Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Ya know we have to stop with this gender affirming lingo...it is total crap. Be precise - it is body mutilation brought about by a mental illness. PERIOD. We as a sane people can not relinquish the language just to make someone fell better about their sickness. It is a great disservice. Prove me wrong. Pax
Ignoring, for simplicity, genuine intersex individuals, who are quite rare (https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/00224490209552139) we have 2 possible physical sexes, M and F. For sense of self, again simplifying humanity into neat categories, we have 3: M, Both male and female and F. Likewise for sexual attraction, 3 categories: M, B and F. In this rather simple system, there are 2 x 3 x 3 = 18 categories.
In this system (physical sex, sense of self, attracted to) neurotypical men are MMF and women FFM. Homosexual men may be MMM, MBM or MFM, though the latter two are also arguably M->F trans people who are attracted only to males.
M->F trans people may partly or fully have a feminine sense of self: MBx and MFx and they may be attracted to males, MxF (which means only their sense of self is different from that of a normal male), to both males and females MxB or only to males MxB, in which case their sexual attraction brain structures are also different from those of normal males.
Until the last few decades, the number of actual M->F trans people was relatively small, and the number of genuine F->M trans people was even smaller. (I am not counting as trans those butch dykes who don't want to live as if they were actual men.)
Until 15 or so years ago, trans people were gaining better protection and acceptance. Since then, with the mass adoption of wokism (identity politics), by people who were left-aligned, with the support of the mainstream media (not counting the Murdoch press) and with ubiquitous social media adoption being an important accelerant, woke people have adopted trans people as an important part of their personal portfolios of victims, for whom they adopt the position of "allies".
This has lead to a complex series of developments so that now, vast numbers of children and adolescents are being told they were "misgendered at birth" and are being actively encouraged, by adults, including teachers and medical professionals (and some parents) to believe they are genuinely trans when they are not. Teenage girls are the worst affected, since they are most amenable to social pressures and, at the best of times, frequently struggle to transition from being girls to women. There are now far more supposed F->M trans people, at least among adolescents, with whole friendship groups suddenly deciding they are males.
With whole sectors of society pushing the trans bandwagon, encouraging these people to get medical interventions, including life-altering hormone treatment and surgery, we now have very large numbers of people suffering lasting harm. This social contagion for all things trans continues despite the flagrant signs of it being just this, not something based in reality: the reasonably rare actual trans people whose atypical sense of self which is caused, as best we know, primarily by in-utero hormonal disturbances.
I don't know any reason for the hormonal imbalances which would masculinise the brains of female babies, regarding the brain structures which determine (largely or entirely) sense of self and which sex they person is attracted to as an adult. However, these must exist. I don't know to what extent such imbalances have increased, except perhaps for rare women who were taking androgens (testosterone) for body building or some other reason and happened to be pregnant at the time. Perhaps some who do extreme athletics of have high stress jobs generate enough testosterone to affect the way their baby's brain builds itself.
There certainly are more reasons why fetuses would be exposed to higher levels of estrogenic hormones, which would give rise to an increase in the number of genuine M->F people. Firstly, there is widespread use of soy foods, which contain phytoestrogens. Likewise linseed AKA flax, though I am not sure how much is in the oil.
Lavender and tea-tree oil are more widely used, including on children, and there is good reason to believe that these are strongly estrogenic: https:// www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa064725 in vivo and in vitro.
Thailand (and neighbouring countries - the Philippines) seems to have an unusually large proportion of boys and so men whose brains have been feminised, presumably in-utero, regarding their sense of self and/or whish sex they are attracted to as adults.
If just the sense of self is strongly feminised, then they feel, profoundly, partly or fully female - just as most normal girls and women do and are attracted to women. If just the other, then they feel male and are partially or fully attracted to males.
If both aspects of the brain are fully feminised, then the person resembles an ordinary girl or woman in many respects, but has a male body - though I guess one which is not big and butch, due to the influence of the presumably strong in-utero hormonal imbalance on other aspects of how the body builds itself.
This is surely increasing in Western countries, compared to 50 years ago, due to increasing use of soy products, which contain phytoestrogens, by pregnant moms-to-be. Also, in the West, there is increasing oral and topical use of the very strongly phytoestrogenic pueraria mirifica, the most powerful ingredient of various bust improvement creams and tablets.
As best I understand it, pueraria mirifica is very widely used in Thailand and other countries nearby.
I have never seen anyone else state this, but it is obvious to me that women of childbearing age making use of these products, while pregnant, will lead to the very high prevalence of M->F trans people, both those who are attracted to females and to males, since the phytoestrogens probably cross the placenta and so feminise the way the fetus brain builds itself. This high prevalence of M->F trans people is well-known https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey though I don't know of any study which quantifies it. This 2008 article http:// news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7529227.stm reports on a school with a third set of toilets for M->F trans students. This is in north-east Thailand, where pueraria mirifica grows most prolifically, and where it is used as a food.
Despite the obvious signs that the trans-mania is a social contagion, and that a subset of so-called (and perhaps actual) M->F trans people are extremely obnoxious and dangerous, threatening TERFs (real women arguing for women's rights and safety) with violence, inserting themselves into girls and womens changing rooms, prisons and domestic violence refuges, the trans juggernaut continues.
There are sensitive and difficult challenges in supporting and medically caring for genuine trans people. I think that the option of transition is overly-emphasised and that it is the best approach for only a subset of such people.
However, in the current disastrous situation of whole swathes of people fervently thinking themselves to be trans, it would be almost impossible to identify the real trans people, who might now be only one in a hundred of those who seek help.
The most important priority is ending the social contagion, to save hundreds of thousands or millions of people being swept along into a life crisis which has no basis, while a significant subset of these people need support and perhaps medical intervention for genuine difficulties, especially as they transition to adulthood, which have nothing to do with their sense of self as male or female.
The profit motive drives the bizarre! Boosting family formation, man and wife, and understanding imprinting would do wonders as well as to get all the chemicals out of our food system that are estrogen interrupters. Also plastics that deliver trace toxins including Bis Phenyl A. Also, Rx drugs that cause hormonal imbalance.
And everything is done to the kids to make them believe they need to change their gender and parents aren’t allowed to advise them otherwise- lots don’t even know! It’s criminal!
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Great and sensible article! As always.
Ya know we have to stop with this gender affirming lingo...it is total crap. Be precise - it is body mutilation brought about by a mental illness. PERIOD. We as a sane people can not relinquish the language just to make someone fell better about their sickness. It is a great disservice. Prove me wrong. Pax
Ignoring, for simplicity, genuine intersex individuals, who are quite rare (https://sci- hub.se/10.1080/00224490209552139) we have 2 possible physical sexes, M and F. For sense of self, again simplifying humanity into neat categories, we have 3: M, Both male and female and F. Likewise for sexual attraction, 3 categories: M, B and F. In this rather simple system, there are 2 x 3 x 3 = 18 categories.
I wrote more about this in a comment to a Peter McCullough article at his Substack: https:// petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/autism-spectrum-disorder-and- gender/comment/14191945 .
In this system (physical sex, sense of self, attracted to) neurotypical men are MMF and women FFM. Homosexual men may be MMM, MBM or MFM, though the latter two are also arguably M->F trans people who are attracted only to males.
M->F trans people may partly or fully have a feminine sense of self: MBx and MFx and they may be attracted to males, MxF (which means only their sense of self is different from that of a normal male), to both males and females MxB or only to males MxB, in which case their sexual attraction brain structures are also different from those of normal males.
Until the last few decades, the number of actual M->F trans people was relatively small, and the number of genuine F->M trans people was even smaller. (I am not counting as trans those butch dykes who don't want to live as if they were actual men.)
Until 15 or so years ago, trans people were gaining better protection and acceptance. Since then, with the mass adoption of wokism (identity politics), by people who were left-aligned, with the support of the mainstream media (not counting the Murdoch press) and with ubiquitous social media adoption being an important accelerant, woke people have adopted trans people as an important part of their personal portfolios of victims, for whom they adopt the position of "allies".
This has lead to a complex series of developments so that now, vast numbers of children and adolescents are being told they were "misgendered at birth" and are being actively encouraged, by adults, including teachers and medical professionals (and some parents) to believe they are genuinely trans when they are not. Teenage girls are the worst affected, since they are most amenable to social pressures and, at the best of times, frequently struggle to transition from being girls to women. There are now far more supposed F->M trans people, at least among adolescents, with whole friendship groups suddenly deciding they are males.
With whole sectors of society pushing the trans bandwagon, encouraging these people to get medical interventions, including life-altering hormone treatment and surgery, we now have very large numbers of people suffering lasting harm. This social contagion for all things trans continues despite the flagrant signs of it being just this, not something based in reality: the reasonably rare actual trans people whose atypical sense of self which is caused, as best we know, primarily by in-utero hormonal disturbances.
I don't know any reason for the hormonal imbalances which would masculinise the brains of female babies, regarding the brain structures which determine (largely or entirely) sense of self and which sex they person is attracted to as an adult. However, these must exist. I don't know to what extent such imbalances have increased, except perhaps for rare women who were taking androgens (testosterone) for body building or some other reason and happened to be pregnant at the time. Perhaps some who do extreme athletics of have high stress jobs generate enough testosterone to affect the way their baby's brain builds itself.
There certainly are more reasons why fetuses would be exposed to higher levels of estrogenic hormones, which would give rise to an increase in the number of genuine M->F people. Firstly, there is widespread use of soy foods, which contain phytoestrogens. Likewise linseed AKA flax, though I am not sure how much is in the oil.
Lavender and tea-tree oil are more widely used, including on children, and there is good reason to believe that these are strongly estrogenic: https:// www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa064725 in vivo and in vitro.
Thailand (and neighbouring countries - the Philippines) seems to have an unusually large proportion of boys and so men whose brains have been feminised, presumably in-utero, regarding their sense of self and/or whish sex they are attracted to as adults.
If just the sense of self is strongly feminised, then they feel, profoundly, partly or fully female - just as most normal girls and women do and are attracted to women. If just the other, then they feel male and are partially or fully attracted to males.
If both aspects of the brain are fully feminised, then the person resembles an ordinary girl or woman in many respects, but has a male body - though I guess one which is not big and butch, due to the influence of the presumably strong in-utero hormonal imbalance on other aspects of how the body builds itself.
This is surely increasing in Western countries, compared to 50 years ago, due to increasing use of soy products, which contain phytoestrogens, by pregnant moms-to-be. Also, in the West, there is increasing oral and topical use of the very strongly phytoestrogenic pueraria mirifica, the most powerful ingredient of various bust improvement creams and tablets.
As best I understand it, pueraria mirifica is very widely used in Thailand and other countries nearby.
Pueraria mirifica is a root vegetable which grows mostly in parts of Thailand and Myanmar: https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueraria_mirifica.
I have never seen anyone else state this, but it is obvious to me that women of childbearing age making use of these products, while pregnant, will lead to the very high prevalence of M->F trans people, both those who are attracted to females and to males, since the phytoestrogens probably cross the placenta and so feminise the way the fetus brain builds itself. This high prevalence of M->F trans people is well-known https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey though I don't know of any study which quantifies it. This 2008 article http:// news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7529227.stm reports on a school with a third set of toilets for M->F trans students. This is in north-east Thailand, where pueraria mirifica grows most prolifically, and where it is used as a food.
Despite the obvious signs that the trans-mania is a social contagion, and that a subset of so-called (and perhaps actual) M->F trans people are extremely obnoxious and dangerous, threatening TERFs (real women arguing for women's rights and safety) with violence, inserting themselves into girls and womens changing rooms, prisons and domestic violence refuges, the trans juggernaut continues.
There are sensitive and difficult challenges in supporting and medically caring for genuine trans people. I think that the option of transition is overly-emphasised and that it is the best approach for only a subset of such people.
However, in the current disastrous situation of whole swathes of people fervently thinking themselves to be trans, it would be almost impossible to identify the real trans people, who might now be only one in a hundred of those who seek help.
The most important priority is ending the social contagion, to save hundreds of thousands or millions of people being swept along into a life crisis which has no basis, while a significant subset of these people need support and perhaps medical intervention for genuine difficulties, especially as they transition to adulthood, which have nothing to do with their sense of self as male or female.
It’s all out of a Mar it’s playbook to confuse and indoctrinate children and separate the bond between parents and children.
The profit motive drives the bizarre! Boosting family formation, man and wife, and understanding imprinting would do wonders as well as to get all the chemicals out of our food system that are estrogen interrupters. Also plastics that deliver trace toxins including Bis Phenyl A. Also, Rx drugs that cause hormonal imbalance.
And everything is done to the kids to make them believe they need to change their gender and parents aren’t allowed to advise them otherwise- lots don’t even know! It’s criminal!