Blue Ridge Style & Beyond
Helen Joyce responds to a Labour Party member of Parliament, Stella Creasy, who recently stated that:
Labour Party infighting over this as Labour Chair Anneliese Dodds says “Stella Creasy is WRONG that women CAN be born with penises.”
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Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion
A long form interview, (if you have the time) on the calmversations podcast. Brit female moves to Canada and wakes up. For her enlightenment and her public discussion of it she is vilified as a TERF (Trans-exclusive-radical-feminist). She also had her Twitter account shut down.
Mia is most concerned about the effect on children. And Rapid Onset Gender Dyphoria (ROGD)1teenagers (mostly girls) suddenly identifying with G-D.. And how our school educators are “practicing psychotherapy without a license.”
Informative interview.
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Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion
An autobiographical essay by Steven A Richards, a “male-to-female” trans person who regretted his decision, and has “detransitioned” after having done a deep dive to purify himself.
It didn’t work.
You will read about what drove him to reject his manhood.
Here are a few graphs.
I was terrified of what testosterone was doing to me. I didn't want to be a man. I didn't want to be big and hairy. Men scared me. I’d seen my mom assaulted when I was young, and I didn’t want to be like the man who’d done that to her. The idea of testosterone poisoning made sense to me because maleness itself terrified me. I'd been bullied a lot in school by other boys, and a lot of that bullying involved sexual abuse–groping, inappropriate touching, striking my butt and genitals, and verbal harassment (wolf-whistling amd yelling sexual comments at me). These, I felt, weren’t the sorts of things that happened to men. My suffering was only legible if I was a woman.
This background made me vulnerable to the ideology of transgenderism. I had no friends in high school and spent a lot of time online, and I was exposed to the burgeoning social justice/woke movement before it entered the mainstream. When I connected to the internet, I was inundated with messages about the violence of maleness. This wasn't just "toxic masculinity"--I saw feminists saying all masculinity was toxic, that all men were rapists, all men were oppressors, all men should be killed. As a white man, I was directly responsible for all of the oppression experienced by women and people of color. I was fourteen years old and had never been in a fight in my life or said a racist or misogynistic word to anyone, but I believed that the circumstances of my birth made me a monster. I wasn't mentally mature enough to think critically about these ideas, or to take them as anything but literal fact. (Literal thinking is common among autistic people, and I would be diagnosed with autism a few years later.) I believed, all the way down to my core, that all men were evil and all women were unimpeachably virtuous. This was black-and-white thinking; it’s one of the reasons why so many autistic people are transitioning. I believed that my very existence was sinful.
Please read the whole thing. And his clarifying “Pinned” comment in the bottom comment section.
Speaking as a Christian, I’m compelled to say there are dark powers behind all of this.
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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.
Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion