Kudos. I wonder how many are truly brainwashed, and how many are bending the knee out of sheer moral cowardice knowing full well what this is, and how many are using the perks of being politically correct and avoid "cancel culture" by appearing as members of the brainwashed cult.

Reminds me of that Mummy scene... .

Its crazy that we have actually reached a point where we using the term "biological females" as if there is any other kind. Someone wake me up from this linguistic nightmare. These transformers belong in the rubber room and these medical spinless bureaucrats should be all sued for promoting medical malpractice. Clown world.

@KrunoS Yep. There's definitely heaps of medical malpractice going on with all of this. It's as if they forget that gender dysphoria is a recognized mental illness and they are even starting to make irreversible physical changes to confused, innocent children, who they helped to confuse. It's disgusting!

@DaveO276 Yes. Although if you do research and dig some more on history of the term "gender dysphoria" its not real, it too is made up for political reasons in the the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 which arose from a tradition filled with haphazard science and politically driven choices.

The simple common sense conclusion is that people who claim trans anything are batshit crazy, and that used to be officially the case for a long time, but these days there a social and political benefits to claiming your are "woman" because you get all the perks feminists get.

Basically in this crazy society of ours, gender was confused with fashion. I guess that is what happens when feminists are allowed to play with language.

I posted this before, but its worth repeating: Ask someone who believes or supports a trans person to define you what is a man or what is a woman and observe hypocrisy, contradiction in their own logic or downright detachment from reality.

Case in point: How Does the Women's March Define What a Woman Is?
Published on Jan 22, 2020 by What would you say? YouTube Channel.

Joseph Backholm was in Washington D.C. for the 2020 Women's March. The question he poses at the march seems relatively simple, "What is a woman?" but maybe this question is harder to answer than we thought.

@KrunoS I'm not sure I'm ready to go so far as to say it doesn't really exist as a genuine mental disorder in some people, but I definitely agree that people are using it for bullshit identity politics!

@DaveO276 I would say it does exist as a mental distorter, but its not as "gender dysphoria" as presented by DSM. American Psychological Association, which at this point has only a tad bit more credibility than WHO, describes "gender dysphoria" as "Discomfort or distress related to an incongruence between an individual's gender identity and the gender assigned at birth."

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) revised its manual of mental disorders, with the psychiatric category of gender identity disorder in children stirring controversies and ultimately remaining in the manual, before being renamed as gender dysphoria in 2013. The debates over the legitimacy of such a mental illness diagnosis for children continued through the process of the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases by the World Health Organization. In this period, the media exploded with stories about transgender children and the possibility of medical treatment, and parent support groups formed around the country.

What is is in reality is body image issue, like anorexia or bigorexia with often underlying physiological problems. But when it becomes normalized that it turns into something else, fashionable trend.

Book: Inventing Transgender Children includes contributions from academics, psychiatrists and parents, as well as young adults who transitioned as children but are now questioning the process they underwent. Together, they show that far from being an ever-present biological reality, transgenderism is an entirely invented concept with no basis in neuroscience, psychology or psychiatry.

Lisa Marchiano spells out many of the complex personal problems that may lead children to think they are transgender. As well as the issues detailed above, some children may have experienced bullying, or feel that they do not fit in with other children or with members of their family. Some may struggle with the stereotypical behaviour expected of their sex. But positive affirmation means these issues are neither raised nor dealt with. The child learns only that their body is the source of all their problems and changing their body will make everything better.

Marchiano explores how various social or psychological problems may manifest in different forms in different eras. At any given point in time, selective medical symptoms are culturally legitimised and sanctioned. Women suffering from hysteria during the 19th century or anorexia in the late-20th century were experiencing mental distress, but the way this distress was expressed differed. Today, as Marchiano explains, gender dysphoria provides an acceptable cultural script for children – especially girls – to signal distress. Positive affirmation, in taking this cultural script at face value, fails to uncover deeper problems that may remain buried and untreated. Children are denied access to other forms of support, and parents, with intimate knowledge of their own child, are demonised for not accepting that gender dysphoria is the only topic under discussion.

Focusing on the symptoms rather than the cause of gender dysphoria, and pushing children into an individual process of transition, also prevents broader social questions from being raised. Although the total numbers of children seeking medical support to transition is relatively small, there has been a rapid increase in referrals in recent years. What’s more, girls seeking to transition now vastly outnumber boys. Far more girls than boys exhibit signs of what’s come to be labelled as Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD), ‘where, far from announcing their view that they have been born in the wrong gender at a very young age, older teenagers and young adults suddenly and quickly come to identify as transgender’. Important questions need to be asked about how and why more girls than boys are affected by ROGD. Unfortunately, the orthodoxy of positive affirmation, and the prohibition on asking questions, means ROGD remains a poorly understood phenomenon.

Marchiano explores the possibility of ‘contagion’, whereby children ‘catch’ the idea that they may be transgender from other people. She highlights 19th-century ‘medical celebrity’ Jean-Martin Charcot, who diagnosed hysteria as having a biological cause and evangelised his findings through dramatic and well-attended lectures. Charcot would perform live diagnoses of hysteria, although, as others have since noted, it was likely he was stimulating symptoms through suggestion. Marchiano argues that today’s equivalent, the viral YouTube clip, is a far more effective form of contagion, because it can reach a much wider audience and be watched by young children in the privacy of their bedrooms. In this way, children who already feel troubled become radicalised online. Being transgender provides them with a readymade community to join, and a sense of identity that offers a seemingly straightforward explanation for their problems. In turn, as Michele Moore notes, ‘instructions gleaned on the internet help construct the child’s invention of themselves as transgender’.

YouTube celebrities may instruct troubled teenage girls on how to be transgender, but this would be little more than a passing fad without schools, social workers, health professionals, therapists and the mainstream media confirming this newfound identity, and glamourising those who attain its exalted status. This further fuels the contagion.

Where are the adults?

Inventing Transgender Children offers crucial insights into why growing numbers of children are coming to see themselves as transgender, and the potentially damaging consequences this has for some of the most vulnerable members of our society. It is a vital intervention, and should be disseminated widely.

At the end, however, one question, for me at least, remains unanswered: why are we allowing this to happen? Why have so many apparently ‘caring’ adults been happy to cheer all this on? In the concluding chapter, Stephanie Davies-Arai and Susan Matthews offer a number of suggestions, from a taboo on homosexuality to a politically motivated drive to ‘convince girls from an early age to believe that “woman” is an identity they can choose and that some women have penises’, in order to ‘prevent the development of a feminist political consciousness’.

Two broader social trends, felt on every page of Inventing Transgender Children, are also worth exploring. The first is an identity-driven cult of victimhood, where social hierarchies are constructed, and those deemed to have suffered most, simply because of who they are, are placed on the top. The second is the problem adults currently have with socialising children. Some adults consciously reject this role, while others have their capacity to act persistently undermined. The result, in both cases, is that rather than assuming responsibility for children’s development, adults deny they have any authority, suspend disbelief and act upon the child’s wishes. The beatification of the militant child victim who must instruct adults in the correct way to behave is detrimental to the future of society. And it’s devastating for the children thrust into this position.

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Sweden is a place where literally lunatics are running the asylum. Unbelievable.

"Teenage transgender row splits Sweden as dysphoria diagnoses soar by 1,500% For several days this week the veteran Swedish journalist Malou von Sivers will cover the same topic in every episode of her nightly TV chat show: the extraordinary rise in diagnoses of gender dysphoria among teenage girls." - The Guardian, February, 22, 2020.

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Nevermind the fact that there is no "gender dysphoria", but even if it was a real thing, which its not, rise of 1,500% in diagnosis... are you kidding me? And people are worried about coronavirus. They should be worried about something else. You leave feminists to run the country and in a generation they will destroy it.

Trans Activists Are Wrong

@KrunoS I'm not sure if I have any serious issues with the DSM definition - admittedly, I haven't looked into it in depth. With MAYBE that exception, I agree with you entirely.

@DaveO276 Fair enough.

Unreal. To become so pathetic to bend the knee to these linguistic terrorists. Where is self respect gone.