide is a category error. Gender identity theory conflates conformity with conviction. Kohlberg's fifty years of empirical research show they are categorically different things. Vygotsky: Ideological Scaffolding Shapes, Then Traps Vygotsky showed that development is shaped by the interpretive frameworks - the scaffold - provided by one's social environment. A young person whose every expression of distress is channelled through the single lens of gender incongruence, with all alternative explanations excluded, will construct a self understanding built from those tools. This is not support; it is ideological capture. When detransitioners describe how affirmation only environments made it impossible to consider other explanations for their suffering - trauma, autism, depression, homophobia - they are describing Vygotsky's scaffold failure. The language of gender identity does not merely describe inner experience. It constructs it. Erikson and Marcia: Foreclosure Has Consequences Erikson identified adolescence as requiring a protected moratorium, a period of identity experimentation before commitment. Marcia operationalised this: identities adopted without prior exploration (foreclosure) are predictably unstable and prone to crisis in adulthood. The gender medicine pathway abolishes the moratorium entirely, moving distressed teenagers toward hormones and surgery as though these were routine interventions. The detransition wave is the deferred moratorium asserting itself in adulthood, the identity work that should have occurred at fifteen happening at twenty five instead, with permanent physical consequences already in place. Conclusion These five empirical theories converge on the same verdict: the conditions under which a generation of young people has been encouraged to medically transition are precisely the conditions developmental psychology identifies as most likely to produce regret. Gender identity ideology proceeded as though a century of research on adolescent vulnerability did not exist. The detransition wave is the empirical reply. It will grow larger, and the reckoning - clinical, legal, and ethical - is only beginning.

How is it possible that people like this refuse to understand - or to believe - that most people don’t have a “gender identity”? They just assume it’s a given, like some religious people assume everyone has a soul, that might end up in heaven or hell. I really don’t care if they believe that stuff - but it’s infuriating that they want to drag the whole of society into their sexist belief system.

A male politician who identifies as "female" has been elected to lead Brazil's top Women's Rights Committee. Erika Hilton had previously attempted to have a women's rights advocate imprisoned for 25 years for "misgendering" him. reduxx.info/brazil-trans-i…

@datadriven_tdoc A transwoman may be treated as a woman, whatever that means, by one and treated as a man by another. Identity is mutually negotiated after all. In a free society we get to choose how we see or don’t see the other.

Strident GCs want trans women to always be treated as men Strident TRAs want trans women to always be treated as women The reality is that some trans women are generally treated as women, some are generally treated as men, and it depends on the trans woman and the context That’s how this actually operates in the real world much to the chagrin of both strident GCs and TRAs