Mia Hughes
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Director of Policy and Research at Genspect | Senior fellow at MacDonald-Laurier Institute | Co-host of Beyond Gender | Author of the WPATH Files
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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.
Mia Hughes724,401 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
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.
Mia Hughes2,142,163 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад
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.
Mia Hughes910,089 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
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.
Mia Hughes377,998 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
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.
Mia Hughes303,162 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад
As the gender house of cards rapidly collapses, untold numbers of good decent people are learning that with the best of intentions, they supported something truly evil. I constantly find myself wondering what is going on in their minds as that realisation hits. Take those who supported Canada's conversion therapy ban. Do those who campaigned for it understand the monster they unleashed? And if so, how does that feel? Today's guest on Beyond Gender answered those questions for me, and many more. Peter Gajdics was at the forefront of the campaign to ban conversion therapy in Canada, propelled by his own horrifying experiences as a young adult. He now realises that he inadvertently campaigned for the new conversion therapy occurring in gender clinics. One of the most important interviews Stella O'Malley and I have ever done. So many haunting moments.
Mia Hughes58,004 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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
Mia Hughes159,719 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
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.
Mia Hughes203,811 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
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.
Mia Hughes232,001 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад
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.
Mia Hughes141,907 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад
With the sensational case of Christine Jorgensen in the 1950s, the private sexual fantasies of autogynephilic men quickly solidified into an all-consuming quest to undergo vaginoplasty. Early psychiatrists noted how many of the men seeking these drastic surgeries reported being unable to think of anything else from the moment they heard such a surgery was possible. It has long been recognised that the availability of a medical treatment has the power to iatrogenically create the demand for that treatment because it gives hope to people in distress. In the 19th century, surgeons removed the healthy ovaries of women as a cure for mental illness. This led to a mini epidemic of women fixating on their ovaries as the source of their distress and begging surgeons to operate. This often overlooked iatrogenic mechanism is one reason why the continued availability of puberty blockers is so dangerous. As long as puberty suppression remains a treatment option, it will draw young people who hate their developing bodies into thinking that blocking that development is the miracle cure for all that ails them. In today’s episode of Beyond Gender, Stella O'Malley interviews me and the fabulous Malcolm Clark about wannabe amputees, trans, the weird world of fetishes, and much more. 🎧Premiering now
Mia Hughes56,076 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
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
Mia Hughes82,421 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
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.
Mia Hughes183,511 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад
Author Peter Gajdics poured decades of his life into campaigning for a ban on conversion therapy, so no one else would ever have to suffer the way he had. Then, as victory was in sight, along came the trans movement and its incoherent demands for the medical conversion of healthy bodies in gender clinics. And they snatched his victory away. It's the equivalent of me and Stella O'Malley, battle-worn after decades of fighting for care that doesn't involve the destruction of healthy bodies, suddenly finding ourselves bewilderingly force-teamed with the scalpel-happy body modification crowd. Honestly haven't been able to stop thinking about this part of our conversation for weeks now.
Mia Hughes27,065 просмотров • 1 месяц назад
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.
Mia Hughes57,988 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
McMaster University is the birthplace of evidence-based medicine. It is also one of the most prestigious universities in Canada. On its website, there is a statement, signed by Dr. Gordan Guyatt, calling paediatric gender medicine "medically necessary." This statement is false, and McMaster University knows that. If the university had so much as a shred of integrity, the statement would be removed and an apology issued for spreading dangerous misinformation about a highly contested, invasive medical protocol. My message to McMaster one year on from the infamous Guyatt interview⬇️
Mia Hughes10,862 просмотров • 14 дней назад
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.
Mia Hughes165,819 просмотров • 1 год назад
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.
Mia Hughes108,396 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад