Every time a child is taught that they have a gender identity in school, they are suffering conversion practices.
Every time a child is groomed to believe that they have a gender identity on social media, they are suffering conversion practices.
Gender identity is an adult construct (Stoller, Money) dressed up as a "kind" response to childhood trauma. No child has a naturally occurring gender identity.
Telling children they have a gender identity is a reprehensible conversion practice disguised as kindness.
That is some weapons-grade DARVO.
Because YOU cannot accept a *normal variety of human personality across both sexes,* you want to redefine men from male people to masculine people, & women from female people to feminine people.
Because YOU cannot accept a *normal variety of human personality across both sexes,* you want insufficiently masculine men & insufficiently feminine women medically brutalized into facsimiles of the opposite sex.
This is not accommodation of normal variation, it is pathological opposition to normal variation.
@ChicagosMayor “Approximately 50 to 80 women are killed in Chicago every year, making up about 10% to 15% of the total yearly homicide victims in the city.” Google
How many were “trans women ”?
The one decent note I was given was to attempt to persuade the ABC audience. However, the more I’ve thought about it I’ve come to the conclusion that is also utter crap.
I don’t need or want to persuade the ABC audience, mainly because I am fully aware that it is impossible to do so. The people who are all in on gender ideology can rarely be persuaded.
What I wanted to do, and what I think is important, is to simply expose the ABC audience to my - our - perspective. They don’t have to agree with it. But just have the option to read what we are actually saying.
And this is exactly why I suspect my op-ed wasn’t published: what I am saying is reasonable, and true, and that destroys the narrative that gender ideologues desperately cling to. If I had made myself look like an irrational bigot who fits their caricature of a “TERF”, maybe I would have been published…
I think ABC made a mistake in not publishing my op-ed. I remain willing to work with them. They are welcome to reach out to me whenever they decide to actually publish diverse views.
@BorisSpider14 These are the women targeted as having white privilege during the BLM era. They were shamed into standing up for everyone but themselves. Here we are.
"age limits are 11 for birth-registered female participants, and 12 for birth-registered males"
1. Gender ideological language = Captured research team.
2. Why the age difference if the "boys" are really "girls" and that's the only reason they're getting puberty blockers?