Transing The Young ~ Part 40
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How we lost our daughter to the cult.
This interesting thread by Nathan Baugh put me in touch again with the way I’d always “seen” the pyramid-shaped structure of the trans cult, 6 years ago when I desperately tried to steer our daughter away from it, and away from all those people in her life at the time who were exploiting her vulnerability and then went on to stealthily radicalise her behind our backs. The “Queer Family” beckoned. Her new tribe was waiting. She went no contact, started on testosterone, and then had a double mastectomy. She’s currently a Trans Champion dining off a fictional past, and an identity built on the back of the erasure of her parents.
When I started this substack I described the way visual learners “see” things and can translate ideas/concepts into shapes in a way that language can’t get close to. Language is obviously very good at “describing” something but pictures and images have a direct line to consciousness, instead of being filtered or assessed chronologically by the brain piecing together a string of words, in order to find meaning at the end of it. Why else does art, or advertising, or a painting have such a powerful effect on our lives?
Christopher Nolan’s complex interweaving of characters and plot lines put to one side, Nathan broadens his thread out to pay tribute to Kurt Vonnegut. If you’ve never seen Kurt’s brilliant stage appearance, you can find it on Youtube. It surprised me, like it did a lot of people. I always thought he must be a bit of a “square” (visual pun unintended, apologies). But no, he’s a funny guy - hard to imagine it’s the same Kurt Vonnegut who wrote Slaughterhouse Five. I’m not sure KV actually “owns” this “Shapes of Stories” theory, but he uses this opportunity to make a very simple image of something (with a good deal of dry wit and humour) andt takes a famous fairy tale to funnel it into an easily-digestible graphic.
So the more I followed my “education” on all things trans (a promise I made to our estranged daughter), the more I kept “seeing” this pyramid/tringular shape everywhere! At the outset, I was like Roy and his mashed potato scene from the Close Encounters film
building something on his dinner plate - something he couldn’t quite “see” in full, but he knew he had to reach, in order to make sense of things.
And soon, people like this arrived in my consciousness, and refused to leave. This gloopy dollop is possibly the most dangerous man on the planet right now. It was easy to see where he fitted in to the shape now emerging
TR activists on social media tried to reverse-flip circular reasoning shapes, as mirror propaganda. Except it doesn’t work when more than a grain of truth is contained within the appropriation you’re trying to sell. Nothing quite beats the pro-reality (GC) circular reasoning of “So what is Gender?”, “Well, it’s like when you have a gender identity, everyone has a gender identity”, “But how do you define Gender?” etc etc
Others (not wasting any opportunity to be as crude and offensive as possible) compared critical reasoning to a worm of sh1t running through the mouths and anuses of those who criticise or question the cult. How clever
And all the while, triangles were popping up all over the place, and these magical triangles were starting to make sense of things, make sense of the trans over-reaches, the denial, the constant switching of roles - and why this was so.
These shapes made sense of behaviours I’d been on the end of, and in the early years of my “education” why I was so unprepared for the unrelenting “No wonder your daughter hates you” abuse of the TRA’s. Cognitive dissonance (on their part) made sense of why good, kind, intelligent friends just ran for the hills when I told them of our situation, having put them in touch with 2 opposing thoughts: (1) I’m a good and kind person, and I believe in the rights and protections of minorities, and (2) This is EVIL incarnate. Only 1 of those 2 thoughts can be contained, so guess which one gets ejected. That’s an image for me, of 2 wrecking balls smashing into each other - with varying degrees of speed, bounce, disintegration, or diminishing repetition according to the severity of the dissonance.
So here we are, in 2024. Here in the UK we’ve had the leaking of the #WPATH files, the Clinical Advisory Network conference, and an endless stream of evidence of the harms of puberty blockers and medical transitioning. We’ve had the Cass report, and all the reverse-ferreting of activists, fetishists, and the denials of medics and academics, the doubling-down of key players, con artists and gender grifters. ALL of them trying to stop this structure from crumbling, while truth and light flood in and reveals the carnage done in the name of this despicable bunch. As @Glinner said, Gender is OVER, but it’ll take a while before many catch on.
Imagine the cult pyramid below as a 3D form (pyramid) rather than triangular (2D). It’s far less crowded and complex, but still allows a dual “reading” of my cult model that tapers off towards the top; where only the most protected, wealthiest, screwed-up men can breathe this rarified air, and the structure widens as it descends with the trickle-down of power and money to reach the larger numbers keeping the entire edifice standing in place - the poorest, most unloved, and useless minions of little value to the cult are vast and widely dispersed, scurrying around at the base of this structure trying to find a way out or a way in, or to climb upwards. Here also lie the gender heretics - those who were never “truly” trans, and those whose lived experiences don’t match the orthodoxy of the age. Or they will always and forever be merely “cis”.
Just as Jennifer Bilek @bjportraits and Dr P @Psychgirl211 describe above, it’s a top-down power trip, born of an industry - the very opposite of what any civil rights movement in history has ever been. It’s an experiment, a mass social psychosis, a contagion the scale and size of which we’ve never seen before.
The middle tiers of social influencers, men (generally), lobby groups, and so on, have other populated groups above them, or alongside them in the power chain, and below them; those they themselves can exert power and influence over. The relative positions of these middle tier groups can change over time as they’re always jockeying for position to get the most trickle-down they can
Status and “value” to the cult increases, the higher you climb, into the fluffy white clouds at the apex with the self-actualisers; where the gender industry pumps out billions and cascade their benevolence to the begging bowls of those below.
Status and “value” decrease as you descend into awful, apalling, worthless cishetnormativity or sex realism reality, the hugely populated lazy and uninterested hoi-polloi at the base of the pyramid, or even subterranean bottom-dwellers in their gaming basements in Oregon.
Still, as long as the oldies wave their little Pride flags in blissful ignorance, the cult will tolerate you or educate you; depending on your level of indoctrination or BeKinding. Or whether you have a gender-questioning grandchild of use to the cult elders looking for fresh recruits.
One could argue at length over the relative positioning of one group in relation to others around them. Feel free to add to it, improve it, simplify it, personalise it, populate it, or simply share it around. Change it completely if you want. But we need to talk about it.
For any activist parents or pro-reality journalists, a paid subscription would get you access to this, and anything from my library of over 20,000 screenshots with a dropbox link. I’ve created this resource over 5 years of an education. I’d like to continue documenting the arguments and issues we’re going through now, for history’s sake, and for the sake of my daughter and other young people harmed by this corrupt ideological cult. But in all honesty, I’m having trouble keeping up, AND working my full-time role as an artist, and trying to lead a balanced life. So any subscriptions gratefully received, and your feedback welcomed.
And finally, People in cults often don’t know they’re in a cult. Thank you for reading
You are a part of history. Small comfort, right? I saw my first butterfly of the season today, a Red Admiral, which I think you have in Britain. I'm watching the sunset over the Catskills mountains here in the Hudson Valley. I hope that the parents of young children are at least starting to have doubts about the "education" in the schools now. Thalidomide, DES and lobotomies took decades to be debunked as medicine. As a trans widow, I'd accepted it would take more time; I'm starting to wonder if the house of cards is falling, and the nonsense pushback is part of it. We must be the ones demonstrating how to reconnect with our bodies and Mother Nature. Remember, we are not lost, our children are. Denton, please be well and know your work touches us. Ute
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