Ray Alex Williams
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detrans male. youtuber. writer. philosopher. opinions my own | married to @JulesGeezLouise
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My latest on Substack:
How I Learned to Love My Autogynephilia: Navigating Repression vs Integration
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I want to publicly apologize for my contribution to cancel culture and for personally going after Kathleen Stock’s academic reputation back when I was a trans activist. That was wrong of me and I regret that and take accountability for the harm I caused to her career. But I have
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A cat is anything that identifies as one
A black person is anyone who identifies as one
A native American is anyone who identifies as one
An old person is anyone who identifies as one
Why is it so easy to recognize the absurdity of these statements but not for “woman”?
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In a talk for her upcoming book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender” Judith Butler says the sexual dimorphism of male vs female is an “observational imposition” of Christian colonialism.
This idea is the root rot of postmodern trans ideology, which actually believes the objective truth of
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“If you leave me, I will kill myself.”
The National Domestic Abuse Hotline says “if your partner regularly threatens suicide, particularly whenever you’re not doing something he or she wants you to do,” this is a form of emotional abuse typical of Borderline Personality
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One of the most psychologically healing aspects of my detransition has been realizing how much mental energy I wasted living in a perpetual state of victimization and neurotic self-consciousness about people perceiving the obvious fact I was male.
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I was a true cult believer.
If someone had surveyed me on regret and detransition right after this tattoo, I would have insisted I would never ever change my mind.
Detransition cannot be measured in 1-2 year follow ups but decades (8 years for me.)
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This male:
1. Identifies as a woman
2. Says he’s transgender
3. Says he’s female
4. Says he’s intersex
5. Is attempting to “pass” (feminine clothes, purse, long hair)
Under the typical rubric of Trans Activism and self-ID laws, this male has every “right” to use female spaces
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Gender ideology is full of internal contradictions.
If you say trans women are males who identify as women, some will say that’s transphobic because they don’t “identify AS women” they ARE women.
But then if you ask them what they mean by “woman” they’ll usually either state
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@Aja02537920
It’s on my to-do list to make some YouTube videos about my old trans activist essays and explain what’s wrong with them. I am especially interested in debunking one called “Against the Sex/Gender Distinction” which ties into the girldick essay.
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Andrea Long Chu's piece in NY Mag reviewing Judith Butler's new book Who's Afraid of Gender? is radical and ethically unhinged. There are so many philosophically troubling things said it's hard to choose, but this stood out to me:
"We must be prepared to defend the idea that, in
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Whenever I harp on the point that sex change for mammals is impossible, some trans people inevitably chime in to say, “Nobody is claiming trans women are literally female, just that they have a preponderance of female characteristics from HRT.”
But some influential trans
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@Naozymandias
The point is that the entire framing of “life saving healthcare” is fundamentally based on emotional manipulation tactic typical in abuse cases. We don’t treat any other mental health condition like this. If a BPD patient demands X or else they’ll kill themselves, we wouldn’t
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One of the things detransition has given me perspective on is how utterly toxic and destructive it is to assume that if your family doesn’t *immediately* acquiesce to your demands for a new name and pronouns that they must be transphobic bigots who don’t love you. I am ashamed of
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When I talk about “gender ideology,” this is what I mean.
It’s a New Religious Movement (i.e. cult). This is spiritual language for a secular society; promising a new life of transcendent purpose and meaning from an internal, immaterial spiritual knowing of one’s true gendered
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Judith Butler writes “[Gender Studies] does not deny sex, but it does tend to ask about how sex is established, through what medical and legal frameworks, how that has changed through time…”
This is a typical postmodern Foucauldian move: “Oh, we’re not denying material reality;
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Sex stereotype nonconforming people have always existed but nobody denies that. What’s under contention is the decidedly modern *conception* of sex stereotype nonconforming people as having innate, immutable, inner “gender identities” along with their transhumanist medicalization
'Trans people always existed': New resource shines a light on trans history
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Imagine reading a report specifically about CHILDREN’S medicine and then in defense of such medical protocols writing about how you are “aroused” when people “take control of their own bodies.”
Pediatric transition is often just fuel for AGP’s disgruntled fantasy life.
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They/them pronouns are rarely about genuine dysphoria. They/them pronouns often explicitly function as an activist tool within the Neomarxist gender cult.
This is why people put “She/they” in their email signature: it serves as an activist, status-signal that you have Critical
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@Cross2Rose
When I detransitioned I no longer felt beholden to maintain allegiance to the trans ideological cult. My wife was also greatly instrumental to exposing me to alternative viewpoints and criticisms of gender ideology. Also, I actually engaged with these criticisms with good faith
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@VexedVortecies
That’s the problem! There is *absolutely* an easy way to delink. The fact she thinks it’s difficult to delink is exactly the problem. And merely admitting the existence of matter is meaningless. That’s table stakes for any sane person.
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In her new book Who's Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler claims the reason why "anti-gender" critics are against gender ideology is because they "will not read the scholarship" of gender studies, an absurd claim given how many have peaked precisely from reading such "scholarship."
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@MayLilyDayLily
I wasn't sure about mentioning her directly because I figured she had a good reason to block me and that is her prerogative to not want anything to do with me, which I don't blame her for whatsoever and I wanted to respect that.
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When GCs say trans ideology is regressive, this is a prime example.
Transfem puts on makeup and complains about being called a man but literally how would someone be able to tell the difference between this person and a feminine, GNC man?
Instead of celebrating being a GNC
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Classic projection. This disgruntled, insecure, embittered trans woman thinks I ought to feel shame for detransitioning because apparently I didn’t have the “courage” to continue pretending to be something I’m not for the rest of my life, even though estrogen literally gave me a
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Trans activist Julia Serano wrote in her book Whipping Girl that “the sex we are assigned at birth plays almost no role whatsoever in day-to-day human interactions.”
Her argument for this claim is that she passes well enough such that nobody clocks her as male when she’s out and
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“Trans women athletes have been permitted to compete in the Olympics since 2003; if they had a massive advantage wouldn’t we have seen trans domination occur?”
This is the fallacy of false dichotomy.
It could be the case that trans women both have an unfair advantage *and* also
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The gender cult constantly tells me the only reason I detransitioned is because I couldn’t “cut it” as trans, even though after I transitioned I landed a six figure career, got married, bought a house, and was well-adjusted.
I detransed for health reasons and because I was tired
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Kathleen Stock continues to impress me as the most reasonable and conciliatory GC feminist by arguing it’s unhelpful and inflammatory to always insist on calling trans women “men”:
“it’s unhelpful and conceptually inadequate to insist, as Julia Long does, that we don’t use any
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“Anti-trans” often functions as a thought terminating cliche because it usually fails to distinguish between being against trans ideology and specifically wishing ill on trans people.
It’d be like calling criticism of diet culture “anti-anorexic.”
On the sports issue, it’d be
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The so-called “button test” to determine whether one is “really trans” is based on the premise that no “cis” person would ever fantasize about being the other sex.
But I can think of many other possible explanations for why someone might have this fantasy besides having a “true
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This is like a Scientologist saying it’s “pathetic” there aren’t more ex-cult members, despite being well known for harassing ex-cult members who publicly share their stories about cultic abuse.
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Make feminine males men again.
Trans identity is a choice.
Being a feminine man does not entail the inevitability of medicalization, trans identification, or the erasure of female spaces.
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Do you know what 1950s periodicals were also excited about?
Frontal lobotomies.
TRAs never cease to make the illogical argument that just because “gender affirming care” has been around for decades that alone somehow makes it good medicine.
A long history of experimental
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It’s deeply ironic for TRAs to complain about detrans people being “self-centered” when trans people are absolutely famous for only narrowly caring about their own plight when balancing ethical considerations against the rights of non-trans people.
For example, on the sports
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Trans rights activists spend the past decade canceling people as “transphobic” for the slightest grammatical misstep and then complain about being “exhausted” for how everyone now walks on eggshells in their presence.
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I’ve noticed a curious pattern whereby most academic Gender Studies lectures on YouTube turn the comments off 🤔
Their stated rationale is likely to “protect people from bigotry” but it’s hard to reconcile this with any traditional academic pretense for free speech and inquiry.
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Trans identified female says it’s “painful” to be misgendered and that the people who still use “she/her” are “unsafe.”
But you’d think if it was so deeply painful and psychologically important to not be read as female you wouldn’t have plucked eyebrows and long, feminine hair?
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@Naozymandias
The idea that makeup on a male is a signifier for being treated like a woman instead of as a GNC man is indeed a stereotype.
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@AC_E
“the proof for binary sex was crumbling before them, given that a series of “predictors” for male or female status didn’t reliably predict at all…gender is invented to shore up sex.”
Utter nonsense. Sex does not need to be “shored up.” It is an evolutionary adaptation for
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The onus is on pediatric gender medicine to provide high-quality evidence for the safety and efficacy for an extremely radical intervention like puberty blockers being given to otherwise perfectly physically healthy children. Otherwise, the null hypothesis is that it we should
Correct, I‘d love to see high quality studies that show this is happening in numbers before we barrel into transition care bans.
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The radfem approach to "dealing" with AGP is like the "Just Say No" approach to drugs: wishful thinking and moralistic platitudes.
You've had AGP thoughts since childhood? "Just stop having those thoughts!"
Oh, you're AGP? "Just don't watch porn!"
AGP? "Have you tried not
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This is a classic example of how AGP narcissism functions. Normal women might look in the mirror and think "I'm hot" but AGPs will look in the mirror and see another person in the mirror ("there's this girl") that they fall in love with.
It's falling in love with the narratized
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The suicide of one nonbinary teen is a national tragedy valorized by the President of the United States but where is the outrage for a victim of gender surgery? Do they not matter? Why is one politicized and the other tossed into the dustbin of history and deemed irrelevant?
Not done talking about
#Yarden
- vaginoplasty complications and doctors’ refusal to take his case on and fix them led to his death. He was detransitioning. Copying his Yelp review of one of the hospitals that turned him away here:
“I wish I never listened to the medical and
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I’m sorry, but 1) the world doesn’t revolve around trans women 2) trans women have the same rights as any other male 3) there are some things you have to sacrifice to transition 4) there is no right to compete in opposite-sex sports when you take performance decreasing drugs
Trans women and girls deserve to win things sometimes. Trans women and girls deserve role models. Trans women and girls deserve the same things as everybody else.
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TRAs say I detransitioned because I “couldn’t handle transition.”
The truth is I realized my life would simply be so much better.
So it wasn’t that I couldn’t “handle” it—it’s moreso that I realized I could live a life where I didn’t have to “handle” anything.
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@George4Tea
@Aja02537920
I very much regret my contributions to the gender cult and any harm/confusion/indoctrination that resulted from my writings. I was under the spell of a persuasive ideology that I also reinforced through my own actions. My goal moving forward is to speak the truth.
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As this thread shows, trans identified males are often under the false impression they “pass” better than females who are not conventionally attractive because, like most males, they reduce womanhood to visual aesthetics and ignore the reality of how, e.g., the voice almost
Don't go after her looks don't go after her looks Kela don't go after her looks Kela.... she'd get kicked out of her own bar before I would... fuck I tried
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The Butlerian social constructivist position is that the sex binary is a social construct because (1) sex is (supposedly) a spectrum (2) “sex” is a concept (3) we have a cultural choice in which sex concept to use and therefore (4) it’s ultimately epistemically arbitrary whether
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Trans people seem to dislike the term “Gender Ideology” because they don’t like to dwell on the possibility their identity and beliefs regarding transgenderism are culturally mediated.
Even the term “transgenderism” is considered “transphobic.”
For me, Gender Ideology is
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“I am misgendered constantly, and it's all thanks to a part of my body I can't control.”
aka
“People’s brains are accurately and automatically perceiving my immutable sex, as all human brains naturally do.”
The attempt to reframe automatic and natural cognitive processes as an
These people simply did not exist until a few short years ago. This article would be incomprehensible to almost all people before about 2010.
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The fundamental flaw of gender identity theory is thinking the human will is determinative for the ontology of the self. We recognize the absurdity of children saying “I am a cat” but don’t extrapolate the same principle to a boy saying “I am a girl.”
Ontology is prior to human
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Apparently women having breasts is now a “white supremacist” beauty standard.
And also apparently females having female-typical hormones is “endosexnormative.”
This PoMo nonsense is a downstream effect of Queer Theory believing all normativity is bad and all normalcy must be
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Projection is born from insecurity. The Dutch protocol has been exposed as baseless, people are starting to wake up, and gender ideologues feel cognitive dissonance so they rely on emotive language because they’re incapable of any substantive critique beyond crying “transphobia.”
I can't believe how bad the Cass Review is lol. Everything GCs do is so flimsy and full of holes
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@Naozymandias
There are three distinct interrelated questions here:
(1) should medicalization or therapy be first-line response
(2) can therapy always ultimately resolve the issues
(3) are co-morbidities being addressed and taken seriously
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The fact this trans identified male is smiling/grinning while apparently being in “intense pain” is because it’s a psychosomatic manifestation of physiological autogynephilia, which is giving them “euphoria” at the thought of embodying female physiology. It’s sexual psychodrama.
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Looking like a regular masculine woman and *not* being nonbinary is now so uncommon as to be a punchline played for laughs.
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1. normal bodily processes critical to normal healthy development are not a disease
2. Puberty is a normal bodily process
3. Experimental drugs should only be given to treat diseases
4. Puberty is often the cure for gender dysphoria
5. Preventing the most common cure is bad
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People often say that opponents of trans women being included in female sports “don’t really care about women’s sports.”
While it’s true I don’t follow women’s sports, the actual reason I care about this issue is the deeper epistemological principle of being able to say trans
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An obvious AGP attempts to dismiss AGP with standpoint epistemology by saying the only relevant question is “does the theory ‘serve power’?” instead of what actually matters: “is it true?”
TRAs don’t like AGP because it affects the political legitimacy of their public image.
In
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Do you know what happens when AGPs get "forced back to the very very edge of society where they belong?"
They transition. Because transition is a means of last resort to escape the shame of being AGP.
I'm continually flabbergasted by the intrinsic contradictions between GCs'
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Up is down. Black is white. Left is right. Males are female. 2 + 2 = 5.
Suicide is murder.
Trans logic twists everything.
And it is this exact propaganda that fuels the victim complex of mentally ill and vulnerable trans people to think everyone is out to get them, leading
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TRAs keep trying to get under my skin by saying I don’t “pass” or that I’m bad at femininity or whatever but literally the entire point of my detransition was to no longer base my entire self-worth on the delusional pretense of thinking I’m a woman or desiring to be female.
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TRA logic is anti-health, anti-normal development, and ultimately nihilistic because it sees the body as having no inherent teleological orientation towards health. Indeed, queer theory and radical neoDarwinian theory both see the body as nothing more than an infinitely malleable
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@AleMarieMaxwell
I didn’t tag her because she blocked me and I wanted to respect the fact that she chose to block me.
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The TRA response to the Cass Review is an illustration of Woke Medicine: objectivity and evidence-based logic is replaced with an analysis of whether the facts serve cultural hegemonic power (“cis normativity”.)
Since the TRAs desire puberty blockers, the frustration of their
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Standpoint epistemology is the flawed theory of knowledge that says minorities have special access to knowledge.
The idea being trans gives you special knowledge for how to read a scientific report is ludicrous. To think non-trans people are inherently "biased" is Woke nonsense.
Any interview or discussion on the Cass Review that doesn’t include trans people today is ideologically biased.
There are serious methodological flaws to the review that have been exploited by anti-trans activists. Trans people have every right to speak on this.
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Trans Activists don’t like the term “Gender Ideology.”
They say, “Not all trans people think alike” or “Trans people don’t share a common belief system.”
The reality of Gender Ideology does not require all trans people believe the same thing. Nor is it exclusively promulgated
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@Cross2Rose
For me personally it means after 8 years I stopped HRT, disavowed a trans identity, and embraced my maleness and being a man.
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“I propose that nonhomosexual (i.e., presumably autogynephilic) MtF transsexuals are probably at increased risk for the development of narcissistic disorders—significant disorders in the sense of self—as a consequence of the inevitable difficulties they face in having their
And this, ladies & gentlemen, is why female only spaces are necessary.
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Activists often paint gender critics as hateful and mean-spirited, as "anti-trans" in the sense of being, not just against transgenderism as a set of ideas, but as against trans people themselves.
Why do they think this? Probably because there actually is a lot of hate,
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The GC contingent saying society needs to be protected from being victims of merely having to *look* at a male crossdresser who *might* be thinking bad thoughts even while not using female spaces stems from the same safetyism and victimization that pervades the gender movement
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She/theys are just women who don’t feel comfortable with 100% of female sex-based stereotypes. Often self-hating. Usually motivated by Leftist activism and a desire to be special. It’s a status symbol.
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It is possible to affirm the essential dignity of trans people, respect their humanity, have empathy for their struggles, wish for them to not face undue discrimination and hated, without buying into the extravagances of Gender Identity Ideology, which is a very specific
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A common myth (i.e. delusion) in the transfeminine community is that when males take estrogen they become functionally identical to females and they switch to a “female risk profile.”
This is false.
The risk of venous thromboembolism on HRT is higher than other males OR
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"We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists."
~ Camille Paglia
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An underreported fact is that rather than “curing” dysphoria transition often makes it worse, inducing desires for drastic, medically unnecessary surgeries and worsening body dysmorphia, an iatrogenic risk never mentioned on informed consent forms. The “cure” induces the very
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@Naozymandias
Losing scholarships, titles, placing, opportunities to set records, monetary compensation, fame, not to mention potential injuries in contact sports like rugby. Good example is Laurel Hubbard in her 40s taking away Olympic spot from 21 year old Kuinini “Nini” Manumua who ought to
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"I don't use pronouns" simply means refusal to participate in the gender cult's ideological pronoun rituals such as (1) not assuming people's pronouns (2) asking for people's pronouns (3) using neopronouns (4) thinking "misgendering" is tantamount to a violent hate crime (5)
"I don't use pronouns" is literally as stupid as "I don't use vowels", yet somehow the first one is basically a whole political movement
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Cult members knee deep in cult ideology not regretting being in a cult is not sufficient evidence that indoctrination into a cult isn’t harmful or that, absent widespread indoctrination, they wouldn’t be more well adjusted not being indoctrinated into a cult.
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For
#DetransAwarenessDay
I'd like to amplify the message 1. the narrative that detransition is "extremely rare" is ideological propaganda 2. The true detransition rate is unknown 3. detransitioners are not political pawns and deserve to tell their own stories on their own terms
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It’s amazing how many TRAs read this and automatically assumed I want to ban medical transition categorically. I only wish to implement restrictions on pediatric transition. Otherwise, so long as there is reasonable gatekeeping, I’m libertarian about adults transitioning but it
I was a true cult believer.
If someone had surveyed me on regret and detransition right after this tattoo, I would have insisted I would never ever change my mind.
Detransition cannot be measured in 1-2 year follow ups but decades (8 years for me.)
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“c1sgender” is not a coherent category because the opposite of an incoherent category is also an incoherent category
Since nobody can precisely define what it means to be trans, it follows that the “opposite of trans” also cannot be precisely defined and lacks a stable referent
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The narratives around AGP tend to present only three options for dealing with it:
(1) Indulge it (transition)
(2) Repress it (but suffer)
(3) Integrate it (moderate indulgence)
What I don't see often discussed is a fourth option:
(4) Resolve it (repression without suffering)
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If a trans person participates in a postoperative regret survey, how likely is it that their answers will be confounded by the obvious fact that the regret rate is a politicized statistic?
It’s been well known for decades that trans people are unreliable narrators when
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How can there be “careful consideration” when the very concept of proposing any alternative clinical judgment other than radical, unquestioning affirmation of the child’s proclaimed identity and stated need for transition is considered “transphobic conversion therapy”?
Since
In reality, transgender youth healthcare is a carefully considered process where the individual needs of a child are weighed against the risks of treatment.
In the rhetoric of the gender-affirming care "debate" this reality is subsumed by fears about what "might" be happening.
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If a man has a leather fetish and wears this outfit on a public street while feeling very mild levels of arousal, has he violated other people's consent by forcing them to participate in his fetish? Does being involuntarily "forced" to perceive this man constitute genuine harm?
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@Naozymandias
I follow the old canard, “write what you know,” which is a New Religious Movement that has ideologically captured the Western world, directly impacted my own life, is harming many others, and should be criticized rather than standing by idly as it reshapes our culture for the
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The claim that Disorders of Sexual Development (DSD) prove sex isn’t a binary is an example of the continuum fallacy.
That baldness can exist on a continuum doesn’t entail that baldness isn’t a distinct state.
Similarly, the existence of DSD doesn’t entail male and female
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Trans activists always bring up the example of Michael Phelps to argue sports are inherently unfair.
But the key question is: what if, at his peak, Michael Phelps came out as trans and went on HRT for 1 year. Would it still be fair for Miss Phelps to compete against females?
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A lot of people think the “can humans change sex” debate is just a semantic debate but this is actually a debate concerning the philosophy of science, which analyzes scientific models in terms of properties like explanatory power and parsimony.
Trans activists’ basic assumption
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That human males are different from females is an empirical fact of the physical world.
But whether or not males can be women and vice versa for females is a socio-cultural question unresolvable by appeal to facts of the physical world. It is not a strictly scientific question
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It’s common for TRAs to say any pushback on pediatric gender medicine is tantamount to “not wanting trans people to exist.”
But a cursory examination of this logic shows it to be fallacious.
If a deaf person gets a cochlear implant and becomes no longer deaf, they don’t "stop
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“In people with permanent anorexia, eating food does not in fact contribute to healthy development because food causes them psychological distress.”
You see how insane that sounds? Puberty is a normal, critical part of healthy development.
1. in people with permanent gender incongruence, natural puberty does not in fact contribute to healthy development. The development is in fact quite unhealthy
2. Puberty is *not* most frequently a cure among adolescents who persist after the onset of puberty
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The idea detransition rate is the only relevant metric by which to judge the quality of gender medicine is ludicrous. Someone could transition, have a reduced quality of life, experience degrees of regret, psychosocial dysfunction, and health problems, and still not detransition.
saw one of those million anti-trans freelance journalists tweet something like "no no, the cass report didn't find a 0.2 detransition rate, they found a 2% detransition rate" as if that didn't make pediatric gender care the most successful treatment program in medical history
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