First Illness Spread By Social Media? Nope!

The Atlantic Magazine recently posted an article on its website titled: The Twitching Generation.

With the caption:

Around the world, doctors have noticed teenage patients reporting the sudden onset of tics.  Is this the first illness spread by social media?

Uh…no it isn’t.

The social contagion of Transgenderism came before this one.

But you are not likely to have The Atlantic Magazine write a story about that.

For some reason, today, if a new phenomena is associated with sex or gender identity, then it will never be listed as an “illness.” That would be stigmatizing. And unloving. And perhaps illegal in some jurisdictions in the Western world. But why ”hands off” when it comes to exotic sexual or gender identities? Is that rational?

Exotic Identities having to do with sex or gender may only be accepted and affirmed. Or you will be called a bigot.

Why? Because sex, and now gender, are deemed the most identifying human attributes. You can thank Sigmund Freud and his disciples for that.

The only exception to this ”affirming-acceptance” cultural maxim is pedophilia (and perhaps bestiality). And if you think I’m being outrageously inflammatory to mention these ”last taboos” in this context, you need to read my next post! Or this older post about “Transpups.”


Here’s another quote from The Atlantic article about current teenage ”co-morbidities.” (An overlooked issue with regard to Gender-Dysphoria too.)

This fits with existing research showing that many members of Generation Z are anxious, isolated, and depressed, with body-image troubles worsened by the perfect bodies and aspirational lives they see on TikTok and Instagram. They are part of a grand social experiment, the first cohort to grow up with the internet on smartphones, the first generation whose entire lives have been shaped by the demands of social-media algorithms. Tics and twitches may be their unconscious method of saying: I want out.

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This is the world we live in. And our children are hurting. Kudos to The Atlantic for running this story. Now do the same thing with our Gender-Dysphoria epidemic. Connect the dots, I dare ya.

Adults and social media ”influencers” are telling our children lies about who they are and who they can become. Exotic identity expressions which contradict God’s creational design are all the rage today. You could call it THE American Idol, except it has enveloped the Western world as well. Radical autonomy is “the spirit of the age.” You create your own destiny.

AgenderAsexualBigender
BinaryBisexualCisgender
GenderfluidGenderqueerNon-binary
PansexualPolysexualThird gender
TransgenderTransexualTrigender
Two-spirit
A few “spirit of the age” gender categories

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Please read the Atlantic article and if I’ve educated you with this blog you will notice the relevant comparisons. For example:

A typical Tourette’s patient is a boy, ages 5-7. Until recently.

A typical Gender-dysphoric patient was almost always a boy, ages 3-5. Until recently.

These days teenagers suffer with problems that typically started much earlier in life. And most of them now are girls. One big difference however. Gender Therapists are fast-tracking Gender-dysphoric teens to Transition into something they are not.

Today we are witnessing an overall “affirming” environment that is “grooming” our girls and boys down the path toward exotic identity expressions. (Please read this post about our schools.) Unfortunately, unlike a tattoo or non-conforming hair and clothing styles, many of these expressions require medical intervention.  We are witnessing the medicalization of identity. And our doctors, our therapists, our technologists, our pharmaceutical representatives, who have mostly brought great good to our culture, must be asked some very demanding conflict of interest questions. We need to hold them accountable.

Because our children matter more than their bottom line. 

Planned Parenthood’s new Cross-Sex Hormone revenue stream is not purely about “liberation.” In some of our states a 16 year old girl can walk into Planned Parenthood and and receive doses of testosterone 40 times the natural female level.  Without a note from a therapist or her mother!

Stop the Madness!

The problem: Social contagion by Social Media.

Here’s just one data point from the Atlantic article:

According to TikTok, videos tagged #tourettes have been viewed more than 5 billion times.

The Twitching Generation

Watch the videos in the posts listed below to get more detail about social contagion via TikToc, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr and their hordes of “influencers.” Especially, the first one. It deals with the sudden onset of Tourette’s syndrome among girls.

Parents! Concerned Citizens! Christians! Wake up!

The Atlantic article wrote about the fact that historically girls seem to be uniquely susceptible to social contagion. I mentioned this in a previous post. Please read: Our Girls 2 for more details. (Don’t shoot the messenger!)

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As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”

Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.

Gender Surgery On Children

Investigative reporting from The Gender Mapping Project about how easy it is to get body altering surgery for children. You might need to select closed-captioning (CC) to “hear” all of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcLJiayJ_0o&t=104s
Child gets referral for orchiectomy1surgical removal of one or both testicles

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL_s_cU7WrA
Is 13 going to be a problem for Top Surgery?

I posted a video several days ago which shows the reality of “Top Surgery”. It’s a horror movie that you need to watch.

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Silencing Dissenting Doctors

Dr. Allan Josephson is the former head of child and adolescent psychology at the University of Louisville. In 2019, he was effectively fired for participating on a Heritage Foundation panel where he questioned gender transition for minors. (Follow the link to watch that panel. And see if you think his contribution should have gotten him fired.)

Dr. Josephson is suing the University. I hope he wins. Otherwise other doctors might continue to keep their professional opinions to themselves. Would that advance the cause of science?

An expert witness testifying in Josephson’s case is Dr. James Cantor, a Canadian clinical psychologist. Cantor describes himself as a gay atheist who isn’t afraid, as he says, “to barbecue sacred cows.” He too has faced backlash for challenging the dominant transgender narrative.

When the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published new standards regarding gender transition in minors, Dr. Cantor published a “fact check,” calling out what he saw as the Academy’s “systematic misrepresentation” of the medical literature. “Not only did AAP fail to provide compelling evidence” for claiming that gender-dysphoric minors should be immediately and unquestioningly transitioned, Dr. Cantor argued, but “AAP’s recommendations are despite the existing evidence.”

Here is a podcast interview with Dr. Cantor by Shane Morris.  Check it out!

In that interview he cites numerous studies that showed most early stage cross-gender kids ceased to feel cross-gendered by the time puberty hits. All of these studies (11 in total) found that around 80 percent of gender dysphoric children spontaneously revert to identifying with their biological sex. Which is why “watchful waiting” was practiced until most recently. But if you suggest watchful waiting today you might lose your job, and/or be considered an advocate of “conversion therapy” when all you are really doing is administering a tried and true version of Talk Therapy. The kind that helped Erin.

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Being a Classic Christian I regard Gender Ideology as anti-creational to the core. This blog is about “God’s Good Creation.” That’s why I’m writing about this issue. Christians (and everybody else) let’s get informed. And speak up as I’m confident Jesus would.

"Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female.'" [Matt 19:4]