Scott emailed with me a year and a half ago when I was about to go to the pediatric endocrinologist with my then 14 year old. We went, I got upset, accused the dr of violating her hippocratic oath and we left. My now 15 1/2 year old is still gender questioning but her health it intact and a lot of that was bcs of what Scott said to me. I won't forget that. God bless Scott/Kellie.
So now, this scott person speaks for every single individual in the world who is dealing with issues of gender or sexuality? On what basis?
What specifically gives Scott the ability or the right to make sweeping generalizations about every other person who is dealing with issues of gender. Identity and sexuality? Who officially designated Scott as THE person possessing the ability to make sweeping generalizations about every single human being who is dealing with issues of their own gender identity and sexuality? Anyone? I don't think Scott's credibility or knowledge extends very far beyond their own extremely limited experience.
This is a serious choice to make. It is better for more people to know of the very important downsides.
Make your own decisions. It’s better if you know the cost vs benefit.
Know that sterility for life and other side effects (including ones that affect brain function) are common. These are real.
Also know that if the person having gender issues is on the autism spectrum, they are the most likely to fall victim to therapists or teachers wanting a trans trophy in their resume. That is clear in the statistics.
Be happy that, these days, the drawbacks are being made public and the decisions don’t have to be made on the word of one person who stands to make bank. Be thankful for the people looking at it closely for questioning peoples’ safety.
Nature has always produced the extremely rare persons with differing chromosomes from what appears at birth. Extremely rare but they are there.
Think before you make irreversible decisions.
Be who you are but please be careful and make sure it’s who you are.
I know people who have made that decision and one of them is refusing any labels at all in a beautiful way (inside and out).
These hospitals doing this, and the psychologists and the schools doing this need to be sued into oblivion. This beyond horrible. Some detransitioned lawsuits have already been filed, and I very soon we will hear a large number of them. In the future no hospital will be willing to do this.
Maybe, but that is closing the barn door after the horses have gotten out. The damage done is irreversible. In spite of the attention that has been growing recently, I have seen no estimates of the number of children and adults that have been affected. It is certain to be an unacceptable number. One destroyed life is unacceptable but, unfortunately, it will take a large number of examples the catch the attention of a large enough audience to bring about change.
Only the people affected by something directly can take action. Those with the destroyed lives, after the SUE and bankrupt the transgender clinics, will end this as no doctor will want to risk losing lots of money and his or her license to practice medicine. You don't need any more examples. As the judges makes their decision in the next year or two, this fad will be over.
A "fad?" See, you desperately WANT this continuing and vital study and research---which clearly terrifies you---to immediately end because it might make you uncomfortable---and the very special and delicate feelings of conservative, aging white men of privilege must ALWAYS come first and outweigh any other factors to be considered.
Sue them for what, exactly? Your unhinged and maniacal contempt for anyone questioning your myopic and antiquated "flat earth" illusions reflects a mentality that cannot or will not accept the possibility that the traditional ideas you're desperately clinging to might be an inadequate and discredited explanation of reality.
And the reality that no one has yet come up with "THE DEFINITIVE ANSWER" on questions of gender and sexuality does NOT discredit any and all research and writing on these perennial issues. Running full speed to a mythical past provides us with absolutely nothing of value.
The only people who are "unhinged and maniacal" are those in the "trans" cult. They are harming vulnerable people, especially children, and obliterating the right of women and girls.
Nobody can morph into the opposite sex. Nobody ever have and nobody ever will. There are two sexes -- male and female. You can be an opposite-sex imposter, but you can't change sex.
Someday there will be a reckoning. And those of us who've been fighting this batshit-insane ideology won't forget the unethical therapists and physicians who've enabled it.
They don't need to. Medical malpractice is already illegal. After lawsuits, no hospital or doctor will be allowed to do this. This isn't a matter of opinion.
You're just desperate to believe that lawsuits will end any research or study of anything related to gender or sexuality. It's sad to see you clinging, so maniacally to something that will never come about and that is entirely based on your fear, your ignorant and your need to hate anything you aren't capable of understanding.
And neither will the juvenile and pouty solipsism of threatened and repressed individuals who in their panic see only denial, repression and elimination as any sort of response to complex social and medical issues.
One difficulty is the statute of limitations for suing for medical harms. This apparently varies from state to state but is usually less than five years. Sometimes from the time of discovery of injury, sometimes from the date of treatment. (I am not a lawyer so this information comes from a Google search). However, many detransitioners take seven to ten years to understand/discover the impact of medicalisation on their previously healthy bodies and their fertility. So I fear lawsuits are likely to be too little too late unfortunately.
Hey Isobel. You didn't have to tell us that you aren't an attorney; your writing made that implicit to anyone with third grade literacy.
However can you tell us, specifically, on what basis would you ever be able to file a lawsuit against the clinicians and families struggling with these issues? And while you're at it, please provide a list of the schools that are supposedly doing these surgeries. We're waiting to see it.
Shameful belligerence and mean-spirited incitement based on fear, ignorance, confusion and an intentional demonization of the thousands of American children and families struggling with these very complex and deeply personal issues.
Have you actually given any thought to how you might feel if you were one of these kids or their parents? Or did you just conveniently forget that these are human beings and react with antipathy and eliminationist rhetoric?
Despising and dehumanizing so many of your fellow Americans WON'T make your own life any better, despite whatever temporary catharsis it might provide for you.
Finally, please specify the names of the schools providing any type of surgical procedures for their students.
And on what basis would you sue the hospitals and clinicians providing this medical care?
Why don't you want confused and distressed children to get mental health help? Why do you want them to destroy their bodies with hormone disruption and mutilating surgeries? What is wrong with you?
I'm on the autism spectrum. Every day since this madness burst onto the scene I give thanks that I grew up when I did in the family that I have. As a child, I was very much a tomboy. There is a picture of me at age 7 that, if I didn't KNOW that was me, I would swear was a picture of a little boy.
I don’t think I’m on the spectrum but there are a lot who are being pushed to transition.
I was very much a tomboy and I’m now happy to be the sex I was born with. I wanted very much to be a boy. I’m very happy to be a woman who is a mother.
In the past, tomboys got to be little boys and then got to be big girls. I am happy about that.
Question: how many detransitioners' stories will it take for the make-believe experts wake up to the damage they are inducing? Answer: unforeseen. For it is very much a religion, blind to the facts, with closed minds to anything but what they are certain of.
The only way out is to start at the bottom (no pun intended) with the parents taking control of their childrens' lives from the insanity of schools and the medical community. Central control of schools, including of medical schools needs desperately to be dismantled and control be returned to parents and local government.
That will be difficult because people have long relinquished their natural rights and duties to responsibility for their children and for local government. As such, they have largely forgotten how to function as free and responsibly adults. But human nature is designed for freedom and responsibility, and with determination those lost skills will quickly recover to all who are willing.
Bravo to Scott Newgent for her incredible courage and fighting for the well-being of our children.
Pushing transition on minors is criminal and so is confusing them about their gender and telling them that they are not already perfect as they are. We're on a dangerous path here, telling children that self-identification is everything, that you can just switch from male to female or vice versa, but that is simply not true: https://twoplustwo.substack.com/p/i-identify-therefore-i-am-the-illusion
"Cash cow" - that is what the vulnerable poor souls are to the medical industry. Dollars for tears. The lawyers are circling and the lawsuits have started. $ started it, and $ will end it.
Exactly. Those people obsessed with fear and hatred of what other private individuals are doing with their own bodies and minds are now parroting this highly dubious "Sue The Doctors A
nd Hospitals!" as "The Solution" to a "transgender problem" that is largely a figment of their obsessive paranoia of and contempt for anyone questioning traditional ideas.
Hey, if you're REALLY concerned about human health and safety maybe it's time to SUE the firearms and ammunition manufacturers---whose products REALLY DO permanently injure and/or murder teens and everyone else. But not one single word about suing the people directly responsible for over 50,000 killings a year. Maybe you should spend a little less time hating the very existence of gender questioning youngsters and reacting predictable and programmed rage to the vile and manipulative headlines on Fox "News."
There's a longer video interview with her, somewhere. It might be with Benjamin Boyce although I am not sure.
She is a lesbian who had kids then "transitioned" in her 40s. She had phalloplasty, all of that. She has serious medical problems as a result of the surgeries and the hormones and her life expectancy, if I recall, is a lot shorter than it was.
She wears that colored sleeve over the scarred up arm where they took the skin to make the "neo-phallus". Iirc it's always painful. Also she might have had multiple surgeries related to her arm. It's been a while since I saw her interview but definitely it is worth seeking out. She speaks in detail of the medical complications, which people rarely do in any adequate sense.
I mean it's kind of a blow-off, right? "so she sees a lot of doctors and it's a drag and they fix her". No, in fact, except for a few things like heart attack surgeries and cutting out early stage solid body tumors of low aggressiveness, medicine can't fix much. It's never back to 100%. And she took a perfectly healthy body and gave it the equivalent of several life-threatening car crashes that needed to be patched up, losing organs and systemic health in the process.
A number of these kids are surely lonely, and they blame their "difference".
If they have BPD, they are probably lonely in a way that not much can fix except time + intensive therapy + high, consistent familial barriers to the kid manipulating their family into giving them all the attention and control that can exist in the family (which still won't be enough). This trans persona attracts a river of personalized but generic approval voices, and a sense of control. But it's an illusion. And it makes the disorder worse, and prevents time and maturity from ameliorating it. Especially if hormone blockers are preventing cognitive maturation.
For the kids who aren't BPD but just lonely, they still have the narcissism of youth, and aren't capable of seeing that other kids who "have it sorted out" in actuality mostly have complicated, imperfect lives and relationships that don't always measure up, just like these kids wanting a quick fix.
And they have no idea how wildly their feelings about their bodies will change, and if they (a) go on blockers or the full artificial hormone regimens, and/or (b) allow themselves to obsess about their embodied experiences to the point they are always crafting a narrative about themselves instead of just being, they won't experience their own humanity.
What a disaster.
I think the loneliness they are surely experiencing as though it's the first and worst time anyone has ever felt that way, needs to be addressed. In treatment, not just telling them "many people feel lonelier or more isolated than they wish to".
The idea that people feel comfortable easily and soon in life is so very false. It's especially false applied to the years of puberty, which begin earlier than the late tanner stages that we see happening with secondary sexual characteristic development.
It's great to feel comfortable and at ease, but it's a prize to be won through character development. It's not something everyone has except for you (and you, and you, and also you...). All the bonding over feeling uncomfortable is just ... the sort of bonding that kids should, if truthful, be doing about deeper and more shielded thoughts. Fears and uncertainties and inadequacies. Not the cheap, intimacy-blocking costume of sexual display and a crafted sexual persona worn on the outside.
Thank you for helping others Scott. With all you have been through physically, I really appreciate you using your energy towards helping others. Hugs to your Mama heart - children are such a gift- Thank you for speaking out.
Scott emailed with me a year and a half ago when I was about to go to the pediatric endocrinologist with my then 14 year old. We went, I got upset, accused the dr of violating her hippocratic oath and we left. My now 15 1/2 year old is still gender questioning but her health it intact and a lot of that was bcs of what Scott said to me. I won't forget that. God bless Scott/Kellie.
So now, this scott person speaks for every single individual in the world who is dealing with issues of gender or sexuality? On what basis?
What specifically gives Scott the ability or the right to make sweeping generalizations about every other person who is dealing with issues of gender. Identity and sexuality? Who officially designated Scott as THE person possessing the ability to make sweeping generalizations about every single human being who is dealing with issues of their own gender identity and sexuality? Anyone? I don't think Scott's credibility or knowledge extends very far beyond their own extremely limited experience.
This is a serious choice to make. It is better for more people to know of the very important downsides.
Make your own decisions. It’s better if you know the cost vs benefit.
Know that sterility for life and other side effects (including ones that affect brain function) are common. These are real.
Also know that if the person having gender issues is on the autism spectrum, they are the most likely to fall victim to therapists or teachers wanting a trans trophy in their resume. That is clear in the statistics.
Be happy that, these days, the drawbacks are being made public and the decisions don’t have to be made on the word of one person who stands to make bank. Be thankful for the people looking at it closely for questioning peoples’ safety.
Nature has always produced the extremely rare persons with differing chromosomes from what appears at birth. Extremely rare but they are there.
Think before you make irreversible decisions.
Be who you are but please be careful and make sure it’s who you are.
I know people who have made that decision and one of them is refusing any labels at all in a beautiful way (inside and out).
wishing you well, literally.
These hospitals doing this, and the psychologists and the schools doing this need to be sued into oblivion. This beyond horrible. Some detransitioned lawsuits have already been filed, and I very soon we will hear a large number of them. In the future no hospital will be willing to do this.
Maybe, but that is closing the barn door after the horses have gotten out. The damage done is irreversible. In spite of the attention that has been growing recently, I have seen no estimates of the number of children and adults that have been affected. It is certain to be an unacceptable number. One destroyed life is unacceptable but, unfortunately, it will take a large number of examples the catch the attention of a large enough audience to bring about change.
Only the people affected by something directly can take action. Those with the destroyed lives, after the SUE and bankrupt the transgender clinics, will end this as no doctor will want to risk losing lots of money and his or her license to practice medicine. You don't need any more examples. As the judges makes their decision in the next year or two, this fad will be over.
Well, here we are in 2026, and this pernicious fad/cult still isn't over.
I keep waiting -- and fighting -- for it to happen, but so far, no dice.
A "fad?" See, you desperately WANT this continuing and vital study and research---which clearly terrifies you---to immediately end because it might make you uncomfortable---and the very special and delicate feelings of conservative, aging white men of privilege must ALWAYS come first and outweigh any other factors to be considered.
Sue them for what, exactly? Your unhinged and maniacal contempt for anyone questioning your myopic and antiquated "flat earth" illusions reflects a mentality that cannot or will not accept the possibility that the traditional ideas you're desperately clinging to might be an inadequate and discredited explanation of reality.
And the reality that no one has yet come up with "THE DEFINITIVE ANSWER" on questions of gender and sexuality does NOT discredit any and all research and writing on these perennial issues. Running full speed to a mythical past provides us with absolutely nothing of value.
The only people who are "unhinged and maniacal" are those in the "trans" cult. They are harming vulnerable people, especially children, and obliterating the right of women and girls.
Nobody can morph into the opposite sex. Nobody ever have and nobody ever will. There are two sexes -- male and female. You can be an opposite-sex imposter, but you can't change sex.
Someday there will be a reckoning. And those of us who've been fighting this batshit-insane ideology won't forget the unethical therapists and physicians who've enabled it.
Judges don't swing public opinion.
But they can certainly influence hospitals & doctors.
They don't need to. Medical malpractice is already illegal. After lawsuits, no hospital or doctor will be allowed to do this. This isn't a matter of opinion.
You're just desperate to believe that lawsuits will end any research or study of anything related to gender or sexuality. It's sad to see you clinging, so maniacally to something that will never come about and that is entirely based on your fear, your ignorant and your need to hate anything you aren't capable of understanding.
And neither will the juvenile and pouty solipsism of threatened and repressed individuals who in their panic see only denial, repression and elimination as any sort of response to complex social and medical issues.
One difficulty is the statute of limitations for suing for medical harms. This apparently varies from state to state but is usually less than five years. Sometimes from the time of discovery of injury, sometimes from the date of treatment. (I am not a lawyer so this information comes from a Google search). However, many detransitioners take seven to ten years to understand/discover the impact of medicalisation on their previously healthy bodies and their fertility. So I fear lawsuits are likely to be too little too late unfortunately.
Hey Isobel. You didn't have to tell us that you aren't an attorney; your writing made that implicit to anyone with third grade literacy.
However can you tell us, specifically, on what basis would you ever be able to file a lawsuit against the clinicians and families struggling with these issues? And while you're at it, please provide a list of the schools that are supposedly doing these surgeries. We're waiting to see it.
Quote: "Hey Isobel. You didn't have to tell us that you aren't an attorney; your writing made that implicit to anyone with third grade literacy."
You mean "explicit," Steve, not "implicit."
Third-grade literacy, indeed.
Those who live in glass houses . . . .
I agree.
Shameful belligerence and mean-spirited incitement based on fear, ignorance, confusion and an intentional demonization of the thousands of American children and families struggling with these very complex and deeply personal issues.
Have you actually given any thought to how you might feel if you were one of these kids or their parents? Or did you just conveniently forget that these are human beings and react with antipathy and eliminationist rhetoric?
Despising and dehumanizing so many of your fellow Americans WON'T make your own life any better, despite whatever temporary catharsis it might provide for you.
Finally, please specify the names of the schools providing any type of surgical procedures for their students.
And on what basis would you sue the hospitals and clinicians providing this medical care?
Why don't you want confused and distressed children to get mental health help? Why do you want them to destroy their bodies with hormone disruption and mutilating surgeries? What is wrong with you?
Power to Scott! Amazing courage and work.
Actually, Scott is kind of an idiot who seems pretty traumatized and desperate to do something that might make them a little bit of money.
Crawl back under your rock Steve!
And so many adults encourage this fantasy. It is becoming unbelievably absurd:
https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/beauty-pageants-rarely-make-me-sad
I'm on the autism spectrum. Every day since this madness burst onto the scene I give thanks that I grew up when I did in the family that I have. As a child, I was very much a tomboy. There is a picture of me at age 7 that, if I didn't KNOW that was me, I would swear was a picture of a little boy.
I don’t think I’m on the spectrum but there are a lot who are being pushed to transition.
I was very much a tomboy and I’m now happy to be the sex I was born with. I wanted very much to be a boy. I’m very happy to be a woman who is a mother.
In the past, tomboys got to be little boys and then got to be big girls. I am happy about that.
Question: how many detransitioners' stories will it take for the make-believe experts wake up to the damage they are inducing? Answer: unforeseen. For it is very much a religion, blind to the facts, with closed minds to anything but what they are certain of.
The only way out is to start at the bottom (no pun intended) with the parents taking control of their childrens' lives from the insanity of schools and the medical community. Central control of schools, including of medical schools needs desperately to be dismantled and control be returned to parents and local government.
That will be difficult because people have long relinquished their natural rights and duties to responsibility for their children and for local government. As such, they have largely forgotten how to function as free and responsibly adults. But human nature is designed for freedom and responsibility, and with determination those lost skills will quickly recover to all who are willing.
Bravo to Scott Newgent for her incredible courage and fighting for the well-being of our children.
Pushing transition on minors is criminal and so is confusing them about their gender and telling them that they are not already perfect as they are. We're on a dangerous path here, telling children that self-identification is everything, that you can just switch from male to female or vice versa, but that is simply not true: https://twoplustwo.substack.com/p/i-identify-therefore-i-am-the-illusion
"Cash cow" - that is what the vulnerable poor souls are to the medical industry. Dollars for tears. The lawyers are circling and the lawsuits have started. $ started it, and $ will end it.
Powerful and devastating testimony. Sadly I agree that the only solution is successful lawsuits.
Exactly. Those people obsessed with fear and hatred of what other private individuals are doing with their own bodies and minds are now parroting this highly dubious "Sue The Doctors A
nd Hospitals!" as "The Solution" to a "transgender problem" that is largely a figment of their obsessive paranoia of and contempt for anyone questioning traditional ideas.
Hey, if you're REALLY concerned about human health and safety maybe it's time to SUE the firearms and ammunition manufacturers---whose products REALLY DO permanently injure and/or murder teens and everyone else. But not one single word about suing the people directly responsible for over 50,000 killings a year. Maybe you should spend a little less time hating the very existence of gender questioning youngsters and reacting predictable and programmed rage to the vile and manipulative headlines on Fox "News."
Your rock is waiting Steve.
Love this lady's candidness and humility. Huge respect for her willingness to fight this cause of protecting kids. She's an authentic Mom ❤️
He is a lesbian???
There's a longer video interview with her, somewhere. It might be with Benjamin Boyce although I am not sure.
She is a lesbian who had kids then "transitioned" in her 40s. She had phalloplasty, all of that. She has serious medical problems as a result of the surgeries and the hormones and her life expectancy, if I recall, is a lot shorter than it was.
She wears that colored sleeve over the scarred up arm where they took the skin to make the "neo-phallus". Iirc it's always painful. Also she might have had multiple surgeries related to her arm. It's been a while since I saw her interview but definitely it is worth seeking out. She speaks in detail of the medical complications, which people rarely do in any adequate sense.
I mean it's kind of a blow-off, right? "so she sees a lot of doctors and it's a drag and they fix her". No, in fact, except for a few things like heart attack surgeries and cutting out early stage solid body tumors of low aggressiveness, medicine can't fix much. It's never back to 100%. And she took a perfectly healthy body and gave it the equivalent of several life-threatening car crashes that needed to be patched up, losing organs and systemic health in the process.
A number of these kids are surely lonely, and they blame their "difference".
If they have BPD, they are probably lonely in a way that not much can fix except time + intensive therapy + high, consistent familial barriers to the kid manipulating their family into giving them all the attention and control that can exist in the family (which still won't be enough). This trans persona attracts a river of personalized but generic approval voices, and a sense of control. But it's an illusion. And it makes the disorder worse, and prevents time and maturity from ameliorating it. Especially if hormone blockers are preventing cognitive maturation.
For the kids who aren't BPD but just lonely, they still have the narcissism of youth, and aren't capable of seeing that other kids who "have it sorted out" in actuality mostly have complicated, imperfect lives and relationships that don't always measure up, just like these kids wanting a quick fix.
And they have no idea how wildly their feelings about their bodies will change, and if they (a) go on blockers or the full artificial hormone regimens, and/or (b) allow themselves to obsess about their embodied experiences to the point they are always crafting a narrative about themselves instead of just being, they won't experience their own humanity.
What a disaster.
I think the loneliness they are surely experiencing as though it's the first and worst time anyone has ever felt that way, needs to be addressed. In treatment, not just telling them "many people feel lonelier or more isolated than they wish to".
The idea that people feel comfortable easily and soon in life is so very false. It's especially false applied to the years of puberty, which begin earlier than the late tanner stages that we see happening with secondary sexual characteristic development.
It's great to feel comfortable and at ease, but it's a prize to be won through character development. It's not something everyone has except for you (and you, and you, and also you...). All the bonding over feeling uncomfortable is just ... the sort of bonding that kids should, if truthful, be doing about deeper and more shielded thoughts. Fears and uncertainties and inadequacies. Not the cheap, intimacy-blocking costume of sexual display and a crafted sexual persona worn on the outside.
Thank you for helping others Scott. With all you have been through physically, I really appreciate you using your energy towards helping others. Hugs to your Mama heart - children are such a gift- Thank you for speaking out.