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Christina Buttons

Mar 14

🧵The narrative that transgender people possess a “brain sex” mismatched with their body has permeated our culture.

In 2009, on the massively popular show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, psychiatrist George Huang explained that a trans-identified boy had a “female brain”:

This narrative was born from flawed studies that failed to control for key confounding variables—completely invalidating their findings—yet the media promoted them uncritically as proof that transgender people are “born that way.”

In 2014, the children's book I Am Jazz quickly became a sensation, later inspiring the hit T.V. series of the same name. In it, the trans-identified boy explains, “I have a girl brain but a boy body. This is called transgender. I was born this way!”

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Christina Buttons

@buttonslives

Mar 12

Yarden Silveira's story is among the most tragic cases of detransition you will ever read. His scathing Yelp reviews of the surgeons who harmed him briefly surfaced on social media last year, but his full story remained elusive. My new investigation for @CityJournal, featuring interviews with his family, uncovers the tragic truth of Yarden Silveira.

As a vulnerable autistic teenager, Yarden was encouraged by healthcare providers to medically transition. After suffering severe, life-threatening complications from a botched vaginoplasty—and after more than a dozen "gender-affirming" doctors refused to treat his surgeon-inflicted injuries—he is believed to have ended his life at just 23.

Yarden was a gay, autistic teenager struggling to find an identity. At 15, he came to believe he was transgender, telling his family he had a "female brain" after encountering flawed studies claiming transgender people have brain regions that resemble the opposite sex.

His WPATH-affiliated therapist encouraged him to transition. At 16, he socially transitioned—this was 2014, the year dubbed the "transgender tipping point," when the media popularized transgender ideology, leading to a surge in youth identifying as transgender.

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Christina Buttons

@buttonslives

Feb 27

NEW STUDY: A systematic review on effects of cross-sex hormones shows all trans-identified people on them show changes in reproductive tissue. Raises concerns of long-term health risks and quality of life of children conceived with eggs or sperm exposed to cross-sex hormones. 🧵

Females on testosterone: Structural changes in ovarian tissue occur. Most studies show egg development continues, but testosterone may reduce fertilization rates. Some pregnancies were reported with continued testosterone use—which raises unknown risks for fetal development.

Males on estrogen: Testes shrink, harden, and scar. Sperm production varies—some produce sperm normally, others have none. Some had only undeveloped sperm. Estrogen & anti-androgens increase sperm abnormalities, including low count, poor concentration, and weak motility.

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Christina Buttons

@buttonslives

Oct 8, 2024

A new investigation by @realchrisrufo and me examines Charleroi, a small town that has seen an influx of migrants under Biden, whose admin has funneled billions of taxpayer dollars into immigration NGOs, while local businesses capitalize on the availability of cheap labor. 🧵

Charleroi had just over 4,000 residents in 2020. Then, over a few years, ~2,000 predominantly Haitian migrants moved in, establishing businesses downtown. Strained schools are hiring translators. Car crashes, some into buildings, are also causing concern.

The original citizens of Charleroi argue that, instead of revitalizing the community, resources are being redirected to new arrivals who undercut wages, drive up rents, and haven’t assimilated. Worst of all, they say, there was no vote—migration just happened.

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Christina Buttons

@buttonslives

Aug 28, 2024

🚨: Tim Walz is celebrated by the left as a "champion of children" for policies claimed to benefit Minnesota youth.

But in May, he signed into law the most radical child welfare reform bill in the U.S., marking the most dangerous application of DEI principles to date. 🧵

Walz's law, the African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act, is a method to enforce racial equity by lowering the standards for removing children from homes where they may have been neglected or abused—based on factors like race.

Activists have zeroed in on child welfare, where black children are overrepresented, claiming racial disparities are due to "institutional racism." Some radicals wish to "abolish" foster care altogether, which they call the "family policing system." upendmovement.org/framework/

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Christina Buttons

@buttonslives

Aug 5, 2024

The distress young people feel is real, but it is being misattributed to a trans-identity. Trans-identified youth often have severe emotional and behavioral issues, similar to the “troubled teen” experience, a term that was used to describe me as a teen.🧵

Studies showing that trans-identified teens frequently present to psychiatric hospitals and the ER with severe emotional and behavioral issues are common. They often have eating disorders, psychiatric disorders, autistic traits, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm.

When I was 15 in 2004, I had depression, anorexia, OCD, and many psych hospitalizations + ER visits for suicide attempts and self-harm—these are among the ways I expressed the pain I was in. Today, trans-identification in youth and young adults can be another expression of pain.

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