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I attended high school between 1981-1985. We didn’t have any transgender students. It wasn’t a “thing.” Any hint of effeminate male behavior was mercilessly mocked and socially extinguished before it could spread or get worse. Experts hadn’t yet conceived their dangerous ideas about kids gobbling handfuls of gender-bending hormone pills to magically opt out of their sexual “assignment.” ...

Then, as now, post-pubescent teenagers faced a difficult time navigating the flood of unfamiliar normal hormones that cause their erratic emotions to wildly seesaw. ...

It seems unimaginable how modern experts believe adding more hormones to that already unmanageable stew produces any beneficial effect. Never mind that they’re also constantly experimenting with dosages and jacking hormone levels whenever body hair crops up. But it’s not unimaginable that pushing kids who are already struggling with their normal emotional states into artificially intensified and unnatural hormonal levels would cause some of them to experience truly unmanageable feelings.

Take that infernal landscape, then air-drop those same over-hormoned, struggling kids right into the toxic high-school environment, bursting with non-trans kids who are also trying to master emotional control, and are seething with passive-aggressive rage about being forced to be nice to the trans kids, when all their biological instincts are to enforce social norms by bullying the effeminate kids into conforming.

Behold: the progressive notion of “progress.” Pure chaos, misery, and despair, with the added insult of adults unhelpfully assuring these poor, deluded children that they are “normal”— when that’s the last thing they feel like. No wonder some of them decide life isn’t much fun, if this is “normal.”

Robin/Robert Westman’s parents and teachers promised him that everything would get better once he transitioned into gender-adjusted adulthood. But they lied. It didn’t get better. It doesn’t surprise me at all that Westman returned to the original source of his pain —his school— even though he’d graduated seven years before in 2017.

Westman was the perpetrator. He’s dead now. And a whole lot of completely innocent folks are also dead or injured. But Westman wasn’t the only one responsible for what happened.

“we are the religion of peace” they tell you.

but what they say to one another is often very different.

this is seen as neither wrong nor shameful, it’s a simple expression of effective will to power. it persists because it works. it’s selected for. it’s a dominant meme and to the extent that the population you seek to dominate does not understand this, they become easy pickings. you scream about “rights” when you are a minority, then seek to take them away from everyone else once you are in power.

and they fall for it. ...

demand rights and accommodation as a minority then grant none once in power.

you saw this with the “woke” and DEI tribes. they began asking for accommodation, for tolerance, for a place in companies and universities. then, they went “full soviet” once they had amassed sufficient power. disagreement meant you were racist, sexist, phobic and would be cast out in cancel culture expulsion or dragged into struggle sessions for “re-education.” all tolerance was gone. ...

it’s about who is organized and who is committed. it’s very hard for peaceful people, especially alone, to hold ground against unpeaceful people who are always spoiling for a fight and ready to die on hills of tribal doctrine and dominance.

“trans” is an astonishing example of this.

this is a tiny tribe punching WAY above its weight because its members are wildly devoted in the way only the pathological can be.

much of what is going on with “trans” is not even about gender. this has become the scupper for the maladapted, the magic words that make them untouchable and powerful and possibly get them into college. actual gender seems increasingly incidental.

this is a VERY bad way to build a tribe.

its whole purpose bends to demanding tolerance of the intolerable.

here are some charming examples:




swap out the payload of these messages to “white” or “male” or “chinese” and the FBI would kick in your door.

but this gets called stunning and brave because this is the tribe that is allowed to have the knife.

the woman in the lower right is peggy flanagan, lieutenant governor of minnesota.

"hey, i wonder where these mentally ill kids are getting such violent ideas?"

drop in a pile of injected hormones and an SSRI and you're basically running MK-ultra.

last week in minneapolis, this 22-23 (reports vary) year old biological male DBA “robin” the trans-woman shot up a church full of schoolkids. his weapons were bedecked with trans and anti-trump regalia and he left behind a manifesto of wild claims and violent ideation as well as missives about wishing he had never been brainwashed into trans but feeling unable to renounce for fear of consequence and censure.

the mayor says “let’s not make this about trans.”

why? because fail to appease them and the group goes wild.

Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a story in which it only quoted conservatives, headlined, “DOJ discusses a potential ban on transgender people owning firearms.” But the story is much craftier and more explosive than the hot takes suggest. ...

Federal law already precludes gun ownership by certifiably crazy people. The mandatory federal background check form has long included a box asking, “Have you ever been adjudicated as a mental defective OR have you ever been committed to a mental institution?” ...

So, and this is the delicious part, the leakers said DOJ authorities discussed working with ATF to expand the definition of a disqualifying mental health status to include people who are transgender. Adjudicated metal defective, committed to an asylum, or transgender?

In other words, they are ‘considering’ making transgenderism a federally recognized and dangerous mental illness (which it always used to be until activists successfully lobbied for a change, but whatever).

That idea isn’t as crazy as people who believe they can swap genders. For some reason, some parts of the public are starting to think that the transgender movement has an unhealthy relationship with firearms. ...

...now progressives face the impossible task of deciding whether to get behind “gun control” or come out for Second Amendment rights.

Some conservatives got it. I understand concerns about “red flag” laws and stuff, but we should sit this one out. For example:




... this “somebody said something” news just completely defused the Democrats’ latest kooky gun-control push following the trans-fueled tragedy at Annunciation Catholic School.

In other words, keep pushing the politics, and we’ll officially declare trans people crazier than rabid bedbugs. Which would only be naming an inconvenient truth, but I digress.

I swear, Trump makes manipulating these purity-spiraling virtue-signalers look so easy.

Remember earlier this year when a dude dressed up like a woman pulled a weapon on a preacher in broad daylight?

Got memory-holed pretty quick.

the reason we are seeing more trans-involved shootings is because their whole identity is built on deception and lies and truth is starting to be told.

when someone is told a false story about who they are and they live inside that illusion for years, the moment reality pushes back is devastating. the foundation of self collapses.

everyone knows a man cannot become a woman and vice versa, even the ones pushing trans ideology. but take a teenager, pump them with hormones, feed them lies for years, and when they grow up and reality finally asserts itself the collapse is brutal.

collapse breeds despair. despair turns into alienation, then resentment. once you start resenting reality itself because it does not conform to your story, everyone who embodies it becomes an enemy. hatred and violence follow

that is why these cases look more common now. in the past decade we created a generation trapped in deception and that was taught to lie. now that truth is finally harder to suppress, many are being forced to face it, and some are breaking in public instead of in private.

so the apparent overrepresentation is not random. a culture of lies produced alienated people. we built too many of them, and now as the mask slips, some are snapping.

A Swiss man is set to serve 10 days in prison over a Facebook post declaring it is “a mental illness” to deny that there are only biological men and women.

Emanuel Brünisholz was jailed after refusing to pay fines for the “illegal” post.

Brünisholz, a wind instrument repairman, was hit with penalties under Switzerland’s anti-discrimination law after writing:

“If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons.

“Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum.”

The post was made in response to Swiss National Council member Andreas Glarner.

The fall of trans and queer seems most similar to the fading of a fashion or trend. It happened largely independently of shifts in political beliefs and social media use, though improved mental health played a role.

Jennifer Flavin, wife of actor Sylvester Stallone, is raising eyebrows in Hollywood after questioning the growing number of celebrities whose children have suddenly started to identify as “transgender” or “queer.” ...

“I don’t think that we’re really understanding that these kids are not our accessories.

“They’re little human beings that need structure.

“And structure is really important for them because it helps their brain organize everything.” ...

Flavin added that while adults should be free to make their own choices, children need firm guidance and common-sense parenting before being encouraged to explore new identities. ...

Flavin’s comments add to a growing chorus of voices, including parents, psychologists, and entertainers, questioning whether Hollywood’s cultural environment and media influence are fueling a social contagion among young people.

About 60 people spoke out Tuesday morning at the Alabama Public Library Service about a proposed rule to keep books about transgender ideology out of sections of libraries designated for people under 18.

The three-hour hearing marked the end of the public comment period about the proposed rule change.

About 34 people spoke in favor of the rule, and about 25 spoke against it. ...

The proposed rule says “any material that promotes, encourages, or positively depicts transgender procedures, gender ideology, or the concept of more than two biological genders shall be considered inappropriate for children and youth.”

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal published a provocative op-ed titled, “Evidence Backs the Transgender Social-Contagion Hypothesis.”

The good news appeared in the sub-headline: “The share of young people claiming another ‘gender identity’ exploded. Now surveys show it is receding.”

The author, Colin Wright, is a PhD evolutionary biologist and former Penn State professor who now works at the conservative Manhattan Institute. (His doctoral dissertation examined social networks in insects.) Despite his nonjudgmental, science-first approach to the issue, trans activist groups have labeled Wright as an “anti-transgender activist.”

In fact, it was Wright’s application of science to the transgender debate that most offended trans activists. They sneeringly call him a “Darwinian fundamentalist,” since Wright applies an obscure, little-known branch of biological science to the debate— called “evolution.”

Anyway, in 2020, Wright was just an obscure researcher at Penn when two science words got him canceled. In February, 2020, he posted a link to a UK Guardian article headlined “Sweden’s Board of Health confirmed a 1,500% rise between 2008 and 2018 in gender dysphoria diagnoses among 13- to 17-year-olds born as girls.” Wright’s brief, two-word remark said, “Two words: social contagion.”

Within hours, Wright’s colleagues judiciously denounced him as a transphobic bigot. Anonymous activists emailed universities to poison his job prospects. A professional job board published mock job listings warning others not to hire him. His academic career never recovered.