Mar 16, 2023·edited Mar 16, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo
One of the best arguments that I have heard came from an interview with a therapist who said, "This is the first time in medical history that we are telling a person who is suffering from a mental disorder that their brain is fine and it's actually their body that is messed up."
That sums up the problem as clearly and succinctly as possible and I continue to use that phrase when discussing the issue with people. Make the Left own up to the fact that they are pushing for irreversible medical procedures on children who are exhibiting signs of mental health problems and that is both cruel and ill-informed. It is like the lobotomy craze of the 40s and 50s, which permanently altered the brains of people who might have had a chemical imbalance or some other issue that could have been treated by therapy and /or medication. Ask them how this is different, especially since children's brains are not even fully developed until at least the early 20s?
It boils down to this: "We’re castrating kids in service of a political ideology that uses them as totems to move humanity into the new left-wing metaphysics. It’s something that we’re going to see in the next few years yielding horrific consequences, dystopian consequences, because it’s fundamentally at war with the reality of the universe, the reality of human nature. It cannot stand."
Before too much longer the number of people regretting their decision will grow large enough so even the most disengaged will be forced to admit the truth--that this social contagion is being deliberately engineered by activists who have captured mainstream culture.
We'll either normalize these child sacrifices to Moloch, or we will succeed in convincing enough people that it's a problem.
Right now, it doesn't look good. A recent Pew poll says something like 3/4 of Democratic Party respondents believe sex is undetermined at birth and must therefore be "assigned."
But then again, making the coercion and mutilation of children a part of the 2-party political debate would be a step in the right direction and bring the question to the attention of enough people, so they might see and understand just how radical, unreal, and downright evil the trans contagion is.
Excellent article, just cross posted. The 'New Totem' aspect of this is just a symptom that continues to promote the disease, the end result of which is the deconstruction of our society.
This is the opposite of "smashing the patriarchy." There is a lot of forced teaming with "feminism," but this ideology is absolute female hatred, female erasure, hatred of the mother, boundary violations of women/girls, and removal of consent for women/girls. The end goal of transhumanism is to steal the power of birth from mothers and put it in the hands of the state. The state is putting in place a mass sterilization program alongside female erasure, they are already attempting to birth babies outside of a woman's womb.
The "trans child" is a marketing scheme to sell unnecessary medicalization and create a class of life long medical patients, it's also an empathy trap. No one was every going to cough up empathy for adult men with fetishes and their sick surgeries, but people feel sad for the poor children "born in the wrong body." Of course no one is "born wrong." When it comes to bodies we "you get what you get and you don't get upset."
There is also an attempt to dissociate us all from our primary instincts, sex recognition, and trusting the authority of our own eyes and ears. This is a massive safeguarding failure for everyone, but especially for women and children.
Thank you Chris. I've been fighting this battle for five years now and it has totally severed me from my former "progressive" "community." It's the most sinister cult I have ever seen. What kind of "social movement threatens suicide if they don't get what they want? A cult. A dangerous, Flavor-Ade™-swilling cult does that sort of thing.
The trans suicide myth is foundational to the project and it was never based on evidence. I am linking here to my review of Hannah Barnes's new book, "Time to Think," about how the cult of the "trans child" took over at the UK's Tavistock GIDS clinic. They lied when they said "the science is settled." There was never any science. The "trans child" has always been an esoteric faith construct.
Conservatives definitely have to hold the line on this!! The Non-Binary, Trans ideologies have swept through K-12 education....it is astounding and sickening to listen to adults--Drs., Teachers & POTUS not only talking about this issue ...but advocating for this!!!
Mar 16, 2023·edited Mar 16, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo
Excellent piece, Chris. Well written. Insightful. On point. We find ourselves in a seismic shift unlike any other in history. Try and imagine for a moment an era in which one would not be met with astonishment, ridicule, or more likely a warrant for arrest for stating "my little girl decided she's a boy so we're having her breasts cut off today." We are officially prioritizing inner conviction over biological reality - and it's not only becoming OK, it's now encouraged; it's *correct.*
Your comments are right on target and eloquent. Kids who are genuinely suffering from gender dysphoria need counseling, and those claiming trans status owing to social contagion need a good spanking. It's all mental illness -- worthy of our sympathy -- but not of our participation. We would never aid an anorexic in her/his delusions and make it a "right" to starve oneself.
It gets worse. Estimates at GIDS in England were that 35% of kids who showed up at the clinic were autistic. Other studies have pegged the number at around 50%. Gender ideology is targeting our most vulnerable young people to achieve its aims. It's truly predatory.
Has Biden ever heard of Body Identity Integrity Disorder? It's a body dysmorphia disorder in which the sufferer wants a healthy limb amputated or a functioning spinal cord severed. People who have it are human beings, too. But that doesn't mean they should have their delusion "treated" with surgery. He's really just such a ridiculous character.
Thank you, Christopher Rufo, for bring this topic forward! This is most definitely a type of social contagion. This theory, originally proposed by physician scientist, Lisa Littman, herself a voice in the area of "gender studies," is based on the observation that children (many girls) came forward in groups claiming that they identified as boys. This is, perhaps, similar to Emile Durkheim's observation about suicide as a social phenomenon. Children and adolescents are profoundly affected by the actions and behaviors of peers. Just look at the number of girls who have come forward in recent years - girls in the Western world who report being "gender dysphoric." There is something like a 4000% increase. It is simply outrageous. I just finished reading Hanna Barnes' excellent account of the fall of the UK's famous - or infamous - Tavistock Clinic. It is a powerful and extremely unsettling read. Barnes has done meticulous research and her work gives a very unbiased look at this, but one comes away with the sense that this "gender affirming treatment" could only be the result of a deliberate application of this insane ideology. How else could thousands of children, boys and girls, be put on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones, all of which have not been subject to any evidence-based research at all!
Jessie Singal, journalist and author of the substack, "Singal Minded," has suggested, in an interview with Barnes, that perhaps something similar will happen here. He referenced whistleblower Jamie Reed and her deposition about the Missouri clinic. I believe that this is indeed what will happen. Reed's claims are shocking, horrendous, so disturbing. This ideology simply will not stand. The whole thing is fiction, and can be traced back to the Dutch protocol which was based on a small number of young boys who claimed they identified as girls. Puberty blockers and cross sex hormones were given, and sometimes surgery was done. This study has since been debunked by European scientists as weak and lacking in evidence. It is maddening that American physicians, lobbyists, etc., continue to maintain that all of this is "evidence based" and they continue to say that major medical organization (AMA, APA, Endocrine Society) support this, which they do. However, these organizations are little more than mouthpieces for the trans agenda. They do NOT represent the beliefs of many physicians.
I appreciate all voices who stand against this vile ideology. Speaking up and coming forward. That is how we dispense with this!
The left is definitely on the "wrong side of history" with this one. In the future, people will drop their jaws in disbelief that this kind of "gender" madness could have ever taken hold.
Mar 17, 2023·edited Mar 17, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo
Destruction of the nuclear family and other norms is a top Marxism goal. Parenting is to be done by the state. Tactics include promotion of sexual promiscuity, prostitution and pornography; sexualization of children; and expansive use of gender identities, pronouns and sexual orientations. For more info, see my Substack article "Top 7 Marxism Clues" at https://2026.substack.com/p/top-7-marxism-clues
Munchausen-by-proxy. "My kid is special, therefore so am I."
Trans kids are status symbols for karents, just like the demoralized DIEvy League: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-get-into-harvard-part-3
One of the best arguments that I have heard came from an interview with a therapist who said, "This is the first time in medical history that we are telling a person who is suffering from a mental disorder that their brain is fine and it's actually their body that is messed up."
That sums up the problem as clearly and succinctly as possible and I continue to use that phrase when discussing the issue with people. Make the Left own up to the fact that they are pushing for irreversible medical procedures on children who are exhibiting signs of mental health problems and that is both cruel and ill-informed. It is like the lobotomy craze of the 40s and 50s, which permanently altered the brains of people who might have had a chemical imbalance or some other issue that could have been treated by therapy and /or medication. Ask them how this is different, especially since children's brains are not even fully developed until at least the early 20s?
It boils down to this: "We’re castrating kids in service of a political ideology that uses them as totems to move humanity into the new left-wing metaphysics. It’s something that we’re going to see in the next few years yielding horrific consequences, dystopian consequences, because it’s fundamentally at war with the reality of the universe, the reality of human nature. It cannot stand."
Before too much longer the number of people regretting their decision will grow large enough so even the most disengaged will be forced to admit the truth--that this social contagion is being deliberately engineered by activists who have captured mainstream culture.
We'll either normalize these child sacrifices to Moloch, or we will succeed in convincing enough people that it's a problem.
Right now, it doesn't look good. A recent Pew poll says something like 3/4 of Democratic Party respondents believe sex is undetermined at birth and must therefore be "assigned."
But then again, making the coercion and mutilation of children a part of the 2-party political debate would be a step in the right direction and bring the question to the attention of enough people, so they might see and understand just how radical, unreal, and downright evil the trans contagion is.
Excellent article, just cross posted. The 'New Totem' aspect of this is just a symptom that continues to promote the disease, the end result of which is the deconstruction of our society.
This is the opposite of "smashing the patriarchy." There is a lot of forced teaming with "feminism," but this ideology is absolute female hatred, female erasure, hatred of the mother, boundary violations of women/girls, and removal of consent for women/girls. The end goal of transhumanism is to steal the power of birth from mothers and put it in the hands of the state. The state is putting in place a mass sterilization program alongside female erasure, they are already attempting to birth babies outside of a woman's womb.
The "trans child" is a marketing scheme to sell unnecessary medicalization and create a class of life long medical patients, it's also an empathy trap. No one was every going to cough up empathy for adult men with fetishes and their sick surgeries, but people feel sad for the poor children "born in the wrong body." Of course no one is "born wrong." When it comes to bodies we "you get what you get and you don't get upset."
There is also an attempt to dissociate us all from our primary instincts, sex recognition, and trusting the authority of our own eyes and ears. This is a massive safeguarding failure for everyone, but especially for women and children.
Thank you Chris. I've been fighting this battle for five years now and it has totally severed me from my former "progressive" "community." It's the most sinister cult I have ever seen. What kind of "social movement threatens suicide if they don't get what they want? A cult. A dangerous, Flavor-Ade™-swilling cult does that sort of thing.
The trans suicide myth is foundational to the project and it was never based on evidence. I am linking here to my review of Hannah Barnes's new book, "Time to Think," about how the cult of the "trans child" took over at the UK's Tavistock GIDS clinic. They lied when they said "the science is settled." There was never any science. The "trans child" has always been an esoteric faith construct.
https://www.thedistancemag.com/p/no-time-to-think-how-the-cult-of
this sickens me on so many levels
So disturbing on SO many levels!!
Conservatives definitely have to hold the line on this!! The Non-Binary, Trans ideologies have swept through K-12 education....it is astounding and sickening to listen to adults--Drs., Teachers & POTUS not only talking about this issue ...but advocating for this!!!
This is not only sinful....it is EVIL!!
Excellent piece, Chris. Well written. Insightful. On point. We find ourselves in a seismic shift unlike any other in history. Try and imagine for a moment an era in which one would not be met with astonishment, ridicule, or more likely a warrant for arrest for stating "my little girl decided she's a boy so we're having her breasts cut off today." We are officially prioritizing inner conviction over biological reality - and it's not only becoming OK, it's now encouraged; it's *correct.*
This is unplowed ground in an unstable landscape.
Your comments are right on target and eloquent. Kids who are genuinely suffering from gender dysphoria need counseling, and those claiming trans status owing to social contagion need a good spanking. It's all mental illness -- worthy of our sympathy -- but not of our participation. We would never aid an anorexic in her/his delusions and make it a "right" to starve oneself.
It gets worse. Estimates at GIDS in England were that 35% of kids who showed up at the clinic were autistic. Other studies have pegged the number at around 50%. Gender ideology is targeting our most vulnerable young people to achieve its aims. It's truly predatory.
Has Biden ever heard of Body Identity Integrity Disorder? It's a body dysmorphia disorder in which the sufferer wants a healthy limb amputated or a functioning spinal cord severed. People who have it are human beings, too. But that doesn't mean they should have their delusion "treated" with surgery. He's really just such a ridiculous character.
Thank you, Christopher Rufo, for bring this topic forward! This is most definitely a type of social contagion. This theory, originally proposed by physician scientist, Lisa Littman, herself a voice in the area of "gender studies," is based on the observation that children (many girls) came forward in groups claiming that they identified as boys. This is, perhaps, similar to Emile Durkheim's observation about suicide as a social phenomenon. Children and adolescents are profoundly affected by the actions and behaviors of peers. Just look at the number of girls who have come forward in recent years - girls in the Western world who report being "gender dysphoric." There is something like a 4000% increase. It is simply outrageous. I just finished reading Hanna Barnes' excellent account of the fall of the UK's famous - or infamous - Tavistock Clinic. It is a powerful and extremely unsettling read. Barnes has done meticulous research and her work gives a very unbiased look at this, but one comes away with the sense that this "gender affirming treatment" could only be the result of a deliberate application of this insane ideology. How else could thousands of children, boys and girls, be put on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones, all of which have not been subject to any evidence-based research at all!
Jessie Singal, journalist and author of the substack, "Singal Minded," has suggested, in an interview with Barnes, that perhaps something similar will happen here. He referenced whistleblower Jamie Reed and her deposition about the Missouri clinic. I believe that this is indeed what will happen. Reed's claims are shocking, horrendous, so disturbing. This ideology simply will not stand. The whole thing is fiction, and can be traced back to the Dutch protocol which was based on a small number of young boys who claimed they identified as girls. Puberty blockers and cross sex hormones were given, and sometimes surgery was done. This study has since been debunked by European scientists as weak and lacking in evidence. It is maddening that American physicians, lobbyists, etc., continue to maintain that all of this is "evidence based" and they continue to say that major medical organization (AMA, APA, Endocrine Society) support this, which they do. However, these organizations are little more than mouthpieces for the trans agenda. They do NOT represent the beliefs of many physicians.
I appreciate all voices who stand against this vile ideology. Speaking up and coming forward. That is how we dispense with this!
The left is definitely on the "wrong side of history" with this one. In the future, people will drop their jaws in disbelief that this kind of "gender" madness could have ever taken hold.
Destruction of the nuclear family and other norms is a top Marxism goal. Parenting is to be done by the state. Tactics include promotion of sexual promiscuity, prostitution and pornography; sexualization of children; and expansive use of gender identities, pronouns and sexual orientations. For more info, see my Substack article "Top 7 Marxism Clues" at https://2026.substack.com/p/top-7-marxism-clues