Some people experience profound loneliness, isolation, shyness, or social awkwardness, and severe low self-esteem. For various reasons, escaping their sex role offers relief, and they feel better pretending to be the opposite sex. This should not justify erasing sex as a foundational aspect of reality.
We should believe people when they say they feel relief. They may indeed feel more confident, safer in social situations, and may experience less self-hatred. But we cannot re-form the whole of society around people who are making a choice to pretend to be the opposite sex.
The entire model of “affirmation” is, in truth, a model of coercion. It is a denial of reality. It is a system of escalating punishments levied against those who refuse to play along. “Affirmation” in all its forms must be replaced with something more appropriate—perhaps pity.
It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned @PhilipPullman, but please note that Pullman’s His Dark Materials series perfectly symbolizes the destruction of innocence of children who have been sex-changed by parents and clinicians who are reluctant to raise gay children.
@PhilipPullman If you’re interested, here are my thoughts from last year about Philip Pullman’s series.
In 2018, Pullman admitted to Twitter he didn’t know which side to take. I gently suggest his confusion is because he was inadvertently too close to the issue. Mr. Pullman, please use your voice to affirm the importance of protecting children.
This is Google Bard with the following prompts: 1) write a concise paragraph arguing against gender affirming care in children 2) write a concise paragraph arguing for gender affirming care in children.
Google Bard prompt: Why can you make arguments in favor of gender affirming care for children bot not against
Google Bard prompts: 1) Write a concise paragraph arguing against the legalization of abortion. 2) Write a concise paragraph arguing against giving children cross-sex hormones.
Google Bard appears to have a strong built-in bias in favor of transsexualism. I asked it to analyze a passage I'd written and then asked it to re-write it to make it understandable to middle-schoolers. Here's are the results with commentary, starting with the initial prompt: 🧵
The first paragraph is correct. In the second paragraph, Bard begins to editorialize by saying that there is no "one-size-fits-all" answer to transition. I never suggested there is, but Bard is programmed to mediate something that isn't fully pro-trans. It continues--
Nothing I wrote could possibly be interpreted as a call for "greater acceptance and understanding of transgender people." If anything, it is a call for people who want to transition to seek greater understanding and acceptance of themselves before seeking medicalization.
Yesterday I wrote a detailed thread of how this @keranews story by @elenaswriting was written to the transgender propaganda group @TransJA's specification, literally citing their "standards."
Until my thread, this story had little engagement. Two hours later, @NPR retweeted it.
@keranews@elenaswriting@TransJA@NPR You can verify from @NPR's own timeline that retweeting a story from an affiliate, particularly a story that until that point had no retweets or engagement, is extremely unusual.
Most likely is that a @TransJA-affiliated editor within NPR decided to put his thumb in my eye.
This thread details how transgender activist propaganda is whitewashed by outlets like NPR.
Elena Rivera (@elenaiswriting) is a health reporter for NPR affiliate @keranews in Northern Texas and was supposed to cover Senate Bill 14, a ban on "gender affirming" care for minors.
Elena has me blocked for criticizing her approach to reporting, so I will include screenshots as well as links to her tweets.