Thread by @HeatherEHeying

When medical interventions result in long-term harm to the individuals who are on the receiving end, those harmed deserve help, compassion, and a voice. [thread 1/12]

https://twitter.com/ImWatson91/status/1502414950337236995

March 12 is #DetransAwarenessDay: a day to recognize those harmed by the increasingly common hormonal and surgical “treatments” that facilitate a person passing as the opposite sex that they are. 2/
zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Make no mistake: Social contagion is real. Whole populations can quickly become enamored of certain positions, about which most individuals previously had no opinion. Those positions go from unknown to mandatory almost overnight. 3/

If you do not agree with the party lines on trans, on Covid, on Ukraine, you are guilty of WrongThink. 4/

Of course girls can become boys. Of course SARS-CoV2 came from a wet market, and causes a disease for which there is no treatment, except for extremely safe and effective vaccines. Of course Ukraine stands for all that is good in the world, and Russia all that is bad. 5/

Of course all the species have always looked the way they do now. Of course the continents have never moved. Of course the Earth is the center of everything. Our consciousness provides us insight, and the most amazing hubris this corner of our little galaxy has ever seen. 6/

What if we’re wrong, though? It wouldn’t be the first time. It won’t be the last. And the bit where the people with appropriate credentials and impressive clothing speak smugly to those who say “but wait a minute…” doesn’t change what is true. 7/
naturalselections.substack.com/p/whatifwerewr…

What the authorities speaking smugly to the rest of us *does* do is change what many *think* is true. Which is success if they’re trying to win a social game. But not if they’re actually trying to understand reality.

Authorities who play these games are taking lives. 8/

Detransitioners speak out about the harms done to them because no adult in their sphere successfully stood up for them when they were but confused children or young adults, and they are silenced. Vaccine-harmed people and their families speak out, and are similarly silenced. 9/

Coming soon: Iconoclasts, which contains an array of voices, on an array of topics. I’ve only seen my own contribution, but it will be obvious to anyone looking at the Table of Contents that I won’t agree with some of what is found here: 10/
iconoclast-culturewars.com

From my essay: “Children’s flights of fancy, their fantasies that could be their greatest strength as they imagine all of the ways to be human, should never be cemented into permanence. That risks turning their greatest strength into their greatest tragedy.” 11/

I would have thought, until just about yesterday, that we could all agree that profiting on the pain and mutilation of children is immoral.

Apparently we cannot all agree on that, or on anything anymore.

War Is now Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. /end