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G7 in Brazil, a tiny news network, is causing a stir with more than 10,000 views on YouTube within two hours detailing a special covering the Scottish guidelines to "Gender Dysphoric Children." Scott Newgent, our founder, was interviewed and caused a stir with his SCREAMING… YouTube Video Welcome To TReVoices Blog By, Scott Newgent If you believe in what we are doing, consider helping us with a gift. "School systems have no business with my child's sexuality or gender dysphoria... It's none of their business, and UNTIL other parents start to freak out in unison, we will continue to see our children engulfed in unicorn farts and glitter bombs. If I can do one thing as a trans man and a parent, that would be to give parents around the world the RIGHT to scream free of bigotry, because bigotry has nothing to do with medically transitioning children..Money does...SCREAM LOUDER! We trans are right behind you, not just encouraging...Pushing you!" The SNP (Scottish National Party) has decided that schools should have autonomy over kids changing names and pronouns and parents' views are secondary This is in line with previous policies. For instance, the SNP had a policy which ended up being withdrawn a few years ago where the state would nominate a state employee "responsible" for each child in Scotland (a social worker, teacher, etc.). This person would effectively have operated as a "third parent," who would have had certain decision-making rights over the child in question. That policy was junked as it turned out to be very unpopular. However, Scottish Nationalists seem to have a very distinct view of the role of the parent versus the role of the state. They seem to believe that parental responsibility gives too much authority to parents and too little authority to the state. Join TReVoices Army Today = Volunteer 0r Donate Today

Welcome To TReVoices Blog By, Scott Newgent If you believe in what we are doing, consider helping us with a gift. Parents? It's old fashion doubt, fear of not fitting in! I get these messages a lot and thought it would be beneficial to read a real-life thread of what your kids 'young adults' are saying about being trans and why they believe they are. Read how I disarm the idea that you are born trans quickly and in a way they understand and soothing with the knowledge they are completely NORMAL to believe how they do. Trans ideology feeds on what females have felt since the beginning of time. The phrasing is sinister and provides what all of us females have deemed at one point in life, along with a unicorn fart solution wrapped in Disney magic as a cure-all. It's the reason why the 4000&% increase has been dumped on the majority of the female's side of medical transition or the FTM. Real Thread - I'm a trans man and I wondered if I can ask you some questions. Relentless Focus To Stop The Medicalization Of Gender Confused Children! Help Us Continue The Fight & Donate Now.

Original Newsweek Article Follows Welcome To TReVoices Blog By, Scott Newgent If you believe in what we are doing, consider helping us with a gift. I posted this on my blog today for a reason. Significant red/bold/underlined statements should alarm anyone reading this article. They are facts about medical transition along with studies attached to each. In the Newsweek article, I had to be politically correct. But here is the truth laid out in laymen's terms. Kids that medically transitioning lives are cut short, increased chance of blood clots (I've personally had two, one that was so large it induced a massive heart attack ), pretty much guaranteeing these kids will have to be on blood thinners for life, bone damage (we are now seeing trans girls in their 20s suffering from early-onset osteoporosis) liver damage (cirrhosis of the liver), girls who transition move from anxiety disorders to debilitating mood disorders in alarming numbers, anxiety turns into severe bipolar, suicide peaks at 7-10 years after medical transition resulting in the highest society rate of suicide in the ENTIRE population, mental illness manifests into psychosis for girls who are transitioning, taking them from anxiety to significant mood disorders and sprinkling in 12% chance of adding on psychosis (you know the people on the street talking to imaginary friends), stunted brain development, brains not growing up and out of the teen aura of life, losing the ability to orgasm, infertility, sterilized for life, does not improve the anxiety it's meant to cure and does an about face to make mental health worse. &.......here is the kicker: All the studies that said medically transitioning children was beneficial? Retracted Yet, medically transitioning children here in the US full steam ahead. So you may think my voice is too stern or SCREAMING is not warranted, but I believe my voice is not SCREAMING enough, and neither is yours. Rioting would not be enough in my book. But, for political correctness, I've linked emails for every senator in the entire US. Email them, and you SCREAM today. Write US Senators Link ON 2/9/21 AT 7:30 AM EST I am a 48-year-old transgender man. I was thrilled when the medical community told me six years ago that I could change from a woman to a man. I was informed about all the wonderful things that would happen due to medical transition, but all the negatives were glossed over. Since then, I have suffered tremendously, including seven surgeries, a pulmonary embolism, an induced stress heart attack, sepsis, a 17-month recurring infection, 16 rounds of antibiotics, three weeks of daily IV antibiotics, arm reconstructive surgery, lung, heart and bladder damage, insomnia, hallucinations, PTSD, $1 million in medical expenses, and loss of home, car, career and marriage. All this, and yet I cannot sue the surgeon responsible—in part because there is no structured, tested or widely accepted baseline for transgender health care. Read that again: There is no structured, tested, or widely accepted baseline for transgender health care. Not for 42-year-olds, and not for the many minors embarking on medical transition in record numbers. It is not transphobic or discriminatory to discuss this—we as a society need to fully understand what we are encouraging our children to do to their bodies. Throughout transition, I second-guessed my decisions, but each counseling session and doctor's appointment amounted to one more push convincing me I could be cured of being born in the wrong body. The truth was that I didn't fit in as a dominant, aggressive, assertive lesbian. The dream of finally fitting in dangled like a carrot: The idea that I could fit in catapulted me to a time much like adolescence, with its drive for acceptance, inclusive peers and the fantasy of being normal. During my post-operation 17 months of sheer survival, I discovered that transgender health care is experimental and that large swaths of the medical industry encourage minors to transition due, at least in part, to fat profit margins. I was gobsmacked. Each day I researched more and became increasingly appalled. As I jumped from ER to ER desperately seeking help, I realized that nobody knew what to do. Each physician told me to return to the original surgeon. I was trapped like a child with an abusive parent. My recurring bladder infection not only demolished my body; it started to ravage my mind, too. I stopped being able to problem-solve, and then lost my health insurance when I couldn't work. I spent many nights in the bathroom in too much pain to even make it to the toilet, forced to urinate on the floor, screaming as what felt like razor blades left my body. Rest came only in 45-minute increments that I induced with four shots of vodka, six Benadryl pills and a handful of melatonin—with only sleep-deprived hallucinations for my trouble. One night I simply couldn't take it. I wanted to die. I crawled to bed and had another hallucination. My children's lives flashed before my eyes, and I saw the devastation my death would cause them. Right then, I made a deal with God, the universe, whatever you call it, that if my life were spared, if I were allowed to be here for my kids, I would help other kids by ensuring people knew what the experimentation of transgender health care really entails. I remember my whimpers: "God, an eye for an eye—in reverse. I will fight with a mother's passion for others if I can be here for my kids." So here I am, a trans man, sifting through my good and bad decisions, and for the first time embracing who I am—what I have created, and the life I now lead. It took me 48 years to realize I transitioned because I never wholeheartedly accepted being a lesbian. Our children don't have a prayer to embrace the reality of something it takes a lifetime to understand. That's our job, as parents: to protect them from foolish, lifelong mistakes. Here's what I could not comprehend before transitioning and what I honestly believe no child is capable of consenting to: Decreased life expectancy Increased risk of premature death from heart attacks and pulmonary embolisms Bone damage Possible liver damage Increased mental health complications Increased chances of mood-syndrome symptoms Higher suicide rates than non-trans population 12 percent higher chance than non-trans population to develop symptoms of psychosis Chance of stunted brain development Much reduced chance for lifelong sexual pleasure Higher chance of sterility and infertility No improved mental health outcomes Not completely reversible Trans activists tout studies that say medically transitioning gender-questioning children improves mental health. But those studies have often been retracted (and those retractions underreported by the media). Moreover, no long-term studies have been conducted on children who grow up without the benefit of natural puberty. No studies at all have been done on de-transitioners (people who return to identifying as their natal sex). What are the psychological effects? No one has a clue, and researchers are too often shut down by cancel culture for even raising the questions. Peer-reviewed studies show a shocking correlation between gender dysphoria and autism, depression, anxiety, eating disorders and other co-morbidities. Additionally, it seems that many of these children are simply gay. Could pushing people on a one-way path to medical transition be a different form of "conversion therapy?" We need to ask and study these hard questions—for the good of all children. But we're not—not in the mainstream media, and certainly not in President Joe Biden's new administration. America is proceeding down its path of total affirmation just as other countries are restoring greater balance. This past December, the U.K. High Court of Justice ruled that puberty blockers for minors are both experimental and a one-way ticket to permanent transition. Finland in 2020 completely overhauled its approach to treating minors with gender dysphoria, prioritizing psychotherapeutic non-invasive interventions and recognizing adolescence as a time of major identity exploration. Sweden is conducting a systematic literature review of the scientific basis of the long-term effects on physical and mental health of puberty blockers and hormones. The researcher who championed the "Dutch protocol" recently called for a rethink, while other research is beginning to show that the current one-size-fits-all status quo is too limited. So if we are now waking up to the fact that gender dysphoria is over-simplistically conflated with transgenderism, medical treatments have understudied long-term consequences, some are getting rich off transgender medicine and de-transitioners are speaking up in skyrocketing numbers, why are we only making it easier for children to unquestioningly transition? We now have the obligation to work together to slow trans medicalization of minors until they are adults and have the capacity to truly understand the lifelong consequences of transitioning. As a former lesbian and current trans man, I maintain this is not transphobic. It is actually sensitive and caring to recognize that not just one treatment or pathway is right for all kids. Therefore, I am currently building a bipartisan army to protect our children, hold the medical industry accountable and educate our president and the rest of society about the dangers of transgender extremism. We must throw our differences aside for a moment; I promise you, once children are safe, we can resume fighting. But until children are safe, nothing else matters. So, endocrinologists and pediatricians, moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans, radical feminists and evangelicals, lawyers and psychologists, parents and teachers: My hand is out. I will grab yours and turn down no one. Together, we can build a circle around our most precious resource: our children. Help me fulfill the promise I made on the night I almost gave up, to be here for my children—and now yours. Who's with me? Scott Newgent is active with Trans Rational Educational Voices (www.TReVoices.com). Twitter: @ScottNewgent. <----Kicked off twitter The views expressed in this article are the writer's own <----That's right they are mine.

Transwoman testifies against puberty blockers for CA Foster Kids and only gets a measly 2916 views. Are you kidding me? Welcome To TReVoices Blog By, Scott Newgent If you believe in what we are doing, consider helping us with a gift. Rene Jax, a transwoman for 40 years, testifies in the California Senate Judiciary Committee against AB 2119, a bill to make sure foster kids have access to sex-change operations and puberty-blocking drugs to help them align their bodies to match the gender identity. I found this little treasure on YouTube, a transwoman in 2018 who testified against puberty blockers for children within the foster care system, and it got me thinking. How many verbal trans are there for medically transitioning children? How many are against the medicalization of children, like myself? Relentless Focus To Stop The Medicalization Of Gender Confused Children! Help Us Continue The Fight & Donate Now. I started tallying in my head, and I came up with over 50 vocal trans against the medicalization of children, and believe me, this takes guts to do publicly. And so, it got me thinking of the vocal trans pro medically transition children. Who are they? Because as a salesperson my whole life, this is the time within an unsuccessful sales deal where I would stand up and say: "Hey People! We are not doing this deal right; we are not negotiating right—something's missing, an angle. What is it?" It's time for a different take. My idea? Create a list of trans who are proponents of the medicalization of children and the huge list I have compiled against to challenge our thinking. Let the pro-trans tells us con trans why not allowing children to transition medically is the wrong position to take. Make them sell us...... We need to stop selling this; we need to require them to sell us. Why? Because as soon as they open their mouths with another trans in the room, do you know what happens? They look like total imbeciles! I've seen it up close and personal, and it's POWERFUL! So I ask. Who is the high profile trans you know pushing the medicalization of children as life-saving? Let's try something new. Ok let me have the names, Scott Newgent

Only in the United States of America is there the tolerance within the medical community for "non-binary" surgical experiments on traumatized people. Original Article In The Post Millennial Donate Hot on the heels of detransitioner Keira Bell's lawsuit against the National Health Service's gender identity clinic, another victim of so-called "transgender healthcare" has stepped up to ask tough questions of this most under-regulated part of the medical industry. Scott Newgent is a trans activist who wants to see an end to pediatric "transitioning" and higher clinical standards for adults who wish to modify their bodies to resemble the other sex. Newgent wrote: " I wasn't 'born in the wrong body.' I was born female. But I didn't like it. So I changed my appearance, at significant monetary, psychological, and physical cost, with plastic surgery and hormones. My sex never changed, though. Only my appearance changed." At the age of 41, Newgent embarked on the process of spending $1 million on so-called "transgender healthcare" body modifications which caused irreversible damage. Newgent said "After my surgery with Dr. Crane I had a massive pulmonary embolism [and] endured a stress heart attack. I had to have reconstruction surgery to a ligament that was protruding from my arm and now I'm handicapped for life. I also had to have 6 inches of hair removed from my urethra…that caused a 17 month infection that almost took my life." Newgent said "During the process of medical transition, I have had seven surgeries, one massive pulmonary embolism, one helicopter life-flight ride, an emergency ambulance ride, induced stress heart attack, sepsis, 17-month recurring infection due to using the wrong skin during a phalloplasty, 16 rounds of antibiotics, three weeks of daily IV antibiotics, lost all my hair, arm reconstructive surgery, handicapped arm, permanent lung, and heart damage, my bladder was cut, I had insomnia induced hallucinations, frequently loss of consciousness due to pain from the 6 inches of hair on the inside of my urethra, significant PTSD that made me a prisoner in my apartment for a year not able, failed phalloplasty, billed $923,980 for medical expenses, I lost my home, car, job, career, wife, and I could no longer care for my kids due to medical complications." Concerned that children as young as three were being groomed to think of themselves as "trans," with a view to undergoing experimental body modifications, Newgent wants to warn parents about the hazards of bringing children who believe they should be the other sex to gender clinics. Six years down the line, Newgent deeply regrets the body modifications, saying: "I wish I'd known then what I know now. I can tell you that the information out there regarding transition is heavily weighted to one side, and people must have factual information to make decisions…" Dr. Curtis Crane MD, who performed multiple surgeries on Newgent from 2014 onwards, was the defendant in nine clinical malpractice claims in California during 2017-18. Each was the subject of a Non Disclosure Agreement with his former patients. Crane retains licenses to practice medicine in California and Texas. Newgent said "I went to eight different attorneys about that surgeon. Each wanted to take on my case, but after they investigated, they found out there is no baseline for care. We have nothing to compare outcomes for medical transition, so it's a free-for-all, and the medical industry knows this." Dr. Crane claims to be "one of the only people worldwide who is dually trained in both Urology and Plastic Surgery." He has been described as "acquiring penis-making skills." Of course, this is pure marketing. The only human capable of making a penis is a mother, according to nature's code. It is a matter of public record that the phalloplasty procedures inflicted on women who wish they were men result in a useless appendage without sensation, at best, gangrene and necrosis at worst. Despite the repeated failure of phalloplasty experiments, Dr. Crane seems to harbour a grandiose fantasy of himself as a great creator of new human beings, or at least the sexual organs of human beings. In interview, he said "the genitalia we build are my children." Of phalloplasty, he said that the pump which mimics an erection means "You become superhuman, you become part cyborg and your penis has superhuman capabilities… They want to be erect all of Burning Man, they can." In light of the dismal facts, this is an irresponsible sales message. Crane promises women that they can obtain a super-macho experience of male sexual pleasure. In reality, they can expect pain and humiliation. Crane laughed about a prospective patient who wanted him to make a tail which could be grafted onto the body. "I was like, 'Well, that's very interesting.' I guess I could drop down a pair of spineless flaps and then skin graft it and I'm like, 'Would you want it to move?'" The only obstacle Dr. Crane saw to such a procedure was not ethical, but technical. "I'm like, 'Let's think about innervation.' I was like, 'I don't know if we should do this.'" Dr. Crane performs a rare body modification procedure known as "genital nullification," which involves amputating reproductive organs for reasons of normalizing sexual trauma. In an interview, he said "I've done a few [full penectomies]. We get a few requests a year, and I think it's a good service to provide to the community." Crane now advertises these "nullo" procedures as a form of "non-binary" surgery on his website. Suddenly, young people declaring themselves "non-binary" doesn't seem like a harmless youth fad. Crane also considers creating a second set of pseudo-genitals while the subject retains their natural genitals as a form of "non-binary" surgery. It is notable that only in the United States of America is there the tolerance within the medical community for "non-binary" surgical experiments on traumatized people. Only in the US is there no duty to explore the underlying reasons why people seek to undergo these extreme body modifications. Crane believes that medical ethics begin and end with the concepts of bodily autonomy and informed consent. However, children are incapable of either, and it is doubtful whether adults who are either mentally unwell, or on the autism spectrum, are capable of consenting to experimental procedures with zero curative benefit. Crane is a devotee of queer theory, a strand of academia in which the only purpose of social norms is to dismantle and upend them. "The ethics in medicine comes down to 'Are you acting in the best interests of your patient?' If you are, then you are ethical…I use that belief system to ignore social and cultural norms. Yes, back in 2012 some people gave me sh*t for building a phallus for someone that wanted to keep his vagina." He hand waves away the fact that people who "identify as" trans suffer from co-morbid mental health conditions, saying that "depression, anxiety and other psychiatric diagnoses need to be in check to help with a successful transition and a successful surgery." This is putting the cart before the horse. If the patient's mental health struggles were alleviated by therapy which got to the root of their body dysmorphia, for example, or to find out whether a neurological diagnosis was relevant, they might not feel the desire to go under the knife. In that case, Crane would be out of a job performing body modifications on traumatized people. He would have to go back to performing urology procedures on people with physical health problems. I will leave it to the reader to decide whether or not that would be a good thing for society at large.

Article W/ Links The state cannot remove a child and brand her parents as abusive and neglectful simply because they resist medicalized gender change with risks including sterilization, Western Australia’s chief justice will be told on Tuesday. Welcome To TReVoices Blog By, Scott Newgent. If you believe in what we are doing, consider helping us with a gift. Justice Peter Quinlan is to rule on a legal challenge in Australia’s first known case of a minor taken into care after the parents expressed doubts about the safety of cross-sex hormone treatment for their daughter who identifies as a transgender male. There has been a shift towards greater caution internationally about treatment for the bodily distress of gender dysphoria since the child was taken into state care in 2019 on the eve of her 16th birthday after a reported plan to commit suicide. Relentless Focus To Stop The Medicalization Of Gender Confused Children! Help Us Continue The Fight & Donate Now. The latest developments overseas include agreement by most of Sweden’s youth gender clinics to restrict or better monitor puberty blocker drugs and synthetic hormones, pending new national treatment guidance from a government health agency. This appears consistent with the UK High Court’s ruling in the 2020 Tavistock clinic case that the evidence for puberty blocking is so meagre it is experimental medicine. Meanwhile, the Perth Children’s Hospital gender clinic, one of Australia’s three major centres that follow the “gender affirmative” medical model, is undergoing a secretive review, with judicial oversight of treatment decisions. In September 2016, the clinic had 100 young patients, rising to 432 on the same September day last year, when 63 were on cross-sex hormones. Video: Therapist Stella O’Malley on a new parents’ group concerned about gender clinics On Tuesday the lawyer for the parents is expected to argue before Justice Quinlan that a children’s court magistrate last year was wrong to find emotional abuse and neglect in their natural caution about “affirmative” medical interventions and their wish to explore less invasive psychological treatments and other possible reasons for their daughter’s distress. In the Supreme Court appeal, the lawyer will point out that even the psychiatric gender expert relied upon by the magistrate had conceded the area of gender dysphoria was highly controversial and different experts might come to different conclusions about diagnosis and treatment. The child, whose identity has been protected, will be free to begin testosterone later this year when she turns 18, but her parents told The Australian their appeal was still important to undo the abuse and neglect findings against them and to protect other parents from a similar misuse of state power. “We were found unjustly guilty of future potential mental health abuse, should the government let our daughter come back to us, because (the gender clinicians) think she would be emotionally damaged if we do not allow her to use hormones to destroy her health and fertility,” the father said. The parents’ case also argues that testosterone treatment – injected to masculinise the body of a biological female – poses known and unknown risks. The informed consent document for testosterone drugs, obtained from the Perth gender clinic under FOI law, warns young patients of “mood swings and aggressive behaviour” and other risks, including blood clots, heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke, liver disease and “manic/psychotic symptoms”. “It is not known whether testosterone increases the risk of breast/uterine cancer,” the 8-page document says. The WA Department of Communities will be represented in the appeal hearing by senior counsel Carolyn Thatcher, who will argue the magistrate was entitled to make a finding of emotional abuse because the parents had denied the child’s “stated feelings about his gender identity” and failed to accept the gender dysphoria diagnosis. A psychiatrist gave evidence the child would be at high risk of suicide if returned to parents who failed to “affirm” his male gender identity. Gender clinics assert their affirmative medical interventions are “lifesaving” but critics say there is no good quality, long-term evidence to back up this claim. Following reports in this newspaper, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 2019 set up a working group to review gender dysphoria treatment for minors. The review is still going but The Australian understands the working group considers the lack of clear evidence would make it very difficult for the college to come up with formal clinical guidelines on how to respond to the surge in teenagers declaring a trans identity. Gender dysphoria is a condition classified by psychiatry’s diagnostic manual DSM-5. In July, Brisbane GP Fiona Bisshop, who is president of the gender clinicians’ lobby the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health, claimed gender-affirming treatment was “not controversial”. In Sweden, the Stockholm gender clinic which is part of the famous Karolinska Institute moved ahead of promised national guidance with its mid-year decision to limit under-18 hormonal treatments to strictly controlled clinical trials. A Karolinska manager Svante Norgren said it was unsustainable to wait for the new government guidance, given major shortcomings in the scientific basis for these treatments, according to a news report earlier this month in a journal of the Swedish Medical Association. Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare is expected to issue the new guidance later this year. Following the Karolinska’s lead, most of Sweden’s six university-based youth gender clinics have reportedly adopted a more cautious approach to under-18 medicalised gender change, pending the updated guidance. This new caution will limit hormonal treatment to exceptional cases, unless they are part of a clinical trial or tracked in a national register of gender dysphoria treatment. The Australian put questions to the WA government, the Perth Children’s Hospital gender clinic and the support group TransFolks of WA. BERNARD LANE, ROVING EDITOR, LEADER WRITER, DATA JOURNALIST Bernard Lane

I finally had the time to sit down and review the much-discussed and highly controversial Arkansas bill, frankly prepared to hate it. I mean I was ready with word tracks in my head: “These Republican jerks, blah blah, what idiots.” My fire is fierce when I believe someone is off track and self absorbed for a career or to make a point. Medically transitioning gender-questioning children should never be a political ladder used to further careers. Medical transitioning gender-confused children is a serious infraction that chips away at every child's health for a lifetime. It's serious and needs to be understood and presented that way. I kneel to no one about the topic of medical transition for gender-questioning kids. I don’t care who you are, how famous you are, or how much money you have. I will give in to no one and call out anyone I believe needs to be called out! But boy, was I pleasantly surprised to see what was in the actual language. Arkansas, a heavily Republican state, almost got it 100%. Which goes to show you that sometimes your enemies are the exact people you need to turn to. In this circumstance I say, “Bravo.” A few tweaks and this could be a nationwide HALT to medical transitioning children. It contains almost everything I would recommend in such a bill, which should go into effect in July. It recognizes the experimental nature of and lack of long-term studies for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently did a systemic review of and found the evidence “very low” (their words) in all categories. Similarly, as of May 1, 2021, Sweden’s Karolinska Hospital (part the the Karolinska Institute, which grants the Nobel Prize) has stopped all new prescriptions of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for gender dysphoric minors under age 18 and will only allow their use in research studies. (Sweden! One of the most progressive countries in the world when it comes to issues of gender dysphoria.) It outlaws puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries for all gender-confused children under the age of 18, recognizing that adolescence is a time of great identity exploration and development, much in line with what Finland (Finland! Another progressive Nordic country) did last year. It recognizes that most gender-confused children will outgrow such gender-confusion. It recognizes that medical transition does NOT improve mental health outcomes, in line with a recent correction to a study that was not reported in the mainstream news. It recognizes the unexplained exploding rates of gender-confused children in recent years. It recognizes biological sex. It does not use the term “transgender” at all in the bill, which is factually correct. These are kids with gender dysphoria or who are otherwise gender-confused. Transgender is not the correct term for them. When we are speaking about gender confused kids, the word trans should be nowhere around! Why? If you combine trans and kids, it acknowledges that trans kids exist...They do not! Gender-confused kids do exist and have an 80% of recovering to live contentedly in the sex they were born into. Which is contrary to the gay and lesbian human rights campaigns that focused on homosexuality being ingrained, which it is. Never has there been a conversion therapy that stuck or was successful long term with a homosexual. It always backfires. Why? Because homosexuality is who you are, but trans is something you create through medicalization. I’ll keep saying it; 80% of kids become content in their biological sex! It’s not transphobic to celebrate this! Celebrate on, sisters and brothers! And celebrate that a tiny portion of these kids would find comfort in medical transition, but not most. This is another non-transphobic statement. It’s factual, and facts are not hateful. If you believe you are a female and in fact you are a biological male, this needs to be treated, not celebrated and lifted as brave… Nothing about this is bravery. We need to stop celebrating children who are confused. Nothing to celebrate here, people….Celebrating confused human beings is not furthering human decency - it’s celebrating the most at-risk people. According to CNN, Arkansas state Rep. Robin Lundstrum, the Republican who proposed the Arkansas SAFE ACT, made this statement, with which I wholeheartedly agree: “Those kids are precious. Some of them may choose to be transgender when they’re older. That’s OK .... But when they’re under 18, they need to grow up first. That’s a big decision, there’s no going back.” There are three main problems I see with the bill. One is that it only fleetingly addresses the need for psychological support for these kids. Many of these gender-confused children have serious comorbidities that need addressing, including autism, ADHD, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and more. And if a child threatens suicide, they need immediate mental health counseling, not medicalized transition. Second, it does not recognize that most gender-confused kids will grow up to be gay. And that’s a-okay. Third, and this is big, it did not have the bipartisan support needed to make this bill palatable to more Americans. To redirect this bill and put it in bipartisan hands with a few changes, in my opinion, could HALT childhood medical transition nationally and even internationally. I wish we didn’t need such a bill. I wish doctors and gender clinics and WPATH and the Endocrine Society would not be held captive by radical trans activists and would follow the latest research and science, as Sweden, Finland, and the UK have done, for the long-term health of our children. But since they show no signs of doing such a thing, I believe we need bills like this. And it needs to be framed as a healthcare bill, not as anti-human rights or Republicans playing into the culture wars. At the same time, Democrats need to recognize that transgenderism is NOT the same as homosexuality, which cannot be outgrown. Where are the brave Democrats who will stand up and speak the truth, for the sake of a generation of gender-confused kids who are becoming guinea pigs? What we really need for such bills are a Democrat and a Republican together, and ideally they should be LGBT or allied with the community in some way. We need bipartisanship when it comes to keeping our gender-confused children safe. These should be people who want to get the bill actually passed, who really care, and not just want to get into the newspapers and advance their careers. As I argued in my Newsweek article and elsewhere, this is absolutely not a partisan issue. We also need to keep religion out of it. This is not a Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or atheist issue. It affects vulnerable children of any and no religion. It is NOT transphobic to want the best for our children, based on the latest research and evidence. We should NOT be arguing about the need for guardrails for our children. Imagine me, Scott Newgent, a fully transitioned transman, saying the words of Robin Lundstrum: “Those kids are precious. Some of them may choose to be transgender when they’re older. That’s OK .... But when they’re under 18, they need to grow up first. That’s a big decision, there’s no going back.” In fact, I have said almost these exact words, many times now. Our children come first. We must protect them. I ask that everyone, for one second, imagine that your own sweet, beloved child was swallowed by the trans phenomenon and allow your brain to take you to a place you believe your child would be in 10 years, with all the horrific side effects that I have documented, and many more that are still unknown… Personalize what is happening to other people’s kids and replace the faces of these kids with your own precious little ones. Only then can we all come together to stop the travesty of childhood medical transition. Listen, I have no doubt, whoever is reading this, that we could have a knock-down, drag-out verbal confrontation on many many things we don’t agree on. Ask me if I care - go ahead: “Do you care, Scott?” No, I don’t give a crap what you believe about anything other than stopping medical transition of gender-confused children, so grab my hand and let's focus on what we all should be focusing on...children! Help Me Save Gender-Confused Kids! Medical Transition Is No Place For A Child - Just Ask Us - We Have Done It Scott Newgent

The transition of children has become a proven source of human interest news. The following quotes are extracted from a selection of stories on the Daily Mail (British newspaper) website looking at young transgender males: They had presumed their prancing, pink-loving son who squirreled away cousins’ girl toys was gay… He wore sweatpants around his head to mimic ponytails and dressed as a princess for Halloween. And he hated boy things – especially his body.[1] Sources said the youngster had confided in friends that he wanted to be a girl and would put on a bikini to go swimming and use a Barbie towel. He rode to primary school on a pink scooter and wore pink ribbons in his hair.[2] While Blaine preferred playing with trucks and cars, Keat liked dolls. At school he liked playing dress up with the princess dresses… Keat was so happy in her skin but I dreaded that first day back at school where she would be going back to class with pigtails and a pink backpack.[3] She grew her hair out, pierced her ears, and wore dresses everywhere – even to kindergarten… growing up Jazz’s bedroom was filled with girly things – pink bed linen, a closet filled with dresses and an ample collection of stuffed animals.[4] When she chats with people, she introduces herself as, “Hi, I’m Sadie, my favorite color is pink, I’m vegan, and I’m transgender. Who are you?”‘ Sage said.[5] “I’m wishing for the one I love to find me!” the preschooler would enthusiastically sing into the toilet, copying Snow White, who sings into the echoing wishing well in the animated Disney movie. Six months after her second birthday, her parents say Ryan was drawn to all things pink and sparkly. Ryan, the boy, wore pajama pants on his head, pretending it was long hair, or acted out girl roles from movies.[6] Danann Tyler, who was born male but now dresses as a little girl and has long hair,… he never had any interest in the toys his elder brother Liam had loved. His sippy cup had to be pink. When a family friend playing dress up put him in a princess gown, he refused to take it off.[7] The commonality of these narratives is striking, within these seven stories mention is made of the following: a preference for pink (7/7), hair (6/7), princesses and dresses (5/7), ‘toys for girls’ (5/7). As an example, the association of pink with girls is itself cultural; devoid of culture, pink has no meaning with respect to the preferences of children, or even adults, of either sex. If we can accept that one’s “gender identity” is preference for the cultural conventions applicable to a particular sex, is it such a leap to suggest that for girls who are masculine (or boys who are feminine), such personality traits are being interpreted as an indicator that the child’s “gender identity” is not correspondent with the child’s sex? Is this not tantamount to suggesting that personality determines sex? [1] “Call me Katie: U.S. boy, 8, to live as a girl after being diagnosed with ‘gender identity disorder’” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1184245/Call-Katie-U-S-boy-8-live-girl-diagnosed-gender-identity-disorder.html [2] ‘Boy, 12, turns up for school as a girl after sex swap during the summer holidays’ 21 September 2009 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214314/Boy-12-turns-girl-summer-holidays.html#ixzz4YOLdKdlZ [3] ‘The schoolgirl who was born a boy: Parents defy local bullies to support child’s transition after she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder at seven years old’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2611975/Little-girl-9-born-boy-determined-live-normal-life-despite-backlash-hate-campaigns-local-community.html#ixzz4YOMRZtKc [4] ‘”He’s asking what parts of a boy I have”: Transgender teenage girl, 12, faces new problems as she starts dating’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2264745/Hes-asking-parts-boy-I-Transgender-teenage-girl-12-faces-new-problems-starts-dating.html#ixzz4YOO1SRq3 [5] ‘’We’re just like everyone else’: Transgender girl, 11, writes speech in response to Obama’s historic inaugural address because she wishes he’d spoken about her community too’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267777/Sadie-Croft-Transgender-girl-11-writes-speech-response-Obamas-inaugural-address.html#ixzz4YOPMLMHz [6] ‘This is Ryan’s first day as a girl, and everyone better be nice’: How transgender kids are navigating school challenges with increased support’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2332346/This-Ryans-day-girl-better-nice-How-transgender-kids-navigating-school-challenges-increased-support.html#ixzz4YOQRQNpw [7] ‘ ”When kids said I was a boy it made me sad”: Transgender eight-year-old reveals why she’s much happier living as a GIRL’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062296/When-kids-said-I-boy-sad-Transgender-child-says-shes-happier-living-girl-born-male.html#ixzz4YOS7Eout Follow Miranda's Work Here:

Homosexual children have a higher chance of committing suicide than gender confused kids! The warning is sounded often and loudly. "If you don't let your 'trans child' transition, they will possibly kill themselves.", "Would you rather have a live daughter or a dead son?" "Over 40% of 'trans' kids attempt suicide." Pretty scary stuff, right? All of this is used to support the idea that children should be allowed to socially and medically transition. After all, we don't want children to suffer, and we certainly don't want them dying. Only a complete monster would advocate for the death of children, and you're not a monster; are you? Let's look at some numbers. The Trevor Project did a 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health. This survey had 40,000 respondents age 13-24 who "identified" as either 1 of over 100 sexualities that were not "heterosexual" or 1 of over 100 gender identities that were not "cisgender", or both (Side note: WTF!) I could not find a breakdown of LGB vs T so I'll use the figures from the 2020 UCLA Williams Institute LGBT Youth Population Data to extrapolate. If 1,994,000 is the total US LGBT population, 1,844,00 being "cisgender" and 149,750 (Rounded to 150,00) being "transgender" then 92.5% of the LGBT population is "cisgender" LGB youth and 7.5% is "transgender" of any orientation. Applying that to the Trevor Project Survey the respondents are 37,000 LGB and 3,000 T. According to the Trevor Project survey, 34% of "cisgender" LGBQ youth and 52% of "transgender" youth had "considered suicide". Using my estimated numbers, that's 12,580 LGB and 1,560 "trans" youth. Actual suicide attempts are 11% (4,070) and 21% (630) respectively. Wow! That means that over 6 times more LGB youth attempt suicide than transgender youth. Not to diminish ANY suicide, but you would think that would be an important talking point. What else does the Trevor Project survey have to say? 46% of LGBT youth WANTED psychological or emotional counseling from a mental health professional but were unable to get it. Now, I'm not sure, but couldn't THAT mean something? Wouldn't counseling be helpful to people who are suicidal? And what were the most common reasons given for not getting desired therapy: cost, getting parental permission, and finding an LGBT sensitive provider. Interesting.... I wonder if the survey says anything about supporting "trans" youth. Why yes it does. Suicide attempts dropped in half just by most people using "preferred pronouns" Well that's a lot less invasive than puberty blocker, HRT and surgeries. Keep in mind that we don't know how many "trans suicides" there are, especially in regards to young people. A person would have to be out in some way, usually requiring some sort of transition. Yet the argument is that "trans kids" are killing themselves because they can't transition. To Summarize: Significantly more LGB youth are suicidal than "trans" youth LGBT youth, including suicidal ones, lack access to mental health care "Preferred pronoun" use alone lowers "trans" suicidality significantly Given these points, why is transition, especially medical treatment, pushed as the only answer to the "epidemic of trans suicide"? I will gladly advocate for mental health access for anyone, and I feel it's especially important for people with dysphoria. Why aren't we more concerned about the risk of suicide in LGB youth? It's easy to make things sound large when you use percent to talk about a small population. It's easy to assume a cause just from a characteristic. Trans people are like everyone else. We have other things going on in our lives than just "being trans". But for statistics like this, that's the only thing that matters. "Oh you're trans and suicidal? It must be because of being trans!" Maybe, but maybe you're failing math, or you just broke up with your boyfriend, maybe your grandma died. See the people that use these statistics don't care WHY "trans youth" are suicidal, they already have their answer. TX TS Lady Follow Texas Trans Lady On Twitter Oh, And I Stand With #IStandWithJKRowling Most of us transgender adults stand with you Texas Trans Lady! Thank You-Scott Newgent

Between 1995-2006 I was a part of the lesbian community. During those years, despite my life-long and sometimes intense gender dysphoria, I hadn’t given any serious thought to medically transitioning. It wasn’t even on my radar as a possibility until after 2000. The idea of medically transitioning seemed fringe, far-fetched, and risky. Most of the butches I knew also had gender dysphoria (GD) or rather, Gender Identity Disorder (GID), as it was called then. Many butches I knew in Winnipeg, Halifax, Toronto, and later Vancouver, were strong, stoic people. I admired many of them. I know that their lives weren’t always easy, but they carried themselves with dignity. They had butch “brotherhood” and femmes who adored them. Many were “stone” which meant that their GID made it difficult for them to relate to their female anatomy so didn’t allow themselves to be touched by anyone, or rarely. They were often harassed and abused for being masculine women, as I was. It was often stressful using female public washrooms, because our gender ambiguity made people so uncomfortable. There was a term “butch bladder” to reference the ways we’d avoid using bathrooms in public. In the early-mid 2000s, more and more FTMs were appearing in the community, alongside the butches. Many lesbian spaces welcomed them, some didn’t. It seemed to me at the time that butches were presented with two options: we could choose to be butches, or we could choose to be FTM “trans guys”. Why people chose one or the other...that was very individual and personal. It really came down to which option solved a problem and made life easier. The problem could be homophobic parents, fatigue from being harassed, differing degrees of dysphoria and bodily discomfort, not understanding what GID is, poor social or occupational functioning, trauma, other mental health challenges like depression or the anxiety that seemed inevitable for us. Some transitioned but still identified as butch women. They chose medical interventions to look more masculine, not to identify as men. Some trans guys said they never had GID at all. I don’t know what their motivations for transitioning were. Some said “political reasons”. There were some who were big fans of Queer Theory icons like Judith Butler and Judith Halberstam. Those women adopted male personas - intentional “female masculinity” - as an expression of Queer Theory, not to be men/male. I chose to transition soon after a gay man was beaten to death in a nearby park. If kids with gender dysphoria today are anything like who we were 20 years ago, I feel saddened by their trajectory. Others see benefits: Access to medical interventions has been made easier. They no longer have to do a “real-life test” (live their life as the opposite sex for 2 years without medical assistance). They don’t have to go through months or years of therapy and assessment. More is now known about the effects and risks of hormones. The surgeries have improved, are easier to access and now paid for by insurance. (I paid for my own mastectomy out of pocket, and was on the SRS surgery waitlist for 10 years.) But, what have we done? Have we eliminated all of the conditions for why a butch girl would find their innate masculinity hard to live with? Have we made the lives of butch women better and safer? Have we eliminated homophobic families, communities, employers, clinicians and policies? Are we educating young people what gender dysphoria is, in evidence-based terms, supporting them to integrate that into a healthy identity and self-image? Do we tell masculine girls how attractive they are? Do they have an abundance of healthy role models? Are they fully embraced and integrated into their workforces, educational settings, faith communities… or, are butches still getting weird looks from strangers? Are they still getting yelled at in public bathrooms? Are young, obnoxious young men still yelling slurs out their car windows as they drive by a butch woman? Do gender non-conforming women still fear for their lives in some places? Can they get Brandon Teena out of their heads? Can they travel the world freely? Can they find clothing they like that fits their bodies well? I’m not convinced we’ve made any real progress at all. I think we’ve just made it easier for people to jump ship, younger and faster and gave it a different spin. We now call that “self-actualization”. We’ve facilitated a better illusion. We’ve convinced more and more people that the illusion is real. We continue to push for better surgeries. Penile and uterine transplants are on the horizon. Young people are flooding into clinics. They can’t keep up with the demand. Activists have pushed Queer Theory as an explanation for our difference, displacing evidence-based clinical definitions of GID/GD. It’s no longer talked about as a condition that requires treatment but a natural human variation that requires affirmation in whatever form we demand (often life-long medicalization). I’ve travelled that road to its end, and its hurt just as much as it’s helped. The surgeries available to FTMs right now are awful. A double mastectomy and phalloplasty or metoidioplasty are gruesome procedures to go through. The US surgeon I went to for metoidioplasty boasts low complication rates, but the anecdotal evidence I’ve witnessed (myself and everyone I know who had the procedure there and elsewhere) is close to a 100% complication rate. One guy at the surgical recovery centre I stayed at started to hemorrhage and was laying on the floor unable to reach the call bell when another FTM patient found him and advocated for him to be rushed to hospital. Fistulas and strictures are the most common problem. I chose metoidioplasty because it’s thought to be the less risky of the two options. I immediately developed two large fistulas (meaning that my urethra burst open in two places) that needed additional surgery to repair. I couldn’t bathe or go swimming for a year until those openings were repaired. I have chronic perineum pain, altered bowel function due to changes in my pelvic muscles, and no sensation in most of my chest. When we have complications, local physicians and surgeons don’t know what to do. So we have to wait, and travel to whoever can help. Listen, I don’t doubt that sometimes medical transition is helpful for people. It’s not my place to say they can’t or shouldn’t. But let’s not sell this like it’s a Disney park ride. The marketing of everything trans is ridiculously misleading. Don’t put sparkles and rainbows over real pain as though that helps at all. It’s insulting. If we really want to help these kids, we need to make it easier for lesbian kids. Butch kids. All gender non-conforming kids. The quirky and awkward kids. Kids who feel they don’t fit it. Let’s get better at working with parents and preserving families. Be honest about what medical transition is really about. No one really changes biological sex and these procedures are really hard to go through. Why are we putting all of our resources into escaping brutality rather than eliminating brutality? We’re cutting up our bodies because our lived reality is worse. Why do we celebrate that? Medical transition is but one option for those with GD. We need to reclaim our understanding of GD as a condition so that we can have reality based-conversations and solve real personal and social problems. “Trans” as a concept, masks many underlying issues. A queer theory-based understanding of myself worsened my GD. Medical transition became an addiction. The illusion only works if we’re lucky enough to pass and everyone else plays along perfectly. It’s an exhausting game of whack-a-mole to dodge the reminders of my female past and female biology. How is that kind of dissociation desirable? Some people may benefit from medically transitioning, but we still need a reality-based understanding of ourselves, to keep our feet on the ground. Our children deserve better. If this sounds transphobic to you, you’re a part of the problem. Owning our reality for what it is isn’t self-hatred. It’s self-acceptance. Having different ideas and a different vision of how to move forward isn't hatred. Hatred was the skinheads who circled around us at the small 1992 Winnipeg gay and lesbian march, long before Pride was a parade. Hatred was the men who drove from the suburbs into Vancouver with the intent to "kill a fag" and murdered Aaron Webster in Stanley Park. I’m well acquainted with phobia. This isn't phobia. This is love. Aaron Kimberly Gender Dysphoria Alliance Canada

I do not have to detrans to save kids from medical transition. I do not have to detrans to out the travesties of transgender health. If you bully me to detrans how are you any different than what the radical trans have done to the children of the world? Turn The Mirror Around My rainbow is a human rainbow. I learned from a young age to see past differences in beliefs, sexuality, and social and financial status because behind someone different from you or someone you hate are fears of not being worthwhile. If we look past our infantile differences, the world turns from a scary place to one of grace with boundless potential for human growth and enlightenment. Words of wisdom came to me once when my ears were susceptible to mentors, a whispered moment as I sat at a lesbian dinner party at the tender age of 20. The giver of wisdom, who, I think of often, was a 70-year-old lesbian. I had just made a an impassioned speech about hating straight people, how every lesbian and gay man should band together to create a superior community where straight and bisexual people could live without the unique gifts and talents homosexual people have given to society since the beginning of time without recognition and with the oppression that had never lifted and never would. The old dyke turned her head towards me and snapped her fingers crisply and with authority, piquing my curiosity instantly. I leaned in, eager to hear what I thought would be a song of praise, but this is what I heard instead: “Kellie, if I stayed within lines of safety because I wanted complete acceptance of who I am before I allowed people to know me, I would have never had a single conversation with any human on the face of the earth. I am a 70-year-old African-American, Jewish, Republican, bull-dyke lesbian who listens to country music. If you stay within the lines you believe are safe because of not wanting to be challenged by the differences of others, your challenge will become learning how to not wither away and die because, let’s face it, you wouldn’t be invited to dinner parties like this and you would have no one to talk to because you're an asshole, a passionately cute asshole, but one nevertheless. Simmer on that a bit and do shut up. You learn by listening, and it doesn't make you look like an idiot as much as you do look right now.” When my son was two and a half, he knew how to get my attention. At that time, I was at the dead center of my career as a business account executive, leading the USA with record numbers for Verizon Wireless. I was fierce. But my mind was always obsessed with the next presentation, the next business meeting, the next chess move to further my career. My baby son knew if he wanted my attention, he had to be different. One day when I was running out the door, he ran up to me and said, "stop Ma, stop right now." He commanded such strength and presence that I did just that, I stopped. He said, "sit down, couch, there," in his toddler language. To my surprise, I listened and sat on the couch. He proceeded to crawl onto my lap, straddled me, and placed each little hand on one side of my face, cradling it. Then he leaned in and pressed his nose to mine and said, "don't listen to them, just to me, just me, not them, k Ma?" He had my total attention, he knew he had to slow me down to get the proper attention he was after, or he would get the inevitable, "yeah ok sugar, sure sugar, lunch, candy, you bet, just go ask your nanny." His face couldn't hold in the excitement; he knew he had the attention he was after and blurted out, "Ma, waterslide, ‘member? You said waterslide; it's not there outside, I need waterslide, please, k Ma?" The week prior I had been running through a store, and he’d spotted a huge, blow-up water slide for parties, and I said I would buy it in between my calls and texts. Well, later had come for him, and he was determined to let me know. I immediately called in, got the day off of work, picked him up, and before night fell he was having a ball on his vast, commercial $600 waterslide in our backyard. To this day in my family, if you have something important to discuss, you say, “don’t listen to them, just me,” and immediately no matter what I am doing is dropped and I plug in. That’s what we need to do. We have to grab society's face and say, "give me a minute, just listen to us for a minute, don't listen to them, just us," with the same heartstrings that a child holds within his mother's heart. The most effective way to do this is for the message to come from family, a familiar place, a place that is and has been a soft place to fall. My son got my attention because of the way he did it but most importantly because of who he was to me. I believe this approach would work to stop the dangerous trans radical craze that we are currently experiencing. Don’t get me wrong; the LGBTQ community is family to me. I was a lesbian for twenty-five years, and I have been a transman for five years. I am a familiar, I am family. I am not a transitioner, and although it’s complicated, transitioning definitely has helped me in some ways. I am also a parent to three adolescents, an age when children are professing their transgenderism in record numbers. If it's done in the right way, with the right people, with hearts in the correct place, we could save children who don't even know they need to be saved. We need courageous people to say what needs to be said, be guided in the most appropriate and best way to say it, and to take criticism to ensure what is written is done in the most powerful manner possible. We need to be willing to work within a team to save kids because make no mistake; as a transman I am telling you that these kids need to be saved a million times more than you already believe. Lets march hand in hand to the forefront, representing children, to keep children safe and criminalize any medical professionals who medically transition a child. Speak in unison saying; “Here’s a transgender person. Here’s a gay person. Here’s the evangelical person. Here’s the Republican person. Here’s a Democrat. We have everybody covered. Okay. So, you can’t call us a bigot. Cause we got the whole circle around. We’re all here. Now let’s talk about facts. Medical Transitioning Is No Place For A Child & here is why!”

TReVoices Is the Leading The World Wide Charge To STOP The Travesty Of 'Medically Transitioning' Gender Confused Kids! Support Us Today - Donate Dear Senator, I know that Bill C6, the so-called “conversion therapy” bill, is soon to come to a vote before the Senate. I urge you as a Senator to very carefully consider the bill from every angle, do your full homework on it, and not be swayed by activists. Because what if Bill C6 passes, and it has it wrong? What are the consequences? What if Bill C6 moves into completion with no revisions or amendments? What are the repercussions of this? It’s critical Canada gets this right, for the sake of all Canadian children. I ask that you do not throw my email aside but read and consider it thoroughly. I have a lot of experience on this subject. In essence, I embody the transgender debate. I grew up a lesbian. I understand what it is like to come out and not always be accepted. As an adult, I also transitioned medically to completion, which is rare; most transgender people do not fully medically transition from top to bottom. I have. I am not a detransitioner; I am a happily transitioned 48-year-old transman who would transition again if given a choice. I am also a parent to three adolescents, an age when many children start to wonder about their sexuality and identity. One might think I have an obvious agenda as a transman. But my only agenda is that I want to do right by our children. And I believe to my core that the affirmation-only treatment for ALL children experiencing gender dysphoria that Bill C6 essentially enshrines is a mistake. That does not mean we should not address their issues and help these minors. It does mean we as a society should not assume that a one-size-fits-all approach is the way to go, essentially criminalizing any other method. Conversion therapy for homosexuality does not work, it never has, and there is enough evidence to prove this. The drafters of Bill C6 got this part right. Homosexuality does not and has never corrected itself. Sure, some people have learned how to choose not to partake in homosexual relationships because of their beliefs, and these people have every right to do so. The difference is that the feeling never goes away; you are always homosexual; there is no cure regardless of the plethora of trial and errors throughout history to convert someone away from being homosexual. Someone can choose not to partake, but it never leaves, it is ingrained in the fibre of someone. I know many gay people who have had to endure conversion therapy, including my wife. So round up the ‘Royal Canadian Mounted Police’ and protect these gay children because they have the right to choose whether they want to endure conversion therapy and should be able to decide as an adult with a fully developed brain (that is, in their mid-20s). Protect these children, Canada. However, the same cannot be said about transgenderism. Gender Dysphoria has a dissipating rate of 80% . Yes, 80% of children work their way out of gender dysphoria, not 10% or 20%, not even half, but 80%, the majority work through GD to become content with the gender they were born as. Kids who believed they were transgender and in need of transition who who were given the time they needed to reflect and work with a loving therapist who understood that medical transition might be the way to go but allowed that child to swim through the decision process through a process of reflection were able to cope with their Gender Dysphoria and grow up happy and healthy without medical transition. The detransition rate that is ignored by Canada and the world and swept under the rug like a dirty, unwanted stepchild and blown off as nonexistent the same way AIDS was in the 1980s is a travesty. The reality of transgenderism is embarrassing. It is much easier to fill prescriptions of synthetic hormones to begin the transition process than to admit this secret: “We want to be the opposite sex, it’s a desire, but we know cannot really BE the opposite sex.” Even I at first screamed like the rest of the young transgender radicals, “I WAS BORN IN THE WRONG BODY, I am a victim, I am righting a wrong!” At heart, I knew it was a desire and reality I was only creating through plastic surgery. And now more than ever I know that to be true (again, recall I have medically transitioned from top to bottom, not many have; yet!). These gender dysphoric children deserve the chance to remedy the debilitating mental illness of gender dysphoria and make no mistake, that’s what it is: a mental illness that is defined by the American Psychiatric Association. Now, some will grow up and decide as adults to transition medically and it certainly may help them as it has me, but removing the opportunity to remedy GD in children in a loving, safe therapeutic way, guiding them to either A) realize it was a childhood phase they grew out of OR B) enter adulthood with an understanding of what medical transition can and cannot do - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and allowing them to decide with the clarity of an adult brain. Imagine a child who at age fourteen declares she is a lesbian and then fast forward to when this child is twenty-five and she is walking down the aisle to marry a man she has madly fallen in love with. What are the consequences of her realizing she was bisexual or straight all along Not much. Truly, I can’t think of anything other than dealing with the feeling of what marginalization feels like without needing to and perhaps feeling a little sheepish. That’s it - these are the consequences. Now, imagine that same child declaring she is not a girl, but a boy, and is in need of medical transition. Imagine her parents are forced to affirm her, without allowing the child time for reflection and exploring the possibility of becoming comfortable in her own body because their daughter’s school got wind of this and used a different name and pronouns while the social worker encouraged her to visit a gender clinic that administered after just two visits hormone blockers (that were considered 100% reversible but have just been ruled by the UK High Court that they are not and that children under 16 and many 16 and 17-year-olds cannot consent to) and soon after gives her a referral for top surgery (that is, a double mastectomy of healthy breast tissue). Now, her parents can’t send her to a therapist for reflection. They consider doing so on the sly but can’t find any therapist willing to lose their license to help their child reflect and give her time to figure out what would be best for her when she reaches adulthood. So the child medically transitions. Then what happens to this child if he realizes at twenty-five that he is a she and is now in the wrong body yet again? At twenty-five, he realizes at fourteen that she was confused and he was a she all along while he looks at a body that looks like a he but is supposed to be what he was born, which is a she? What are the mental and physical ramifications of that? I’m glad you asked. That same straight little girl who has medically transitioning because she was confused into believing she was a he is now walking down the aisle to get married to a man in what appears to be a gay couple. She is no longer able to have children with the man she fell in love with and has to live with more marginalization than the little girl had to. All because of a childish mistake, a mistake that had an 80% chance of resolving that you took away from her. Links included within to verify facts. Please check them because if it shocks you to read them, guess what it will do when you take the time to verify the truth? Here is what we do know about medical transition Decreased life expectancy Premature death from heart attacks Premature death from pulmonary embolisms Bone damage Liver failure Increased mental-health complications Increases chances of mood-syndrome symptoms Increased suicide rates than the non-trans population 12% higher chance than no trans population to develop symptoms of psychosis Brain development stunted during hormone blockers Reduced chance for lifelong sexual pleasure Here is what really gets my goat: What will happen to a biological boy who takes sex hormones associated with the opposite sex (or vice versa) and grows up without the benefit of natural puberty? What happens to a male body on estrogen over the long term? No one knows. What are the psychological effects on detransitioners? How many detransitioners are there even? Again no one knows. During my own transition, I had seven surgeries (and am in need of an eighth). I also had a massive pulmonary embolism, a helicopter life-flight ride, several emergency ambulance ride, a stress-induced heart attack, sepsis, a 17-month recurring infection due to using the wrong skin during a (failed) phalloplasty, 16 rounds of antibiotics, three weeks of daily IV antibiotics, the loss of all my hair, (only partially successful) arm reconstructive surgery, permanent lung and heart damage, a cut bladder, insomnia-induced hallucinations—oh and frequent loss of consciousness due to pain from the hair on the inside of my urethra. All this led to a form of PTSD that made me a prisoner in my apartment for a year. Between me and my insurance company, medical expenses exceeded $900,000. The kicker? I was told due to medical transition and complications I have cut at least 15 years off my lifespan. My consequences? I will probably never meet my grandkids. That kills me and fills me with tears for my grandchildren I may never know. So in conclusion, do you really want to be responsible for the trauma I went through above and the possibilities of what hasn’t happened to me yet on a disorder that has an 80% rate of dissolving within children on its own, with the loving help of parents with big ears and open hearts along with professional therapists trained to help them sort through and cope with their feelings? I am telling you that this is not an area you want to just give a stamp of approval without serious consideration. This is not about acceptance of the LGBTQ community or even human rights. The period of life - known as identity development - when you can try out another personality consequence-free is fading away. The time to innocently sift through the bucket of choice about what one's life and future can become is disappearing. This guarded period usually watched over by parents and governments to ensure children don't make decisions that cement a particular future is evaporating due to radical transgender activism and not plain old balanced common sense. Please be strong, Canadian Senators. Do your homework and do your part to protect a generation of vulnerable children and to do right by ALL of them, both those who will eventually benefit from medical transition as adults and the vast majority of those whom if given the opportunity will grow comfortable in their given bodies. If you require any other information, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and the attached brief, Scott Newgent https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616494/ https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/09/71296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6616494/ https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/26859/

When I was in my early 20s, I dated an older lesbian named Bee. Bee was the life of the party; she was the person everyone wanted to be around. As fun-loving as she was, everyone who knew her realized that her parents and childhood should never be brought up. I tried in the year we were dating, but I never got far until one day as we were driving home from a Christmas party. Bee had a little too much to drink and started screaming about how the house had mild porn everywhere. I tried to calm her down, but each attempt only made her scream louder. After an hour, I decided to go home; I left her in the bedroom as I gathered my things. When I returned to say goodbye, she was in a ball in the corner, wailing with cries that sent a chill up my spine. She told me a story that is seared into my conscience, something I think about at least every week of my life. In Bee's early teens, her mother found a love note from a girl in her backpack. Her parents were evangelical Christians and were not going to have a lesbian as a daughter, so they shipped her off to a mental institution that would show her images of soft porn. Every time a woman appeared naked, she received such an intense shock that a mouthguard was placed in her mouth to ensure she didn't bite her tongue in half. She remained in this facility for over a year, until her 15th birthday. The treatment didn't work; there she was, 44, and still dating women. But the experience left her broken. I lived as a lesbian for 25 years, and this is just one story of several I have heard. Each account is heartbreaking. My experience was different, and I am thankful that when I came out, my father said to me: "Kellie, are you telling me you’re a lesbian?" "Being a lesbian means nothing to me, and it shouldn't matter to you either other than one thing: you are attracted to women. Guess what, my child, me too, women are awesome. Don't allow yourself to believe that being a lesbian means anything more than that. You hold your head up and find a life partner and do the right thing with your wife's heart." That was it for me, and I didn't realize how lucky I was. Each woman I introduced to my father was one more woman he fell in love with, one more devastation whenever I moved on. My father's heart broke many times until I found my life partner. I always made a joke about this, and I wish now I could look him in his eyes and tell him what a gift he gave me. Conversion therapy for homosexuality is wrong, it doesn't work, and it breaks the soul of a human. The studies tell us there is no benefit, just a detriment. We think this barbaric therapy is no longer around, and that's not true; my ex-wife attended one not long ago, and again it didn't take. Being gay is something you are; it cannot be changed through medical treatment. It can also not be induced by medical treatment. Did you understand what I just said? You cannot medically turn a human being homosexual; there is no drug out there that can make a homosexual straight or turn a straight person homosexual. No drugs can be taken or injected to make us homosexual or make us straight. No corporations benefit financially from people claiming to be homosexual or straight. No one benefits economically. Because of that, the playing field can't be tainted by greed, and acceptance can't be falsely avowed for the sake of a dollar. Click Here To Purchase - Time for Actual Trans To Speak - 0.0 Profit - For Saving Kids - Marketing Works Just Look At Mermaids UK - Convincing a generation of kids they are transgender However, that's not the case with transgenderism. Six years ago, I began to transition to a transman, and within that timeframe, my insurance and me personally have been billed just under $1 million USD. I realize that medical care is a human right in Canada, and I have the utmost respect for this; I also believe that medical care is a human right, not an opportunity for profit. But, unless every vial of testosterone/estrogen/puberty blockers is free to the provincial governments, I ask that you take my words of experience into consideration. What I am going to say is controversial in Canada, but not when cameras are off and people aren't afraid of losing their jobs: Having gender dysphoria is not a choice, but being transgender is; it's a feeling, a desire, a want. Amazingly, we now have the medical technology that allows biological women to create an illusion of looking like males through testosterone therapy and surgery. This modern technology has brought me peace. But at a high cost: the process is brutal on the mind, body, and soul. Being transgender is now a want that you can turn into reality. It can be created through medical intervention, but the treatments are NOT reversible and have significant risks; many people with gender dysphoria believe hormones are reversible, but they are not. Many parents put their kids on puberty blockers, thinking they are reversible, but they are not. In the UK, the NHS recently realized this and is changing its stance; but it's something Canada has refused to look at. Why? We forget the massive amount of revenue generated by pushing our kids to believe they are transgender. Moreover, the doctors, social workers, and gender clinics are not being transparent about the myriad risks of medical transition. During my own transition, I had seven surgeries to change my appearance to male. As side effects, I also had a massive pulmonary embolism, a helicopter life-flight ride, an emergency ambulance ride, a stress-induced heart attack, sepsis, a 17-month recurring infection due to using the wrong skin during a (failed) phalloplasty, 16 rounds of antibiotics, three weeks of daily IV antibiotics, the loss of all my hair, (only partially successful) arm reconstructive surgery, permanent lung and heart damage, a cut bladder, insomnia-induced hallucinations—oh and frequent loss of consciousness due to pain from the hair on the inside of my urethra. All this led to a form of PTSD that made me a prisoner in my apartment for a year. Medical transition comes with significant risks and long-term effects that have yet to be adequately studied. What we do know is that the long-term use of synthetic hormone therapy shortens lives. Specifically, these medications are associated with an increased risk of heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms, bone damage, liver and kidney failure, mental-health complications, and more. Almost a quarter of hormone-therapy patients on high-dose anabolic steroids (such as the testosterone taken by female-to-male transitioners) exhibit major mood-syndrome symptoms. Between three and 12 percent go on to develop symptoms of psychosis. Children who claim to be trans typically are receiving such drugs at a pivotal time in the development of brains and bones. They've become a generation of guinea pigs. The only long-term study on transgenderism was done in Sweden in 1973; it followed 324 medically transitioned adults for 30 years and tells us that medical transition reduces suicidal ideation for a short time, like the 2019 study “Reduction in Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Transgender Individuals After Gender-Affirming Surgeries.” But then it returns each year, gaining traction until it is often higher after the medical transition than before. This 2019 study had the authors come back in 2020 admitting that even their data of the surge in significant benefit from medical transition was false, but the media didn’t publicize the update (Correction -whoopsie Daisy we were wrong). The problem is that most studies published nowadays are short-term. They all say that suicidal ideation is reduced, and that is true – at the start. What these too-short studies don't tell you is what I as a transman with many adult trans friends will: Later in life doubt and suicidal thoughts creep back in. As a transperson, you have to deal with what you have done to your body, you have to learn how to move within this world differently, you have to face the reality of biology. It is not all glitter bombs and rainbow lollipops. It's extremely hard. Conversion therapy is wrong but pushing kids to transition medically is worse. Challenging children and adolescents to understand why they want to medically transition and how they can grapple with their gender dysphoria is healthy. Homosexuality can be decided, then redecided, and then decided again. I don't truly believe that, but the harm of claiming to be a lesbian at 14 and then marrying a man at 25 does not have lasting repercussions. Medical transition does. Medical transition for gender identity is different than homosexuality; we have to look at them separately. Homosexuality is an attraction to the same gender. Transgenderism is wanting to be the opposite gender. One is something you are, and the other is something you want, and this is a significant difference. One can never be denied while the other can be created. If you allow yourself to bunch them into one giant glitter bomb, you will not see the forest for the trees. Questioning a child about why they feel like the opposite gender, why they want to medically transition, is not bigotry. It's called good parenting. We seem to have lost the meaning of the word parenting; it's a verb for a reason. It's something you must actively do. Having children speak to their parents and a professional who understands all sides of the issue of desiring to medically alter their bodies is mature. Lord knows, it's not the easy thing to do. The easy thing to do in Canada right now is to succumb to the glitter bombs and resist having to challenge a group that has become disproportionately politically influential. But we have to ask the hard questions, regardless of the feelings we hurt. Gender dysphoria is a feeling of disconnection of one's born gender; it's a mental illness that can and has shown to improve with therapy. Transgenderism is acting on this feeling by undergoing a medical transition, and this, my friends, no matter how much you don't want it to be, is a choice akin to plastic surgery. I know that is bothersome to hear, but reality is not transphobia. Reality is healthy; delusions are not. We owe it to Canadian children to really think about and study medical transition, fully understanding what they are getting into. Allow these kiddos to ease their gender dysphoria with the least invasive actions possible first. No matter how much our toddlers want to eat Jolly Ranchers all day every day, we do not allow that because we know the consequences while the toddlers do not. Time to step up to the parenting plate, Canada. I know it's scary, but we are talking about your children. As a transman, I am often asked why I care so much about what happens to kids who are being pushed to transition medically, and I wish I could say it's for all selfless reasons, but it's not. You see, most transgender people like myself are in the closet without a need to come out, and we live our lives without knowing what is happening within transgender politics. I just happened to get deathly ill from my transition, and it forced me to see what was happening. In one afternoon I read the Swedish study and learned about a transwoman who shot herself in the head at nineteen, leaving a note that she could not have children and now realized she was gay man who no longer wanted to live with her broken body. I wailed the same way Bee did that night she told me about her conversion therapy. I felt a burden land on my shoulders that has given me a recurring nightmare. The nightmare starts with a transman in his 20s dialing his parents through sobs: "Mom, I can't have kids, I wear diapers, no one wants to date me, and my choices for a life partner are slashed by 90%. The doctor just told me I have early-onset osteoporosis, and I will be dependent on drugs for the rest of my life. Mom, I was a lesbian and a kid; why did you let me do this to my body? I am now trapped in the wrong body." The child's mom tries to comfort her daughter through the phone but hears a boom as the 357 magnum sends a bullet through her child's brain. Have you ever heard a mother screaming, knowing her child just died? I hear it every night as I jump out of bed; the sound will NEVER leave me. What's the alternative to my dream? A loving home with a caring therapeutic process that challenges and protects children, nurturing them to either: a. transition as an adult with a fully developed brain (after the age of 25) and full and complete knowledge of the process and side effects; b. grow up and out of wanting to be the opposite gender and embrace themselves as either gay or gender-nonconforming or possibly autistic. ‘For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender.’ You are being hornswoggled if you believe that medical transition is something a child should decide or be allowed to endure. That is why I urge Canada's politicians to remove "gender identity" from Bill C-6. We have to start allowing transgender people to have a say with what is happening to kids. These are some of the twitter trans I follow. I don't agree with all of them on all things, but what I will say is that these adults are the ones I would nominate as transgender community leadership. Follow Them On Twitter: @FionneOrlander @QuillTamer @acidburn2k20 @TamaraZRoberson @RedFemWay @Boogeytran @iamtranssexual @FtMdetransed @DebbieHayton @Boogeytran @BuckAngel @BtTreacle @claudiamclean22 @IamCassieCurtis @Rose_Of_Dawn @_Mars_F @HoraNoona @iamtranssexual @NPutzo @KristofferPhilp @BtTreacle @Mladydik @BtTreacle Scott Newgent, a 47-year-old transgender man and trans-father living in Texas, is the founder of TReVoices, a group of trans educators who oppose radical gender activism and seek to educate politicians and families about the reality of gender dysphoria. He tweets at @ScottNewgent. Please note that none of these links that were provided were from Reddit, they are actual studies and not written by glitter faries. Also, no glitter faries were hurt while gathering information about this bill. Thank you for listening - Scott Newgent

Dear Sir or Madam, I know that you are faced with trans women wishing to compete against born women in sport, & I know that you have to make a difficult decision related to this question. May I say that I do not envy your task. Transwomen who wish to compete in this way is understandable, but these trans athletes have an unfair advantage over their female competitors. The reason is that they are stronger, by far than women, rendering such competitions, whatever the sport unfair. I learned to swim in my early 30s & loved being in the water so much that for three years, I swam every day for my pleasure, never competing against any other person. I'm the least competitive person you could ever meet. At my local pool, I saw a poster for water aerobics, again not for competition, only for the joy of exercise. My life had changed in my mid-20s, fully transitioned years before this event & I had noticed that I was stronger in the water than the women around me, to my surprise. At the aerobics class at my local pool, I was in the rear of the class, therefore able to see all the women participating in front of me. I was very surprised indeed that the ladies were struggling while I was enjoying the exercise, free from any physical strain at all, & at that moment, I realized just how much stronger I was compared to all the others. Please don't think that I'm all sporty & full of fitness; indeed, my spine was damaged at school, resulting in surgery on my spine when I was 18 years old in 1976. The surgery left me in chronic pain & with significant limitations for the rest of my life: that moment in the pool, therefore, was a revelation! Damaged as I was, still, I was much stronger than the women around me. Because of this strange advantage, I never returned to the aqua aerobics class again. Why? In case it made me conspicuous in that group: I did not belong there. This personal experience is related to you, to underline that trans women are much stronger than women. Our transformative procedures do not impact at all on our core strength. Please believe this. I have not heard of trans men wishing to compete with born men; this is because they have no such unfair advantage over their fellow competitors & emphasizes that the male to female knows for a fact, no less, that they do, indeed, hold an unfair advantage over women. This is nefarious. Sport is known to bring people together, all over the world, to compete in one place, one nation against another, one athlete against another. If you allow trans-women to compete with natural-born women, I believe that you will irrevocably interfere with the natural balance of sports; this could cause a breakdown in this coming together that sport provides. I am not an athlete; I have nothing to gain from writing to you as I have done, but I do have a strong sense of fair play, and this is my only reason for addressing you in this manner, from far away. I beg your indulgence to consider what I have written, for many athletes' lives could be negatively impacted by allowing such a travesty to happen. I am yours & with your respect, Claudia McLean London, UK Follow Claudia On Twitter @claudiamclean22

TransRegretters Is the Leading The World Wide Charge To STOP The Travesty Of 'Medically Transitioning' Gender Confused Kids! Support Us Today - Donate Late 2015 I began writing to the IOC and IAAF following a rule change around transwomen in female sports. After careful analysis of the new rules, I understood how flawed they were in many places. These new rules would give many a chance to abuse and align them to benefit them and essentially allow for the legalization of cheating. My letters and emails ignored, but I was not surprised due to the fact it was the run-up to the Rio Olympics. Welcome Blog By, Scott Newgent. If you believe in what we are doing, consider helping us with a During this time, it allowed me to contacted labs and scientists about sports testing, and I tried to get some answers to my questions. I was met with the same challenges and received replies like this, "Sorry, we're gearing up for Rio." Although I have never been a professional athlete, I have always been an active cyclist and spent time in the army reserve and mountain rescue groups. Both these organizations require above average performance, and it ignited a passion for athletic percentage training regarding the body and performance. My perspective is unique, with the fact that I am a post-operative transsexual woman, and I have gone through all of the requirements needed to participate in competitive women's sporting events. One thing that jumped out at me was transgender women only had to be on estrogen for 12 months. For me, that seemed utterly illogical to be sufficient to take away all the benefits I gained from puberty as a male. Being the numbers person I am, I went back to my statistics pre-transition and started to compare numbers. The day I began to transition, I was 86kg at 9% natural body fat, today my weight is 66kg and 16% body fat. The idea that estrogen and anti-androgens make you lose muscle is nonsense. I lost 20kg of lean mass by maintaining catabolic for five years with long zone two fasted cycling. The last thing your body wants to do is eat its protein source; you have to force it; this is difficult to make your body do. Hear me for a second; For me to bounce to female athletic numbers, I have to force myself to eat it's protein source to help me align with a bio-female's natural numbers. Me, as an athlete, I have to make a conscious decision to do this, and if I don't, I am at an advantage. Transwomen athletes are not going to do this! Why would they? They are not held accountable to these numbers, and the numbers that they are running create, in essence, a hybrid athlete. The numbers are no longer male due to the estrogen, but they are not female either. I would say it makes perfect methodology in the athletic sense to almost microdose. Find the minimum amount needed to work the blood test and a training program that helps retain the drop in fast-twitch muscle fiber quality. But if you are dirty, you can sprinkle HGH to help with that. The point of being a transwoman athlete is to try everything NOT to transition physically. More studies are needed to figure out how to remove "Hybrid," athletes, and level the playing field because, as it stands now, it's not. The average transwoman on a medical treatment pathway with proper endocrinological support will experience some muscle loss and a dip in muscle quality but not in significant amounts to offset the biological advantages of male puberty. A transwoman may experience a fluctuation in hematocrit values. Still, I would challenge that a drop significant enough to offset the advantage that males gain from puberty is not achieved. Bio-women have to manage their periods through the unhealthiest full-time consumption of estrogen to halt the cycle during the competitive season. Blood must be in the equation; the higher your Red Blood Cell count, the more oxygen is moved around to the places that need it. Thus, fending off a crippling lactic acid catastrophy. The lactic acid threshold is another measurable metric. The more oxygen you can deliver, the better and like a fire, the more oxygen you give the process, the better the results. A package of anti-androgens and estrogen will not change the fact that a body that's gone through male puberty has a bigger heart and lungs. Transwomen take in more O2 at the very beginning, and that allows a higher lactic acid threshold, which leads to better VO2 max performance. No longer at the level of a male athlete, but not at a female athlete either. I refer this as the "Hybrid," athlete. Let's think about contact sports. MMA, fighting games break down into weight classes. They do this because when it comes to two women in the ring, weight is a good gauge that gives an equal comparison. But we also need to keep in mind that fighters wear gloves, not to protect their opponent's head but to protect their hands. Both women have the same physiology. A transwoman has different physiology; we have a higher bone density. MMA involves the power to weigh; it's also for the safety of the fighters. If we consider how this bone density discrepancy endangers fighters, if we transfer this to the rugby pitch, the results would be a disaster. Women are going to start getting hurt, and as this trickles down are little girls are going to start getting hurt. It is allowing unfair advantages that endanger women, and it needs to be stopped. by Eden Walker