The way the "trans" issue has been treated is cult-like, not medical.
Everything jumping into a bandwagon without questioning, and questions getting you kicked out for blasphemy basically.
The first diet the American rebels ever agreed on was to stop eating lamb, and they did it to break an English law about sheep.
England had guarded its wool like a state secret for centuries. Under a statute of 1566, a man caught shipping live sheep out of the country lost his goods, spent a year in prison, and then had his left hand cut off in the market place and nailed up for people to look at. A second offence was death.
In 1699 Parliament turned the same instinct on its own colonies. The Wool Act made it illegal for an American to send wool, yarn or cloth out of the colony it was made in. A farmer in Massachusetts could not sell a blanket in Connecticut. America was to grow the fleece, and buy the cloth back from England.
For 60 years the colonies put up with it. Then came the Stamp Act, and they hit on an answer that needed no musket.
They stopped killing lambs. Every lamb left alive was a fleece next spring and another the spring after. In February 1766 Benjamin Franklin stood in front of the House of Commons and told the members, politely, that his countrymen had entered into general combinations to eat no more lamb.
In 1768 the graduating class at Harvard voted to collect their degrees in American cloth.
In 1774 the Continental Congress made it national policy. The colonies would improve the breed of sheep, increase their number, and kill them as seldom as may be.
Two years before the Declaration, the founding document of American resistance was a breeding programme. They understood that a country with its own flock dresses itself, feeds itself, and can afford to be rude to a king.
They ate the sheep in the end. They ate them old, as mutton, which was the better dinner anyway.
According to his own sister, Abdul El-Sayed’s family has “long been” Muslim Brotherhood.
Abdul needs to be honest with Michiganders about he and his families ties to terrorism.
This needs to be the number one story in America right now. We’re electing Muslim Brotherhood now straight into Congress?
That’s his sister’s words not ours.
Cherokee leaders owned Black slaves, fought for the Confederacy, and spent 150 years trying to erase their descendants.
When the Five Civilized Tribes wrote slavery into their laws, they held over 8,000 enslaved Black people by 1860.
After the Trail of Tears, their slaves marched with them. When they signed with the Confederacy in 1861, Stand Watie led Cherokee cavalry and Principal Chief John Ross, a slaveholder, signed the treaty before switching sides.
After the 1866 treaties forced citizenship, the tribes kept trying to strip it. Cherokee voters expelled the descendants in 2007, and the Muscogee Nation is still fighting it in federal court.
This is pushed by mental health professionals who should (and do), know better.
Everyone and his dog has fallen down the 'trans-suicide' rabbit hole.
The lie that 'trans' people (especially children), will kill themselves if they don't get every single thing they demand, has been the greatest and most successful disinformation campaign in human history.
Yet it was so easily refutable!
The kind of self-love necessary to trauma recovery is not about writing flowery affirmations over & over in your journal (though if that works for you, go for it).
It's more about realistically talking ourselves through a "stupid" trigger in the middle of a stupid Wednesday.
Established in 1615 under King Louis XIII, the Marché des Enfants Rouges had served Paris for over 400 years.
Now destroyed by fire.
Western Europe is dying a rapid death.
2/2: after talking how statistics show kids have worse mental health after transitioning socially, teen seemed to understand that this masking will just make everything harder. I'm grateful, poor kiddo went through so much horror I understand the need to escape but not like this!
A teen I know with PTSD recently says they were non-binary and wanted to use a name seen in the opposite sex exclusively (in my experience). After digging a bit into the "why", this kid is trying to use a different personality persona while working thru the PTSD. 😭 But... 1/2
On January 8, 1888, 19-year-old Kate Kampen gave birth to her son, Henry Royal Kampen, alone in a freezing sod cabin on the Dakota prairie. Her husband, Wilhelm, had left the previous day to travel 23 miles to Parker for coal and food, unaware that their baby would arrive while he was gone. With their supplies nearly exhausted, the coal bin empty, and no doctor or midwife nearby, Kate faced an unimaginable situation. She wrapped her newborn in every scrap of cloth she could find, climbed into bed, and held him against her bare skin, using her own body heat to keep him alive. She had no way of knowing that an even greater danger was approaching.
On January 12, the devastating Children’s Blizzard swept across the Great Plains, bringing ferocious winds, blinding snow, and temperatures plunging far below zero. Hundreds of people were caught in the storm, and 235 lives were lost. Wilhelm was stranded in the open prairie when the blizzard struck. After his horses collapsed, he stumbled toward shelter and eventually crawled into a barn, where he survived for three days by huddling among pigs for warmth. Meanwhile, Kate remained in the cabin, holding Henry close through the freezing nights, with no fire, no help, and no certainty that her husband would ever return. For days, her own warmth and determination became her newborn’s only protection against the deadly cold.
When the storm finally passed, Wilhelm made his way home, frostbitten and barely able to stand, but alive. He built a fire, and the cabin slowly warmed again. Kate and Henry had survived against extraordinary odds. The couple went on to raise seven children, build a life on the prairie, and Kate lived into her nineties. Her story is a powerful reminder that courage does not always announce itself with grand gestures. Sometimes, it is a frightened young mother lying in the darkness, refusing to let go of her child. The world may never know the names of countless ordinary heroes, but their extraordinary acts of love and survival deserve to be remembered.
Metallica Frontman James Hetfield just called out artists who turn their concerts into political rallies: “Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you with their BULLSH*T.”
It’s great to hear a musician say this instead of betraying their own fans and attacking them from the stage.
If you didn’t say anything when Democrats ARRESTED A PRESIDENT nobody cares what you think about busting a Congresswoman who found her husband on “23 and Me.”