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26, Ex-Transgender 🦎🇺🇸 🇮🇱 I write about Gender Dysphoria & ADHD/Autism on Substack. To support my advocacy: https://t.co/kvG4eDk0TP
Apr 3 4 tweets 1 min read
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Mar 30 5 tweets 7 min read
🧵 🚨Breast binding is a medical intervention.

Breast, chest & abdominal binders are commonly used outside of gender medicine for short periods of time (maximum 6 weeks) under clinical supervision to aid in post surgical recovery.

Like with other trans-medical interventions, this one is used off label for treating gender dysphoria. There is no limit on how many days, months, years or decades these medical devices are reccomended to be used for, because it is a physical/medical treatment for feelings about your gender that could last or could decipate.

Breast binders are used & recommended by gender clinicians and by WPATH as treatments for gender dysphoria.

They permanently alter the body through long-term physical compression of the breasts, ribs and lungs, complete with documented risks like tissue damage, restricted breathing, rib damage, permanent changes to the form and function of the breasts, skin issues, musculoskeletal damage and others.

To deny this fact is to be deliberately obtuse.

Even some trans activists are beginning to move in the direction of admitting that gender-affirming breast binding cannot be done safely (though their pivot is to encourage the validity of gender-affirming mastectomies moreso than to discourage binding, which OPs framing despite coming from a place of alleged detrans advocacy, endorses somehow)

All trans medical interventions that categorically alter the body, binders very much included, exist primarily to extend the shelf life of a social transition, making the cross-sex presentation more believable and sustainable over time.

Even a purely social transition, with no permanent physical changes, is still called social transition, not social persistence, for a reason. It is an active intervention: a deliberate choice to live and present as the opposite sex, rooted in the conviction that one's sense of self requires crossing sex categories to feel authentic or sane. (The former wording is Gen Z coded and the latter is everyone else coded)

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Desistance in the clinical literature on gender dysphoria has always described the natural cessation of cross-sex ideation and dissatisfaction with one’s sex, measured by the fading desire to pursue any form of transition (role and body/ appearance modification).

It referred specifically to the cross-sex desire fading over time in cohorts of young boys who presented with distress about their sex prior to puberty.

With the natural changes of puberty and often psychological/ play-based interventions which encouraged natal sex identification, many simply grew out of it. Their cross sex desires desisted. They were the “desisters.” Their counterparts with enduring cross sex ideation were the “persisters.” The dichotomy was always “desisters v. persisters” rather than “desisters v. detransitioners.”

That was the context. Early onset gender distress in boys who without any transition intervention, but with other psychological interventions, mostly grew out of those desires.

There were no puberty blockers offered to most of these boys (until the later Dutch studies which still measured desistance as cessation of transition desire as a variable independent of medical or social intervention precisely to test the impact of said intervention on cementing cross sex identities) ***because**** the interventions at the time were psychological and aimed at reconciling the boy with his sexed body and role.

As such, social transitions were neither recommended nor possible in the stage of life through which desistance occurred. This changed with the Dutch protocol, but even they recommended against social transition prior to puberty for fear of needlessly cementing cross sex identities.

Even then, there were no whole cohorts of teenaged girls declaring specifically “I’m trans/non-binary, give me hormones” for the first time in early adolescence. The reason desistance was used purely to describe a psychological state of cessation of cross-sex desire fading with time was because the clinicians were trying to determine which underlying factors might cause a young boy’s dissatisfaction with growing into a man to either necessitate intervention as an adult or not, and the scope of analysis was focused on sexual orientation in later stages of adolescence and early adulthood. Studies from that era, like those by Zucker and others, documented desistance rates often exceeding 80% in these unmedicated boy cohorts once puberty took its natural course.

And btw in those days, even social transitions (the real life test) for adults were interventions recommended by clinicians in a rigorous gatekeeping process before hormonal interventions were prescribed, to act as a measure by which to assess transition fitness.

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Sep 19, 2025 5 tweets 3 min read
🚨I used to be a far left transgender 🏳️‍⚧️ communist from ages 12-24.

Now I’m 26, I’m no longer trans 🏳️‍⚧️ and I fight against the beliefs of the woke cult.

Here’s every parent should know about what it really takes to de-radicalize politically extremist youth🧵 ⬇️

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1. Critical thinking skills I learned in high school debate.

2. The experience of living through wars in the Middle East.

AND THEN,

3. Algorithms feeding me Charlie Kirk’s videos.

🎥⬇️

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Sep 13, 2025 5 tweets 2 min read
🚨I used to be woke. I understand their mindset.

They AREN’T celebrating Charlie’s murder because they think he was a threat to gays. They don’t care about gays 🏳️‍🌈 when Palestinians 🇵🇸 kill them.

Wanna know what the radical left cares about?

TERRORISM. Destroying the West.
🧵 Image Charlie held biblical views on marriage while respecting gays.
Palestinians throw gays from rooftops. Guess who the left supports.

Guys, it isn’t about the gays 🏳️‍🌈

It’s about supporting the destruction of Western civilization by any & all means necessary.

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Sep 10, 2025 7 tweets 2 min read
Thank you, Charlie Kirk, for showing such compassion to the young trans 🏳️‍⚧️ identifying students you debated with.

Seeing your work helped me get myself out of the woke cult and to leave transgenderism behind.

You, sir, have helped to save a generation.

@charliekirk11 has changed so many lives. He will be so deeply missed.Image Thank you, Charlie Kirk, for everything.
Sep 5, 2025 6 tweets 2 min read
@Glinner I know you’re receiving tons of notifications. When you’re done with the media frenzy, I hope this letter finds you well.

Thank you for sticking up for struggling young people & for women— from the start.

Read my full essay below ⬇️ 🧵 Image @Glinner the trailblazer Image
Jul 18, 2025 9 tweets 7 min read
🚨At 12, convinced I was a 🏳️‍⚧️boy trapped in a girl’s body.

I told my parents I wanted my breasts removed.

They were scared. They wouldn’t allow it. I didn’t understand why.

At 12, I wondered: Why was my desire for breast removal considered such a BIG deal to adults?

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Now I’m 26. I quit my gender transition two years ago.

Now when I see adults parading their use of surgical scalpels to turn a teen’s self-harm 🏳️‍⚧️fantasy into a reality, while calling it “healthcare”— I see incomprehensible evil.

Especially after what I’ve lived through⬇️

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Feb 9, 2025 14 tweets 6 min read
🚨”GENDERQUEER” by Maia Kobabe is an innocent looking comic written for teens, offered in school libraries.

It is *sexually explicit* & blatant trans propoganda 🏳️‍⚧️

Parents, I bought this book so you don’t have to.

As a former indoctrinated “trans kid” here are my thoughts🧵⬇️ Image “Genderqueer” by Maia Kobabe is considered appropriate for teens to read at their school libraries.

Pre-teens have accessed this book through their school libraries.

Does this depiction of a sex act seem like child appropriate reading to you? Image
Jan 5, 2025 5 tweets 3 min read
🚨THERE IS NO SAFE WAY TO BREAST BIND.🚨

When I was trans 🏳️‍⚧️ I spent nearly a decade binding my breasts. My breast tissue, ribs & my posture are now damaged.

Breast binding robbed me of my ability to breathe without pain.

Don’t believe the LIES about breast binding. ⬇️ 🧵

1 Image None of my breast binding-related damage has reversed itself in the last year since I’ve stopped squashing my breasts, my lungs & my rib cage to “pass” as a man

Not binding my breasts has made it *more* obvious how irreversible the effects of binding actually are, not *less*

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Jan 2, 2025 9 tweets 3 min read
Just your daily reminder that FIVE YEAR OLDS CAN READ,

And why are PHARMACIES selling SEX TOYS???? Image Lots of kiddie diddlers & perverts in these comments.

Look through them to see who you should never let around your kids.
Dec 17, 2024 22 tweets 9 min read
🚨AUTISTIC kids in DANGER?🚨

Why do so many AUTISTIC 🧩 kids think they’re TRANS 🏳️‍⚧️ around puberty?

As an ex-“trans kid”, here’s what I want parents of “quirky” kids to know~ about how to protect their kids from the harmful 🏳️‍⚧️ gender zeitgeist

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/1 Image Even trans activists 🏳️‍⚧️ are aware of how autistic their community is.

They see transgenderism & autism as innate traits which inexplicably co-occur.

In reality, certain ‘autistic’ traits make kids vulnerable to 🏳️‍⚧️ indoctrination

Here’s what I think parents should know ⬇️

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Dec 13, 2024 15 tweets 9 min read
The gender critical movement to end trans tyranny is often strategically misguided-

It does not understand how its ideological opponents operate. 🧵

As a former trans 🏳️‍⚧️ identified young person who understands transactivist mindsets, here’s what I want you to know⬇️
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Making a “troon index” or a catalogue of 🏳️‍⚧️ identified men under the premise that it is “safeguarding” while not including modern pictures & preferred names only inflames trans activists *without* making these men at all identifiable.

It’s all emotions & zero strategy.

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Dec 6, 2024 13 tweets 6 min read
16 year old LW is one of the “trans kids” at the center of the Skrmetti Supreme Court case.

🚨 The outcome of this case may determine the trajectory of the child “sex change” industry.

What can we learn from LW’s story about the practice of childhood gender transition ?🧵⬇️

1 Image LW’s parents were surprised when their 12 year old son came out to them as transgender 🏳️‍⚧️

Now 16, LW says “I can’t really point to a distinguishing moment in my life when I realized that I wanted to be a woman.”

These details are *very* important to keep in mind.

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Nov 15, 2024 20 tweets 10 min read
This mom is proud of her teen daughter for putting herself at risk by using the men’s bathroom.

I spent half of my life ensnared in the trans cult 🏳️‍⚧️

I lived as a man in the Middle East until war returned me to reality-

Here’s what I want ‘trans kids’ & parents to know 🧵⬇️

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This mom who encourages her young teen daughter to go into the “gender affirming” men’s bathroom,

Also celebrates her daughter’s successful conversation with a
“c!s man” in the bathroom.

Men are not known to be the sex which socializes in public bathrooms.

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Nov 9, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
Jack Turban, one of the king psychiatrists of the 🏳️‍⚧️ kiddie cutter cult, is so averse to peer-reviewed critiques of his writings that:

On 𝕏 payday, he forfeited all of his earnings by deleting his 𝕏 account

Just because he couldn’t take the criticism.

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@benryanwriter discusses this
Nov 8, 2024 11 tweets 8 min read
🚨SHOCKING UPDATE🚨:

Minnesota dad Brent Bowlby will face trial in TWO WEEKS because he refused to sit idly by as his ex & the state of Tim Walz’s Minnesota groomed & trans-ed his kid.

The judge in his case, Mary Yunker, has a corrupt & disturbing history. 🧵

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Judge Mary Yunker is a retired Family Court Judge.

Judge Yunker retired after her negligence got 8 year old Autumn Hallow, KILLED by her abusive father.

She’s gone out of retirement to prosecute a dad who refused accept state-mandated gr00ming & transitioning of his child.

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Nov 4, 2024 18 tweets 7 min read
People whose heads are screwed on straight, knew that Imane Khelif was a man.

Now a leaked Algerian report confirms his male sex.

Khelif isn’t trans 🏳️‍⚧️

But his win in women’s boxing is often attributed to the trans movement.

The true story, is far more complicated: 🧵⬇️

1 Image Despite being unable to pass a sex test to compete against women in previous competitions,

Khelif was allowed into the women’s category of the Olympics because his passport said he was female.

Passports can be changed, sex cannot.

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Nov 2, 2024 8 tweets 3 min read
I’m voting for Donald J. Trump as a first-time voter & as a former leftist.

Here’s why 🧵⬇️

1 Image I left the left for the same reason that I left 12 years of transgenderism 🏳️‍⚧️ behind:

I realized that any society which attempts to validate lies by voting them into reality- runs on borrowed time.

The USA & Western civilization are worth saving. So I’m voting for Trump

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