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Scary, depressing, appalling. I spoke out at school and am now leaving my job. So many people have expressed support and agreement but don't dare to say so publicly. Once you're 'out' your courage grows. Do it, people!

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"Once you're 'out' your courage grows." This is true. It is also true that you "find" it - it may have been sleeping, but it is you.

I worked in a city bureaucracy for 30 years. I "took it" more times than I can recall. I was fearful of adverse action by Management. Then, late-career, I found courage and my limit. I hired an attorney and become aggressive and barely-compromising. I read statutes, documented events, wrote letters, appeared before the Board, and found others.

In truth, I became desperate, and refused to cooperate with The Program. I am grateful that I "turned" before leaving - I respect and trust myself much more for it.

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Strength in numbers. Speak up.

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Bless you for speaking up. I am always appalled at how few of the teachers I know say anything at all. Actually, I don't know a single one:(

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Amen.

The phenomenon of thought dictatorship came into force quickly during early 2020. Human fear was exploited to the hilt. Entire societies were gaslighted & manipulated, a mass psychosis ensued. This extended way beyond the health field. It encompasses Social Justice, CRT, Gender Dysphoria and yes, even Climate Fear.

But the Great Reset has failed.

Citizens everywhere have lost faith in establishment outlets, including not just the MSM. Trust in august institutions of higher learning, think tanks and government institutions is at a low point.

May the Great Awakening take place!

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You are right - our "awakening" is to the illegitimacy of our ruling classes and by extension the institutions they control. Most of us slept through the beginning of the coup.

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Let’s hope enough people are awake before we approach 2024. If those behind the authoritarian movement stay in power, it will take decades to recover. It’s going to be a Herculean task even now to root out the those who wish the country harm. Hopefully we coalesce behind a leader who is as strategic as the opposition, can unite the middle and will win.

Based on the unbelievable, unethical lengths the left have to get Trump nominated should be a warning sign to all of us. It is no different in theory than their successful strategy to donate to Trumps primary picks in 2022. Other than JD Vance Trumps picks in battleground states lost. Chances of Trump himself winning in those states are low.

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What a world we live in that this doc has to be anonymous to say chemical castration is harmful while the judge in Arkansas doesn’t, and smugly decrees that puberty blockers have no long term effects at all, yikes…

Thank you for another great interview!

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I read sections of the ruling in Arkansas and Florida. It's as if they were repeating gender advocate talking points. Just amazing.

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I am taken-aback by how these legislative efforts have run into theses judges. Obviously not the end, but - are there many such judges, or has this been a conspicuous case of ill-fortune?

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There are no coincidences.

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Judges are the new high priests' of the latest cult of death. Cults arise from time to time them they go away. This latest transition cult will run its course and people snd history will wonder "what the hell were these people thinking?"

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The puberty blockers, by tricking the hypothalamus, would appear to be taking away the patient’s ability to develop and experience life as a human being. It is a damaging effect of the treatment no less consequent than the retardation of the patient’s sexual development during adolescence.

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We used to lamentably accept these as side-effects of life-saving treatments - to keep the victim of disease with her or his family longer. They were always the extreme case - disfiguring and debilitating. Think radical mastectomy. We shuddered when we heard of them.

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How tragic.

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“The evidence to support this is completely fraudulent, but no dissent was permitted.”

Just like with masking or vaccinating...

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Dissent of any kind is slowly being criminalized. This is the inevitable outcome of woke progressivism

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And yet when it’s convenient for the left, dissent is patriotic.

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We broke the world with the authoritarian response to Covid. May God help us gather the pieces together again of what is true and what is beautiful.

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Transgender is the new official state religion. It's not possible to argue against religion purely with logic. Plus "gender affirming care" is a huge cash cow for doctors and hospitals.

I hope one day we look at sex-change procedures the same way we look at lobotomies, bloodletting, smoking as a cure for asthma, and Tuskegee experiments.

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Jun 22, 2023Liked by Christopher F. Rufo

Chris, and especially, Doctor thank you for this interview and article. I am in a MUCH less serious profession being a professor in the social sciences, and see a good seal of speech suppression in my field. On my best days, I just think: "no one is being physically harmed, move on." Unfortunately, that is not the case in your profession. I have never been able to articulate my thoughts on this topic I worry that people might think I am some sort of bigot/demon. Doctor, thank you, for the clarity and making the choice to help others as your choice of "profession."

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We must fight these devils and be victorious. God always wins just make sure your on his side! Ask him to guide us in this battle. Let’s get to work! Thank you Chris for your great help.

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God wills that the good prevail, but we are called to participate in His ongoing rule of all things. The world is a gift - a terrible responsibility which is ours.

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Jun 22, 2023·edited Jun 22, 2023

This is dangerous for society and why it is true that this must be eradicated. This is how we got the Nashville shooter and all the other violent people whose brains have been poisoned. We have a right as a society to say no and to resist this monstrous impact on us. So in addition to the frontal lobe not being fully developed under 25, eroded brain function can lead to altered mental status, deranged thinking, and delusional miscalculation posing threats to the public.

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There has been an organized deception about the nature of pubery blockers & related treatments that targetd academics specifically, apparently. I once attended an academic conference for non-medical professionals where we were specifically and repeatedly told that pubery blockers had no side effects.

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We are living through an insane, brutal regime ruled by thugs of the worst order and perpetrated by human-like sheep. I will print this article, which puts the "gender-affirming care" atrocity so succinctly and add it to my developing archive of printed documents chronicling the last three years of socio-political authoritarian horrors. If the internet is destroyed, we'll need analog records of everything.

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Jun 23, 2023·edited Jun 24, 2023

Absolutely agree!! The cult views as heretical all the knowledge of Western Civ that preceded its takeover of the same. I have no doubt that the AMA, APA, etc. are already talking about what they will need to do to erase what has taken centuries to build. All that the cult members can do is destroy, destroy, destroy. Everything they create is garbage at best and at worst, an atrocity against humanity.

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😳 It is indeed.

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I’ve worked in academic medical centers for over 20 years. Vigorous debate and challenging of norms was the rule, but now it is the exception. Thought conformity and the selection of students and residents based on ideology rather than merit will be the downfall of medicine. Sad.

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The shutting down of that "inner chamber" that makes us all truly human is one of the largest of many tragedies that has been caused by so called gender affirming treatments.

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At least it seems like parents are finally beginning to catch on.

https://unskool.substack.com/p/leave-children-alone

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You know where else censorship of contrary views on "gender identity" and pediatric "transition" intensified during the Covid clampdown? Twitter.

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