An article published by the Wall Street Journal has issued a very bold statement asserting that the push to offer "gender-affirming care" is not backed by science
Can you get James Lindsay on for an interview? You and him are putting more time into this than anyone else at the moment, would be great to see you two connect. Just got my copy of Transgender Marxism, can not recall if it was TLAV or elsewhere that I learned of this book, written by transgender marxists, supporti g this ideology.
There is a suicide risk associated with gender dysphoria, and there is a suicide risk associated with transitioning surgically having unrealistic expectations, and then discovering afterward that it was a mistake. My guess is that the risk is higher in the latter case. This is why there was a WPATH protocol in place, to discourage people from doing stupid things to themselves and then being overwhelmed with regret. Except evidently all that is gone now and, unbelievably, even children are being targeted.
I am not a casual observer in these matters. I transitioned male to female in 2006-2007. The time span was due to the real-life experience "year" of the protocol (mine was 10 months). A delay of about a year was required between social transition (changing name, ID, and presentation) and surgical transition. It was, theoretically, an opportunity to rethink things before making irreversible changes. In addition, letters were required from a "transition team" before starting hormones and before surgery. Mine team consisted of a PhD psychologist, an MSFT therapist, and an MD/DO. I went light on the hormones, knowing the risks.
There were still those who regretted what they had done, and there were suicides. The "success" rate of transition was less than stunning. It was easy enough for people to learn what the transition team members were looking for and to present themselves that way. I certainly knew, and guarded my words, but I made it a four year process, and I knew exactly what I was getting into. And I could see that there were others that did not.
I made my decision and never looked back, knowing that it was at best a compromise, and would not be a solution to all of my problems -- just certain ones -- and that it would create new problems but less severe.
I should mention that I am atypical in that I have a developmental endocrine disorder and other related health issues (probably all iatrogenic), and my body only partially masculinized. I spent half of my RLE year dealing with cancer. I had hoped to have the surgery soon enough to avoid that, but I took too long. I had identified the cancer risk stemming from the endocrine disorder through my own research -- the doctors were clueless about such things.
There clearly is a suicide risk with some people that have gender identity issues, but how would anyone even begin to measure that? I understand this because I was a suicide risk. But I didn't talk with anyone about it. If I had done myself in, nobody would have known why. And I resolved the acute depression long before I began to transition. I still had gender dysphoria, and it was unpleasant for reasons I can't even talk about, but I do believe that transitioning and then regretting it afterward would have been worse.
You can't take someone with suicidal depression and "cure" them of it with transition! All through that process I was feeling caught between a rock and a hard place. That is no treatment for depression.
Well thanks. I don't have any special cause to promote other than speaking up about things I know about from experience, when the subject comes up. In the trans world in which I transitioned, most of us moved on to other things afterward, such as finding a new job since so many of us, myself included, lost ours while transitioning. I worked another 7 1/2 years at two organizations before semi-retiring at 66 for health reasons, and I still freelance.
After going through something like that, even without having to deal with cancer, most people wouldn't then start thinking about how they could recruit others to this way of life!
What we're seeing now is unbelievable, bizarre, and undoubtedly a product of infiltration and subversion.
My new rule is that whenever Ryan says Long COVID and psychosomatic in the same sentence, I stop watching... because Ryan has gotten swept away in his own overzealous bias.
Does Ryan not know Robert Malone's Long COVID story?
How he contracted COVID early on in 2020 and took the vaccine because he was told that it may help with his Long COVID?
Was Dr. Robert Malone suffering from a psychosomatic suite of health issues?
Does Ryan not recall when he told us all about Dr. Bruce Patterson and his findings related to spike proteins being lodged in monocytes?
... but because of Ryan's overzealous bias in favor of the psychosomatic argument - he actually goes along with Pfizer "not knowing" what PROTEIN is responsible for Long COVID, and he happily references a few studies that are suggestive of the "crazy people" hypothesis for Long COVID (has he checked thise studies for conflicts-of-interest?) - he's trashing all of the people that developed Long COVID before the shots rolled out.
I used to think that Ryan did a good job of following the available science... but after this Long COVID as psychosomatic disease obsession, and after his clear ignorance on carbon pollution as the core issue of climate change (and not some vague idea about "trashing the planet"), I feel like Ryan is no longer a very reliable source for unbiased news and/or information.
It very much seems like a case of cognitive dissonance when a person can explain that something like the spike protein, as expressed from a shot, is clearly responsible for something like Long COVID... but they somehow cannot imagine how another exposure to the spike protein, via a severe infection, can cause Long COVID...
And that's interesting because the term "Long COVID" was first used in 2020!
Can you get James Lindsay on for an interview? You and him are putting more time into this than anyone else at the moment, would be great to see you two connect. Just got my copy of Transgender Marxism, can not recall if it was TLAV or elsewhere that I learned of this book, written by transgender marxists, supporti g this ideology.
This rabbit hole is filled with rats.
There is a suicide risk associated with gender dysphoria, and there is a suicide risk associated with transitioning surgically having unrealistic expectations, and then discovering afterward that it was a mistake. My guess is that the risk is higher in the latter case. This is why there was a WPATH protocol in place, to discourage people from doing stupid things to themselves and then being overwhelmed with regret. Except evidently all that is gone now and, unbelievably, even children are being targeted.
I am not a casual observer in these matters. I transitioned male to female in 2006-2007. The time span was due to the real-life experience "year" of the protocol (mine was 10 months). A delay of about a year was required between social transition (changing name, ID, and presentation) and surgical transition. It was, theoretically, an opportunity to rethink things before making irreversible changes. In addition, letters were required from a "transition team" before starting hormones and before surgery. Mine team consisted of a PhD psychologist, an MSFT therapist, and an MD/DO. I went light on the hormones, knowing the risks.
There were still those who regretted what they had done, and there were suicides. The "success" rate of transition was less than stunning. It was easy enough for people to learn what the transition team members were looking for and to present themselves that way. I certainly knew, and guarded my words, but I made it a four year process, and I knew exactly what I was getting into. And I could see that there were others that did not.
I made my decision and never looked back, knowing that it was at best a compromise, and would not be a solution to all of my problems -- just certain ones -- and that it would create new problems but less severe.
I should mention that I am atypical in that I have a developmental endocrine disorder and other related health issues (probably all iatrogenic), and my body only partially masculinized. I spent half of my RLE year dealing with cancer. I had hoped to have the surgery soon enough to avoid that, but I took too long. I had identified the cancer risk stemming from the endocrine disorder through my own research -- the doctors were clueless about such things.
There clearly is a suicide risk with some people that have gender identity issues, but how would anyone even begin to measure that? I understand this because I was a suicide risk. But I didn't talk with anyone about it. If I had done myself in, nobody would have known why. And I resolved the acute depression long before I began to transition. I still had gender dysphoria, and it was unpleasant for reasons I can't even talk about, but I do believe that transitioning and then regretting it afterward would have been worse.
You can't take someone with suicidal depression and "cure" them of it with transition! All through that process I was feeling caught between a rock and a hard place. That is no treatment for depression.
Your voice is so important at this moment in history. We need you. And those like you. Please continue to speak and clarify about this process.
Well thanks. I don't have any special cause to promote other than speaking up about things I know about from experience, when the subject comes up. In the trans world in which I transitioned, most of us moved on to other things afterward, such as finding a new job since so many of us, myself included, lost ours while transitioning. I worked another 7 1/2 years at two organizations before semi-retiring at 66 for health reasons, and I still freelance.
After going through something like that, even without having to deal with cancer, most people wouldn't then start thinking about how they could recruit others to this way of life!
What we're seeing now is unbelievable, bizarre, and undoubtedly a product of infiltration and subversion.
My new rule is that whenever Ryan says Long COVID and psychosomatic in the same sentence, I stop watching... because Ryan has gotten swept away in his own overzealous bias.
Does Ryan not know Robert Malone's Long COVID story?
How he contracted COVID early on in 2020 and took the vaccine because he was told that it may help with his Long COVID?
Was Dr. Robert Malone suffering from a psychosomatic suite of health issues?
Does Ryan not recall when he told us all about Dr. Bruce Patterson and his findings related to spike proteins being lodged in monocytes?
... but because of Ryan's overzealous bias in favor of the psychosomatic argument - he actually goes along with Pfizer "not knowing" what PROTEIN is responsible for Long COVID, and he happily references a few studies that are suggestive of the "crazy people" hypothesis for Long COVID (has he checked thise studies for conflicts-of-interest?) - he's trashing all of the people that developed Long COVID before the shots rolled out.
I used to think that Ryan did a good job of following the available science... but after this Long COVID as psychosomatic disease obsession, and after his clear ignorance on carbon pollution as the core issue of climate change (and not some vague idea about "trashing the planet"), I feel like Ryan is no longer a very reliable source for unbiased news and/or information.
It very much seems like a case of cognitive dissonance when a person can explain that something like the spike protein, as expressed from a shot, is clearly responsible for something like Long COVID... but they somehow cannot imagine how another exposure to the spike protein, via a severe infection, can cause Long COVID...
And that's interesting because the term "Long COVID" was first used in 2020!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20COVID