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Neil Hopper was a vascular surgeon who had both his own legs amputated to satisfy his sexual fantasy. I covered his story in depth last year, but there's a part of it that was just too disturbing to include in the essay. Here's me telling Peter Boghossian all about it.

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Neil Hopper was a vascular surgeon who had both his own legs amputated to satisfy his sexual fantasy. I covered his story in depth last year, but there's a part of it that was just too disturbing to include in the essay. Here's me telling Peter Boghossian all about it.

712,456 views • 23 days ago

When WPATH said its Standards of Care 8 was evidence-based, they were lying. When they said it was science-based, they were lying. When they said “gender affirming care” was medically necessary, they were lying. Last year, I asked who had the power to legally destroy them. Today, the Federal Trade Commission stepped up to the task.

When WPATH said its Standards of Care 8 was evidence-based, they were lying. When they said it was science-based, they were lying. When they said “gender affirming care” was medically necessary, they were lying. Last year, I asked who had the power to legally destroy them. Today, the Federal Trade Commission stepped up to the task.

54,934 views • 7 days ago

Never forget how this medical scandal began. Back in the 1980s, a small group of trans activists hatched a plot: to take an absurd, illogical overvalued belief—that being transgender is innate, natural, healthy—and force all of society to live in a fictional world built on it. Given the sheer audacity of that plot, there must have been people who said it couldn’t be done. But if such voices existed, they were ignored. And the activists pressed on until they succeeded in nothing less than reshaping reality itself. And they didn’t just persuade people to politely look the other way. They rallied good, decent people to march in the streets demanding that teenagers sacrifice their health, their fertility, and their sexual function in the name of this belief. They convinced governments to write laws based on a non-existent, fictional concept. They enlisted well-meaning teachers to poison the minds of a generation with absurd lies. And they drove doctors to amputate healthy organs and call it medicine. If they could succeed in creating that false reality, then surely we can succeed in restoring truth. Because our cause is not built on lies but on logic and reason. Not on ideology but on sound ethical principles. Not on harm but on healing. My talk at Genspect’s conference in Albuquerque calls for the complete rejection of this dangerous belief. Only by restoring truth and reality can we actually protect vulnerable people from this medical crime.

Never forget how this medical scandal began. Back in the 1980s, a small group of trans activists hatched a plot: to take an absurd, illogical overvalued belief—that being transgender is innate, natural, healthy—and force all of society to live in a fictional world built on it. Given the sheer audacity of that plot, there must have been people who said it couldn’t be done. But if such voices existed, they were ignored. And the activists pressed on until they succeeded in nothing less than reshaping reality itself. And they didn’t just persuade people to politely look the other way. They rallied good, decent people to march in the streets demanding that teenagers sacrifice their health, their fertility, and their sexual function in the name of this belief. They convinced governments to write laws based on a non-existent, fictional concept. They enlisted well-meaning teachers to poison the minds of a generation with absurd lies. And they drove doctors to amputate healthy organs and call it medicine. If they could succeed in creating that false reality, then surely we can succeed in restoring truth. Because our cause is not built on lies but on logic and reason. Not on ideology but on sound ethical principles. Not on harm but on healing. My talk at Genspect’s conference in Albuquerque calls for the complete rejection of this dangerous belief. Only by restoring truth and reality can we actually protect vulnerable people from this medical crime.

1,937,674 views • 8 months ago

The Tale of Two Contagions In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood. This was an entirely new patient population. Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases. The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire. Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social media–induced illness — a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness. Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls — another entirely new patient population — “gender-affirming” clinicians didn’t even bother to look for the trigger. And it wouldn’t have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time. Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier. And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched. Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in children’s books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact. And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral. The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean you’re trans. And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans. Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social media–induced illness. Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm. And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts — while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past.

The Tale of Two Contagions In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood. This was an entirely new patient population. Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases. The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire. Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social media–induced illness — a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness. Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls — another entirely new patient population — “gender-affirming” clinicians didn’t even bother to look for the trigger. And it wouldn’t have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time. Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier. And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched. Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in children’s books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact. And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral. The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean you’re trans. And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans. Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social media–induced illness. Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm. And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts — while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past.

895,553 views • 4 months ago

The UK’s puberty blocker trial is a textbook example of what Dr. Harriet Hall called Tooth Fairy Science: research conducted on a phenomenon without ever questioning whether the phenomenon exists. Hall explained that researchers could collect data that are reproducible and statistically significant on how much money the Tooth Fairy leaves, which coins she prefers, whether she pays more for molars, or when the child leaves a note — but without asking whether the Tooth Fairy exists, the entire endeavour is meaningless. Over the next three years and beyond, the NHS will medicalise “trans kids” and meticulously gather data on bone density, the psychological effects of puberty suppression, and body-image satisfaction. But all the results will be meaningless because they’re studying something that doesn’t exist. Ethical research would begin at the same place, with the young person’s adoption of a transgender identity and the diagnosis of “gender incongruence,” but it would travel in the opposite direction. Instead of accepting a culturally-influenced identity as a condition in need of medical treatment, meaningful research would investigate what ordinary developmental struggles are being misread by so many young people growing up in this era saturated with the messaging of trans activism. It would investigate which cultural messages are disrupting identity formation and distorting the adolescent’s sense of self, driving the widespread adoption of this fashionable identity. Studying "trans kids" and "children with gender incongruence" is as pointless as studying the Tooth Fairy.

The UK’s puberty blocker trial is a textbook example of what Dr. Harriet Hall called Tooth Fairy Science: research conducted on a phenomenon without ever questioning whether the phenomenon exists. Hall explained that researchers could collect data that are reproducible and statistically significant on how much money the Tooth Fairy leaves, which coins she prefers, whether she pays more for molars, or when the child leaves a note — but without asking whether the Tooth Fairy exists, the entire endeavour is meaningless. Over the next three years and beyond, the NHS will medicalise “trans kids” and meticulously gather data on bone density, the psychological effects of puberty suppression, and body-image satisfaction. But all the results will be meaningless because they’re studying something that doesn’t exist. Ethical research would begin at the same place, with the young person’s adoption of a transgender identity and the diagnosis of “gender incongruence,” but it would travel in the opposite direction. Instead of accepting a culturally-influenced identity as a condition in need of medical treatment, meaningful research would investigate what ordinary developmental struggles are being misread by so many young people growing up in this era saturated with the messaging of trans activism. It would investigate which cultural messages are disrupting identity formation and distorting the adolescent’s sense of self, driving the widespread adoption of this fashionable identity. Studying "trans kids" and "children with gender incongruence" is as pointless as studying the Tooth Fairy.

31,535 views • 5 days ago

Trans activists used the slur TERF as a means to intimidate, shame, and silence all women who disagree with their ideological worldview. But the plan backfired on them in the most spectacular way. By labelling every woman who lives in reality a TERF, they created an army of proud TERFs who will, without a shadow of a doubt, defeat them. There’s a delicious poetic justice to this that warms my terfy heart. Link to full interview with Shaun Newman Podcast below

Trans activists used the slur TERF as a means to intimidate, shame, and silence all women who disagree with their ideological worldview. But the plan backfired on them in the most spectacular way. By labelling every woman who lives in reality a TERF, they created an army of proud TERFs who will, without a shadow of a doubt, defeat them. There’s a delicious poetic justice to this that warms my terfy heart. Link to full interview with Shaun Newman Podcast below

81,861 views • 18 days ago

Me: You signed a statement calling “gender affirming care” for youth medically necessary. Guyatt: WHAT!? That’s RIDICULOUS. I would never say that. Me: *produces the receipt Guyatt: Oh, I didn’t read that part. I’m a dope. Unbelievable.

Me: You signed a statement calling “gender affirming care” for youth medically necessary. Guyatt: WHAT!? That’s RIDICULOUS. I would never say that. Me: *produces the receipt Guyatt: Oh, I didn’t read that part. I’m a dope. Unbelievable.

1,223,771 views • 9 months ago

Old-fashioned gay conversion therapy — with its psychological torture, hormone injections, and electroshock aversion treatments —had nothing on the new conversion therapy that goes on in gender clinics. Now if you’re an effeminate gay adolescent or young man, you can end up pumped full of estrogen and ushered into the operating theatre to be castrated and have your penis chopped off! And for some reason, people who consider themselves good decent progressives cheer and applaud this ghastly crime.

Old-fashioned gay conversion therapy — with its psychological torture, hormone injections, and electroshock aversion treatments —had nothing on the new conversion therapy that goes on in gender clinics. Now if you’re an effeminate gay adolescent or young man, you can end up pumped full of estrogen and ushered into the operating theatre to be castrated and have your penis chopped off! And for some reason, people who consider themselves good decent progressives cheer and applaud this ghastly crime.

377,998 views • 3 months ago

Every country or jurisdiction that has actually examined the evidence for paediatric gender medicine, seriously and rigorously, has changed course. Different healthcare systems. Different political landscapes. All reaching the same conclusion: this experiment cannot be allowed to continue. 17 systematic reviews have all concluded that the evidence for this treatment protocol is low to very low quality. And yet Canada’s federal and provincial governments — with the exception of Alberta — still fail to act. The time for looking the other way is over. Indeed, the very fact that Canada has looked away for so long is a national disgrace. My statement at the Mayday - Kids in Crisis press conference on Parliament Hill this morning

Every country or jurisdiction that has actually examined the evidence for paediatric gender medicine, seriously and rigorously, has changed course. Different healthcare systems. Different political landscapes. All reaching the same conclusion: this experiment cannot be allowed to continue. 17 systematic reviews have all concluded that the evidence for this treatment protocol is low to very low quality. And yet Canada’s federal and provincial governments — with the exception of Alberta — still fail to act. The time for looking the other way is over. Indeed, the very fact that Canada has looked away for so long is a national disgrace. My statement at the Mayday - Kids in Crisis press conference on Parliament Hill this morning

158,710 views • 1 month ago

Can you think of anything more homophobic than telling lesbians they must accept paraphilic heterosexual men into their dating pool? Actually yes. Transing away the gay in gender clinics. This is the message those celebrating Pride Season need to hear.

Can you think of anything more homophobic than telling lesbians they must accept paraphilic heterosexual men into their dating pool? Actually yes. Transing away the gay in gender clinics. This is the message those celebrating Pride Season need to hear.

58,759 views • 20 days ago

The single most insane ruling thus far in the gender insanity came out of the BC Human Rights Commission yesterday. The tribunal ruled that saying you do not believe in gender identities amounts to the "existential denial" of trans people and is therefore discrimination. The school board trustee, Barry Neufeld, must now pay a $750,000 penalty for his lack of belief in gender souls. This quote from the ruling is particularly astonishing: “A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth.” At least they're being completely honest about what trans rights really means now, but seriously: what absolute incoherent activist gibberish! Some people adopt the label transgender for a wide variety of reasons that are currently oversimplified into the activist-crafted concept of “gender identity.” That’s not denying the existence of trans people. In fact, it demonstrates a much deeper understanding of people who identify as transgender than blindly accepting the existence of unfalsifiable, pseudoscientific identity claims. So basically, in BC, you have to believe in mystical invisible gender essences or face financial ruin. Here’s a video of me saying repeatedly, and very clearly, that I do not believe in gender identities. And in case I wasn’t clear the first 1,000 times I’ve said it, I’ll say it one more time for the record: I do not believe in gender identities. And I won’t ever pretend that I do.

The single most insane ruling thus far in the gender insanity came out of the BC Human Rights Commission yesterday. The tribunal ruled that saying you do not believe in gender identities amounts to the "existential denial" of trans people and is therefore discrimination. The school board trustee, Barry Neufeld, must now pay a $750,000 penalty for his lack of belief in gender souls. This quote from the ruling is particularly astonishing: “A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth.” At least they're being completely honest about what trans rights really means now, but seriously: what absolute incoherent activist gibberish! Some people adopt the label transgender for a wide variety of reasons that are currently oversimplified into the activist-crafted concept of “gender identity.” That’s not denying the existence of trans people. In fact, it demonstrates a much deeper understanding of people who identify as transgender than blindly accepting the existence of unfalsifiable, pseudoscientific identity claims. So basically, in BC, you have to believe in mystical invisible gender essences or face financial ruin. Here’s a video of me saying repeatedly, and very clearly, that I do not believe in gender identities. And in case I wasn’t clear the first 1,000 times I’ve said it, I’ll say it one more time for the record: I do not believe in gender identities. And I won’t ever pretend that I do.

302,975 views • 4 months ago

So they needlessly amputated this teenage boy's penis, before he'd even had a single sexual encounter. Then they made a patchwork quilt out of the harvested penile tissue, a section of his peritoneum lining, and a piece of his thigh skin and used that to line the cavity that they called a vagina. They had to make this ghoulish quilt because his doctors — in the total absence of credible science — had blocked his puberty so his penis didn't develop, meaning there wasn't enough penile tissue for the standard penile inversion vaginoplasty. And the reason they blocked his puberty is because he liked ballet, princess gowns, and a sparkly bathing suit when he was a child and so his mother told him he was a girl. Then, the day after his surgery, the patchwork quilt burst open and he had to be rushed back to the hospital, in agony, for a major revision. All this was caught on camera and watched by millions. Yet there wasn't rioting in the streets. Instead, this show played a major role in triggering the social contagion of kids seeking this deeply unethical medical pathway — and people started marching in the streets demanding that they receive it. This era will be studied in horror for centuries to come.

So they needlessly amputated this teenage boy's penis, before he'd even had a single sexual encounter. Then they made a patchwork quilt out of the harvested penile tissue, a section of his peritoneum lining, and a piece of his thigh skin and used that to line the cavity that they called a vagina. They had to make this ghoulish quilt because his doctors — in the total absence of credible science — had blocked his puberty so his penis didn't develop, meaning there wasn't enough penile tissue for the standard penile inversion vaginoplasty. And the reason they blocked his puberty is because he liked ballet, princess gowns, and a sparkly bathing suit when he was a child and so his mother told him he was a girl. Then, the day after his surgery, the patchwork quilt burst open and he had to be rushed back to the hospital, in agony, for a major revision. All this was caught on camera and watched by millions. Yet there wasn't rioting in the streets. Instead, this show played a major role in triggering the social contagion of kids seeking this deeply unethical medical pathway — and people started marching in the streets demanding that they receive it. This era will be studied in horror for centuries to come.

139,052 views • 3 months ago

History is littered with medical scandals, and at the centre of each, there were well-intentioned doctors who left a trail of devastation in their quest to help patients. The doctors who prescribed Thalidomide didn’t do so with the intention of causing major birth defects. The obstetricians who sent expectant mothers for prenatal X-rays didn’t deliberately set out to cause childhood leukemia. And the recovered memory therapists of the 80s truly believed they were helping victims of child sex abuse, when, guided by ideology, they implanted false memories of incest into the minds of hundreds of thousands of women, shattering families and destroying lives. There can be little doubt that paediatric gender medicine is destined to take its place in history alongside these medical catastrophes. Because not a single one of these kids is trans, and not a single one can possibly grasp the lifelong consequences of these interventions. And if they cannot comprehend the consequences, then these treatments are not appropriate for a single young person. Not one.

History is littered with medical scandals, and at the centre of each, there were well-intentioned doctors who left a trail of devastation in their quest to help patients. The doctors who prescribed Thalidomide didn’t do so with the intention of causing major birth defects. The obstetricians who sent expectant mothers for prenatal X-rays didn’t deliberately set out to cause childhood leukemia. And the recovered memory therapists of the 80s truly believed they were helping victims of child sex abuse, when, guided by ideology, they implanted false memories of incest into the minds of hundreds of thousands of women, shattering families and destroying lives. There can be little doubt that paediatric gender medicine is destined to take its place in history alongside these medical catastrophes. Because not a single one of these kids is trans, and not a single one can possibly grasp the lifelong consequences of these interventions. And if they cannot comprehend the consequences, then these treatments are not appropriate for a single young person. Not one.

203,632 views • 5 months ago

Why do early data suggest most detransitioners are female? Simple. Because the social contagion of the 2010s struck predominantly adolescent girls and that cohort is now reaching adulthood and realising they were sacrificed on the altar of trans activism

Why do early data suggest most detransitioners are female? Simple. Because the social contagion of the 2010s struck predominantly adolescent girls and that cohort is now reaching adulthood and realising they were sacrificed on the altar of trans activism

56,820 views • 1 month ago

WPATH is best understood as an extremist trans activist group that frighteningly contains many people with the license to practice medicine. They are guided by ideology and care nothing for evidence. Yet 🇨🇦 gender clinics proudly follow these fanatics.

WPATH is best understood as an extremist trans activist group that frighteningly contains many people with the license to practice medicine. They are guided by ideology and care nothing for evidence. Yet 🇨🇦 gender clinics proudly follow these fanatics.

12,273 views • 9 days ago

This is incoherent political gibberish being presented to children as fact. Incredible that no one at CBC Kids stopped to question what would be the ramifications of untethering a generation of kids from reality while they're still young enough to believe in Santa. The answer is legions of innocent young people misinterpreting the struggles of puberty as a sign they are transgender and lining up to get healthy body parts chopped off.

This is incoherent political gibberish being presented to children as fact. Incredible that no one at CBC Kids stopped to question what would be the ramifications of untethering a generation of kids from reality while they're still young enough to believe in Santa. The answer is legions of innocent young people misinterpreting the struggles of puberty as a sign they are transgender and lining up to get healthy body parts chopped off.

183,511 views • 8 months ago

Language matters. It's the difference between: A "trans woman breastfeeding her baby" and a paraphilic man—who has spent years masturbating to the fantasy of breastfeeding—using a newborn infant to fulfil his erotic desires. One sounds progressive, the other morally repulsive. Talked about this and much more in my latest interview with Peter Boghossian.

Language matters. It's the difference between: A "trans woman breastfeeding her baby" and a paraphilic man—who has spent years masturbating to the fantasy of breastfeeding—using a newborn infant to fulfil his erotic desires. One sounds progressive, the other morally repulsive. Talked about this and much more in my latest interview with Peter Boghossian.

163,969 views • 7 months ago

In our recent interview, Graham Linehan described the grim reality of why he moved to the US. “At the moment we have UK police basically acting as a goon squad for a bunch of petty criminals who have have started to wear dresses and found that they they have almost magical wizardry powers over the police forces in the UK.” This morning, Graham Linehan was arrested at Heathrow by that very goon squad for writing tweets that offended a man who claims to possess a magical woman soul. The UK is fully in the throes of totalitarianism.

In our recent interview, Graham Linehan described the grim reality of why he moved to the US. “At the moment we have UK police basically acting as a goon squad for a bunch of petty criminals who have have started to wear dresses and found that they they have almost magical wizardry powers over the police forces in the UK.” This morning, Graham Linehan was arrested at Heathrow by that very goon squad for writing tweets that offended a man who claims to possess a magical woman soul. The UK is fully in the throes of totalitarianism.

165,819 views • 9 months ago

There's never been a medical scandal like this one. Not even lobotomies, Thalidomide, or recovered memories. All pale in comparison to this conspiracy by prestigious institutions to medicalise the identities of healthy kids at the behest of a deranged political movement.

There's never been a medical scandal like this one. Not even lobotomies, Thalidomide, or recovered memories. All pale in comparison to this conspiracy by prestigious institutions to medicalise the identities of healthy kids at the behest of a deranged political movement.

100,885 views • 5 months ago

“You convince more people with satire than you do with rage. Because satire leads to self-awareness.” Just one of the many spot-on insights from our fabulous interview with journalist Jonathan Kay on this week’s Beyond Gender. The conversation is truly a balm for the soul.

“You convince more people with satire than you do with rage. Because satire leads to self-awareness.” Just one of the many spot-on insights from our fabulous interview with journalist Jonathan Kay on this week’s Beyond Gender. The conversation is truly a balm for the soul.

14,969 views • 18 days ago