ΚΑΤΙ ΔΕΝ ΠΑΕΙ ΚΑΛΑ - 20

Transgenderism and the Olympics

Ned Barnett (americanthinker.com, 26/11/2019)

Next year’s Tokyo Summer Olympics may spell the swift death of the transgender movement as a dominant politically-correct touchstone. Biological men, self-identifying as women, are poised to make a clean sweep of the Women’s Olympics, triggering a very public debate on this third-rail subject. That firestorm, pitting pro-women feminists against extreme pro-transgender progressives, will begin July 24^th, just as the Presidential sweepstakes moves into its sprint to the finish line. 

The International Olympic Committee -- the IOC -- recently admitted they couldn’t come up with fair guidelines governing how and when transgender women can compete as women, against biological women. Currently, the IOC says self-identified women can compete, so long as their testosterone level remains below 10 nanomoles per liter (nm/l) for 12 months. Typically, men have between 7.7 and 29.4 nm/l of testosterone, while women have between 0.12 and 1.77 nm/l. Under those IOC guidelines, hormonally-restricted men can still maintain nearly 500 percent testosterone advantage over women. 

However, the real benefit transgender women experience, according to recent studies by Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, a leading medical university, is found in their masculine bone structure and upper body strength. This develops throughout puberty, making current testosterone levels largely insignificant.  These masculine genetic benefits are the very reason for women’s athletics. 

“Not every male advantage dissipates when testosterone drops” according to Alison Heather, a physiologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. “Some advantages, such as their bigger bone structure, greater lung capacity, and larger heart size remain. Testosterone also promotes muscle memory. Transgender women have a heightened ability to build strength even after they transition,” Heather explained.

Olympic Gold Medalist Paula Radcliffe called it “naïve” not to think transgender women “will become a threat to female sport, asserting “people will manipulate the system.”  She tweeted that “If you are born and grow up male you cannot be allowed to compete in female sports simply because you ‘identify’ as female.  It makes a mockery of the definitions of male and female sports categories.”

High-profile tennis phenom and outspoken lesbian advocate Martina Navratilova, concurred, raising concerns over the equity of transgender women competing against biological women.  “A man can decide to be female… win everything in sight, earn a small fortune, then reverse his decision.  Letting men compete as women - simply because they change their name and take hormones -- is unfair.” 

British Olympics Silver medalist Sharron Davies agreed. “There is a fundamental difference between the binary sex you are born with and the gender you may identify as.  To protect women’s sport, those with a male sex advantage should not be able to compete in women’s sport.”

This potentially devastating trend has shown up in recent pre-Olympic international sporting competitions, where men identifying as women took the Gold.  These recent routs generated a howl from a few outraged feminist groups, though the mainstream media -- siding with transgender interests over traditional feminist interests -- have largely shut them out. Without a media voice, this controversy has had all the dynamics of a tempest in a teapot. One feminist activist, Women’s Liberation Front board member Kara Dansky told Fox’s Tucker Carlson that CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post had all shut her group out. Only Fox had the courage to give them a voice.

However, that suppression can’t last.  This internecine brouhaha will really hit the fan next July, when men competing as women start racking up Olympic Gold – at the expense of biological women who physically can’t compete with larger, stronger men. When the 2020 Summer Olympics arrive, media suppression of feminist concerns will change.          

In fact, the change has already begun.

One controversial case involves a bio-man now calling herself Laurel Hubbard. Before conversion, he’d competed as a man in Olympic-caliber weightlifting events, well into his 30s, before he transitioned at age 35.  Recently, she took two Golds and a Silver at the games in Samoa, dominating three women’s heavyweight lifting categories.  In response, New Zealand-based Speak Up For Women is demanding that males be barred from competing as women, regardless of their claims of transgender womanhood.  While a similar feminist sports advocacy group in Great Britain also spoke out against Hubbard, the IOC proved unable or unwilling to address the issue. 

Hubbard isn’t an isolated example. Wired.com reports that, in the United States, transgender college competitor CeCé Telfer recently won the NCAA Division II National Championship in the 400-meter run. Last month, transgender athlete June Eastwood’s victory helped her Montana State Grizzlies team finish first at the Montana Invitational.

Transgender girls are also competing in high school athletics, shutting out other girls at every turn. For instance, Terry Miller recently won the girl’s 200-meter dash at the Connecticut State Open track championship. Miller and fellow transgender athlete Christiana Holcomb dominated Connecticut, winning 15 state championship titles -- as girls -- this year.

These self-identified women are all on the fast track to Olympic Gold.  Helen Carroll, who worked on the NCAA Transgender Handbook, estimates that, although only three tenths of one percent (0.3%) of Americans identify as transgender, there are 200 transgender women in NCAA sports today. That disproportionate representation ensures that there’s a lot of Olympic Gold out there that young women won’t have a prayer of winning.  This reflects the state of transgender women in sports here and worldwide. The mainstream media has kept a very PC lid on the outrage expressed by some feminist groups, but the 2020 Olympics will change that.

This quadrennial competition will take place live in millions of homes next summer. The Olympics are typically watched by more than a billion people worldwide – including more than 25 million Americans at any one time. Many of these viewers will, for the first time, be confronted by biological men “identifying as women,” competing as transgender women, taking advantage of their huge natural advantage, allowing these biological men to dominate women athletes. 

Since the core purpose of the feminist movement has always been to help prevent women from being dominated by men, this transgender inclusion in competition will inevitably create a huge rift within progressive circles. Lines will be drawn between those feminists -- and other progressives -- who hold fealty to all politically-correct causes, seeing them as more important than their own cause. They will be pitted against other feminists who feel that biological women athletes should not have to compete with men. These feminists will be joined by millions of fair-minded Americans, who will watch, horrified, while transgender women capture the medals and marginalize true women athletes. 

This internal debate may come down to numbers. Traditional feminists will demand, “do you support we who make up 51 percent of the population -- or do you support the dominant rights of a minority that includes fewer than a third of one percent of the human population?”  When that split comes, it could deconstruct the entire progressive coalition. Currently, that umbrella of competing needs appears to be held together by duct tape and baling wire.

Worse for them, this disastrous inner debate will occur in public, during the titanic political face-off between an extreme progressive who’ll be running against the more traditional Trump.  This controversy is sure to deepen America’s left-right rift, shattering the Democrats’ fragile progressive coalition into a myriad shards of small hyper-special interest groups. Especially hard hit will be those who insist that they’re truly special and actually deserve -- demand -- support from all progressives.

ΚΑΤΙ ΔΕΝ ΠΑΕΙ ΚΑΛΑ - 16

"υπάρχουν άντρες και γυναίκες που γεννιούνται 

με τα γενετικά χαρακτηριστικά ενός φύλου και 

τα σεξουαλικά όργανα ενός άλλου"

ΘΑ ΣΕ ΚΑΝΩ ΝΕΡΑΪΔΑ - 2

To μεγαλύτερο παιδί της, o επτάχρονος Τζάκσον, ο οποίος υιοθετήθηκε από τη Σαρλίζ Θερόν από τη Νότια Αφρική το 2012, όταν ήταν μωρό παρουσιάστηκε από την ίδια ως ο γιος της. Ο Τζάκσον είναι ο πρωταγωνιστής δεκάδων σχολίων. Όλοι μιλούσαν και μιλούν για τη Σαρλίζ που ανέτρεφε τον Τζάκσον ως κορίτσι! Παπαράτσι φωτογραφίες του παιδιού που φοράει φούστες και φορέματα και με μακριές πλεξούδες στα μαλλιά, έκαναν τα κουτσομπολιά του Χόλιγουντ να γιγαντώνονται . 

Η συνέντευξη που παραχώρησε η Σαρλίζ Θερόν στη «Daily Mail» εξηγεί τους λόγους για τους οποίους ντύνει τον υιοθετημένο της γιο με γυναικεία ρούχα και έχει δημιουργεί τεράστιο θόρυβο. 

«Ναι, και εγώ αρχικά νόμιζα ότι ήταν αγόρι. Μέχρι που με κοίταξε στα μάτια όταν ήταν τριών ετών και μου είπε: "Δεν είμαι αγόρι". Αυτή είναι λοιπόν η αλήθεια. Έχω δύο πανέμορφες κόρες, τις οποίες, όπως κάθε γονιός, θέλω να προστατέψω και να δω να προχωράνε στη ζωή. Γεννήθηκαν έτσι και δεν είναι στο δικό μου χέρι να αποφασίσω πώς θα εξελιχθούν μεγαλώνοντας. Δουλειά μου ως γονιός είναι να τις αγαπώ και να διασφαλίζω ότι έχουν ό,τι χρειάζονται για να γίνουν αυτό που θέλουν. Θα κάνω ότι μπορώ ώστε τα παιδιά μου να έχουν αυτό το δικαίωμα και να είναι προστατευμένα σε αυτό το πλαίσιο», απάντησε στην ερώτηση που της έγινε, προσθέτοντας την οριστκή της απόφαση να μην συμβιβαστεί ,με όποιο θέμα αφορά στην ευτυχία των παιδιών της. Όπως τόνισε, είναι αποφασισμένη να λέει την αλήθεια στα παιδιά της και για τα παιδιά της. (thetoc.gr, 20/4/2019)

ΘΑ ΣΕ ΚΑΝΩ ΝΕΡΑΪΔΑ - 1

Stop this trans exploitation of children

At last, clinicians are speaking out about the rush to ‘transition’ gender-confused kids.

 Joanna Williams (spiked-online.com, 11/4/2019)

At last medical professionals are raising questions about the treatment of transgender children. For too long doctors, teachers and social workers have quietly conspired in a view that children who question their gender are trans and that they need to have this identity affirmed along with a new name and pronouns, different clothes, counselling, perhaps a medical referral, hormone therapy and, later, surgery. Now, finally, five clinicians from the NHS’s gender clinic for children, the Tavistock Centre, have gone public with concerns about the centre’s practice in interviews with Lucy Bannerman of The Times.

They question the impact of counselling that simply confirms a child’s gender confusion. They warn that vulnerable children and teenagers have ‘been sent down the path towards transition’ without sufficient time to assess whether this is the right course of action. Most damningly of all, they challenge the practice of prescribing children with hormone blockers to halt their sexual development. The long-term impact of this medication on a child’s brain is still unknown. Meanwhile, irreversible cross-sex hormones that lead to infertility can be prescribed to children from the age of 16. There would be outrage if any other group in society was being experimented on in this way. Yet for children, often very vulnerable children, the label ‘transgender’ means all ethical standards are abandoned.

One problem for the Tavistock clinicians is that well-funded advocacy groups like Mermaids provide resources and forums for parents and children to share information about the most effective way of securing particular outcomes in advance of any counselling. All those who spoke to The Times said they believed that transgender charities were having a ‘harmful’ effect by ‘allegedly promoting transition as a cure-all solution for confused adolescents’. In this way, adult campaigners exploit children to further their own agenda. The frequently quoted retort that it is better to have ‘a living girl than a dead boy’ is the most despicable and manipulative example of the kind of emotional blackmail that is sadly effective when it comes to securing medical interventions.

The clinicians now speaking out expressed concern that the label ‘transgender’ is often erroneously applied to children who may be struggling with their sexuality and would otherwise grow up to be gay or lesbian. They report that many children decided they wanted to change gender after suffering homophobic bullying, ‘yet these young people were still referred down the route of hormone treatment’. This seems to be a particular issue for young girls who find it far more socially acceptable to come out as a boy than to come out as a lesbian. Although gay conversion therapy is illegal, it is acceptable to ‘normalise’ children by turning them into heterosexual members of the opposite gender.

Sadly, charities such as Stonewall who have traditionally advocated for gay and lesbian rights are not calling out this new incarnation of discrimination. They are far too busy aligning themselves with the trans activists and calling out The Times coverage as ‘damaging and misleading’. Taking up the trans cause might justify Stonewall’s continued existence (and funding) now that there are few legal or cultural battles left to be won for gay rights, but once more we see children exploited for adult gains.

Yet rather than questioning the role of Stonewall or Mermaids, and rather than praising The Times for its public-interest journalism, Labour MP Stephen Doughty was among many activists and ‘allies’ who rushed to Twitter with accusations of bigotry and transphobia against the newspaper. Being labelled transphobic, alongside the bullying, intimidation and abuse that vocal proponents of the trans movement unleash, leaves many people too fearful to speak out.

There has been a huge increase in the number of children querying their gender identity. In 2010 there were 94 referrals to the Tavistock Clinic; by 2018 this had risen to 2,519. The youngest child referred was just three years old. Of course, these children need to be treated with the utmost compassion. These are undoubtedly troubled, vulnerable children. Some researchers have identified a link between autistic traits and confusion about gender identity; others point out that transgender children are more likely to self-harm. The medical professionals who spoke to The Times described the children who are referred to the Tavistock for ‘experimental treatment’ as ‘very vulnerable children, who have experienced mental-health difficulties, abuse, family trauma.’

The vulnerability of this group of children should be reason enough to avoid rushing into life-changing decisions. But parents who advise caution are all too often told by advocacy groups and health professionals that they are the problem. Schools allow children to change their name, pronouns and dress irrespective of the wishes of their parents. The ultimate sanction for parents who prevent their child from changing gender is that their child is removed from the parental home and put into care.

Sometimes, of course, it is not the children but the parents who need counselling. There is a huge difference between a troubled older teenager and a toddler or child still in primary school. Toddlers know nothing about the world – they are as likely to identify as a train as a member of the opposite sex. Parents of three-year-olds need to be told in no uncertain terms that if their son likes to wear a dress or their daughter likes to play with cars, then they have a perfectly normal child who needs to be nowhere near the Tavistock Clinic. By the same token, it would be helpful to these parents if teachers weren’t encouraged to confuse such young children by asking them to choose their gender.

The clinicians who have now spoken out about the rush to label and medicalise transgender children should be praised for starting a badly needed public debate. But we need to talk about far more than medical interventions. We need to ask why young people see changing gender as a positive thing to do and question the role of schools, advocacy groups, social workers and health professionals in promoting this view.

Joanna Williams is associate editor at www.spiked-online.com, writer of the book Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars

ΠΡΟΒΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗΣ QUEER ΔΥΣΤΟΠΙΑΣ ΤΩΡΑ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ - 1

Έντονη ήταν η αντίδραση του Σωματείου Διεμφυλικών που προχώρησε σε μία οργισμένη ανακοίνωση κατά της Καταιρίνας Καινούργιου, για σχόλια που ακούστηκαν από την ίδια και το πάνελ της εκπομπής της με αφορμή την πρόσφατη επίσκεψη της Κέιτλιν Τζένερ στην Αθήνα.

Στην καταγγελία του, το ΣΥΔ εκφράζει την οργή του την κακοποίηση που υφίστανται τρανς άτομα από εγχώρια μέσα ενημέρωσης που τους προσφωνούν σε λάθος γένος (misgengering). Τονίζει δε ότι επιφυλάσσεται για κάθε νόμιμη ενέργεια στην περίπτωση που τα τρανς πρόσωπα κακοποιούνται στη δημόσια σφαίρα.

Η ανακοίνωση έχει ως εξής:

Το Σωματείο Υποστήριξης Διεμφυλικών (ΣΥΔ), μη κυβερνητική οργάνωση εθελοντικού χαρακτήρα για την προαγωγή των δικαιωμάτων και ελευθεριών των τρανς, φυλοδιαφορετικών ανθρώπων, καταγγέλλει με έντονο τρόπο τον συνεχή κακοποιητικό λόγο κατά των τρανς ανθρώπων, και ιδιαίτερα την προσφώνηση σε λάθος γένος (misgendering) στα μέσα ενημέρωσης στη χώρα μας.

Αφορμή γι' αυτήν την παρέμβαση είναι η τηλεοπτική εκπομπή «Ευτυχείτε» του καναλιού Open TV που παρουσιάζει η Κατερίνα Καινούργιου, στην οποία αναφέρθηκε γνωστή αμερικανίδα τρανς γυναίκα που επισκέπτεται τη χώρα μας, όχι μόνο εν γνώσει της παρουσιάστριας, αλλά με ηθελημένο τρόπο από την ίδια και τους συνομιλητές της, στο αντρικό γένος. Μπορείτε να δείτε το παρακάτω σχετικό βίντεο.

Η αναφορά, και μάλιστα η ηθελημένη και εν γνώσει αναφορά (που εν προκειμένω είναι παραπάνω από προφανής), στο λάθος γένος, στιγματίζει, κακοποιεί και αποτελεί απεχθή βία για λόγους ταυτότητας φύλου, καθώς αμφισβητεί την ταυτοτική υπόστασή τους, θέτει σε διακινδύνευση την προστασία της προσωπικότητάς τους καθώς αναπόσπαστο στοιχείο της προσωπικότητας των τρανς ανθρώπων αποτελεί η ταυτότητα φύλου τους, αποτελεί πολιτισμική και δομική βία που οδηγεί στη φυσική βία κατά των τρανς ανθρώπων, ενώ στρέφεται εναντίον μίας ομάδας ανθρώπων που υποφέρουν στο μέγιστο από τις διακρίσεις, τους αποκλεισμούς και τη βία.

Υπενθυμίζουμε ότι σύμφωνα με το Άρθρο 1 του ν. 4491/2017 (νομική αναγνώριση της ταυτότητας φύλου): «κάθε πρόσωπο έχει δικαίωμα στην αναγνώριση της ταυτότητας φύλου του» ενώ σε μία σειρά νομοθεσιών, ανάμεσα σ' αυτές το Άρθρο 81Α (ρατσιστική βία), ο αντιρατσιστικός νόμος (ν. 4285/2014), η νομοθεσία για την ίση μεταχείριση (ν. 4443/2016), και άλλες, συμπεριλαμβάνουν στις κατηγορίες έννομης προστασίας και την ταυτότητα φύλου. Πέραν ακόμη της κείμενης νομοθεσίας, αξίζει να αναφέρουμε τις κατευθύνσεις του Συνηγόρου του Πολίτη, σύμφωνα με τις οποίες, σε κάθε περίπτωση πρέπει να γίνεται σεβαστή και αποδεκτή η ταυτότητα φύλου των τρανς προσώπων σε κάθε πτυχή της καθημερινότητάς τους, ενώ ενδεικτική είναι πρόσφατη νομολογία δικαστηρίου που αποφάσισε ότι η αναφορά σε λάθος γένος και όνομα αποτελεί είδος κακοποίησης.

Το Σωματείο Υποστήριξης Διεμφυλικών, μάλιστα, έχει εκδώσει από το 2014 το βιβλίο «Ταυτότητα και Έκφραση Φύλου. Ορισμοί, στερεότυπα, διακρίσεις και μύθοι» (το οποίο επανεκδόθηκε σε αναθεωρημένη έκδοση από την Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών, ακριβώς ώστε να μη συμβαίνουν παρόμοια περιστατικά και στο πλαίσιο ενημέρωσης της κοινωνίας, αλλά και των επαγγελματιών των ΜΜΕ καθώς και άλλων επαγγελματιών (υγείας, εκπαίδευσης κ.α.) και είναι διαθέσιμο δωρεάν.

Δηλώνουμε, τέλος, με κατηγορηματικό τρόπο ότι επιφυλασσόμαστε για κάθε νόμιμη ενέργειά μας σε κάθε περίπτωση που τα τρανς πρόσωπα κακοποιούνται στη δημόσια σφαίρα, και ανάμεσα στις μορφές κακοποίησης και έμφυλης βίας, εμπίπτει με σαφή τρόπο το misgendering. (news247.gr)

Η Κέιτλιν Τζάνερ, πατέρας των Καρντάσιαν, με τη συντροφό της στην Ακρόπολη

ΚΑΤΙ ΔΕΝ ΠΑΕΙ ΚΑΛΑ - 12

Four years ago, I wrote about my decision to live as a woman in The New York Times, writing that I had wanted to live “authentically as the woman that I have always been,” and had “effectively traded my white male privilege to become one of America’s most hated minorities.”

Three years ago, I decided that I was neither male nor female, but nonbinary—and made headlines after an Oregon judge agreed to let me identify as a third sex, not male or female.

Now, I want to live again as the man that I am.

I’m one of the lucky ones. Despite participating in medical transgenderism for six years, my body is still intact. Most people who desist from transgender identities after gender changes can’t say the same.

But that’s not to say I got off scot-free. My psyche is eternally scarred, and I’ve got a host of health issues from the grand medical experiment.

Here’s how things began.

After convincing myself that I was a woman during a severe mental health crisis, I visited a licensed nurse practitioner in early 2013 and asked for a hormone prescription. “If you don’t give me the drugs, I’ll buy them off the internet,” I threatened.

Although she’d never met me before, the nurse phoned in a prescription for 2 mg of oral estrogen and 200 mg of Spironolactone that very same day.

The nurse practitioner ignored that I have chronic post-traumatic stress disorder, having previously served in the military for almost 18 years. All of my doctors agree on that. Others believe that I have bipolar disorder and possibly borderline personality disorder.

I should have been stopped, but out-of-control, transgender activism had made the nurse practitioner too scared to say no.

I’d learned how to become a female from online medical documents at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital website.

After I began consuming the cross-sex hormones, I started therapy at a gender clinic in Pittsburgh so that I could get people to sign off on the transgender surgeries I planned to have.

All I needed to do was switch over my hormone operating fuel and get my penis turned into a vagina. Then I’d be the same as any other woman. That’s the fantasy the transgender community sold me. It’s the lie I bought into and believed.

Only one therapist tried to stop me from crawling into this smoking rabbit hole. When she did, I not only fired her, I filed a formal complaint against her. “She’s a gatekeeper,” the trans community said.

Professional stigmatisms against “conversion therapy” had made it impossible for the therapist to question my motives for wanting to change my sex.

The “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (Fifth Edition) says one of the traits of gender dysphoria is believing that you possess the stereotypical feelings of the opposite sex. I felt that about myself, but yet no therapist discussed it with me.

Two weeks hadn’t passed before I found a replacement therapist. The new one quickly affirmed my identity as a woman. I was back on the road to getting vaginoplasty.

There’s abundant online literature informing transgender people that their sex change isn’t real. But when a licensed medical doctor writes you a letter essentially stating that you were born in the wrong body and a government agency or court of law validates that delusion, you become damaged and confused. I certainly did.

Painful Roots

My trauma history resembles a ride down the Highway of Death during the first Gulf War.

As a child, I was sexually abused by a male relative. My parents severely beat me. At this point, I’ve been exposed to so much violence and had so many close calls that I don’t know how to explain why I’m still alive. Nor do I know how to mentally process some of the things I’ve seen and experienced.

Dr. Ray Blanchard has an unpopular theory that explains why someone like me may have been drawn to transgenderism. He claims there are two types of transgender women: homosexuals that are attracted to men, and men who are attracted to the thought or image of themselves as females.

It’s a tough thing to admit, but I belong to the latter group. We are classified as having autogynephilia.

After having watched pornography for years while in the Army and being married to a woman who resisted my demands to become the ideal female, I became that female instead. At least in my head.

Jamie Shupe as a soldier at Fort Hood. (Photo: Jamie Shupe)

While autogynephilia was my motivation to become a woman, gender stereotypes were my means of implementation. I believed wearing a long wig, dresses, heels, and makeup would make me a woman.

Feminists begged to differ on that. They rejected me for conforming to female stereotypes. But as a new member of the transgender community, I beat up on them too. The women who become men don’t fight the transgender community’s wars. The men in dresses do.

Medical Malpractice

The best thing that could have happened would have been for someone to order intensive therapy. That would have protected me from my inclination to cross-dress and my risky sexual transgressions, of which there were many.

Instead, quacks in the medical community hid me in the women’s bathroom with people’s wives and daughters. “Your gender identity is female,” these alleged professionals said.

The medical community is so afraid of the trans community that they’re now afraid to give someone Blanchard’s diagnosis. Trans men are winning in medicine, and they’ve won the battle for language.

Think of the word “transvestite.” They’ve succeeded in making it a vulgar word, even though it just means men dressing like women. People are no longer allowed to tell the truth about men like me. Everyone now has to call us transgender instead.

The diagnostic code in my records at the VA should read Transvestic Disorder (302.3). Instead, the novel theories of Judith Butler and Anne Fausto-Sterling have been used to cover up the truths written about by Blanchard, J. Michael Bailey, and Alice Dreger.

I confess to having been motivated by autogynephilia during all of this. Blanchard was right.

Trauma, hypersexuality owing to childhood sexual abuse, and autogynephilia are all supposed to be red flags for those involved in the medical arts of psychology, psychiatry, and physical medicine—yet nobody except for the one therapist in Pittsburgh ever tried to stop me from changing my sex. They just kept helping me to harm myself.

Escaping to ‘Nonbinary’

Three years into my gender change from male to female, I looked hard into the mirror one day. When I did, the facade of femininity and womanhood crumbled.

Despite having taken or been injected with every hormone and antiandrogen concoction in the VA’s medical arsenal, I didn’t look anything like a female. People on the street agreed. Their harsh stares reflected the reality behind my fraudulent existence as a woman. Biological sex is immutable.

It took three years for that reality to set in with me.

When the fantasy of being a woman came to an end, I asked two of my doctors to allow me to become nonbinary instead of female to bail me out. Both readily agreed.

After pumping me full of hormones—the equivalent of 20 birth control pills per day—they each wrote a sex change letter. The two weren’t just bailing me out. They were getting themselves off the hook for my failed sex change. One worked at the VA. The other worked at Oregon Health & Science University.

To escape the delusion of having become a woman, I did something completely unprecedented in American history. In 2016, I convinced an Oregon judge to declare my sex to be nonbinary—neither male nor female.

In my psychotic mind, I had restored the mythical third sex to North America. And I became the first legally recognized nonbinary person in the country.

Celebrity Status

The landmark court decision catapulted me to instant fame within the LGBT community. For 10 nonstop days afterward, the media didn’t let me sleep. Reporters hung out in my Facebook feed, journalists clung to my every word, and a Portland television station beamed my wife and I into living rooms in the United Kingdom.

Becoming a woman had gotten me into The New York Times. Convincing a judge that my sex was nonbinary got my photos and story into publications around the world.

Then, before the judge’s ink had even dried on my Oregon sex change court order, a Washington, D.C.-based LGBT legal aid organization contacted me. “We want to help you change your birth certificate,” they offered.

Within months, I scored another historic win after the Department of Vital Records issued me a brand new birth certificate from Washington, D.C., where I was born. A local group called Whitman-Walker Health had gotten my sex designation on my birth certificate switched to “unknown.” It was the first time in D.C. history a birth certificate had been printed with a sex marker other than male or female.

Another transgender legal aid organization jumped on the Jamie Shupe bandwagon, too. Lambda Legal used my nonbinary court order to help convince a Colorado federal judge to order the State Department to issue a passport with an X marker (meaning nonbinary) to a separate plaintiff named Dana Zzyym.

LGBT organizations helping me to screw up my life had become a common theme. During my prior sex change to female, the New York-based Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund had gotten my name legally changed. I didn’t like being named after the uncle who’d molested me. Instead of getting me therapy for that, they got me a new name.

A Pennsylvania judge didn’t question the name change, either. Wanting to help a transgender person, she had not only changed my name, but at my request she also sealed the court order, allowing me to skip out on a ton of debt I owed because of a failed home purchase and begin my new life as a woman. Instead of merging my file, two of the three credit bureaus issued me a brand new line of credit.

Walking Away From Fiction

It wasn’t until I came out against the sterilization and mutilation of gender-confused children and transgender military service members in 2017 that LGBT organizations stopped helping me. Most of the media retreated with them.

Overnight, I went from being a liberal media darling to a conservative pariah.

Both groups quickly began to realize that the transgender community had a runaway on their hands. Their solution was to completely ignore me and what my story had become. They also stopped acknowledging that I was behind the nonbinary option that now exists in 11 states.

The truth is that my sex change to nonbinary was a medical and scientific fraud. Consider the fact that before the historic court hearing occurred, my lawyer informed me that the judge had a transgender child.

Sure enough, the morning of my brief court hearing, the judge didn’t ask me a single question. Nor did this officer of the court demand to see any medical evidence alleging that I was born something magical. Within minutes, the judge just signed off on the court order.

I do not have any disorders of sexual development. All of my sexual confusion was in my head. I should have been treated. Instead, at every step, doctors, judges, and advocacy groups indulged my fiction.

The carnage that came from my court victory is just as precedent-setting as the decision itself. The judge’s order led to millions of taxpayer dollars being spent to put an X marker on driver’s licenses in 11 states so far. You can now become male, female, or nonbinary in all of them.

In my opinion, the judge in my case should have recused herself. In doing so, she would have spared me the ordeal still yet to come. She also would have saved me from having to bear the weight of the big secret behind my win.

I now believe that she wasn’t just validating my transgender identity. She was advancing her child’s transgender identity, too.

A sensible magistrate would have politely told me no and refused to sign such an outlandish legal request. “Gender is just a concept. Biological sex defines all of us,” that person would have said.

In January 2019, unable to advance the fraud for another single day, I reclaimed my male birth sex. The weight of the lie on my conscience was heavier than the value of the fame I’d gained from participating in this elaborate swindle. 

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Η μαγεία της*, το έργο της*, η επιθυμία της*, η δύναμή της*, η φροντίδα της*

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