Detransitioning Discussions Gaining Momentum, But At What Cost?
Gender is not fluid and thinking it can be is tragic
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2024 is #DetransAwarenessDay and an effort to amplify detransitioner’s voices. Those who have made the impossible and dangerous transition attempt from one sex to another. An effort to help other girls and boys and their parents understand that their struggle is not theirs alone. Many people have gone through what they are going through and have come out the other side.
But, they may not be coming out the other side completely whole. That is what needs to change. This life-long and devastating process needs to be stopped before more children are harmed. People are starting to become more aware, but not enough are yet. It feels like we are at a societal tipping point, but some states like Maine appear headed full blast down the road of the medical mutilation of children. These Maine democrats want to take your children from you, regardless of what state you live in.
This day is another day in the year to urge young people and parents to say no to this social contagion that has gained popularity through social media, far-left taxpayer funded sexuality clubs inside our public schools and the massive profits of big pharma and big medical. The product is children and they are so easily manipulated because children are born to be trusting to adults.
I’ve had the honor of meeting two individuals who are fighting back. Prisha Mosley struggled with depression, anxiety, severe anorexia and had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. She was rushed through a harmful process after online activists and therapists “love-bombed” her and told her she was born in the wrong body. She socially transitioned, presenting as a male at age 15 and was given testosterone injections. Then, she was led to believe a double mastectomy at age 18 would put her on a path of happiness. Unfortunately, it took undergoing that procedure for her to realize this was not the right path.
Prisha traveled to Maine last May to provide testimony against LD1735, the first trans-trafficking bill. Part of her comments outside the Augusta, ME Capital Building were that this “...is not a harmless act, it is the affirmation of delusion and mental illness.” She is now an outspoken activist helping to protect others from this issue and is enrolled in Ferris State University to become a therapist. God willing, she will also have a healthy baby boy in a number of months, as after starting birth control she immediately became pregnant. A miracle.
Chloe Cole began suffering from gender dysphoria at age nine, as she was exposed to online transgender social influencers. She also suffered from social anxiety, depression, learning disabilities, disruptive behavior disorder, body dysmorphia and she was on the autism spectrum, diagnosed with ADHD. She suffered physically, socially, emotionally, neurologically and psychologically. I had a chance to speak with Chloe last year about her story on my podcast, Maine Source Of Truth, which I titled her episode as, “Stolen Innocence.”
Instead of doctors working on the root-causes of her various issues, Chloe was put on harmful transgender transition drugs, specifically off-label puberty blockers. She was then given a radical double mastectomy, cutting off both her healthy breasts at the age of 15. These doctors were not caring for her, they were performing experiments on her for their own financial benefit. She’s now fighting back and seeking justice with the help of Center for American Liberty, by filing a lawsuit against the doctors who did her wrong.
Chloe has become one of the most powerful voices against this madness, traveling across the country to tell her story about “child abuse” and “medical experimentation.” The Wyoming legislature just passed “Chloe’s law” which will prohibit gender change treatment for minors. The bill awaits the governor’s signature.
Detransitioners Prisha Mosley and Chloe Cole will both be in Sacramento, CA for their Detrans Awareness Day event.
As we documented in the recent WPATH article, this entire industry is built upon a deck of cards. Children can’t provide informed consent to this horrific, so-called therapy. Instead, most children and their parents are being taken advantage of with emotional blackmail and told that without radical drugs, or surgical change, their gender dysphoria may never resolve on its own. That the risk of suicide is far greater than the risk of waiting it out, where the strong majority of time this feeling resolves itself, as it has for tens of thousands of years.
Gender dysphoria is described by the Mayo Clinic as, “...the feeling of discomfort or distress that might occur in people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth or sex-related physical characteristics.” First, sex is observed at birth, not assigned. Gender is not a medical condition, it’s a feeling, it’s psychiatric. There is no test for gender dysphoria as there is for something such as diabetes.
The vast majority of those who feel they have this condition have an underlying trauma, or mental health condition. That is where we need to spend our efforts.
Gender identity is the term where we immediately go off the rails. It is important to know where this warped dystopia all started. Much of this information below is provided by a very informative 2023 article from spiked. First, the term “gender” was made popular by John Money, who coined the term way back in 1955 in its use alongside “sex.” This has created an inaccurate conflation of terms. Sex and gender are not the same.
Money founded the first gender-identity clinic at John Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1966. He was a pedophile advocate who performed sexual experiments on a set of twins. One of these twins at 22 months was castrated and had female genitalia constructed. He forced him to live the false life of a girl. This led to a lifetime of suffering and trauma; and eventually, suicide.
John Money popularized the term “gender” and it’s been all downhill since then.
Money was sexually abusive to the twins. From around age six they were questioned on their sexual desires and preferences and shown photos of children and adults having sex. He forced them to pretend to have sex in various positions. At age 11, the twin who had surgery described to a psychologist that “something [had] been done to [his] genital organs.” He knew something wasn’t right. This same twin was then coaxed into taking the female hormone estrogen by age 12.
After the twin who had been operated on and given hormones realized more about his manipulation by Money, at age 14 he stopped living as a girl entirely. At age 16 his father finally told him everything about the experiments and he then began taking male hormones. He had his “breasts” surgically removed and underwent another operation to construct non-functioning male genitalia. He had become one of the first detransitioners. But, the damage was already done. After several attempts, the two brothers both committed suicide in their late 30’s.
Money’s experiments were a failure, proving that gender is not fluid, it cannot be manipulated and bent to someone else’s desire with counseling, hormone treatments and medical interventions. What happened to these two kids and their parents should be a tragic lesson to everyone. Yet Money is somehow exalted as a groundbreaking proponent of the transexual movement. His work was all a sham. It’s all a fantasyland. It’s pure evil.
I hope that you pause on this day of detransitioners to understand where this all started and realize that we are destroying our youngest generation. Thus, we are taking part in destroying our country’s future. It needs to stop. Please do all you can to call it out and ensure more people are aware of the tragic faults in this craze called gender dysphoria.
So, what are some things that parents, or grandparents can do to assist to make everyday about detrans awareness? Some great advice from January Littlejohn, who we also had on our podcast to talk about her story about how her daughter and family were put through this madness starting at age 13:
January Littlejohn makes everyday detrans awareness day.
Cut internet and trans influences as much as possible, including taking their smartphone.
Remove from school if they are being affirmed and/or parental rights are not honored.
If you are not in a safe state and can move, do it. Don't hesitate.
Repair (your) relationship with your child. Spend one-on-one time with your child. Spend time outside, travel, go on walks.
If you have not been an authoritative parent until now, work to change your parenting style.
Get (your) child involved in activities that are in person outside the home and not related to gender.
Affirm their pain, but not the identity.
Don't engage in power struggles with your child over this issue.
Stay calm and tell them your job as a parent is to protect them and the parenting choices you are making is out of love and protection for them.
Ask questions that instill critical thinking skills from a place of curiosity and compassion, not judgment.
Assure (your) child of your unconditional love.
Get (your) child to commit to no medical interventions until their brain is fully developed and they are financially independent.
Set healthy boundaries that allow them to self-express, but not social or medical transition.
It is never too late to walk a decision back, including initial affirmation of the identity.
Join a parent support group like PROGD and take care of yourself.
Stay the course.
Be firm in truth and love.
You are the expert of your child.
Use your parental authority to protect your child.
Kids’ lives are at risk. Today is a day to learn from those who have already lost a part of themselves. But you have to also use that same knowledge tomorrow to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
John Money did not coin the word "gender." I can't imagine who is responsible for spreading that story.