Enasdottir

Over a five-year span, out of 15K children diagnosed with gender dysphoria at the UK's only pediatric gender clinic, four committed suicide. This is a higher rate than the baseline population of those not diagnosed with gender dysphoria, but it is not a higher rate than that of the populations diagnosed with the other mental health comorbidities (depression, anxiety, OCD) that virtually every child diagnosed with gender dysphoria also suffers from. Suicide is vanishingly rare in children and is also vanishingly rare in mentally ill children and vanishingly rare in gender dysphoric children. It is not a meaningful factor in any policy decision. The claim that maintaining a sex-based boundary that allows fair competition for girls in athletics consigns anyone anywhere to death is a manipulative lie: it is sheer gaslighting by those attempting to force society to do away with reasonable boundaries that society has a right to enforce. No boy who says he is a girl is banned from athletic competition: since athletics is one of the many domains in which sex matters, it is one of the many domains in which the sexes are separated. Boys who say they are girls, boys who suffer from gender dysphoria, boys whose whole heart is invested in becoming something they are not and can never be, are not actually girls. They are boys and thus they must be separated in the domains where sex matters. Anderson's long rant is a paradigm case of the hysterical, histrionic, gaslighting sophistry through which the transgender movement proceeds at every stage: it brainwashes children to yearn to be chemically castrated and dismembered if they don't conform to gendered stereotypes and teaches them to threaten suicide if they don't get their way. Teachers and gender clinicians join in this emotional blackmail to force parents to consent to irreversible medical procedures that will leave their children harmed and often sterilized. The state joins in and pressures parents who won't play along with a socially contagious pseudo-identity that their pubescent children adopted from online grooming sites, up to and including seizing custody if they won't affirm. It then uses these brainwashed, medically harmed children to blackmail the rest of society into taking down reasonable boundaries that it has a right and duty to enforce. It depends at every stage on lying: lying about medical evidence, which has never existed for the claim that chemically castrating and dismembering a child to resemble the sex he is not is a safe or helpful or medically necessary way to ensure his or her survival; above all, lying about the risks and harms and trade-offs demanded of others. This is why the suicide risk has loomed so large as a rhetorical weapon in the hands of ruthless liars like Joel Anderson: if the boy's risk is infinite, if his life is at stake, the harm done to girls who won't be able to win championships or compete against members of their sex class reduces down to nothing. One can scoff at it, one can accuse those who regard and treat it as a legitimate interest of a murderous indifference to the lives of others. But all of this rests upon a false claim: it rests upon a lie. Perhaps Anderson believes the lie because he only accepts propaganda as all he needs to know; perhaps he knowingly deploys the lie in order to gaslight and manipulate others in order to masquerade as on the side of decency and goodness and light to an audience of others who propagate lies and believe lies as the only truth. What I do know is that Anderson, whom I have never heard of before today, already has me blocked. This means he made preemptive efforts to prevent himself from learning that the lie at the foundation of his maudlin manipulation is a lie -- which of course means that he had to know the thing that he took steps to ensure he didn't know in order not to know it. The whole transgender inquisition depends on such acts of self-delusion. xitter.gq/byjoelanderson/status/…