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Being born disfigured, i find this trans stuff incredibly insulting.

As this woke madness continues its assault on critical thinking - I'm beginning to question whether I was - "born" on the 'wrong planet?' : /

You cant be born in the wrong body,it cant happen.

How is anyone born in the wrong body ? What a concept. A body is. It is neither the right nor the wrong sex at birth.

As a man I don't know what any other man feels like to know if they feel like I do. The follow on from that is there is no way I can understand what it feels like to be a woman. I am sure it goes the other way as well, how can a woman know if she feels the same way as other women etc. To feel you are in the wrong body and that this can be changed in any meaningful way is clearly not tackling the underlying problem because, wherever drugs or surgery takes someone, the original problem can never be corrected since the nebulous idea of what someone else's body or mind feels like is something that cannot be described in any meaningful way.

Just confirms that its about beliefs rather than truth anyone that leaves the faith is accused of apostasy

If any group of people tells you to not listen to anyone with differing opinions, labels them as wrong or evil, says that if your family does not 100% support your decisions that you should cut them off entirely and seek support only within the group, and shuns or attacks anyone leaving the group, that is the very definition of a cult.

In regards to female distress over puberty: you can trace this back to at least the 16th century, and possibly to Hippocrates, but this is very much a product of the West; it is not universal since there are cultures where this does not occur. I entered puberty at an interesting point of time historically. The diseases of older girls and young women that had their peak in the Victorian age, chlorosis and the panoply of hysterical conversion disorders, had largely disappeared a few decades previously; disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and cutting were not yet so prevalent that they were known to the general public. My friends and I actually looked forward to puberty; we may not have been completely satisfied with our bodies, but in general our outlook was positive. We did not live in an ideal time. We lived during the Cold War and under the threat of nuclear annihilation. We lived through the Cuban Missel Crisis, the Vietnam War, the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK. We lived through race riots. Even though it was a difficult period to live through it didn't affect our positive view of growing up.

I've been following this more an more recently and something I see often from those on the critical side of gender affirming care is attributing it and those that support it to 'the left'. While the vast majority of those supporting it in the west are a faction on the left it is definitely not universal - there is a large cohort of the centre-left and left that are not on board. More broadly, the country that does the second most gender re-assignment surgeries in the world is Iran, definitely not left. It's surreal to see radical progressives and the far right fundamentalists on the same page on something. The other interesting thing I see as a scientist is the exact same reaction to the Cass review from the radicals as some on the right to the IPCC reports on climate change. Cherry-picking, accusations of bias and dismissal of the science. Both sides need to try and get outside their bubble and their biases and look at the data, that can get everyone on the same page. Either accept that science is a useful tool, or admit you you would rather follow your tribe.

The "born in the wrong body" claim was recorded in early medical manuals. The patients read the books too and recycled it to tick the clinician's box. It snowballed from there. The possibility of some brain issues triggered by the administration of a certain type of medication in childhood should be considered for those where social contagion is not the case. The incidence graphs align.

Great convo - thx. "Indulgence is not compassion, it is neglect under another name" ... perfect end to an excellent dialogue.

Great discussion. Especially the insight of Charlie Bentley Astor.

Honestly I see transitioning trans kids as the same thing as giving anorexic kids liposuction, and even suggesting that such a thing can help a child even though it most definitely won’t (even if it goes completely well, your body will have health issues from such drastic alterations) is just plain cruel.

i have been saying for a long time that we as a society need to really look into the idea that it could be a 'software' problem. If someone tells you they feel like they should really only have one leg and they want you to cut it off, do you then cut the leg off or do you stop and ask if they are ok. its not legs we talking about tho is it, something probably a bit more important than a leg

Good stuff. Straight to the point.

Basing your life on oppression and victimhood isn’t much of a life.

I hate woke.

Thank you for platforming this detransitioner. I often think I - or my troubled angsty teen self, missed this social contagion by no more than 1-2 years. But I relate to every last detrans biological female I hear describe their experiences on at least a few grounds. I was definitely a self-harmer & an anorexic. My breasts never fully developed to be honest because of my extreme anorexia from age 12-21. I did scar myself but the big difference is no doctor was helping me, my school wasn’t encouraging cutting or starving. This - gender ideology & medical experimentation- the most evil ideology to hit the West since the rise of the 3rd Reich.

Thank god there wasn't this insanity when i grew up, there were men and women and some gays, it was understood you could try to make a family and it was a goal for most people, if you didn't want that nobody really thought you were a bad person, now the kids think youre a monster if you want to make a family its insane.

Trans is all about hormones. Medical steps. What about the inside of a human. It's not all outside appearance. But its reduced to body modification. Without counting the inner essence.

Although I appreciate & enjoy good faith debates like this, I can't help but think such debates are trying to rationalise bad faith arguments. What is the point? Instead of debating the issue, surely it's pertinent in today's society to first cross-examine those making the claim/accusation to ascertain if it's even worth debating, or if it's just a useless bad faith argument that should be dismissed. I've wasted so much time trying to have a good faith debate with a bad faith actor who was just trying to pull a fast one.

That's a lot of ideology for a supposedly anti-ideology video. That whole perspective of "software issue" vs. "hardware issue", for example, sounds like two made-up newfangled category ideas, not aligned e.g. with a distinction between physical and mental anomalies. The idea that having an unfitting body requires a soul is another ideological doctrine. If consciousness emerges purely from natural processes in the brain, there will still be a conscious brain in a body that may or may not feel wrong for that brain. Of course, the natural consequence of a physical brain in a physical body would be that, in order to fix the problem, it _might_ be possible to fix the body and it _might_ be possible to fix the brain. Now, many people reject fixing the brain because they object a sudden cut in who they are as a conscious person, similar to how many autistic people feel that they wouldn't be themselves if they weren't autistic. But the main reason conversion therapy is so widely rejected isn't because of "gendered souls" or personhood, but because it simply does not work (we have tried).

Oh boy!

The body being a tool of the mind, I see that in TRA ideology as Charlie says, but I wonder more the body being reduced to a tool of the ego - reduced to an object to be cut up, shaped, brought into line - not allowed its own state of being. Much of our culture punishes the body, distorts it, starves it, bloats it, cuts it etc. This to me is a wider illness than just trans. What we do to our own bodies we would never do to any animal. Culturally I worry we are being warmed up for worse to come. Body modification for business profit. More productive employees, just have this implant if you want the job. Nobody is going to make you of course, but you will want the job.

People trapped in the perverted lgbt lifestyle can be set free.

Victoria Australia's Health Department declare that they have "No Definition" of de-transition. The Royal Childrens Hospital Gender Clinic also agree there are NO de-transitioners

Hardware / Software analogy is very confusing. Pretty sure there are better ways to express the same idea.

There IS a perfectly good control group for gender affirming care treatments - the kids on the long wait lists. No, the subjects cannot be "blinded" but the researchers (at least those doing the stats) can be. I am not even sure blinding the researchers is necessary, in that the follow-up is by physical and psych exam and or symptom survey, i.e, there are objective means that can be checked for "fidelity" (rigorous implementation and analysis of tools and results). Outcomes for subjects with a puberty blocker Rx can be compared with those who present with same demographic and symptoms, but who were not treated.

I feel like there's a genius comedian living in Amy.

I met a few woman to men Tras. I work at a social program. All of these have one thing in common: Deep horrible childhood tra uma. All of them experienced xual violence as little girls. I think the want to be men to heal that Trauma. "If I was a boy it wouldn't happen". I think they want to feel safe. What I understand. Erase the reason why it happened. And the community preys on these women.

"Wholistic" counselling, therapy … requires time, patience, assessment not judgement or categorising/labelling, suck skilled practitioners are few and far between … not expediency, or the most convenient option, nor the parasites and materialists that profit by manipulating what’s on offer to "help" the person … anyway this younger female has learnt and matured through a series of experiences that many will not be understood by the "average" immature Kidults. 😉🙂

3:50 this sounds very calvinist.

Cringed at the point where nasally male said porn culture was "wonderful" after explaining the oppressive and violating impact porn has on women. Basically stop horning posting and be professional

gender is a social construct conservatives demonstrating their fear of education as usual 😂

Stopped listening when the girl said "they believe in a creator"...really? C'mon. They think that they are in the wrong body randomly like biological mutation. Hurting your credibility with that stupid strawman and blatantly obvious religious bias.

What is this “software”,”hardware” BS - you’re talking about Human beings !