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As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do
New York Times ^ | 2/2/2024 | PAMELA PAUL

Posted on 02/02/2024 10:15:20 AM PST by Braak

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To: FlingWingFlyer
When I was a kid, I thought I was Zorro and Davy Crockett. Both men, like me.

At least you liked the thought of playing with a sword or rifle. Manly! I remember dueling in the hills with other guys, using licorice bamboo sticks as swords. Never gave thought to playing girl's games.

21 posted on 02/02/2024 11:49:22 AM PST by roadcat
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To: Lurker

Yes.

(Of course, teacher will say he/she was ‘following orders’.)


22 posted on 02/02/2024 11:50:19 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Someone gave those orders.

Put them on the stand.

L


23 posted on 02/02/2024 12:00:35 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Jamestown1630
It’s horrifying to me that DOCTORS go along with this. It’s really caused me to question some things about modern medicine.

They’re advocating ruining kids who haven’t even finished physical and mental growth yet. How can kids even know what they are and believe, until they’re grown?

It has to be the most insane of all the insanity we see now.

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If it weren’t for the topic headline I would have thought you were talking about the Covid jabs given to children (and they still are, with silence from doctors).

24 posted on 02/02/2024 12:34:12 PM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: zipper

I’m not talking about Covid jabs; I’m talking about sex change surgeries and therapies.

Try that on somebody else.


25 posted on 02/02/2024 12:36:59 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Braak
"Reading about transgender people online, Powell believed that the reason she didn’t feel comfortable in her body was that she was in the wrong body. Transitioning seemed like the obvious solution. The narrative she had heard and absorbed was that if you don’t transition, you’ll kill yourself."

See, plenty of choices...

26 posted on 02/02/2024 2:00:47 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: married21

For girls to boys, it is something like 70% of them are on the spectrum for autism. Almost all of the other 30% have other mental issues such as OCD, anxiety, etc.

And rather than treating the actual issue that is causing them such mental anguish, these “doctors” treat them with the latest fad (VERY similar to lobotomies).

And after years of still no relief, they end up killing themselves. And it is blamed on people not accepting them as trans, rather than them not being treated for their actual issues.

I was relating one account to my son about a boy wanting to be a girl, and he had the support of his family, community, even his church. He was quite a long way through the process and he killed himself. His note said that he would never be the perfect girl.

My son quipped “No girl is.”

Oh - in reading about autism, many of them do have amazing skills in something, and want to be recognized as special for that skill or ability. But even if some people do recognize it that still can not be enough because they want to be THE best at it and EVERYONE to notice it.

I wonder if they think “Well, I know I’m different, and these people online say that I’m different and special because I’m actually trans - and if I become trans then EVERYONE will know how different and special I am!”


27 posted on 02/02/2024 2:21:36 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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“I felt so detached from my body, and the way it was developing felt hostile to me,”

She mistook not wanting to be a girl for wanting to be a boy. Poor thing.


28 posted on 02/02/2024 2:42:01 PM PST by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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Americans never believed for a minute Big Tobacco could be toppled in the US, along with the jobs and the nearly-perfect way tobacco dovetailed with Jefferson's agrarianism vision. And it took one lawsuit to bring it all down. Permanently.

All TrumpII has to do, is encourage the environment to consolidate all the current lawsuits against butchery hospitals and some of the named pushers providers, we can put a full stop to this particularly diseased branch of the transhumanist movement. Permanently.

Tobacco Gender Care Master Settlement Agreement

"The Tobacco Gender Care Master Settlement Agreement Master Settlement Agreement (GCSA) was entered on January 20, 1998 2025, originally between the four largest United States gender care companies [Planned Parenthood (PP), the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)] – the "original participating manufacturers", referred to as the "Majors") and the attorneys general of 46 states. The states settled their lawsuits against the gender care industry for recovery of their gender-related health-care costs.

In exchange, the companies agreed to curtail or cease certain tobacco gender care marketing practices, as well as to pay, in perpetuity, various annual payments to the states to compensate them for some of the medical costs of caring for persons with gender care-related illnesses. The money also funds a new detransition advocacy clearinghouse, the "Global Truth About Gender Initiative", that is fully-funded for enlightenment campaigns, such as "There Are Only Two Sexes", "Detransition Now", and the "XY/XX Campaign For American Prosperity", and maintains a public archive of documents resulting from the cases. In the GCSA, the original participating manufacturers (OPM) agreed to pay a minimum of US$1 trillion over the first 25 years of the agreement."

29 posted on 02/02/2024 2:44:43 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: Braak

I just read about this NYT article at Twitchy. I hope the article is available to read for non-subscribers.


30 posted on 02/02/2024 3:04:20 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Jamestown1630

“ It’s horrifying to me that DOCTORS go along with this. It’s really caused me to question some things about modern medicine.”
If the doctors are willing to mutilate normal healthy children then its a small step to killing healthy adults or seniors.
This is going down a very bad path, with no end in sight.
Remember the blame goes directly to the democrats.


31 posted on 02/02/2024 4:46:02 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: Lurker; Jamestown1630

Great point! It should be asked ALWAYS.


32 posted on 02/02/2024 5:48:49 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: zipper

Yep.

It’s interesting that there are some people who see the obvious insanity of trans surgery but still can’t see the other dangers in the medical community.

“Oh, it’s just this one thing. Except for that, doctors are completely trustworthy.”


33 posted on 02/02/2024 6:23:12 PM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: 21twelve

Well it does seem that perfectionism or “all or nothing “ thinking are part of the puzzle. Plus attention seeking and in general being awkward teenagers, as so many are. It all tugs at my heart, but none of it is helped by surgery or hormones.


34 posted on 02/02/2024 9:40:11 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: NetAddicted

I was able to read it, and I’m not sure why, because I’m not a NYT subscriber. It was very good, and that surprised me.


35 posted on 02/03/2024 7:58:37 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Jamestown1630

It was obviously a side comment on the jabs, no need to take offense.

Unless of course you prefer defending the jabs. Then please do take offense.


36 posted on 02/03/2024 8:44:27 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: generally
Yep.

It’s interesting that there are some people who see the obvious insanity of trans surgery but still can’t see the other dangers in the medical community.

“Oh, it’s just this one thing. Except for that, doctors are completely trustworthy.”

Yes, 17 million cumulative excess deaths in the western countries that propagandized or required the jabs, yet most doctors still have their heads in the sand and don’t want to talk about it. And many of the people aren’t critical thinkers and fell for the entire program.

37 posted on 02/03/2024 8:52:53 AM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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To: zipper

I defend people who chose to take the shots. People have the right to make their own health decisions and to be left alone about them.


38 posted on 02/03/2024 9:40:31 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: zipper

... but wait, there’s more!

A friend sent me this this morning. Long (41 min.) but full of interesting info.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1753551818523541526


39 posted on 02/03/2024 9:46:54 AM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Jamestown1630
People have the right to make their own health decisions and to be left alone about them.

"They" (not necessarily you, but you acquiesce to their lies) sure as hell didn't leave "us" alone for not taking the jabs -- but that's not why I'm adamant over my position -- it's the fact that these "vaccines" have killed millions and it's crucial that we uncover the truth, to help humanity survive government-centered abuse of our rights. Specifically, our human rights as delineated in the Nuremburg codes and through the fundamental right of informed consent (informed meaning the truth, not the lies, disinformation, secrecy and censorship we were burdened with from day one).

This is your quote: A lot of people were forced [to take the jab] under threat of job loss. They had spines and brains, too - but they also had mortgages, kids, bills to pay, etc.....Should they all have just quit their jobs so they could be as ‘virtuous’ as you are?

I say "YES" as did the person to whom you responded.

You also posted: Among our hundreds of relatives, friends and acquaintances of all ages, my husband and I have not heard one thing about serious injuries from the vaccine.

You haven't done even a modicum of research on how catastrophic the rollout has been, and you casually dismiss those 'virtue signaling' that understand the issues and are defending ALL of us from government and institutional medical abuse. Your attitude is shameful.

40 posted on 02/03/2024 12:42:32 PM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists)
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