Christina Buttons, Reality's Last Stand: My ‘I Would Have Been Trans’ Story
The Detransition Subreddit page is nearing 40,000 members with new heartbreaking posts being made every day from young people who have permanently disfigured themselves with “gender affirming” medical treatments. Reading detransition stories like Helena’s are emotional for me because her history leading up to transition feels so familiar, like I’m reading my own diary.
I care because I can relate to the suffering that people are feeling. When I see young people struggling the way I did, I can feel their pain like it was my own.
It wasn’t until my late twenties when I was correctly diagnosed by a psychiatrist and a therapist with Asperger’s Syndrome, and my life made sense for the first time. I finally had an explanation for why I couldn’t function at the level of my peers or make friends easily, my sensory issues with light and sound, my clumsiness, feelings of being overwhelmed by my environment, my obsessive special interests, and much more.
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Trust me, I know how difficult it is to believe that all of the leading medical institutions, mainstream media, government, and academia have it wrong. The hardest part for me was to accept that all of these institutions that had never given me reason to doubt before cannot be trusted when it comes to this issue. It sounds like some grand conspiracy theory, and in a way it is, without the ill-intent (at least for most). People, even in positions of authority, believe they are doing the right thing, but it is based on a biological impossibility and propped up by extremely low-quality evidence.
If you’re still unsure whether my “conspiracy theory” has merit, answer the following questions:
Should men who have undergone male puberty be able to identify as a woman, compete in women’s athletics, crush the competition, and steal awards from women who have worked their entire lives to be the best in their sport? Should males with fully intact penises be admitted into women’s prisons where there have already been instances of rape and female prisoners have been impregnated? Should children be told they are transgender if they don’t align perfectly with the stereotypes of their sex? Should adolescents be given medical interventions that permanently alter the body instead of talk therapy to find out why they feel the way they do?
If you answered no to these questions, as most reasonable people would, congrats—you’re a far right, radical, anti-LGBT, bigoted transphobe too!
Christina is too kind, I think. Reasonable people who answer no to those questions are also often called Republicans. Whether you consider those in authority who push transgender ideology ill-intended or well-intended, it's almost impossible to escape that there are political intentions. How many of those positions of authority are in organizations that depend, at least in part, on federal subsidies or grants? Those positions may even have been specifically created as a condition for funding. With transgender ideology pushed in public schools and in the universities which benefit from federal spending, is it really such a surprise that gender affirmation has blossomed into an industry?
In April of 2016, an election year where Democrats were not expected to do well (with the exception of Hillary), Obama's DOJ filed a lawsuit against North Carolina and what was then called the "bathroom bill."
DOJ's lawsuit highlights statements by North Carolina officials in support of the law, including a statement from Lt. Gov. Dan Forest (R), who has said that a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance in Charlotte "would have given pedophiles, sex offenders, and perverts free rein to watch women, boys and girls undress and use the bathroom."
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the lawsuit “is about a great deal more than just bathrooms” and affects the “dignity and respect we accord our fellow citizens.” Speaking directly to the citizens of North Carolina, where she herself was born and raised, Lynch said the law inflicts "further indignity on a population that has already suffered far more than its fair share."
"This is not the first time that we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress for our nation,” Lynch said. “We saw it in the Jim Crow laws that followed the Emancipation Proclamation. We saw it in fierce and widespread resistance to Brown v. Board of Education. And we saw it in the proliferation of state bans on same-sex unions intended to stifle any hope that gay and lesbian Americans might one day be afforded the right to marry."
Yes, the time had come to trot out the old Republicans-are-bigots attack. Nothing new in that. Progressives and Democrats have been calling Republicans racist bigots for decades.
But it's nothing short of tragic that so many young girls have become the new cannon fodder for old political attacks.
Read the rest of Christina's article here.
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