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Gerda Ho's avatar

I assume Dr. O Brian c can’t back up up his so-called “gender affirming care “ stand except for the profit he gets from it.

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Kevin C.'s avatar

Words have gender.

Mammals (humans) have sex.

If these compassionate physicians and surgeons were to be accurate, they would use the term "sex affirming care". But they can't because then they would have to admit they cannot change a person's sex, only the word the word used to describe their sex.

Every noun in the French language is saying ... "zut alors". Much like this inane topic.

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Discrete Music's avatar

Words don't have gender in English, but they do in many other languages. Most European ones.

We who resist gender ideology must start with language. I started decades before there was a gender ideology when I decided to never use "they" as a singular.

We must refuse the pronoun ritual, refuse the neologisms, refuse the "cis"/"trans" bifurcation, refuse to affirm, refuse to acknowledge. If compelled into "gender sensitivity training," interrupt constantly with scientific fact.

If a lifelong friend goes "trans," show him the door.

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Sally Toots's avatar

show him the door? Why is the focus always on trans males. Y'all are wierdos

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Team Reality's avatar

Nothing "affirming" of it in reality

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Chloe's avatar

Well played!

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Margot Ohlfearnain's avatar

Dr. O’Brien will not debate Leor Sapir because he knows that “gender affirming care” is nothing more than quackery. There is nothing to defend and he would be publicly humiliated. These charlatans will hang on as long as they can, though, reaping the financial bounty for as long as possible.

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TrackerNeil's avatar

You know, I think these gender ideologues actually believe what they are saying, or at least, most of them do. They've constructed a narrative about civil rights and kindness, which is of course incomplete. Is it kind to medicalize a condition that may require no medicine? Do children have a right to become lifetime patients based on shoddy science?

I imagine O'Brien thinks himself most righteous; after all, he's saving lives! The same rationale was used by religious fantatics who killed abortion doctors, or who flew planes into buildings. Sure, some people will suffer, but since the ends are noble so too must be the means.

I swear, more harm is done by people who are *sure* they are right than by those who pretty much know they are wrong.

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B101's avatar

This truly shows where the morals of these people stand, and it's not children's well being. A shame coming from a pediatrician

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Ron Peralta's avatar

I’m not a donor but I am a sponsor and want to acknowledge your decision to return the funds. We don’t want to open a door to criticism of all your doing to right the medical community. Thanks

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Team Reality's avatar

An honest debate is probably impossible because so much of the trans activist positions are just straight up lies, or such ugly distortions of facts as to be tantamount to lies.

"Left handedness"

"Intersex people"

"Pediatric surgeries never happen"

"There's no rapes by trans-female identified males"

"The Cass report is a lie"

"Jamie Reid is a liar"

"The WPATH files are fake"

"Transition prevents suicides"

(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11063965/)

'There is no social contagion"

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Discrete Music's avatar

"Transition make Happy"

"They're just being 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒"

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

And please let's not forget the mother (unless it's the father) of all these lies: that Gender/Queer Theory is any kind of actual scholarly or scientific theory—meaning a testable, provable (or disprovable) claim made through good-faith scholarship and the following and testing of hypotheses wherever they may lead—instead of a form of political ideology and activism disguised as these things.

All Critical Theories are the opposite of scholarship as instead of questions with many answers they provide many questions that all have the same answer: that Power and Oppression are the sole creators of our world and are responsible for every possible difference, hierarchy or suffering and injustice. Theory is simply all the greatest hits of Leftist ideology—the Blank Slate, the Oppressed/Oppressor dialectic, the evils of capitalism, religion, tradition, Western Civ—poorly dressed up in academic jargon.

Sex changes for children could have never happened without the creation and installation of Gender/Queer Theory as a legitimate form of scholarship, which it obviously isn't, as all its leaders and proponents can't state or defend their claims in simple terms in open forums.

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Discrete Music's avatar

Which is why they immediately answer all debate and challenge with accusations of "hate" and "bigotry," although they usually use invented words.

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Team Reality's avatar

That does sell trans to the highly educated. It's the way the issue has (to politicians not voters) has turned hyper partisan that really has me dismayed. The way we ignore preexisting mental health issues and jump to "affirming" care is just nuts

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Frederick R Prete's avatar

Colin: As always, I admire and respect your intellectual and personal integrity. I'm proud to have contributed some pieces to your Substack. My best, Frederick

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Erin Sardiello's avatar

Gays Against Groomers is also doing good work thank you for trying to get him to talk. Keep up the good work

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Phil Dye's avatar

Good stuff Colin. Shows how scared the gender affirming mob are of biological reality.

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A S's avatar

His accusation of non-expert corporate pawn was startling. It is bizarre that he could have even gotten such an impression. The disparity is remarkable given the corporate support I presume he receives and my current assumption that you do not receive any substantial corporate support.

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Team Reality's avatar

It's probably cribbed from some "influencer" like Erin Reed, who claims to be a "journalist"

Reed is every bit the journalist that Lord Ha Ha and Tokyo Rose were.

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Discrete Music's avatar

Anthony Reed is one of the creepiest. Always photographed from the same angle, always with eyes shifted in the same direction, always with the same weird set of the mouth.

And he publishes instructions for deranged "trans" kids to get hormones through the mail.

He lies as much about matters "trans" as Trump lies about everything. I can only wonder how many lives he's ruined.

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Leslie MacMillan's avatar

Brilliant piece of theatre, Colin. Absolutely brilliant. I will for sure donate my refund to a worthy Canadian charity or maybe even, (gasp!) a right-leaning political party. (Hospitals in Canada get all their operating funding from government and can't use any charitable donations for day-to-day patient care. Even capital funding for equipment is scrutinized by the government for fear that a new MRI scanner donated by the public will incur unbudgeted operating costs that the taxpayers would have to pick up.)

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Liberal, not Leftist's avatar

I tried a discussion with the Washington State Department of Youth, Families and Children about how you can no longer foster kids in WA if you won't pursue or continue "gender affirming" care for the kids. They're adamant to just keep doing what they're doing. The one woman told me they simply won't stop doing what they're doing because trans kids don't need therapy, they just need affirming care. Yikes.

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Discrete Music's avatar

People who believe they are the sex opposite the one they were born as; people who want healthy body parts removed.

Naah, they don't need therapy. Nothing wrong with them. They're just "being who they really are."

/s

Would you turn your back on someone who believed this? Would you let him babysit your children?

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Thomas Lewis's avatar

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I Am Trying To Figure Out

What The Gender

Of The Climate Is.

Any Ideas ?

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Discrete Music's avatar

I looked the guy up. He sounds like even more of a jerk than he looks. Sprays buzzwords like a factory loom making patterns.

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Discrete Music's avatar

I read the exchange next to his smiling face (is that Twitter?) and I frankly don't see why anyone would be eager to cast pearls before that swine. He does not sound at all like an intelligent man and if he has any brains he masks them with a complete lack of impulse control.

He throws around "hate" far too readily, exactly like some 14yo girl who ran into an activist on Tiktok one morning and was "trans" by the same afternoon. His excuse that he's not going to help anyone else earn money by debate isn't fooling anyone.

He won't debate because he can't, and he can't because the smallest intrusion of logic into any discussion of "trans" ideology leads to its collapse.

There are disturbing parallels between "trans" and Trumpism, two epistemological contagions both held by people who should know better. In the case of GAC the obvious motive is money. "Trans" is big business.

Find someone else to debate. Nobody cares what this fraud has to say about the Cass Review

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dorothy slater's avatar

O please! Don't bring Trump into this discussion. He has no place here and has nothing to do with trans. One can be a trump supporter and not crazy and not support transgender mutilation.. I wonder if Trump will ever be left out of any discussion ever.

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Discrete Music's avatar

100% agreement in principle but I honestly do see a parallel. IN BOTH CASES I have (mostly ex-) friends who I never would have expected to fall for either, being either too smart ("trans") or too decent (Trump) to accept the contagion, but who did.

I'm sure there are other examples but see this phenomenon as extremely worrisome and have some quasi-mystical idea (and I am the most un-mystical person you will ever meet) having to do with overpopulation.

However, I won't mention TFG again. Pinky-swear.

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A-diet-stress-model-of-lgbt's avatar

Transgenders need good conversion therapies so as not to fall in the rabbit hole of hormone therapy and surgeries. Recent research has implicated inflammation, diet as factors in gender dysphoria. Conversion therapies need to keep up with the progress of the research.

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