Bravo, Colin! We trans widows (ex-wives of the now middle aged men who dictated this pseudoscience to the institutions, based on their own psychiatric illness and fetishist obsessions) will find our voices. Dr. Stephen B. Levine, psychiatrist who changed his mind after working to "affirm" for decades testified before the Pennsylvania state legislature regarding the fact that, even in the mind of that individual, he does not believe he's changed sex. Transcribed for your convenience.
Excellent speech, Colin. In less than ten years, the once extremely rare "transgender" cancer has metastasized and spread like wildfire throughout the land. We must excise this cancer before any more lives are destroyed. The mental and physical health of our country's children and young adults hangs in the balance. We must fight against all the nonsense and all the lies.
A friend of mine just told me today that her healthy daughter was forced to pick pronouns when she was in-patient for depression. They would not allow her to use she/her so she picked something ridiculous just to get them off her back. However what was truly alarming was the hospital seemed determined to force this heterosexual child to say she was gay or trans and that was the cause of her depression. (She did not comply). I was shocked to learn that this is how they are treating mental health issues and crises now. Trying to connect it all to sexuality? What the heck is going on? And preying on vulnerable teens is criminal. I hope more people will come forward about this happening. I’m sure this child is not the only one this has happened to.
Finally the people are having a voice against this insanity. Many thanks to Dr. Wright, the Daily Wire and Matt Walsh (the Sweet Daddy) for leading the charge!
End the surgeries then go after the medical institutions that greenlit this lysenkoist madness. Heads have to roll. We need accountability: Massive class action lawsuits. Revoked Licenses. Resignations and all the internal documents detailing how this happened.
Thanks for speaking Colin. I wonder if you knew when you moved to Tennessee that it would be the eye of the storm of this movement? Glad you were there to say what I wanted to hear - that this is all absurd!
For every advance we see in Europe, the US doubles down. The UK shifts to psychological support for young people instead of drugs and surgery, and here, the AAP asks the DOJ to clamp down on dissent. Disturbing and demoralizing that the MSM continues to hide what's happening. Until that shifts, we will need to keep fighting this.
Watched your speech, Colin...THANK YOU for everything you’re doing on this existential matter! As a country, we must resoloutly stand against this creeping evil, never backing down, no matter the costs....
Evil is not a word that's ever been in my vocabulary. But those who practice or promote the butchery of children and young adults are as evil as evil can be.
RN here. The medical community should be the foremost stalwart vanguard against this pseudoscientific insanity. Healthcare is the most frequent and practical way in which most people encounter biological science, making healthcare workers the most important stewards of this knowledge and information (if we are to concede that it’s not self-evident common sense!) Every doctor and nurse that does not speak against this ideology (which has been trumping actual science) is derelict of their duty to defend and promote truth and health.
There’s far too much respect given to ‘top doctors’ and their views. Medical experts have perpetrated some awful things in the past. And as you point out they continue to do so today. There are a great many medical practices, particularly in surgery, that lack a solid randomised trial evidence base. Which is precisely why any intervention that leads to permanent change in children must be so carefully considered. Even more so where psychological problems are to be treated by surgery- remember frontal lobotomy as a treatment for psychiatric illnesses of all sorts. It’s main protagonist even won a Nobel prize for this now discredited mutilation. It was mostly done on women, who also fell foul of surgeons performing hysterectomies for ‘hysteria’- whatever that was supposed to be.
It’s absurd to pretend that medics are driven only by scientific evidence. They are not. We are influenced by bias and prejudice like everyone else, as well a prevailing social fashions; factors that disadvantaged womens’ health for generations.
Another example- prior to 1973 the American Psychiatric Association held homosexuality to be a mental ‘disorder’, with the same enthusiasm they now include gender dysphoria in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). What changed among homosexuals in 1973? Nothing. Was there new scientific data- no. What changed was small group political pressure from gay lobbyists and a change to prevailing social attitudes. So homosexuality stopped being a disease on a vote- a show of hands as scientific evidence!
So you are on firm historical ground when you challenge fashionable dogma particularly of psycho-babble-ologists who stand to benefit financially from a practice bereft of large scale multi centre trials. We should not let children become the new victims of ideologues and zealots just because these folk have MDs.
Conflict of interest: a hospital specialist for 26 years.
As a once and future Nashvillian, I watched the rally video with interest and some dismay. I appreciated your remarks, Colin, and was glad to hear from Scott Newgent and Chloe Cole, but I was dismayed by the number of far-right politicians and activists on stage. Calling it a rally to end "mutilation" of kids, while perhaps technically correct, just gives the trans activitsts more reason to paint those of us who oppose gender mythology as hysterical right-wing nutjobs. And the repeated claim that the medical establishment is motivated only by greed comes across as a wacky conspiracy theory. Of course none of this is surprising, given that this was a Daily Wire event, but it's still very frustrating to realize that it's now considered progressive to think that "real" men or women must conform to sex stereotypes.
It has to be political or ‘politicized’ if laws are going to change and it seems pretty hopeless that will happen with the Dems. And since when is everyone on the right ‘far’ right? Is Tulsi Gabbard far right. Does that happen overnight? I think the point is to marshal all supporters regardless, but the left has been 90% captured.
Exactly. I'd argue Tulsi has be catering to the disaffected isolationist right, "the new right" for a long time, at least since Syrian war. It wasn't overnight but it was long overdue and that is ok. At any rate in my experience the right, for lack of a better term, has been way more inclusive of diverse thought. Republicans offer a bigger tent. We won't be fired by our bosses if we come out as pro-choice Republicans for example. Most of us are ex-Democrats cancelled by the left. The left would never want us back after we took a stand against radical trans activism. Many of us lost jobs and livelihood. Saying it should not be partisan is to willfully ignore what happened.
"far right" is nothing more than a smear designed to silence people. I guarantee you the people you think are "far right" are reasonable people that are willing to discuss all issues with calm and reason. It is the left and only the left who refuse to engage on issues and instead use slurs to silence dissent
I'm going to give you an example of how this needs to work. If there were an ideology from religious conservatives that led to measurable physical harm in children, let's use the example of vaccinations but suppose the disease, unlike Covid, was specifically harmful to minors. A deadlier herpes or measles. If it became a nationwide trend led by religious conservatives and based in scripture, to reject all vaccines specifically for minors. Or if that doesn't work assume Christians were as adamant about FGM as the Muslims in sub-saharan Africa. Do you think the religious right would be justified in saying "this should not be religious. Everyone should allow children to be vaccinated" or every parent should have the right to FGM their child ? I doubt you would so willingly side with the few outliers in their proclamations. No. In those cases the dogma is ONLY COMING FROM THE RELIGIOUS. Admit it and dissect why the doctrine is flawed. This is what is going on with transitioning children. It is a religious cult firmly embedded in leftist doctrines indoctrinating young people. No one other than that is encouraging kids to transition. There is NO coalition on the right in favor of child transitions.
You may as well say "cars should be free". Radical trans activism is an inherent feature not a bug of gender activism. Gender activism and gender theory is practically inseparable from modern feminism. There is a tiny handful of radical feminists that reject radical trans activism. That is the only faction of the left speaking out against any of this mutilation. Name a single prominent leftist in office or in a position of power in a organization/corporation that has come out against radical trans ideology. Demanding that everyone believe this monstrosity is not uniquely leftist will not work. The left needs to admit what happened and where the ideology came from if they are ever going to eradicate it from colleges/med schools.
Aside from Candace Owens who I will never defend and who is new to the Daily Wire, please name the people at that organization who are "nut jobs" and tell me what position makes them worthy of such slander
I didn't say that anyone anywhere is a nutjob. I said that certain terminology and arguments can cause the people who use them to be viewed that way. I just want people to engage with the arguments rather than make assumptions based on someone's political allegiance.
Yes. Correct. Calling every conservative republican a "far right nut job" is an ad hominem designed to invalidate every single position they have without even addressing those positions. Now that you recognize the trick dont perpetuate it
I live in the South now. Everyone I speak to down here is completely against the "transgender" nightmare. Are you going to reject their help because they eat fried food or drive a pick up truck.
I guess I would rather not see this as a right vs. left issue at all. As a lifelong Democrat with socialist leanings, I don't like seeing this issue relegated to the conservative end of the spectrum.
Face reality. The left (schools, universities, medical societies, mainstream media, corporations) has been completely captured by the enemy --"transgender" activism. In order to have any chance of winning, we need to think strategically. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
“persons whose expression or behavior does not conform to that which is typically associated with their sex.”
Sorry but although I am absolutely on your side of this issue, I have no problem with the above definition. There is a lot of room between non-conforming behavior and a claim that a non-conforming person is *actually* a member of the other sex. I'm fine with a 'transwoman' being defined as a MAN who acts like and pretends to be a woman, but that's a mile short of the claim that a transwoman is *actually* a woman.
I am not "fine" with men who try to pass themselves off as women. What you have referred to as a "transwoman" is no more and no less than a man in womanface. Womanface is as offensive to women as blackface is to black people.
I said I'm fine with the definition, I may not be fine with fraud. I made no comment on what behaviors should be tolerated from trannies, I only say that as a matter of definition a transwoman is a MAN who ...
IOW, the first thing to make clear is that a transwoman is a MAN, not a WOMAN. After that we can discuss what transwomen should and should not be able to get away with.
It is IMO worse than a "medical scandal", it is a crime against humanity.
Yes. A shockingly high number of today's MDs seem inspired by Dr. Mengele.
A friend once said to me "there's a level of incompetence that becomes criminal."
With the meddling of trans activism in medicine we're seeing that idea illustrated to the extreme.
Bravo, Colin! We trans widows (ex-wives of the now middle aged men who dictated this pseudoscience to the institutions, based on their own psychiatric illness and fetishist obsessions) will find our voices. Dr. Stephen B. Levine, psychiatrist who changed his mind after working to "affirm" for decades testified before the Pennsylvania state legislature regarding the fact that, even in the mind of that individual, he does not believe he's changed sex. Transcribed for your convenience.
https://wordpress.com/post/uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com/4922
Excellent speech, Colin. In less than ten years, the once extremely rare "transgender" cancer has metastasized and spread like wildfire throughout the land. We must excise this cancer before any more lives are destroyed. The mental and physical health of our country's children and young adults hangs in the balance. We must fight against all the nonsense and all the lies.
A friend of mine just told me today that her healthy daughter was forced to pick pronouns when she was in-patient for depression. They would not allow her to use she/her so she picked something ridiculous just to get them off her back. However what was truly alarming was the hospital seemed determined to force this heterosexual child to say she was gay or trans and that was the cause of her depression. (She did not comply). I was shocked to learn that this is how they are treating mental health issues and crises now. Trying to connect it all to sexuality? What the heck is going on? And preying on vulnerable teens is criminal. I hope more people will come forward about this happening. I’m sure this child is not the only one this has happened to.
That is truly alarming.
Finally the people are having a voice against this insanity. Many thanks to Dr. Wright, the Daily Wire and Matt Walsh (the Sweet Daddy) for leading the charge!
End the surgeries then go after the medical institutions that greenlit this lysenkoist madness. Heads have to roll. We need accountability: Massive class action lawsuits. Revoked Licenses. Resignations and all the internal documents detailing how this happened.
What else is there to say?
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Thanks for speaking Colin. I wonder if you knew when you moved to Tennessee that it would be the eye of the storm of this movement? Glad you were there to say what I wanted to hear - that this is all absurd!
For every advance we see in Europe, the US doubles down. The UK shifts to psychological support for young people instead of drugs and surgery, and here, the AAP asks the DOJ to clamp down on dissent. Disturbing and demoralizing that the MSM continues to hide what's happening. Until that shifts, we will need to keep fighting this.
great job. thanks
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Watched your speech, Colin...THANK YOU for everything you’re doing on this existential matter! As a country, we must resoloutly stand against this creeping evil, never backing down, no matter the costs....
Evil is not a word that's ever been in my vocabulary. But those who practice or promote the butchery of children and young adults are as evil as evil can be.
It’s ‘not in your vocabulary’?
It wasn't back then. But it certainly is now.
RN here. The medical community should be the foremost stalwart vanguard against this pseudoscientific insanity. Healthcare is the most frequent and practical way in which most people encounter biological science, making healthcare workers the most important stewards of this knowledge and information (if we are to concede that it’s not self-evident common sense!) Every doctor and nurse that does not speak against this ideology (which has been trumping actual science) is derelict of their duty to defend and promote truth and health.
There’s far too much respect given to ‘top doctors’ and their views. Medical experts have perpetrated some awful things in the past. And as you point out they continue to do so today. There are a great many medical practices, particularly in surgery, that lack a solid randomised trial evidence base. Which is precisely why any intervention that leads to permanent change in children must be so carefully considered. Even more so where psychological problems are to be treated by surgery- remember frontal lobotomy as a treatment for psychiatric illnesses of all sorts. It’s main protagonist even won a Nobel prize for this now discredited mutilation. It was mostly done on women, who also fell foul of surgeons performing hysterectomies for ‘hysteria’- whatever that was supposed to be.
It’s absurd to pretend that medics are driven only by scientific evidence. They are not. We are influenced by bias and prejudice like everyone else, as well a prevailing social fashions; factors that disadvantaged womens’ health for generations.
Another example- prior to 1973 the American Psychiatric Association held homosexuality to be a mental ‘disorder’, with the same enthusiasm they now include gender dysphoria in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). What changed among homosexuals in 1973? Nothing. Was there new scientific data- no. What changed was small group political pressure from gay lobbyists and a change to prevailing social attitudes. So homosexuality stopped being a disease on a vote- a show of hands as scientific evidence!
So you are on firm historical ground when you challenge fashionable dogma particularly of psycho-babble-ologists who stand to benefit financially from a practice bereft of large scale multi centre trials. We should not let children become the new victims of ideologues and zealots just because these folk have MDs.
Conflict of interest: a hospital specialist for 26 years.
As a once and future Nashvillian, I watched the rally video with interest and some dismay. I appreciated your remarks, Colin, and was glad to hear from Scott Newgent and Chloe Cole, but I was dismayed by the number of far-right politicians and activists on stage. Calling it a rally to end "mutilation" of kids, while perhaps technically correct, just gives the trans activitsts more reason to paint those of us who oppose gender mythology as hysterical right-wing nutjobs. And the repeated claim that the medical establishment is motivated only by greed comes across as a wacky conspiracy theory. Of course none of this is surprising, given that this was a Daily Wire event, but it's still very frustrating to realize that it's now considered progressive to think that "real" men or women must conform to sex stereotypes.
It has to be political or ‘politicized’ if laws are going to change and it seems pretty hopeless that will happen with the Dems. And since when is everyone on the right ‘far’ right? Is Tulsi Gabbard far right. Does that happen overnight? I think the point is to marshal all supporters regardless, but the left has been 90% captured.
Exactly. I'd argue Tulsi has be catering to the disaffected isolationist right, "the new right" for a long time, at least since Syrian war. It wasn't overnight but it was long overdue and that is ok. At any rate in my experience the right, for lack of a better term, has been way more inclusive of diverse thought. Republicans offer a bigger tent. We won't be fired by our bosses if we come out as pro-choice Republicans for example. Most of us are ex-Democrats cancelled by the left. The left would never want us back after we took a stand against radical trans activism. Many of us lost jobs and livelihood. Saying it should not be partisan is to willfully ignore what happened.
"far right" is nothing more than a smear designed to silence people. I guarantee you the people you think are "far right" are reasonable people that are willing to discuss all issues with calm and reason. It is the left and only the left who refuse to engage on issues and instead use slurs to silence dissent
There are reasonable and unreasonable people on all sides. This shouldn't be a left-vs-right issue.
I'm going to give you an example of how this needs to work. If there were an ideology from religious conservatives that led to measurable physical harm in children, let's use the example of vaccinations but suppose the disease, unlike Covid, was specifically harmful to minors. A deadlier herpes or measles. If it became a nationwide trend led by religious conservatives and based in scripture, to reject all vaccines specifically for minors. Or if that doesn't work assume Christians were as adamant about FGM as the Muslims in sub-saharan Africa. Do you think the religious right would be justified in saying "this should not be religious. Everyone should allow children to be vaccinated" or every parent should have the right to FGM their child ? I doubt you would so willingly side with the few outliers in their proclamations. No. In those cases the dogma is ONLY COMING FROM THE RELIGIOUS. Admit it and dissect why the doctrine is flawed. This is what is going on with transitioning children. It is a religious cult firmly embedded in leftist doctrines indoctrinating young people. No one other than that is encouraging kids to transition. There is NO coalition on the right in favor of child transitions.
You may as well say "cars should be free". Radical trans activism is an inherent feature not a bug of gender activism. Gender activism and gender theory is practically inseparable from modern feminism. There is a tiny handful of radical feminists that reject radical trans activism. That is the only faction of the left speaking out against any of this mutilation. Name a single prominent leftist in office or in a position of power in a organization/corporation that has come out against radical trans ideology. Demanding that everyone believe this monstrosity is not uniquely leftist will not work. The left needs to admit what happened and where the ideology came from if they are ever going to eradicate it from colleges/med schools.
You’re DADGUM right, David! Thank you for a glimmer of sanity in this morass of stupidly!!
Aside from Candace Owens who I will never defend and who is new to the Daily Wire, please name the people at that organization who are "nut jobs" and tell me what position makes them worthy of such slander
I didn't say that anyone anywhere is a nutjob. I said that certain terminology and arguments can cause the people who use them to be viewed that way. I just want people to engage with the arguments rather than make assumptions based on someone's political allegiance.
Yes. Correct. Calling every conservative republican a "far right nut job" is an ad hominem designed to invalidate every single position they have without even addressing those positions. Now that you recognize the trick dont perpetuate it
I live in the South now. Everyone I speak to down here is completely against the "transgender" nightmare. Are you going to reject their help because they eat fried food or drive a pick up truck.
I guess I would rather not see this as a right vs. left issue at all. As a lifelong Democrat with socialist leanings, I don't like seeing this issue relegated to the conservative end of the spectrum.
Speak up among your own people, Ava, it's the best you can do.
It's politicised, and I'll argue not because the right have politicised it, but you may see it differently.
But the more lefty types that speak up the more it will become a bipartisan concern for children's health.
The argument stands or falls on its merits, not on the person arguing.
Face reality. The left (schools, universities, medical societies, mainstream media, corporations) has been completely captured by the enemy --"transgender" activism. In order to have any chance of winning, we need to think strategically. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
“persons whose expression or behavior does not conform to that which is typically associated with their sex.”
Sorry but although I am absolutely on your side of this issue, I have no problem with the above definition. There is a lot of room between non-conforming behavior and a claim that a non-conforming person is *actually* a member of the other sex. I'm fine with a 'transwoman' being defined as a MAN who acts like and pretends to be a woman, but that's a mile short of the claim that a transwoman is *actually* a woman.
I am not "fine" with men who try to pass themselves off as women. What you have referred to as a "transwoman" is no more and no less than a man in womanface. Womanface is as offensive to women as blackface is to black people.
I said I'm fine with the definition, I may not be fine with fraud. I made no comment on what behaviors should be tolerated from trannies, I only say that as a matter of definition a transwoman is a MAN who ...
IOW, the first thing to make clear is that a transwoman is a MAN, not a WOMAN. After that we can discuss what transwomen should and should not be able to get away with.