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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...school-attack-caught-camera-says-bullied.html

A transgender girl accused of assaulting two students at a Texas high school alleges that she was being bullied and was merely fighting back

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School.

The female student was transported to the hospital along with a male student, whom Perry allegedly kicked in the face and knocked unconscious.

According to the police report, Perry - who goes by 'Millie' - told officers that the victim has been bullying her and had posted a photo of her on social media with a negative comment.

One Tomball High School parent whose daughter knows Perry said that the 18-year-old had been the target of a death threat.

'From what my daughter has said that the girl that was the bully had posted a picture of Millie saying people like this should die,' the mother, who asked not to be identified by name, told DailyMail.com.

When Perry appeared in court on assault charges, her attorney told a judge that the teen has been undergoing a difficult transition from male to female and that: 'There's more to this story than meets the eye.'

Perry is currently out on bond, according to authorities.

The video of the altercation sparked a widespread debate on social media as some claim Perry was justified in standing up to her alleged bullies and others condemn her use of violence.

The mother who spoke with DailyMail.com has been one of Millie's most ardent defenders on Facebook.

'I do not condone violence at all. But situations like this show that people now a days, not just kids, think they can post what they want. Or say what they want without thinking of who they are hurting,' she said.

'Nobody knows what Millie has gone through, and this could have just been a final straw for her. That is all speculation of course because I don't personally know her or her family, but as a parent and someone who is part of the LGBTQ community this girl needs help and support, not grown men online talking about her private parts and shaming and mocking her.'

One Facebook commenter summed up the views of many, writing: 'This was brutal, and severe! I was bullied for years and never attacked anyone!'

Multiple commenters rejected the gender transition defense and classified the attack as a male senselessly beating a female.

One woman wrote on Facebook: 'This person will get off because they're transitioning. This is an animal. She kicked, and stomped, and beat...not okay. Bullying is not acceptable, but kicking someone in the head. Punishment doesn't fit the crime.'

FB https://www.facebook.com/travez.perry http://archive.is/mnEmm

 

[Screw Danlon]

rage against the troons

This needs to be a band.

 

[UnclePhil]

Hermione Potter and the Sorcerer's Girldick
Hermione Potter and the Chamber of Genders
Hermione Potter and the Prisoner of Yaniv
Hermione Potter and the Goblet of Fierceness
Hermione Potter and the Order of the TERFs
Hermione Potter and the Two-Spirit Princess
Hermione Potter and the Deathly Hormones

 

[melty]

You know, this is the first time in awhile I've seen a popular celebrity that actually has a dissenting opinion on a landmine topic like this. The only other one I can think of is Kanye.

 

[PowerWomon]

This might be the most 2020 thing I've read today. There's a six minute long video at the link I have no idea how to download. The Australian piece referenced is, alas, completely paywalled.

http://archive.md/uONiH

You might be able to look youtube-dl to download the video. It is divided up in chunks. Otherwise, you can usually grab the video URL from the browser's "Network" tab or debugger.

The connection between autism and gender dispohoria has been known for a long time. People who have opposed the push for transgender diagnoses have been bullied, sometimes out of their profession, for a while now, including leading experts, such as Kenneth Zucker in Canda.

Baker, Philip, and Eman Shweikh. “Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Personality Disorder and Offending in a Transgender Patient: Clinical Considerations, Diagnostic Challenges and Treatment Responses.” Advances in Autism 2, no. 3 (2016): 140–146.

Schalkwyk, Gerrit I. van, Katherine Klingensmith, and Fred R. Volkmar. “Gender Identity and Autism Spectrum Disorders.” The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 88, no. 1 (March 4, 2015): 81–83.

Fombonne, Eric. “Is There an Epidemic of Autism?” Pediatrics 107, no. 2 (2001): 411–412.

McDowell, Maxson J. “Autism, Early Narcissistic Injury and Self-Organization: A Role for the Image of the Mother’s Eyes?” Journal of Analytical Psychology 49, no. 4 (2004): 495–519. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0021-8774.2004.00481.x.

However, what we are probably even further removed from, is the co-morbidity of GID with a host of other mental issues. This one is not a scientific source really, but perhaps worth a read:

Bailey, J. Michael. The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism. Joseph Henry Press, 2003.

The interview already mentions the amount of bullying and risk to professional standing people who opposed the transgender movement face, but here is the story of Kenneth Zucker in particular:

A False Accusation Helped Bring Down Kenneth Zucker, a Controversial Sex Researcher

He didn’t call a former patient a “hairy little vermin” after all.

www.thecut.com

Despite the title, there wasn't really anything controversial about his research. What brought down the ire of the transgender movement on him was that he did not recommend transitioning children at the drop of a hat. That led to allegation of "conversion therapy" and other nonsense. He had also been accused of sexual molestation/exploitation of children. It was pretty gross, and Canada being Canda, nobody had the spine to stand up for him.

 

[omori]

I wish she was better at fucking with people. If she just tweeted something like "Luckily, wizards have a spell that cures gender dysphoria, so any child that shows signs of this mental illness can easily be fixed and turned back cis", heads would explode.

Nah, she’d probably say that there’s some potion or spell that actually successfully transforms genitals and troons would be big mad that all Harry Potter trans people are icky truscum.

 

[Neil]

Lemme just quote my post in the other thread.

As the saying goes,
Speak of the biological woman and the trannies shall show themselves (and shriek)
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Spoiler

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These people are actually suicidal over some woman in another country who makes books for 4 year olds not validating them. Amazing.
There are so many posts of "I WAS SUICIDAL BUT THEN THIS BOOK ABOUT WIZARD CHILDREN SAVED MY LIFE BUT THIS WOMAN DOESN'T LIKE TRANNIES SO NOW I WILL LITERALLY KILL MYSELF"

The amount of suicidebaiting over this is incredible.

Seven. In ten weeks. And we’re supposed to bend over backwards for this group because SEVEN of them have been killed in the last TEN weeks? That’s 1/3 as many as have been killed in the riots this week. cry more.


The problem, author, is that your own language here undermines your argument. They’re not women. They’re ‘transgender’ women. Transgender modifies women. Otherwise you would have written ”Rowling insists that women are not women.” Which you can’t do, because it sounds absurd on its face.

I’m glad Rowling finally says this. Looks like cancel culture finally has to cancel the only author they’ve ever read for finally having the balls to not just pander.

It's quite amazing how trannies can literally never shut the fuck up about themselves for even a second. Now, instead of it just being "Black Lives Matter" and protesting unarmed black people being killed by the police for reasons as dumb as being assumed to have a fake $20 bill, it's "Black Trans Lives Matter", they need attention so bad that they have to divert some of the attention from hundreds of thousands of black people being killed historically to a specific seven black trans people being killed over the last few weeks.
If trannies have to lose pride month because people are out there protesting real issues, they'll lose it kicking and screaming about themselves.

 

[KeepHopeAlive]

Rowling is basically the Justin Bieber/Beyonce figure of literature.

A terminally mediocre writer who inadvertently struck gold with her rehashed fusion of the ancient boarding school adventure/"ordinary children discover a magical world" genres, and used this opening to network and market the shit out of it with her growing sphere of friends among a newsmedia whose critical opinions on creative works were still held in high regard by much of the population, which created a snowballing effect of bigger and bigger publications hyping the shit out of her work and more and more media outlets and famous people jumping on the bandwagon and internet 1.0 becoming absolutely inundated with this manufactured hype until it had overnight been turned into a worldwide phenomena.

Sure, she played this exceptionally well, but frankly she is as gifted a writer as the likes of michael bay/roland emmerich are as film makers

Don't forget the merch. They merched the fuck out of ol Harry.

I only read the first and was thoroughly unimpressed with her very stale, marginal writing abilities. I didn't even think she was that great of a storyteller. Stephen King is a great storyteller, yet another marginal writer.

But movies, theme parks and merch make bank.

 

[Constellationzero]

Rowling is basically the Justin Bieber/Beyonce figure of literature.

A terminally mediocre writer who inadvertently struck gold with her rehashed fusion of the ancient boarding school adventure/"ordinary children discover a magical world" genres, and used this opening to network and market the shit out of it with her growing sphere of friends among a newsmedia whose critical opinions on creative works were still held in high regard by much of the population, which created a snowballing effect of bigger and bigger publications hyping the shit out of her work and more and more media outlets and famous people jumping on the bandwagon and internet 1.0 becoming absolutely inundated with this manufactured hype until it had overnight been turned into a worldwide phenomena.

Sure, she played this exceptionally well, but frankly she is as gifted a writer as the likes of michael bay/roland emmerich are as film makers

I honestly question if she actually wrote ANY of this Harry Potter trash. For one thing, the whole universe smacks of phoning it in and barely trying to legitimately world-build.
Also: I wish adults would...I don't know...GET HELP and get some assistance with getting their reading level up to par with their age. Jesus Fucking Christ, doesn't ANYBODY read adult literature anymore? Is it really because the average adult truly cannot read beyond a fourth grade level?

And YES, JK IS terminally mediocre and uninspired.

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

How long until her rage against the troons reaches its final stage and she writes Harry Potter and the Gas Chamber of Secrets?

Hermione Potter and the Sorcerer's Girldick
Hermione Potter and the Chamber of Genders
Hermione Potter and the Prisoner of Yaniv
Hermione Potter and the Goblet of Fierceness
Hermione Potter and the Order of the TERFs
Hermione Potter and the Two-Spirit Princess
Hermione Potter and the Deathly Hormones

Tranny Potter and the Order of the 42%

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Hermione Potter and the Sorcerer's Girldick
Hermione Potter and the Chamber of Genders
Hermione Potter and the Prisoner of Yaniv
Hermione Potter and the Goblet of Fierceness
Hermione Potter and the Order of the TERFs
Hermione Potter and the Two-Spirit Princess
Hermione Potter and the Deathly Hormones

Fun fact: Jonathan Yaniv is called Balldemort by twitter terven

 

[pwnest injun]

McDowell, Maxson J. “Autism, Early Narcissistic Injury and Self-Organization: A Role for the Image of the Mother’s Eyes?” Journal of Analytical Psychology 49, no. 4 (2004): 495–519. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0021-8774.2004.00481.x.

I've held this suspicion for a while, that the increase in autism is directly the result of hands-off mothering of infants.
For comparison, within the great ape families, a mother holds their infant 24/7 for the first 9 months of its life.
Meanwhile a modern, wealthy mother might put her infant in a crib, in the other room, so that it doesn't disturb her too much at night. For an infant, being alone is helplessness, is death. The presence of the mother, and the mother caring to the infant's needs, imparts the illusion of omnipotence to the infant during its early development that allows the brain to develop pathways encouraging attitudes of a positive, outward facing nature, since it doesn't have to worry about internal needs as much. Whereas, a child who is left alone, who has needs that aren't fulfilled, becomes more inwardly focused on those unfulfilled internal needs, and in the case of deprivation, learns to fugue in stressful situations, because of being completely unable to engage in fight or flight when stressed as an infant. The severity of the condition is directly related to the amount of early reinforcement these mental pathways receive as the infant's brain is developing.

 

[Weppers]

Because what people mean when they say someone is gifted is that they are possessing of exceptional talent or ability. Its not a meaning that depends on how well received your works are. To say otherwise would mean being 'gifted' is a matter of how other people see you rather than any being intrinsic to you which sort of robs the word of its weight.

But hey you're right. Everyone who ever made a shit ton of money is "Gifted" and obviously got where they are because they are special and above the common rabble and the reason I know this is because "Everybody says so did you SEE how many people bought his latest book?!"

Being logistically gifted is still being gifted.

 

[Trump's Chosen]

as a man, i'd lose my livelihood engaging in that behavior under my legal name, yet these trans women are confident they can say/do whatever they want. i guess they can.

Remember when a tranny threatened ben shapiro live on air and all the talkshow hosts fell over themselves to defend the tranny's actions?

 

[Fareal]

You might be able to look youtube-dl to download the video. It is divided up in chunks. Otherwise, you can usually grab the video URL from the browser's "Network" tab or debugger.

The connection between autism and gender dispohoria has been known for a long time. People who have opposed the push for transgender diagnoses have been bullied, sometimes out of their profession, for a while now, including leading experts, such as Kenneth Zucker in Canda.

Baker, Philip, and Eman Shweikh. “Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Personality Disorder and Offending in a Transgender Patient: Clinical Considerations, Diagnostic Challenges and Treatment Responses.” Advances in Autism 2, no. 3 (2016): 140–146.

Schalkwyk, Gerrit I. van, Katherine Klingensmith, and Fred R. Volkmar. “Gender Identity and Autism Spectrum Disorders.” The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 88, no. 1 (March 4, 2015): 81–83.

Fombonne, Eric. “Is There an Epidemic of Autism?” Pediatrics 107, no. 2 (2001): 411–412.

McDowell, Maxson J. “Autism, Early Narcissistic Injury and Self-Organization: A Role for the Image of the Mother’s Eyes?” Journal of Analytical Psychology 49, no. 4 (2004): 495–519. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0021-8774.2004.00481.x.

However, what we are probably even further removed from, is the co-morbidity of GID with a host of other mental issues. This one is not a scientific source really, but perhaps worth a read:

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Bailey, J. Michael. The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism. Joseph Henry Press, 2003.

The interview already mentions the amount of bullying and risk to professional standing people who opposed the transgender movement face, but here is the story of Kenneth Zucker in particular:

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A False Accusation Helped Bring Down Kenneth Zucker, a Controversial Sex Researcher

He didn’t call a former patient a “hairy little vermin” after all.

www.thecut.com

Despite the title, there wasn't really anything controversial about his research. What brought down the ire of the transgender movement on him was that he did not recommend transitioning children at the drop of a hat. That led to allegation of "conversion therapy" and other nonsense. He had also been accused of sexual molestation/exploitation of children. It was pretty gross, and Canada being Canda, nobody had the spine to stand up for him.

Theres a full text without dealing with Wiley Online of the McDowell article here:http://cogprints.org/2593/1/eye22fixed_by_cogprints.html

 

[mulliganfarmer]

I've held this suspicion for a while, that the increase in autism is directly the result of hands-off mothering of infants.
For comparison, within the great ape families, a mother holds their infant 24/7 for the first 9 months of its life.
Meanwhile a modern, wealthy mother might put her infant in a crib, in the other room, so that it doesn't disturb her too much at night. For an infant, being alone is helplessness, is death. The presence of the mother, and the mother caring to the infant's needs, imparts the illusion of omnipotence to the infant during its early development that allows the brain to develop pathways encouraging attitudes of a positive, outward facing nature, since it doesn't have to worry about internal needs as much. Whereas, a child who is left alone, who has needs that aren't fulfilled, becomes more inwardly focused on those unfulfilled internal needs, and in the case of deprivation, learns to fugue in stressful situations, because of being completely unable to engage in fight or flight when stressed as an infant. The severity of the condition is directly related to the amount of early reinforcement these mental pathways receive as the infant's brain is developing.

I think what you might be referring to is the development of attachment disorders, which do strongly resemble autism to such a degree that ADs get mistaken and misdiagnosed as autism and vice versa. There was an old theory that thought autism was caused by 'refrigerator moms' but ultimately a person can recover from an AD with intense therapy, with autism you can only teach coping strategies. Autism diagnoses are increasing because the help and resources available to a child with autism are better and more readily available than help and resources for a child with an AD.

You go to any mothering advice website and you'll see mothers asking why their children are destructive, have odd habits and just don't behave in a way that they think is 'normal' and you'll have multiple people suggesting they get tested for autism, it sounds just like their child at that age, etc. Cue doctor shopping for a diagnosis and there you have it. In addition you get lots of adults looking back at their socially awkward years and thinking they were undiagnosed autistic the whole time, but if you dig into their backgrounds you'll find chaotic home life, strained relationships with parents, poverty, all things that lead to attachment disorders.

A thing that's really notable about all these people who are both 'autistic' and trans, they're always looking for something that will make them feel more 'normal' by aping the people around them in a way that most full-blown autistics would be incapable of. The therapy for attachment disorders is very heavily geared towards developing a sense of self separate from other people.

You might find this interesting, it's a diagram of the differences and similarities between autism and attachment disorders.

https://www2.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/sites/default/files/folders/documents/virtualschool/processesandforms/resourcesandpublications/CoventryGrid.pdf

 

[PowerWomon]

Theres a full text without dealing with Wiley Online of the McDowell article here:http://cogprints.org/2593/1/eye22fixed_by_cogprints.html

Nice. Appreciated!

It might only be tangentially related, but there is also the still face experiment.

Still Face Experiment: Dr. Edward Tronick

Check out Ed’s new book, coauthored with Dr. Claudia M. Gold: https://thepowerofdiscord.com Copyright © 2007 ZERO TO THREE http://www.zerotothree.org Ed Tron...

www.youtube.com

Maybe that fits with the topic of narcisstics injury or autistic parent.

Autism varies greatly in degree. A corollary of the second hypothesis is that mild autistic traits may be caused by a disturbance in the acquisition or functioning of the image of the eye. Two predictions follow: (1) adults with mild autistic traits may (like adults with early narcissisitc injury) produce disturbed images of the eye; (2) adults with mild autistic traits may also have symptoms of narcissistic injury. I describe two cases in which these predictions were confirmed.

You go to any mothering advice website and you'll see mothers asking why their children are destructive, have odd habits and just don't behave in a way that they think is 'normal' and you'll have multiple people suggesting they get tested for autism, it sounds just like their child at that age, etc. Cue doctor shopping for a diagnosis and there you have it. In addition you get lots of adults looking back at their socially awkward years and thinking they were undiagnosed autistic the whole time, but if you dig into their backgrounds you'll find chaotic home life, strained relationships with parents, poverty, all things that lead to attachment disorders.

There are also many cases of what I understand to be Munchhausen by proxy, where mothers (it usually is mothers, but I do not want to exclude the possibility of there being fathers that do the same) gain sympathy through a child's illness. How many cases, I do not know, because when those are discovered they usually gain a degree of attention that is probably not in proportion to their prevalence.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article236011638.html

White sentenced Kaylene Bowen to six years in prison for manipulating health care professionals into performing hundreds of unnecessary medical procedures and 13 unnecessary surgeries on her son during an eight-year period.

(I am perfectly aware that this is just anecdotal. I do not have any studies at hand that I remember which investigate the prevalance of such cases. I am just including a link to an article as an example of a case that is typical.)

But it is also a means to gain sympathy through another avenue, which I think you already touch on. Every child or adult has difficult times in life. Raising a child is difficult, so it is convenient when one's failings as a parent, which every parent probably has, can be blamed on some illness or medical condition by pathologizing the child. I think a similar trend has been pointed out in the trend to prescribe more and more children, usually boys, Ritalin and similar drugs to make them quieter and more compliant in school.

Maybe this is not so different overall. Increasingly, maleness itself is pathologized. We have terms that used to be ridiculed, such as "toxic masculinity", slowly being embraced by mainstream professions. The trend to medicate boys might have been an outgrowth of an increasing tendency to pathologize male behavior itself and to view boys as "broken girls". This would fit well with the trend to transition boys into girls, not just in behavior but in appearance: sit still, be compliant, don't speak up, look nice. I am not saying that this is or should be the typical behavior of girls. I am referring to the ideal of what we typically think of girls are supposed to be, versus the outspoken, rough, loud, lively nature that is typically associated with boys.

On the point of autism: https://scihub.wikicn.top/10.1542/peds.107.2.411

I had trouble copying the text from the PDF, so I inserted this as an image. I hope it does not cause any inconvenience.

A thing that's really notable about all these people who are both 'autistic' and trans, they're always looking for something that will make them feel more 'normal' by aping the people around them in a way that most full-blown autistics would be incapable of. The therapy for attachment disorders is very heavily geared towards developing a sense of self separate from other people.

I need to think more about this, but this might be an insightful and important point.

 

[Fareal]

I've held this suspicion for a while, that the increase in autism is directly the result of hands-off mothering of infants.
For comparison, within the great ape families, a mother holds their infant 24/7 for the first 9 months of its life.
Meanwhile a modern, wealthy mother might put her infant in a crib, in the other room, so that it doesn't disturb her too much at night. For an infant, being alone is helplessness, is death. The presence of the mother, and the mother caring to the infant's needs, imparts the illusion of omnipotence to the infant during its early development that allows the brain to develop pathways encouraging attitudes of a positive, outward facing nature, since it doesn't have to worry about internal needs as much. Whereas, a child who is left alone, who has needs that aren't fulfilled, becomes more inwardly focused on those unfulfilled internal needs, and in the case of deprivation, learns to fugue in stressful situations, because of being completely unable to engage in fight or flight when stressed as an infant. The severity of the condition is directly related to the amount of early reinforcement these mental pathways receive as the infant's brain is developing.

This is probably not relevant, but I have never got more shit for a parenting decision from other mothers than for “spoiling those babies by holding them too much”. All my infants cried when they were put down and I walked away from them. I didn’t like how this made me feel, so I picked them up and in early infancy, held them (or baby wore them) most of the time they were awake. My mother, grandmothers, aunties, church ladies, neighbours all roundly castigated me for always picking up a crying newborn/infant and “nursing them whilst they sleep” ie holding them whilst they catnapped.

I don’t know where the social conditioning that an infant should be held as little as possible came from, but it was undoubtedly real. I was continually told I was “ruining them with attention”.

 

[The best and greatest]

Being logistically gifted is still being gifted.

I wasn't arguing if JKR was a gifted logistician or not though, which was sort of my whole point. Being able to make a shit ton of money with a mediocre/serviceable book series is nothing new nor impressive to me. Terry Goodkind and Christopher Paolini both did the same damn thing. Doesn't make them "Gifted Authors".

 

[PowerWomon]

Meanwhile a modern, wealthy mother might put her infant in a crib, in the other room, so that it doesn't disturb her too much at night. For an infant, being alone is helplessness, is death. The presence of the mother, and the mother caring to the infant's needs, imparts the illusion of omnipotence to the infant during its early development that allows the brain to develop pathways encouraging attitudes of a positive, outward facing nature, since it doesn't have to worry about internal needs as much. Whereas, a child who is left alone, who has needs that aren't fulfilled, becomes more inwardly focused on those unfulfilled internal needs, and in the case of deprivation, learns to fugue in stressful situations, because of being completely unable to engage in fight or flight when stressed as an infant. The severity of the condition is directly related to the amount of early reinforcement these mental pathways receive as the infant's brain is developing.

I am not calling anyone out or want to dunk on anyone, but I see at least one "dumb" response on your post, so maybe some steel-manning can be done for people to be more convinced. I am not saying that one can induce or cause autism by not holding a child enough, but you are absolutely right that the lack of touch, I believe, can have a severely negative impact on child psychological development. Here are two particular examples that come to mind:

In the United States, 1944, an experiment was conducted on 40 newborn infants to determine whether individuals could thrive alone on basic physiological needs without affection. Twenty newborn infants were housed in a special facility where they had caregivers who would go in to feed them, bathe them and change their diapers, but they would do nothing else. The caregivers had been instructed not to look at or touch the babies more than what was necessary, never communicating with them. All their physical needs were attended to scrupulously and the environment was kept sterile, none of the babies becoming ill.

The experiment was halted after four months, by which time, at least half of the babies had died at that point. At least two more died even after being rescued and brought into a more natural familial environment. There was no physiological cause for the babies' deaths; they were all physically very healthy. Before each baby died, there was a period where they would stop verbalizing and trying to engage with their caregivers, generally stop moving, nor cry or even change expression; death would follow shortly. The babies who had "given up" before being rescued, died in the same manner, even though they had been removed from the experimental conditions.

That quote is from some christian site, but I am only using it because it seems to be an accurate enough summary for copy and paste of the following study:

Spitz, Rene A. “The Role of Ecological Factors in Emotional Development in Infancy.” Child Development, 1949, 145–155.

https://scihub.wikicn.top/10.2307/1125870

There are also the famouse studies by Harry Harlow on monkeys, replacing the mother with one made of wire:

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/harlows-classic-studies-revealed-the-importance-of-maternal-contact.html

Ruppenthal, Gerald C., Gary L. Arling, Harry F. Harlow, Gene P. Sackett, and Stephen J. Suomi. "A 10-year perspective of motherless-mother monkey behavior." Journal of abnormal psychology 85, no. 4 (1976): 341.

Suomi, Stephen J., Harry F. Harlow, and S. David Kimball. "Behavioral effects of prolonged partial social isolation in the rhesus monkey." Psychological reports 29, no. 3_suppl (1971): 1171-1177.

I know that you are just speculating, flow of consciousness, and some of it might be a bit of a stretch, but I think it would be dismissive to outright rule out such a connection to a change in the style of parenting in more recent decades.

And, of course, I am wondering if anyone will make a connection with Calhoun's mouse utopia expriment at some point in this thread, or some similar reference to behavioral sink.

There is also this very interesting quote from the study quoted further up:

The following is further evidence that no biological factor is the primary deficit. The correlation between autism and congenital infant blindness (Brown et al. 1997; Hobson et al. 1999) is stronger that the correlation between autism and other biological factors. If the mother of a blind baby relates to it actively by means of touch and sound then her baby's development may be close to normal; if the mother does not do so then her baby is very likely to develop autism (Als et al. 1980). These autistic children do not have higher-than-normal rates of any other biological factor. What they have in common is blindness and a consequent failure to relate to the mother in infancy.

There is also a high incidence of autism in children who were institutionalized at birth (Fraiberg 1977, pp. 185-187). There was a high incidence, for example, in children who were adopted in the U.K. from orphanages in Romania (Rutter et. al. 2001). These children are normally sighted but were neglected in cribs during infancy. The Romanian children do not have higher-than-normal rates of any biological factor.

And this on "refrigerator parents":

The terms refrigerator mother and refrigerator parents were coined around 1950 as a label for mothers of children diagnosed with autism or schizophrenia. When Leo Kanner first identified autism in 1943, he noted the lack of warmth among the parents of autistic children. Parents, particularly mothers, were often blamed for their children's atypical behavior, which included rigid rituals, speech difficulty, and self-isolation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory#cite_note-1

I apologize that I keep updating my post, but there are some pretty damning statements that had been made, at least by early researchers, on the topic of psychogenic causes of autism:

One must note that autism is one of a number of children's neurological disorders of psychogenic nature, i.e., caused by abusive and traumatic treatment of infants. ...There is persistent denial by American society of the causes of damage to millions of children who are thus traumatized and brain damaged as a consequence of cruel treatment by parents who are otherwise too busy to love and care for their babies.[18]

I spent a day observing what happened to the group. I also studied close-ups of children on video. What became clearer and clearer as the day went on was that all these children had a serious history of suffering behind them. This, however, was never referred to....In my conversations with the therapists and mothers, I inquired about the life stories of individual children. The facts confirmed my hunch. No one, however, was willing to take these facts seriously.[19]

I am only now digging into a lot of the material on that subject and I have to admit that it is pretty hard to read. This also reminds me of the video I had linked to earlier, where the mother intentionally ignores her child, and it very quickly starting to cry after.

But if we were to extend the notion of the ignored, neglected child from merely the side of the parents, and to include society at large, there might be another observation that could tie back in with transgdenderism. I am really just brain storming more than putting forth a well thought out thesis, but what if a child's reaction to neglect is to try to seek attention from a parent and society at large through behavior it recognizes as being rewarded? There is a lot of attention from media, and parents that might have been otherwise neglectful might heap attention on a child that "comes out" as transgender. Children might not be intelligent enough, yet, to grasp the full context of a politically loaded topic such as transgenderism, but I believe they are very tuned to paying attention to behaviors that are being rewarded by care-givers, guardians, and parents. Combine this with a generally hostile attitude towards anything to do with masculinity and you might have created a mix that is truly toxic for a child's psychological development.

There are, of course, also many girls who wish to transition to boys. According to some sources, those might even be more numerous than those of boys wishing to transition. However, the causes of boys and girls wanting to transition might be different. The media, too, seem to be much eager to report on trans-women than trans-men. "Rapid onset gender dysphoria" might be a stronger cause for girls. This is not a slight against girls, but in general girls are more consensus driven so they might transition out of peer group pressure.

Littman, Lisa. “Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Study of Parental Reports.” PloS One 13, no. 8 (2018 ): e0202330–e0202330.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rabble-rouser/201903/rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria

I am less sure on this last point, though. Children might simply perceive being transgender as something that is special and gets them attention from care-givers, regardless of gender.

 

[Pope Fucker]

Do these people remember that Harry Potter is for children? It's just a fantasy story they can read for fun.