How I became a 21st-century heretic/social pariah—and you can, too!

A thread on questioning gender ideology.

Something didn’t seem right to me. I had that feeling astronomers must have when they’re scanning the skies for black holes, looking for the point around which everything behaves strangely.

When I looked at trans activism, everything around it behaved strangely.

Maybe it started with “transwomen are women.” Whenever I asked what that meant, I found a great many people who either didn’t know or didn’t care what it meant and yet thought it was a very important thing for people to say they believe.

That wasn’t reassuring.

Or maybe it started when I first heard that abortion was no longer a women’s issue. This was news to me. I thought back to my unplanned pregnancy: one of the parties involved in that debacle could have walked away, but I didn’t have that option. That mattered.

The week I went through with my abortion, Purvi Patel appealed her 20-year sentence for inducing a miscarriage after the state had backed her into a corner. That mattered. No man has ever been backed into a corner in that way.

If abortion isn’t a women’s issue, what is?

There's this tendency to overstate the rigor of the Dutch protocol so that you can say: that's the gold standard but we're not following it and also *these* kids are different.

It makes you sound so reasonable! And these kids *are* different than previous cohorts. But it was also wrong to transition *those* kids and it wasn't rigorous. It was a small study that used hocus-pocus to justify the experiment it ran on kids, many of whom were just gay.

The Dutch clinicians were at WPATH in September, presenting the results of their longitudinal study. And they had the most remarkable incuriosity about what they were doing that I've ever observed up close.

They said they were interested in whether patients they had transitioned as children and teens continued to identify as "binary trans" or whether their identities were now more "fluid."

They reported 18% of children & 31% of teens experienced “multiple attenuations” of their gender identity -- a meaningless term that conveniently lumps trans/nonbinary identification together with detransition so that there are no detrans numbers to point to.