How Oregon Built A Transgender Medical-Industrial Complex On Junk Science

The Federalist ^ | 09/17/2019 | By Katherin Kirkpatrick

[Gay State Conservative]

And how should they handle kids who claim that they're the Queen of Spain? Put them on a flight to Madrid perhaps?

[grobdriver]

And how should they handle kids who claim that they're the Queen of Spain? Put them on a flight to Madrid perhaps?

Well Hell Yeah - it's right there in black and white:
The children’s claims should be taken at face value

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . what to do about a sudden upsurge in young psychiatric patients who believed themselves to be in the wrong body . . ."

I think Jung called this a psychic contagion or some such thing. Something that people hardly ever thought of even ten years ago is now in the news every day, and - as a way of getting attention and being "special" - it has become basically a fad. The media constantly promote it as something exciting and edgy and "now," and unstable and vulnerable people are all too willing to get in on the act.

[Salvation]

If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.

Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

[jonascord]

One must always find the positives.

When SHTF arrives, they will be easier to defeat. They are incapable of rational logic, and are the ultimate entitled brats.

They had a childish whim, and the state of Oregon busted themselves trying to satisfy that whim.

[Redwood71]

The return of piltdown man. The missing link between genders. Hey, it was profitable before.

rwood

[Reily]

and to think this all goes back to early 1970s the “vote” to remove homosexuality from the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders.

and done by “vote” how’s that for good science?

[jimtorr]

I think a good part of this is the responsibility of Oregon’s openly lesbian governor.

[gundog]

Bisexual, last I heard. Speaker of the House Kotek, however....

[momincombatboots]

If they are old enough to know their genetics are wrong, they should be able to smoke and drink. Will kill them a lot slower than a body full of artificial hormones.
Makes me laugh when we are afraid to eat chicken and drink milk loaded with hormones but it’s ok to load our most precious and innocent up with them. Do you have to designate them with a sticker.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It was well documented in "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", a 1841 study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The book was published in three volumes: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". Mackay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style.

The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, crusades, duels, economic bubbles, fortune-telling, haunted houses, the Drummer of Tedworth, the influence of politics and religion on the shapes of beards and hair, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing disease), murder through poisoning, prophecies, popular admiration of great thieves, popular follies of great cities, and relics.

If he wrote it today, his core examples would no doubt be faddish homos, cross-dressers, and trannies. "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions" certainly covers the gamut of what's going on today.

[Jack Black]

When SHTF arrives, they will be easier to defeat.

What if SHTF never arrives, though?

I read this when it was first published, in 1981. It is a collection of articles that he wrote in the 1970s in a survival newsletter he published.

This was the first time I encountered the "SHTF" scenarios so beloved of preppers, and the first time I learned about prepping.

Tappen himself died before publication, in 1980. (He had lifelong health problems).

Anyway, the 1980s were great, I was in my 20s, I graduated from college in 1980. I didn't build a compound, I worked at getting started in a career, lived in 5 different cities, and had met and married my wife by the end of the decade.

But, I guess I might have been waiting for SHTF ever since then, almost 40 years. But it's been in the background. The theory that SHTF is coming has been present in the background for my entire productive adult life. I've been aware of it, and while always admitting it is possible, I've never really taken it to heart, like "real" preppers do.

If I'd had stronger belief in Mel Tappen's SHTF scenario I might have spent 40 years in Rouge River Valley waiting for something that's never come. Maybe it would have been a great life too, but I think I'd have missed a lot.

The fact that something hasn't happened, at least not in the last 40 yeaers, doesn't mean it never will. (Yeah, that's that 'normalcy bias' that they talk about.)

Still, there is some balance to be had in life between anticipating and preparing for the worst case scenario and living in the here-and-now where one bases one's expectations on things like: the lights staying on, and the banking system not crashing. That allows you to do things like invest in a 401K and, at least up until today, has resulted in people may age who've assumed normalcy having something to show for it, at age 60. Something that frankly we would not have if we had gone the "silver, bullets and beans" route on a compound in Oregon.

Still, Tappen's wife survived him, and opened a vineyard on their 60 acres, her life sounds good.

There are many ways to live your life. Extreme prepping seems a little to paranoia inducing for me, so while I've kept aware of it, and read (and in fact am fascinated by) SHTF scenarios, in my actual life I pretty much doubt any of those things are really ever going to happen.

And have lived accordingly.

[Boogieman]

‘The media constantly promote it as something exciting and edgy and “now,”...’

Don’t forget that it is also a way for a “typical white” kid, who is on the receiving end for all the blame in modern leftist society, to instantly become a member of a protected group, where they can claim “oppressed” status and start claiming the benefits and privileges that come with that.

[jonascord]

When I was in my 20's,
my toilet worked,
my shower was strong,
my car ran well on regular gas, that didn't eat all the seals, and I could fill it for $5,
I only had to wash my clothes with one cycle,
I could wear a red ball cap,
I could be sure that when my daughter went to a public bathroom, an insane man wouldn't be waiting in there, with the protection of the State,
that the idea of a Constitution, inviolate, that protected speech, and my property, and my religion, was not "Evolved".

By all means, pretend that everything is just ducky, and if you walk the streets of Portland OR, as a white male, that you won't get your head caved in by a "woke" college professor...

SHTF may never arrive. I hope it does not. You can pretend that it's impossible, and sneer at those who prep.

If you show up on my doorstep, and expect me to protect you from the Golden Horde, when you are starving, you're SOL.

[Boogieman]

Meh, someone who sometimes robs banks and sometimes doesn’t is still a bank robber. So a woman who sometimes sleeps with women and sometimes doesn’t is still a lesbian.

[gundog]

So, what’s a lesbian that sleeps with men called?

[Jack Black]

Oh, I think you misunderstood my point, or maybe I didn't make it well.

I'm not claiming "everything is ducky", I'm only saying there is a good chance that SHTF, that much-longed for event, never comes, or comes long after I'm dead and buried.

That doesn't mean I support every new bad trend in culture and politics,from Antifa to assault weapon bans. I do not.

In fact, I think the near religious belief in SHTF makes people passive about politics. Why worry about Bernie getting elected, after all it's all going to blow up anyway.

There is this sense that the universe *should* be morally balanced. I've noticed it in Gold Bugs - they really really believe in the dollar crash because otherwise, it's just *not fair*. The universe (of money) is without morality if you can create trillions in fiat money and essentialy suffer few consequences. (See U.S.A).

So they convince themselves "the crash is coming. IT's inevitable." Well maybe, but maybe not, too. We're at $20 T in debt and "the bond vigilantes" haven't ridden in from the West to punish the profligate fiat creators .. YET!

And that there is an opportunity cost to having a high level of belief in SHTF, and preparing accordingly.

If you show up on my doorstep, and expect me to protect you from the Golden Horde, when you are starving, you're SOL.

Well, rhetorically: OK. Practically speaking, I have no idea who you are or where you live.

I'm sure I could survive two weeks of no electricity just fine, in high style even. I could survive two months with some moderate discomfort, but nothing that would induce illness. Two years or the Zombie Apocolypse? I'm probably toast. I can live with those odds.

Cheers!

[Jack Black]

So, what’s a lesbian that sleeps with men called?

Frequently: a prostitute. Many prostitutes are lesbians. And, they probably have good reasons for no-longer liking Men much, given the position they have been living in.

[Boogieman]

Still semi-attractive?