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I am a professor of psychology at Northwestern University. I have been a professor for 34 years, and a researcher for 40. Over the decades, I have studied controversial topics—from IQ, to sexual orientation, to transsexualism (what we called transgenderism before 2015), to pedophilia. I have published well over 100 academic articles. I am best known for studying sexual orientation —from genetic influences, to childhood precursors of homosexuality, to laboratory-measured sexual arousal patterns. My research has been denounced by people of all political stripes because I have never prioritized a favored constituency over the truth. But I have never had...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is once again speaking out against transgender politics, calling upon parents to “fight back” and protect their children from the ideology.“Time for parents to fight back!” the billionaire wrote on Twitter on July 9 in response to a TikTok video posted by an irate father.Gender ideology’s days are numbered. Moms and dads are not going to put up with it.pic.twitter.com/lH3Ugf2GCa — Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) July 9, 2023“I’m literally on fire right now,” said the dad, who goes by JoToJaVin on TikTok. He explains in the video that he had just spoken with his wife, who...

Dad Goes Nuclear When Doc Pushes Trans To His Sons (7&9) Woman takes two boys to the doctor for physical and the doctor asks them if they identify as a boy a girl, gender fluid or non binary. The kids had never heard of this before. The father is going off on a tik tok video which Odin's men plays back in the first two minutes of this video.

At age 13, Ash Eskridge was severely under the influence, but not of drugs or alcohol — of TikTok. The brunette told The Post that trendsetters on the popular app wrongfully convinced her that she was transgender. “I saw TikTok videos by influencers saying how that transitioning saved their life,” said Eskridge, now 16, from Missoula, Montana. After becoming depressed at 12, she leaned on the virtual platform as an emotional crutch. “I was struggling and wanted it to save my life, too,” she told South West News Service. It was just after the pandemic that the Gen Zer joined...

3:23 Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has closed down state-run Internet links that provided pro-transgender activists with direct and private access to vulnerable teenagers. The shut-down programs, according to the Washington Post, included: Queer Kid Stuff, a resource for children and families that launched its video series in 2016 with a piece exploring the question, “What Does Gay Mean?” and Q Chat Space, which offers live, facilitated chats for LGBTQ+ teenagers. Neither site requires adult permission to use, which some conservatives say they find troubling but LGBTQ+ experts say is essential for youth who need support and are not comfortable...

The criminal practice of trafficking and abusing hundreds of thousands of migrant children who cross the southern border is now, thanks to the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, apparently "normal" inside the US:"According to Customs and Border Protection, since January 2021 when Biden took the oath of office, there have been 5,118,661 encounters with illegal immigrants along the southern border."These numbers do not include reports that "at least 1.2 million illegal immigrants," or "gotaways," who "were confirmed to have unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.""The actual number of illegal immigrants... [is] unknown. It could be double the number of known...

Following the French Revolution, the British philosopher Edmund Burke signaled a note of caution, warning that the desire for progress, uninhibited by convention, can lead to disaster. Revolutions in the name of lofty ideals—liberty, equality, science—can yield their opposites. A revolution in our time merits similar consideration: the transformation of human sexuality and, in particular, the rise of so-called transgender medicine. * * * The dismal metaphysics that lies beneath OHSU’s castration machines is academic queer theory, which holds that human beings are mere vehicles of “performativity” and that their nature can be molded and reshaped at will. In other...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed three bills this week, one of which would have protected children from life-altering gender surgeries performed under the guise of “affirmation.” Cooper vetoed House Bill 808, also known as the Act to Prohibit Gender Transition Procedures for Minors, which specifically states that it would be “unlawful for a medical professional to perform a surgical gender transition procedure on a minor or to prescribe, provide, or dispense puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones to a minor.” The bill provided exceptions, including for those with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development. According to the...

Biden’s first campaign ad attacked conservatives for keeping ‘Lawn Boy’, a book featuring a 10-year-old performing sex acts, in schools. The Department of Education launched a civil rights investigation of a Georgia school district for pulling books containing graphic sexual content from middle school shelves. At a Pride Month event at the White House, it was announced that a special coordinator would be waging lawfare against schools that try to shield children. The Biden administration sued Tennessee over the ‘Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act’. Democrat judges have illegally blocked similar measures in Florida, Arkansas and Alabama. In Washington and...

Daniel Black says he started making plans with his doctor to surgically remove his penis just 30 minutes into a consultation concerning his struggles with gender identity when he was 17. Black left the appointment with a prescription for hormonal replacement therapy. At 19, the Czech Republic citizen had his penis surgically removed and received breast implants. Now 23, he is detransitoning, the Daily Mail reported. In a Twitter post, Black said one would have to be “insane to believe bottom surgeries are good for patients.” The surgeons removed Black’s testicles and created a “neovagina.” “The whole experience was horrible...

On Sunday, left-wing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed a bill to protect minors’ access to experimental, irreversible transgender surgeries and hormone treatments. The new measure will prohibit state courts from enforcing laws of other states that may authorize a child to be taken from their parents for providing transgender surgeries and treatments. In addition, it will not not allow state courts to consider gender transition care for children as child abuse. The bill also prohibits state and local authorities from cooperating with out-of-state agencies regarding “gender-affirming” care in New York, according to a report from NBC News. Hochul...

The Drag March in Manhattan's East Village featured topless women and plenty of drag performers chanting "We're coming for your children." A clip from Timcast of the event, the chanting, and the festivities went viral on social media, infuriating many who value childhood innocence. In response, NBC defended the chant, saying that it was just for fun, and is a way for LGBTQIA+ people to "own" the slurs that have been leveled against them. "We're here, we're queer, we're coming for your children," they sang to each other. NBC asserted that the drag marchers were saying "We're here, we're queer,...

A California pediatrician for transgender kids has admitted that the puberty blockers and hormones she gives her young patients may lead to bone disease or leave them infertile, DailyMail.com can reveal. Dr Erin Baroni, a pediatrician and instructor at UCLA, who styles herself as TikTok's 'QueerMD', addressed the drawbacks in a private online workshop for medical students, which DailyMail.com was able to attend. The side effects of these drugs on young patients are known, but the doctors who prescribe them seldom publicly discuss the downsides, which have become a hot-button issue in US politics. In the seminar, Dr Baroni said...

Parents in Detroit have reacted furiously to DailyMail.com's revelations about a school records system that helps students change gender at class and keep it secret from their families. The grandmother of one student called teachers 'incredibly deceptive' and other parents went online to sound alarm at how Royal Oak Schools kept them in the dark about gender changes in class. DailyMail.com earlier this month revealed how the schools' DEI coordinator, Dr Kimberly Martin, privately discussed a 'record-keeping system' used for 'trying to hide' a trans students' nickname from their parents. 'It sounds incredibly deceptive,' Patrice Rink, the grandmother and legal...

Despite two circuit courts ruling against HHS regulations seeking to compel genital mutilation surgeries by health care providers, HHS secretary Xavier Becerra threatens to find ways around the judicial restraints. Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra threatens states and organizations that don't provide sex reassignment surgeries and puberty blockers for minors: "If you want that Medicaid dollar to come to your state, we're going to make sure you check the box." pic.twitter.com/YtwZXBEBfM — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 26, 2023Is there any other life-altering, irreversible change that the federal government wants children to be able to decide on by themselves?Is there any...

Milo said being trans made her feel 'invincible' in landmark MTV documentary Now, she regrets her testosterone shots, breast removal and hysterectomy Back in 2016, Milo was celebrated in the MTV documentary Transformation, at the start of her female-to-male gender change, trying out Hawaiian shirts and saying she felt 'invincible.' Seven years later, and Milo has returned to the screen, as a female again, with a YouTube post about bitterly regretting a transition that's left her scarred, hairy and most likely infertile. 'It turned out to be a big mistake,' Milo says in the clip, which went online on Wednesday....

Britain’s National Health Service recently made a landmark decision that the United States should copy. True, the country’s system of socialized medicine continues to ration treatments deemed too expensive by government bureaucrats. Importing the NHS to the United States would exacerbate the problems in our health care system. But at least the NHS is listening when it comes to protecting young children from dangerous and experimental treatments. That’s the takeaway from the recent news that the health system has officially recommended limiting access to puberty-suppressing drugs: “outside of a research setting, puberty-suppressing hormones should not be routinely commissioned for children...

I have to admit it, up front: I’m just as disgusted with writing about the insanity of transgender “care” for children as you are reading about it, but we’ve reached a point under the Biden presidency where even Europe calls the U.S. an “outlier” among Western nations in respect to so-called “gender-affirming care.”Who’d a thunk it? Frggin’ Europe, I mean.If that doesn’t tell you how deep in the sick cesspool Joe Biden has gleefully tried to sink America, what would? Supporting so-called “trans” adults is one thing; supporting the irreversible mutilation of the bodies of confused children is unconscionable.The inexcusable...

Another detransitioner is suing Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Permanente Medical Group, and the doctors who pushed her along the path to hormonal and surgical transgender procedures. In a lawsuit filed June 14 in California’s San Joaquin County Superior Court, Kayla Lovdahl and her attorneys with the Center for American Liberty are accusing medical professionals of fast-tracking young Lovdahl through her gender transition, one that she now deeply regrets. It specifically names medical professionals Lisa Kristine Taylor, Winnie Mao Yiu Tong, Susanne Watson, and Mirna Escalante. Several of these individuals are similarly named in the lawsuits of detransitioners Chloe Cole and Layla...

The U.S. is an “outlier” among Western nations in providing body-altering drugs and surgery to children who identify as transgender, as concern grows in the scientific community about the results of such treatments. Described by many Democratic politicians as “gender-affirming care” for “trans kids,” puberty-blocking drugs and sex reassignment surgeries at a young age may not reduce psychological distress, and may have long-term and irreversible consequences that children cannot factor into their decision-making at a young age. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday: The U.S. is becoming an outlier among many Western nations in the way its national medical institutions...