Sorry I deleted a comment from Anna by mistake. But if you listen again I think you will agree he actually broke someone’s arm. Hence Azeen’s weird response.
Puberty blockers are child abuse, plain and simple. The constant lies and deliberate obfuscation of facts is a disgrace for every single adult engaged in this practice. Far from increasing choice for children, these drugs and procedures limit them in every possible way. https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/removing-the-possibility-of-normal
So much of this reminds me of the Queen of Hearts, "Sentence first....verdict afterwards.." Although the Cheshire Cat's , "We are all mad here" would be more than fitting.
I want to know more about the backgrounds of those who are posing as experts. So much of this has never made sense to me and I'd like to better understand those who are advancing this on a medical basis.. I'm missing where that leap of faith is taking place. To have a complete flip from a majority of boys to now a super majority of girls should raise major questions. "Sentence first..."
Thank you for this valuable piece. The detail of the young male “Manom” staring at himself in the mirror “all day” is haunting and thought provoking. It points to the narcissistic obsession that seems to propel this delusion.
An 8 year old child changing clothes 10 to 15 times a day is very very very unwell. It all began with children with big problems being addressed with magical thinking by doctors. Horrible.
that kind of obsession should have been a major red flag .....an indication something was seriously wrong as opposed to "proof" he really was intended to be a girl.
I had the unique opportunity about a month ago to attend a lecture at University of Victoria given by a NZ “researcher” whose talk was entitled, “The Benefits of Puberty Blocking Drugs.” His data was simply self-reports via online surveys, and he was clinging to anonymous commenters, whom he lovingly quoted in rapt tones: “Blocking my puberty saved my life!!!”
My friend and I were the only members of the public attending this presentation in person. We listened respectfully during the whole power point, and then when it was time for Q & A and discussion (!!), my friend pointed out that the data was considered “lowest quality,” and therefore shouldn’t be informing medical and social policy, and I asked, “Why is the same protocol applied both to prepubescent boys and girls? I understand that male secondary sex characteristics do make it difficult for adult men to ‘pass’ as women. But most of us now know at least one woman who took testosterone to masculinize in adulthood, and passes very successfully as male.” I looked directly at the Chair of the Transgender Studies department as I stated this, since the Chair is a “trans man,” who agreed that chemically-induced masculinization is indeed very successful for women after puberty.
I also asked how it is possible to differentiate between the highly “effeminate” prepubescent boys who will be “trans” and those who will grow up to be healthy gay men. The lecturer seemed to me to likely be in that latter camp (“camp” being relevant here). I asserted that the parents I work with would be “happy to have a healthy gay son, but resist the idea of foreclosing on fertility and sexual function for life.” The lecturer frowned and said emphaticallly, “I highly doubt that those parents would be HAPPY to have a gay son!”
I was hopeful afterward that my friend and I had helped plant some seeds of obvious reality in the minds of this lecturer, department Chair, and three grad students.
Jet’s story is so compelling thank you for spotlighting it it deserves to be more widely heard, along with the perhaps more well-known story of Clementine Breen, a former patient who is suing Olson-Kennedy who helped bring pediatric gender medicine to US and helped PP develop its own informed consent protocol —people should know there are different pathways for girls including this example of young lesbians who haven’t had the chance to come to terms with their sexual development which got hijacked by this “protocol”
I will also add that I had a teenaged self-described “trans man” in my living room a couple of years ago, telling me in rapt tones about her double mastectomy in a raspy, testosterone-ravaged voice. She had received this on-demand amputation of healthy flesh as an 18-year-old. This is a girl who, at 17, after being rejected in her first attempt to form a romantic bond with another girl, declared, “I hate being a lesbian!” She fell into the cult, shaved her head, chose a new name, and acquired testosterone without any involvement of her parents. She then requested the “life-saving surgery,” and explained to me, “At first, they told me I’d have to wait EIGHTEEN MONTHS. Then a couple of weeks later, I got a call, saying, ‘If you can get here in the next 48 hours, you can have the surgery.’ I got myself over there!”
I asked this chemically altered, aggressively pruned bonsai lesbian teenager if she’d been adequately informed about what “top surgery” actually entails— how major a surgery it is, how much physical support is needed in aftercare, with the drains, etc. She answered more soberly, saying yes, she’d had support to dress herself and take care of the wounds. I expressed my relief for that small mercy. I gave no indication of my grief. I was “kind and compassionate,” even though everything inside me was screaming at the brutality of this dystopian, homophobic medical abuse of what had been a physically healthy, if heartbroken, lost young woman.
Thank you so much for your continuing trenchant analyses of this series. I have restacked.
Sorry I deleted a comment from Anna by mistake. But if you listen again I think you will agree he actually broke someone’s arm. Hence Azeen’s weird response.
Puberty blockers are child abuse, plain and simple. The constant lies and deliberate obfuscation of facts is a disgrace for every single adult engaged in this practice. Far from increasing choice for children, these drugs and procedures limit them in every possible way. https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/removing-the-possibility-of-normal
So much of this reminds me of the Queen of Hearts, "Sentence first....verdict afterwards.." Although the Cheshire Cat's , "We are all mad here" would be more than fitting.
I want to know more about the backgrounds of those who are posing as experts. So much of this has never made sense to me and I'd like to better understand those who are advancing this on a medical basis.. I'm missing where that leap of faith is taking place. To have a complete flip from a majority of boys to now a super majority of girls should raise major questions. "Sentence first..."
Thank you for this valuable piece. The detail of the young male “Manom” staring at himself in the mirror “all day” is haunting and thought provoking. It points to the narcissistic obsession that seems to propel this delusion.
An 8 year old child changing clothes 10 to 15 times a day is very very very unwell. It all began with children with big problems being addressed with magical thinking by doctors. Horrible.
that kind of obsession should have been a major red flag .....an indication something was seriously wrong as opposed to "proof" he really was intended to be a girl.
Thanks for your analysis of this podcast series, Bev.
I had the unique opportunity about a month ago to attend a lecture at University of Victoria given by a NZ “researcher” whose talk was entitled, “The Benefits of Puberty Blocking Drugs.” His data was simply self-reports via online surveys, and he was clinging to anonymous commenters, whom he lovingly quoted in rapt tones: “Blocking my puberty saved my life!!!”
My friend and I were the only members of the public attending this presentation in person. We listened respectfully during the whole power point, and then when it was time for Q & A and discussion (!!), my friend pointed out that the data was considered “lowest quality,” and therefore shouldn’t be informing medical and social policy, and I asked, “Why is the same protocol applied both to prepubescent boys and girls? I understand that male secondary sex characteristics do make it difficult for adult men to ‘pass’ as women. But most of us now know at least one woman who took testosterone to masculinize in adulthood, and passes very successfully as male.” I looked directly at the Chair of the Transgender Studies department as I stated this, since the Chair is a “trans man,” who agreed that chemically-induced masculinization is indeed very successful for women after puberty.
I also asked how it is possible to differentiate between the highly “effeminate” prepubescent boys who will be “trans” and those who will grow up to be healthy gay men. The lecturer seemed to me to likely be in that latter camp (“camp” being relevant here). I asserted that the parents I work with would be “happy to have a healthy gay son, but resist the idea of foreclosing on fertility and sexual function for life.” The lecturer frowned and said emphaticallly, “I highly doubt that those parents would be HAPPY to have a gay son!”
I was hopeful afterward that my friend and I had helped plant some seeds of obvious reality in the minds of this lecturer, department Chair, and three grad students.
Jet’s story is so compelling thank you for spotlighting it it deserves to be more widely heard, along with the perhaps more well-known story of Clementine Breen, a former patient who is suing Olson-Kennedy who helped bring pediatric gender medicine to US and helped PP develop its own informed consent protocol —people should know there are different pathways for girls including this example of young lesbians who haven’t had the chance to come to terms with their sexual development which got hijacked by this “protocol”
The trans medicalization cult is absolutely fixated on breasts. Why is that?
I will also add that I had a teenaged self-described “trans man” in my living room a couple of years ago, telling me in rapt tones about her double mastectomy in a raspy, testosterone-ravaged voice. She had received this on-demand amputation of healthy flesh as an 18-year-old. This is a girl who, at 17, after being rejected in her first attempt to form a romantic bond with another girl, declared, “I hate being a lesbian!” She fell into the cult, shaved her head, chose a new name, and acquired testosterone without any involvement of her parents. She then requested the “life-saving surgery,” and explained to me, “At first, they told me I’d have to wait EIGHTEEN MONTHS. Then a couple of weeks later, I got a call, saying, ‘If you can get here in the next 48 hours, you can have the surgery.’ I got myself over there!”
I asked this chemically altered, aggressively pruned bonsai lesbian teenager if she’d been adequately informed about what “top surgery” actually entails— how major a surgery it is, how much physical support is needed in aftercare, with the drains, etc. She answered more soberly, saying yes, she’d had support to dress herself and take care of the wounds. I expressed my relief for that small mercy. I gave no indication of my grief. I was “kind and compassionate,” even though everything inside me was screaming at the brutality of this dystopian, homophobic medical abuse of what had been a physically healthy, if heartbroken, lost young woman.