The Anti-Trans Propaganda Film Made by a Cult

[@magicalgirlmascot]

that one woman saying "breasts are being removed that have never felt a lover's caress" gave me such a visceral disgust reaction I had to pause the video and walk away for a minute. as an asexual, I am intimately familiar with people saying the exact same shit about me and mine, oversexualizing and infantalizing us in the same breath. all queerphobia has the same talking points. it's horrendous.

[@chillydog3188]

Same. I physically cringed at that. Wtf.

[@FrostyShadowYT]

What's worse is they will say that teaching someone about LGBT identities is sexualizing them, but them talking about that same person's body like that "breasts that never felt lover's caress" is apparently completely fine. That, together with all the other disgusting things that Matt Walsh and other transphobes say, just shows how most people that are against transgender people are just straight up pedos and nothing else.

[@lnk2158]

That's one of the leaders of the LGB Alliance. And one of the clearest examples of how transphobes think of trans men/mascs - as bodies that exist only for others' sexual gratification and as incubators. It's horrifying.

[@autumnwyvern489]

i fully thought it was going to go in the direction of like never being able to provide sustenance to a child or something along those lines but then i processed what was actually said and i was just. speechless. jaw on the floor.

[@stephanieemerik]

Ngl im not even on the aero/ace spectrum and that line freaks me the fuck out. Its so predatory and gross, and they call us the predators, when all they do is obsess and project into other peoples bits and bodies. Its so fucked up.

[@chrisp7044]

"Advil?! Isn't that the same stuff they give serial killers when they have a headache?!"

[@ZeroStrife1396]

off-topic, but that pfp gave me one hell of a nostalgia hit. My little sister and I used to love sheep.exe and spawning a million of them in the old family computer.

[@EtterWolf15]

"Penicillin? Isn't that a mold, the same stuff that grows on old bread?!"

[@TheRaka73]

"Insulin? Isn't that what they used to put people into comas with?"

[@user-burner]

Remember: hydrogen monoxide exposure affects almost 100% of Americans today

[@WolfBitesAndSleepyGraves]

"Water? Isn't that the stuff that they use to flush crap down the toilet?"

[@johnbrooks7350]

The audacity for that teacher to say, “No one was identifying that way 5 years ago”. Holy crap, I was in middle school 14 years ago and I was surrounded by nonbinary kids.

[@hannahc178]

"Mom, you're so not woke" scored by serious music made me laugh out loud. Yeah I'm sure that happened.

[@ZeroStrife1396]

I always play somber music when I give mom her weekly wokeness levels report

[@Urmomfat529]

UuG 💅 yOuRe 🤩 So 🎉 NoT 😭 wOkE ✨️

[@michellejean11]

Even for transphobic propaganda that was terrible dialogue but the fundies will believe it was real.

[@Neku628]

I'm wondering what year Andrew gave his mom that lecture. "Woke" just seems like it only became mainstream slang in the past four years.

[@DansDubsCovers]

Minute?

[@nerdychocobo]

I think another really important thing about that therapist scene is, like you said, the film stuff was made *purely off of abigails point of view*. They didn't talk to andrew at all, and therapy is conducted with discretion! with confidentiality! so, presumably, abigail was NOT told what happened in that therapist room - - it's completely fictional!

[@eshbena]

As a Jew, I have to say I don't know how we can be expected to run all these evil schemes, rule the world, have a family, and also have a day job! It's just way too much pressure. @_@

[@coderamen666]

I'm still waiting for my space laser ffs

[@saladman420]

Can you pay for my top surgery please

[@CorwinFound]

I hear you. As a trans bi guy they keep emailing me updated agendas of world domination and degradation and I just can't keep up.

[@levibee9451]

Ikr I'm exhausted from all the race-mixing, inventing both communism and capitalism, and cucking the media.

[@kingangst233]

Clearly time travel when you get older?

[@Waspinmymind]

Hate abusive parents who go ‘since when where we the bad guys’ as if they didn’t make themselves villains in every interaction. Constantly making kids walk on eggshells in front of you. Means your kids don’t stick around you as they get older. None of these parents want to own up to that.

[@doe4003]

This, abusive parents or people in general LOVE to say stuff like "I'm always the bad guy!" and guilt trip you, despite the fact they've been emotionally, verbally, and or physically abusive.

[@nancyjay790]

Not wanting to generalize perse, but I have seen far too many parents take offence if their offspring didn't fulfill whatever role the parents imagined for the child, be it gender roles, career to survive the capitalism, educational path, religion, political beliefs, what have you. Being upset if your kid doesn't want to have kids, or wants to settle down with a long-term partner later in life. It's deliberately blurring the lines between a parent's protective instincts and the concept of controlling their choices because you decided what their life should be.

[@clancyalexander6192]

You're absolutely right. Absent the children to talk about it, the narrative the parents been is what people believe. My mother was a social worker at a nursing home and there were a number of residents there who were never visited by family even though they lived in town. The nurses were all furious that no one would come see these "poor people". Her comment was, "You don't know anything about what these people were like before they entered the facility. All you see is a helpless old man or old woman."

[@mitch-te5ss]

I know the feeling exceptionally well unfortunately. Abusive parents are a whole different kind of hell on earth.

[@Elkantar_Rostorgh231]

Cause all these parents are vile trash

[@SarastistheSerpent]

Only part way through the video so far, but as a cis person who was on a puberty blocker as a kid for adrenal hyperplasia in the early 2000s, I must say it’s very suspicious that these people only seem to care about blockers when they’re used to help trans kids, but never cared the last 30 years that they’ve been prescribed to cis kids with endocrine disorders. If they’re so concerned about their potential side effects, why weren’t they protesting and campaigning back in the late 80s when they were first approved as safe?

[@HiddenMongoose]

It's been used for years for cancer in adults and children; precocious puberty as well. People are just picking and choosing... as always. It truly shows their true colours when people care about one but not the other because it's popular.

[@stephanieok5365]

I heard you can also use them to delay growth plate fusion in folks who otherwise end up shorter than anticipated because your growth plates fused too early. I probably would have taken that option if it was offered when I was 10 but instead they were trying to push growth hormones. 💀

[@jodajoda2863]

I think that it's similar to how you never hear people bring up Messi when talking about the use of hormones in sports. He was on hormones because of a growth disorder as a kid. By the logic of transphobes, shouldn't he be banned from playing soccer since he wouldn't have naturally developed that way without hormones? He has an unfair advantage, there was literally a team of doctors monitoring his hormones to have them at the ideal level for his development. No other MLS soccer player that I know of has that advantage other than Messi. But, no. It only matters when it's trans people for some reason.

[@CraftyVegan]

I should have been on hormone blockers as a kid since I started puberty at 8. Still not sure why I wasn’t put on them 🤔

[@SarastistheSerpent]

⁠@@stephanieok5365yep, that’s exactly why I was on it. Precocious puberty from adrenal hyperplasia in boys causes growth plates and other bones to fuse prematurely. It results in shorter stature and can also result in kyphosis. I’m about 6 inches taller than I would’ve been had I not been on blockers, although I suspect having to go through puberty in kindergarten would’ve been much more traumatic for me than being unusually short as an adult. In girls, adrenal hyperplasia is much more serious, as it causes them not only to go through precocious puberty, but _male_ puberty.

[@marymac3572]

I went with a friend for their top surgery recently. They had already jumped through flaming hoops to even get scheduled for the surgery, and were reminded (very kindly) about the potential risks at least three times while we were waiting for them to be anesthetized. Where are people are getting these immediate, free, gender-affirming surgeries?

[@MilesMilesCrocodiles]

When they walk into a private clinic with top tier insurance and over a million dollars in their bank accounts.

[@marymac3572]

@@MilesMilesCrocodiles yeah, that doesn't work when doctors have to cover their asses for insurance purposes.

[@GatoGuapo]

​@@MilesMilesCrocodilesSounds like a rich "person" problem to me!

[@vexywexypoo]

A moldy basement in some Detroit crackhouse, probably.

[@falcon_arkaig]

Yeah lol. I've been out as a trans man to my Mom for around 5 years now. Even though we've mentioned this to my doctor, I have yet to medically transition. Haven't even gotten on hormones yet. It's too expensive.

[@Aogami20]

Imagine telling on yourself like this. I'm gonna make a movie about how my kid was taken away by DSS - a notoriously understaffed government body that routinely allows children to stay in abusive homes.

[@whatausernamethisis8893]

I mean, there are times when kids get taken away for BS reasons, and POC families are more likely to be the subject of bogus CPS cases. However, in general, someone has to really screw up to have their kid taken away. Social services hates splitting up families, and splitting up families is a last resort.

[@Acidfunkish]

Yeah, there was definitely a lot more going on behind the scenes than she was willing to admit in front of a camera. She knows it, her kids know it, and everyone close to the family knows it. None of us may ever know WHAT she did, but we all know that she is not the victim, in this story. Far from it.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

@@whatausernamethisis8893 They didn't even try to reach out to my other relatives and they banned my dad from visitation over the most BS reasons.

[@catsmom129]

@@Acidfunkish There are court records. They don’t tell you everything, but there’s public information about the abuse allegations. If you look up the mom’s name you can find it. I don’t remember the details but I’ve read it. They had reason to take him into foster care, and not just cuz mom wasn’t woke enough. 🙄😡

[@MarlenasFae]

Don't stereotype. Trans people can have bad taste in wigs. We don't all have guidance when our egg cracks🤷🏼

[@35thrat]

its me and my aliexpress wigs against this cold hard world

[@patrickpierce7886]

And I said, I critique with love ❤ About you peoples health and your own well-being you.

[@bocolatebhipbookie]

bad wigs can be a vibe ngl

[@angiep2229]

I'm positive you can find help for this. Don't give up!

[@syn010110]

oh god my wig was TERRIBLE, fortunately I didn't need to use it long before my hair grew without family forcing me to cut it

[@andrewjeffreys]

This movie is literally "Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong."

[@DebraKeyes-ib8rg]

Even the doctors have admitted the children are ignorant on the issue of transitioning.

[@SunsetCompass]

@@DebraKeyes-ib8rgSource? Or did you get that from your Facebook/Twitter echo chamber?

[@Waspinmymind]

@@DebraKeyes-ib8rgNo. Doctors have spoken throughly about giving kids hormone blockers. And talking about how transphobia kills children.

[@DebraKeyes-ib8rg]

@@Waspinmymind I guess you didn't see those wpath zoom meetings that say the children don't know the affects of the medication they are asking for or being potentially prescribed.. they said nothing about the medication saving anyone's life.

[@ratgurl1]

⁠@@DebraKeyes-ib8rgthat’s why informed consent exists- doctors explain the possible effects to minors and their guardians before administration. considering trans folks have the highest rates of su1cide, gender-affirming care is absolutely life saving

[@JanetDax]

I am 72 years old. I transitioned 35 years ago and I was (and still am) a Christian (No, I do not believe Christianity says anything against being Trans, only the haters.) No one influenced me. In fact, being Trans just wasn't a thing, and I had to do hard searches (pre Internet days) to find the medical and psychological data so I could completely understand what I was. I

[@lucasallen5792]

Good job living your life the way you feel is right hope have a lovely day

[@K.Marie119]

I haven't considered myself a Christian or even religious as a whole for quite a while now. However, I was raised in a pretty religious family' considering both my parents are pastors. Specifically,' they're ELCA pastors. I occasionally had a front row seat to watch how other denominations interpret and wield the same "source" material. Some are reaching so far their shoulders are going to dislocate. Also, being a medical student who has also taken GnRH agonists (sometimes called puberty blockers) for a completely different chronic illness just makes me even more upset because we have to put so much effort into countering the boogeyman these people have turned gender affirming care into.

[@DKdrop]

Mad respect. As a post-internet child, I can’t imagine how hard it must have been for you to research that, and how much of a struggle it must have been for you to transition. I’m so glad that you made it.

[@poormanchemist]

This is unrelated but the sudden cutoff is hilarious to me 😂

[@voltijuice8576]

Honestly - that drives me spare! I am not a Christian, but I’ve read their bible before, so have always been well aware that it doesn’t say _anything_ about being transgender. Contemporary reactionary issues like abortion, gun control, etc aren’t supported by the bible, so IMO should not be recognized nor protected as religious beliefs. It is simply political agenda hiding being a shield of religion to avoid accountability.

[@invaderskooge7432]

It frustrates me to no end when people pretend trans and nb people are a new fad. IIRC there’s literally a mythological figure that is neither male nor female who assists Ishtar in Mesopotamian myth, Mesopotamia being the oldest known human civilization.

[@animeotaku307]

Not to mention several cultures that have/had more than two genders, including pre-colonial Hindus, the Bugis in Indonesia, the Sakalava in Madagascar, and many North American Indigenous groups. It may not be fully equal for them, but their existence was at least acknowledged and given some level of respect.

[@falcon_arkaig]

Have legit heard people say that Transgender people have only existed since 2010. You heard that currently, they think transness has only existed for 13 years. As if they've never heard of Stonewall, or the fact that the word "Transgender" was invented in the 1970's, furthermore the word "Transsexual" was a word to describe trans people way before that. They think that when THEY first heard about it is when it started existing.

[@luthientinuviel3883]

For real!!! I was just researching queer publications in the 70s and 60s and trans folks were there!!! Trans ppl have existed for a long time, even though the terms we use now werent used then, they definitely existed.

[@devonmunn5728]

​@@animeotaku307 and the Fa'afafine of Samoan culture

[@HelmordOkrutnik]

Also the concept of hermaphrodite existing already during ancient Greece times

[@Chillaxes]

"Ill never be like my brother" sounds more like " my parents will never respect me the way they respect my cis brother"

[@cartergomez5390]

I agree 💯 as a trans guy, I don't approve of transitioning kids, it sounds like brainwashing by adults

[@AlgernontheWizard]

It always blows my mind that people don't realize that the John money study shows the opposite of there point that you can't force someone to be another gender.

[@AlgernontheWizard]

Like doesn't that prove that we can't trans your kids. Because they would reject it?

[@whofan1212]

exactly! like it shows that your gender is integral to you@@AlgernontheWizard

[@katanah3195]

Yep. That man comes across very similar to stories of trans men. As I read the story the first time, I was just thinking, this proves gender is innate and being trans is what happens when it doesn't match up to birth sex, all this study proved is if you misassign someone's gender, you'll have a trans person on your hands. Which isn’t revolutionary information and certainly did not need to be studied in this horrible way.

[@pjaypender1009]

Yes exactly. It doesn't prove their point, it proves ours. Your gender is your gender, and no amount of influence can change it. All you'll succeed in doing if you force it is creating suicidality.

[@Gingerblaze]

@@whofan1212 it demonstrated that sex is integral and can not be changed.

[@clairefaye8409]

I transitioned as an adult in my 40's. It was difficult coming out to my mother. She told me then "You wanting to change your name is tearing my heart in two."

[@CorwinFound]

I hear you. For obvious reasons we focus on queer youth because coming out can directly affect their safety (financial and physical) if they have unsupportive parents. But it can be tough even as an adult. When I first came out 3.5 years ago as a trans guy, my mom told me I'd always be her daughter, would never use different pronouns, etc etc. And she is a very liberal person generally. An added pressure is the knowledge that you are or soon will be a fundamental support for your unaccepting parent. If I were to walk out on my relationship with my mom, at 81, this would have huge negative impacts for her health and well-being. Luckily she's largely come around after several years, but what if she hadn't? I'd be in a position between deciding between my mental health and her physical health. A bit of a rant. It's not something I've ever talked about and apparently I needed to get it out.

[@Spamhard]

And yet I bet she'd have loved it if your name was changed via marriage.

[@Neo.Jordon]

What makes you a man?

[@sammymitchell3990]

"you being more worried about a name than your child tears my heart in two" I hate what your mom said it's so selfish

[@Neo.Jordon]

@@sammymitchell3990 definitely more worried about the child thinking they are another gender....do you have experience with human beings? They always perfectly articulate themselves, you know.

[@lorenzwinterhoff8049]

"When did parents become enemy number 1?" When some parents are their own children's first bullies, that's when.

[@kylereese4822]

Yea like LEELAH ALCORN`S parents abused her...

[@Kaivey]

Poetry

[@nikogarcia201]

Parents are literally the most common culprit when it come to sexual and physical abuse toward kids. And sadly, they are the most protected abusers.

[@Neo.Jordon]

How much drugs and surgeries does it take to be yourself? They lying to you

[@angelainamarie9656]

Basically when said parents are part of the conservative cult

[@insainbassist]

I sure wish I could get pushed through that surgery pipeline. 5 years in and I still can't access any surgeries.

[@romana34]

My child is 15 years old, autistic, and nonverbal, and they have clearly and articulately,with their device , declared what gender they are, and how they identify. my child is brilliant and talented and knows who they are. It makes me so sad and sick to see people treat autistic and trans people as if they don’t know who they are!

[@aliasname2618]

This is horrifically disgusting, you should be ashamed of yourself.

[@_smOj]

Nice job at parenting man. Children should be treated like people, no matter who they are. I saw the other person in these replies being weird, so I decided to come in and say you’re doing a great job ❤

[@romana34]

@_smOj thank you!

[@AgentofChaos315]

"Anti-trans propaganda made by a cult" Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

[@DanielForrester]

I am here to say this.

[@luv4hutch]

Specifically, the Epoch Times is owned and run by the Falun Gong, which also owns and runs Shen Yun.

[@purplepedantry]

​@@luv4hutch OF COURSE IT'S THEM.

[@joshuaolsoncook]

“Come join us for fruit punch, Waldo.” But yeah, stay away from cults, folks.

[@MorgenPeschke]

Fair 🤣 My first thought when I saw the title was, "Ladyballers again?" Looks like Jessie was being a bit more literal with the term "cult" than I expected 😅

[@opaljk4835]

The trailer comes off as “children should be obedient and “normal” and they aren’t being obedient OR “normal”! this must go all the way to the top!”

[@rivershard2272]

Wait, the subject of that “documentary” was a real trans man, through the eyes of his unsupportive mother, who is still happily trans and wasn’t involved in any way? How is this legal??

[@stephanieok5365]

That was my thought too, then I hit the last 20 min of the video --- "usually messed up parents wait until their kid is dead to put out a narrative asserting a fictional cis kid over their actual trans ki---oh" :-(

[@stephanieok5365]

Kid has to pass on first before you can truly dead name them as a parent. 👀

[@poormanchemist]

@@stephanieok5365Just went to fact check this-unfortunately-you’re right. Andrew died by suicide.

[@EmoBearRights]

RIP Andrew - it's a shame your mum was too brainwashed to be able to help you and is helping condemn others.

[@mitch-te5ss]

Rest in peace Andrew you deserved the world.. Its a tragedy we hear from his abuser instead of him. But I guess, that's the life of a trans man summed up pretty well, isn't it?

[@geo-fry6372]

I swear, people who complain about what’s happening in schools have never stepped foot in a public school in their life. That scene about talking about gender identity on the first day of middle school was freaking hilarious in how bad a portrayal of school it is

[@louisesumrell6331]

I was born in 1958. I knew that I was the wrong gender/sex as a toddler. A precocious child, I learned very quickly that I couldn't be myself. I escaped into reading...teaching myself to read when I was 3 thru 4 years old. I read the world book encyclopedia by the time I was 7, dragging an unabridged dictionary around the house... When I reached puberty the alcohol and drugs began. In 1993, out of the navy and divorced, I transitioned, MtoF. There was no "transgender lobby" or "transgender ideology".

[@MilesMilesCrocodiles]

The biggest, brightest, waviest RED flags is the Epoch logo at the top right. You see Epoch, run!!!

[@ZeroSum23]

Honestly the first Epoch Times ad I saw was immediately off-putting because an Epoch at its core is just "a period of time" and anybody who would name their news channel "The Time Times" isn't worth listening to.

[@llynxfyre]

I couldn't escape ads for Epoch for the longest time

[@MrPiccoloku]

They have billboards up in Milwaukee, which is probably intended as a threat. I can't fully register the flailing attempts to 419 a stochastic terror attack because they all look like an AI's idea of a Chinese company advertising in English. The signs are just a possibly-watercolor Nathan Felder face with the words "America's trusted news" or something like that over them on a flat yellow background.

[@cranberryrosebud]

@@ZeroSum23 You somehow managed to make them sound even more moronic, and that is a *feat*, congratulations

[@samanthagibson5791]

I dont like them taking a word like Epoch meaning a period of time and making it mean a cult. Things like that can affect the real use of the word

[@nomisunrider6472]

“They’re transing your kids into wearing bad wigs!”

[@mono90286]

Thanks so much for your generous contribution to the conversation by repeating something said in the video with no added commentary.

[@nomisunrider6472]

@@mono90286 I was expressing my appreciation of a good line. Isn’t approval part of the conversation?

[@doe4003]

​​@@mono90286Parroting back phrases you like or find interesting is a very common feature of human speech, some people actually encourage this because it "shows you're listening" like eye contact is supposed to and such.

[@tangimeme]

​@@mono90286 it's much more generous a contribution than negative, sarcastic, joy-sucking comments 🤷🏻‍♀️ It has a positive focus whereas your response is purely unnecessary negativity... It's so much easier to be decent or do nothing rather than go out of your way to make people feel worse 😅

[@sirreginaldthe8th182]

Help help we need gok wan to help out kids fashion tastes

[@pluckylump]

Abigail could have had her child still, and all she had to do was let go of her hate. It could have been so easy. Now her life is consumed by trying to make the horror she put her son through not monstrous. And these hateful Christofascists will exploit that with glee. They don't care about anything or anyone more than their own hate.

[@philippschwarz4539]

Chaya Raichik comes to mind. Her celebrating the death of Nex Benedict is so vile that I can't properly articulate my feelings.

[@Waspinmymind]

She willingly chooses control over the relationship with her son. I have no sympathy for such a vile woman.

[@angiep2229]

I like my kids alive, rather than miserably conforming to societal expectations. But that's literally just me, based on this "movie."

[@imafreddyfazballer]

rip to her son :(

[@Inhaledcorn]

They love their hate more than they love their child.

[@dougdimmadome9241]

The most insidious part of this deflective "parents are not the enemy" rhetoric is that parents and other trusted older family members are usually the perpetrators of child abuse, not strangers. Not saying all parents are abusive, but abusive parents love to emphasize the fact that they are parents as if it makes them innocent.

[@Gingerblaze]

If a child has suffered abuse at the hands of their parents they should have acceds to trauma therapy. No one should be transitioning under the effects of unresolved trauma.

[@stephanieemerik]

My step dad used to physically abuse me daily, most of the time for no reason, to the point id come home from school and hide in my room to avoid giving him a reason to kick the shit outta me. Mum knew it was happeneing and ignored it all or she was at work. She then claimed it was never that bad once i was an adult and denied it ever happened. Also denied that I 'showed signs'. Then wonders why i never talk to her.

[@dougdimmadome9241]

@@Gingerblaze This idea relies on the concept that persistent gender incongruence is inherently related to or somehow caused by abuse and/or trauma. There is no widely accepted scientific evidence to suggest this. Homophobes have also argued for centuries that abusive parental relationships "cause" same-gender attraction, and proponents of this kind of pseudoscience often focus specifically on the role of the father as the deciding factor in a child's sexual orientation or gender identity. Unfortunately, there are high rates of trauma and past or current abuse among *all* children and by extension all people. Again, part of what allows this to happen is the idea that parents all have good intentions for their children and cannot be the "bad guys", which is all I directly stated in my comment. Your reply also relies on the idea of trauma as something very black and white that is fully unresolved until it is fully resolved, and not as a gradual healing process. Things come to light during the healing process for all people, and some people find that even having a bit more clarity means becoming more aware of their gender incongruence. If you have two leaks in a silo, the smaller leak will become more serious as you patch the larger one up. Your mental energy has to go somewhere, and if an issue demands attention that will be where it goes.

[@actualgoblin]

​@@Gingerblaze therapy costs money. transitioning is free

[@dougdimmadome9241]

@@actualgoblin incorrect

[@RoseThePhoenix]

Multiple people: "You're abusing your child and you need to stop before something bad happens." This mother: "I know better than all of you combined, up to and including the child in question! I will continue on this path!" (Something bad happens) This mother: "Everyone who warned me of this outcome is to blame for it!"

[@godzillavkk]

She only has herself to blame.

[@RoseThePhoenix]

@@godzillavkk You have correctly understood my point

[@anonymouse8124]

Reminds me of the way people warning of the climate crisis are treated at times. Or Covid back during the height of the pandemic. Or racism in modern day America. This phenomenon of blame reflexively put on the messenger, the person speaking up, rather than the actual cause of the underlying problem being warned about, is intersectional. Perhaps that's because to the lizard brain, the person making it aware of a danger is somehow so proximate that it must be the cause, and some folks don't have the ability to question that assumption.

[@BrigitteEmpire]

At the rate these movies are being made it’s only a matter of time before we get TERF: The Musical

[@mariaaguadoball3407]

I don't know whether to laugh or recoil in horror.

[@swishfish8858]

We should make it, before they get a chance to. Because come ON, why waste such an amazing title on hateful propaganda?!

[@Skaði]

It'll probably have JK as the lead, victim and hero. I don't think i'll ever be ready for that..

[@amysteriousstranger1221]

Dear god

[@ayyyyph2797]

Coming to a megachurch near Texas, or really any of the Southern states

[@adrianomaly1760]

Oh no,, the bad vibes off the fact the “film” is by Epoch… Related: I recently made friends with a person who told me that they had detransitioned and we had a very earnest conversation about how stories like theirs are used to invalidate other trans people’s transitions. I think it’s important that people should have the ability to change their bodies. Detransition is literally an example of why it should be accessible, rather than not.

[@CutYourBangs9]

Very important point. It's so short-sighted when people use detransition as an attempt to validate their transphobia. In a society with less hostility towards gender non-conformity, it would just be... a normal life thing that some people go through. Because that's all it is. And you're absolutely right about accessibility helping people transition AND detransition. Legislating away and making a taboo of gender queerness does not help anybody.

[@kat021171]

The vast majority of detransitioners I've met have been HUGE proponents of gender-affirming care. Like for every Chloe or Prisha there's 100 who are supportive of gender-affirming care. And that's the TRUE untold story of detransition.

[@gateauxq4604]

I cringe whenever a detrans video pops up in my homepage because there’s still a chance that it’s an honest video about one person’s story about why it wasn’t for them and not about ‘trans bad’

[@passionneal7777]

As a christian, if an ex Christian came to me and told me why they didn't believe in God anymore, I would listen. I would listen bc even though they have a negative view on God, their voice and frustrations deserve to be heard. I would also agree that everything is not always peachy and sunshine with God. In the lgbt community, the only people will listen to are the people talking good about what you believe in. To you guys, there is nothing negative that could come from being lgbt/transitioning. That's really bad you won't listen to the people who are hurting after going through with everything . You just right them off like they don't exist. If you did the opposite, maybe detransitioners wouldn't run off to right-wing ppl.

[@rainkidwell2467]

​@@passionneal7777so someone else's lack of faith would destroy your own faith?

[@ShieldofApollo]

Oh, I'm sorry. I just had a flashback to the last time my mother told me that I was a tree and that I was going to grow in the way she wanted, even if that meant she was going to break me down.

[@Synth-G]

I am so sorry that happened to you, that is genuinely horrifying and I hope you can or have gotten away from her. Hang in there.

[@joannacole681]

Sympathies! That sounds... terrible. I must assume that, like most trees, you defied that attempt and have grown strong enough to post it here. Wild trees are the best, and the ones that grow through awful attempts to coppice and pollard can be the most interesting and among the strongest. Hoping you are growing wild and free already!

[@ShieldofApollo]

Okay, I never thought that comment would get replies here. It's just that the way they spoke about how much control these parents have over their children hit me hard, and it reminded me of that line my mom always told me growing up. So, I want to share what this kind of parent says. Also, I am trying to deal with a copying tool that is not "Out of date" as it was. I avoid things. I try to not let myself feel uncomfortable. So, I had to write it so I could look at it and be able to say. Yay, that was a form of emotional abuse. I am still living with my parents as I am several disabled. Still, I am finally getting disability, which, strangely enough, may mean I can go into a group home where I can finally get independence. But I am doing well. I have a group of people who care for me. I have people who accept me and see me as a whole person, not just my flaws.

[@Synth-G]

@@ShieldofApollo I'm glad you have people who care and are looking out for you, hopefully you can get into that home and away from your mom, and hopefully that will make the healing a bit easier.

[@ExtremeWreck]

That's also disrespectful to plants. They should be actually taken care of, not controlled or else they'll die.

[@tobyhowe5554]

1:16 "Please- you are so not woke!" I had to pause and laugh. If there's ever a sign that a writer lives in their own bubble, its when they unironically imagine progressive types seriously labeling themselves and their standards with terms like "woke" and "politically correct"!

[@Montesama314]

Conservative propaganda movies love their exaggerated strawmen liberals or atheists.

[@devonmunn5728]

It's a very common thing for conservatives to mash up basic liberal talking points, radical leftists beliefs and stereotypes all under the "radical" left

[@princeapoopoo5787]

God this is so true, to the point that I put off watching a video from a liberal channel solely because I was put off by their use of the word woke in the title. Liberals unironically using the word woke are as rare as unicorns!

[@Sophie_Cleverly]

As someone who's had a lot of surgeries (I have Crohn's disease) - the idea of a surgeon saying "nah, there's no risk" is hilarious 😂 Every time I've ever had a surgery, even the most minor ones, there has been a giant list of potential risks and side effects that I have to read through and sign off on.

[@PhantomHalf]

As a shackled taino it burns my soul thinking about how different my island would be if the spanish ships just sank. I despise Columbus so much

[@cattiston374]

Boricua no-binarie presente 😤! Si mano te entiendo, me puse a leer “La guerra contra los Puertoriquenos” y no pude terminarlo…. Hacho me deprimió tanto :c

[@SteamPowrdNaturalist]

I’m so sorry for what happened to the Taino. 😢

[@jannecapelle_art]

"when did parents become enemy nr. 1?" uuuh you wouldnt be enemy nr. one if you would just be supportive of your children like. just be good parents its not that hard you guys.....

[@khill8645]

But "just be good parents" doesn't center _their_ feelings, and they won't stand for it!

[@nomisunrider6472]

“When did parents become enemy number one” like they haven’t been harassing trans supportive parents and sometimes literally stripping them of custody for decades for the crime of letting their kids be who they are. Rules for me but not for thee.

[@passionneal7777]

​@nomisunrider6472 What the hell are you talking about?😂 Kids who identify as xyz are being taken away from their parents if the parents don't comply. You don't see anything wrong with calling parents the enemy simply bc they don't support lgbt? You're just going to throw all that parental love out the window? What about all the times they fed them, clothed them, took them to the doctor/took care of them when they were sick, protected them? That all means nothing the moment they disagree. Your brainwashed bro

[@jackriver8385]

45:15 my actual therapist told me multiple times that she wasn't qualified to talk about my gender dysphoria, and at some point she said she really couldn't help me anymore, because so many of my mental health issues came from dysphoria. That's how mental health professionals discuss that, they don't tell people to be trans, wtf.

[@MDArts666]

I wish I had a high school LGBT+ club that was like a secret Mason Lodge lmao. We weren’t allowed a queer club so we all went to the anime club

[@arir43]

In the USA the GSA (Gender-Sexuality Alliance) and similar clubs should be protected under the Constitution, if extracurriculars in general are allowed.

[@jessjohnson998]

The autism thing is such trash, I'm AuDHD and gnc, I do interact with other lgbt folks on the spectrum, and none of us had exactly the same self discovery journey- but we all agree we were never considered normal anyways so discovering our queerness wasn't as big of a step out of bounds as it is for NTs. I'm confident that when this is investigated by real researchers it'll turn out that autistic people are LGBT+ at such high rates because we QUESTION social norms and don't always even get why some of them exist.

[@jaycewood7071]

I relate to the fake Evelyn soooo much. Restrictions on phones, internet, friends, opinions, religion, and more. The whole, “you’re a child, you don’t get to decide.” The attitude that your parent OWNS you and birthed you and thus gets to decide your identity and expression. I even had a conversation with my mum at one point in highschool where she expresses that changing my name was insulting her and ignoring my god-given, I ate biological identity. She, fully knowing the extreme guilt I felt over many things (like not finishing food, or spending DAYS planning out a text) told me that I would be a horrible person for not liking my dead name. I’ve even had CPS called on me at one point. It’s almost uncanny honestly…

[@Valfara770]

Fortunately, you are still there! So that is a big plus in my eyes! And I hope your life now is way better!

[@MrCarsonChicago]

I had the same unfortunate upbringing coming out as gay to my mother. Everything is ok when you follow their path for you, but when you inevitably don't, it just breaks something in those kinds of people. Still, it always breaks my heart learning these kinds of stories.

[@goofballcartoonist7848]

*Evan, or Andrew, not Evelyn. That's his deadname. Edit: I agree with everything else you wrote. My parents both talk like this to me(I am a young adult). I came out to my mom as non-binary late last year, and though she didn't outright deny it (and even shared some stories of her friends who also questioned their gender identity before concluding that they were cis), she told me to continue questioning, but most importantly to not "flaunt" my gender identity. As in, don't tell the rest of my family, especially not my grandparents(her parents) because "they would not understand". I don't identify as transgender. She has argued with me on many other things, like having rights in "her" house, because she is "the parent" and so has privileges that I, the child, do not have because I am not "the parent". Almost as if she's encouraging teenage pregnancy. My sister is treated similarly, arguably even worse being the oldest, and my brother, who is autistic and the youngest, gets regular preferential treatment and is CONSTANTLY infantilized even though he's almost a teenager. What actually happened is that she asked me if I was non-binary because both my (former) roommates at the time were non-binary and that was basically what inadvertently led to a really bad situation - I was assaulted with a pocket knife by one of my roommates, who was AMAB non-binary, which my dad now uses to push transphobia stating that they were a "guy who asked to live with girls". My parents maintain that because they didn't know that one of my roommates would be "a guy" if they did, they would never have allowed me to live with this person(I was assaulted on literally the first full day away from home but was too scared to tell my mom until a month later because I knew she'd get mad at ME, and I was correct. my dad still doesn't know the full story even though he regularly shares HIS account of it). The weird thing about that was that my ex-roommate is a complete psycho, who alongside having a weird fondness for knives, gore, dead animal jokes, and continues to creep on femme people, is also OVERLY FRIENDLY AND ACTUALLY WON OVER MY PARENTS ON THE FIRST DAY OF MOVE-IN, leading to my dad being completely okay with me being left alone with them and even stating as such! Sucks that some trans people are utterly horrible people. My other former roommate is also trans but AFAB which my dad also ignores and continues to misgender. I've unfortunately lost contact with him now but during that entire situation we were very close. Another fun anecdote is that when I first started to question my gender identity, I was also struggling with (undiagnosed) depression, which led me to almost end my own life in 2020, and my parents continue to deny that that situation happened. Also ignoring the fact that also around that time I cut my own hair as short as I wanted it for the first time and gradually started to recover. She chalked that up to having "anger issues" as a teenager which was solved by regularly talking to a school social worker who, unbeknownst to my mom, actually respected my identity. I'm now in university and on basically no-contact with my dad and low-contact with my mom.

[@sirreginaldthe8th182]

The thing that gets me is when they "corporation"...... please tell me what corporation is actually saying supportive stuff about transgender issues.

[@swishfish8858]

It comes from the very same information source as literally every other factoid they know about anything - cable TV and whatever Ted posted on FaceBook. Companies putting trans flags in commercials, working with trans celebrities, and not taking every chance they get to demonize and attack "the enemy". If you're not explicitly with them (emphasis on "explicitly", since every single one of these boneheads needs everything spelled out for them) then you're against them.

[@CorwinFound]

No doubt! Would love for government, corporations, and billionaires to be as LGBTQ+ positive as these weirdos say they are.

[@sirreginaldthe8th182]

@@CorwinFound but it's so beyond how a far right group would think lol . Remember obey the government lok

[@levibee9451]

Also are they hiring? Please I need a job.

[@teal_m_101]

Corporations only care about profit, not the social issues. If the US still had apartheid, corporations wouldn't even consider hiring a black person into anything beyond minimum wage because they can get away with it publicly. They're not the spreaders of "woke ideology", they're just trying to keep a smile on their face. It's why I hate how prevalent the idea of "wokeness" is when it comes to media discourse. Whenever bad writing involves anyone who does not fit the conservative worldview, it's explained as "wokeness", this intangible nothingness that blames poor quality on those people. A poorly written female protagonist in a movie or video game will be called woke, even if the problem is their characterization, and this extends to ethnicity, sexuality, gender, disabilities, neurotypes, etc.. Even themes or storyline are thrown in. Sure, they'll also blame corporate greed, but any media that give anyone who doesn't fit the norm the time of day becomes "woke" and thus inherently bad. It's gotten to the point where, even if it doesn't make sense in the game world, women must be conventionally attractive woman (sex appeal included) or be classed as "woke". Bigots have even started associating characters who don't fit their standards with being transgender. However, it does nothing to improve the writing itself, it's just discouragement. The other thing is, corporations don't need to care about good writing if they can get away with it. Look at Disney. They get flak for being "woke", partly due to the low quality of Marvel movies and shows as of late, including ones with female protagonists. However, they've also been criticized for cancelling shows, despite their popularity, which have well-liked queer characters, and sometimes restrict what creators and writers can involve when it comes to LGBTQ+ characters and themes. Moreover, if Disney actually cared about the social issues they like to claim to, the best thing they could do is not treat them like cash-grabs or quotas, but give time and effort to give characters and whom they represent some real justice. Moreover, Disney cares very little for its workers and is very anti-unionist, since Walt Disney himself. These things are seldom, if ever, talked about by right-wing pundits because they couldn't care less. They have no problem with the fact Disney makes money, they have a problem with Disney reminding them that people exist who don't fit within the mould of their ideal, dystopian society. TL:DR Corporations care about money, they do not care about society, and if they could, they would treat people worse. (Sorry for the essay. This is just a massive gripe of mine)

[@AndreaMusso99]

Me before opening the video:" ah strange, Jessie returned to talk about that god awful docu-movie made by Matt Walsh?... wait what do you mean there's ANOTHER ONE?"

[@DanielForrester]

I assumed it was a review of ack Lady ballers.

[@SarastistheSerpent]

@@DanielForresterLady Ballers was supposed to be a documentary originally, until they found out that men being in women’s sports, one of the main topics the right has been fear mongering about for years now, isn’t actually a thing. You have to adhere to extremely strict phenotypical prerequisites in order to be allowed to compete in women’s sports, which men cannot. Trans women sometimes can because they spend years medically transitioning.

[@sarafontanini7051]

there's also a detransitioning documentary too that's hevailly on the side of the far right's transphobia. Menaing there's at LEAS three anti-trans documentaries made by far rigthers.

[@AlienLiyzard]

i thought she was going to talk about prageru's detransitioning "documentary". it's odd and gross seeing how many "documentary" films exist now that are about appealing to transphobia.

[@RubberTag]

Why do you think Matts video about this topic is bad? I think it had a lot of good points, like the head message that none of these trans advocates can answer, a simple question as "What is a woman?"

[@Overseer2579]

As an autistic person, the fact that some transphobes are seriously wielding our neurodivergence as a pillar for their ill-informed transphobia makes my f***ing blood boil

[@stephanieemerik]

Because they frame being adhd or austisic as us being dumber than them. Like a low functioning "the good doctor", that can possiblydo anything for ourselves. When in reality it just means were not good in social situations or boring situations. Most of the neurodivergent people ive met are usually extremely smart in their fields interest and tend to deal with it very well.

[@cosmicspacething3474]

It’s the whole vaccines thing all over again…

[@cassmacdonald-perfectlyimp2486]

Same, never mind the fact that I didn’t come out as NB as well until I was WELL into my 40s, although I had gender dysphoria at the onset of puberty. There could be something in autism and non-binary trans agendas, but I don’t know. But I’m sick of their using us while at the same time being utterly ableist

[@StopProject2025]

I second that

[@literallyap0tat0-q7q]

​​@@stephanieemerikit's especially infuriating because, in my experience people with that attitude tend to be as dumb as rocks.

[@RedVanBuskirk]

I think the reason that there's a high-percentage of gender non-conformance in the autistic community is because, unlike allistic ppl, autistic individuals are less inclined to just roll with things that don't make sense to them, and conformity to binary genders is something that just inherently doesn't make sense.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Parents be like: “Is it my fault that I didn’t provide an enabling, gender-neutral environment that I could participate in and maybe support my child through the s**t sandwich called life? OF COURSE NOT! Mobiles and Social Media ruined everything.”

[@stephanieok5365]

I definitely read this comment in the Principal Skinner voice. 👀

[@intrusive-th0t]

You mean like Jazz Jennings’ mom, who said Jazz couldn’t wear dresses to school because dresses weren’t for boys?

[@intrusive-th0t]

Jeanette Jennings literally wouldn’t let Jazz wear dresses to school before Jazz transitioned but ok

[@brookejon3695]

"My child can't be different from how I want them to be. Someone must have done this to my poor innocent baby. Someone evil, possibly Semitic, who definitely worships Satan."

[@cass7448]

How dare other people tell my child life can be better!

[@fredmon18]

Is it wrong that I report the epoch times ads as harmful content? I don't want to over-react, but this stuff is seriously harmful

[@ItRemindMeOfHome]

Keep up the good work

[@Hg-jy3tb]

Naw id say ur assessment is accurate

[@stephanieok5365]

I do too. The fact that it plays on channels that are queer/queer adjacent feels particularly harassing to viewers. Why pay for ad space that hits your target audience when you can intimidate the subjects of your hit pieces instead? 🤔

[@stephanieok5365]

I also hate seeing Noom ads on dietician channels that address disordered eating for similar reasons. 💀

[@AJ-wh1tw]

I do the same every time.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

“When did parents become Enemy Number One?” Ma’am, when you say it in a defensive tone, just take the hint.

[@TheNefariousFox]

That moment when people who actually care about civil rights made the statement: "you do not own your kids." Parents are the number one danger to children. Bar none.

[@nikogarcia201]

@@TheNefariousFoxNo kidding. Kids are more like to be abused and harmed by their own family than any strangers. Kids naturally trust their parents. This trust can easily be abused. But society bias toward parents led us this false belief that every parents know what’s best for their children and love them unconditionally. Sadly, it’s not always the case.

[@thatblerdoverthereb9654]

Of course I have no way of knowing what he went through with his mother, or what its like to live in a youth care facility, but if it WASN'T abusive, he would have pleaded to come back home. She gives "I wasn't abusive, I didn't beat you and chain you in the basement", every day must have been a living hell mentally. Imagine having your abuser telling your story. RIP.

[@prestonbruchmiller497]

It breaks my heart, I’m sure he’s rolling in his grave

[@andreanguyenle404]

I'm a cis woman who crossdresses and I think I have that same wig in a different color. If it _is_ the same wig, then yes, I can confirm, it is terrible.

[@lorenzwinterhoff8049]

Growing up I went to a bilingual school (1980s/90s). When we learned about masculine and feminine in French, I always put down the masculine for myself and the teacher always marked it wrong. I was AFAB, but actually Intersex and trans masculine. My situation was such that verbalizing my feelings was a NOT HAPPENING situation, so I accepted the feminine and went on. I transitioned in my 30s and have felt comfortable in myself ever since.

[@Neo.Jordon]

They aren't talking about your personality when saying masculine and feminine, they are referencing your sex. You could be as masculine as possible, but it dosent determine your gender, your sex does.

[@kanjonojigoku8644]

​​@@Neo.Jordon you're soooo obsessed with trans people it's crazy, like I know we're fucking hot and amazing but like relax bucko

[@lorenzwinterhoff8049]

​@@Neo.Jordon DUDE, I AM INTERSEX I HAVE NO SEXUAL ORGANS. MY GENETIC KARYOTYPE IS 45XO I literally don't have a medical sex diagnosis. The only reason I was called a girl was convenience because the doctors couldn't make a determination after a MONTH of testing on me as an infant. My PARENTS were told to choose for me and they got it wrong! Sexuality and Gender are two different vectors entirely. My sex is and has always been neutral. I don't even have GONADS (in laymans terms I can't make sperm or eggs, I don't even have the structures) to produce the right hormones. You might have heard of the 40 Year old Virgin? Well, I was a 30 year old pre-pubescent adult. MY GENDER IS NOT IN MY PANTS, BECAUSE THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING IN MY PANTS. Biologically, SCIENTIFICALLY AND MEDICALLY, we know that hormones wash through the uterus 3 different times during pregnancy, pushing three different vectors of gender and sexual identity. (Handy source info for your uninformed little brain www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681519/ very respectable institution of medical knowledge, not wikipedia btw) Each seperate wash determines presentation of something different. Namely one wash influences SEXUAL PRESENTATION, one wash determing GENDER, and a third entirely seperate one determines SEXUAL ATTRACTION. MOST people are aligned to their sexual and gender preferences without needing to alter it. Some people don't fit the mold and you need to LEARN that WHO PEOPLE TELL YOU THEY ARE IS NOT GOVERNED BY YOUR PETTY BELIEFS OR A SINGLE APPENDAGE THEY HAPPEN TO HAVE IN THEIR PANTS. My gender is not stored in my pants, my gender is seated in my mind, in the same place my soul resides, because it's my soul that determines my gender, not whether I have a proding stick or curtains. My soul is male, I am male. Also, didn't anyone teach you that it's rude to tell people their wrong without knowing THE F you are talking about? The Human species is sexually a bimodal distribution, look it up, we are not two types, but rather a spectrum. If we only had two boxes, you wouldn't be able to brag about your tiny D because it would be the same damned size for everyone who has one. We are sexually dimorphic and bimodal as a species. Ask anyone with a biological understanding beyond highschool and they will tell you so.

[@WinningSidekick]

​@@Neo.Jordon What, in French? So the French use the masculine and feminine forms to refer to the biological sex of whatever they're referring to? Good to know that cars are actually all biologically female!

[@rainkidwell2467]

​@@Neo.Jordonyour sex does not determine your gender, that's not how those systems work

[@leosmith7511]

As a trans-person who's been grappling with parental emotional trauma and religious trauma, hearing "parental ownership" and the discussion that followed hit me like a brick. Both of my parents said "how could you do this to me" when I came out, as tho it had ANYTHING to do with them. I had to keep my beard shaved or my father would get verbally abusive of my mother until she told me to shave. I'm realizing more and more that to them, I was a possession, a thing they kept to increase their prestige as humans and that everything I did or said was a reflection on them and their worth. Nevermind my feelings, my needs, my thoughts or desires, no. I had so many dreams crushed by them. When it came to my transition, I decided that by gods I was the arbiter of my life and could chart my own destiny. I fought on my own for every step forward, their weight trying to hold me back with insults, negativity, "you'll regret doing...", etc. I persisted. And I have 0 regrets.

[@Neo.Jordon]

Are you using trans identity as a scapegoat to not be the person who was traumatized? You're fine without changing your body, your inner self needs to heal before making drastic changes. Not the other way around.

[@guggelguggel7491]

​@@Neo.JordonI... Genuinely cant tell what you're trying to say.

[@leosmith7511]

@@Neo.Jordon Part of healing myself *was* my transition. And besides, if we waited until we were perfectly healed inside to make any drastic changes, we'd never move forward. Change begets change begets change, and healing happens along the way. I wouldn't be even piecing myself together again were it not where my journey has brought me. I know you don't say this out of genuine concern, just a misguided idea of what you think is right. If that works for you, grand. But you're not me, and I'm not you. I don't regret a single decision I've made in regards to my personal growth, healing, and the journey that brought me there. Hells, I wish I could have done it sooner.

[@Neo.Jordon]

@@leosmith7511 My first question, are you running away from your original identity as a healing process? That's not healthy. Life sucks, let me be someone else? No one said healing and living your life would be easy. But if gender dysphoria didnt develop in early childhood for you, what exactly is going on here? This doesn't happen later on in life, it's nothing to do with masculine or feminine traits, or feeling comfortable. Were you ever confused or offended as a very young child as to why a person called you a girl? Did you think you would naturally turn into a grown man as a child? Child confusion on self, can lead to gender dysphoria. How did you come to the conclusion, you're a Man?

[@cheeto.burrito]

​​@@Neo.JordonTry asking but without all of the extremely wrong preconceived notions about who that one stranger on the Internet is based on a few paragraphs about their life. Right now, you just look like you're trying to start a fight.

[@threeofeight197]

That surgery scene was wild. “No, no risks. Let’s just get the show on the road bro”. Our medical system won’t let you do shit without signing all kinds of waivers proving that you know the risks.

[@darkstarr984]

Oh and they also won’t do it while you’re on certain medications and not within certain times before or after any surgery, and if you have an illness that may necessitate emergency surgery, you are encouraged to write out instructions of what will happen in the event of being sick *and they still talk you through it and get consent if at all possible*

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

Telling that Mrs Martinez spends the whole time telling this story of her child being manipulated into being trans, but then she turns around and says, "Then I started affirming my child's gender -- but only to lure them back home so I could mold them into the gender I want them to be." She never did see her child as being his own person, did she? Just a football being jostled about between two teams, as if his ceasing to be under her control simply meant he was under someone else's now.

[@EtruskenRaider]

I want to emphasize how even in their hyper dramatized version, “Evan” sounds extremely reasonable in wanting his emotional needs met by his mother and the mom keeps dismissing him. This is the most favorable light they can put themselves in and it’s still weird and creepy.

[@elena_1776]

If any of these people spent 2 seconds actually talking to trans people in good faith they'd know that this imaginary world where teachers are super supportive of trans people and just really love it when their students are trans and everyone can get gender affirming medical care 10 minutes after coming out is a f-cking fantasy. My little brother was misgendered and deadnamed by his teacher deliberately and repeatedly to the point my mom had to take him out of that school, and based on actual conversations with actual trans people that I've had, that's a far more common story.

[@oliver_twistor]

I don't get why some people deadname trans people. Do they also call cispeople by the wrong name just for fun? If a cisman presents himself as Robert but says he wants me to call him Bobby, I don't proceed and call him Wilbur. I would like to think that most people would find that very disrespectful, so why do some people do it to trans people? Same with misgendering people. How incredibly disrespectful, arrogant and self-centered. I tried it with one transphobe, a cisman who I repeatedly referred to as a woman with a female sounding name. He didn't understand my point, he just got very angry.

[@EebyDeeby413]

@@oliver_twistor I feel like it's pretty simple. They think being 'right' about 'biology' (getting rid of the Deviants) takes precedent over basically everything else including common decency. It's okay to misgender a trans person because they're lying about being that gender so if you just play opposite day with whatever gender they say they are, you're just being 'truthful' and how they feel doesn't matter (which is why they shut down and just call gender itself stupid or throw a tantrum and say you're a delusional [man/woman] if you say you're genderfluid and use any pronouns, because they have nothing about your identity they can pick on directly). Meanwhile a cis person isn't 'lying' so this doesn't work. You're not refusing to play along with a 'liar', you're just being antagonistic, so it's rude. Which is an unbelievably stupid way of looking at the issue.

[@guggelguggel7491]

​@@oliver_twistor Thats almost more self telling innit? "When I use the wrong name for you/trans people, and you get angry I win the argument/own the libs or whatever, but if you use the wrong name for me you're just childish/argumentative, its not the same". Fucking bastards.

[@Gingerblaze]

Take your kids out of schools and teach them at home.

[@actualgoblin]

​@@Gingerblaze yknow, when i was in school, other parents would demand that my mom start homeschooling me, bc they didn't like that my mom let me have long hair. like literally thought my hair length was "corrupting" and "confusing" THEIR pure (white) children. This is the same thing all over again fr

[@Joshuaraymalan]

Meanwhile, it states like mine, affirming your kid's identity could get you charged with child abuse, and teachers openly talk about Christian-god in school, proving the sincerity with which they support my preferences as a parent 😒.

[@SarastistheSerpent]

Literal Christofascism

[@CorwinFound]

Parental rights.... for those who believe in the "correct" ideologies.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

I'm not non-binary because I have autism or somebody brainwashed me into being it. I am it simply because I am. I sick of the right spreading dangerous false information about our community. And my message to cis people "we do not want to hurt you all we ever wanted was to live and be the people we truly are." And I'm going to make a promise to you Jessie "I promise you that the rest of my life will be dedicated to fight bigotry like this." I hate that you had to make a video like this but you did a great job doing it.

[@introusas]

Being non-binary is heavily linked to autism, but not for the reasons those idiots think. Their brains are too simple to comprehend the concept of being neurodivergent and/or non-binary. It’s always the least educated who talk the loudest.

[@PosiWritesStories]

I’m non-binary and autistic so the idea that non-binary identity is caused by autism is offensive on both fronts. Not only are people saying my identity is illegitimate, they’re also implying it’s illegitimate because there’s something actively wrong with my brain. The insidious link between queerphobia and ableism is VERY real. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, fellow enbies!

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

​@@PosiWritesStories Thanks for your Thanks my friend - you are unfortunate right

[@FiveAlive95]

I also really hate the argument of being autistic making people trans because like.. even if it were true, am I ever not going to be on the spectrum?

[@SarastistheSerpent]

It’s crazy and insulting how anti-trans campaigners infantilize neurodivergent people, especially if they’re trans men or male-presenting non-binary people. While trans women and trans feminine people are portrayed as predators, trans men and trans masc people are always “autistic who’re being brainwashed and taken advantage of on account of their girl-ness and autism”. It’s just terrible

[@nyssalynn5216]

My partners mom successfully stopped her from transitioning by gaining power of attorney over her(my partner is autistic and got the argument that she couldn't be trans bc she's autistic). Thankfully that's no longer the case, but it could have been a MASSIVE legal battle

[@infiniteaugends]

“Young girls removing breasts that have never known a lover’s caress” is an insane thing to say! What is wrong with people?!

[@localhearthian2387]

No matter which nation tries to destroy us, we will remain human.

[@Neo.Jordon]

Life altering surgeries and drugs is helping to not destroy you

[@actualgoblin]

​@@Neo.Jordon If I didn't take drugs, my body wouldn't be able to sustain itself.

[@Neo.Jordon]

@@actualgoblin dont need extra hormones doh....

[@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou]

@@Neo.Jordon You are a scaremongering illiterate who doesn't even understand what he's scaremongering about. Everyone has hormones in them, and HRT is lifesaving.

[@dinadina2000]

conspiracy theorist spotted. You will not away with your 'surgeries are making trans kids reptilians here'

[@Avatarfan10000]

Pausing at 2:04:25 to say after I got top surgery, I had a slight worsening of depression for a few months after that was unrelated to getting the surgery, but because I used top surgery as motivation to keep going. For years, I would remind myself to stay alive because "In a few more months, you will be on the path to get what you want," and after surgery, I didn't have that crutch. It took me a long time to remind myself that while the biggest problem was taken care of, it was fine to have other issues. Sometimes, people use the Hope of a full transition to push into another day, and when that crutch is gone, and they don't have other support, it means they can add more baggage by thinking they were wrong. I need to add that I never got the euphoria that others did. For me, when I woke up, it was fine. I wasn't miserable I was content because it was natural like I didn't get surgery that was just who I was. While slightly disappointed, I don't mind not having Euphoria because, In a way, I dreaded the crash that would happen after. I feel because I didn't have it, it took a few months for the depression to show back up. I was able to process the surgery in a way that was healthiest for me, and right now, I'm happy with how my transition went. I also have a wonderful therapist with whom I could bring up my other problems and talk about how I felt after surgery.

[@ScottRobsco]

So. Once we get all of the children to change their gender identity, what is the plan? No one will tell me....

[@jellifygirl]

And when everyone is trans... NO ONE WILL BE!!!

[@ScottRobsco]

@@jellifygirlThen everyone can just shut the fuck up and let people live their lives.💗

[@SarastistheSerpent]

@spaceboy.digitalI don’t think it’s a hate comment. I think they’re being ironic. The far-right thinks trans people and their allies are changing kids gender identities, but they don’t ever ask to what end.

[@oliver_twistor]

The all to common flaw in conspiracy theories: a lack of motivation, or the question "why". Rarely do conspiracy theorists explain the supposed motivation behind faking the moonlanding, making the frogs gay, turning everyone trans, vaccines etc. They have the wildest theories on "how" but rarely "why".

[@evan_j]

Some conspiracy theorists say the alleged plan is to stop reproduction to reduce the population (without abortion). I was warned about the "confusion of genders" (rejection of stereotypes) in the 80s.

[@moodybagels6564]

"5 years ago there were no non-binary people!" People were already saying that when I came out as non-binary... Almost 10 years ago

[@MarcelGraumans]

If my child would trust the outerworld more than me I would start questioning my parenting. Glad my trans kid came to us as parents so we could support her in all of this. Children are a gift, not property.

[@atree4627]

This is evidence that you are a good parent. While not trans, to this day I still wish I could come out to my parents as queer. Once I am properly prepared to move away where they can't find me, then I might tell them. Until then, they think we're close, they don't know that I have to spend a bunch of time running around my house hiding anything related to the community I enjoy being a part of. I've actually gone a few months without flags on my desk because I've had multiple consecutive visits. You are a good parent, and while I don't know anything else about you, I hope you are also a wonderful human being.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Trans identity and gender non-conformity could LITERALLY be a part of the culture but people would rather spend their time and energy traumatising themselves and everyone in the process.

[@FrostyShadowYT]

The worst part is that those identities (or rather similar concepts) were present in many native cultures around the world, Slavic, Germanic, Native American and so on, but Christianity came and erased all that. World prior to Christianity was pretty inclusive all things considered.

[@wanderer_808]

​​@@FrostyShadowYT yeah and they claim scientists and historians are lying, but only then when the scientific evidence doesnt support their biased and bigoted narrative that being trans is a new thing. like russia and germany of all places in the early 1900s both had a lot of research in gender and was becoming very, very open. first gender clinics were in germany as well, if i remember correctly. so much old stuff was lost due to stalin and the nazis

[@gamingwhilebroken2355]

@@FrostyShadowYT Ya, that’s kind of ahistorical. Other genders were not super common across different cultures (they probably existed in a minority of cultures across history). A culture having other genders exist as concept does not equate to them being inclusive or respected, that is very not true. I know the Dene peoples in the Americas had pretty expansive, diverse, and often respected beliefs on gender and other genders. However, a lot of other cultures other genders were heavily stigmatized. Also, often other genders weren’t something you choose but were slotted into. They also were only a thing for people AMAB. A way to illustrate this effectively is Ancient Greece and Rome. People say they were super gay and tolerated gay people. Ya, kind of but not really. If you read about what they actually thought about homosexuality you absolutely wouldn’t want those attitudes transposed into the modern world. They were brutally heteronormative and feminine and/or “passive” partners they were heavily stigmatized. Without question the modern day (in a developed nation) is the best time to be a queer person out of any time period in history.

[@SarastistheSerpent]

@@FrostyShadowYTyes, but in fairness only comparatively. While pre-Christian Western societies were indeed more tolerant of LGBTI people generally, they also still practiced slavery, imperialism and misogyny. Even Achaemenid Persia and Ancient Egypt, by far the most egalitarian and tolerant pre-modern societies, were heavily militaristic and kept slaves.

[@marcuspainter4885]

@@SarastistheSerpent but the same goes for the Christian western societies during the time they colonised other cultures. Enslaving those they colonised was something they did. Saying the bible permitted it was an argument made by those who supported slavery.

[@boltsj]

I, in fact, did not see those ads because I use ublock origin.

[@sharkofjoy]

I consider this an act of caring for one's mental health.

[@alananimus9145]

I spotted the ad about three seconds in. It's shot like a Christian film.

[@pr0v0cative4pple]

One of the most infuriatingly fucked up things about this ""film"" is that it portrays the trans friend as a loud, forceful bully, when in reality the overwhelming majority of trans teens are treated horrifically, as I've seen firsthand with me and every last one of my lgbt friends.

[@darkstarr984]

You might want to change the amount of quotation marks used. I’m pretty sure triple quotations, like triple parentheses, is used to hint at antisemitic conspiracies. Though obviously in this case it’s emphatic incredulity about this ridiculous movie existing.

[@pr0v0cative4pple]

@@darkstarr984 Gotcha, I'll change it.

[@veronicafoxx8590]

You are goals, in every possible way. Transition goals, realistically. But also strength goals. You stand so damn strong. Support goals, giving the trans community a superior role model. Being a person goals, as a fellow autist. It's all so hard. You fight so hard. You are incredible. As an autistic trans woman, thank you for doing this, and thank you for being who you are, just as yourself, in such a public way. If i had grown up in the modern day, i could have known myself so much better and so much earlier.

[@JessieGender1]

[@Psilly-Spirit]

As a banjo player, that banjo that sits in Matt Walsh’s set pisses me off to no end.

[@lnk2158]

Same

[@champigranja1179]

He will be glad to know it.

[@rosemary5005]

Good

[@Psilly-Spirit]

@@rosemary5005 I mean, makes me feel good that I at least play the instrument I have. 👍

[@groovygeorge9495]

chloe cole spoke at my university and the way she kept saying her doctors forced her into being trans and that this wasn't her "gender journey" was infuriating. even when someone asked questions to try and guide her to the conclusion that she was still experiencing a gender journey she was blaming trans people. and of course the entire room was packed full of anti trans people who would not stop calling us who were protesting slurs

[@champigranja1179]

That's her experience, though.

[@groovygeorge9495]

@@champigranja1179 nobody is saying it isn’t and it’s sad that they didn’t take steps to actually help her but it’s the transphobia that she exudes and how she refused to admit detransitioning is still a part of her gender journey

[@champigranja1179]

@@groovygeorge9495 Idk, you are the one who used the term "infuriating" just because she didn't say the things you wanted to hear.

[@groovygeorge9495]

@@champigranja1179 it’s infuriating because she’s obtuse. stop defending a terf

[@wajmgirl]

@@champigranja1179and yet it doesn’t line up with reality.

[@ButterflyGrrl21]

I've been calling myself genderqueer/genderfluid since at least 2009, and before then I still was but just didn't have a term for it. People acting like a world didn't exist before they came into the knowledge is so insular and self-centric.

[@Neo.Jordon]

Why do you need to create a label for yourself. How does woman not accurately describe you?

[@chillydog3188]

@@Neo.Jordonbecause they aren’t a cis women lol

[@Neo.Jordon]

@@chillydog3188 You're correct, not a "cis woman". The term is "Woman" or it's synonym "female"

[@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou]

@@Neo.Jordon People use words to describe things.

[@Neo.Jordon]

@@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou Yeah, I know. The original questions are still open, if you wanna explain.

[@tobyhowe5554]

39:57 Well, at least we all agree that the nazis actively suppressed Hirschfeld and his studies, and nobody is trying to deny it. ...right?

[@hive_indicator318]

I'm guessing you haven't seen Caelan's most recent video

[@artikulv731]

_JK Rowling has entered the chat_

[@Authentistic-ism]

This film illustrates why so many of us leave for no contact with our parents. I would rather my mother writhe in uncertainty and loneliness than her know about me just to dishonor my memory by participating in a film like this.

[@zephcosmic]

You can tell the supportive mom of Evan’s friend is evil because she smokes, has messy hair, and wears a robe all day. Subtle.

[@evan_escence95]

As a trans man who took ages to settle on my identity (often through denial) and the name Evan, this really hit me because I don't meet a lot of other trans men, let alone ones also called Evan. And the idea that I was influenced by my parents or male privilege is absolutely disgusting. I'm at least thankful that when I told people like my parents, my brother and my friends, they have been incredibly accepting and validating. I wish more people would understand that that's so important to have that kind of support and that the idea that we're being 'influenced' is absolutely fucking ridiculous. I went through so much to understand myself and now I know who I am. We know who we are. And it's so fucking infantilising to be treated like we don't.

[@Kaivey]

Weirdly, keeping your own mind when people dismiss everything because vulva having ppl can’t decide / are adult babies who need protection .:: it’s a form of hazing and a test of strength cis men will never understand, and never ever begin to be strong enough to confront the idea of living with.

[@evan_j]

@evan_essence95 , it was a strange feeling to see another trans guy named Evan. Yes, the world infantilises, trying to influence trans guys to be girls but we are stronger and wiser than that.

[@Neo.Jordon]

​@@Kaiveyso trans men and women are "vulva having people". The word is female...lol

[@MDSpencersLs]

Evan’s a very nice name!

[@evan_escence95]

@@MDSpencersLs thank you so much!!! i tried out a lot of other names before Evan, which was a similar one to that, came up and just clicked!! i'd love to know how other people chose their names.

[@catiecaraco5376]

This Lupron part is making me SO FRIGGING MAD. I'm a cisgender woman who has struggled with polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis for years. When I was in college, I had to have endometrial tissue and 4 cysts removed in a surgery, which was followed by me taking Lupron for a year to basically let my reproductive system calm down and reset itself. I also had to take female hormones for this year. While it didn't completely fix my problems, I had far fewer cysts, and cysts that were smaller and less painful. This treatment was critical for me to be able to attend my classes and have a life that was dominated by excruciating pain. And I've gone on to safely have a child. Just because it COULD be used to chemically castrate peods does not mean that's all its used for. The people peddling that narrative really piss me the hell off. Stop demonizing something that helps so many people.

[@RowieSundog]

Im transfem, been on hrt for 4 years, and i nearly died of a pulmonary embolism caused by my T blockers. It wasnt the blockers themself but instead the insanely high dose my doctor had prescribed me, 100mg/d cyproterone acetate when my friends were on 12.5mg/d and hadnt heard of higher than 25mg/d. Trans healthcare isnt what nearly killed me. Incompetent doctors who didnt care to learn about how to administer it nearly killed me.

[@BZero3]

The bit at 2:14:28 had me doing a double take. I kinda expected most of the vile stuff from this video, but this one is WTF. "Breasts that have never known a lover's caress" is such a _bonkers_ way of framing it, ffs

[@kaorufan8]

So I read the brief for the Martinez case and wow, just wow. Citing Jewish beliefs (incorrectly), Muslims, and Hindus as an argument that Christians are unfairly targeted by the government is WILD

[@darkstarr984]

I’m literally joining the Satanic Temple *because I am concerned for the safety and freedom of atheist, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh acquaintances* after being raised to be a Red-Letter Christian surrounded by JWs, Conservative Fundies, heavily judgmental WASPs, and Conservative Catholics.

[@adeadphish7931]

Between you and Dead Domain, I just keep learning more and more about Matt Walsh and hating him more

[@avalokiteshvara113]

Based. Apparently they're doing a collaboration soon!

[@JasonAtlas]

I am dead domain enjoyer.

[@adeadphish7931]

@@avalokiteshvara113 oh sick. Can't wait

[@Cera_01]

​@@avalokiteshvara113 DD has a voice-over segment in the video!

[@Burgercat55]

​@Cera_01 yup I noticed that !!!!

[@averyeml]

If I could get middle school children to listen to “how to sit in a chair” as well as I can supposedly get them to change genders and sexualities, America would be the smartest nation in the country

[@jonathon5075]

😂😂😂 absolutely

[@trashgoblin5128]

I'm glad you covered this. My grandma sat me down in a public library and showed me this film during one of her "what if you're wrong" talks. That was my last summer seeing her in person.

[@pashortt123]

I've lost a child. I am sickened by people who use the fear of such a thing to manipulate parents like this.

[@godzillavkk]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[@thecrownandthecow8123]

It's so fucking frustrating We just want to exist and live. I want to be able to go on T and grow a beard and still wear feminine things. I want to walk in the park, hand in hand with my partner, and not be scared of harassment. I want to be able to do drag without being called a pervert or pedophile. I want to go out with my friends and laugh with them. To see their trans joy and love. I'm tired of fearing for them and myself. We deserve to exist and be here

[@Quoxz]

"You're so not woke." was the funniest line I've heard.

[@stevenricks1703]

Being a parent does *not* gift a person with magical insight into the mind of their child. Weird that I live in a world where that felt necessary to say.

[@CrowMaiden]

I feel so bad for Ben Cocks (the man behind the song in the trailer) 'cause I may not know anything about him, but there's no way they're using his song with his permission and the song is about being frozen in time with grief. it doesn't even fit the themes of the trailer, let alone the rest of the film.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

I figured out I was trans before I figured out I was autistic. It was in fact coming out as trans that led me to suspect I might be autistic, due to the high statistical correlation, along with the fact that every single one of my friends is also autistic. Since I was not diagnosed at a young age, I had to go looking for a specialist who could do an autism screening. I finally got my official diagnosis towards the end of summer of last year, two years after I came out. Nobody came to me and told me I was autistic, or trans. I needed to seek out those answers myself. Also, more people need to start referring to that propaganda outlet as the Epoch Fail.

[@kanjonojigoku8644]

​@@aaronbrown8377this just sounds like projection lol, sorry but that's not how it works, you're just bitter a person found their identity and discovered who they are while having loving friends. Transitioning is happiness, finding out about your autism and how to deal with it is happiness, having friends like you is happiness, and you're just bitter and alone

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

@aaronbrown8377 You have zero evidence to support your claim. Nobody can be convinced to change their orientation or gender identity, because conversion therapy does not work and has been widely discredited. Furthermore if you think you can throw trans people under the bus to appease the fascists, who do you think they're going to come after next?

[@chillydog3188]

@@aaronbrown8377did you watch the video, bro?

[@thebean1915]

@aaronbrown8377 Hi, "vulnerable" kid here socially and medically transitioning. I'm on my second week of testosterone (hormones) and I've never felt better. No one is being "convinced" - EVERYONE is CONSTANTLY drilling in the risks. It took me four years of *actively working to try to get on T* to even get into the gender clinic to talk about it, and this was years after I had first come out as a transgender person at 12 years old. And when I got there, there was another 8 month period of discussing the future, what-ifs, risks: fertility, body changes, irreversible developments, and of course all of the positive changes. So, so much talking about the risks, the future, the lack of research in long term effects, "if you feel pain after injections, stop the medicine immediately and call us, if you have a reaction, stop the medicine immediately and call us, if you get off schedule for administering medicine, call us immediately, if your medicine looks different than usual, don't take it and call us immediately, if you see anything floating in the vial, DO NOT TAKE THE MEDICINE and call us immediately" etc. etc. etc. - it takes so long and *so much* effort that anyone at the finish line finally getting hormones is almost certainly not going to regret it. You don't fight that hard for nothing. I'm 17 now and happier than I've ever been. When I finally went into the clinic for my first shot, I was treated to a 3-hour session of practicing on a fake leg over and over before I was finally allowed to give myself my first injection with the help of the nurse. I usually don't respond to bad-faith comments like this, but as a "vulnerable kid" that you say you're trying to protect, I am telling you now that we don't need your protection. We need your *support*. I don't think people understand how much time and effort and dedication it takes to even *socially* transition. It's not something that happens easily. My best friend came out as trans about a year after I did. She asked us to use a masculine name for her and exclusively male pronouns, and we did. She did this for two years, even coming out to her family, before saying to us, "I think I'm just a boyish girl, could you go back to my original name?" And we did. And she is a happy, cisgender girl. Dressed exactly the same the whole span of it. Boyish before, boyish during, boyish after. No one was forcing change on her. There was no pressuring for her to transition, no anger toward her at her realization that she wasn't trans; we just moved on, and all of us still care deeply about one another. She just wanted a safe way to experiment, and she did. None of this was about social pressure. In fact, at the beginning of my coming out, I was socially pressured into *not* being trans. My mother was tentatively supportive, but would often push me and say, "Well, so many girls your age hate their bodies. How is this different?" And I had to tell her that no, I don't hate my body - I just know there's more to me than this. I don't look at myself with disgust. And it took a long time for her to understand, and for the people around me to even try to. I hope this absolute essay of a comment boosts your understanding on people like me even a little bit.

[@elizabethmcwhorter3445]

figuring out you're autistic through statistical correlation with a trans identity is _the most autistic possible way to find out_ omfg i love it

[@will493]

Transphobes really sincerely do just think we're cartoon villains.

[@animeotaku307]

Meanwhile, they do way more cartoonishly evil things.

[@elisehalflight]

Hey i am a cartoon villain, I have my own cool intro and tragic backstory, last sunday I procured a small team of mind controlled hermit crabs to help me win the local sand castle competition. Sadly my plans were foiled...

[@missgreen101]

​@@elisehalflight id watch that show

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

To be fair the CIA appointed trans influencers are

[@missmangayaoi]

Absolutely disgusting. That even in death His own mother shouldn't give a rats ass about honoring his wishes.

[@luthientinuviel3883]

One of my deepest fears as a trans guy is that if my horrible reality got too much to bear, and I killed myself, that my family would put my deadname on my headstone. That they would remember me as I never was. My heart breaks for Andrew.

[@terreliv]

29:21 And if anybody says "well that's somebody else's culture", direct them to the Public Universal Friend, an AFAB enby Quaker from the 1800s. White, American, Christian, historical, and *trans.*

[@criidawg]

as soon as i said "please dont blame the jewish people", jessie said "anti semetic conspiriacy theories" and i was like GOD DAMN IT

[@burner555]

"Jews are responsabile for everything bad in the world" average conspiracy

[@metronicmagician1816]

Apparently conservatives can’t stop being antisemitic even when they’re hating on a different minority. For some reason it always has to involve Jewish people.

[@Tareltonlives]

Nobody: Film: "WILL NOBODY THINK OF THE ABUSIVE PARENTS?!"

[@0b.d0]

It's the fact that documentaries and articles like this exist that I don't want to talk to my parents about myself. I gave up a lot of conversations because I don't want them to look up related articles on their own only to come out with these narratives. It's really easy to get lost in these documentaries, as you broke down in the vid.

[@A2music]

youtube being the best place for pro-trans content for youth is very true. My baby trans days were fuelled purely by one-topic videos lol, we love him

[@MayaMaya-tj7kw]

Epoch times is from the falun gong cult.

[@melissawickersham9912]

The ironic joke about this is that the American Far Right either do not realize or do not care that Epoch Times is published by a NON-Christian FOREIGN cult. The kind of people that they SHOULD be worried about based on their fearmongering about Chinese or East Asian influence. But the Far Right Christofascists are happy to use Epoch Times for their own purposes because it preaches the same hate and bigotry that the domestic far right grifters do.

[@countjondi9672]

What is transferrable to nearly any abuse, trauma, or other mental issue that a child faces, is that it is difficult for parents to accept that it happened, that it exists, and that it wasn't some outside influence that was responsible for it. I am a cis-man that was physically abused by his older sisters growing up. It was something I didn't really talk about until well into adult-hood and it was very difficult for my mother to accept that the violence had been as bad as I said it was, and kept pushing me to go to family events my sisters were going to when I absolutely did not want to. She did have a sense that there was at some point a picturesque, happy upbringing for me at some point that really never existed. She's made a lot of progress with me since, but it was very difficult. This is probably not comparable to growing up as a trans-person in a transpbobic household, But I think it gives me some small insight into how it feels when a parent rejects your reality.

[@mystic-malevolence]

My favorite example of nonbinary identities older than the last five years is the Public Universal Friend, a Quaker from the 1700s who shunned gender and pronouns.