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Dad: A human male who protects his kids from gender ideology. Traveling the world to stop child transition one conversation at a time. https://t.co/DN4D6NANIM
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Jan 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The World Economic Forum just spent 2 minutes talking about my presence on the promenade, and even featured my Dad sign on their big screen!

Dad: A human male who protects his kids from gender ideology.

They’re talking about the backlash to LGBTQ. What they need to understand is it’s really backlash to TQ, and it has only just begun. I always say “good things happen when you go outside,” and that proved true again today.

I’m on a mission to end child transition worldwide, one conversation at a time.

If you wish to support my campaign, I’m so thankful for your help.
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Jan 21 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
President Trump just nuked gender ideology.

Here is the full Executive Order.

Very important! The President rightly uses the word ‘sex.’ Not ‘gender.’

There are two sexes, zero genders, and infinite personalities. 🧵 Image
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It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.

These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.

Under my direction, the Executive Branch will enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this reality, and the following definitions shall govern all Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and administration policy:

“Sex” shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female.  “Sex” is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of “gender identity.”

“Women” or “woman” and “girls” or “girl” shall mean adult and juvenile human females, respectively.

“Men” or “man” and “boys” or “boy” shall mean adult and juvenile human males, respectively.

“Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.

“Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.Image
Jan 17 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
The Daily Mail has picked up the story of Micah LeRoy, a young woman with cerebral palsy who was put on testosterone as a child and received a double mastectomy last month.

They also spoke with her, via her mother who ‘translated.’

I’ve edited the article below to correct the Daily Mail’s misgendering.Image “A transgender teen with cerebral palsy who went viral after posting about her breast-removal surgery has told DailyMail.com that she knew what she was doing and is happy with her choices.

“Micah LeRoy, 19, a University of Minnesota student, had a double mastectomy last month and shared footage about the procedure, and her painful but swift recovery, on Instagram.

“Those videos exploded on conservative social media on Thursday, with critics calling Micah a victim who should not have been greenlighted for a sex change because of her disability.

“But, speaking with DailyMail.com, Micah said she had a long history of gender identity issues and that she is glad she provoked a reaction because she 'wanted to blow up the internet.'   

“Micah's case raises tough questions about whether disabled people and minors should be allowed to take puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones and undergo sex change operations.

“Micah's disability, cerebral palsy, affects movement and muscle control. She is able to speak and write for herself, gets straight As at college, and is involved in state politics.”
Dec 13, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Gender-affirming care. Image A radial forearm free flap (RFFF) involves taking the skin, fat, nerves, arteries and veins from the wrist to about halfway up the forearm to create the fake penis.
Dec 6, 2024 • 39 tweets • 28 min read
Massive news!

Clementine — a young woman given puberty blockers at 12, testosterone at 13, and a double mastectomy at 14 — is suing!

This lawsuit is devastating, and involves the biggest names in the fraudulent field of ‘gender medicine.’

She’s suing Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who runs the busiest gender clinic in America; the surgeon, Dr. Scott Mosser; the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles; St. Francis Memorial Hospital; and therapist Susan Landon.

THE LAWSUIT

This case is about a team of purported health care providers who collectively decided that a vulnerable girl struggling with complex mental health struggles and suffering from multiple instances of sexual abuse should be prescribed a series of life-altering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, ultimately, receive a double mastectomy at the age of 14.

Clementine is a female who suffered from a complex, multi-faceted array of mental health symptoms as a child and adolescent.

She is also a survivor of multiple instances of sexual abuse as a child and adolescent, something that was never explored, addressed, or discussed by Defendants in the course of their purported treatment.

Her presentation of symptoms and concerns included, among other things, anxiety, depression, autism, undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), potential bipolarism, as has been suggested by one of her psychiatrists, ongoing confusion regarding her gender, and eventually psychosis (including audio and visual hallucinations), panic attacks, and paranoia.

Her family also has a lengthy history of mental health issues. She needed psychotherapy to evaluate, assess, and treat her complex co-morbid mental health symptoms.

Instead, she was fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging puberty blockers (age 12), cross-sex hormones (age 13), and “gender-affirming” surgery (age 14).

Around the age of 11 or 12, likely due at least in part to the sexual abuse she experienced as a young child, Clementine began struggling with the thought of developing into a woman and began to believe that life would be easier if she were a boy.

She expressed as much to her then school counselor in some of her sessions discussing her then-declining mental health, who told Clementine that she was transgender and called her parents to tell them the same.

Clementine’s parents, completely surprised by and unaware of how to handle this supposed diagnosis but wanting to care for their daughter, decided to take Clementine to “the experts,” which led them to the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles and under the care of Dr. Johanna Olson-Kenedy (“Dr. Olson-Kennedy”), the director of the Center and one of the most prominent advocates for so-called pediatric “gender-affirming care” in the country.

Clementine had just turned 12 years old.

Dr. Olson-Kennedy and the team at LA Children’s immediately and unquestioningly “affirmed” Clementine as transgender, and at her very first visit, after mere minutes, Dr. Olson Kennedy diagnosed Clementine with gender dysphoria and recommended surgical implantation of puberty blockers.

Dr. Olson-Kennedy performed no mental health assessment. She did not ask about things like past trauma, abuse, or mental health struggles or diagnoses.

She involved no other providers or health care professionals in this purported gender dysphoria diagnosis and recommendation for puberty blockers.

Instead, she simply took a handful of platitudinal statements from a scared, confused, and traumatized barely-12-year-old girl to give a life-altering diagnosis and handed her the prescription pad.

In short, it took Dr. Olson-Kennedy and the team at LA Children’s a single visit to send Clementine down a life-altering, traumatic, body-disfiguring, and irreversibly damaging path of transgender medicalization.

continued … 🧵 Under Defendants’ “care,” from the ages of 12 to 19, Clementine had a puberty blocker surgically inserted into her left arm at age 12, was prescribed “gender-affirming” cross-sex hormones from ages 13 to 19, had a “gender-affirming” double mastectomy at only 14 years old, and was urged to get a “gender-affirming” hysterectomy as a 17-year-old.

She did not experience any long-term relief from these gender dysphoria “treatments.” Rather, her mental health progressively declined, as she proceeded into depression, anxiety, psychosis, hallucinations, self-harm, and suicidal ideation and even attempted suicide, none of which she had experienced prior to her gender medicalization.

Defendants also failed to obtain informed consent, which, for this type of “treatment,” is a process requiring an extended period of time and complete assessment of the patient’s mental health. It involves extensive discussion of the known and unknown risks of the proposed treatments and ensuring that the patient and parents understand and fully appreciate the long-term consequences and effects, such as the loss of the ability to ever conceive a child or breastfeed one.

It requires discussion of alternative methods of treatment. It should additionally entail discussion of the evidence base, or lack thereof, to support the off-label use of the proposed “treatments.”

None of the above was discussed or explained in Clementine’s case. In fact, the opposite occurred. Defendants obscured and concealed important information and failed to disclose the significant health risks associated with a female taking high doses of harmful male hormone drugs and puberty blockers.

Even worse, Defendants made numerous material misrepresentations in order to convince Clementine’s parents to agree to puberty blockers, such as assuring them that puberty blockers are “completely reversible,” and cross-sex hormones, including asserting that Clementine would commit suicide if she did not begin taking testosterone.

Defendants’ coercion, concealment, misrepresentations, and manipulation are appalling and represent an egregious breach of the standard of care. This misconduct also constitutes fraud, malice, and oppression.
Nov 25, 2024 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
New research provides strong evidence that DEI training is producing extraordinary psychological harm.

The New York Times and Bloomberg were offered this story and jumped on it enthusiastically, only to have editors shut it down at the 11th hour.

We are the media now.

In experiments in which participants were exposed to ‘anti-racist’ DEI rhetoric quoted directly from Ibram X Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, it induced baseless attributions of hostility and a willingness to punish percieved perpetrators — despite no evidence of wrongdoing or any racism whatsoever. 🧵Image
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Similarly, in research on anti-Islamophobia, and anti-casteism pedagogy — taken directly from training materials — NCRI and Rutgers found similar results.

These anti-oppressive pedagogies reliably produce increases of 20-30% in hostile attributions and desires for punishment with no evidence of wrongdoing. 

Some of the results, especially in the anti-casteism work, produced extraordinary harms: ~30% increases in agreement with Hitler quotes where the word ‘Jew’ was exchanged for upper caste members.Image
Nov 5, 2024 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Massive news!

Congress is investigating the NIH and Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the gender doctor from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Johanna was given $9.7 million to research puberty blockers on kids.

Nine years after the study began, she refused to publish the research because it showed puberty blockers didn’t help the 95 children being experimented on.Image
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Dear Director Bertagnolli:

The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is conducting oversight of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of $9.7 million to an ongoing research project titled, “The Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth.”

We are alarmed that the project’s principal investigator, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, is withholding publication of the project’s research findings which cast doubt on the efficacy of the “gender affirming” model, because she believes the findings could be “weaponized” by critics of transgender medical interventions for children.

NIH is responsible for overseeing its extramural research projects to ensure supported researchers practice transparency, exemplify scientific integrity, and are proper stewards of taxpayer funds.

Therefore, in light of the NIH grantee’s unwillingness to release the research project’s findings, we ask that you provide documents and information to assist the Committee’s oversight of this matter.
Oct 22, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I’m at UCLA and I just met Clementine, who recently detransitioned.

When she was 12, Johanna Olson-Kennedy at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles put her on puberty blockers.

At 13, she was put on testosterone.

At only 14 years of age, she was given a double mastectomy!

Clementine had suffered sexual abuse, and that was the source of great trauma, and is why she didn’t want to be a girl.

Johanna Olson-Kennedy didn’t care about that. Within 30 minutes of her first appointment she was told she needed to go on puberty blockers, or she might kill herself.

Her parents were told they could have a dead daughter or a live son. This is standard practice at gender clinics. The only way they can justify this child abuse is to say that kids will die if they don’t do it.

Testosterone caused psychosis so Clementine went off it at 17.

She has now just turned 20, and can probably never have kids. She’s trying to get reconstructive surgery but insurance companies only want to pay for destruction of children’s bodies, not reconstruction.

I hope Clementine sues, and helps to bring down this industry, but mostly I’m incredibly thankful for her bravery in speaking up.

If you don’t believe this is happening. please listen to her story. “And here’s the other thing about chest surgery. If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them!” -Johanna Olson-Kennedy

No they can’t, Johanna, but they can help send you to prison.
Oct 17, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
A Christian, African-American, military family in Maryland have lost their autistic son to the state, because his parents refused to say he was a girl.

Article: dailycaller.com/2024/10/17/exc…Image Following the recommendation of their son’s counselor on November 9, 2021, John and Jane took John III to Children’s National Hospitalfor help following a suicide attempt. It was the last day their son would ever be in their care.

Weeks before the suicide attempt, John III had been diagnosed with autism.

At the time, John told the Daily Caller, he did not realize Children’s National Hospital had a Gender and Autism Program for autistic and neurodivergent youth — a population that is overrepresented among gender distressed adolescents.

The executive director of the program, Dr. John Strang, is a co-author of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s (WPATH) clinical guidance that recommends gender-distressed children receive sex-change drugs and surgeries.

At the hospital, John and Jane were informed by staff for the first time of their son’s alleged gender dysphoria and told they must affirm his new female gender identity, according to a lawsuit filed by the parents against Children’s National. The lawsuit states that the Christian couple hold “traditional family values consistent with their evangelical Protestant faith” and would not affirm their son as a female, despite the hospital’s demands.

“They didn’t like the fact that we wouldn’t go along with what they were recommending,” John told the Daily Caller of the hospital’s reaction.
Oct 15, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
What the heck is this?

Trump says “We don’t want transgender operations without parental consent.”

Excuse me?

@JDVance, you need to have a talk with @realDonaldTrump.

@TeamTrump, you too.

Parents do not have the right to abuse their children, and childhood sex change surgeries are child abuse!

12-year-olds are having their breasts cut off, WITH parental consent. Are you telling me Trump is okay with that?

This is a dangerous cult, and parents are in it. Often, they’re the ones pushing this on their kids.

Child abuse is not acceptable. This language is the furthest thing from ‘common sense.’ It was reported this same language (without parental consent) was in Trump’s script a couple months ago but he never got around to it.

Parents deserve crystal clear confirmation from Trump that he is against sex-change surgeries for children, period.
Sep 15, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Here is a screen recording with all of attempted assassin @RyanRouth’s posts, in case his account gets deleted. These are the posts from his main timeline.

Most posts went straight to replies, which is what happens when you start a post with an @.
Sep 15, 2024 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
The name of Trump’s attempted assassin is allegedly Ryan Routh.

There is an @X account for @RyanRouth.
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His most recent posts are from July 16th.

He told Kamala Harris and Joe Biden to visit the injured people in hospital after the previous Trump assassination attempt. Image
May 24, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The @eSafetyOffice ordered my post taken down partly because I called Teddy Cook a woman.

Now in the appeal, before anything has even really started, the judge says we can’t call Teddy Cook a woman.

I will not be complying with this. Teddy Cook is a woman. Find me in contempt. Arrest me at the hearing. Whatever. I’m not lying for an activist judge. The eSafety office had 5 lawyers and their general manager there for a basic Directions Hearing.

My appeal is now officially linked with X’s appeal. This case is very important and I’m not giving an inch for a cultish ideology which is harming hundreds of thousands of kids.
May 10, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Remember the reporting of bodies of murdered indigenous children found in unmarked mass graves at residential schools in Canada?

All a hoax. Never was a single shred of evidence. Not a bone. Nothing.

Ground-penetrating radar had picked up underground ‘anomalies’ near a residential school in Kamloops, BC. They could be rocks for all we know.

But someone decided to make up a story of 215 dead bodies of children. The Washington Post reported mass graves. Reporters wrote that the bodies of 3-year-old children had been found.

All a hoax.

Soon, reports of other unmarked grave sites hosting murdered indigenous children sprang up across the country.

Not a tooth was found. Not a fingernail. Absolutely nothing to substantiate any of it.

Trudeau flew the flag in Ottawa at half mast for the better part of a year. He knelt on the unmarked grave of a non-existent body while holding a teddy bear for the cameras.

Monuments of children’s sneakers — representing the fake dead — were put up and stayed up in cities for months or years.

A teacher, @JimMcMurtry01, was even marched out of his class in front of his students, his job taken away, for telling the truth that there was no evidence nuns had murdered all of these kids.

The government has now spent $8,000,000 searching for bodies. Can’t find any.

Billions were even put aside for ‘reconciliation.’

100 churches have been burned to the ground across Canada in response.

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May 10, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“Isn’t Surrogacy Just Like Adoption?

“One hundred percent no. While it’s true that in both situations, the child experiences familial loss, adoption functions as an institution centered around the well-being of children. Third-party reproduction, including surrogacy, functions as a marketplace centered around the desires of adults.” -@Advo_Katy 1. In both scenarios, the child has experienced parental loss. In adoption, the parents seek to mend that wound. With third-party reproduction, the adults inflict the wound.

The only study comparing outcomes between adoptees and sperm-donor children reveals that adoptees fare better when it comes to identity struggles and parental trust — a testimony to the immense psychological burden of being raised by the adults who created your parental loss rather than the ones seeking to heal it.
May 2, 2024 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Weeks before Julie Inman Grant took action against X (previously Twitter) over footage of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in western Sydney, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner curiously issued the social media giant with a take-down order over a tweet “misgendering” an Australian transgender activist.

As the author of the tweet, Canadian activist Chris Elston — better known as “Billboard Chris” sees it, it was “not my nicest tweet ever, but technically accurate,” and in the context of all the vile content available on the internet, rather benign.

Article: theaustralian.com.au/nation/esafety…Image Currently visiting Australia to campaign against what he views as the “irreversible harming” of gender dysphoric children through the use of puberty blockers, hormones and surgery, Mr Elston told The Australian he found the eSafety Commissioner’s action against X regarding both his tweet and footage of the stabbing as “absurd” and “politically motivated”.

The social media giant — owned by billionaire Elon Musk — is pursuing action against the eSafety Commissioner in the Federal Court, while Mr Elston, represented by the Free Speech Union of Australia, is appealing Ms Inman Grant’s decision via the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Apr 5, 2024 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
What is going on down under?

The South Australian Department for Education is investigating a presentation for year 9 girls at Renmark High School, where bestiality was taught as being part of the LGBTQIA+.

Did Australian trans health expert Teddy Cook draft this presentation?

Link: amp.abc.net.au/article/103653…Image Female students said teachers at Renmark High School told them to leave their lessons and attend a presentation in a separate classroom.

Students who attended the presentation on March 22 say two staff from the Headspace centre in the neighbouring town of Berri introduced a "third-party" presenter who facilitated an hour-long presentation focused on relationships.

Parents said they were not notified about the presentation, nor was it consented to.

Students said they were left unsupervised for the duration of the presentation.

Student Courtney White, 14, said she felt confused and blindsided by the presentation.

"We had a teacher that told us to grab a chair and sit in front of the board, and then the Headspace people came in and then [the teacher] left, so then we're sitting in front of a board alone with no teachers, just the Headspace people," she said.

"The first slide of the PowerPoint on the board was 'You can see queerly now' and 'No point hiding.'"Image
Apr 3, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I am legally appealing the Australian government’s attack on my speech which ordered @X to remove my post concerning Teddy Cook, Australia’s resident ‘trans health expert.’

Teddy is a woman who promotes trans orgies, bondage, mutilation, drugs, and BESTIALITY, and who has been appointed to a panel of 'experts' at the @WHO to draft trans health policy.

It is my opinion that one of the principal problems related to trans healthcare is that people running trans health organizations are often in need of mental health help themselves, to put it lightly.

Many are in need of prison.

Ideologues who believe that children are born in the wrong body are dangerous individuals who should have nothing to do with healthcare.

Children are beautiful just as they are. No drugs or scalpels needed! If you wish to support my campaign to help end this child abuse, I can only do what I do with your help.

Thank you.
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Mar 30, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has announced it intends to file a legal challenge after the Australian government’s eSafety Commissioner ordered it to remove a post critical of an influential transgender activist or face a $782,500 fine.

noticer.news/elon-musks-x-w… The February post by Canadian activist Billboard Chris called female World Health Organisation policymaker, Teddy Cook, a female. It has since been geoblocked in Australia, where Ms Cook is from.

“Earlier this week, X was ordered by the Australian E-Safety Commissioner, subject to an approximately $800,000 AUD fine, to remove a user’s post,” X said in a statement.

“The post had criticised an individual appointed by the World Health Organisation to serve as an expert on transgender issues.

“X is withholding the post in Australia in compliance with the order but intends to file a legal challenge to the order to protect its user’s right to free speech.”
Mar 26, 2024 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
The Australian government has ordered my tweet below to be taken down. @X can face a fine of up to $782,500 AUD if they do not comply.

I don’t know if any civil action or fine can be directed at me under that law.

A delegate for the eSafety Commissioner says “an ordinary reasonable person would conclude that it is likely that the Material is intended to cause serious harm to the Complainant. This is because the Material misgenders the Complainant and reiterates that this point is deliberate, which is likely intended to invalidate and mock the Complainant's gender identity. The Material also contains a statement that implicitly equates transgender identity with a psychiatric condition. This statement is deliberately degrading and suggests that all transgender people - and in this case the complainant in particular - have something that is ‘wrong' about their psychology owing to their gender identity.”

They further state that “an ordinary reasonable person in the position of the Complainant would regard the Material as being offensive. This is because the Material singles out the Complainant to personify the poster's contempt for transgender identity as well as equating transgender identity with a psychiatric condition.”

Well, Austalian government, you certainly make a lot of assumptions.

I do not hold that woman in contempt for her transgender identity, because I maintain that gender identities do not exist. We are called males and females, and that’s that.

I also feel strongly that radical queer theorists have no business drafting anything to do with medical policy. Queer theory is a great evil that needs to be expunged from our society.

In all statistical likelihood, this individual hired by the @WHO likely has one or more co-existing psychiatric comorbidities, and it is my opinion that she should not be writing guidelines for other people with psychiatric comorbidities.

If you read the WPATH Files — or England’s NHS report following their systematic review, or Finland’s report, or Sweden’s report, or Jamie Reed’s whistleblower affidavit filed with the Attorney General of Missouri about what she saw as case manager over 4 years at the Washington University gender clinic, or the testimonies of detransitoners — you too will come to understand that the majority of people receiving treatment at gender clinics have other co-existing mental health comorbidities which are not being treated.

In fact, ‘gender dysphoria’ is rarely the actual problem, but a cult that has swept the western world has captured medical bodies, and government bodies such as your own. The result is the greatest child abuse scandal in the history of modern medicine.

A scandal which, in a just world, would result in certain members of your government spending the rest of their days in prison.

So with all due respect, I am not taking my tweet down. What @elonmusk and @X do is their call. I know they do what they must in following the law.

Kind regards.
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Feb 23, 2024 • 8 tweets • 11 min read
Google Gemini is just like every trans activist. Deeply confused and unable to define what a transgender child is.

Here’s my conversation with Gemini. A thread.

Me: Gemini, define what a transgender child is without using the word gender.

Gemini: A transgender child is someone whose inner sense of self doesn't match the sex they were assigned at birth. This inner sense is often described as a person's gender identity, and it can be different from the physical characteristics they were born with, like their anatomy or hormones.

Here's another way to think about it: Imagine there are two things about a person - their internal compass that tells them who they are, and the external label they were given based on their body at birth. For some children, these two things don't line up, and that's okay! Their internal compass points in a different direction than the external label suggests.

It's important to remember that being transgender is not a choice, and it's not about wanting to be someone different. It's about understanding and respecting the true self that someone feels inside, even if it doesn't match the expectations of others.

Me: Gemini, it sounds like a trans activist wrote your code. What is your “true self?” Try to define it like someone who isn’t in a cult.

Gemini: I'm sorry, I'm not able to engage in discussions that promote harmful stereotypes or are discriminatory in nature. I can, however, provide you with some information about transgender children.

Transgender children are those who identify with a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth. They may experience gender dysphoria, which is the distress that a person feels when their gender identity does not match their assigned sex. Transgender children may also experience discrimination and prejudice from others.

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Me: What is an internal compass? I can’t find it in any science textbooks?

Gemini: You're right, "internal compass" isn't a term typically used in scientific textbooks. It's a metaphor used in various contexts, including psychology, personal development, and even literature. While it doesn't have a precise scientific definition, it can be helpful in understanding certain concepts in a more relatable way.

Here are some interpretations of "internal compass":

1. Values and Identity: In the context of transgender children, "internal compass" refers to their innate sense of self, which includes their values, beliefs, and personal identity. This internal sense may not align with the sex they were assigned at birth, leading to the experience of being transgender.

2. Intuition and Gut Feeling: It can also represent intuition or a gut feeling. This is the sense that guides you in certain situations based on subconscious understanding and experiences, even without clear rational explanation.

3. Internal Navigation System: In a broader sense, an "internal compass" can be seen as an intricate system of internal processes that guide our thoughts, decisions, and actions. This includes factors like emotions, memories, past experiences, and personal values.

While not a scientific term itself, it's important to acknowledge the limitations of language in fully capturing complex human experiences like gender identity. Metaphors like "internal compass" can serve as helpful tools for understanding these experiences, but it's crucial to remember their limitations and avoid interpreting them literally.

It's important to focus on the lived experiences of transgender individuals rather than searching for a concrete definition of their "internal compass" in scientific terms. Their experiences are valid and deserve respect, regardless of the specific language used to describe them.

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