Blue Ridge Style & Beyond
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Either this gender activist is lying under oath, or is ideologically blind. Or identifies as an Ostrich.
Conservatives ripped into LGBTQ activist and social worker Jessie Pocock for denying she has ever heard of any transgender person detransitioning from their sex change attempts. Pocock, the CEO and executive director of LGBTQ non-profit Inside Out Youth Services Advocacy Organization provided testimony during Wednesday's House Oversight Committee hearing on "LGBTQ extremism and violence." During her testimony, Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, mentioned there are "a lot of people in the news coming out detransitioning." He asked, "Could you speak to that phenomenon, and what’s that person going through? Did they get it wrong? Were they going through a period?" Pocock said she couldn’t "really speak to an individual’s personal experience," but ended up admitting she doesn’t think detransitioning is real. She added, "I’ve been in this work for a long time. I know a lot of trans folks, close friends, family members, and I’ve just never heard a case of anyone destransitioning, so I honestly don’t think it’s a real thing." Source: Fox News
Detransitioner Chloe Cole responds.
Detransitioner TullipR points out that the Reddit online community of Detransitioners now sits at 32.2k and growing rapidly. I suspect this is just the beginning. (Actual number to date is 40k!)
What are we doing to our young people?
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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 listen to this podcast for more details.
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One of the many books I’ve read in the last two years is The Abolition of Sex by Kara Dansky. Here is a recent Newsweek opinion piece by Dansky on the passage of a new law by the Scottish Parliament. She documents legal developments in other Western countries as well, including the U.S. Equality Act and asks the question: Are we seeing the global abolition of sex?
On December 22, the Scottish Parliament passed a controversial new law that allows for "gender self-ID." Two days earlier, it had voted down an amendment to the law that would have prevented sex offenders from being able to gain access to women's prisons on the basis of their self-declared "female gender identity." On Wednesday morning, it voted down another amendment that would have made an application to change sex retroactively fraudulent if the applicant was subsequently convicted of rape. What this means is that any adult (or minor as young as 16), including sex offenders, can obtain legal recognition that he or she is a member of the opposite sex on the basis of his or her say-so. The law passed over the objections of countless Scottish women who have explained repeatedly that this will result in men being able to force themselves into women-only spaces like domestic violence shelters and prisons, and despite two-thirds of the Scottish population opposing it. ----- Anyone who cares about the rights, privacy, and safety of women and girls; anyone who cares about acknowledging the material reality of biological sex; and anyone who thinks that public policy should be grounded in science needs to take a stand. Now would be a good time. Sex was abolished under Scottish law this month and it may soon happen in Spain and Germany. Americans should not be surprised when it comes for us next. Source: Newsweek
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Is this the world we want to live in?