Being Excluded From Your Own Body

Here is a 2018 YouTube video (approx 17 minutes) of Professor Michele Moore (Univ of Essex), editor and chief of Disability & Society, a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of disability studies.

Moore has been a warrior for children and young people yet has been harshly denounced for disagreeing with Gender Identity activists who claim that self-identified “transkids” are always right and should always be “affirmed” in their belief that they are Transgender.

She touches on several topics discussed by this blog.

  • Rapid Onset Gender-Dysphoria (ROGD) – teenagers (mostly girls) suddenly identifying with G-D
  • Social Contagion – teens identifying as trans in “friendship groups” offline and online
  • Schools Deceiving Parents About Social Transition
  • Social Services removing children from “non-affirming” parents.
  • 4,500 percent increase in girls identifying as transgender over last decade in UK
  • “Conversion Therapy” Deception
  • 2/3 of Self-ID “trans” teenagers previously identified with mental health disorders
  • 35% of children referred to UK Tavistock Gender Clinic are on autistic spectrum
  • 80% desistance rate once they go through puberty using “watchful waiting”
  • Normalizing dissociation from your natural body
  • Lifelong Medicalization of Identity
  • New kind of Homophobia
  • Experimentation on the bodies of our children
  • No child born in the wrong body
  • Self-ID of gender is illusory

This is about inclusion. Listen….


Here are some of her final words in the video….

I argue that self identity is brought on by the things people say.  A backdrop of media, the internet, the increasing role of trans affirmative ideas in schools for children that affect our teachers and the parents....uncritical medical practice is recycling the idea that the cause of misaligned gender resides in the body.  Even though medical interventions bring lifelong physical and psychological difficulties that will actually deepen gender-based dissatisfaction and never actually change a person's biological sex....

It's not coincidental that children's interests are being undermined by the idea of self-identification.  There are a lot of stakeholders including Big Pharma who want them to identify as transgender and who don't want anybody to ask any sensible questions.  Very conveniently puberty blockers and hormone therapy compounds gender confusion.  First the child misses out on the puberty of their peers.  Next an already confused girl has a vagina and a beard.  The only way forward is more treatment, more treatment.  Allegedly to relieve gender-dysphoria.  

But the DeTransitioners that I'm working with and the people who regret transitioning tell us that gender-dysphoria doesn't go away with medical intervention because the problem doesn't reside in the body.  

My critique is not about exclusion.  It's about inclusion.  It's about allowing every girl to live her own kind of femininity without being excluded from her own body and without being excluded from a female sex class.  And it's about inclusion so that any boy wants to wear pink dresses to school can do that and not be excluded from his own body.  And his own sex class.  

The idea that children are born in the wrong body, that gender is biological and sex isn't, and that children should be allowed to self-identify their sex and their gender, functions as a tool for adult self interest.  Children are being confused in terrible ways...

Professor Moore puts her career and reputation on the line by saying what she says. She has “nerves of steel.”

Gender Ideologues animated by Queer Theory want to abolish the concepts of sex and sexuality. And they want to start teaching this to our kids at the earliest possible age. Please refer to the following “category” of posts: Schools and Gender Ideology for more information.

You can read about Queer Theory in the previous post: The New Homophobia, LGBTQ Activism & Queer Theory.

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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.

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A Four Year Old & The Transgender Bear

https://twitter.com/tatjanasuarez/status/1501888121658650626

This happened in the UK. When the mother Tatiana Suarez raised the issue with the school they suggested she find another school for her 4 year-old since Islington Ofsted is an “inclusive” school.

Tatiana did just that.


I expect School Choice initiatives in the U.S. to be a rather hot-button political issue in the coming years.

The Body Deniers Among Us

Okay. I watched the following public service announcement (PSA) several times this weekend while enjoying Men’s College Basketball via Hulu.

Love March Madness!

Adidas featured a commercial which highlighted a transgender athlete. It also ran repeatedly. We got a Gender-Ideology full-press this weekend.

In the PSA below the sports of soccer, basketball, field hockey, and gymnastics were highlighted. Now, if the team camaraderie encouraged in this PSA is just for the purpose of organizing local pickup games, like at the YMCA, I don’t see any problem with boys and girls playing together, within reason (is there much left these days?).

But once it gets really serious, and the stakes are higher, say, with organized High School athletics and beyond, like it is with men’s March Madness, you are smokin’ weed or something worse if you think post-pubescent biological men and women can and should compete together.

Full contact sport, with men and women competing together?

That’s insane.

Here’s the 30 sec PSA….


Another thing about this PSA. It highlights team sport.

What about those sports that are mostly about individual achievement? Say swimming? Or Boxing? Mix Martial Arts? Wrestling? Figure Skating? Or like some of the ones you’ll find later in this post?

Yet even in team sport we would have an “inclusion” problem. Maybe Team A has included 3 biological males and they start for Team A’s basketball squad. Their opponent has the more traditional, less inclusive, 5 out of 5 biological female starters. Are you gonna tell me that the difference in those bodies doesn’t matter?

Are you smoking peyote?

Have you seen how physical and fast, and yes, more athletic, men’s basketball is compared to women’s basketball? There is a good reason for that.

Stop denying the madness. A Transwoman is not a real woman.


Real World Examples

Why do you think the Ukrainian government refused to allow able bodied males between the ages of 18 and 59 to leave Ukraine? Was that just another example of deep seated old-world patriarchy? Something the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) human relation’s folk would find deeply offensive and legally actionable? Do you think the women and children of Ukraine would want to minimize, for the sake of inclusion, those male-bodied capabilities right now?

Not on their life, they wouldn’t.


The PSA above propagandizes a radical “gender neutral” agenda. No-doubt facilitated by young people who have watched too many Saturday morning cartoons where the female superheroes “kick ass” just like the males. This fiction is also made easier because our young people have been groomed from Kindergarten to think male/female body differences don’t matter or are irrelevant.

See the following posts for more information about how our schools have developed this agenda and have also co-opted parental prerogatives. 

And these posts for more information on how Gender Ideology impacts women's sport.

Here in the real world of sport, post-pubescent male length of bone, muscle mass, and natural testosterone infused aggressiveness, etc., will leave females in the dust. Or injure them. Anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming. And probably agenda driven.

If male bodied athletes are allowed to compete with female bodied athletes, this will mean the end of women’s sport.

Is that the world we want to live in?

This is not about discouraging anyone genuinely confused about their sex or gender identity from playing pickup games during school gym class.

This is about refusing to recognize that when it comes to competitive sport, where potential scholarships are on the line, and perhaps the slight chance of a professional contract awaits, the body deniers among us are living in a dangerous fantasy world, a world that doesn’t care about female athletes.


In 2017 at the Connecticut State High School Track and Field Championship Andraya Yearwood won the women’s 100 meter and 200 meter races. Bully for her. Right? But here’s the problem. Andraya is a biological male. In Connecticut, students are allowed to play sports in accordance with their gender identity regardless of medical transition status. Andraya underwent no medical interventions prior to winning. No puberty blockers. No cross-sex hormones, in this case estrogen. “She” simply identified as “female” and proceeded to crush the competition.

You can read the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Transgender policy here.

With her father, Rahsaan Yearwood, photographing from the sideline Cromwell High School freshman Andrea Yearwood wins the 200 meter dash during her first track meet as a transgender female. In middle school, Yearwood ran with the boys but, her father said, “If she won the nationals in the boys, she wouldn’t be as happy as coming in 15th in a local meet with the girls and that says everything about why she is running on the girls team and not the boys." Yearwood won the 200 in 26.34 seconds.
Yearwood Crushing the Competition in “Her” First HS Race Against Females

This was allowed because the Connecticut Athletic Association along with several other state athletic associations has been captured by Gender Ideology. If you think the increased length of bone, muscle mass, heart and lung size of post pubescent males doesn’t confer a male advantage in a sport where speed and strength matter then you need to

Put down the peyote!

Here’s how a Hartford Courant journalist put it: “As We Rightfully Applaud Yearwood, We Must Acknowledge Many Questions Remain.”

Is this the world we want live in?

You can read about 4 biological female athletes who filed suit against the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) here.

Connecticut high school track athletes Selina Soule, Chelsea Mitchell, and Alanna Smith
3 of the 4, Selina Soule, Chelsea Mitchell, Alanna Smith

Hannah Mouncey, who transitioned at age 26, is 6ft 2 in and weighs 220lb. Mouncey is a biological male but participates in a female Australian Rules Football league and pulverizes female players on the field. A picture is worth more than words.

Hannah Mouncey, playing at VFLW level, says she is planning legal action against the AFL in order to play local footy in Canberra. (AAP Image/James Ross)
Hannah Mouncey, playing at VFLW level, says she is planning legal action against the AFL in order to play local footy in Canberra. (AAP Image/James Ross)Source: News Corp Australia

Is this fair? Or is there an intrinsic injustice of pitting one sort of sexed body against another very different sort?

I’m with the real girls on this one. And against the body deniers among us.


The “Gender Identity and Expression” movement has a multitude of legal and cultural ramifications that most people have yet to think about in their rush to “affirm” confused individual choice for the sake of being, or being seen as, inclusive and/or non-bigoted.

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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.