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Amy E. Sousa

@KnownHeretic

Jun 23

Reminder: gender dysphoria is a bogus diagnosis based on the insane premise that one's mentally conceived identity might be wrong for one's body. The diagnosis was specifically created to be able to bill insurance for unnecessary drugs and cosmetic surgeries and to create lifelong medical patients.

Below are the diagnostic criteria for the DSM-5 diagnosis of gender dysphoria. 5 out of the 8 criteria have to do with the rejection of sex role stereotypes. Kids who reject sexist stereotypes are normal kids.

Kids who receive judgment, criticism, or harassment for rejecting stereotypes and are therefore "distressed," should be given tools to critique the sexist standards of culture. These kids should not be told their distress is evidence of having a mental condition that proves a need to harm their healthy body with damaging drugs and plastic surgery.

Being put into a narrow box is uncomfortable. Kids who feel uncomfortable with society's boxes are having a natural response. When a child is diagnosed with gender dysphoria for being sex stereotype nonconforming it pathologizes their natural response and strips them of the agency to critique the narrow sex roles prescribed by culture. Instead, kids should be empowered to accept themselves fully without rejecting their body.

The remaining 3 criteria are behaviors that are typical of kids who have experienced sexual abuse. If a child rejects their genitals for any reason the immediate follow-up of any mental health professional should be to investigate for possible sexual abuse. Body dissociation is a trauma response and should not be naturalized or encouraged.

Graphics like this 2013 HuffPost image used to be used to help kids critique sexist standards in advertising toys. Guidance like this is no longer used. Today if a girl likes a toy that is advertised for boys, this is used as diagnostic criteria and evidence that she might be "born in the wrong body" and that she should be put on puberty blockers, wrong sex hormones, and get a breast amputation.

Women who want to learn more about this can come to the @WDI_USA convention and hear my talk: Sublimating Sexism: Critiquing the DSM-5 Diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria. (It will be recorded)

womensdeclarationusa.com/wdi-usa-2024-n…

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Amy E. Sousa

@KnownHeretic

Oct 9, 2023

Recently footage of a violent attack at Hazlebrook Middle School in the Tigard-Tualatin School District in Oregon went viral. The attack features a boy grabbing a girl from behind, pulling her to the ground, rolling her around by her hair, hitting her multiple times on the head and arms, and finally releasing her with the warning, “talk shit again bitch.” (This was not his first time assaulting a girl.)

The video is alarming for a number of reasons: due to its violent nature, the fact that it is a boy attacking a girl, and the fact that the boy attacks her unprovoked from behind. But this is not exactly why the video has gone viral. A large reason that this video has received over 10 million social media views and massive national media attention is because this particular boy calls himself a “transgender girl.”

This boy in Oregon is not the only boy who calls himself a trans girl who has assaulted girls at school:

-In Louden County, VA two separate girls were raped and assaulted by a boy calling himself gender fluid.
-In Oklahoma, a boy claiming to be trans assaulted two girls in the bathroom.
-In Texas a boy calling himself a transgender girl, put a girl in the hospital due to his assault.
-In Riverside, CA a boy who identifies as transgender assaulted a girl after spitting on her and exposing himself in the girl’s locker room.
-In Brazil a boy who identifies as trans assaulted two girls because they were advocating for single-sex bathrooms.

Why do these incidents keep happening? Policymakers such as the Superintendent of Tigard-Tualatin School District, Sue Reiki-Smith, would like us to believe that the claimed gender identities of the boy in question is unrelated to the assault on a girl.

She, and other school officials, see no relationship between policies that allow boys to disregard the bodily integrity of girls in their intimate spaces and sports and increasing incidents of male violence against girls. We gather to talk back and speak up for the safety of girls.

Join us in person or watch the livestream outside the school board meeting today! LINK BELOW

Link for livestream. @benedtl @againstgrmrs

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Live press conference outside the Tigard-Tualatin School District HG in Portland today at 3:30-6:30 pm.

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Amy E. Sousa

@KnownHeretic

Oct 1, 2023

A 10-year-old autistic girl was recently suspended for 2 days for questioning a boy in the girls' bathrooms.

Of course, the boy in question identifies as a "trans girl."

Dangerous precedents are being set by gender ideology policies that teach girls that speaking up for your boundaries will get you in trouble! This is an absolute failure to protect our girls and fortify them with the tools to develop healthy boundaries!

The literal messaging on these bathroom guidance posters teaches girls that bathrooms are not places for the healthy functioning of their bodies, places for bodily privacy, places for the unique sex based issues girls might face, but that bathrooms are places for abstract identity validation.

The instructions here are clear, it is the responsibility of girls to take care of the emotional needs of boys before their own physical and safeguarding needs.

"When boys are taught they are entitled to violate girls’ boundaries when it comes to their privacy in intimate spaces, it teaches them to practice predatory and abusive behavior. And when girls are taught by teachers and school boards that their boundaries around their bodies don’t matter, it teaches them that there is no one to turn to to help them uphold their boundaries. It teaches them to dissociate and deny their own discomfort in order to emotionally support boys. This is the opposite of healthy bodily autonomy, authority, and boundaries. This creates a vulnerability to future predation. This teaches them to accept abuse and become the caretaker of their abuser."

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Amy E. Sousa

@KnownHeretic

Sep 28, 2023

This attack happened at Hazlebrook Middle School in the Tigard Tualatin School District in Oregon. What you're seeing is a large boy, who identifies as a girl assaulting a young girl from behind.

This is sex-based violence.

While we don't know what motivated the boy to attack this girl, we do know that schools in Oregon aggressively push gender identity ideology in their schools, giving boys the right to violate girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, & sports. I reflect that when boys are entitled to cross girls' boundaries, that is already the encouragement of violence. It follows that more violence against girls would be a logical outcome of such policies.

This is not the first time girls have been attacked by boys who claim a new "gender identity." In Louden County, Virginia, two girls were raped by a boy claiming to be gender fluid in the girls locker room: wtop.com/loudoun-county…

Girs in a Brazilian school were also attacked for being afraid of boys entering their bathroom while claiming an opposite sex identity.

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Amy E. Sousa

@KnownHeretic

Sep 15, 2023

There are two kinds of feelings: physical sensations & emotions.

1. Men can't feel physical sensations for internal organs they don't have. So they don't "physically feel" like a woman.

2. There are no woman-exclusive emotions. All humans can feel all emotions. So they don't "emotionally feel" like a woman.

When a man claims to "feel like women" this is not literal, this is an abstract obsessive thought that has no basis in material reality. The thought might cause him to feel things like anxiety or sexual arousal, but the one thing he absolutely can't feel is "like a woman."

This is similar as to when an anorexic says she "feels fat." She neither feels the physical sensations of having an obese body, nor does she feel "fat emotions."

She has become obsessed with the mental idea that she is fat. This idea causes her a kind of feeling of anxiety, but it is her thinking that is causing her feelings of discomfort. The phrase "I feel fat" is a mental notion, an idea, a thing she thinks about herself, and not a "feeling" at all.

In a very literal sense, a man always feels the physical sensations of his male body. So a man literally always feels like a man. Whatever he mentally thinks about himself, he is always experiencing himself as a man.

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Amy E. Sousa

@KnownHeretic

Sep 3, 2023

There is NO biological basis for thinking you are the opposite sex. It’s an abstract obsessive thought. It’s exacerbated by cultural narrow regressive sex role stereotypes that also have no basis in biology. Transgender, transsexual, transvestism, all bogus cultural terms.

Men ALWAYS feel like men because they are always physically processing the sensations of their male body. There are no other sensations available for them to process. Same goes for women.

Regardless of hormone exposure at birth, regardless of “brain imbalance,” men are filled with the male feelings of their male body. They have no way to differentiate between male vs female feelings because the ONLY feel male feelings and they feel these constantly & forever.

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