It is good that we have the support of so many gay and lesbian people in this fight for truth.
Before the trans craze we had the lesbian craze in the mid 00's in which many girls decided they were lesbians because it was cool. The acronym "LUG" was born to describe girls who believed it was cool to be lesbians in college. There was an associated porn sex fantasy for men. But, the bigger picture was non-conforming and often unattractive girls who were looking for an identity and a connection that they found in the lesbian community. Gay affirmative therapists, domestic violence radicals, and gender feminist deconstructionists exploited these girls to build their empires. Many of these girls were rightly repulsed by "sorority culture" and the disgusting beauty industry. Many were victims of sexual trauma. They were choice feminists, but they reacted too far by eschewing heterosexuality. As with the maturation out of the trans phase, most of these girls grew out of that lesbian phase. As with some gay men who had experienced childhood trauma, when these girls addressed their trauma the same sex attraction ended. Some remained in the lesbian identity. They were probably true SSA.
The real incidence of lesbianism in the human natural world is less than .05%. Gay men are about 2% of the male population. Everything else is a disorder. The trans delusion is a continuation of sexual anarchy generally with the addition of mercenary medicalization of a multi-modal disorder.
A healthy society would have institutions and role modeling that primarily help people accept their imperfect selves and find compatible partners in the opposite sex. There would be healthy subcultures for true sexual minorities.
It concerns me when I hear commentators imply that all trans people are really gay. Some trans are gay. Most are non-conforming heterosexuals looking for a home. The slippery slope is the promotion of sexual anarchy that emanated from the rejection of authority/patriarchy, the glorification of mental illness, and the dumbing down of deviance.
You can find a lot of it at the Stevens Institute for Sexuality. Many of the texts have been altered in the last 10 years to reflect their woke revisionism. I taught Human Sexuality at Southern New Hampshire University in 2014. My students were coming to me with terms like "pansexual" that were not in the text we were using for the course. I had to ask them what the terms meant. There was a social movement influencing the science.
You will get a kick out of this. The university had administered a critical thinking measure of some sort. Our students scored very low (because this was a school for kids that should not be in college but that is another matter), which alarmed the university president, Paul LeBlanc. His solution? We were to start teaching social justice theories to improve their critical thinking! I sent LeBlanc a letter questioning this guidance and wondering how teaching social justice would improve critical thinking as I believed there was a negative correlation between these variables. They did not retain me soon thereafter even though I had good success there. My kids loved my refreshing politically incorrect approach. These were suburban white kids from New Hampshire who had been indoctrinated their whole lives. I brought the situation to local conservative media, much to the chagrin of LeBlanc who knew he was running a scam for cash, exploiting kids with mushy minds.
I found out later that LeBlanc had been called to Washington by the Obama people as a "consultant" and SNHU had received a huge grant to help nontraditional students be successful (via some social justicy curriculum of some sort of course). This was how Obama got wokeism into universities. Trump got in in 2016 and put a stop to a lot of this nonsense, so they had to kill us off to keep the cash flowing.
I read the resources first - very helpful - and am now listening. I have been writing about this topic too - it is likely endocrine disrupting chemicals when the gender dysphoria is present from very early ages. Prenatal hormone mismatch with the baby's genes. The media and government push is something else.
It is good that we have the support of so many gay and lesbian people in this fight for truth.
Before the trans craze we had the lesbian craze in the mid 00's in which many girls decided they were lesbians because it was cool. The acronym "LUG" was born to describe girls who believed it was cool to be lesbians in college. There was an associated porn sex fantasy for men. But, the bigger picture was non-conforming and often unattractive girls who were looking for an identity and a connection that they found in the lesbian community. Gay affirmative therapists, domestic violence radicals, and gender feminist deconstructionists exploited these girls to build their empires. Many of these girls were rightly repulsed by "sorority culture" and the disgusting beauty industry. Many were victims of sexual trauma. They were choice feminists, but they reacted too far by eschewing heterosexuality. As with the maturation out of the trans phase, most of these girls grew out of that lesbian phase. As with some gay men who had experienced childhood trauma, when these girls addressed their trauma the same sex attraction ended. Some remained in the lesbian identity. They were probably true SSA.
The real incidence of lesbianism in the human natural world is less than .05%. Gay men are about 2% of the male population. Everything else is a disorder. The trans delusion is a continuation of sexual anarchy generally with the addition of mercenary medicalization of a multi-modal disorder.
A healthy society would have institutions and role modeling that primarily help people accept their imperfect selves and find compatible partners in the opposite sex. There would be healthy subcultures for true sexual minorities.
It concerns me when I hear commentators imply that all trans people are really gay. Some trans are gay. Most are non-conforming heterosexuals looking for a home. The slippery slope is the promotion of sexual anarchy that emanated from the rejection of authority/patriarchy, the glorification of mental illness, and the dumbing down of deviance.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Where can I find citations for the stats you offer?
You can find a lot of it at the Stevens Institute for Sexuality. Many of the texts have been altered in the last 10 years to reflect their woke revisionism. I taught Human Sexuality at Southern New Hampshire University in 2014. My students were coming to me with terms like "pansexual" that were not in the text we were using for the course. I had to ask them what the terms meant. There was a social movement influencing the science.
You will get a kick out of this. The university had administered a critical thinking measure of some sort. Our students scored very low (because this was a school for kids that should not be in college but that is another matter), which alarmed the university president, Paul LeBlanc. His solution? We were to start teaching social justice theories to improve their critical thinking! I sent LeBlanc a letter questioning this guidance and wondering how teaching social justice would improve critical thinking as I believed there was a negative correlation between these variables. They did not retain me soon thereafter even though I had good success there. My kids loved my refreshing politically incorrect approach. These were suburban white kids from New Hampshire who had been indoctrinated their whole lives. I brought the situation to local conservative media, much to the chagrin of LeBlanc who knew he was running a scam for cash, exploiting kids with mushy minds.
I found out later that LeBlanc had been called to Washington by the Obama people as a "consultant" and SNHU had received a huge grant to help nontraditional students be successful (via some social justicy curriculum of some sort of course). This was how Obama got wokeism into universities. Trump got in in 2016 and put a stop to a lot of this nonsense, so they had to kill us off to keep the cash flowing.
Here is a link to the article I wrote about the episode at the time: https://kevinkervick.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/are-social-justice-and-critical-thinking-synonyms/
My perspective about homosexuality is that virtually everything we have been told we are supposed to believe is false.
Thanks, K! I appreciate the follow-up and I'll check out the link as soon as I can.
Great conversation! She covered all the bases that one needs to be aware of when unlearning transgenderist dogmatism.
Thank you, as always, Alicen. 😊 And I concur. Belissa thorough yet fully accessible approach is so valuable.
I read the resources first - very helpful - and am now listening. I have been writing about this topic too - it is likely endocrine disrupting chemicals when the gender dysphoria is present from very early ages. Prenatal hormone mismatch with the baby's genes. The media and government push is something else.
Thanks Mickey - such an important conversation right now in this growing toxicity....
Thanks for being open and caring so deeply about topics like this.
Well, now you've gone and done it. A paid subscriber. Two great podcasts in a row.
William, thank so much for listening, for your kind words, and for becoming a paid supporter. It means A LOT to me! 🙂
Keep up the good work. I appreciate your perspective coming from the activist left. You are unique among covid and woke dissidents.
Much appreciated.
Great interview on a most important topic! Thank you, Belissa and Mickey!
I will " Keep my Guard Up." Thank you for an insightful interview.