In the Belly of the Gender Beast
Three Writers Discuss their Experiences at EPATH -- Video
For the visual learners among us, and those who prefer to see who is speaking and watch their body language and facial expressions for clues to their character, this is an abridged version of last week’s podcast on the EPATH conference linked below that I posted to YouTube, where I will be posting videos more regularly, and where I encourage you follow me as well.
The discussion is bookended by a couple pieces of video from the EPATH conference itself that help convey the atmospherics of that event. I’ve also included some of the other photos taken of the event below.
I don't have the patience to try to track down the opinions in the recent court decisions, much less read them. What the news accounts do show is how politically shrewd it was for the radical trans ideologues to secure the official position statements from the AMA, the APA, and other medical societies. As could be predicted, the courts are treating them as virtually conclusive when the expert witnesses cite them to support the opinions they express in court.
Several features of these cases show the abysmal inadequacy of the judicial system to deal with the issues, at least from what I have seen.
1. None of the cases gives any attention to the obvious implications of the abrupt about face by the European countries.
2. None has examined the plaintiffs' clinical studies critically, particularly as to number of study subjects, length of follow-up or rates of study dropouts, or statistical significance of the conclusions.
3. All of the cases mention the supposed incidence of suicide and claims of improvement without dealing with the role of the common comorbidities, especially depression and cutting and eating disorders, nor with the indications any benefit is often temporary.
4. Nowhere have i seen any real discussion of the unbelievable, meteoric increase in the number of minors presenting as "gender dysphoria". We've long known of the tiny number of really troubling cases, much less than one percent, the preschoolers, mostly boys, who persistently insist that they "really" are or want to be girls. Human psychology changes slowly if at all, so why on earth are we seeing hundreds-fold increases in case numbers from older kids, mostly girls, who've never expressed anything suggesting GD? It cries out for a better explanation than the gnostic myth that the kids were really trans all along, just afraid to say anything.
We should all be deeply worried. We've seen plenty of instances where the consensus of expert medical opinion was tragically wrong. I'm surely not the only one who remembers Thalidomide.
When does this shit stop when does this shit stop when does this shit stop when does this shit stop