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Gender affirming care is definitely the thing people are going to look back on negatively the same way we look down on people of the past who engaged in lobotomies or bloodletting.

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Absolutely right.

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Don’t call it gender affirming care. That’s a ridiculous propaganda word. Call it by it’s real name. Genital Mutilation surgery.

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This is far worse than lobotomies or bloodletting. Bloodletting was not disgusting, or terror-inspiring, merely mistaken, and done with good will. Lobotomies are disgusting, but also were done with good will, and to solve real problems, though their harm and ineffectiveness was much more clear than in the case of bloodletting. Here, the harm is obvious and intended.

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Yes, this is modern butchery.

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Dr. Peter Breggin helped to stop lobotomies in the eighties—not really that long ago.

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It's much worse, because we should no better. It rises to a level of barbarism and depravity that should cause us all to recoil in horror. But we don't. This is how empires fall.

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Yes. I thought of lobotomies as I was reading the original post. But I had forgotten how well-established bloodletting was

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I agree with you 100% , Unskolled.

However, I’d make the distinction of the latter being Unintentional Harm in the Pursuit of wellbeing, while the former is Intentional Butchery to satisfy a Sadistic Cultural Phenomenon.

Adding insult to injury you’re paying CASH 💰 outta your pocket as no insurance covers this Elective Surgery.

Which brings up a good point to ponder⁉️. Will our current governing policies support gender affirming at tax payer expense?

I betch the government will, it’s only a matter of time.

I’m SMH 🤦‍♀️

I’m SAD 😔

I’m SOAT 🤮

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Excellent article! The time has come for every sane human being to speak out loudly against the transgender narrative!

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The predominant child molesters are grown men going after little girls. There are also grown men that go after little boys, but they are outnumbered by the former about 2 to 1. There also seem to be more and more crime articles about grown women going after minor males. A pedophile is a pedophile is a pedophile. Being gay does not preclude someone from being a pedophile, but neither does being gay make someone a pedophile, and the pedos have taken over the LG movement and driven out all the non-pedos. Only perverts are left.

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Where did you find the information about the proportions of victims of grown men?

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I found information from various sources, and the following article is one source. I make an assumption the reporting is correct. The writer states that "Significant numbers of victims are males: A study of 457 male sex offenders against children in Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy found that "approximately one-third of these sexual offenders directed their sexual activity against males." But the writer also makes the point to say homosexual pedophiles are overrepresented as a part of the population. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/06/29/pedophilia-and-homosexuality/b385cfb3-8b58-449d-8af9-0cfdcd278978/

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Thank you. I wonder if male victims are more reluctant to report than female victims.

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No matter the statistics, I believe we can agree all children need to be protected from pedos, whether those pedos are same sex or opposite sex.

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There are plenty of perverts of all stripes and the important thing, imo, is those of us who are not pedos band together to protect children.

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The storybook romance is rare, but it does exist. In 1965, before we graduated, one of high school classmates married her high school sweetheart. They are still happily married

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Yes!

We need to start by calling things what they really are. When they are castrating distressed children we need to say that they are castrating distressed children.

We have to refuse to use their euphemistic lies.

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These practices must be outlawed.

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Jul 7, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

as an oregonian for 36 years and one who used to think highly of Oregon Health Science University, this sickens me. Adults can do what they want, but children. Josef Mengele began his experimenting on children. What are they doing at Doernbeckers? WOW. shameful. Doernbeckers is the childrens wing of OHSU. I would hope no one donates to this any more

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They are working closely with the children's hospital as well.

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oh that sickens me. how is this being allowed? how are parents allowing this to take place in their children? it's EVIL it's perversion. breaks my heart. i just watched that movie about tim ballard saving children and to be honest, what is happening to children here in America is just the same, all in the name of love...which it is not love

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What an adult wants to do, her or she can do in my view. Performing these "surgeries" on children is so far beyond the pale, it's almost unimaginable...except it's real. I had a quibble or three with my parents. I simply assume these parents, like almost all parents, have their hearts in the right place but their heads need to be examined. And, most importantly, the children left untouched until they are old enough to make their own decisions.

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"Josef Mengele began his experimenting on children."

Yes, he did.

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And that may be what brings this whole house down: we need an organized effort to target and shame the donors.

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Your statement on Dr. Mengele is BS. He was a physician who did the best he could under the circumstances and accusations against him, are no more true than fictitious bars of soap made from Jews, human shrunken heads, human skin lamp shades and killing of people in gas chambers.

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You are either sick or evil.

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And you are stupid.

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Your evidence? The Holocaust happened. Deal with it.

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Oregon trail 2023: you have died of gender affirming care. Here’s a glossary of leftist terms: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-coin-a-term-part-2

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Thanks for sharing.

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Previously, I had never thought to compare these doctors to Dr. Frankenstein. The parallel is striking. Both are creating man-made horrors beyond comprehension.

I do genuinely feel for the dysphoric kids, men, and women who have fallen prey to these monster-makers. The patients have been sold a terrible lie and their lives will never be the same once they begin medical intervention.

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And it's the old transgender theorists themselves who first made the comparison!

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You are absolutely correct.

Mentally ill and vulnerable children have fallen prey to the narrative that their lives can be magically fixed by hormones and surgery. The adults responsible for not only allowing but encouraging this behavior should be tried and thrown into jail at a bare minimum.

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Only frightening prison sentences could begin to address this in human terms. In truth, their evil has already exceeded our justice.

All we are left with is knowing that we have done what men and women can do about such things.

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I was thinking about a similar sentence as would have been allied to Dr. Mengele.

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You are 100% correct. 'Gender dysphoria' is the lie. It is that which sucks patients into these mutilating monsters. This transgender program is a grand scheme of MISDIAGNOSIS. Yet so many talk about their dysphoric children, the therapists gloat of how to treat dysphoric kids... and the monsters like Berli and Peters and the rest get away with murdering the very nature of a child/ young adult. Their system of ICD codes is working beautifully - for them.

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This is going to change the laws, the lawsuits which are coming. I keep saying this, in my articles and on social media but 2023 will become known as the year of the detransitioners. It's heartbreaking and so ugly what these money hungry doctors are doing to minors. One girl, aged 15 had her breasts removed. She came back to the clinic a week later and asked if they still had her breasts and could they be reattached. THAT shows how minors think. They are NOT adults and not able to make such permanent decisions. These kids are being mutilated and then dumped. It is reprehensible.

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"One girl, aged 15 had her breasts removed. She came back to the clinic a week later and asked if they still had her breasts and could they be reattached."

Normal conversation and rhetoric no longer are adequate - even parody has fallen behind. We are left with the deep irony of recitation of fact, and perhaps Rabbinical poetry. I am tempted to become silent - I wonder what words I have for this.

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Extremely sad.

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Thank you Christopher for your excellent articles and for your dedication to truth. I admire you a great deal...

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Horrifying and heartbreaking

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Jul 7, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

This is a great article, well-woven and articulate, albeit the subject is incredibly sad and disturbing.

Children who are on the open and creative personality spectrum are most liable to fall prey to this transgenderism.

Transgenderism at its foundation is of a sexual nature. Pedophiles are now being called minor attracted persons. Their slogan is something like, " children should be allowed to choose their sexual partners."

I wonder that transgenderism is smoothing a pathway to legalize child sexual abuse. California is pushing for the age of 14. Our society is such that psychological maturity is delayed, and a child of 14 knows not what they do.

This lurching transgender movement is evil disguised as compassion, and the pedophiles are riding along on its coattails.

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I think the practice of transgender medicine is itself a form of "sexual abuse." They're pushing an ideology onto children that justifies abhorrent and unnecessary destruction of their basic sexual functions.

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Absolutely, and beautifully expressed, btw.

Both transgender mutilation and pedophilia are indescribably malevolent; it destroys what is natural for a perverse, selfish satisfaction.

In normal, healthy adults, there is a visceral reaction to want to protect what is fragile and worth defending. That being said, many, many thanks to you for bringing awareness to the public.

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I read this interesting article in New Scientist Magazine today that would seem to completely destroy the entire Trans debate. Molecular analysis of teeth positively identifies biologic male/female sex even when 4000-5000 years old. I mean, follow the science, right? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2381355-tooth-analysis-reveals-ancient-iberian-leader-was-female/

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Men are men. Women are women. There is no crossing the boundary of Creation.

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I have no training in medicine or forensic pathology, but am given to understand that examination of the pelvic girdles of skeletons enables this distinction, even for specimens which are hundreds of thousands of years old.

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Jul 7, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

"The Island of Dr Moreau" come to life......

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Wow. Up until reading this Substack, I've avoided looking at what people are having done to their bodies with these surgeries. It is appalling that this is done to anyone, let alone children.

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Agreed.

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San Francisco Men’s Choir sings “We are coming for your children”. R I I I I G H T …

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EIGHT members of the S.F. Men’s Choir have been convicted of crimes against children.

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https://rumble.com/v2yotly-san-francisco-mens-choir.html

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Wow

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Dystopia is emerging from within us - it is emanating outward from us. These are "our" works, and we call them "good."

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Humanity may be lost and beyond redemption. What society allow such coerced self-mutilation by proxy? What doctor with a functioning moral compass performs these surgical atrocities?

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Exactly

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I remember when I first started work where I am now, two of the women were discussing the son of someone who used to work there a few years before.

Turns out the son wanted to transition, he was 10-11 yrs old and was having puberty blockers.

They asked me what I’d do if my son(a couple of yrs older)came saying the same, I told them both him and his sister would be told they’re too young and will have to wait until adulthood to make sure they hadn’t changed their minds.

What truly baffles me nowadays, is how people shirk responsibility of being parents.

My kids have always known I’m the boss, my husband worked away a lot when they were young so I stayed home only getting a part time job as they were teenagers.

I’ve done my best to give them a structured, safe loving environment for them to grow, develop and bloom into young stable adults.

At 17-18 they thank me for their childhood memories, freedoms and experiences spent together.

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This is unbelievably disturbing. These “doctors” and others who defend and promote this horrific and irreversible intervention in the lives of troubled children and teenagers are themselves mentally ill. Where will it all end and more importantly when, especially since the leader of the free world is a cheer leader for transgenderism. The lunatics are running the asylum for sure.

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Jul 8, 2023·edited Jul 8, 2023

Not mentally ill they are evil, let’s get this part right.

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