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“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.

This year, President Trump issued an executive order reversing the State Department rules, and requiring all newly issued passports to show a person’s biological sex. Period. Lawsuits and injunctions ensued.

The lower court, and then the Court of Appeals, sided with transgender people. They enjoined the revised rule as illegally discriminatory, abusive, and worst of all, transphobic.

But on Thursday, the Supreme Court temporarily approved the Trump rule (6-3), lifting the stay, while lower courts continue to consider the case. In its unsigned emergency order, SCOTUS made three findings:

The Trump policy requiring passports to list “biological sex at birth” does not violate equal protection principles, any more than listing country of origin; the government is just “attesting to a historical fact.”

The challengers had “failed to establish” that the policy “lacks any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group.”

Most significantly, the order explicitly said the administration is likely to succeed on the merits. This is the legal standard for letting the rule take effect pending further litigation, and it sends a strong signal to the lower courts.

In The Times’ story (neatly tucked away in the Travel section), the Times naively wondered how the government could possibly verify a person’s biological sex. (“The State Department has not said how it will verify if a person’s birth sex matches the sex listed on their passport,” it sneered, suggesting they’ll have to come out and take a look beneath the skirts for themselves.) They did not mention that the penalty for knowingly lying on a U.S. passport application (18 U.S.C. § 1542) is up to 10 years in federal prison plus a fine of up to $250,000.

"the Times naively wondered how the government could possibly verify a person’s biological sex."

We might not be out of the transgender woods of insanity yet, but we can hear the highway. The London Times ran a highly ironic story yesterday, headlined, “Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events.” Best of all: they did it using science.

“The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year,” the Times non-ironically began, “after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.”

This will shock you, so prepare yourselves. The IOC appointed a team of brilliant scientists to study one of the most confounding scientific puzzles in history: are average men stronger than average women?

“HHS’ 410-page report alleged that gender-affirming care —including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender-affirming surgeries —caused significant, long-term damage.” ...

On January 28th, eight days after taking office, President Trump signed Executive Order 14187, which ordered HHS within 90 days to report on “the existing literature on best practices for promoting the health of children who assert gender dysphoria, rapid-onset gender dysphoria, or other identity-based confusion.” ...

HHS’s report threatens to snuff out big medicine’s lucrative industry around elective procedures _for children_.

The report demolishes the “Gender Dysphoria” (GD) industry. It is careful and comprehensive. It exposes the whole sordid game as unscientific. “The diagnostic criteria for GD are based solely on subjective reports and behavioral observations in patients with no objective physical pathology,” it clinically and correctly stated. “There are no verifiable physiological or biochemical markers —such as abnormal imaging, lab, or clinical findings— to confirm the GD diagnosis.”

And yet these doctors, without any clinical confirmation, want to perform permanent surgeries with potential complications on children— procedures that are even more risky and horrifying than the one that produced Jeffrey Epstein’s disfigured dongle.

For a single example, one ‘transfemale’ died after ‘her’ vaginoplasty from postsurgical necrotizing fasciitis. Ugh. Kids taking hormones show higher levels of cardiovascular complications, including heart attacks and strokes. Many studies show very high levels of surgical regret, and even post-surgical suicide.

Stop messing around with people’s genitals. ...

Ironically, the AAP and other medical groups complained that they must operate “free from political interference”— apparently having amnesia about how, for the last five years, they’ve relentlessly scolded everyone for “not following the science” when “the science” was just CDC suggestions.

In a press release on Wednesday, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya called the report “a turning point for American medicine,” adding that “we are committed to ensuring that science, not ideology, guides America’s medical research.” Always follow the science!

“This is a new day for HHS. It’s a new day for the country,” Admiral Brian Christine, assistant secretary for HHS, told Blaze News. “It is because of President Trump and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that this information has come out.”

💉 In the end, the real story isn’t just that HHS produced a 410-page blast of white-hot forensic light, aimed straight at one of the most ideologically protected medical rackets in modern memory. The story is who produced it. For the first time in decades, the government’s science agencies are acting like… science agencies. Not marketing departments for pharma. Not cheerleaders for activist guilds. Not nervous hall monitors terrified of upsetting the donors who financed the new stadium.

This report broke formation. It’s an unmistakable signal flare: the old capture model is cracking. The mandarins who once demanded ritual compliance are suddenly facing a bureaucracy that, at least in part, remembers it has an investigative function. And the moment that happens — the moment evidence stops bowing to guild catechisms — the con starts to shatter apart.

Call it a restoration, a reckoning, or simply a slow return of adult supervision. But something is shifting. And the people who’ve profited the most from confusion, silence, and fear know it. For the first time in a long time, the alphabet-soup agencies aren’t manufacturing balloons of consent — they’re popping them, along with the moneyed interests invested in the pseudo-science.




Don’t miss the part that really stings the institutional interests: this wasn’t a Substack post, a rogue researcher, or a disgruntled clinician yelling into the wind. This is an official, peer-reviewed, HHS publication — stamped, numbered, and signed by the very agency that once carried water for the gender-medicine guild.

Now, every lawyer representing an injured patient, every parent blindsided by a catastrophic complication, can walk into discovery with a federally sanctioned, peer-reviewed document saying what the medical cartels insisted could never be said: that the entire diagnostic framework rests on subjective impressions, that no objective pathology exists, that the evidence base is weak, and that the risks are grave.

In malpractice litigation, that’s solid gold. It’s an engraved invitation to ask juries the critical question: “Why was the hospital doing irreversible surgeries on minors when federal regulators warned them the science was junk?”

Hospitals know exactly how dangerous that is. So do insurers. So do the academics who built their careers on affirm-only dogma. They’re suddenly staring down the barrel of a government report that not only undercuts their talking points but becomes a plaintiff’s Exhibit A.

The liability clock just started ticking loudly.

It almost gives me hope that the government health agencies do have a purpose. Here, their purpose was to collapse pseudo-scientific “consensus” and let some sunlight into the debate. Kudos to Trump and his team.

Majority of NIH Transgender Programs Cut

Harvard laments loss of funds while parents and sane doctors breathe sigh of relief

Among many favorable moves by the Trump administration has been the new stance towards transgender medicine which has been shown to be harmful to children resulting in sterilization, disfigurement, increased psychiatric problems, and worsened mortality.

A new paper from Harvard by Miller et al, however, laments the loss of research funding to institutions doing transgender research. ...

The authors show no insight into why research funding was cut. Nor do they understand most of the projects were dealing with harms of their work. Instead they articulate aims of securing independent funding and continuing this diabolical course of human research.

From my perspective is the best way to stop the harms from transgender medicine is to stop funding altogether. This will be the the most expedient course to discourage this heinous line of new clinical medicine and surgery and bring organizations like Harvard back to some semblance of reality.