Ben Ryan said:
In pictoral form:Tony said:
Maybe I'm just a sap but he doesn't really seem cut out for a political career either.
I don't believe Tony has ever accepted that GRADE is valid (and I've just been through all of his tweets containing "grade").
Tony!In what world is convincing yourself that having your balls removed,your penis inverted, thus making a gaping hole,and then convincing yourself that its exactly like a real vagina not mass delusion?Explain how you thinking that pumping yourself with estrogen will turn you into a woman isn't mass delusion?Explain how a TIF chopping her breast off, and pumping herself with toxic drugs that increases the risk of cancer( even your buddy Colin admitted this despite the fact that TRAs insisted these drugs were safe with little risk.)with turn her into a man?Your entire trans joy and happiness is nothing more than cope. https://kiwifarms.st/threads/katy-m...ns-completelykaty.180806/page-9#post-17886271
"Could the tide be turning against anti-trans legislation? Local organizers in Florida certainly seem so."
Why was HIV prevalence very high in the trans community in 1988, Tony?
"They cannot acknowledge the possibility that trans people are happy because the care works. Instead, they argue, we are under a mass delusion."
99% of heroin addicts say they love heroin and plan on doing it as soon as they possibly can again.
Their real problem is not enough heroin affirming care.
Leor Sapir @LeorSapir posted on Sunday, 10 March 2024 at 02:25:17 UTC
A new thread (linked below) by prominent trans activist @ErinInTheMorn inadvertently makes the best possible case against pediatric gender transition.
Recall that the premise behind the Dutch experiment with puberty blockers was that adults who transition in adulthood often do not achieve adequate levels of functioning in key areas of life, even if they are subjectively satisfied.
In other words, the Dutch deemed pediatric transition necessary because adult transition too often failed to help gender dysphoric people (primarily men).
The Dutch theorized that these difficulties in life functioning were linked to suboptimal cosmetic outcomes--the effects of testosterone in puberty are extremely difficult to reverse--and that the solution was better cosmetic outcomes through early intervention.
But here, in this thread, Erin Reed disputes the key premise behind pediatric transition.
According to Reed, who medically transitioned as an adult, adults who transition as adults do achieve happiness, regret rates are almost nonexistent, and we have the evidence to prove it! Another notable activist, @assignedmedia, agrees (see screenshot).
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1766574524328202652.html…
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Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) posted at Saturday, 9 March 2024 at 21:19:22 UTC
https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1766574524328202652
1. One of the most stunning portions of the misleading and error-ridden "WPATH Files" is a section where the authors appear upset over how "suspiciously" happy trans people are.
They twist low regret rates into being a reason to oppose trans care.
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2. The authors of the WPATH files seem unable to accept that trans care actually works and make trans people happy.
Instead, they ask, seemingly mockingly, how trans people could be happy "with the consequences of their choices"
Read my article here:
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/wpath-files-authors-upset-over-how
3. Excerpts from the "WPATH Files" authors note that in one study, "participants reported being happy... despite researchers noting that improvement in actual life situations was not always observed."
The implication, of course, being that trans people are "deluding" themselves.
4. Of course, as with virtually every portion of the WPATH files, the authors do not present the very next lines of the 1988 study in the Netherlands, where the authors state that they considered this and found it uncompelling:
5. That study then concluded that there is no reason to doubt the therapeutic effect of SRS.
6. To be certain... trans people are facing extreme discrimination. We currently are drowning in anti-trans laws. In 1988, things were even worse in many ways. HIV prevalence was also very high.
Yet then, as now, trans people reported being happy.
7. The authors seem to ask, "why won't they just be unhappy?"
It would be so much simpler for their points if we were. Of course, many transgender people can intuitively answer this question. For many of us, pre-transition life feels like a black and white version, a husk.
8. I came out during the Trump administration, a time when much was working against all trans people. I knew that coming out meant I'd lose my family, risk my stability, and receive public shame and harassment.
My life was objectively "good" when I presented as a man.
9. However, one of the oldest adages is the importance of being true to oneself.
The moment I came out, the authors of the WPATH files would likely argue that my situation "objectively" worsened.
I had no right to be happy, by their account and interpretation of trans care.
10. Yet, I was. And I am. I described it as if "a light turned on inside, and I suddenly became capable of being happy from within, a feeling I had not experienced since childhood and a feeling no amount of external hate could ever extinguish."
Nothing external can beat that.
11. Many studies show a low level of regret and high satisfaction for transgender people. A review from Cornell University found regret rates between 0.3-3.8%.
https://whatweknow.inequality.corne...y-about-the-well-being-of-transgender-people/
12. Just recently, in a report of over 90,000 people, the US Transgender Survey released a report in 2024 noting less than 1% of those who started HRT report being a little or a lot less satisfied.
13. Similarly, the WPATH leaked emails show the same, with one doctor in a thread of careful and interesting discussion of clinical experiences with detransition, notes that in 25 years and over 600 trans patients, only 4 have detransitioned.
14. The WPATH Files 37,000 words of editorial commentary do not grant legitimacy. They don't present it in truth. Instead, they determine, this is all "suspicious" and that trans happiness "should not be that high,"
After all, how could it be with what they are doing to us?
15. They understand that the ongoing satisfaction and low regret undermine their argument that care provided is substandard and improper. They cannot acknowledge the possibility that trans people are happy because the care works. Instead, they argue, we are under a mass delusion.
16. What they will find, as so many others have, is that despite this suspicion... trans joy and happiness is enduring.
17. I am a transgender journalist covering legislation, cultural moments, and news on this topic every day.
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Apparently he used to tell himself that he "will be Erin in the morning", ie that tomorrow he will have the confidence to live out his (admitted) fetish in public.
My litmus test for Zach - he's an unfortunate looking tranny politician that has grandstanded (quite well, I'll add) gaining some national attention - and he's somehow still not worth a thread on his own. If it weren't for Tony, he'd probably not even have gotten a mention in the sideshows thread.
Yiddish has the best swears and slurs of any language ever.
Eh, I disagree. Even if you consider estrogen and testosterone to be interchangeable in some way (I don't), it certainly isn't a therapeutic replacement if estrogen is "replaced" with a different substance (testosterone). And the phrase "HRT" always referred to replacement of lost estrogen - i.e., it was there before (earlier in your life). I do agree that it is a minor point and one of the less irritating things they do, but to me it still smacks of the scientism and the appropriation of legitimate medical treatments (and female biology) that annoys a lot of people.
How right you are (about things not changing):
(link via Nitter; tweet would not archive either at the Nitter URL or via the Twitter URL for some reason)
Jfc. He is so pumped for incitement, he vomits words hastily... and you get the "WHOOPSIE.. uwu", he has honed for his activism Swiss army knife.
He also acted like such a spastic retard he ended up basically banned from the legislature he was elected to, rendering him utterly useless to his constituency of lunatics. I don't want lunatics in legislatures in general, but if we're going to have them, I hope they are such nutjobs they render themselves completely useless for any purpose they were elected for.
I wonder if Tony MKUltra'd Zac with research chemicals. My theory is Tony gave him some drug tainted libation. Then the two ladies watched Norma Rae, and Tony whispered in his ear, "See Sally Field? This is your moment darling, you stand up and tell them they have blood on their hands. Please subscribe to support my work."
Sorry, that was my phrasing, I was trying with "sort of Nietzschen" to paint a picture of that typical skimmed Wikipedia, stripped the nuances and pushed a qualified claim to absolute certainty thing a lot of people like Tony do. See also: all the people who read Thomas Kuhn as saying the scientific process is completely irrelevant to science. (To the point he added an intro where he specifically refutes this and they still kept/keep doing this because they never actually read the book anyway and just wanted an appeal to authority.)
