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Psychotherapist, Science and Gaming geek, not necessarily in that order. He/him/ia. All views my own. Cthulhu fhtagn! Warning: May contain Traces of Therapy.
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Part 1 of my second article on the problem of online trolling: Under the Bridge and Under their Skin - Part 1
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@ButNotTheCity
@JackVsLife
Speaking as a psychotherapist, I concur. There is no evidence that therapy can reduce gender dysphoria despite the claims to the contrary by SEGM/Genspect/GETA. Therapy can help with coping with shame/stigma, depression & anxiety but not gender dysphoria.
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@JaneyGodley
Speaking as a psychotherapist, there is no evidence that therapy can reduce gender dysphoria despite the claims to the contrary by SEGM/Genspect/GETA. Therapy can help with coping with shame/stigma, depression & anxiety but NOT gender dysphoria. Only surgery and HRT offers that.
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@aPikmo_
@ButNotTheCity
@JackVsLife
Totally. So much gender critical 'commentary' is just false claims and stereotypes they tell each other about what we think rather than talking to actual trans people or clinicians.
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@kirsty_johnston
@bernardchickey
If you look at the three biggest things driving the CPI increase: petrol, food, mortgages - you see the oil company oligopoly, our supermarket duopoly, and the banking oligopoly. All recording record and excessive profits by OECD standards. But we need to lose 50K workers, FFS.๐คข
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@JudithCollinsMP
A curious statement since what some people label as 'woke' is largely women, immigrants, minorities and marginalised groups and their allies 'standing up' for their equal rights and fair treatment. So that's some rather selective 'respect' you speak of.
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@CheckpointRNZ
Marty Verry is the son of the late Phillip Verry, a conspiracist who was involved with Kelvyn Alp in his NZAIF group back in the early 2000s, wanting to militarily overthrow the NZ government. Alp now fronts Counterspin Media and keen for an insurrection.
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@JaneyGodley
Stella O'Malley of Genspect, one of the architects of 'gender exploratory therapy', has apparently privately admitted that psychotherapy is ineffective at 'curing' gender dysphoria and they have no evidence base. More here:
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@ButNotTheCity
@JackVsLife
And I love how they don't realise they are talking to one of the leading experts on this topic - namely you. Thanks for your awesome work, Florence. The world and the trans community sorely needs it.
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@kirsty_johnston
@bernardchickey
Yup. Why is it always ordinary workers who need to go without to bring down inflation, never CEO salaries and corporate profits fuelled by cosy duopolies with these types? Economists like this are examples of the professional-managerial class serving their owners interests only.
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@davidfarrier
Sean has a bit of a habit of trying to insult or bully journalists he clearly envies into appearing on his show to boost his flaccid profile. He did it earlier with Paula Penfold too. โI gave my all to talkback radio and all I got was this lousy BSA complaint upheldโ.
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@SamHayes_
@nzherald
Ugh. That headline, likely chosen by the Herald not the two psychologists is misogynistic AF. Not a good advert for therapy and pure clickbait.๐ก Unfortunate as the article actually focuses on the problematic nature of the question but most will never see it given it's Premium.
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@aPikmo_
@ButNotTheCity
@JackVsLife
The loss of the idea of 'the body as bedrock' is intensely anxiety provoking for some people who have an insecure gender identity and deny it, leading to paranoia and splitting:
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@aPikmo_
@ButNotTheCity
@JackVsLife
It's the same process for how some bi/pan/gay people who can't accept their desires, deny then and become supremely homophobic - including certain early psychoanalysts. I wrote my psychotherapy Masters dissertation on that topic.
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@xx_matters
@AidanCTweets
This is known as the 'argument from ignorance', namely assuming the evidence you *don't* have favours your preferred position. Meanwhile, trans people keep saying otherwise but you ignore it:
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My first article in a series on the problem of online trolling. The Troll's Playground
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@byroncclark
VFF also seems to be pushing more explicitly right-wing populist merch too (i.e. explicitly anti socialism, etc.), dropping the just "Concerned Mum's" concerned about "Freedom" facade. Maybe that's not new and I've just not been paying as close attention.
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@AidanCTweets
Yeah, he's one of the right wing men who want to roll back no-fault divorce. Largely so that women will remain trapped with their neglectful or abusive husbands.
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@AveryOfBirds
@JEFFVARNER
@PoesMyaa
It appears some people appear to need a DNA test before they can be attracted to someones primary and secondary sexual characteristics.
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@Roundnroun
@Alessaof2evils
@AidanCTweets
Absolutely. Itโs a complex phenomenon with many different narratives and invididual journeys. Itโs often not acknowledged that many only temporarily desist and then retransition later since their gender dysphoria returns. This research 2021 explores this:
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@jonathanstea
Carl Sagan's 1995 book 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark' is such an important work and so prescient. I miss him. Science education is so important and it's great to see you following in his footsteps with 'Mind the Science'.
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@deekersinnz
@CheckpointRNZ
That Marty has more connections to the protest and some of the uglier/conspiratorial factions (Counterspin and VFF) than he's admitted to so far in his media appearances. The sort of thing journalists might dig into.
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@LuvAgent99
@2023Census
@StevePo48978082
@SophRiver
Mฤori has been an official language of NZ since the passage of the Mฤori Language Act in 1987 which was reaffirmed in 2016.
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@QaosTheory
@SeanPlunket
Per the conspiracy theory research behind the Web of Chaos doco that Sean disdains, people will often eagerly platform false beliefs which malign groups or individuals they dislike as a form of confirmation bias. Sean dislikes David hence his โgullibilityโ
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@RebeccaofPuffin
@ZonesOfThought
@JaneyGodley
The clinical diagnostic criteria are listed in the DSM-5 and the ICD-10. They wouldn't fit in a tweet but you can look them up if you really want to know.
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@Kassandra_Zerb
@Ivotian
Um.. Gandalf here isn't trans, just an ally with a sense of humour. You might have to hand-in your 'we can always tell' card for a 1-week time out. The rule is right there in the gender critical handbook between Joyce Juice and Stock Cubes.
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@NZFreeSpeech
Note the use of the logical fallacy known as a 'category error' where things of a different nature are incorrectly treated as being of the same kind. Hate speech is separable from free speech and not essential to it, unlike gravity which is an inseparable part of physics.
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@Te_Taipo
Yup. Why is it always ordinary workers who need to go without to bring down inflation, never CEO salaries and corporate profits fuelled by cosy duopolies with these types? Economists like this are examples of the professional-managerial class serving their owners interests only.
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@LexRegina72
Yep. Sovereign Citizen content is extreme 'magical thinking'. In legal research, they're called Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments (OPCA) and are akin to ritual magic with a cargo-cult approach to law.
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@patrick_ness
Iโve done that. I did manage to leave out the f**king. They said they๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝd paid for a ticket and could do what they wanted holding up their wine glass. I pointed out that others nearby had paid for a ticket too but not to listen to them. They looked around at stony faces and shut up
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@Roundnroun
@Alessaof2evils
@AidanCTweets
Itโs a useful article for understanding some of the different factors - but also to be read critically since itโs linked to SEGM who have an agenda on these topic given their gender critical leanings.
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@CharleyK
@farmgeek
The term genocide was coined by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin and the
@LemkinInstitute
for Genocide Prevention has this to say about the so-called โgender critical movementโ:
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@KnockoutKiwi
@DylanReeve
I guess we weren't supposed to figure out who the applicant and respondent were. Pretty clumsy on Sean's part. I wonder who did the ham-handed redaction? Was it the monkey or the Organ-grinder?
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@ThomasWillett9
Indeed. They love misrepresenting the Forstater decision. The EAT said this โdoes not mean that those with gender-critical beliefs can โmisgenderโ trans persons with impunityโ Source:
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@kelvin_morganNZ
So much is wrong here.๐ฉ 1. Free Speech Act? I'm guessing she means the Bill of Rights Act but who knows. 2. Meta is a US corporation so not in NZ jurisdiction. 3. The Bill of Rights and US 1st Amendment only restrict the actions of the Crown and US government respectively. ๐ตโ๐ซ๐ฑ
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@catespice
Trolls showing you who they are. That post is incredibly emotionally abusive and indicative of severe deficits in empathy. I've experienced paternal suicide too and it's not something you glibly exploit for twitter clout. Kia kaha, Caitlin. *hugs*
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@abigiles21
Speaking as a psychotherapist who specialises in working with rainbow clients, this correlation is well established in the research. It's essentially why being gay and/or gender diverse were originally considered a mental illness in the DSM and then removed in 1973 and 2013.
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@patbrittenden
Um.. he might want to check up on his defamation law (or with his lawyer) before publicly making more statements like this. Punishing someone for honest opinion is not what defamation is for and can be ruled an abuse of process.
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@ThisIsCorey
@PaulThistoll
SUFW is both legally illiterate and seem to feel entirely entitled to whatever *they* want to know about others (youth, adults, etc.) regardless of any one else's human rights which they will trample over in pursuit of the prejudices.
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@DukeofWaiheke
@SeanPlunket
@davidfarrier
It's not a forgery, but a one-sided 'application without notice' order issued per these rules: The contents of the memorandum required per clause 7.16 (3) would be interesting to read. Why don't you publish those Sean?
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@rodemmerson
The reason Destiny (oops, I mean FARC) is against the recent Health order is that Destiny runs private schools so the mandate applies to their staff. So similar to Gloriavale, all the anti-vax preaching is about to bite them.
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@AyeshaNkoula
@mimmymum
@JamesEsses
Umm.. that isn't how UK libel law works since you're implying you think the statements are false, let alone that it's all largely self-admitted over 2 years ago.
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@ZonesOfThought
@RebeccaofPuffin
@JaneyGodley
Indeed. The clinical evidence on gender dysphoria stretching back to the 1960s and the best practice guidelines regarding assessment and treatment completely refute all of the above. Clinicians do NOT practice this way - it's complete misinformation.
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@NZFreeSpeech
It's rather amusing that a purported free speech organisation is engaging in such obvious tone policing.
"Activists have argued that tone policing has been regularly employed against feminist and anti-racism advocates"
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@GinCho14
@ReginaGeorgesM1
@ATDrummond
Wow. When people show you who they are, believe them. Trolls just want to have fun - namely anonymous sadistic cruelty at others expense:
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@CartlandDavid
Your poll is kind of meaningless and not even vaguely scientific since it can't distinguish between 'actually vaccine injured' and 'think they're been vaccine injured' since correlation is not causation and mass psychogenic illness after vaccination is a known phenomenon.
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@comingupcharlie
I think Liz's view on education come from not realising Stranger Things was some awesome speculative fiction:
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@SeanPlunket
I imagine there's a strong chance he might just ignore you completely. So no boost to your ratings or relevance.
"Never Wrestle with a Pig. You Both Get Dirty and the Pig Likes It"
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@LGBwiththeT
They don't seem to be aware that we've been giving puberty blockers to cis children suffering from precocious puberty for decades...
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@gorskon
@AlastairMcA30
Yes, it's not just about financial motivations. Individual and collective narcissism feature strongly too.
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@BobbyMiller202
Provocateurs like KJK often have a deep psychological need to feel powerful and 'dangerous'. Being ignored and seeming ineffectual is their biggest fear. In that sense, attracting opposition through denigration is part of the (unconscious) plan.
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@frankie_fatal
@Bringlydingle
@terfasnails
@Ivotian
@Truthbomb_Queen
Charles Socarides thought lesbian women secretly hated their mothers, suffered from extreme penis envy and wanted to orally incorporate women to โfixโ their damaged femininity. We donโt take that homophobic theory seriously either. Can you guess why?
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@David_Cormack
It's not lack of self-awareness since I'd argue he knows *exactly* what he's doing. It won't lose him any votes and it keeps his name out there. It's more about lack of shame or conscience - which does show up in certain personality types drawn to politics
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@legaltweetz
@raffua1963
@jk_rowling
The most transphobic people are ostensibly c!s people with non-binary gender identities which they can't accept about themselves. Those full-on gender critical women who describe being tomboys in their youth but are 'all fine now' and keep trying to kill trans-ness in the world..
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@ThisIsCorey
@PaulThistoll
The crazy part is that US HIPAA laws were passed in the 1996 because gay men's medical records were being handed out willy-nilly during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s effectively outing them.
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@finkpiece
@SeanPlunket
An audience for the Pratfall methinks. Desperation before the Wrights pull the funding plug on this little experiment. The worst thing for a shock jock is not to be talked about at all. Well, that and upheld BSA complaints that your employer dislikes.
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@Jeeeez17
@mollscroll
@patrick_ness
@LissaKEvans
The gender critical show a lot of ignorance of history since the existence of people who are Geschlect aka 'third or intermediate sex' aka 'enby' have been studied since 1919 by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld.
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@joss_prior
Totally. Every time. It's been claimed by NZ GC women that the police just won't keep proper stats (i.e. it's a big conspiracy). And actual studies have been done in 2018 which contradicted their claims:
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@mimmymum
Yup. Sadly, maternal narcissism is rife in parental gender hostile groups. This is the book they will need later and it's helpful for male identifying adults too:
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@factaotearoa
@Te_Taipo
@GotoGirlNZ
@kirsty_johnston
@paulapenfold
If they really didn't include all that disinformation in their official complaint, I hope the Media Council is kept abreast of this dual 'complaint' trick otherwise VFF will platform their disinfo off the back of any Media Council ruling about F&F which
@StuffCircuit
avoided.
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@DrSusanOliver1
@VaccineMole
@Johnincarlisle
@Jikkyleaks
And our Ministry of Health did a full analysis report in 2022 which accounts for confounders like age, comorbidities, poverty, etc. which anti-vaxxers routinely ignore:
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@kelvin_morganNZ
@ThePosieParker
I thought it was just those corrupt politicians who announced 'I'm just resigning to spend more time with my family' rather than 'I've been caught out lying and I've made a complete <bleep> of myself'
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@RebeccaofPuffin
@ZonesOfThought
@JaneyGodley
We're talking about what can successfully treat gender dysphoria for the trans people who *do* suffer from it. The fact that not all trans people experience gender dysphoria doesn't change that one bit. It's an irrelevant deflection.
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@rodemmerson
In case anyone is unclear, the domain was registered by Destinyโs financial manager, their PO Box is the same as Destinyโs, their staff all seem to be Destiny folks. They sell the merch. FARC is a pretence to make it seem distinct and broader.
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@kelvin_morganNZ
Lincoln does appear to be mastering the play book of destructive cult leaders: love-bombing, isolating, controlling, shaming, abusing - a relational system of subjugation. This is best explored by Daniel Shaw in his work on traumatic narcissism
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@amy_sargeant_
Prior psychological research shows that social ostracism tends to increase conspiracy beliefs so it's a bit of a vicious spiral. Like a behavioural addiction, it ruptures and reshapes their interpersonal world.
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@whynothink
@EastRenAsks
@legaltweetz
@npdesign
A straw man fallacy as gender affirming clinicians do not claim to change chromosomal sex but primary and secondary sex characteristics and hormones which are very changeable.
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@An_Ordinary_Ash
@BobbyMiller202
@LexRegina72
I was going to link their meme since it was kinda funny but Iโd commented on another VFF tweet with a link to an article I wrote about the historical context and ethics of vaccine mandates for NZAP and theyโve blocked me ๐
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@ThisIsCorey
@PaulThistoll
So sexuality and gender identity are considered the MOST sensitive private medical information under Health Information Privacy Code which is part of the Privacy Act for reasons of *past prejudice*
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@tylerblack32
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made" - Franklin D. Roosevelt. I'd say you're looking pretty good.
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@frankie_fatal
@Bringlydingle
@terfasnails
@Ivotian
@Truthbomb_Queen
Theyโre a very small minority who feel there is a fetishistic aspect to their experience. I believe itโs true FOR THEM. The problem is insisting on generalising that to other trans individuals whose clearly state that their subjective experience is different. I believe them too.
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@kelvin_morganNZ
Downplaying from massacre to incident - she's avoiding saying the quiet part out loud and going full Alex Jones 'crisis actors' since that didn't go well for him in the end.
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@Cooperstreaming
@N7hobbit
Totally. They are kinda telling on themselves and what they actually mean by โhigh quality dudesโ is being highly narcissistic men i.e. grandiose, materialistic and superior on the outside to hide their profound feelings of inferiority and insecurity on the inside. ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
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@Ivotian
@frankie_fatal
@Bringlydingle
@terfasnails
@Truthbomb_Queen
Yup - He's a psychoanalyst and one of the fathers of reparative aka conversion therapy who split off after the APA removed homosexuality from the DSM and established the hate group NARTH. I studied him as part of my dissertation on psychoanalytic homophobia. Seriously messed up.
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@Te_Taipo
@GotoGirlNZ
@kirsty_johnston
That VFF has gone all in on this tells you that their thanking
@paulapenfold
and the Fire and Fury team for boosting their recruiting 400% was always a "Don't throw me in the briar patch" pitch to avoid further coverage by claiming it was helping them.
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@kelvin_morganNZ
Sorry, a snigger just slipped out. His incredulity is tragicomic. ๐คฏ I mean for a start, he doesnโt seem to realise that the communists and fascists were political rivals. And that booing was democracy in action. But he didnโt seem to hear or care. ๐ฑ
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@paulapenfold
@nzff
@SiouxsieW
I was there too with my family. It's an important film about a serious social problem. And I just wanted to acknowledge how both of you are fantastic role models for my daughters. Kia kaha.
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@kelvin_morganNZ
Not to mention his ridiculous deflection that a body building dietary supplement with dubious claims (since therapeutics are currently unregulated) about testosterone and oestrogen is a โpuberty blockerโ.
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@A_tweeting_twit
@SeanPlunket
Per Rachel Stewart, the Whanganui District Court asserts that this order is not genuine. That would be par for the course with Organ who has convictions for faking legal documents. As for the overall pattern regarding David, this looks like classic DARVO:
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@BeadyPig
@awaterevalley
Well, he is seriously courting a conspiratorial audience with advocacy journalism, not investigative journalism. That can be done ethically if youโre upfront about it but Sean seems to get upset when people note the Alex Jones-ness of what heโs doing.
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@juhasaarinen
@publicaddress
@Te_Taipo
Most high control groups (e.g. destructive cults and multi-level marketing pyramids) run on volunteer skilled labour and VFF is no different. HBO's 'The Vow' (about NXIVM) or Amazon Prime's LulaRich doco's offer pretty good overviews of this.
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@Bringlydingle
@frankie_fatal
@terfasnails
@Ivotian
@Truthbomb_Queen
I doubt she will since itโs fatal to her argument. And speaking as a psychotherapist who works with trans clients, no competent mental health professional takes autogynephilia seriously any more. Because itโs considered unethical to assert.
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@tylerblack32
Indeed. Peterson's stans are really not the best at forming cogent arguments in this thread either. Let's see - insults, dismissals, and chest-beating misunderstandings of the College's regulatory status. It tracks. Like guru, like disciple, I guess.
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@Te_Taipo
Who have they complained to? Iโm guessing itโs likely the Broadcasting Standards Authority. But that about their tweet explicitly thanking Paula and stuff circuit for boosting their recruiting 400%? Estoppel?
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@awaterevalley
How can co-governance, literally doing something *together*, create division? Itโs linguistically non-sensical and is really a paean for *keeping* pre-existing institutionalised division aka racism.
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@kirsty_johnston
Great Article. It's causing quite a stir on Natalie Cutler-Welsh Meadowbank Mums Facebook page right now. ๐ฟI don't know how quoting someone can be considered slander but there you go.๐คทโโ๏ธ
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@section_117
@DrNeilStone
Given that Neil is an infectious disease specialist and expressing his opinion in his own twitter feed, that's exactly what he is doing.
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@NewsroomNZ
@sanjanah
Sean Plunket was frothing on the Pratfall about not being invited so I guess it wasnโt him for once.
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@GeorgistSimp
@FullContactMTWF
It's not so much cognitive dissonance as Confirmation bias: and it's close cousin Motivated Reasoning:
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@EddieBacon9
@legaltweetz
This trans woman is legally entitled to use women's spaces and services in Australia. That's why she won her case and the judge explicitly says her appearance is not acceptable grounds for gender identity discrimination in Australian law. Source:
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@frankie_fatal
@Bringlydingle
@terfasnails
@Ivotian
@Truthbomb_Queen
Iโm not denying it exists. I denying it describes the majority of trans individuals lived experience. As theyโve been telling you but you donโt want to listen and keep promoting a cishet dudeโs misunderstanding.
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@KatyMontgomerie
Exactly. In the professional therapy literature, it's called 'sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts' (SOGICE) since the clinical evidence clearly shows it's harmful and unethical and hence can't be called therapy.
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@Te_Taipo
History repeats. Natalie Culter-Welsh
@GotoGirlNZ
who does VFF's candidate media training complained online about Kirsty Johnston
@kirsty_johnston
for quoting her. She was upset because she "didn't agree to be in the article" and that made it defamatory.
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@byroncclark
Those right wing claims of violence are classic 'accusation in a mirror' hate speech incitement.
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