Transgender issues

[Kryztian]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
Transbian:
"A contraction of the phrase "transsexual lesbian". A transbian is a male-to-female transsexual who is also a lesbian"

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I know two people who, I think, would be "transbians", although I don't think anyone actually uses this word. When you change your gender, I don't think it changes what sex you are attracted to. If you were a straight man and transition, then you become a gay woman, as far as I know.

One of them was my female friend's second husband and it was his second marriage too. His first wife died tragically. Their one son didn't handle it well, and didn't get the therapy and guidance he needed. The son become increasing angry, arrogant, violent, and, I would gather, eventually became criminal. While this was getting worse he and my friend divorced. Years later I heard the son had died, not sure of the circumstances, but I can imagine his violent behavior was a factor. A few year later, my friend told me that her ex had transitioned. My immediate thought was "I hope he's happy! After all the tragedy he's been through, he deserves happiness." (And my second thought was to go back and revise the pronouns in my first thought. )

My friend went to meet her ex for lunch. I had to ask my friend, what did it feel like to see her ex as a woman. Her answer: "Well, they are still the same person."

I also worked with a priest in an Episcopal church. We got along very well and I learned so much from her about theology, church history, liturgy, Orthodox Christianity, Catholicism, etc. We both usually got to work early so I got to ask her questions and she enjoyed sharing her knowledge. I noticed that she had a unusually large well structured nose, and she would occasionally talk about subjects to me like "transgender saints". (Which were usually woman who had to dress up as a man for some reason or other.) There were probably other clues, but I never picked up on. Years after I saw her, I looked at her Facebook page and noticed where she studied - at a Catholic seminary. I first thought "But they don't let women in Catholic seminaries" and then "Duh" - I realized how oblivious I had been.

I have to say she is a truly kind and gentle person whose weekday job is to help low income people find housing.

Oh good Lord, what now?

Is this really anything new? There haven't always been hormones and surgery and the makeup technology has vastly improved, but trans people have been around a long time. In certain tribal cultures, the trans concept has a long history. Isn't there room in our modern culture for all people to pursue a path towards happiness?

[Bill Ryan]

This is why the ETs don't land.

• https://www.infowars.com/posts/nearl...as-transgender

Nearly Three Million Americans Now Identify as Transgender



Nearly three million Americans, or 1% of the US population, now identify as transgender.

According to new research from the Williams Institute, 76% of individuals who identify as transgender—a total of 2.8 million—are younger than 35. Twenty-five percent are between the ages of 13 and 17: 724,000 teenagers.

The report states that the racial composition of transgenderism closely mirrors the racial composition of the US.

Roughly a third of individuals who identify as transgender identify as women; a third as men; and a third as nonbinary.

The Williams Institute has produced reports on transgenderism in the US since 2022. In that year, it estimated the number to be 1.6 million, meaning the number has increased by around 75% in just three years.

Researchers based their findings on survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, and created statistical models.

“Younger generations are more likely to identify as transgender, and we expect that trend to continue,” said lead author of the report, Jody Herman, in a statement.

“Youth and young adults are more likely to identify as transgender due to a variety of factors, including a greater willingness among younger individuals to disclose that they identify as transgender on surveys.”

[Tintin]

It's a pity that the 2nd parts to these very interesting podcasts are locked behind membership schemes; I don't have spare money for these sorts of commitments unfortunately. Anyhow, although I haven't had a listen, yet, it's saved for later now. Little doubt that there are entity attachments behind the transgender issue, and malign ones at that. The detransitioner experience is so very important to acknowledge and understand

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Detransitioning, Sub-personalities and Spirit Attachments w/ Layton | TCM #129 (Part 1)

Veil of Reality (link)

Laura and Bernhard talk to Layton about her journey of de-transitioning. Having left a religious cult and then the cult of gender ideology, she is passionate about educating others about mental health, healing, and spirituality in a way that is founded on the principles of Occult Science and heavily emphasizes personal autonomy, wholeness, embodiment, and self-transformation.

Layton shares her experiences, what caused her to de-transition, how trauma, sub-personalities, and spirit attachments played a role, how she healed, and her advice for anyone who is or who you may know who is going through something similar.

Layton’s links:

– Website: https://psychicsomatic.com
– Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PsychicSomatics
– Twitter: https://twitter.com/origina1ange1

AUDIO:

Show Notes Part 1:
- Layton’s background
- The importance of somatic work for psychic development
- Trauma, dissociation, addiction, and Layton’s experience in a religious cult
- Layton’s Near Death Experience and hitting rock bottom
- Encounters with demonic entities from the lower astral realm
- Layton seeing a therapist and being diagnosed with Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
- Layton’s Introduction to Occult Science
- Layton being encouraged by a therapist to embrace that part of her that feels like a man and change her gender
- Sub-personalities [based on Trauma] and entities/spirit attachments that “inspired” her to “become a man”
- Layton’s confusion and how the gender clinic ignored her hesitancy and pressured her to change her gender via hormone therapy
- Layton’s physical and psychic experiences once she started the process
- The detrimental effects of testosterone therapy
- Different kinds of entity attachments and how they enter us
- How earthbound spirit attachments of the opposite sex result in gender confusion
- How locations can be hosting locations for entities
- The social contagion of transgenderism and gender diversity
- The importance of knowing the difference between a wounded part of yourself as opposed to an entity attachment
- Any entity attachment/inference needs an entry point
- How Layton learned to protect herself from entity interferences via somatic work
- How artwork, used things/furniture, and clothes can contain malevolent energies
- The teaching function of the occult hostile forces
- There is a necessity to recognize the spiritual reality with the psychological work

[Tintin]

Not one usually given to just posting a meme, without any preamble (< ) but, this just couldn't make it any plainer :

[Johnnycomelately]

Latvia has pulled out of a formal convention, the Istanbul Convention of 2011, concerning personal rights about gender things.

I can see that this story is relevant to the present battle, but would like anyone’s comments on how it might affect things.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn09x7jpvw7o

Latvian vote to pull out of treaty on protecting women from violence prompts outcry.

Paul Kirby

Oct 31, 2025

Latvian MPs have voted to withdraw from an international accord aimed at protecting women from violence, including domestic abuse, after a long and intense debate in parliament.
Several thousand people protested against the vote this week in Riga. It is now up to President Edgars Rinkevics to decide whether to approve the law or not.
Known as the Istanbul Convention, the 2011 treaty only came into force in Latvia last year, requiring governments to develop laws and support services to end all violence.
Latvia is the first EU country to move towards pulling out of the treaty. Turkey withdrew in 2021, a move described as a huge setback by top human rights body the Council of Europe.
It is a setback for centre-right Prime Minister Evika Silina, who joined protesters outside parliament earlier this week. "We will not give up, we will fight so that violence does not win," she told them.
The treaty was ratified by the EU in 2023, however ultra-conservative groups have argued that the accord's focus on gender equality undermines family values and promotes "gender ideology".
After a 13-hour debate in the Saeima, Latvian MPs voted by 56 to 32 to withdraw from the treaty, in a move sponsored by opposition parties but backed by politicians from one of the three coalition parties, the Union of Greens and Farmers.
One of the main political groups behind the withdrawal is Latvia First, whose leader Ainars Slesers has called on Latvians to choose between a "natural family" and a "gender ideology with multiple sexes".
Latvia's ombudswoman Karina Palkova called for the treaty not to be politicised, and the group Equality Now said it was "not a threat to Latvian values, it was a tool to realise them".
Thursday's vote has prompted an outcry both within Latvia and beyond.
Twenty-two thousand people have signed a Latvian petition not to drop the treaty. Women's rights group Centrs Marta has called a protest next Thursday, accusing MPs of not listening to the Latvian people.
The head of the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly, Theodoros Rousopoulos, said Latvia had made a hasty decision fuelled by disinformation. It was, he said, an "unprecedented and deeply worrying step backwards for women's rights and human rights in Europe".
Since Turkey abandoned the treaty four years ago, femicide and violence against women had risen sharply, he added.
As the vote did not win a two-thirds majority, it means the president could return the bill for another reading, if he has objections.
President Rinkevics said on X that he would assess the decision under the constitution, "taking into account state and legal, rather than ideological or political, considerations".
Last week another member of the ruling coalition, the Progressives, said it would not rule out appealing to the Constitutional Court.
Women are more likely to be victims of partner violence than men, according to the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), an EU agency.
In its latest figures, EIGE said 142 incidents of intimate partner violence against women were reported across Latvia in 2022. This was above the 109 offences recorded in 2021 but below the totals in the previous three years and during the Covid pandemic.

[bbow73]

Biology isn’t sociology.

[bbow73]

Children don’t get sex reassignment surgery.

[bbow73]

The relationship between sex & gender is like race and ethnicity.
A Japanese couple can adopt an Irish baby (maybe the baby is even born in Japan), and the kid grows up speaking Japanese, living according to Japanese culture & customs… and be Japanese ethnically but racially Irish… or whatever.

Yeah, trans women are male, duh. If they weren’t then they’d be cis women… thus the adjectives.


I think it’s hard for people to understand bc most folks don’t care enough to learn specifics of gender past what is used and is accurate for 99% of the population. Definitions have magnitudes, and advanced definitions have authority over general definitions, even if superfluous. Pluto is a planet by a general definition but not when held up to the definition used by Astronomers.

“adult human female” is a basic and general definition that works for 99% of the population of women bc 99% of women have sex/gender congruence.
The definition that articulates the significance of womanhood includes cis and trans women:
A person with the presentation, expression, and concept of self, consistent the their culture and generation’s concept of femininity and womanhood, demonstrated by consistence, persistence and insistence in being a woman.

The fear of trans women as sex predators is ridiculous.
Most trans women are only attracted to other trans people, mostly trans women.
Some are only attracted to men.
A lot are asexual or demisexual, and almost all trans women are “bottoms”. Idk why so many are bottoms, maybe bc of bottom dysphoria (another reason why trans people are less sexual) or the way HRT contributes to impotence or a reduced libido. Idk what the percentages are but trans women are only 35% of trans people. The of the small handful of trans women that are sex offenders, the overwhelming majority of those cases are between domestic partners (usually another trans person).
My theory is that people think trans women as a whole are hyper-sexual bc of trans porn (which is also ridiculous bc most trans porn I’ve seen isn’t with trans women but just femboys). I’ve been intimate with about 100 trans partners and it is nothing like that stupid porn (made by cis men for cis men). Maybe they also think trans women are hyper-sexual bc sexual bc of transfemme social media. I can understand why an outsider might make the assumption but it’s completely ignorant. Trans people go through a second puberty (and all that this implies in terms of cringy behavior that will later be an embarrassing regret… ecstatic over new discoveries and catastrophizing from hormonal spikes). It’s all the kind of posturing and exploration that you’d see anyone do after a major life change, but in this case it’s tied to how you experience yourself and social relationships.

I’m only in here every once in a while (my cis lesbian girlfriend demands a lot of attention) so I’m probably not going to see any criticisms… so… I know more than you about gender. I will always know more about you about gender by necessity. I am forced to be an expert on gender issues to defend and validate my peaceful existence. I resent that I’ve *had* to learn about how not to get sexually assaulted, gender crime statistics, gender sociology, sexual biology, sexual discrimination judicial precedents, genders sports, developmental biology, pharmacology, Medical billing codes, insurance policies, every transphobic bill introduced in every state house, and how to get past conforming to male standards of femininity for survival. I’d rather have spent that time sewing, playing my modular synth,making jewelry, making kitbashed Star Wars figures or podcasting about anime.

[Sue (Ayt)]

Ha - I imagine that the trans community will raise a stink about this announcement. It always seemed fishy to me that Rachel, born Richard Leland Levine, didn't transition until his/her mid 50's. It appears the name on the portrait was quietly changed during the shutdown.
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HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait



As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

Only one of those portraits is of a transgender person: Adm. Rachel Levine, who served for four years as President Biden's assistant secretary for health. She was the first transgender person to win Senate confirmation, and her portrait has been displayed in the hallway since soon after she was confirmed in 2021. The role is a four-star admiral position in charge of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.

Levine's official portrait was recently altered, a spokesperson for HHS confirmed to NPR. A digital photograph of the portrait in the hallway obtained by NPR shows that Levine's previous name is now typed below the portrait, under the glass of the frame.
more at link

[Tintin]

Powerful commentary here from none other than Germaine Greer in the Independent Magazine from 1989: