I would like to be a good influence on other AGPs, but the AGPs who need influencing don't believe that AGP is real. Any suggestions for how to reach out and engage?
I'm not one to shame straight men about not dating trans women, but why do so many GC feminists insist on disregarding the fact that some straight men are GAMPs?
I turn 61, next week. I never fully transitioned. I can't say that I would have netted any greater amount of happiness by transitioning, and I've been blessed by events that couldn't have happened had I transitioned. I own the fact that I'm AGP, and I'm at peace with it.
@geraldposner
This was utterly predictable. Evidence of prior bad acts is generally prohibited unless offered to show a modus operandi or pattern of conduct. The exceptions are construed very narrowly.
@JackLinFLL
Politically, it wouldn't be a bad move. I could see Nikki being very effective in a debate with Kamala Harris. But she's very unpopular with Trump's base.
If you think a child can make an informed choice about “gender-affirming care,” how do you explain the Ivy League college students who took over a building only to realize that they hadn’t brought any food? 🤔
@cestjuin
@AlottaMalotta
Transition used to be a matter of social negotiation, without making demands for acceptance or attempting to gaslight people into believing that what we used to call a mtf transsexual was *literally* a woman. It doesn't justify medicalizing kids.
@KristenNHammond
@slomdumballs
@9mm_smg
@_BourbonX
It sounds like he’s a coward who lacks the courage to face a grave situation. It’s possible that he’ll have a change of heart but this is a character issue that can’t be fixed in a short amount of time.
@BriannaWu
@Jacobionite
He’s right, Brianna. I just got a new scrip without any trouble. I had to see a doctor but that’s what I’ve always done because it’s the responsible thing to do.
This looks to me like a classic HSTS who waited until reaching adulthood to transition. I’m far from being the pronoun police but why are the people in this thread being such assholes?
Zaya apparently was raised by a father who was in a religious cult. At 18, he legally and surgically transitioned from gay man to gay man who said he had received a botched vaginoplasty from Dr. Rumer. Then his father disowned him. He recently turned 22.
I don’t see how anybody could look at someone like
@MakiGingoyon
and say, “That’s a man.” It’s not just that she’s beautiful, but that her smile reflects a feminine soul. To me, she’s a woman.
@jk_rowling
18/ It's well-known that a child who grows up without a father in the home will be more susceptible to every social pathology you can imagine-truancy, drug abuse, crime, prostitution, teen pregnancy, and homelessness, just to name a few that come to mind.
@MujerGuerrera78
@dye_phil
We've devalued education, stripped it down to the lowest common denominator, and instead of teaching facts and reason we treat education as a palliative for hurt feelings.
@FunkyPsyche
I don't think it's sadism so much as narcissistic virtue signaling, but what's clear is that you were failed by people who were supposed to protect you.
New essay on autogynephilia by Anne Lawrence. I agree that it is unfortunate that so many gender criticals demonize all AGPs rather than the subset causing problems. We need more understanding and compassion.
@jk_rowling
17/ ... but any normal father would be deeply traumatized by the sight of his daughter with Frankenstein stitches across her chest, knowing that she will never have the chance to experience the joy of becoming a mother.
So, where are the fathers? Why aren't they speaking up?
Employees of a kindergarten in Penzing, Vienna have been ordered to dress modestly in order not to “burden” Muslim fathers picking up their kids.
The Austrian women have been told to always “cover their shoulders”
🇦🇹
@BriannaWu
@Jacobionite
The new law was intended to prevent groups like Planned Parenthood from handing out scrips by NPs without any bloodwork and without any clearance letter from a therapist.
1/ In today's parlance, I was
#trans
long before it became fashionable. I had spent decades coming to grips with a terribly baffling mental condition, and had achieved something resembling a happy equilibrium, when suddenly the world went mad.
I agree with a lot of what Brianna says in this thread but this simply isn’t true. You can get hrt but have to see an actual doctor, which anyone on hrt should have already been doing. I just got a new scrip without any trouble.
@kelly_cadigan
They screwed up their lives because they were too young to make such consequential decisions, and were failed by people who were supposed to protect them from harm.
The answer is simple: Radfems are misandrists. If you're a man, your only get out of radfem jail free card is to claim that you're gay. No AGP, no matter how repentant, no matter how much they desist and self-flagellate, will ever be able to make peace with these hateful women.
Yes but is it to protect these medically abused men from online bullying as Chris suspects? Or is it an inability to combine their genuine sympathy for those harmed by gender medicine with their idea of the cartoon villain who's causing it?
Watching the GCs turn on the work of
@BlanchardPhD
while, at the same time, they embrace an absurdly reductive definition of AGP has been ... enlightening.
I don’t believe that passionate conviction and scientific detachment are particularly compatible mindsets. Thus, it’s unsurprising that many gender critical folk would join many trans activists in their annoyance at my writings on gender identity disorders.
@tiredgirl428
Yes to both. Puberty is a normal stage of human development. The efficacy of these treatments, especially but not only puberty blockers, remains unknown and they are therefore experimental. Minors cannot consent to being subjects for medical experiments.
@FGleed73314
@HPluckrose
Just follow a few of
@HPluckrose
's threads and you will see plenty of GC women who believe that the reason *why* a man wears a dress is critical to whether it should be tolerated.
The funny thing about posts like this is that if the male commenters saw Cassidy Cauley on the street or in a club they’d think that she was totes fuckable.
Man dating a "trans woman" (male) justifies himself to his best friend:
"I’m not gay. I'm an alpha male attracted to femininity and that's what I got."
@DisaffectedPod
Agreed. I was just debating a self-described expert on socialism who didn’t know who Vaclav Havel was, and when called out on it she dismissed him as some irrelevant essayist from the 90s. 😂
People in the real world treat me pretty nice. They even offer me chairs and buy me drinks. It's only on X that I have experienced any kind of prejudice in recent years, and it can be quite vicious. A lot of GCs are so eager to stick it to a tr00n ...
@TTExulansic
You're reading too much into this, imo. Some guys just naturally resemble their mothers, and it becomes more apparent when they're on hrt.
An AGP doesn’t look at a woman and think, like most str8 guys, whether she’s hot or not. An AGP’s appreciation of female beauty is more nuanced. We focus more on how a woman makes the most of her looks, what works for her and what doesn’t, and her degree of self confidence.
@DisaffectedPod
Something broke a lot of people during COVID. The tearing down of behavioral norms by the establishment left, especially in the wake of George Floyd riots, unleashed dark thoughts that some harbored but never expressed.
@BlanchardPhD
Yes, watching the GCs turn on your work while, at the same time, they embrace an absurdly reductive definition of AGP has been ... enlightening.
@Aaron_GDAC
More than 30 years ago, me and some CD friends in LA sometimes took a break from the chasers to hang out at a famous lesbian bar. We always had a good time and made new friends, and never insinuated that we were looking for sex. It's too bad that things have come to where we are.
Something I’ve come to realize is that millennials and GenZers tend to demand that everything be in absolutes. It’s OK to be uncertain. It’s OK to live with ambiguity. It’s OK to compromise.
@since2010375518
I see more and more GCs saying that
@BlanchardPhD
’s typologies are problematic because he recognized that some AGPs can live well-adjusted lives after transition.
The real problem here is that so many AGPs have horrendous taste. They dress in age-inappropriate, mismatched fabrics and patterns, they wear cheap wigs, and they generally look like they threw together their outfits from a second-hand store. It doesn't have to be this way.
I’ve seen this image going around to distinguish between “bad” gender nonconformity (AGP) vs “good” nonconformity (fashion).
But I bet if you took the outfits of the top row and put them on attractive young fashion models with pro lighting, posing, and photography, they’d be
@jk_rowling
12/ This has been an appalling spectacle, all by itself. But then came the issue of administering "gender-affirming care" to minors. For anyone with a long familiarity with the topic, the sudden spike in "trans" kids should have been a red flag. What became of gatekeeping?
@BriannaWu
I am increasingly skeptical that the genie of trans ideology can be put back in the bottle without action from state legislatures. All we can do is protect our own rights in the process.
10/ ... then you know that a backlash is inevitable. And the backlash came.
It was all so avoidable. All the activists had to do was acknowledge that
@jk_rowling
was right, that a woman is an adult human female for whom the law allows special protections.
@STranswidows
@BlanchardPhD
Dr. Blanchard wrote that these treatments present “a moral, political, and cultural issue, not a scientific issue.” You’re criticizing it as a moral issue. So why do you disagree with what he wrote?