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Mike Hind's avatar

This made a refreshing change from rehashing the arguments. The totemic quality of this issue seems to signal so many broken aspects of leftish & late liberal thinking. Chief among them is simple honesty.

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Shannon B Douglas's avatar

I feel like you’ve failed to take a position here and tbh, and not represented either side in this very well.

When we look at the social dynamics of this we can compare how the issue is playing out to the concept of Family Systems Theory where everyone in an abusive family plays a role: The Abuser, the Enabler/Bystander, The Golden Child, The Lost Child, The Scapegoat and the Whistleblower.

The abusers are the activists who have captured institutions like WPATH and deliver standards of care recommendations rooted entirely in ideology instead of science. They are the narcissists changing definitions of women in a a zero-sum game of rights. They are the ones accusing competent professionals who prefer science to this new religion, of transphobia - running them out of their professions for “Gatekeeping” access to medical gender transitions for prepubescent children. This so-called gender medicine for children can only be called experimental since there are no long-term or follow-up studies on the kids who have received blockers or hormones whatsoever.

The gender issue is a barometer of our times indeed. The barometer measures what roles we are willing to play in this. Are we joining in the lies? are we standing by saying, “this doesn’t affect me?” Are we preference falsifying to climb the ranks of the public education system as we collect woke points in cynical career positioning?

Are we playing both side-ism?

Or are we standing up and speaking the truth?

The truth must be said: Today, in the Anglo-sphere we are conducting medical fertility experiments on tens of thousands of vulnerable children, we are removing healthy breasts, destroying healthy reproductive systems and cursing these children, many of whom have never understood sexual function or intimate relations, to a lifetime of never knowing the joys and wonders of human sexuality.

When was the last time a society conducted fertility experiments on vulnerable children?

What was the outcome of tiptoeing around speaking the truth about the state of society at that time?

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