Jordan Peterson interviews Matt Walsh about his video “What is a Woman?”. The discussion touches on the topics:

• The biological basis of sex and gender.
• The transgender wave as a psychological epidemic (social contagion).
• Identity is not subjectively defined; it is a construct that is negotiated socially.
• Doctors who sexually mutilate children are reprehensible, as are psychologists who enable the process.
• The unfairness of transgender athletes competing in woman’s sports.
• The susceptibility of young people to social media influencers.
• The fears and dangers of being honest about transgender issues.
• Youth suicide is not caused by lack of gender affirmation, as is sometimes claimed. There is no evidence that transgender drugs and surgeries decrease the rates of suicide.
• Beginning a course of puberty blockers inevitably leads to cross-sex hormones, and those lead inevitably to permanent infertility. Minors cannot understand or anticipate the personal costs of losing such an important part of themselves. They are incapable of giving a legitimate informed consent.

• A transgender identity is neither stable nor functional. For example, it’s hard enough to find somebody to date in high school, but very few people are willing to get involved with an amorphous individual who is neither fully man nor fully woman. This is not due to prejudice, but rather that it just adds a level of complexity to a process that is already very complex.
• continue at 58:39.

Teenagers are subjected to relentless and persuasive influences from peers and social media about the desirability of a transgender lifestyle. Rarely do they hear about the negative consequences of the social, pharmaceutical, and surgical steps that are involved in “transition.” Shrier walks us through the process, pointing out the full range of such consequences.

Some of the topics covered include:

• The problem of government compulsion to use alternative pronouns, and how this can cause additional confusion with children about their gender.
• The spread of transgenderism as a form of “peer contagion” which periodically sweeps through the population of teenage girls as formerly with anorexia nervosa, bulimia, cutting, etc.
• Children who adopt new gender identities often become angry, sullen, and hostile to parents. There is no evidence that mental health improves with “gender affirmation” interventions, nor that suicide levels decrease.
• Schools (in California and elsewhere) often become the nexus for transgender indoctrination. In many cases, school councilors prod children toward transgender decisions, including making social transitions with new names and pronouns, taking puberty blockers, taking cross-sex hormones, etc., all the while concealing such activities from parents. Much of this takes place under the guise of “sex education.”
• Activists, councilors, and doctors often claim that puberty blockers are perfectly safe, well-studied, and that their effects are reversible. This is not the case. Virtually 100% of children who start puberty blockers go on to cross-sex hormones, and these lead to permanent and irreversible sterility. Stopping puberty also stops brain development and will often cause a whole constellation of future medical problems such as osteoporosis, loss of sexual function (potential for orgasm), or vaginal atrophy (requiring hysterectomy).
• Multiple studies indicate that around 88% of children who are not socially transitioned by parents will naturally outgrow gender dysphoria by the time they reach adulthood.

• “Gender dysphoria” may, in many cases, be a misdiagnosis for underlying psychological problems such as autism or borderline personality disorders, which should be the primary focus of any therapy.
• Testosterone use by transgender girls greatly increases the risks of heart attack due to the thickening of the blood that it causes. Other common problems stemming from testosterone use include: muscle aches, painful cramping, increased sweating, moodiness, and aggression. Long term effects include: diabetes, stroke, blood clots, and cancer.
• Double mastectomies have become big business, aggressively promoted to “transgender”girls, but the results can be catastrophic. On the one hand, there is the sacrifice of breast function (erotic sensation and future milk production), and on the other, “the procedure comes with risk of infection, seroma (fluid accumulating under the skin), pain, bleeding, oozing, skin flaps, and nipples that resemble cooked hamburger meat.” Rarely are these risks fully disclosed to girls in advance of such procedures.
• The book ends with seven practical steps that parents can take to help prevent their daughters from falling into the peer contagion of “gender dysphoria.”

Dr. Miriam Grossman is a psychiatrist who provides an interesting perspective on the ramifications of “gender-affirming-care” for both the children involved and their families. Topics include:

• The enormous price paid for the choices offered by medical interventions for gender confused children, both mentally and physically.
• People think that if you have more choice, then you have more freedom, and that more choice and more freedom is always good. But the problem with that is that excess choice produces not freedom but anxiety.
• Identity is a socially negotiated construct. It must be integrated within the social milieu in order to be functional.
• Parents of children who become confused about their gender identity experience a serious trauma because this conflict is destroying their families. In many cases parents suspect that other issues are manifesting in their child’s identity crisis, but they are being pressured into a program of drugs and surgery that will do permanent and irreversible damage.
• The epidemic of gender dysphoria is an instance of social contagion, fueled by social media.
• Dr. Grossman’s upcoming book, “Lost in Transnation,” gives practical advice about how parents can navigate, as successfully as possible, the many challenges they will face during this gender-transition ordeal with their children.
• continue at 33:43

Throughout our country, atrocities are taking place in doctor’s offices and hospital operating rooms. Physically healthy children and adolescents are being permanently disfigured and sometimes sterilized. Those youth say they’re transgender, and we—their parents, teachers, therapists, and doctors—are supposed to agree with their self-diagnosis and take a back seat as they make the most consequential decision of their lives: to alter their bodies in order to, we are told, “align” them with their minds.
 
Medical, educational, and government authorities advise us to support the “gender journeys” of still developing kids, including medical interventions with poor evidence of long-term improvement.
 
This would not be acceptable in any other field of medicine. Indeed, the treatments our medical authorities and Washington call “crucial” and “life-saving” have been banned in progressive Sweden, Finland, and Britain.
 
Dr. Miriam Grossman is a child and adolescent psychiatrist whose practice consists of trans-identified youth and their families. In Lost in Trans Nation, she implores parents to reject the advice of gender experts and politicians and trust their guts—their parental instincts—in the face of an onslaught of ideologically driven misinformation that steers them and their children toward risky decisions they may end up mourning for the rest of their lives.
 
The beliefs that male and female are human inventions; that the sex of a newborn is arbitrarily “assigned”; and that as a result the child requires “affirmation” through medical interventions—these ideas are divorced from reality and therefore hazardous, especially to children. The core belief—that biology can and should be denied—is a repudiation of reality and a mockery of what hard science teaches about being male and female.
 
Dr. Grossman believes that parents know their child best; they especially know if they have a son or daughter. But currently in our country when it comes to gender identity, everyone knows better than mom and dad. Schools enable students to live double lives—Patrick at home, Patti at school. Activists tell kids their loving homes are “unsafe” when parents voice doubts about the child’s new identity. For refusing to see their son as their daughter, parents might be reported to protective services, a development that can lead to a family’s destruction.
 

Lost in Trans Nation arms parents with the ammunition to avoid, or, if necessary, fight what many families describe as the most difficult challenge of their lives. Parents will learn what to say and how—at home, at school, and if necessary, to police when they appear at the door.
 
“Don’t be blindsided like so many parents I know,” warns Grossman, “be proactive and get educated. Feel prepared and confident to discuss trans, nonbinary, or whatever your child brings to the dinner table.” Whether it’s the “trans is as common as red hair” claim, or the “I’m not your son, I’m your daughter” proclamation, or the “do you prefer a live son or a dead daughter’ threat, says Grossman, no family is immune, and every parent must be prepared.
 
No child is born in the wrong body, Dr. Grossman reassures us, their bodies are just fine; it’s their emotional lives that need healing. Whether you’re facing a gender identity battle in your home right now, or want to prevent one, you need this book to guide you and your loved ones out of the madness.

This book is to be released on July 18, 2023.

Many useful resources are available on Dr. Grossman’s website.

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This is an attempt to account for the recent upsurge (flood) of pro-transgender propaganda in media. The full article is worth reading; the following is an excerpt:

“…The further the ideological distance that the polarization creates, the more decoupled the two sides get, entrenching themselves in their own mutual realities. But the difference is: one reality—namely, ours—merely exists as an unchanged substrate handed down to us by eons of natural development and which we’re instinctively trying to protect; sort of like indigenous tribes fighting off the bulldozers chugging through their forest.

But the other side is fabricating a new reality, one that has never existed before; it’s the other, the outsider, the usurper. And in doing so, they are trying to force that reality onto ours by osmosis: the goal being total absorption or assimilation. But since their reality is newer, it needs to constantly be packaged and ‘sold’ to us, over and over, lest it dissipate and we all forget about it and go about our normal lives. Thus, their reality requires a matrix of constant upkeep in the form of endless loops of messaging that comprise its very fabric.

What happens though is, as this patrician class continually decouples from us by way of their rejection of the binding ligatures of our shared existence, they inadvertently back themselves further and further into a corner. It’s a shrinking black box which represents their new reality as divorced from the interconnectedness to the previous substrate. This causes a series of shortened feedback loops for all of their messaging, which initiates a cascade of reciprocity: a mirror simulation where the two mirrors are slowly closing in on each other.

Each message, movement, or narrative is churned back onto itself through an accelerating series of iterations. The natural dialogue with real society ceases to be as the patricians react only to reflections of their own rage and madness, in ever-shortening cycles.

And since the cord of that dialogue is cut, all manner of listening and learning that would naturally inform one’s ideologies is no longer there; the self-cleansing optimization mechanism is gone, and so these genteels reel further and further into a terminal agony, a simulation of mental instability and degeneracy not undergirded by any rhyme, reason, or rationality. They begin to turn to primal shrieks and howls, infantile bawls of rage to express their increasing derealization from reality.

Lacking rational arguments, an ability to cogitate and lucidly argue their abnormal positions, they resort to neuralgic fits and myoclonic paroxysms.

But all this is to say, that the process of ‘acceleration’ we speak of, can to some extent at least, be attributed to a natural byproduct of this decoupling. The more they decouple from our shared reality, the shorter are the self-feedback loops, which produces a frenzy of more, more, more. And many of the elite class in fact begin to foster a naked hatred for the rustic rubes who dare oppose their egalitarian transhumanism. Thus, their natural impetus is to increase the sheer force of propaganda as a sadistic sort of punishment, a gleeful, gloating schadenfreude at watching the gnashing misery of the underclass as they wrangle and writhe with the community-destroying, life-effacing trans-humanism forced down their gullets like foie gras.

There is certainly an obvious sadism behind much of it. Just turn to Twitter or any social media platform and note the preening exultation that accompanies the reposting of material which is offensive to the current swatch of at-risk subclasses, be they Cishets, Christians, or child-defending anti-groomers.

As this war heats up, more malice is brought to bear, which means an ever-growing power-creep of offensive imagery and actions designed specifically to offend, disgust, outrage, and demoralize; it’s a buck-breaking buffet for all humanity to reset us all to the perfectly malleable tabula rasa from which a new class of worshipful obedients can be re-programmed.”