What I Believe: About People with Gender Dysphoria

And How the Woke Mob Is  Making a Mockery of Them 

In some ways, the transgender debate may be the most important cultural issue of this century. Certainly more important than ageism, xenophobia, and fat phobia. But it’s also more important than sexism, religious animosity, and even racism.

I say that because all the other debates are grounded in some level of shared reality. But transgenderism, as it is being promoted today, is based on an absolute and willful denial of reality. A denial that all rational defenders of the transgender agenda know to be false.

Let me step back for a moment to give you some perspective on my thinking…

I believe there is such a thing as gender dysphoria. I believe it is a real psychological condition that should be taken seriously. But before transgenderism became such a huge political issue, my only thoughts about it came from personal experience.

Longstanding acquaintances of mine had a daughter that began evincing symptoms of gender dysphoria at a young age. The parents struggled with not knowing how exactly to respond for many years. But they took it slowly, recognizing how common it is for young and pre-adolescent children to test out different socially recognized identities. Not just in gender, but in just about every other role, throughout their development. (As every parent knows, and as almost every study has shown, children’s personalities are not firmly established until after adolescence.)

Rather than nudge their daughter one way or the other, the parents took a neutral stance until she had finished high school. By the time she entered college, her transition was, for all intents and purposes, complete. He is today a happy, successful, and charming young man.

Much more recently, I was working on a project for a business I own that required weekly meetings with a team of four people. One of those people was a young man that looked every bit like a young man when we began the project. But gradually, as the weeks and months went by, he began to make small changes towards a more feminine appearance. At the beginning of his transition, I noticed that he was growing his hair, but that didn’t mean anything. And I was a little taken aback when I noticed that his fingernails were painted. But I knew an MMA fighter that painted his toes. By the time he began wearing a touch of makeup here and there, I suspected that something was going on. I wasn’t sure, but I was curious. I asked his manager, “What’s going on with Eric?” Being a younger person with younger person sensibilities, he looked at me like I was crazy.

By that time, we had finished the project and so I had no reason to be back in those offices until nearly a year later. When I did get back, I was introduced to Erica, an attractive and capable young woman. My confusion was gone. I looked forward to working with her in the future.

Those were two good experiences – positive for me and for the people who had transitioned. But I don’t think they are typical of most of what we are seeing today. A disturbingly large number of transgendered celebrities seem to identify more with drag queens than they do with women. And that is one of the things that perplexes me. If gender dysphoria is a real thing, it means that a transgendered woman wants to be a woman, not a man in drag.

These people are imposters. Attention seeking oddballs that are taking advantage of the transgender movement to claim their fifteen minutes of fame. And they are, in my view, an insult to the few people that have true gender dysphoria and deserve our respect and consideration.

A few examples:

* Here’s Dylan Mulvaney, the new icon of transgender woman and her view of what a woman should be.

* Here’s someone that has a psychological condition that needs a new name.

* Here’s a biological man doing what I suppose he thinks is a satire of transgenderism in front of a panel that doesn’t know if he’s serious.

I’ve got a lot more to say on the subject, but that’s enough for today. In future missives, I’ll:

* Give you the factual data on gender dysphoria over the years.

* Explain why the debate about pronouns is actually about free and forced speech.

* Talk about the insanity of allowing transwomen to compete against biological women in any sport, including chess.

* Argue that the transgender movement is not trivial and should not be dismissed… and why, in fact, it is a critical issue about the future of freedom in the “modern” world.

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Go Woke and Go Broke 

Sales for Bud Light took a dive after the marketing VP in charge of the brand deciding to boost sales by getting away from the “frat boy” image and going for a new target audience: beer drinkers that are also fans of Dylan Mulvaney. (See “Notes From My Journal,” above.)

A month after the news broke, and despite a slew of macho ads to counteract the transgender idea, sales are still down nearly 20%.

Read more here.

 

Beware the Digital Dollar

A colleague recommended this blogger as someone with “above-average” knowledge of cryptos and the crypto market today. I watched this clip and several others. Probably because of sheer stupidity, I wasn’t able to find his name. But he is knowledgeable and a good communicator, so I’ve been following him for a few weeks.

Here, he talks about a general threat to the crypto market, one that I’ve been talking about since the beginning.

Check him out and let me know what you think.

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West Beirut 

Written and directed by Ziad Doueiri

Starring Rami Doueiri

Released (US) Sept. 3, 1999

Available on Netflix

West Beirut was fed to me by Netflix’s algorithm. It was great from start to finish. Great in a way that only foreign films can be great.

It’s a movie about friendship, family, religion, politics, and war. It takes place in the mid 70s when a civil war broke out in Lebanon and the city was divided between Muslim-Christian West Beirut and quasi-Christian East Beirut.

There are so many things that are smart and effective in this movie. I liked, in particular, the way it moves in two parallel lines. One is a coming-of-age story of three high school mates, a Christian girl and two Muslim boys, that explores the complexities of sex and romance. The other is a look at how in times of conflict religion can play a major part, either in separating people or holding them together.

You can watch the trailer here.

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The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong.

The Craziest Part of the Propaganda 

As I hope you know by now, virtually every important statement that Fauci and crew told the press in 2020, 2021, and 2022 about COVID, including its origins, its infectiousness, and its deadliness, was false.

What irks me is that anyone with a touch of curiosity and modicum of common sense should have realized from the very beginning that the “facts” being reported could not possibly have been correct.

I explained all that way back at the beginning of the COVID scare. Even with the smattering of information we were given, it was easy to understand that the logic they were using was false and the arithmetic was impossibly wrong.

Looking back at those falsehoods now, it is clear that the greatest and most obviously intentional was the decision to exaggerate the mortality rate (by a factor of seven to nine times!) by instructing hospitals and doctors on how to report the deaths.

I must have mentioned this a dozen times in my blog. And every time I did, I expected to hear back from someone explaining why what I was saying was wrong. But that never happened. I was never challenged because, incredibly, it was true!

What am I talking about? The CDC mandate to classify anyone that died with COVID as having died from COVID.

Here’s a doctor explaining how he felt when he first got the directive.

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Alisha Lehmann

Who is Alisha Lehmann? I had no idea, but this little clip got me interested. It said, “Watch Alisha Lehmann get her revenge.”

I looked her up. Turns out she’s the most followed female soccer player in the world.

Having a million-plus following online these days means endless opportunities to rake in extra income. You need something that distinguishes you from the crowd. (She’s one of the best players.) You need a likeable personality. (To attract repeat viewers and subscribers.) And it doesn’t hurt to be very good looking.

Click here for an interview with her.

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Re the April 25 issue: 

“Loved your piece about business/economic privilege! It’s so true!” – SM

“Your suggestion – ‘Unless you have run a successful business for at least five years, don’t talk. Just listen.’ – I can definitely see that on a t-shirt. Brilliant!” – RC

“Your essay on ‘The End of Unbiased Reporting’ was insightful. And correct. In the old days, you could argue that a newspaper or news channel was biased. But today, it goes way beyond bias. It’s competing fiction factories!” – LS

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