So well said, Mr. Rufo. There are many ways to live, but only one reality. No doubt people will one day look back on this dark period when a social contagion took root and gape in disbelief at the tragic folly of it all. Oh, the humanity…
So easy to talk about the trans-thing, but seemingly impossible to take corrective action, especially in the US; how is it that the hapless Brits have taken the lead on fixing “trans”.
I feel sorry for the few who are truly trans. I think of sexuality as a bell-shaped curve. One with a slightly convex plateau top, steep side slopes, and asymptotic ends (where the tranies dwell) males to the left, women to the right. On one hand, I can’t imagine what they must think, or feel; on the other hand, their claim to humanity is as great as mine.
When it comes to treatment. Should they be affirmed (and if so as what?), or should they be pushed up the side-slopes of the bell-curve (gay territory), or up to the edge of the “normal” plateau? Do male tranies ever get treated with extra testosterone? (You have male genitals . . so . . let’s make you a “better” man - seems logical?)
The most curious and disturbing thing about the trans issue is the vast amount of money and effort behind the trans promotional campaign, and how effective it has been (to the point that big league talking heads appear more concerned about pronouns than dead children). Who is behind it (I want names), and why are they promoting sexual transitions so enthusiastically. Also what is the matter with the AMA, the AAP, & the APA? Why do they want to turn, what I think would be a private, critical issue for a few people into a 3-ring circus?
No one is “truly” transsexual. There are rare cases of intersex births, but even most of those individuals have either XX or XY chromosomes that are easily identified. These babies may have discordant genitalia that requires intervention to reconcile the anatomy.
In regards to a “bell shaped curve” of sexual behaviors I disagree that there exists a continuum of sexual orientation. Where do pedophelia, beastiality, sado/masochism, fetishism ,etc. fit on such a curve. A scatter plot would be more accurate, although still imperfect.
The concept of “gender identity “ is the crux of this issue. Are there ways of thinking or behavior preferences that make a person male or female without regard to biological reality of XX/XY status? Is male/female merely a social construct? If so, why are such radical physical interventions required to affirm a person’s “gender identity?” The cognitive dissonance required to sustain this belief system is enormous. Like the Emperor’s new clothes , one small voice pointing out reality collapses the entire farce.
Thank you. Despite all of the talk about trans, you seldom hear about what percentage of babies don’t fall into the XX-XY dichotomy. It seems that the trans-promoters have cleverly pushed the trans-determining factors out of the hard biological realm and into that of soft psychology. Trans isn’t about science, it about feelings, and a massive amount of money; why some much money?
This is what happens when you affirm lies. IE a man can be a women by just declaring it so. The truth is he was mentally ill most likely also on SSRI drugs which destroys their ability to feel. The institutions of this country need to stop this insanity now. There is no such thing as transgenderism no changing birth certificates. No court orders approving this madness. If a guy wants to dress up in women clothes let them but he is still just a guy who has a deep
Mental illness that needs therapy and not drugs that as a side effect causes suicidal thoughts
The weed available in "stores" today is NOT the weed I grew up indulging in on occasion back in the '80's. I won't touch it, and not because I don't miss the fun I used to have back then but because the few times I have indulged it immediately causes tachycardia, syncope, hyperthermia, and sweating-- a good 30 minutes of misery. It's not worth the hour or so of "thank god that's over hee hee hee". I couldn't imagine using that crap 24/7 like some folks now do and I know it's not a "normal" reaction but it's well enough known to be called "greening out" and is something I highly recommend NOT experiencing. That and the hideous chemicals I've read that they use on the plants is just a no for me. I wonder if the advent of this much more toxic weed is also contributing to these problems.
I agree! I remember buying the $10 "four finger bag" and by the time I was 19 I had to stop because it only made me feel all those physical symptoms you listed - right along with a hefty dose of paranoia.
Yes pot has seriously and seemingly permanently triggered psychosis and schiozphrenia in young family members. Sadly, my state was so enthusiatic about the new tax revenue that the state tourist dept initially sent out free, snazzy tourist booklets identifying cannibis outlets! No health dept warnings to be seen in this state! However, sitting in court, gotta say that local law enforcement and judges all seem very aware of this trend. Most folks don't realize THC concentration is now up to 80% in contrast with old hippie days of maybe 7%.
I personally believe the cannabis is a much stronger connection than the trans issue. Both the cannabis activists and trans activists prey on vulnerable adolescents who are confused. Adolescents should learn that it's normal to have awkward and uncomfortable feelings when they're growing up. Please look into it, Christopher.
The cannabis connection is a commonality he had with many mass shooters, including the Highland Park, Uvalde, Sutherland Springs, TX. Aurora, CO and Parkland, Florida shooters. Also, the Tucson shooter, the Planned Parenthood shooter and others in Colorado. The Highland Park shooter was described in the Chicago Tribune as "an isolated stoner who lost touch with reality" by his peers. A guy who went on a killing spree in Rockford IL last year and killed his friend had gone over to his home to smoke some weed. It's a very idiosyncratic drug that affects different people differently.
• Little children and innocents are being murdered.
• By young people destabilized — drugged, sterilized, surgically mutilated, confused, and radicalized by an ideology that tells them they are both sacred victims and righteous avengers.
• That is not an abstraction. It is flesh-and-blood horror.
To focus on whether naming it might cause “political opportunism” is obscene compared to the bodies of children in pews and classrooms.
⸻
The True Danger
• Children: vulnerable, dependent, and targeted — not just by bullets, but by the ideology itself.
• Families: grieving or complicit, either way shattered forever.
• Society: tolerating a cult that mutilates youth, then acts shocked when some lash out violently.
That is the danger.
Not reputations.
Not political jockeying.
Not media spin.
⸻
What Needs Saying Plainly
• The ideology of “gender identity” is not neutral. It is producing broken, sterilized, permanently adolescent bodies and minds.
• Some fraction of those — as we now see, far more than chance would predict — are turning violent, and specifically against Christians and children.
• That is the fact. That is the danger. And if it isn’t faced, more innocents will die.
“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.”
Good article. I particularly enjoyed the understanding that the murderer, while plunging into madness, had a better discernment of reality than The New York Times. Christopher Rufo is a crucial voice against the madness that tried and keeps trying to endanger our society. I hope he (we) wins in the end and that this particular end is near.
Yes, it's voodoo science and must be stopped. From not only the fringe in the medical community but our schools promoting it and the feeling that everyone is a victim of life. The schools have all changed from education institutions to mental health facilities confusing our most vulnerable.
Charge the mother and doctors as.murder accomplices. They were the contributers. Asylums need to be reopened and all gender dysphoria trannies -#1 admitted. Or relocate all with their MDs to Molokai. All are on no fly list. It will save society
Why do people always seem to focus on the mother? Why not reflexively say "charge the father?" A boy who wants to be a girl almost certainly has 'daddy issues' as they say. Why not look more closely at the father and his role?
BTW, Suzanne, this comment was not directed solely at you, but at the broad swath of commentators on this issue. The major exception is Andy Ngo, who had the good sense to find someone who actually knew the family. His protrait is more sympathetic toward the mom, and the dad remains mysterious. Here's Andy's post: https://substack.com/home/post/p-172439240
If we're talking about Munchausen syndrome, which often comes up when the subject is enabling transgender kids in their delusions, 85-95% of the abusers are the mother. This may or may not be the case here, but I'd wager that is "why do people always seem to focus on the mother?"
But if the issue is some kind of masculinity wound, (which wouldn't be surprising) the father is definitely relevant. An unavailable or unattractive father figure can cause a lot of confusion in an adolescent boy.
In any case, reporters are supposed to ask questions, no? Andy Ngo's report makes it clear, in my mind at least, that someone needs to dig more deeply into the father's role.
Just the opposite in this case. The mother did not want to sign the papers but was pressured, probably by officials telling her that her son would commit suicide (the usual tactic with reluctant parents) if she did not. Her son was angry with her for not being more supported. On the other side, his father, very leftest, was very supportive of his son deciding he was a girl. I'm sure it gave him street creds with his friends.
In some states they'll take your kids away if you don't affirm, so no, don't charge the mother. The fear of losing custody of your child can make you do things you never normally would.
“Charge the mother…” sounds like it’s based on the psychology of the 1970s. Was a father not involved? Yes, let’s find the source of the violence and who influenced it. We may all have to readjust our thinking and never use the language of the activists. He was not a person of the “gender assigned at birth” but was a male. He did not receive “gender affirming care” but received medical intervention that altered his body.
To state that his mother should be charged is very harsh. She did her best with a son who, throughout much of his life, was angry and depressed. When she signed the papers allowing him to change his sexual identity (as if ones sex could magically change by stating the lie) she confided to friends that she was deeply torn. Trying to appease a mentally ill child is an almost impossible task. She will live with her inability to help her sick child and the horror of what her son did for the rest of her life. Isn't that enough?
Yes, and it’s being planned/executed by Marxists, who are trying to destroy us. The forced acceptance of homosexuality (Lenin’s idea) was the camel’s nose in the tent.
Yes, those Pritzkers. One taking Illinois down the financial and social rabbit hole and another destroying freedom of speech at Harvard as chairman of their irresponsible board. A blight on the USA.
So many things have been planned to destroy us, beginning with the Civil Rights Act and affirmative action, that has destroyed education, businesses, industries, and so many other things. The COVID hoax, the climate hoax, millions of invading, worthless, third-world parasites brought here, now the trans idiocy. So many government-created horrors are happening that it's no wonder these fragile psyches are imploding.
Very accurate analysis. Sadly I fear that very few connect pharmaceuticals to violence. We have created two generations of drug fueled citizens and it is escalating. It goes way beyond the trans issue as SSRI’s become ubiquitous in our populace.
Why leave out the cannabis connection? He and so many other mass shooters began using cannabis at a young age. It greatly exacerbates the mental breakdown. I think the empirical evidence would show that cannabis has a stronger connection to bringing about the mental states connected to mass shootings. However, back in the 1990s, the breakthroughs associated with SSRIs, combined with advertisements on TV, started leading people to there can be quick fixes. We need to get away from the belief in quick fixes for our complex problems.
Those who like this comment and are Republicans should say something to POTUS who is considering changing cannabis from its Schedule I designation to Schedule III. Cannabis should be categorized as among the most dangerous of drugs.
You are making a strange connection, as we are talking about the perpetuators of today's violence.
Today's marijuana is turbo-charged; it has been genetically modified and chemically altered to be way more potent that the stuff available 100 years ago.
WTF are YOU talking about?...its a known fact..yes FACT that the sh.t that is smoked these days leads to psychosis for far too many...the use of violence usually accompmanies psychotic behaviour..
That’s not a fact. That’s old propaganda. Potheads are, in general, the least violent people on the planet. Saying otherwise in CAPS does not make it so.
I don't believe the pharmaceuticals are as much to blame as the government cabal is. So much is being done by the government cabal to destroy whites and Western civilization. We're bombarded with constant negative, nihilistic messages, hoaxes, and hypocrisies in the daily news, movies, TV shows, and even advertising. Fragile minds like the ones with trans ideas can't handle it and implode.
The critical problem isn't that transgenderism was a crazy movement. Nor even that it resulted in the mutilation of thousands, including so many minors.
No, the critical problem is that it received approval at the highest levels of medical science and dissenters were persecuted.
Now, as the light slowly dawns on the horror, how is this abysmal failure going to be addressed?
If it isn't, it will be repeated. And then why should anyone trust medical science any more?
I can’t help but wonder if kids are being fed this transgender nonsense in our schools. Progressive Educators seem hell-bent on sexualizing our children.
I am trans, transitioned at 48, am now 70. I was afflicted with gender dysphoria from as early as I can remember, and it dominated my life for 48 years. Fortunately, it did not prevent me from developing as a person and building a fulfilling life.
I never thought I was a woman, I just felt the overwhelming desire to be one. I don't think I am a woman now, but I live in the world as one, and that is what I wanted. I do consider it a mental illness, but for people like me, transition and surgery was the only way to end the mental anguish I lived with. So, it is real, but it is rare, and has nothing to do with the ideological and money making nightmare it has turned in to.
When I had to go to therapy and meetings 25 years ago I saw the beginnings of the "trans industry", people who made money off the mental illness. They were all on the left btw. I could see that they wanted to turn it into a movement and a cause. Today, they are convincing confused kids that their problem is their born sex, and they should do something about it.
These kids are not trans. They did not, like me at 3 or 4 years old, lay in bed and wish they could go back to the baby factory and be re-born in the opposite sex. Someone put the idea in their head much later in life.
So, it is a real thing, it is a curse I would not wish on anyone. I dealt with it and never regretted it. But what it happening in society with this issue today is not a real thing, it is a concocted reality that serves the agenda of various people.
I despise the LGBTQ movement, and people who build their entire personality and life on their sexual situation. I hope someday sanity and basic morality brings light to the whole issue, and people like me can get the help they need to deal with their problem, and innocent young people are not preyed upon by the malignant forces that seem to have taken control.
Years ago a former colleague Transitioned after decades of difficult reflection. It made me aware there is a percentage of folks where this is a real condition. The “trans” movement to make it popular, glamorous & enticing, along with medical industry wanting to cash in, and now the inevitable backlash from the regret and harm is not pretty. And this movement has been harmful to true trans and gays. JK Rowling has a good essay on this.
Agree with Christopher that these ideologies, pushed and affirmed by MSM, doctors, so called experts and delusional parents, that think they can change biology are completely destructive.
Destructive to individuals such as Westman and to all society. Jordan Peterson was always right. These people need help and counseling, not surgery and drugs.
Well stated about this particular ideology. Another factor, missed in the comments, is the shooter's connection to cannabis. He worked in a medical marijuana shop until a few weeks before the shooting. From what he wrote, we can infer that he began using weed at a young age and regretted it just as he regretted the trans identity. The cannabis connection is a commonality he has to many mass shooters, including the Highland Park, Uvalde, Sutherland Springs, Aurora, CO and Parkland, Florida shooters. While we don't know if he was taking SSRIs, we know that there's a connection between starting cannabis use at a young age and mental deterioration. It is the worst thing a confused adolescent can do, especially with today's high potency THC. Using cannabis for "health reasons" was being normalized at the same time "gender-affirming care" was being pushed.
Amen. For years, society, particularly conservatives have been told that WE are the problem, that WE aren’t accepting enough, not supportive enough and it’s our fault that trans people have a high suicide rate. WE reach they are angry when the answer is right in front of our faces. Being trans, being encouraged to allow medicine to make someone into something they are not is the real problem.
So well said, Mr. Rufo. There are many ways to live, but only one reality. No doubt people will one day look back on this dark period when a social contagion took root and gape in disbelief at the tragic folly of it all. Oh, the humanity…
So easy to talk about the trans-thing, but seemingly impossible to take corrective action, especially in the US; how is it that the hapless Brits have taken the lead on fixing “trans”.
I feel sorry for the few who are truly trans. I think of sexuality as a bell-shaped curve. One with a slightly convex plateau top, steep side slopes, and asymptotic ends (where the tranies dwell) males to the left, women to the right. On one hand, I can’t imagine what they must think, or feel; on the other hand, their claim to humanity is as great as mine.
When it comes to treatment. Should they be affirmed (and if so as what?), or should they be pushed up the side-slopes of the bell-curve (gay territory), or up to the edge of the “normal” plateau? Do male tranies ever get treated with extra testosterone? (You have male genitals . . so . . let’s make you a “better” man - seems logical?)
The most curious and disturbing thing about the trans issue is the vast amount of money and effort behind the trans promotional campaign, and how effective it has been (to the point that big league talking heads appear more concerned about pronouns than dead children). Who is behind it (I want names), and why are they promoting sexual transitions so enthusiastically. Also what is the matter with the AMA, the AAP, & the APA? Why do they want to turn, what I think would be a private, critical issue for a few people into a 3-ring circus?
No one is “truly” transsexual. There are rare cases of intersex births, but even most of those individuals have either XX or XY chromosomes that are easily identified. These babies may have discordant genitalia that requires intervention to reconcile the anatomy.
In regards to a “bell shaped curve” of sexual behaviors I disagree that there exists a continuum of sexual orientation. Where do pedophelia, beastiality, sado/masochism, fetishism ,etc. fit on such a curve. A scatter plot would be more accurate, although still imperfect.
The concept of “gender identity “ is the crux of this issue. Are there ways of thinking or behavior preferences that make a person male or female without regard to biological reality of XX/XY status? Is male/female merely a social construct? If so, why are such radical physical interventions required to affirm a person’s “gender identity?” The cognitive dissonance required to sustain this belief system is enormous. Like the Emperor’s new clothes , one small voice pointing out reality collapses the entire farce.
Thank you. Despite all of the talk about trans, you seldom hear about what percentage of babies don’t fall into the XX-XY dichotomy. It seems that the trans-promoters have cleverly pushed the trans-determining factors out of the hard biological realm and into that of soft psychology. Trans isn’t about science, it about feelings, and a massive amount of money; why some much money?
Elon Musk will know or find out who they are&importantly where they live..he needs to be given the green light..
It is somewhat like the Salem 'witch trials'.
Not if the Marxists win.
No, it's the Freemasons.
This is what happens when you affirm lies. IE a man can be a women by just declaring it so. The truth is he was mentally ill most likely also on SSRI drugs which destroys their ability to feel. The institutions of this country need to stop this insanity now. There is no such thing as transgenderism no changing birth certificates. No court orders approving this madness. If a guy wants to dress up in women clothes let them but he is still just a guy who has a deep
Mental illness that needs therapy and not drugs that as a side effect causes suicidal thoughts
Why leave out the cannabis connection when we know that he admits to starting marijuana at a young age?
The weed available in "stores" today is NOT the weed I grew up indulging in on occasion back in the '80's. I won't touch it, and not because I don't miss the fun I used to have back then but because the few times I have indulged it immediately causes tachycardia, syncope, hyperthermia, and sweating-- a good 30 minutes of misery. It's not worth the hour or so of "thank god that's over hee hee hee". I couldn't imagine using that crap 24/7 like some folks now do and I know it's not a "normal" reaction but it's well enough known to be called "greening out" and is something I highly recommend NOT experiencing. That and the hideous chemicals I've read that they use on the plants is just a no for me. I wonder if the advent of this much more toxic weed is also contributing to these problems.
I agree! I remember buying the $10 "four finger bag" and by the time I was 19 I had to stop because it only made me feel all those physical symptoms you listed - right along with a hefty dose of paranoia.
A huge increase (30%) in incidence of schizophrenia in young men from smoking marajuana has been documented I believe in Denmark.
My nephew is an example. Has not been able to work for decades. Imagines he is Jesus. Not good!
Yes pot has seriously and seemingly permanently triggered psychosis and schiozphrenia in young family members. Sadly, my state was so enthusiatic about the new tax revenue that the state tourist dept initially sent out free, snazzy tourist booklets identifying cannibis outlets! No health dept warnings to be seen in this state! However, sitting in court, gotta say that local law enforcement and judges all seem very aware of this trend. Most folks don't realize THC concentration is now up to 80% in contrast with old hippie days of maybe 7%.
Fair, it might also have played a role
I personally believe the cannabis is a much stronger connection than the trans issue. Both the cannabis activists and trans activists prey on vulnerable adolescents who are confused. Adolescents should learn that it's normal to have awkward and uncomfortable feelings when they're growing up. Please look into it, Christopher.
I did not know that and your right cannabis use leads to mental health issues
The cannabis connection is a commonality he had with many mass shooters, including the Highland Park, Uvalde, Sutherland Springs, TX. Aurora, CO and Parkland, Florida shooters. Also, the Tucson shooter, the Planned Parenthood shooter and others in Colorado. The Highland Park shooter was described in the Chicago Tribune as "an isolated stoner who lost touch with reality" by his peers. A guy who went on a killing spree in Rockford IL last year and killed his friend had gone over to his home to smoke some weed. It's a very idiosyncratic drug that affects different people differently.
all connections to drug use that is profitable for certain industries must be ignored, did you not get the memo?
Thanks for the reminder, Mitch.
"Nothing to see here. Move along. These are NOT the droids you are looking for..."
The real danger is exactly as I have said before:
• Little children and innocents are being murdered.
• By young people destabilized — drugged, sterilized, surgically mutilated, confused, and radicalized by an ideology that tells them they are both sacred victims and righteous avengers.
• That is not an abstraction. It is flesh-and-blood horror.
To focus on whether naming it might cause “political opportunism” is obscene compared to the bodies of children in pews and classrooms.
⸻
The True Danger
• Children: vulnerable, dependent, and targeted — not just by bullets, but by the ideology itself.
• Families: grieving or complicit, either way shattered forever.
• Society: tolerating a cult that mutilates youth, then acts shocked when some lash out violently.
That is the danger.
Not reputations.
Not political jockeying.
Not media spin.
⸻
What Needs Saying Plainly
• The ideology of “gender identity” is not neutral. It is producing broken, sterilized, permanently adolescent bodies and minds.
• Some fraction of those — as we now see, far more than chance would predict — are turning violent, and specifically against Christians and children.
• That is the fact. That is the danger. And if it isn’t faced, more innocents will die.
“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.”
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées VII(425)
Brilliant assessment, thank you. I hope the fight to stop this madness is beginning.
Good article. I particularly enjoyed the understanding that the murderer, while plunging into madness, had a better discernment of reality than The New York Times. Christopher Rufo is a crucial voice against the madness that tried and keeps trying to endanger our society. I hope he (we) wins in the end and that this particular end is near.
This ideology which is rooted in fake science must be stopped by all legal means available
Yes, it's voodoo science and must be stopped. From not only the fringe in the medical community but our schools promoting it and the feeling that everyone is a victim of life. The schools have all changed from education institutions to mental health facilities confusing our most vulnerable.
Don't denigrate voodoo like that
Funny!
Charge the mother and doctors as.murder accomplices. They were the contributers. Asylums need to be reopened and all gender dysphoria trannies -#1 admitted. Or relocate all with their MDs to Molokai. All are on no fly list. It will save society
The next group should be TDS democrats.
Why do people always seem to focus on the mother? Why not reflexively say "charge the father?" A boy who wants to be a girl almost certainly has 'daddy issues' as they say. Why not look more closely at the father and his role?
BTW, Suzanne, this comment was not directed solely at you, but at the broad swath of commentators on this issue. The major exception is Andy Ngo, who had the good sense to find someone who actually knew the family. His protrait is more sympathetic toward the mom, and the dad remains mysterious. Here's Andy's post: https://substack.com/home/post/p-172439240
As in CIA mysterious. Perhaps this poor kid was part of an experiment. Like so many spook experiments before -- MKUltra, Operation Gladio etc etc.
If we're talking about Munchausen syndrome, which often comes up when the subject is enabling transgender kids in their delusions, 85-95% of the abusers are the mother. This may or may not be the case here, but I'd wager that is "why do people always seem to focus on the mother?"
Agreed about the probabilities on Munchausen.
But if the issue is some kind of masculinity wound, (which wouldn't be surprising) the father is definitely relevant. An unavailable or unattractive father figure can cause a lot of confusion in an adolescent boy.
In any case, reporters are supposed to ask questions, no? Andy Ngo's report makes it clear, in my mind at least, that someone needs to dig more deeply into the father's role.
Just the opposite in this case. The mother did not want to sign the papers but was pressured, probably by officials telling her that her son would commit suicide (the usual tactic with reluctant parents) if she did not. Her son was angry with her for not being more supported. On the other side, his father, very leftest, was very supportive of his son deciding he was a girl. I'm sure it gave him street creds with his friends.
Some reporting indicates that the mother tried to resist her son’s gender transition.
In some states they'll take your kids away if you don't affirm, so no, don't charge the mother. The fear of losing custody of your child can make you do things you never normally would.
“Charge the mother…” sounds like it’s based on the psychology of the 1970s. Was a father not involved? Yes, let’s find the source of the violence and who influenced it. We may all have to readjust our thinking and never use the language of the activists. He was not a person of the “gender assigned at birth” but was a male. He did not receive “gender affirming care” but received medical intervention that altered his body.
on that note, I read that the mother did not affirm but was pressured by the father. Highly unusual, but possible.
To state that his mother should be charged is very harsh. She did her best with a son who, throughout much of his life, was angry and depressed. When she signed the papers allowing him to change his sexual identity (as if ones sex could magically change by stating the lie) she confided to friends that she was deeply torn. Trying to appease a mentally ill child is an almost impossible task. She will live with her inability to help her sick child and the horror of what her son did for the rest of her life. Isn't that enough?
Well stated,why is the main stream media pushing this lie? It's almost seems like this is planned for our society in this country
Yes, and it’s being planned/executed by Marxists, who are trying to destroy us. The forced acceptance of homosexuality (Lenin’s idea) was the camel’s nose in the tent.
It was a planned movement hatched by Jennifer Pritzker(a trans) to change the culture of families in the U S . Mr Rufo has many writings on this.
Yes, those Pritzkers. One taking Illinois down the financial and social rabbit hole and another destroying freedom of speech at Harvard as chairman of their irresponsible board. A blight on the USA.
So many things have been planned to destroy us, beginning with the Civil Rights Act and affirmative action, that has destroyed education, businesses, industries, and so many other things. The COVID hoax, the climate hoax, millions of invading, worthless, third-world parasites brought here, now the trans idiocy. So many government-created horrors are happening that it's no wonder these fragile psyches are imploding.
Very accurate analysis. Sadly I fear that very few connect pharmaceuticals to violence. We have created two generations of drug fueled citizens and it is escalating. It goes way beyond the trans issue as SSRI’s become ubiquitous in our populace.
Why leave out the cannabis connection? He and so many other mass shooters began using cannabis at a young age. It greatly exacerbates the mental breakdown. I think the empirical evidence would show that cannabis has a stronger connection to bringing about the mental states connected to mass shootings. However, back in the 1990s, the breakthroughs associated with SSRIs, combined with advertisements on TV, started leading people to there can be quick fixes. We need to get away from the belief in quick fixes for our complex problems.
Those who like this comment and are Republicans should say something to POTUS who is considering changing cannabis from its Schedule I designation to Schedule III. Cannabis should be categorized as among the most dangerous of drugs.
WTF are you talking about. Cannabis doesn't cause violence. You are repeating US government propaganda from the fucking 1920s.
You are making a strange connection, as we are talking about the perpetuators of today's violence.
Today's marijuana is turbo-charged; it has been genetically modified and chemically altered to be way more potent that the stuff available 100 years ago.
Or even 30-40 years ago.
WTF are YOU talking about?...its a known fact..yes FACT that the sh.t that is smoked these days leads to psychosis for far too many...the use of violence usually accompmanies psychotic behaviour..
That’s not a fact. That’s old propaganda. Potheads are, in general, the least violent people on the planet. Saying otherwise in CAPS does not make it so.
I don't believe the pharmaceuticals are as much to blame as the government cabal is. So much is being done by the government cabal to destroy whites and Western civilization. We're bombarded with constant negative, nihilistic messages, hoaxes, and hypocrisies in the daily news, movies, TV shows, and even advertising. Fragile minds like the ones with trans ideas can't handle it and implode.
Add Ritalin and Adderall.
Transgenderism…. Pure evil
Those that encourage this…. Accomplices.
Please expose those funding this movement.
Pritzker, Rothblatt, Stryker, Arcus and Soros.
Add Tim Gill
Indirectly, we fund it.
I have seen reporting indicating significant funding with ties to adversaries.
Every socially corrosive movement gets big bucks.
Is your point to not bother searching for drivers?
The critical problem isn't that transgenderism was a crazy movement. Nor even that it resulted in the mutilation of thousands, including so many minors.
No, the critical problem is that it received approval at the highest levels of medical science and dissenters were persecuted.
Now, as the light slowly dawns on the horror, how is this abysmal failure going to be addressed?
If it isn't, it will be repeated. And then why should anyone trust medical science any more?
Medical science with endorsement from top political officials, news media etc.
They did it for the money.
Partial autism plus rainbow brainwashing at an early age is a dangerous combination.
Once upon a time, Democrats banned Joe Camel due to potential influence on children. Puberty blockers cause more irreversible harm than cigarettes.
I can’t help but wonder if kids are being fed this transgender nonsense in our schools. Progressive Educators seem hell-bent on sexualizing our children.
They are absolutely make no mistake. California superintendents literally added it to the curriculum.
Absolutely happens everyday all across this country. Not at all a secret.
They are.
I am trans, transitioned at 48, am now 70. I was afflicted with gender dysphoria from as early as I can remember, and it dominated my life for 48 years. Fortunately, it did not prevent me from developing as a person and building a fulfilling life.
I never thought I was a woman, I just felt the overwhelming desire to be one. I don't think I am a woman now, but I live in the world as one, and that is what I wanted. I do consider it a mental illness, but for people like me, transition and surgery was the only way to end the mental anguish I lived with. So, it is real, but it is rare, and has nothing to do with the ideological and money making nightmare it has turned in to.
When I had to go to therapy and meetings 25 years ago I saw the beginnings of the "trans industry", people who made money off the mental illness. They were all on the left btw. I could see that they wanted to turn it into a movement and a cause. Today, they are convincing confused kids that their problem is their born sex, and they should do something about it.
These kids are not trans. They did not, like me at 3 or 4 years old, lay in bed and wish they could go back to the baby factory and be re-born in the opposite sex. Someone put the idea in their head much later in life.
So, it is a real thing, it is a curse I would not wish on anyone. I dealt with it and never regretted it. But what it happening in society with this issue today is not a real thing, it is a concocted reality that serves the agenda of various people.
I despise the LGBTQ movement, and people who build their entire personality and life on their sexual situation. I hope someday sanity and basic morality brings light to the whole issue, and people like me can get the help they need to deal with their problem, and innocent young people are not preyed upon by the malignant forces that seem to have taken control.
Years ago a former colleague Transitioned after decades of difficult reflection. It made me aware there is a percentage of folks where this is a real condition. The “trans” movement to make it popular, glamorous & enticing, along with medical industry wanting to cash in, and now the inevitable backlash from the regret and harm is not pretty. And this movement has been harmful to true trans and gays. JK Rowling has a good essay on this.
Agree with Christopher that these ideologies, pushed and affirmed by MSM, doctors, so called experts and delusional parents, that think they can change biology are completely destructive.
Destructive to individuals such as Westman and to all society. Jordan Peterson was always right. These people need help and counseling, not surgery and drugs.
Well stated about this particular ideology. Another factor, missed in the comments, is the shooter's connection to cannabis. He worked in a medical marijuana shop until a few weeks before the shooting. From what he wrote, we can infer that he began using weed at a young age and regretted it just as he regretted the trans identity. The cannabis connection is a commonality he has to many mass shooters, including the Highland Park, Uvalde, Sutherland Springs, Aurora, CO and Parkland, Florida shooters. While we don't know if he was taking SSRIs, we know that there's a connection between starting cannabis use at a young age and mental deterioration. It is the worst thing a confused adolescent can do, especially with today's high potency THC. Using cannabis for "health reasons" was being normalized at the same time "gender-affirming care" was being pushed.
Not to mention inhaling secondhand smoke from infancy, from parental weedsmokers.
Amen. For years, society, particularly conservatives have been told that WE are the problem, that WE aren’t accepting enough, not supportive enough and it’s our fault that trans people have a high suicide rate. WE reach they are angry when the answer is right in front of our faces. Being trans, being encouraged to allow medicine to make someone into something they are not is the real problem.