One sign that you're caught in an Oedipus Trap: instead of defending your beliefs or actions, you lash out at anyone who asks even the gentlest questions. Because answering means addressing the possibility you're wrong, which is psychologically unbearable even to contemplate.

The Spinoff is spreading misinformation in an article by Julie de Bres. De Bres makes the same accusation about 100 studies being set aside by the Cass Report that are now the subjects of rebuttals published by the BBC and the The Times and The Sunday Times thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-04-… /1

We’ve been told that the “experts” know best this whole time & when Dr Case spends 4 years researching puberty blockers & “gender affirming care” we get told ‘but here’s a mum who has 2 trans kids & stuck one of them on PBs at 10yo says PBs are fine so end of story’.

Ultimately, I think the 'side' people end up on when it comes to pediatric gender medicine is just a function of whether they find frothing, incoherent mania more or less upsetting than open, shameless lying. 90% of the discourse is one or the other and you have to choose!

A primary goal of trans ideology is to break down the boundaries of women and girls, making them evermore vulnerable and defenceless to predators. This is why I call it a predator rights movement

Moving from GIMP to Affinity Photo.

I love GIMP but damn, adjustment layers are amazing. Such a time-saver.

Dr Eldridge seems to believe that fictional time-travelling aliens are a better source of scientific evidence assessment than a battery of scientists from York University

Jesse Singal People talk about how great new media is but the ideological skew (driven by financial incentive to appease a single group of viewers) seems even worse than MSM in many cases. It's just the same dynamic but for different audiences

When your ideology is based on hallucination, your MP's say things like this:

The 'no debate' mantra of trans activists was not a polite request to avoid discussing a difficult and personal issue. It was a threat backed by campaigns to destroy people's lives if they transgressed in any way.

'By contracting PATHA to write the new guidelines for gender healthcare, due in August this year, the Ministry of Health has shown us that they are digging in. It’s like giving the tobacco lobby the contract for Quitline.' pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/mat…

Matt Doocey doubles down on trans “healthcare” pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/mat…

First time in my life I've seen a government department issuing a press release *secretly*

You know that a government dept is panicking when they put out a press release *in secret*.

Many years ago, insudeOut responded to a critique of blockers by publishing this graphic.

It implied that criticizing either blockers or medicalisiing kids with dysphoria would result in trans people being beaten with weapons.

What's likely? What's unlikely?

If chances are slight, what are the odds?🧵

If you ask people to assign numbers to these terms, here's what you get: