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Nice to see that you put "gender affirming care" in quotes. A more odious euphemism is scarcely imaginable -- "ethnic cleansing"?

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"Collateral damage"

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"reproductive health care"

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Tucker says nobody has looked at the financial angle on the transgender issue until this guy. But this guy is undoubtedly biting off the work of Jennifer Bilek. Bilek has been on that exact thing for at least five years. Her reporting is indispensable when trying to get to the bottom of this issue.

She even goes so far as to show that transgenderism is just the gateway to the ultimate goal-- transhumanism. But Bilek is a feminist and I guess that makes her invisible to Tuckers radar. This is the problem with our society today. We so easily throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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It's mildly amusing when someone relatively new to this says "no one has been talking about X" - there have been (mostly) women in the trenches and sounding the alarms for *years*.

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An excellent Federalist article from February 2018 about this transgender movement. There obviously are some very powerful, very wealthy people in back of this. Some excerpts from the article below:

“As an environmental activist who was deplatformed from a speaking venue by transactivists, in 2013 I developed curiosity about the power of this group to force this development. A year later, when Time magazine announced a transgender tipping point on its cover, I had already begun to examine the money behind the transgender project.”

“I have watched as all-women’s safe spaces, universities, and sports opened their doors to any man who chose to identify as a woman. Whereas men who identify as transwomen are at the forefront of this project, women who identify as transmen seem silent and invisible. I was astonished that such a huge cultural change as the opening of sex-protected spaces was happening at such a meteoric pace and without consideration for women and girls’ safety, deliberation, or public debate.”

Who Are the Rich, White Men Institutionalizing Transgender Ideology?

The Federalist. By Jenifer Bilek. Feb 20, 2018

http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/rich-white-men-institutionalizing-transgender-ideology/

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Quite right. But Tucker must be familiar with Hillsdale College, no? Bilek gave a lecture there last year relevant to the topic:

https://freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu/programs/campus-lectures/big-pharma-big-tech-and-synthetic-sex-identities

She’s really the boss in this field.

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Right fucking on!!!!

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I tried to make this point in the youtube comments. I was one of the first two people to comment. But someone on Tucker's or Youtube's end promptly took my comment down. Sigh.

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And another source that pre-dates Chris Moritz, courtesy of a PITT parent:

https://bioedge.org/gender/transgender/sex-reassignment-surgery-market-in-us-forecast-to-soar-to-us6-billion/

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Feminism is a hate cult, and rightfully ignored when possible. They don't communicate with language; they just create conflict.

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It seems any group we don't agree with is a hate cult these days. I'm not a feminist. I strongly disagree with much of what they assert. But I've known a few and I know what you are saying in general is absurd. Regardless, Jennifer Bilek's work speaks for itself and the dude on Tucker Carlson wouldn't be there were it not for her. So if Belik's feminist views motivated her reporting on the money driving transgenderism are you grateful? :) Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Take what you can use and leave the rest alone.

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No, feminism has always been a hate cult.

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Doctors going along with along with Munchausen by Proxy parents to sterilize children is obscene. Wait until they kids grow up a realize what has happened to them was not just some teenage angst. 😢

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I give it five to ten years for the lawsuits to REALLY get going.

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As they should. Drug companies and doctors first.

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I’ve said this since the beginning- the way to get at corporate “wokism” corporate tyranny, authoritarianism is demolish, defund and erase the HR department. Managers are enough in each dept- no need for HR. They are the extension of the barren mad evil female and the illiberal university.

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Harmeet Dhillon is one of my favorites. I donate money to her law center which is fighting this evil. Very intelligent in many areas. She ran for leadership of the RNC last year and is ideally suited for the job since she understands perfectly how the democrats rig elections. Ronna McDaniel won though in spite of her 3 term record of being a loser. Trump privately backed Ronna even though he had to have known Harmeet was far better for the job. And then it was Fox News and the RNC (Ronna) who selected those 3 awful moderators at the recent Republican primary debates. And the one woman asking questions was even a Woke leftist from Univision! How disgusting. Ronna in charge of the RNC is a big loss for us which could have easily been avoided. I sure can’t imagine Harmeet picking moderators like those 3.

“Based Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon Explains Why She’s Battling Doctors Who Transition Children.” (8 min)

The Daily Signal. July 16, 2023

https://youtu.be/qE-FLblxsis

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There is a weekly newsletter sent out by a man named Dan Proft called “Chicago City Wire” that I get in the mail since I live on the north side of Chicago. In the Sept 4-10, 2022, during the race for governor which Pritzker won, issue a front page story was “Chicago Public Schools to adapt Pritzker’s sex ed curriculum.” A couple of excerpts below. What did the Chicago media think of this? They think it’s ignorant and bigoted to object to it. America is rotting and insane. This is just not working at all. This is evil.

“Chicago Public Schools will be teaching Gov. J.B. Pritzker's new controversial sex education curriculum, which aims to provide more explicit instruction to Illinois K-12 students on "LGBTQ" concepts, cross-dressing, anal and oral sex and abortion, at earlier ages. Sex education will begin at Kindergarten, according to the new curriculum, with lessons on "gender identity."

“Third graders will learn about how they can take "hormone blockers" to change from a boy to a girl, or vice versa. In sixth grade, students will be instructed on anal and oral sex, condom-wearing and the "pregnancy option" of abortion.”

“While many Americans are still trying to understand why women are being erased in language and law, and why children are being taught they can choose their sex, the Pritzker cousins and others may be well on their way to engineering a new way to be human. But what could possibly explain the abrupt drive of wealthy elites to deconstruct who and what we are and to manipulate children’s sex characteristics in clinics now spanning the globe while claiming new rights for those being deconstructed? Perhaps it is profit. Perhaps it is the pleasure of seeing one’s own personal obsessions writ large. Perhaps it is the human temptation to play God. No matter what the answer is, it seems clear that SSI will be an enduring part of America’s future.”

“The Billionaire Family Pushing Synthetic Sex Identities (SSI).”

The wealthy, powerful and sometimes very weird Pritzker cousins have set their sites on a new God-like goal: using gender ideology to remake human biology.

Tablet. By Jennifer Bilek. Jun 14, 2022

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers

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The argument for "There is no such thing as objective truth" is ridiculous. It boils down to "What we call the truth might be falsity invented by the powerful to serve their interests." In other words, "possible interpretation" => "certain interpretation". That is a major form of Lefty Il-logic these days. For example, Blacks are disproportionately held in prisons. So here we go: "possible interpretation" ("Racism!", of course) becomes "certain interpretation". (Who commits crimes has nothing to do with anything, you racist you.) And we will, in terms of "truth-value equivalence", regard our view as objective truth ... hoping nobody notices. Got it? Get it? Good!

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I didn’t really think much about the trans issue until I saw Matt Walsh’s ‘What is a Woman’. Then the reality dawned on me that we are encouraging/allowing kids - who have no ability to understand the consequences- we’re allowing them to have parts of their bodies cut off and to become dependent on drugs for the rest of their lives. Most cancer survivors hope to avoid this outcome and yet this is lauded by the trans movement. I can’t imagine the waves of regret that will wash over many of these kids as they grow up. It is nothing short of insanity that the current regime is enabling and encouraging this mental illness.

It’s completely nuts and I can’t understand the underpinnings. Where do we end up?

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I see people commenting about how rare this is which is so ridiculous to me. Where are you living? Did you not see the country tear itself apart over George Floyd, an exceedingly rare event that is completely ignored when the victim is white? Anyone selling that snake oil we should all be wary of.

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That's not the point. The point is it's highly destructive and illogical. It's a sign of the conquest of science by political dogma and the destruction of free thought. Those are serious problems for a supposedly free country.

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Not thinking I want to live with India's healthcare system... or anything similar

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I have a stepdaughter who moved to Canada “because of Trump” and moved back a year later because of the lousy medical system.

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No, the Dems use it as a bludgeon and a weapon. And they do admit the system is messed up, with this being the ideal example of that fact.

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No they don't.

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Obviously you don’t have kids.

When they decided to go after the kids all bets are off.

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OMG. In a nutshell: OMG. This is heartbreaking, and I don't even have any children.

Thank you, Sasha, for all the Tucker drops, but especially for this one. And thank you to Tucker, and huge thank you to Mr. Moritz. I'm so glad that Mr. Moritz has the insight to precisely, and correctly, zero in on the exact motive driving this aberrant thinking, behavior, and pseudo-medical industry: cultural marxism.

This is why there are drag shows for kids at the local library or bar. Why are there no drag shows for seniors at the retirement centers? Because seniors are not the target; your kids are the target. It's why

some schools and politicians are pushing the idea that your children's upbringing is the purview of the government and the public school system.

Mr. Moritz is right, in my opinion, that there is an effort at creating a marxist cultural revolution in the USA. They want to destroy the existing culture and then 'build back better'. But they can't build back better until everything is destroyed. And the biggies to destroy are the family unit and any unit of faith in a God or Higher Power. Along the way they're also wrecking our border, our ability to defend ourselves (very little military readiness), our supply chains, our housing market, our financial system, and of course the assault on our personal health. A confused, stressed, and ill populace is easier to control than a vigorous, hearty, well-informed populace with strong family and cultural bonds.

I'll put this here in case it might help someone, because it has helped me a lot: reading and listening to James Lindsay's "New Discourses" podcasts has been invaluable for me to begin to understand what the heck is going on. His podcasts are free, on u-tube, many are free at his website newdiscourses(dotcom), and he's also here on Substack.

I hope it's kosher for me to mention another writer here on Substack. Speaking for myself, I need all the help and all the viewpoints I can learn from. When things began to get weird, I had no clue at all as to why some people were pushing the ideas they were, and why I was unable to have a sane, reasonable conversation with them. I've needed informative resources like James Lindsay, and also nurturing and healing resources like Sasha to help me through the quicksand.

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“Because seniors are not the target; your kids are the target. It's why.”

This Real Clear Investigations article below from 2020 is about the “1619 Project” and what the author Nikole Hannah-Jones told the editors of the Chicago Tribune about its purpose which is, she said, to instill guilt in white liberals so they will support reparations for blacks. White liberals are not being targeted though. White children in our public schools are. And our Woke white leftist ruling class loves this and is totally supportive of it. She was even given a Pulitzer Prize for this poison in 2020. This is not “black history” though. This is anti-white hate mongering pretending to be history. This is evil and this is what the democrats have become. And these are the same people who are working to put Trump in prison.

“If you read the whole project, I don’t think you can come away from it without understanding the project is an argument for reparations,” she told the Chicago Tribune in October.

“I'm not writing to convert Trump supporters. I write to try to get liberal white people to do what they say they believe in,” she said. “I'm making a moral argument. My method is guilt.”

“Disputed NY Times ‘1619 Project’ Already Shaping Schoolkids Minds on Race.”

Real Clear Investigations. Jan 31, 2020

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/01/31/disputed_ny_times_1619_project_is_already_shaping_kids_minds_on_race_bias_122192.html

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Yet another depopulation technique...

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An excellent Quillette article about Transgenderism that the left believes in. A couple of very good comments to the article as well. Claire Lehmann’s Quillette is a great site.

“Neurological studies show the same trends in brain structure between non-dysphoric homosexual individuals and individuals who identify as transgender.”

S.Cheung:

Isn’t that semantics at this point? What then is “gender dysphoria”? Are these 0.5% “actually” in the wrong body, or do they merely perceive themselves to be in the wrong body

No, it’s not semantics. Gender dysphoria is an irrational aversion to the sex of one’s own body. A person can’t actually have the wrong psychology for their sex. As the article illustrates, each sex comprises a broad range of personality types and there is considerable overlap between the sexes. The majority of individuals who exhibit personalities atypical of their sex do not experience gender dysphoria. Therefore, having a sex atypical personality does not explain gender dysphoria, and it would be incorrect to ascribe this condition to a mismatch between a person’s sex and a person’s mind. Neurological studies show the same trends in brain structure between non-dysphoric homosexual individuals and individuals who identify as transgender. There’s no evidence that transgender people have the wrong brain for their sex, or that such a condition could even be said to exist, since individual brains vary dramatically within each sex.

S.Cheung:

But the author is contending that 0.5% do.

False. The authors claim that "0.5% of children develop gender dysphoria—distress caused by a perceived incongruence between one’s biological sex and gender presentation. " The key here is “perceived incongruence.” The perception is certainly due to a confusion or mental illness, since sex is binary.

The key point is that many people believe things that are false, and many beliefs are held very strongly. If you know anyone with a mental illness, and you try to convince them of the false nature of their beliefs, you will quickly learn how strongly held these beliefs are. Mental illness is common, and trans beliefs are a manifestation of mental illness.

“No One Is Born in ‘The Wrong Body’”

Quillette. Sept 24, 2019

https://quillette.com/2019/09/24/no-one-is-born-in-the-wrong-body/

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This type of so-called “medicine” has obviously been going on for decades; the powerful were creating eunuchs thousands of years ago. But even so, it involved adults, making their own decisions about their own physical lives, notwithstanding whatever the ethical and moral implications involved.

BUT NOW, those who prosper in any number of ways from it, either financially or emotionally or psychologically have determined they must indoctrinate it onto the most vulnerable, defenseless and innocent humans on the planet: very young, minor children, while at the same time working to completely eradicate any legal, moral, or ethical right or relationship of the child’s parent, in this demented effort to capture that child solely to satisfy their ends.

I defy anyone to come up with a more diabolical and evil plan than what these vile creatures are currently dead set on achieving.

This entire enterprise must be utterly annihilated from the earth, and that goes for all those who support it.

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Even ONE is too many.

Children are incapable of making such an utterly life altering decision and to try to minimize the seriousness of that is beyond deplorable.

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No man. That's just the bullshit line you've been fed. It was made up like ten years ago. If they feel like that, they should be treated to accept who they are, not turned into something they will never be. I'm writing a piece about this right now.

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Babies are born male or female. No one is assigning anything at birth. That is a ludicrous left wing talking point, and has absolutely nothing to do with reality. “Gender affirming care” is the 21st century fantasists’ equivalent to alchemy. At least alchemists only performed their reality-defying experiments on metals, not children.

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So if that isn’t happening, then nobody should mind if we prohibit gender surgery on children. It would be like making it illegal to feed the Loch Ness monster. Who cares, right? It’s just a right wing talking point.

I’ll stand back now to listen to the howls from the left at such a proposal.

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“The reality is some children identify with a gender that does not match their sex assigned at birth. These children are referred to as transgender, gender-diverse or gender-expansive.”

Many gays like to say they won the culture war with the legalization of gay marriage but it was a Pyrrhic victory since the consequences for them were devastating. It canceled gender and once gender was gone it allowed the Woke left to claim it’s merely a “social construct” which is fluid and changeable. This allowed LGBTQIA+ to be promoted to school children which mostly affected effeminate boys and tomboy girls who mostly would have grown up to be gay men and lesbian women although in the case of girls many tomboy girls outgrow it or simply grow up to be tomboy but straight women. It’s really astonishing that anyone could be in favor of doing that to children which ruins them for life. An evil thing to do.

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According to the left gender is not fixed at birth and only the child can know what gender they are even if they’re too young to even know what gender is. Supposedly gender is merely a “social construct” and is fluid. I’m retired but a few years ago I was talking to a Mexican woman at work in Chicago who has kids in a public school where they promote this gender questioning LGBTQIA+ ideology to the children. She said she now tells her son “You are a boy!” Probably the first time in the history of the human race that mothers have to emphasize something as basic as gender to their children.

I also have a neighbor in my northwest side of Chicago who’s a public school teacher who told me if a child decides to switch genders the teacher must affirm this new identity, use their new name and the teachers are forbidden to tell the parents about it. This is a blatant betrayal of trust and if people can’t trust something as basic as the public schools then what can they trust? And without trust there is no cohesion and a society unravels as ours is presently doing.

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We are a nation of whores. Congress. Big Pharma. Tech. Medicine. No damage too intrusive, corrosive or dehumanizing is beyond the pale. Tucker asks about the doctors, how can they do such a thing? These are the same doctors that stood down, shut their mouths and obediently injected the population during COVID. Quit acting surprised.

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Prostitutes have way more integrity than these doctors because prostitutes don’t maim children for life, and rarely have the wealth most of these doctors were born in to.

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Agreed. And if we are to think about the full circle of life, many prostitutes were themselves victims of child abuse. It's all so tragic.

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Just in case anybody was wondering if pure evil was alive and thriving in our day...

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In Canada, the College of physicians & surgeons will take your medical license if you disagree...

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“First do no harm.” The docs could also consider this prayer; Thank-you God for all You gave me and took from me. Having some things taken from us can be a great gift; especially if the alternative is eternity in Hell suffering because they willfully harmed innocent children. So stupid to bet on mortality over eternity.

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