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By Alline Cormier (This article contains spoilers) Does being kind to others mean accepting everyone just as they are? Does being accepting of others ever come at a price? Our societies do not endorse blanket acceptance, as evidenced by our feelings toward and laws surrounding necrophilia, pedophilia, and bestiality. Some acts and behaviors are deemed unacceptable by most. Where things get complicated is when attitudes concerning what is considered acceptable by the majority changes. History shows that our attitudes shift over time. Consider, as a few examples, smoking, spitting on sidewalks, and the consumption of pornography. Just a few decades ago men desirous of seeing women debased and degraded in pornography had to frequent the back rooms of video rental stores in seedy areas to procure it. Fast forward to present day. Now even boys may effortlessly access images of women and girls, via their electronic devices, that are orders of magnitude worse than what was on offer in those video rental shops, thanks to the Internet, lax legislation, and a general disregard for women. Movies played a role in shifting our attitudes about pornography by normalizing its consumption. Now movies are shifting our attitudes in ways that present even greater dangers for women (and girls). Hollywood feature films like Lars and the Real Girl have been normalizing artificial females. Presenting a doll in the likeness of women—and treating it as a real woman—grooms viewers for seeing women as objects (i.e. as less than human). Dehumanization paves the way for using women as parts—think surrogacy—for profit without incurring public outcries. Men can now own “sex toys” that are customizable life-size dolls manufactured to look like real women and girls that they can penetrate at will in their anatomically correct mouth, vagina, and anus. Lars and the Real Girl features one such doll as one of its main characters, contributing to the normalization of artificial females. Lars and the Real Girl is a cute, well-made comedy released in 2007. It stars popular Canadian actor Ryan Gosling as the title character. The Craig Gillespie directed feature film set in Wisconsin but filmed in Ontario was a commercial failure, making just over US$11 million at the worldwide box office (plus an estimated US$3.9 million in DVD sales in the United States). Still, it was nominated for a Best Writing, Original Screenplay Oscar, as well as nearly two dozen other awards. It also won seven film awards, including the best feature film and best script awards at the Torino Film Festival. The film is full of lovely and even rare inclusions, like the husband doing chores and cooking, time spent at the lake and in the forest, speaking time for women over 50, etc. However, it is the story of an introvert who buys a life-size ‘porn doll’ (a.k.a. sex doll) online, asks his brother and pregnant sister-in-law to keep it at their house, and the townspeople go along with his delusion that it is a real woman. Lars’ filmmakers use many devices to normalize men owning artificial females: language that anthropomorphizes the doll; presentation of the porn doll as therapeutic; calls to compassion and kindness; acceptance of the doll by women (and depictions of women handling it) and the religiously-minded; reminders that no one is perfect; humour; comparisons between the doll and women; casting; a portrayal of Lars as endearing and unthreatening; costumes (i.e. modest clothing); a portrayal of the doll as wholesome; and depictions of people saddened at the loss of the doll. These devices, working together, groom viewers and risk shifting their attitudes toward porn dolls from disapproving (harmful, misogynist) to approving (possess beneficial uses). Consequently, they merit analysis. Language that anthropomorphizes the porn doll is one of the first observable devices. Lars names the doll Bianca and it is almost invariably referred to as ‘she’ and ‘her’ when not called by its name. This serves to humanize it, to make viewers forget that it is a sex toy and that these artificial silicone females are predominantly manufactured by men and primarily used for men’s penetration, similarly to the way men use pornographic magazines as masturbation material. This anthropomorphizing language is used from the very first scene to include the porn doll. The first time Lars shows the doll to his brother Gus (played by Paul Schneider) and sister-in-law Karin (Emily Mortimer)—introducing it as if it were a real person—they have what many would consider a normal reaction: they are stunned. When Karin regains the power of speech she excuses herself to the kitchen, where Gus follows. Safely out of Lars’ earshot Gus becomes very agitated, telling Karin that Lars is out of his mind. They are both at a loss as to what they should do. During supper Karin appears unsettled, especially when Lars asks her to lend the doll her clothes. This takes some convincing, as Karin is clearly hesitant. Eventually, at Lars’ insistence, she manages with some difficulty to say “Sure.” The first night the porn doll spends in the couple’s house, in the bedroom opposite their own, Karin examines it closely, clearly uncomfortable. She peeks under the doll’s miniskirt uneasily, then gasps and says, “Oh my god!” Meanwhile, Gus rips the packing slip off the doll’s delivery crate, then visits the website that sells the doll (Realdoll.com). When they retire for the night, they discuss Lars’ problem. Karin says the doctor—also a psychologist—will tell them what to do. They are evidently at a loss, but helping Lars is paramount for kindly Karin, who is genuinely concerned about Lars. The next morning the couple drive Lars and his porn doll to see the doctor (Dagmar, played by Patricia Clarkson). When Gus answers Lars curtly in the car, signaling his refusal to participate in a conversation with the doll, Karin attempts to smooth things over by pretending it is a real person. She is attempting to be kind to Lars to compensate for his older brother’s chilly attitude. Since the beginning it is apparent that the absence of affection in Lars’ life weighs on motherly Karin. During the trip to the doctor’s office the use of a porn doll is presented as therapeutic, calls to compassion and kindness are made, and a woman in a position of authority treats the doll like a real person. In the examination room Dagmar plays along with Lars’ delusion (e.g. she pretends to check the doll’s blood pressure, touching it without aversion). When she says, “I look forward to getting to know you, Bianca” after asking Lars to set up weekly appointments for ‘Bianca’s’ (imaginary) treatment, adult viewers can plainly see this is a ruse to secure a weekly examination of Lars—not the doll. When Gus and Karin consult with her afterwards Dagmar tells them, “This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. What we call mental illness isn’t always just an illness. It can be communication. It can be a way to work something out.” She tells Gus the delusion will pass when Lars no longer needs it. When Karin asks how they can help Dagmar replies, “Go along with it.” When the couple repeatedly say no, she tells them, “Bianca’s in town for a reason” and cuts Gus’ protestations that he will not do it short by stating firmly: “It’s not really a choice.” Karin complies with the compassionate doctor’s orders, saying, “Okay. All right then. We’ll do it. Whatever it takes.” At the conclusion of this scene the use of a porn doll is accepted as therapeutic by two women, and three of the main characters are fully on board with pretending this silicone doll is a real woman (Lars, Karin, and Dagmar). The filmmakers have framed this approach to a man’s delusion about having a “relationship” with a porn doll as the kind, compassionate, therapeutic solution. This framing is reinforced throughout. The next morning when Gus confronts Lars about ‘Bianca’ being a “big plastic thing” (not a person) Lars replies, “Bianca says that that’s why God made her—to help people.” Karin talks to the doll, making plans with it. Several other women (and men) will accept Lars’ delusion and treat the sex toy like a woman. Women who ‘go along’, handle the doll and treat it like a real person include Karin, Dagmar, Lars’ helpful surrogate grandmothers, and his kindly female co-workers (Margo and Cindy, played by Kelli Garner and Karen Robinson, respectively). They take it on outings, dress it and brush its hair (Karin bathes it twice). In these sequences they show no aversion to touching the porn doll. Generous Margo even stands up for Lars when men criticize his strange behavior. Various women appear saddened when it is announced that the doll is “dying.” These good-hearted women are showing us how kind people would treat delusional men (and their sex toys)—according to the filmmakers, of course. The message conveyed in these sequences is that women need not feel revulsion toward objects designed for men’s penetration that are made in women’s likeness. Acceptance by these women paves the way for acceptance by religiously-minded townspeople. The approval of the religiously-minded is depicted in tandem with reminders that no one is perfect. Gus and Karin consult with their reverend and five parishioners about Lars taking the porn doll to church. Their initial opposition is overcome by Karin’s calls to kindness and Mrs. Gruner’s (Nancy Beatty) reminders that plenty of people are a few bricks short of a load. Consequently, Lars’ questionable behavior is minimized—though none of the examples provided by Mrs. Gruner are on par with treating an artificial female like a real woman. She turns the tide of opinion when she interjects: “Oh for heaven’s sake! What’s the big deal? … These things happen. He can depend on me.” When the reverend puts an end to the debate by asking them, “What would Jesus do?” the answer seems self-evident: be kind by welcoming the porn doll to church. The fact that this is meant to be humorous does not cancel the normalizing effect. Humor is used throughout to normalize artificial females and compare them to real women. For instance, when Gus’ co-worker learns that Lars is treating a porn doll like a woman, he says, “Wish I had a woman that couldn’t talk” (men laugh). When one of Karin’s friends asks if the doll really has a vagina, Karin nods and a woman jokes, “She’s really just one of the girls, then” (they laugh). Similarities are also found between the doll and the film’s (female) characters, further narrowing the gap between women and artificial females. For instance, Dagmar cannot bear children (Lars tells her ‘Bianca’ cannot either). Humor is a particularly effective device; as we laugh we relax, let down our guard and think less critically about the messages conveyed. Arguably more effective is the portrayal of Lars himself. Gosling, his costumes, actions, and lines, all contribute to shifting perceptions of the men who use porn dolls. He is considered handsome and can pull off a sweet performance. When the film premiered, he was just past his mid twenties and already an A-list, Oscar nominated actor. His old-fashioned Lars character is carefully crafted to make him appear endearing and utterly unthreatening—in no way censurable. He dresses like Mr. Rogers, very buttoned up (ties, sweaters, waistcoat). The soft-spoken churchgoer wears pink and his baby blanket around his neck. Sometimes Lars comes across as a kind, mentally challenged asexual—even though he is clearly heterosexual. He reads to the doll, takes it to the cemetery to visit his parents’ graves, and wipes its forehead with a damp cloth when it is “sick.” He often acts like a 13-year-old and is not shown consulting the RealDolls’ website or ordering the silicone doll. His interactions with it are chaste and he never appears in a state of undress with it, penetrating it or fondling it. He doesn’t bathe it—Karin and Gus do—or lie under the blankets with it. The filmmakers would have viewers believe Lars is incapable of blameworthy behavior. This portrayal works effectively with ‘Bianca’s’ wholesome portrayal to counter the unsavory image most people have of porn dolls—and the men who use them. The doll’s portrayal is arguably the most significant device used to groom viewers. It is often treated as a real person. The filmmakers are just as careful not to portray ‘Bianca’ as the sex toy for men that it is as they are to avoid portraying Lars as a filthy character with little regard for women. Except when it arrived in a crate it is modestly dressed (sweaters, pants, tuque, scarf, coat). It spends much of its screen time in a wheelchair, attends church and appears with children (e.g. a kindergarten class sits at its feet, pretending it is reading a story). When it is found “unconscious” an ambulance takes it to the hospital, where it takes up a hospital bed (get well cards and gifts follow). Its funeral service is well-attended. Compare this representation with the pictures on realdoll.com, where the dolls are mostly naked and shown on their hands and knees, lying naked on their back, legs splayed. The website, unlike the film, makes no attempt to conceal their real purpose. The respectable portrayal of ‘Bianca’ extended beyond the film, to screenings and interviews with the cast. In interviews Gosling gave about the film he referred to the doll not as ‘it’ but rather as ‘she’ and ‘her’. At the Toronto International Film Festival Q&A he said: “The amazing thing about Bianca is that she has, she really has a real presence about her… She really does… Everybody grew to really love her, and she had a real presence. And I formed a real bond with her… I really grew to feel this dependency on her. I was relaxed when she was in scenes with me…” The audience had a big laugh when he joked that was why “she” was still in his house. American screenwriter Nancy Oliver told Margy Rochlin of The New York Times, when asked how she got the idea for the screenplay she wrote in 2002: “It was a ‘what if’? thing. Like, ‘What if we didn’t treat our mentally ill people like animals? What if we brought kindness and compassion to the table?” Oliver also tellingly said, “I had a weird job that I can’t talk about. But I had to deal with a lot of Web sites and a lot of lonely guys.” In a featurette about the film, producer John Cameron reveals that it was Oliver who discovered the realdoll.com website—the source of the film’s doll—whilst wandering around the Internet. Oliver said of the porn dolls: “… also because you can totally see the reason for them. I mean, how many people do you know who can’t really operate with real people, with real human beings? And I can completely see how that would happen.” Cameron mentions that Realdolls is a real company that exists in a secret location outside San Diego and that this company created “the various Biancas that we have used in the film.” Speaking about the company’s dolls Gillespie describes the variety to choose from: eight bodies, 14 faces, five skin colours, and five eye colours. He also says the film is “about connecting,” and it is an “incredibly touching, moving story about love.” Gosling states, “And I like the idea that you can love something and it doesn’t necessarily have to love you back. It doesn’t need to be a transaction.” Given how damaging men’s consumption of pornography has been for women (and girls) one wonders why the filmmakers—especially Oliver—chose to normalize pornified artificial females this way. Had they set out to normalize porn dolls they couldn’t have done a better job; it’s something of a masterpiece. Oliver’s original idea for the film—to bring kindness and compassion to the treatment of mentally ill people—is a laudable goal. However, does it follow that affirming someone’s delusion constitutes a kindness? We don’t affirm anorexics in their belief that they must starve themselves thin. Does it follow that men’s use of pornified artificial females must be normalized? We don’t expect pornographic magazines and videos to help men treat or relate to women better. It isn’t likely that using inanimate objects will teach people “who can’t really operate with real people” how—women, unlike dolls, can disagree with men and refuse consent. More likely, using these dolls will accustom men to treating women like objects without agency. Gillespie said the film is “about connecting,” but you can’t connect with an object. And Gosling’s statement that “… you can love something and it doesn’t necessarily have to love you back” fits well with rape culture. Lars says God made ‘Bianca’ to help people but a growing body of evidence demonstrates that pornified versions of females for men’s sexual gratification have been disastrous for women and girls. Just one example will be provided to make the point: the tragedy of Holly Jones. In 2003 Michael Briere, consumed by desire fueled by the child pornography he had accessed, abducted, raped, and murdered 10-year-old Jones, who lived in his Toronto neighborhood. In Lars, wherein an artificial female is treated better than many real women, the cost to the female characters of normalizing a man using a porn doll is not satisfactorily explored. Karin must ignore her distaste for the doll. Her pregnancy is completely upstaged by Lars’ delusion—she receives next to no special attention during this exciting stage of her life. Margo—Lars’ other love interest—must pretend not to be hurt by his preference for the doll. Dagmar’s time is wasted—particularly insulting as she is a doctor. Where is the cognitive dissonance? Kindness only seems to be extended to a deluded man here—not all the women enlisted to prop up his fantasy life. Presenting and treating a porn doll as a real woman grooms viewers for seeing women as objects—something pornography excels at. This dehumanization of women eases the work of industries that would profit from using women as objects. At best Lars and the Real Girl appears irresponsible. At worst the many devices used by the filmmakers to normalize the porn doll suggest they endorse the normalization of artificial females. One wonders if this was product placement or if the filmmakers are fans of Realdolls. Filmmakers that groom viewers for seeing women as objects merit much more attention that they currently receive. One can’t help but notice similarities between the normalization of the dehumanization of women in Lars and in real life in the gender identity industry, where women are also treated as parts for the use of men. Realdolls Lars and the Real Girl includes a close-up of the realdoll.com website and the porn dolls used in the film are RealDolls, which are manufactured by Abyss Creations. According to its website, the introductory price for the classic model is $3999.00. The other silicone dolls—at the time of this writing there are 39 different dolls—cost over $6000.00. The company sells “petites,” “extra faces” and torsos. There are breast options, “vaginal styles” and numerous faces to choose from. The customizable dolls also allow buyers to design their own face (a likeness of his ex-girlfriend or the girl down the road, why not?). The website states: “supple sex features are made with top-of-the-line materials, all lifelike to the touch.” They promise “[r]eal, ravishing expressions [that] react to your voice and delight at your touch.” You can “[f]ine-tune the pitch of her voice and create an irresistible personality with leading AI technology.” The home page also features, between the Discovery Channel and Rolling Stone logos, the Lars and the Real Girl title. In 2017 CNET reported that Abyss Creations was “bringing the dolls to life using animatronics, sensor tech and artificial intelligence that gives the dolls programmable personalities.” CNET’s Ry Crist also stated that the company is based in San Marcos, California, and that he visited the robot factory. According to Crist, “One of the first things you see upon entering the Abyss offices is a wall of heads showcasing the various face and hairstyle options customers can choose from.” Alline is a Canadian film analyst and retired court interpreter with a B.A. Translation from Universite' Laval. In her second career she turns the text analysis skills she acquired in university studying translation and literature to film. She makes her home in British Columbia and is currently seeking a publisher for her film guide for women. This year her articles on women and film and TV have appeared in Women Making Films (India), Feminist Current, 4W, and Gender Dissent. She is the film analyst who puts women and girls first. Alline Cormier Film analyst www.sexualizationofwomen.com YouTube: ACPicks Twitter: @ACPicks2 GETTR: ACPicks Paypal: PayPal.Me/AllineCormier

By Donovan Cleckley It is a conceded fact that woman is being reared as a sex commodity, and yet she is kept in absolute ignorance of the meaning and importance of sex. - Emma Goldman, “The Traffic in Women,” Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) Transhumanism derives from the expansion of biotechnology, a thoroughly capitalist venture, driven by man’s desire to subordinate nature to his will. Man has found himself seduced by the idea that he can advance the human species beyond mortality through enhancement by technology. From a Judaic perspective, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson critiques transhumanism as a “secularist faith,” exemplary of what she calls “techno-idolatry.” Alienated from the flesh, the human being appears as the automaton to be used and destroyed. Technology becomes deified, therefore godlike, for the body itself becomes a new Manifest Destiny. Jennifer Bilek writes of Rothblatt as “a founding father of the transgender empire”—who also just so happened to found a “transreligion” known as Terasem. Its four core tenets read: “Life is purposeful, death is optional, God is technological, and love is essential.” Rothblatt has been a critical figure in not only his philosophical contributions but also, far more importantly, his financial investments in biotechnology. Bilek notes that, from the 1990s onward, Rothblatt has been central to creating the “gender identity” bills currently being passed around the world. As featured in New York Magazine in 2014, Rothblatt had been described as “a white, Jewish lawyer and also a transgendered woman who is a father of four married to an African-American woman and therefore also, sort of, a lesbian.” Picturing Rothblatt, the cover reads: “The Highest-Paid Female CEO in America Used to be a Man.” A heterosexual male can declare himself a woman and a lesbian, and the world accepts it as true—including far too many women among the most devout followers. Separated, unlisted with these other identities, however, Rothblatt also just so happens to be a multimillionaire, having “earned” $38 million dollars as of 2013. According to Forbes, Rothblatt’s wealth increased from $330 million in 2020, where it had remained between $320 and $340 million from 2017 through 2019, to $585 million in 2021. In a lesser-known moment of the 2014 feature, Lisa Miller describes Rothblatt playing in the online game Second Life, where he “appears as a sexy brown-skinned woman named Vitology Destiny.” Published in 1995, Rothblatt’s book The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender draws the analogy between racial apartheid and sexual dimorphism. He writes: Like the apartheid of race, blurring of class boundaries is the gravest offense because it challenges the reality of the division of reality. Hence the old feminist doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ was more acceptable to the male power structure, because they knew that it would never occur. But the new feminist doctrine of sexual continuity is threatening—it destroys the male-dominated power structure completely. If there are no hard and fast sex types, then there can be no apartheid of sex. If there is no apartheid of sex, then there is no entrenched birthright of power—people must achieve on their own. To men threatened by economic and social survival, loss of birthright superiority is frightening. Conveniently, males can escape “the male-dominated power structure” by claiming a new proprietorship over femaleness, making womanhood into men’s sexual and intellectual property. I provide the above example from Rothblatt’s book to demonstrate the level of analysis as well as man’s appropriation of feminism as masochism. Anne Fausto-Sterling praises Rothblatt’s theorization as “sound,” but he relies on a false analogy. Essentially, Rothblatt contrasts “sexual dimorphism,” which he calls “the old gender paradigm,” with “the new gender paradigm”: “sexual continuism.” Yet sex appears conflated with sex-role stereotyping, for Rothblatt writes “[s]ex should really be the sum of behaviors we call gender.” One’s body can become redefined by others’ ideas about the body, internalized as one’s sense of self. He claims the commodification of the human body through biotechnology represents human rights, but the opposite seems true. There is no “freedom of gender” there. Ironically, Rothblatt’s vision does not get rid of sex-role stereotyping; rather, it medically inscribes it upon the body as commodity. Thus, “sexual continuism” has the paradoxical effect of further reifying male-as-masculine and female-as-feminine. Man claiming proprietorship over womanhood has done nothing to destroy man’s dominion over woman. On the contrary, it reinforces men possessing women, as coverture had made wives subject to their husbands. Men consume women as costumes under Rothblatt’s utopia—which makes a dystopia for women. It may be further considered why there has not been an equivalently well-funded industry constructed around race as there has been for sex. Rothblatt’s analogy does not hold up even here. Illustration by Stella Perrett (Radical Cartoons) Almost two decades following The Apartheid of Sex, in 2011, Rothblatt self-published his newly titled and expanded second edition: From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Form. The book’s cover art seems to feature Rothblatt’s “sexy brown-skinned woman” avatar: Vitology Destiny. In a particularly significant new section titled “Is Consciousness Like Pornography?,” Rothblatt writes: The transhumanist paradigm is that consciousness arises from millions of cross-correlated relationships among general neurons far removed from the basic hard-wired sensory neurons that are like the footings for the skyscraper of the mind. There is nothing magical that makes our brains conscious other than this web of interconnected neurons. Consequently, there is no reason that consciousness cannot exist in software provided the same level of interconnected complexity rooted ultimately to sensory apparatus is provided. This is the challenge to the 21st century neuroscientist and computer scientist. Build minds that pass the pornography test—minds that seem as authentic as our own. Once that is done, sexual identity will be liberated not only from genitals, but from flesh itself. Consciousness will be as free to flow beyond the confines of one flesh body as gender is free to flow beyond the confines of one flesh genital. The passage above illustrates Rothblatt’s argument that transhumanism presents the logical conclusion of transsexualism and transgenderism. These ideas appear further developed in Rothblatt’s 2014 book Virtually Human: The Promise—and the Peril—of Digital Immortality. Misogyny and capitalism meet in man’s identification as proprietorship over womanhood, as disembodiment embodies his commodification of her. While Rothblatt appropriates women’s liberation and gay liberation, among other progressive social movements, “trans liberation” cannot liberate anybody—most of all women. Techno-idolatry and its fetishism present only new enslavement, not freedom. Donovan Cleckley holds a BA in English and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Montevallo and an MA in English from Tulane University. His research focuses on the relationship between women’s rights and gay rights, literature and sexual politics, and the social and political implications of transgenderism as an ideology, an industry, and an institution. Learn more about his work at https://donovancleckley.com. Here is the PayPal link: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/donovancleckley

PART I By Mothers Grim Chase Ross is a woman who has appropriated male sex characteristics through drugs and surgeries. She is described as “transgender,” which is also referred to in the industry, as a female to male or an FTM. Once a young victim of the gender industry herself, she has been transformed into a victimizer of the next generation. YouTube is Chase's biggest avenue to stardom as one of social media’s top "transgender" influencers. This series of three posts delve into Chase’s online persona, her FTM friends, and the online businesses that have exploded in recent years. These posts will take a deep dive into the products, drugs, and surgeries required for membership in the novel and trending FTM lifestyle. With her exuberant online persona, Chase’s biggest role might just be creating believers out of her followers, for it is this the industry needs most to thrive. Here are links to Parts II and Part III. Part I: Introduction to Social Media Influencer Chase Ross and Friends “Hey everybody, it’s Chasey Poo,” are the seemingly innocuous words Chase Ross often uses to greet her unsuspecting followers on YouTube. Do not be fooled for the topic du jour is quickly followed with titles like “Transgender Children,” “need a binder?,” “How to Use Your Growth for Sex,” “bottom surgery consultation,” and “Anal for FTMs” where it becomes quite obvious what this is all about. Chase is one of many YouTube influencers impacting stressed young females. They are the older (and supposedly wiser) voices beckoning young people into the trenches of the bearded and breastless “transman” identity, a medical identity that has only recently come into being, and one that has seen absurd increases over the last decade. The opportunity for a social media influencer with such a huge audience to beguile, capture and take advantage of young females is both profound and profoundly disturbing. Hypnotized by their charm, followers become believers confusing fantasy for reality. The FTM influencers care not one lick about their fans save for the cash flow they provide and the perpetuation of the fantastical business of “transition.” These influencers do not act alone but appear regularly in one another’s content and collaborate on selling the ideology and products to support the illusion of “transition.” In Chase Ross’s content, regulars, like FTMs Aaron Ansuini, Ty Turner, and Kai Scott make repeat appearances. In what seems a misfit among the females, even the popular MTF Steph Sanjati appears from time to time. Then there are countless other influencers and companies that are linked in some way via advertising like Aydian Dowling and her company Point of Pride or Mason Luke and her company MasonLuke.com. Mr. Mason Luke is advertised as a “transgender man who has been in the adult sales industry for 15+ years.” These influencers indoctrinate teens into the “trans” lifestyle, peddle porn products, and are a salesforce for Big Pharma. They advise young women on drugs, surgeries, or devices with no mention of the physical and mental harm they are doomed to endure by accepting the advice of these charlatans. Examples of a few influencer collaborations amongst the FTM social media influencers and their cross-marketing can be seen in the chart below: Social Media Influencer Collaborations. To access links within the chart, go to google doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xuzxA96YvRWzlRudEHGLlyrEZjoDXGZZtD1NMnKj_ts/edit?usp=sharing It is not too hard to see how the interconnectivity of influencers and platforms just might permit a freakish explosion of a very bad ideology causing monumental harm to an entire generation of young people. Clicking on FTM Aydian Dowling’s company, point5cc, advertised on Chase’s channel (as shown in the image below) brings up a company called Point of Pride. Point of Pride is a nonprofit under Aydian Dowling’s leadership who got her own start on, none other than, YouTube. Point of Pride has programs to help fund surgeries with a US-based surgeon (even under age 18 with guardian consent). They also have programs offering 12 months of free HRT through Plume (an online drug dispensary founded by MTF Jerrica Kirkley with real estate on YouTube) and free binders through gc2b, yet another trans owned business also with real estate on YouTube. Now amplify this power of the click across each video on each FTMs content and it is not hard to see how a crisis might ensue. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xF8g0592nE In the online world, Chase Ross is everywhere with each platform funneling into the next multiplying her footprint on the internet “trans” world. Not only can she be found on the esteemed YouTube, but she can also be found on other money-making outlets like Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, younow, WordPress, Patreon, as well as Apple Podcast. , While having a go on many channels through the years, after launching in 2010 at the age of 19, uppercaseCHASE1 (her online handle) has really seen her star rise on YouTube with over 170K subscribers and 27M views. When Chase reached 100K subscribers, a doting fan composed a jaunty trip through Chase’s YouTube persona. One can swiftly watch the march to collect subscribers – from 1,000 (in 2011), to 20,000 (in 2015), to 30,000 (in 2015) to 50,000 (in 2016), and alas to the magical one million mark (in 2017) earning that prized YouTube gold award. The Internet of Things has plugged stressed-out young females directly into their own undoing. With an arsenal of procured and targeted ads and influencers bombarding YouTube followers, Chase, and/or members of the consortium of FTM influencers, are bound to hit their targets one after the other with their collections of goods and services. Click after click, hypnotized females then fall further and further down the rabbit hole of harmful transgender medical identities. The influencers' business successes speak volumes about the war that has been waged on sexed bodies in the 21st Century. The future for Chase Ross is currently looking quite bright with some analytics showing a doubling of subscribers by 2027, but things are not so rosy for others in the online world as laws and regulations attempt to catch the runaway trains of the world wide web, particularly those harming young people. Although an occasional reprimand might be made (like age-restricting content), the internet trans world is the wild, wild west of questionable activity. Images like the one below, with FTM influencers in compromising positions and various stages of undress while holding sex toys, are a dime a dozen on Chase’s prized YouTube channel uppercaseCHASE1. Source: https://www.youtube.com/c/uppercaseCHASE1/videos As more and more voices speak out about the indoctrination occurring via social media and the real-world accounts of medical harm pile up, will the wild west of the internet trans world be permitted to continue its harmful journey? Future posts will look more deeply at this harmful journey from the followers, to the products used in sustaining this lifestyle, to the drugs, the surgeries, and the ties to porn culture. Links to Part II and Part III Mothers Grim is the pseudonym for an independent journalist intent on exposing the grim realities of the gender industry. She counts among her friends, many mothers who have children, like her own, caught up in an industry perpetuating what she trusts one day will be considered crimes against humanity. Unfortunately, what she writes is neither nursery rhyme nor folklore.

PART II By Mothers Grim Chase Ross is a woman who has appropriated male sex characteristics through drugs and surgeries. She is described as “transgender,” which is also referred to in the industry, as a female to male or an FTM. Once a young victim of the gender industry herself, she has been transformed into a victimizer of the next generation. YouTube is Chase's biggest avenue to stardom as one of social media’s top "transgender" influencers. This series of posts delves into Chase’s online persona, her FTM friends, and the online businesses that have exploded in recent years. These posts will take a deep dive into the products, drugs, and surgeries required for membership in the novel and trending FTM lifestyle. With her exuberant online persona, Chase’s biggest role might just be creating believers out of her followers, for it is this the industry needs most to thrive. Here are links to Part I and Part III. Part II: The Followers, Products, Porn, and Clicks for Cash Chase Ross’ YouTube content is not only consumed by a young crowd but also comes with a disturbing dose of interaction between the older creators and younger followers. There is no gatekeeping and influencers like Chase are free to wield advice on products, drugs, and services without a license. In her “10 Years on YouTube!” video Chase discusses the mechanisms of the YouTube trans world, the role it has played in her own identity, and her work to help others find their identities. She explains how happy she is to be part of the first generation of trans YouTubers exclaiming, “I have viewers who are literally 13 years old!” In Chase’s 2016, “The Trans Enough Project,” her young audience takes center stage. Chase describes this endeavor as “a video submission project where individuals who identify as trans/trans*/or under the trans umbrella from ALL over the world in multiple different languages send videos describing times where they felt they were not trans enough.” Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp5jt9w7K3Q Chase accepted more than 60 submissions over parts one and two for this project. Most participants were not surprisingly from the United States where the number of clinics has exploded in recent years. Over 40% of the participants were under the age of 18, and girls ages 15 and 16 participated the most. Chase and FTM Aaron Ansuini have also partnered in a podcast titled You’re So Brave that they created to unify their community bringing the “pretransition” or “younger trans guys” and the “older trans guys” together. Considering their podcast is ranked in the top 15%, it seems Chase and Aaron are gathering lots of young friends. Source: https://www.influenex.com/youtube/channel/UC12IuD9gzvGk2y4J-nvZ_pw Launching not long ago in 2005, the social media platform YouTube has been Google's most successful acquisition to date turning clicks into cash with masterfully orchestrated ad management. If trending, anything can be monetized, and the transgender lifestyle is trending aplenty. The identity of a transman requires strict allegiance to strange and bizarre practices requiring products like breast binders and synthetic phalluses known as packers or peens, some of which have functional attributes for use in urination or sex. It also requires a medicine cabinet of pharmaceuticals and surgical procedures to complete the look. Indeed, with the help of the internet, this lifestyle has an agenda fueled by corporate branding scaling the transmission rates into algorithmic frenzies that know no bounds. For Chase, her work as a peddler for the 21st-century transman seems to pay well. Along with commission on sales and paid sponsorships, YouTube creators can also promote extracurricular activities in their content. Chase certainly gets around with appearances at universities, at the VidConUS, and even at medical conferences like this one where the new US Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine also presented. A screenshot from a 2018 online article on Geisinger.org titled Distinguished speakers, including Pennsylvania Secretary of Health and Physician General Rachel Levine, to present at the sixth annual NEPA Trans Health Conference on April 17. Source: https://www.geisinger.org/about-geisinger/news-and-media/newsreleases/2018/04/11/19/54/nepa-trans-health-conference The products peddled on uppercaseCHASE1 range from the brightly colored hair dye Chase sports (at 18:42 where she shares that the hair product company Manic Panic is a sponsor) to all the products that lure the followers into medical transitioning like binders and packers. An abundance of products are tied to sexual activity begging the question, just what is all this testosterone doing to these young females? The push for female testosterone use perhaps should not be too surprising though considering the perversions of those who first fueled the movement to push transgender medicine in the US in the 1950s. The man who first brought radical childhood transitioning to the US at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2007 also has porn ties once giving a talk at a conference sponsored by the New England Leather Association. Just how many clinics have these seedy ties is unclear but Boston Children’s is not alone. Chases’ porn interests are evident throughout her online footprint with the monetization of her porn interests dramatically increasing over time. In 2010, she can be seen on the collaborative channel, FTM Transtatic (also uploaded to uppercaseCHASE1) in a video titled “chase. porn.” Here she allows the word to slowly roll off her tongue, “…porn…porn…porn…porn…I like that word porn.” She goes on to share with her followers the porn websites she frequents. When she seems to be wrapping up her video she mentions, “…oh there is also a lot of, um trans porn.” Then she mentions Buck Angel claiming she does not like, “the man with the pussy.” Buck Angel, born in 1962, is perhaps the top brass of FTM porn stars as well as an entrepreneur of transmen-related products. Despite claiming her distaste for Buck in 2010, in 2018 Buck Angel’s sex products are front and center on uppercaseCHASE1 during a product giveaway. Buck Angel’s Kiss-X (for pre-transitioners), Fun Boy, and Buck-Off are cheerily packaged and mailed off to hypnotized followers. “Just the joy that it brings me to know all the people that are getting these,” gushes Chase. Wrapping up her “chase.porn.” video she teases her followers, “and, uh, what kind of porn do you watch?” She then finishes with a smirk, “Make me a video as well.” Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOwOj30Op-w Chase left what appears to be a Somerdale, NJ post office after mailing the products. Source for above 3 photos: “Huge giveaway vlog - showing the process!!!” The Gender Mapper has covered the luring of girls and young women online into the trenches of pornography showing how many of them ultimately land on the platform, OnlyFans. Chase Ross is no exception having recently risen to the esteemed role of an OnlyFans creator. At every step of the way, a young user is groomed for the next step. (Note: While Buck Angel’s OnlyFans content has been covered by The Gender Mapper, this author did not venture to OnlyFans to check out Chase Ross’s content). A full 16 of the 43 playlists on uppercaseCHASE1 are product reviews or giveaways. The giveaways started in 2017 with an arrangement with the binder company gc2b.co to provide 5 binders per month. This quickly became 30 binders and was soon followed by New York Toy Collaborative getting in on the action providing packers and STPs. In January of 2018 Chase proudly tells viewers that 1,383 products had been given away valued at almost 30K. But things got even better and by July 2018 Chase did ‘The Biggest Trans Giveaway Ever’ with over 23K worth of items. She tells her viewers it does not matter how old they are and wanted to keep the content from being age-restricted. Complaining she has run into this problem in the past by posting “just pictures” of packers. In place of the prosthetics, images of fruits or vegetables have been substituted. In one video Chase suggests using a friend’s address if parents are transphobic saying, “I just want to give the opportunity for everyone to be able to get these life-saving binders that they desperately need for their dysphoria.” Source: “PUTTING THE PEEN WALL BACK UP” This article would be amiss without sharing a photo of Chase's famous ‘peen wall’ where she proudly displays her products as seen above. Below are some of the product reviews that will give readers a taste of the items that round out Chase’s content: • In this video sponsored by Early to Bed, Chase tells her audience that she was excited to share this masturbator by Buck Angel because it is clear and she can see her peen. • Here she peddles a product called the ‘peacock’ for use in FTM sex with an attachment. “It actually touches your junk that’s grown from T,” and, “it feels amazing…,” exclaims Chase. • Here she peddles Aydian Dowling’s t-shirt printed with ‘I’m in the secret club.’ What girl could say no? • By searching ‘uppercaseCHASE1’ on the analytics website Influenex, the following image can be found showing a diagram of Chase’s most popular posts to date. In 2020, the Moveable 4skin – Emisil Review garnered 1.31M views making it the most-watched post by a long shot. Perhaps it was the ridiculously oversized silicone phallus sent to Ross as a marketing ploy that catapulted this video to the forefront of most-watched videos. Or perhaps it was the moveable foreskin that Chase claims, “is just so exciting.” Whatever the case, of course, links and a discount code were provided to purchase the packer. • Here and here Chase reviews the Freely stand to pee device. She explains, “I’m actually going to show this in a little bit more detail and show you like exactly how it places on my OnlyFans page. This is literally stuff I cannot show you on YouTube…” She tells her audience she uses it as a pack and play and an STP and shows how it is worn while wearing her underwear. She also shares information about the rod for insertion into the packer to use for sexual activity. • Here Chase reviews the Hot Rod receiving over 44K views. The popularity might just be the squeezable silicone phallus complete with fluid (you don't need a visual here, do you?) • Here Chase reviews a harness to be used for sexual activity. • Here Chase reviews a product for making a mold of a transman’s “peen.” Although currently age-restricted, this video received almost 217K views. As troubling as all this is, it is only a smattering of the content on uppercaseCHASE1. Stay tuned for Part III where a closer look is afforded to the drugs and surgeries peddled on YouTube channel uppercaseCHASE1. Links to Part I and Part III Mothers Grim is the pseudonym for an independent journalist intent on exposing the grim realities of the gender industry. She counts among her friends, many mothers who have children, like her own, caught up in an industry perpetuating what she trusts one day will be considered crimes against humanity. Unfortunately, what she writes is neither nursery rhyme nor folklore.

PART III By Mothers Grim Chase Ross is a woman who has appropriated male sex characteristics through drugs and surgeries. She is described as “transgender,” which is also referred to in the industry, as a female to male or an FTM. Once a young victim of the gender industry herself, she has been transformed into a victimizer of the next generation. YouTube is Chase's biggest avenue to stardom as one of social media’s top "transgender" influencers. This series of posts delve into Chase’s online persona, her FTM friends, and the online businesses that have exploded in recent years. These posts will take a deep dive into the products, drugs, and surgeries required for membership in the novel and trending FTM lifestyle. With her exuberant online persona, Chase’s biggest role might just be creating believers out of her followers, for it is this the industry needs most to thrive. Here are links to Parts I and Parts II. Part III: The Drugs, Products, Porn, and Clicks for Cash It is paramount for Chase Ross to inform followers on her YouTube channel, uppercaseCHASE1, to sell the products she reviews, fund her activities, and grow her tribe. Advice on puberty blockers, testosterone, and a collection of management drugs for adverse reactions, like hair loss and anxiety fill her content. She also has an encyclopedia of information to share regarding body alterations for which there is a growing arsenal of surgeons ready to wield their scalpels. Truth and ethics are often lacking on uppercaseCHASE1, but the newly enlightened followers then take the information to their social media to enlighten others. Before digging further, it is necessary to understand that medical procedures to appropriate the opposite sex are experimental and that puberty blockers and testosterone are not FDA approved for such use. Testosterone is also a Schedule 3 controlled substance meaning that it has the potential for physical and psychological dependence while also rendering the possession or sale without a prescription punishable by law. All of this borders murky waters. Despite doing so, Chase bombards viewers with all sorts of drug information and surgeries and seems to be at the forefront of testing the latest and greatest method of testosterone drug delivery. In her very first post on uppercaseCHASE1, Chase proudly shares her success in snagging a prescription for testosterone. Soon after she shares her first attempts at self-injecting the substance. She shares all sorts of things about testosterone tracking her progress from one year to eleven years. She even has a “Trans 101” series of 31 videos walking her confused and gullible followers (and even their family members) into the trenches of this medical identity each step of the way. In the episodes titled “Hormone Blockers” and “Hormone Placement Therapy,” she shares resources from the UCSF, a hospital involved in a controversial study on transgender youth. Chase readily discusses the effects of testosterone on the female body with particular emphasis on clitoral growth and possible penetration for sexual activity. “When a trans individual who is on the transmasc spectrum goes on testosterone their clitoris will grow, okay?” she tells her audience. If not able to access hormones, she explains that an FTM can try pumping, sharing a video that describes how to “pump” a clitoris. That video happens to have links to Chase’s pal, Skylar, an FTM who like Chase, has also had her breasts removed by Dr. Garramone and goes by the alias GenderCube. Chase discusses and provides links to Skylar’s Tumblr where detailed information is given on how to access the drug Andractim, a drug Chase encourages in several videos like this one. Andractim is the brand name for the androgenic steroid dihydroxy testosterone for topical use. It is used by FTMs for genital growth and Chase recommends it if pursuing metoidioplasty. It is not available in the US or Canada, but Chase shares a way to get access via Skylar, recommending a clinic in Cyprus. As it is a controlled substance, Chase tells her followers to ask their doctors to write a prescription and to fax it to the company in Cyprus who will then mail it to the states. The biggest selling point perhaps to her confused followers comes near the end of the video when Chase claims a friend’s clitoris grew by three-quarters of an inch after 3 months of use of this drug. Here Chase talks about her switch to Androgel for her testosterone source due to anxiety over injections. Here she discusses a “new way” of taking testosterone that starts with an ‘N’ and is applied to the nasal mucosa. Content cannot be monetized on YouTube if the drug brand name were shared, but Chase tells users she will put the name somewhere in the comment section, and on this, she does not disappoint. In this video Chase and FTM, Kai Scott discuss an injection device called the Auto-Inject 90. A patient’s syringe gets loaded into a spring-activated reusable device to take the anxiety out of self-injections. Kai tells the audience patients must figure things out and then inform the doctor implying that doctors are only there to do as an FTM says. While Chase does inform the audience that this video was not sponsored, Kai certainly takes the opportunity to advertise her business, TransFocus Consulting. Often the comments section can provide just as many insights for an FTM. In the comments section for the auto-injector a follower pipes in about one of the latest approved testosterone drugs on the market, Xyosted. Xyosted is a self-injectable testosterone device approved by the FDA (for males) in 2018. Its quarterly growth is looking promising. Chase readily talks about her anxiety and depression sharing many of the drugs she has tried to manage these conditions. Here Chase discusses her prescription for puberty blockers to control her bleeding stemming from the estrogen her ovaries produce. In videos like this one, she shares her use of Finasteride to prevent hair loss, a side effect of testosterone. Once again, she tells the audience she is careful to only use the generic name of the drug because if she were to share the actual drug name that starts with a ‘P’ her videos would not be monetized. On the surgery front Chase is front and center with all sorts of insights and links. She announced her own top surgery on her channel asking for help with funding and then paying it forward soliciting funds for others and offering ideas for how to fundraise. Here Chase talks about intense attraction toward wanting a phalloplasty and again shares her FTM friend Skylar’s Tumblr link for further information. She informs her viewers that by meeting others who have had surgeries she realized she could do this and still save her other “area” that she so enjoys. She alludes to the forthcoming “conference” where she says she will soon be hugging her friend with the new peen. Chase claims that looking down and not seeing anything there brings on her dysphoria. It seems phalloplasty mentions on social media rarely happen without bringing up The Crane Center and Chase is no different. “They’re the ones that can do what I need them to do,” explains Chase. While watching a video titled “bottom surgery consultation,” a small icon appears just below the video window for none other than, The Crane Center. The conference Chase mentioned in the annual Trans Philly Conference where Chase has had a growing presence. It seems she and her FTM cabal first got their start selling stickers, but Chase has since been catapulted to a presenter. The following presentations by Chase Ross were offered in 2021: At the same conference were show-n-tell sessions for metoidioplasty, top surgery, and phalloplasty along with sessions called “Dick energy” and “Phantom Penis.” The Crane Center (shown in the previous image advertised while viewing Chase’s content) was also presented. Here Chase and her FTM friends are on full view in their hotel room on the last day of the 2016 Trans Philly Wellness Conference. Taking this deep dive into the online world of FTM YouTube is difficult stuff but necessary to grasp the reality at hand. Clearly, there is a crisis before humanity with an industry left to fester on social media platforms like YouTube where the proliferation reaches beyond anything the human mind can comprehend. The information exposed here perhaps leads to more questions than it answers. Considering all of this, it is hardly far-fetched to speculate that the drivers of this industry are medically, culturally, and politically iatrogenic and not organic at all. The whole stinking mess is a lie. Human beings cannot be born in the wrong body and Chase and her FTM friends should have never been told lies to begin with. In conclusion, sharing this Google ad for online security with a drag superstar seemed appropriate. It popped up a few times while perusing YouTube’s FTM content. “Comfort and peace of mine online….” Sure Google, we trust you. Links to Part I and Part II Mothers Grim is the pseudonym for an independent journalist intent on exposing the grim realities of the gender industry. She counts among her friends, many mothers who have children, like her own, caught up in an industry perpetuating what she trusts one day will be considered crimes against humanity. Unfortunately, what she writes is neither nursery rhyme nor folklore.

The right-wing news host, Tucker Carlson seems to be doing the job most comedians in America won’t do today, namely being funny, especially about “gender identity.” Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire is another right-wing political pundit who is clearly not afraid of the gender industry cartel. Why are so many comedians? How could comedians resist? I find myself pining the loss of George Carlin. Carlin would have had a field day with the comedic potentialities of “gender identity.” One might call gender identity ideology comedy gold, for all its ridiculous assertions, that men can be women if they say so, that women can have penises, that people can be non-sexed, and that babies are “assigned” sex at birth. They might as well claim that babies arrive by storks, for all the outrageous pronouncements that its believers take on with deep conviction. Yet, most of our comedians won’t touch the gender brigade, Dave Chappelle being one notable exception. There are a few others, but not many. Chappelle, being too big to cancel, and Netflix too invested in the money The Closer show brought in, took the protest of his alleged "transphobia," last October, pretty much in stride though both became a bit conciliatory after the fact. Ted Sarandos, Netflix CEO, after defending free speech and Chappelle, apologized after an uproar by employees expressing their anger at Chappelle, stating "I should have recognized the fact that a group of our employees was really hurting” (insert eye-roll). Chappelle, in a follow-up show, talked about his affection for and acceptance of the LBGT community and told a heartwarming story about his personal friendship with one man who appropriated womanhood, whom he allowed to open for his show. Considering Netflix is owned by Black Rock, the largest investment company in the world (global assets total $20 trillion), which is deeply invested in the gender industry, conciliation between Netflix's investment in Chappelle as a huge moneymaker and Black Rock's investment in the gender industry, was necessary. This is the same tight rope Disney CEO, Bob Chapek has to walk now, sandwiched between Black Rock, their major shareholders invested in the gender industry, and the public, as reported by biotech entrepreneur, Vivek Ramaswamy. Add to that, Disney's own investments in the gender industry and the tightrope these CEOs must walk might as well be covered in grease. Though the hoopla around “The Closer” has died down, the censorship of comedians, leading to funnier political pundits (at least on the political right), and less funny comedians, is gaining ground. One glance at the media maelstrom created by Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars, for a joke Rock made about Mrs. Smith’s haircut is a recent case in point. Comedian Ryan Long did a riff on Jada Pinkett Smith’s sex life, sans Will, shortly after the Oscars, which got censored by both Facebook and Twitter, though you can still see the video of several comedians singing about taking Jada Pinkett Smith for “a spin,” on YouTube. It was also reinstated on Facebook. As the noose tightens around what is left of our free speech, women’s sexual humiliation, as comedic fodder will be the last to go down. The most stringent censorship in the comedic realm at this point is reserved for comedians who veer into "gender identity" territory. While Carlson and Walsh are creating some of the best comedy routines around gender ideology, Carlson on Fox News, and Walsh on the Daily Wire and YouTube platforms, we don’t hear much from American mainstream comedians that aren’t pandering to people who want to identify out of their sex. Bill Burr has been uncharacteristically tender in his treatment of the subject, Whoopi Goldberg is the producer of a “trans” modeling agency, and forget about Wanda Sykes, who was sending love out to her “trans” sisters on Twitter last year, and slamming a Florida bill at the Oscars that would prevent teachers from teaching kids in K-3 classes that they can be born in the wrong body. Hannah Gadsby calls herself a genderqueer comedian (whatever that means), and GLAAD, the media spokespeople for the LGBT cartel, blasting Dave Chappelle’s Closer routine, highlighted comedians with synthetic sex identities (SSI: corporate sex identities, i.e; not real) last year because comedians without SSI who make jokes about those with SSI create harm in their community. Wouldn't that make a great comedy skit? No one is using it. Dave Chappelle provided very short-lived permission for other comedians to come out and be funny again, specifically about “gender identity.” After The Closer uproar, men took to social media, decrying the censorship of Chappelle and making fun of the activists fronting for the gender agenda, and Joe Rogan, popular comedian, and podcaster came out in support of Chappelle. It was like we could all take a big deep breath again and stop minding what comes out of our mouths. We could be funny! But again, this was short-lived. Could it be that the corporate conglomerate-controlled media skewering of comedians who’ve dared to joke about “gender identity” keep others away from the subject? Louis CK got lashed by Bazaar Magazine in 2019 (not something he could afford after his #metoo movement moment) for calling people claiming SSI boring and British comedian, Ricky Gervais got so much flak even the comedy reviewer in The Guardian felt a need to explain that his enjoyment of Gervais’ show was not an endorsement of ALL his opinions. Reportedly, he was brooding on Gervais’s “trans material” and the degrees to which he found it “appropriate, or offensive, or funny.” It seems only Tucker Carlson and comedians with SSI are allowed to be funny about “gender identity.” Out, one LGBT media platform, suggests there are at least 11 comedians with SSI who are funnier than Dave Chappelle. Funny, I’ve never heard of them. One male comedian, claiming womanhood as his costume, joked about identifying with serial killer Ed Gein for wanting to skin girls alive. Corina Lucas, in a comedy set he called “skin suit” at the Portland Queer Comedy Festival in 2019, quipped “I’m not saying I endorse skinning cis girls to build a woman suit – but I get it. I wanted to kill cis girls for way less than that.“ Gein, was the inspiration for many films, including "Psycho", "Silence of the Lambs", and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" due to his decision that the only way to become a woman was to turn her into this season's latest rage in bodysuits. Chappelle, in a routine he did before The Closer, made a quip about meeting OJ Simpson and OJ's “soon-to-be slain wife,” Nicole. No problem there. Violence against women, like their sexual humiliation, is free for laughs but don’t mention anyone with a synthetic sex identity or the hammer of financial threat comes down hard. They are just too fragile. Just ask Larry fink, billionaire CEO and Chairman of Black Rock if you don't believe me. In The Closer routine, Chappelle clearly stated that his problem is not the LGBT community but the corporate interests that were dictating what he could and could not say. He joked about Cassius Clay having a more difficult time changing his name than Bruce Jenner had appropriating womanhood and his suspicion that if it were only black or Mexicans trying to identify out of their sex, the gender agenda would be seen as ridiculous. Chappelle was trying to tell us something there and I wonder how many people have truly grasped the significance. This is an elite white men’s agenda - the same one we've been dealing with for eons - and the LGBTQ+, no longer a human rights movement has become a totalitarian, censorious, financial juggernaut. They have curtailed our ability to speak, and they are so insane that they have nearly single-handedly killed satire. RIP Comedy. 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At the root of the emerging gender industry, is a sexual fetish of adult men known as autogynephilia (AGP), once called transsexualism. AGP is a sexual fetish that covets female biology. This is the eroticization of women as objects that we see across the sex industries taken to its zenith. “Transgenderism” is the corporate branding and politicization of this fetish for profit and human engineering. The pinnacle of this fetish, which is playing out now with the normalization of AGP in society, is female erasure. This fetish used to be expressed through the appropriation of what was culturally deemed female attire (transvestic fetishism). Through advancements in technology, it has grown to the appropriation of female biology itself. If the appropriation of women’s bodies is accepted as “medical treatment” to assuage men’s fetish, their internalized homophobia, their mental health problems, and/or their self-expression, women cease to exist as wholly sexed beings unto ourselves. This is the point of the gender industry. Female erasure has become the ultimate money shot of the sex industry. Women become whatever anyone says they are. They have no integrity because they are left without boundaries around their sexed reality. This is the most important boundary any human can have which is what makes rape such a heinous act. “Trans widows," the women once married to men with the fetish of AGP, men who have taken on performances of their wives' sexed reality, have been marginalized and silenced even beyond the censorship of other women discussing this issue. They are the harbingers of what is happening to society with the normalization of AGP. Having lived with the men who have this fetish, they have the most to tell us about where the destigmatization of this fetish is leading. Allowing for the incursion of women’s sexed reality, by men who seek to own women, to become women, and erase them, will lead to the erasure and debasement of humanity itself. Women are half the human species. When we are debased and erased, humanity goes down with us. Social and legal acceptance of men going through their days wearing women’s biology like a costume is meting out destruction at every front. It is rearranging the social order to accommodate a dangerous lie that people can change sex, setting off a social contagion of young people expressing a repulsion toward their sexed anatomy, and energizing a market capitalizing on the contagion. It is leading to the social erasure of women in language and law, and the literal deconstruction of females. This will get worse. Porn is the industry, the soil, in which this current iteration of women’s human debasement has been fertilized. It is a 35 billion dollar a year global industry and growing, allowing any eight-year-old boy with access to the internet or a cell phone, unrestrained admittance to images of women as sexual objects. 1950s porn is yesterday’s news. In its place we have women being sexually violated, choked, spit on, penetrated by multiple men, eating out of dog bowls, and being humiliated for men’s and boys’ sexual pleasure and profit. The rapid advancements of tech and AI have made the sexual degradation of women so ubiquitous to our social order we don’t see it anymore, which is how people can believe that men walking around performing our sexed reality is their human right. We do not see that we are being emotionally, psychologically, and sexually impacted (traumatized) as a species. Once technology created the possibility of assuaging men’s fetish of desiring to own women’s biology, by creating surgeries and synthetic hormones to allow them to wear facsimiles of female anatomy, this fetish detonated into what is now the gender industry: the selling of body dissociation as a lifestyle, the casual acceptance of mutilating one’s sex for identity and expression, the emergence of hundreds of “gender clinics” to control children’s sex, the creation of a techno-medical complex (TMC) pipeline of profit, from “gender clinics” and a lifetime of medicalization, to Big Fertility (to assist young people in having children once they’ve been sterilized for identity). The exponential growth of this industry for rearranging human sex characteristics, (including both the removal of genitalia or adding of one set of genitalia while keeping another) is already being projected. What will happen to humanity with further advancements in technology? Synthetic sex identities marketed as defying the binary of sexual dimorphism are already being promoted in grade school curriculums, on children’s social media platforms, in universities, corporations, governments, Hollywood, on all mainstream media which intersect with the TMC, and in medical schools. Elite men are invading, colonizing, and occupying female biology through the surrogacy and gender industries, the same way an AGP attempts to occupy his wife's biology. The advancement of this process is happening through tech developments and because our market sucks the wealth to the top of society (this process is inherent to capitalism) where too few men are able to control the rest of us via their wealth. Some of these men have the fetish of AGP and are attempting to usurp women’s reproductive power with technology by normalizing their fetish socially and within the capitalist market. Now that this fetish is part of the market, other elites are profiteering from the industries, as they have from the other aspects of the sex industry. Trans widows live in a pornified microcosm of this macrocosm. Where allowed to have a voice at all, they have reported on the psychological abuse perpetrated by their partners, the trauma caused to themselves and their children, by their partner’s gaslighting and narcissism, the cognitive dissonance of loving someone intimately who suddenly seeks to appropriate their physically sexed humanity, feelings of intense boundary violation of their personhood being supported by the culture at large, so that they feel like the crazy ones. This is what is happening to society at large as the elite men with this fetish whose wealth and intent to take what does not belong to them, coalesce. We are being led to believe this is about human rights, that the suffering caused by this paraphilia and the desire to own female biology supersedes everything and everyone else in society, including both the natural and man-made laws by which we live. We are being made to believe we are crazy and shamefully bigoted if we do not go along. Are we the crazy ones? Families are being destroyed by this fetish from one end to the other and society will also be destroyed. While these men are lauded by and paraded in mainstream media (controlled by the TMC), trans widows are left invisible and censored, like the women who dare to speak publicly about the abuse of allowing this fetish to overtake us socially. AGP, Body Dissociation, Technology, and Commerce Normalizing AGP normalizes the objectification of women to the point of erasure. Women, as we can see, are being socially, politically usurped by men winning their awards, their sports, claiming them as their own physical entity. This normalizes body dissociation. This is the important root of the gender industry, leading us into a synthetic, desexed, reality that is post-human. The richest man in the world, Elon Musk (Musk’s economic worth is 223 billion dollars) recently discussed our developing ability to download our memories and personalities into a robot suggesting that we already outsource so much of our minds to our phones and computers with pictures and videos, enabling us to do things that would have been considered magical a short time ago. “I certainly don't want to have anything that could potentially be harmful to humanity,” Musk said. “But humanoid robots are happening. The rate of advancement of AI is very rapid," he warns. These social, political, and economic developments are happening simultaneously with the destigmatization of AGP within the corporate and political world. Social acceptance of transsexualism and its rebranding to "transgenderism" systematizes our estrangement from sexed reality and the rest of the biosphere. China's Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology has created a system that could take care of embryos in simulated artificial wombs. As social acceptance of AGP normalizes disengagement from our sexed reality the human body is being rewritten by the TMC creation of a synthetic body, of the opposite sex (or no sex, or both sexes), to trick the public. The public’s instincts, like the trans widow’s instincts, against this boundary violation of their sex, are being overridden with constant exposure to this fetish given the guise of a human rights movement. “Trans women are women,” is a repetitive mantra the public has been exposed to for nearly a decade. The AGP tells his wife nothing has changed, he is still the same person, and there is nothing wrong with them presenting as a same-sex couple together. We, as a society are being equally gaslit by the TMC and its mainstream media mouthpiece, telling us society is being overhauled, laws are being changed to support a lie about human sex to protect people’s feelings, that trading sex and genitals is just another lifestyle. It's progressive. Transhumanism and the Gender Industry Martine Rothblatt, the man who authored the first gender bill is a renowned transsexual and transhumanist. He speaks often on the techno-religion of transhumanism and its relationship to “transgenderism.” He is invested in genetics, nanotechnology, AI, and the advancement of reproductive technologies which separate human sexual dimorphism and women from reproduction. Rothblatt speaks often at OutLeadership, the global business leadership arm of the LGBT, and he has created a robot facsimile of his wife. Rothblatt believes we will be living in a singularity, as data inside a web of cyber-consciousness (an extension of what Mark Zuckerberg who owns Facebook calls a metaverse), in the not-too-distant future. The singularity is outlined in a book by Rothblatt’s friend and inspiration, Ray Kurzweil. Ray Kurzweil of Google is another futurist and transhumanist with a penchant for AI, life extension, genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. Google has funded millions of dollars to the Trevor Project, purportedly the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ youth, with revenues exceeding 35 million dollars. The Trevor Project, like other LGBT organizations funded by Google, is also funded by many of the same corporations and pharma giants, like Abbvie, Gilead, Johnson & Johnson, and Bristol Meyers Squibb investing in the gender industry. We must listen to what "trans widows" are trying to tell us about their ex-husbands' inability to see them as separate human beings, and only as mere props in their fetish. Without connecting the dots between the sex industry, the gender industry, the techno-medical complex, futurism, and the world’s most powerful men, we cannot possibly understand the deconstruction of womanhood underway in language and laws. It is not just our sex class that elites are deconstructing, women’s social spaces, the language with which we describe ourselves, but women’s biology and reproductive capacities, for-profit and for sating some men’s desire to own female biology. If we accept the dissociation from reality being cultivated by the normalization of AGP, there may be no turning back to grab hold of our beloved humanity. This research depends on the generosity of readers. If you like what you are reading on the 11th-hour blog, please consider a donation or paid subscription in support. 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The propaganda, that there is a subset of humanity that is not male or female, or who believe that they are something other than male or female and should be accommodated everywhere in society for this belief, has been like a distant media drumbeat in our lives. It is always there as backdrop noise, hypnotizing us with virtue signals and repetition. Nick Monroe, reporting in the Post Millennial recently critiqued a Sports Illustrated (SI) interview with swimmer Lia Thomas, a man swimming on a women’s elite sports team, who SI claims is really a woman. Monroe was unsurprised that Lia Thomas doubled down on his gender identity in the interview, and yet he stopped short of asking why women’s sports are being overhauled for men. He left the premise of there being a subset of humanity called “transgender” people intact. Sports podcaster, Ross Tucker did the same in a recent, nearly wonderful Twitter thread, critiquing Lia Thomas’ NCAA Women’s Swimming Championship win Thursday. At the bottom of a nearly perfect thread, where he correctly identifies Lia Thomas as a man and the harms generated by his acceptance into women’s sports, he writes: “That said, where non-zero-sum (colliding rights) inclusion is possible, in a safe way, there should be no barrier to welcoming ‘transwomen’ into sport,” undoing all his own clarity up until that point. The critiques of the gender industry by some mainstream media outlets, only presented on the political right, focus on the surface of the issue; the obvious unfairness of “transwomen” in women’s sports (they mean men), the obvious lack of safety for women when “transwomen” are housed in women’s prisons (again, they mean men), etc. The premise of “transgender” people, the one thing that needs to be critiqued, is almost never touched by any mainstream media outlet. Why is everyone buying the fiction being sold by media propaganda that there is a subgroup of humanity that are not male or female based on their feelings - or that their feelings of being oppositely sexed, other-sexed (in the case of "non-binary"), or non-sexed (nullo) deserve special rights and respect for their feelings? Are they terrified of questioning the premise, or are journalists prevented by their conglomerate heads from exposing the subtext of this issue? Until we get to the root of this problem and rip it out, we’ll all be running in place. There are no people who are not male or female. This is the crux of the entire issue. We have been sold a fiction. There is also no good reason to create new laws and language for people who have a fictional belief about themselves. There are, in fact, plenty of good, obvious reasons not to. This sales pitch of special people with special identities about their sexed bodies started less than ten years ago and has been running relentlessly since on all mainstream media platforms. The word “transgender “ and the phrase “gender identity” didn’t enter our cultural lexicon with full force until 2014, even if it was hovering about in the LGB community for a bit longer, evolving out of "transsexual" and stretching to include many variations of fetish, kink, attraction to stereotypes of the opposite sex, cross-dressing, the idea of not being a sexed person at all, etc. In 2014, American mainstream media placed a black man in a dress on the cover of Time Magazine. This was the public's initiation into the ideology of “gender identity,” or choosing one’s sex. Having a sexed body that you don’t like has been presented to us as the equivalent of the suffering black people endured under slavery and Jim Crow. It is also promoted as akin to being same-sex attracted, even as it denies the reality of sex. The entire blitzkrieg of propaganda, selling us fictional sexed identities, playing out all over mainstream media is indoctrination on steroids. It is misogynist, racist, homophobic propaganda, repackaged as progressive, brought to us by elites colonizing human sex for profit, deconstructing us as wholly sexed beings, into parts for consumption, as if human sex were a lego set. Societies Are Not Being Overhauled So A Few People With Body Dysphoria Can Feel Included There are no pride parades for people with Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID) with body dysphoria related to their limbs. Global banks do not "care" about those with BIID, only those with dysphoria related to their sex. International law firms, investment houses, billionaires in Pharma and Tech, and governments worldwide are only investing in people with body dysphoria related to their genitalia, not those with BIID. An entire political apparatus tied to the medical-industrial complex has been created to drive the normalization of dissociation and dysphoria related to our sexed bodies, manifesting a social contagion for young women. Nearly no one is writing articles about people with disassociation and body dysphoria associated with BIID. Individuals with BIID are not promoted in mainstream media as brave, mysterious, or sexy, and they certainly don’t have modeling agencies clamoring to hire them. Though we are a bipedal species, our legs (the limbs usually associated with BIID) do not define humans as a species. We are defined by our sex because our male and female differences in sex note our reproductive capacity. This reproductive capacity is what is being colonized for profit by the techno-medical complex and toward the engineering of human evolution under the guise of human rights. Specifically, it is women’s female reproductive capacity that the market is usurping for capital. Women’s reproductive capacity is being poised for a tech takeover, and women are being erased in language and law, simultaneously by the introduction of gender identity ideology by the corporate state. We must get beyond the surface of the nonsense we are being fed to the root of this issue, which is in the technological-medical reproductive industry and eugenics, tilling the soil for human dissociation from our sexed reality and the remaking of our species. The wealthiest men in the world are driving this plan, and it isn’t because they care about a “marginalized group.” They are rearranging reality. The gender industry is one front at which this undertaking is being cultivated. This cannot be done by focusing media propaganda on people who want their legs amputated because they have body dysphoria. It can only be done by driving propaganda on body dysphoria related to sex to normalize disassociation from our sexed reality. We are a sexually dimorphic species. Our sex connects us to the rest of the biosphere and each other. Behind the Propaganda Machine Sports Illustrated, lauding Lia Thomas, a man winning a women’s sports competition, is owned by Authentic Brands. Authentic Brands Group was on the receiving end of an $875 million investment by BlackRock in 2019. SI has now had four men posing as women on their covers. This is sleek, high-tech, high-end propaganda of the state. What exactly are they selling? Are the profits to the pharma and tech industries for surgeries, drugs, surgical supplies, research, and the psychiatric industry enough that Black Rock, the world's largest assets manager with $10 trillion in US capital should be interested in the issue of body dysphoria related to genitalia? Why is SI (Black Rock) trying to convince the public that men can be women, and positioning a man alongside women of color as comparable, as they did with Lenya Bloom, Megan Thee Stallion, and Naomi Osaka last year? Why are entire governments, international corporations, investment houses, and billionaires, all driving similar narratives? Why is nearly no one in mainstream media asking these questions, even the mainstream media on the right that are purportedly critiquing this industry? Media and the Techno Medical Complex To understand how this narrative is being sold to us, we must look at the connections between American mainstream media, the techno medical complex (TMC), and the oligarchs running the “gender” narrative. We must look at how this is positioned, by elites, through the use of media, as a left/right divide, when those on the right can only go so far in their critiques of the industry, leaving the root, the fiction of "transgender" people, intact. Arcus Foundation (AF), the largest LGBT Non-Governmental Organization fueling the gender industry has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the American Psychological Foundation. It is funded by the founder’s investments in Stryker Medical, to which he is the heir. AF is also driving the gender identity industry narrative, through media, normalizing body dissociation, by funding National Public Radio, and GLAAD which drives gender identity industry propaganda to all mainstream media. The American billionaire Pritzker family, with prolific investments in the medical-industrial complex and a family member calling himself “transgender,” have funded many institutions in the US, Canada, and Israel to create the fiction that humans are not a sexually dimorphic species. The Pritzkers' most recent philanthropic gifts are in the mental health field. Governor Pritzker of Chicago has earmarked 140 million dollars for mental health in his state. John and Lisa Pritzker have funded the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to create a new psychiatric center to the tune of 60 million dollars. UCSF is funded by myriad billionaires invested in the TMC and the gender industry. The medical center of UCSF has its own “transgender” care center, partnered with Comcast media conglomerate. Comcast owns AT&T, NBCUniversal, Sky Broadcast and Telecommunications, DreamWorks Animation, and Xumo Online Video Streaming. I have written elsewhere about media conglomerates Disney, AT+T, and Amazon, their investments in the gender industry, their media platforms' censorship of any critiques of the gender industry, as well as their investments in the techno-medical complex. If we throw a stone at any mainstream media platform, we find media conglomerates in bed with the TMC, promoting body dissociation as progressive. Find below, a link to a google document providing a glimpse of how much mainstream media propaganda promotes disassociation from our sexed bodies as not just normal, but often glamorous and edgy, and how they cultivate villains out of anyone bold enough to question their narrative. I have only outlined two media conglomerates, but most mainstream media conglomerates have deep investments in the techno-medical complex that is running the gender industry. Many, like Amazon (Jeff Bezos), and Time, (Marc Benioff), also have ties to the Big Fertility market cashing in on the sterilization of young people being medicalized in the gender industry. It is way past time for a deeper dive into mainstream media conglomerates' partnership with the TMC, building the fiction of gender identity. This industry must be stopped. It is meant to unravel humanity from our roots in the real world (sex) and to tie us to a techno-medical prison (a synthetic, false reality). The first juncture at which we must reclaim ourselves is language. Understand why and how it is being changed. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e2WYg16JqmJVeqo9kTarfqq3fr7nLoz8-3XGTJkAASM/edit?usp=sharing This research depends on the generosity of readers. If you like what you are reading on the 11th-hour blog, please consider a donation or paid subscription in support. Use this link for donations. Thank you.

By Emmaline From Good Intentions to Gender Goliath: The Trevor Project abuses vulnerable kids through sexual and gender grooming. For those living outside the sphere of LGBT propaganda, you may not know that the Trevor Project (TP) is a well-funded and highly visible charity in the US, that claims to focus on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, “transgender,” queer, and questioning youth. As a lifelong liberal American woman, with a daughter who a few years ago began telling her father and me that she was a boy, I became aware that TP is the go-to resource for LGBT youth. Pre-teens, adolescents and younger adults battling feelings of dysphoria or simply curious about so-called “gender identity” generally gravitate to the TP, eventually. The size and scope of this Goliath: With $35 million (pdf) a year in funding, the TP’s size and scale enable them to engage in a weapons-grade propaganda campaign against vulnerable children and young adults. Their arsenal includes 24/7 chat services with an army of counselors trained in TP’s gender ideology via text (TrevorText), phone chat (TrevorChat), and a peer-to-peer forum called TrevorSpace that allows vulnerable kids as young as 13 to engage directly with other kids suffering a crisis of identity around their sexed bodies, and more disturbingly, with adults up-to (and sometimes older than) 25 years old. Who Funds the Trevor Project?: Many of the brands Americans love, and trust fund the TP, including but not limited to Macy’s, Chipotle, and H&M. Their list of funders also includes social media tech companies, like Google, Facebook, and TikTok; investment houses, like Wells Fargo and Bank of America, media conglomerates like Disney and AT&T. Not surprisingly, pharma companies like Abbvie, Gilead and Bristol Myers Squib among others are also partnered with the charity. I thought this organization was saving my daughter. I thought they were a lifeline. I even gave them a small donation in 2018 along with other organizations who purported to be protecting vulnerable, dysphoric kids like mine from almost certain suicide. That’s the story. That’s their way in. And then there is no way out. At the TP, transition only goes in one direction. Our Gender Journey: How it started: The story of our misguided affirmation of our twelve-year-old daughter’s gender declaration is an article of its own. To make it short, we have been affirming our child for over three years under the misguided advice of our highly credentialed, but severely misinformed mental health team. We weren’t affirming our child because we believed that she was really a boy. Instead, it was during a multi-year mental health crisis our daughter experienced, and we were desperate for any solution. We questioned the affirmation pathway, but we were convinced it might help her to cope. I had intrusive thoughts about what I would say at her funeral, which felt inevitable. We were told that not affirming our child was tantamount to invalidating her—making every day more of the living Hell it already seemed to be. I couldn’t bear the thought of her being in more pain. When my husband raised doubts, I replied, “if our daughter kills herself and we don’t try transition, we will never forgive ourselves.” So, we affirmed. And we encouraged. We bought binders and sat on panels; we gave money to organizations who promised to help children like ours. This is the narrative that The Trevor Project promotes. This is the narrative that keeps their coffers overflowing by taking our children for ransom. How it’s Going: Fast forward three years. Socially “transitioning” our child was not therapeutic. In fact, the year our child “transitioned,” her mental health plummeted while her self-harm sky-rocketed. There were three hospitalizations for self-harm and at least one suicide attempt. And yet, living in an “affirmation-only” state, we could not legally seek any other care. Like many desperate parents, we had to acquire our own PhD-level knowledge in order to navigate the waters of our daughter’s distress about her sexed body, on our own. In our deeply liberal city, we felt like we had nowhere to turn. The schools, the doctors, the mental health community, extracurricular activities, and even the religious community continue to celebrate and encourage children into “transition,” even now. There are no safe spaces. It’s a constant drumbeat. A seductive siren with a gravitational pull. A whirlpool swallowing our kids. We were despairing parents who would have tried anything to claw our way out of the suffering inflicted on our daughter and our family by gender ideology. Daring to Desist: After months of self-education mixed with a series of careful conversations and explosive fights, our daughter seemed to be winning her battle with body dysphoria. She stopped binding her breasts and obsessing over “top surgery” videos of young girls who have undergone radical mastectomies. We were hopeful. This wasn’t the first time my child seemed to be desisting. Once before she had desisted. However, friends of hers who also identify as “transgender” convinced her that she was simply experiencing internalized “transphobia” and that she would feel even better being “trans” as time went on. I wanted to be prepared this time with resources to guide her. I wanted to make sure she had the social support to stand firm against the bullying, coercion, and gaslighting that could pull her back into the allure of a “trans” identity. I reached out to the Trevor Project for help. At Trevor, Transition Only Goes in one Direction: The first time I contacted the TP, I Introduced myself as a concerned mom looking for resources on detransition. They had none. In fact, when you search for the term “detransition” on their website, you will find zero results. That was troubling. I thought that maybe they could help direct me to some other resources. Instead, the counselor said they knew nothing and resorted to googling. After insisting that as a charity for dysphoric kids, they must find some way to help me, they finally sent me a link to a misleading Stonewall propaganda piece claiming to be “dispelling myths about detransition.” This Stonewall piece states that detransition is not only incredibly rare but also frequently temporary and mostly instigated by the distress of being “trans” in an uncaring society. This information is false. In fact, we have no idea how many detransitioners there are, but social media forums suggest there are many. What’s more, while there is little information available about the experiences of detransitioners, a recent study by Dr. Lisa Littman reveals that the majority of detransitioned respondents were able to find comfort and acceptance in their sexed bodies and did not detransition because our world is too inhospitable to “trans”-identified people as the Stonewall piece states. I was naïve. I thought that if they couldn’t help me, maybe I could help them. I left them with some of the limited information on “transition” that parents like me have had to discover on our own from sites like post-trans.com, detransvoices.org, and other resources that could offer help for others in our situation. I then turned to other organizations purporting to help vulnerable dysphoric youth—PFLAG, GLSEN, GLAAD, The Center. Not one of them had any resources on detransition or desistance. NOT ONE. Not one of them could offer help to families like mine. First, I Grew Suspicious, Then I Went Undercover I decided to go undercover at the TP, and posed as a fifteen-year-old female who’d “transitioned” to male but decided they wanted to reclaim their body. I wanted to discover what our daughter’s experience would be had she asked TP about detransition. What I experienced was a conversation that continued to lead the teen I was playing back onto the path of “transition.” At the end of the session, the conversation that began with me considering detransition ended with links to ways to acquire breast binders without parental knowledge and how to get others to pay for hormones at 18. You can find that story reported by Libby Emmons here. Following the Advice to Connect on TrevorSpace: Since The Trevor Project kept pushing the dysphoric teen I was playing to seek out advice and information on their community page, TrevorSpace.org, I decided to look further into what a vulnerable child, like my daughter, might find there. Once in TrevorSpace, I found many conversations that encourage transition for children. Here is a small sample of what I found there: *Adults grooming kids into gender identity, sending them to sites like this: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/. *Children as young as 13 interacting with adults 25 and older about sex, sexual behavior, sexual preferences, gender identity, dissociation, and more and using handles like “slutty little kitten.” *Minors telling each other how to buy chest -binders without parents knowing. · *Young females advising other young females on how to buy minoxidil (aka Rogaine) to grow facial hair if their parents wouldn’t allow them to start testosterone. *Adults extolling the benefits of nullification surgery *Adults talking to kids about methods of masturbation and favorite kinks. This organization is supposed to be protecting troubled children, and instead it is introducing them into a maladaptive pornographic fantasy world in ways that may create long-lasting sexual dysfunction or obsessions like autogynephilia (AGP). I saw conversations between adults and children using shocking terms like “glory holes” “bukkake,” “scat play,” and even bestiality. However, the topic of bestiality becomes less surprising when you discover that Sam Brinton, an avid “puppy play” participant, and recent Biden hire spent years as The Trevor Project’s Vice President of Advocacy and Government Affairs. There were many other terms I had to turn to google to understand. · Shaken yet? Angry? Terrified? What Can We Do? The Trevor Project is actively grooming children into a trans identity and then blocking any information or resources about detransition or self-acceptance. Parents must organize and educate themselves, as my husband and I have. Knowledge is power. We must know what is happening in our children’s schools, what is on the sites they visit on the internet. We need to consider the time they spend on tech, who their friends are, and what is happening in every inch of their lives. Please follow this link for the full presentation of what I found while posing as a vulnerable teen on the Trevor Project website: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zh1GSTtuzMngmF_H4K1q3PTdEleLsoduEn2yTH8N63A/edit#slide=id.g11df573f35a_1_12 Emmaline is the Mom of a Dysphoric Kid Her work can be found here: https://bettercare.substack.com/

By Paul McLaughlin Against the wishes of the general public, the current coalition government of Scottland is fully committed to “sex Self-id,” or allowing anyone with a desire and a small fee, to legally become a man or a woman, despite their actual sex. In the UK there are different legislative governments for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with Westminster in London covering England and UK specific powers (e.g. defence). Westminster has abandoned the introduction of sex Self-id but has made a commitment to reduce the cost of a “Gender Recognition Certificate” (GRC) from £140 to £5. Language & Definition of Terms Before we examine the introduction of “sex Self-id,” it’s important to define the terms being used and their meanings. Activists for gender ideology quite deliberately invent new definitions for existing words. This obscures what they are advocating for: the deconstruction of human sexual dimorphism. Women An adult human female. Man An adult human male. Lesbian Women that are exclusively attracted to other women. Gay Men that are exclusively attracted to other men. Sex (Male/Female) – The specific biological sex of a person which is immutable, determined at conception, observed in utero and at birth, is encoded into every cell in the body and cannot change. A man that demands we pretend he is a woman. a man that wants the rest of the world to believe he and his genitalia are female because he cast the magic spell “I identify as…” Terms that will not be used nor complied with. As mentioned above, part of this ideology is designed to obfuscate words and change your perception of meanings and as such will not be used. Transwoman Humans cannot change sex and over 80% of men that claim this identity have no dysphoria, take no medication, and make no surgical changes to their body – some even keep their full beards. Transman “Women that demand we pretend they are men” do not represent a danger to men in private spaces nor in male sports or jobs so have no real bearing on any of the issues faced by women. However, because they are female, they will require full female medical care throughout their lives. Obscuring their sex can endanger them thereby. Cis This is an insult and slur used to denigrate and ‘other’ people that do not believe in the fantasy of gender ideology. In this respect, it is akin to calling non-believers of Christianity “heathens” or “pagans.“ In modern multicultural societies, we are defined by who we are, not what or who we are not. Gender Identity ”Gender identity” is a made-up term for an individual’s feelings. What is the Gender Reform (Scotland) Act? The Gender Reform Act is a misnomer and refers to a time (2004) when sex and gender were largely synonymous terms. It should more accurately be described as the “sex self-id act”. It allows you to legally change your sex to the opposite sex for the purpose of expression. Your biological sex cannot change and anyone that believes that or is teaching that is spreading bad science. The “sex self-id act” will remove all medical gatekeeping with no diagnosis of dysphoria required and no medical or psychological intervention required. You just sign a piece of paper. This then allows sexually intact males to legally enter every female-only space; access to every female right in law; female roles; and with zero consideration for the bodily integrity of 51% of the population who are female. Women’s lack of consent to this insanity is irrelevant. The very purpose of the act is to remove medical gatekeeping and to make it easier for men to claim womanhood. This has broad consequences for all aspects of society. Women will be forced out of female-only spaces, including locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms if they object to men in their private spaces. Men, if they have a “sex self-id” or GRC, will be able to enter women-only short-lists in, for example, political appointments. The dignity of sex-specific hospital wards will be compromised when women are ill and/or vulnerable. This has already impacted the safety of women in Scottish prisons where this ill-conceived ideology has already been enacted by stealth. There are currently 12 men in the female estate with no laws having been passed by parliament. The Scottish government recently lost a court case on the “Gender Representation on Public Boards” act because of conflating biological sex with both “women and ‘men that demand we pretend they are women’.” This would allow for a gender-balanced board consisting of five men and five “men that demand we pretend they are women”. This has already been attempted by men in Mexico to bypass election rules. The Scottish law was found to be in violation of the Westminster Equality Act, but in Scotland, we already have such a man as CEO of a Rape Crisis Centre. This law should legally exclude “men that demand we pretend they are women” from a very clearly sex-specific role, but because of this ideology, the man is legally considered a woman, and women are self-excluding from the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. Girls will self-exclude from sports, not just because they cannot win against “boys that say they are girls” but for safety and fear of life-limiting injuries in contact sports such as women/girl’s rugby. We have seen from other countries the effects on women’s sports and their inability to effectively compete against “men that demand we pretend they are women” and who are entitled to shower and change with women because of similar laws being enacted. We have also seen from California that senior males can sleep in communal sleeping quarters with girls because the “boys are demanding we pretend they are girls” and this knowledge is specifically hidden from parents. In Canada, there are school recruitment drives and teachers are told not to inform parents if a child has transitioned at school because a child’s home and family may not be a safe space. The #WomenWontWheesht are regularly running street stalls in town centres to educate and explain what all this means in simple terms to the public. By corporate design all these laws are sought to pass “by stealth” and under the guise of other laws and as part of human rights (as happened when it was lumped in with gay marriage in Ireland). The now infamous Dentons report details how activists for this ideology can effect change and pass laws without public scrutiny. In the UK, pharmaceutical giants that push Puberty Blockers for children are donating to political parties (£100,000 to Liberal Democrats). And, as discussed on this site and elsewhere, Arcus Foundation, whose founder is heir to the medical fortune that is Stryker Corporation, are happy to donate millions worldwide to drive gender ideology. No man has a human right to woman and girl’s sex-specific spaces and indeed, voyeurism is a crime but it appears that profiteering has become more important than safety or sanity. “Sex self-id” is a legal fiction promoting harm in the general population. This right not to believe is protected under UK law as part of the Equality Act 2010 and under EU law as part of Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights. We must return to a rational science-based reality where words mean the specific things they already do. Some words can and do change slowly over time through a process of “cultural osmosis” but not basic language building blocks, and not by tyrannical force. We cannot demand reality be rearranged for ideology.

Across western cultures, human sexual dimorphism has been under legal assault by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other more powerful legal entities and is being replaced with a vague notion of “gender identity.” The ACLU has been inundated with millions of dollars in philanthropy over the past few years from billionaires deeply invested in the medical tech industry. Jon Stryker, heir to Stryker Medical fortune, and his husband, Slobodan Randjelović recently funded the ACLU 20 million dollars, in an effort to counter state bills that keep sex centered in the law. Jennifer Pritzker, a transsexual and member of the American billionaire Pritzker family who is deeply invested in the techno-medical complex, and Joan and Irwin Jacobs who are also deeply entrenched in the techno-medical complex have also funded the ACLU millions of dollars. I wrote about the Jacobs in part I of this blog post. The latest significant ACLU endowment includes 20 million dollars, gifted in 2018, by Michael Moritz, a former journalist turned venture capitalist and partner of Sequoia Capital, and his wife, Harriet Heyman, who between them share a net worth of 2.6 billion dollars. The money to the ACLU came through the couple’s Crankstart Foundation. Sequoia Capital companies are predominantly tech-based, including Apple, Snowflake, a data warehouse platform built for the cloud, and 23andme, the leading personal genetics information company, among others. Through Crankstart Foundation, Moritz and Heyman have donated 12 million dollars to Wichita State University, and 116 million dollars to England’s, University of Oxford. The couple formed the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) largest endowed program for Ph.D. Students with a 60 million dollar gift to fuel biomedical research. The University of Chicago received an endowment from Heyman and Moritz totaling 50 million dollars. The University of Chicago is home to the Pritzker Chicago School of Medicine (CSM). A significant number of CSM alumni have gone to work in the area of “gender medicine.” UCSF’s basic science Ph.D. programs, such as cell biology, biochemistry, and neuroscience consistently rank among the top biomedical research doctoral programs in the United States. Six years earlier, UCSF announced a $25 million donation, from Lisa and John Pritzker, one of the largest ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services at that time. This gift was surpassed by renewed funding last year by the Pritzkers in the amount of 60 million dollars, to build a new psychiatric center. Oxford University, funded by Moritz and Heyman has an “inclusivity” package for “transgender” staff and students on its website. Wichita State University (WSU) another recipient of their generosity, has a full “gender diversity training” program. The mission of Gender Diversity Training at WSU, according to their website, is to provide a safe and supportive network to the “transgender,” “non-binary” and gender non-conforming communities. The objectives for this module are to: *Understand key elements of biological sex, gender identity, and gender expression *Recognize and understand key terminology *Learn answers to questions regarding Trans individuals *Understand the possible challenges and issues for Trans individuals *Recognize cisgender privileges *Learn how to be a Trans ally This language, having entered the cultural lexicon with full force, in the west, less than a decade ago, without preamble, public evaluation, knowledge, or discussion, is now put forth as a given in many institutions. Everyone is supposed to understand that things are changing, though no one explains why, nor do they offer any coherent dialogue as to what this new language means or explain why a lie about reality is being instituted, other than to claim it helps a marginalized group of individuals and that it is good for us. The UCSF, swimming in the philanthropic funds of Moritz and Heyman has its own Transgender Care Center, whose aim is to provide “evidence-based” cutting-edge clinical care for “transgender” and “gender non-binary” communities, as well as to conduct pioneering research and train the next generation of medical providers on all aspects of “gender-affirming clinical care.” Kathleen Lowrey, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, who serves as Canada’s country contact for Women’s Declaration International, writing for Feminist Current in 2018, hit the proverbial nail on the head when she discussed how “donor-driven agendas can very rapidly attain ascendancy in the cash-strapped, administrator-driven contemporary university.” She wrote about the rapid institutionalization of gender ideology within Western universities and the underplaying of the importance of global inequality, where increasingly a tiny number of individuals hold a tremendous share of the world’s wealth. “This is,” she wrote, “perversely, a structural situation in which it makes a lot of sense to pay attention to individuals: rich ones, that is. The disproportionate influence of Silicon Valley gajillionaires in trans activism deserves almost infinitely more attention than it has hitherto received.” Lowery believes, and I am with her on this too, that “structural analysis simply won’t reveal the full story of what’s going on right now in terms of the rapid rise of ‘transgender’ identification and in many respects may obscure it.” Amongst the discussions of this dizzyingly fast development of an industry based on self-identification of sex, often involving medical interventions centered on examining the history of gender, queer theory, feminist analysis, sex stereotypes, and homophobia, barely any weight is given to the vast sums of money being sent into universities across the world by billionaires with investments in medical and technological advancements, and adaptions to the human species, to force gender ideology institutionally and into the law. The gender industry is being discussed at the world economic forum, along with biotechnological adaptions to humanity, within Google corporation, and at LGBT events. They include collecting our data, nano-technology, bio-technology, genetic alterations, xenotransplantation, human interfacing with AI, and the techno-medical incursion into human reproduction. The Moritz and Heyman Crankstart Foundation is based in San Francisco. While the Bay Area is their home, they have also made commitments elsewhere – particularly in Chicago (home of the Pritzker family, major funders of the gender industry) and the United Kingdom (second campus of Arcus Foundation, the largest LGBT NGO in the world whose founder propels gender ideology globally with profits from Stryker Medical). Crankstart funds ARC institute, a biomedical and technology research center, which is partnered with UCSF. Some recent work from labs led by Arc’s Core Investigators is a large-scale discovery for integrating DNA, controlling the structure of genomes, and gene expression. Moritz and Heyman fund SanFrancisco Community Health Care Consortium which in turn serves the Haight Ashbury clinic for youth taking on the corporate identity of “transgender,” Alameda Health Consortium encompassing a health program for individuals taking on the corporate identity of “transgender,” Lyon Martin Health Services with its own “gender medicine” clinic, among others. Crankstart has funded Oakland Public Education Fund, along with Marc Benioff’s Salesforce, which promotes “education” in “gender diversity,” creating havoc in Oakland school district elementary schools (Benioff is another billionaire funding the gender industry). It is possible looking at the trajectory of funding of Crankstart, Moritz, and Heyman to large legal entities like the ACLU, universities, the health care institutions serving people adopting the corporate identity of “transgender,” and large biotech research institutions, and claim these are only peripheral connections, except we have seen this repeatedly. The global wealth disparity Lowery has written about allows for a small cadre of billionaires to drive social change in accordance with their visions via philanthropic donations. Jennifer Pritzker and his family, Jon Stryker and his family, Tim Gill, George Soros, the Jacobs, Moritz, and Heyman are just a handful of rich men (predominantly) heavily invested in the biotech industries who have had a profound role in the development of the gender industry. Martine Rothblatt, though only a millionaire, has also had an enormous effect on creating the gender industry, having developed the ideology of deconstructing human se and authoring the first gender bill. They have all had a considerable role in using media conglomerates to deliver their propaganda. It is time to bring these individuals into sharper focus, along with the harm they are generating by rapidly instituting a dangerous ideology, forcing entire societies to lie about our human roots in sex. We have to ask what their interest in identity issues is and how the ACLU has become a “progressive” front for their tyranny. This research depends on the generosity of readers. If you like what you are reading on the 11th-hour blog, please consider a donation or paid subscription in support. Use this link for donations. Thank you.

by Michelle Uriarau Michelle Uriarau is a member of Mana Wāhine Kōrero, a group of NZ Māori women and allies. She discusses here the connections between what is being called "transgender" and transhumanism, which is part of the fourth industrial revolution. "When New Zealand passed its so-called conversion practices coercion bill in February 2022 they in fact legalized the disassociation and dismemberment of children's bodies and with it, their evolutionary capacity. When they passed the Self-ID amendment in December 2021 they legalized identity fraud. In essence, what both these bills have done," states Michelle, "has kickstarted a shift from a human-centered society to the idea that a non-human-centered society is possible in law." Michelle calls on feminists and others to start thinking beyond the borders of the current discussions on gender and to connect the dots to the larger picture of the exponential growth of disruptive technologies. Our humanity literally depends on us doing so. Our mahi seeks to protect, preserve and uphold the mana of wāhine, tamariki and Māoritanga from 4th Industrial Revolution developments such as gender identity, transgenderism, transhumanism, and dehumanization which distorts and misrepresents our reo, our whakapapa, our tikanga, and our Tipuna. This is not a drill. This is reality's last stand. Mana Wāhine Kōrero invites you all to take a stand with us! Noho tūturu, noho tangata! Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. English Translation: The work of Mana Wāhine Kōrero seeks to protect, preserve and uphold the sovereign authority of women, children, Māori culture from 4th Industrial Revolution developments such as gender identity, transgenderism, transhumanism, and dehumanization which distorts and misrepresents our language, our genealogy, our biology, and our ancestry. This is not a drill. This is reality’s last stand. Mana Wāhine Kōrero invites you all to take a stand with us! Stay real, stay human! You can find them on Gettr.com: https://www.gettr.com/user/ManaWahineTalk?fbclid=IwAR21F50kHOwnQdG8u1VWmhy6j1pfaJM4eVbE4qiwmrSjbXH0pe5IeZESehc