Yes. A cult based on a semi-secular religion, with highly esoteric notions as its roots. (Some of these esoteric notions, such as gender identity, are easier for Americans to swallow as they neatly fit into US mainstream religious beliefs that differ somewhat from those in Europe. New Age Esoterics kicked off in the US for the same reason.)
It is so obvious it pains me how people do not see it.
New Age esotericism succeeded in the US because we are a far more religious country than other industrialized states. Genderism fills a hole in the liberal psyche where liberal Christianity used to live.
This is exactly right. I'm the ex-wife of a man who thinks he's a woman, who called me every one of those names for refusing to "change my orientation" and stay married. Then I was accused of "breaking up our family" by the diagnosing psychologist as well as by him.
I can tell you this:
It is a brittle, all-consuming obsession, requiring everyone to submit. The term DARVO, deny, attack, reverse victim and offender, is the phenomenon. Were it a valid identity, they would "just be happy and go about their lives." They know, deep within, that their mission is to force others, openly, publicly and convincingly, that this cult is not a cult--it is "real."
What they didn't bargain for was the extreme damage that wrong sex hormones, pharma cocktails and plastic surgeries on genitals do long term. No one told them. It is especially disturbing to know how many surgeons, like Marcia Bowers, are men who ideate they are women, now recruiting and using youth to validate their personal obsessions and fantasies.
Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tails from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)
"called me every one of those names for refusing to "change my orientation" and stay married. Then I was accused of "breaking up our family" by the diagnosing psychologist as well as by him."
One of those things that won't come under the 'conversion therapy' bill LGBTQ are after. It's almost as if there's a sinister, malign motive behind it.
My deepest sympathies for the horror you and your children have been through.
Another reason I think the government is involved in this. If you read the U.S. government's playbook for "regime change," eventually genocide rears its head even when there is no evidence of genocide. But it is very effective with unthinking progressives who then automatically attack anyone accused of genocide.
Couldn't be a genocide anyways as transpeople a) could not be categorized as a gens in any meaningful way and b) fortunately hatred and particularly violent hatred against them isn't a thing - unlike it is for gay people.
My child is totally brainwashed. Told me that the New York Times is anti-Trans. That thoughts harm "trans" people. This child was brilliant-read "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin for fun years ago-and cannot see it. It is all emotions not logic.
On looking into this substack, I am constantly amazed at the depth of this Trans operation. There seems to me to be a parasitical class who have “bought science” by channelling their seemingly inexhaustible funds into the requisite channels. And innumerable hacks with long lists of letters after their names were happy to take the money and manufacture this “new gender paradigm” which, after the ruthless propagandizing through various educational vectors, deformed enough impressionable minds into germinating a new strain of psychopathy with biological mutilations. I have no doubt that large numbers of those claiming to be trans are totally convinced they are “different” and will soak up any number of neuroses over the issue.
But these sad dupes are not the main spearhead of this movement. That comes with, on the one hand, the army of rabid misogynists and paedophiles and, on the other, planted heavyweights acting as effectively the new brown shirts – “rainbow shirts”? – who will brazenly flaunt their floppy jackboots around every attempt at a genuine public protest.
And I have seen various televised debates in which these attack hounds are permitted to abuse their opponents whilst the hosts just let it happen. Sometimes there are other displays where curiously calm trans spokespeople regurgitate the usual phony moralising over and over whilst the main gist seems to get lost in a sea of completely mashed terminology: where “Left progressive” and “trans-activism” and “hate speech” and “Right Wing” etc. all become noises that don’t seem to signify anything substantial at all other than to act as tools to muddy all debate.
'Dragged from homes and murdered'. That's a fantasy of what they'd like to do that they turn into a victim narrative to help get there. The depth of psychosis of the TRA movement is literally Hitlerian.
Truly fantastic piece by Eliza Mondreegan. Shows how much being well travelled is good for the mind! :)
It's basically about creating straw men. The Trans activists have their image of the Trans hater .... and there are actors out there who supply that very image. They're probably getting paid for it.
Brilliant article. This is becoming more and more a mass delusional psychosis. Do these people even realise what they're saying ? None of this makes any sense and it's the biggest lie ever foisted on society. Women are being murdered ,mostly by men ,on a regular basis in this country and even across the world and that's being ignored in favour of the non existent " trans genocide " mantra. Truth is ,violent crimes and sexual assaults , including rapes, have increased and are the highest they've been for 5 years ! Thank you for posting. We need to keep speaking the TRUTH no matter what it costs.🙏❤️
"These are the marks of a manipulative group exercising destructive influence over its most vulnerable members."
A cult. The word for that is "cult."
Yep.
Btw, great analysis.
Yes. A cult based on a semi-secular religion, with highly esoteric notions as its roots. (Some of these esoteric notions, such as gender identity, are easier for Americans to swallow as they neatly fit into US mainstream religious beliefs that differ somewhat from those in Europe. New Age Esoterics kicked off in the US for the same reason.)
It is so obvious it pains me how people do not see it.
New Age esotericism succeeded in the US because we are a far more religious country than other industrialized states. Genderism fills a hole in the liberal psyche where liberal Christianity used to live.
This is exactly right. I'm the ex-wife of a man who thinks he's a woman, who called me every one of those names for refusing to "change my orientation" and stay married. Then I was accused of "breaking up our family" by the diagnosing psychologist as well as by him.
I can tell you this:
It is a brittle, all-consuming obsession, requiring everyone to submit. The term DARVO, deny, attack, reverse victim and offender, is the phenomenon. Were it a valid identity, they would "just be happy and go about their lives." They know, deep within, that their mission is to force others, openly, publicly and convincingly, that this cult is not a cult--it is "real."
What they didn't bargain for was the extreme damage that wrong sex hormones, pharma cocktails and plastic surgeries on genitals do long term. No one told them. It is especially disturbing to know how many surgeons, like Marcia Bowers, are men who ideate they are women, now recruiting and using youth to validate their personal obsessions and fantasies.
Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tails from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)
uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com
"All the 'defending women' stuff is PR and victim-offender reversal".
So now they're DARVOing DARVO !
"called me every one of those names for refusing to "change my orientation" and stay married. Then I was accused of "breaking up our family" by the diagnosing psychologist as well as by him."
One of those things that won't come under the 'conversion therapy' bill LGBTQ are after. It's almost as if there's a sinister, malign motive behind it.
My deepest sympathies for the horror you and your children have been through.
Very sorry to hear you had to go through this. Congratulations for the courage to speak out publicly.
The accusation of “genocide” has to be the oddest one. It’s a bit backwards.
The group seeking to _prevent_ the sterilization of children is not committing genocide.
Another reason I think the government is involved in this. If you read the U.S. government's playbook for "regime change," eventually genocide rears its head even when there is no evidence of genocide. But it is very effective with unthinking progressives who then automatically attack anyone accused of genocide.
Couldn't be a genocide anyways as transpeople a) could not be categorized as a gens in any meaningful way and b) fortunately hatred and particularly violent hatred against them isn't a thing - unlike it is for gay people.
Excellent article and a terrific summary of why this movement is so dangerous to EVERYONE, including the very people they claim to champion.
Another fine analysis of trans activism
Eliza, thank you for such a clear, well explained piece. It's an accurate and truthful account of what's happening.
My child is totally brainwashed. Told me that the New York Times is anti-Trans. That thoughts harm "trans" people. This child was brilliant-read "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin for fun years ago-and cannot see it. It is all emotions not logic.
May you find the wisdom and fortitude to guide your child back to sanity.
On looking into this substack, I am constantly amazed at the depth of this Trans operation. There seems to me to be a parasitical class who have “bought science” by channelling their seemingly inexhaustible funds into the requisite channels. And innumerable hacks with long lists of letters after their names were happy to take the money and manufacture this “new gender paradigm” which, after the ruthless propagandizing through various educational vectors, deformed enough impressionable minds into germinating a new strain of psychopathy with biological mutilations. I have no doubt that large numbers of those claiming to be trans are totally convinced they are “different” and will soak up any number of neuroses over the issue.
But these sad dupes are not the main spearhead of this movement. That comes with, on the one hand, the army of rabid misogynists and paedophiles and, on the other, planted heavyweights acting as effectively the new brown shirts – “rainbow shirts”? – who will brazenly flaunt their floppy jackboots around every attempt at a genuine public protest.
And I have seen various televised debates in which these attack hounds are permitted to abuse their opponents whilst the hosts just let it happen. Sometimes there are other displays where curiously calm trans spokespeople regurgitate the usual phony moralising over and over whilst the main gist seems to get lost in a sea of completely mashed terminology: where “Left progressive” and “trans-activism” and “hate speech” and “Right Wing” etc. all become noises that don’t seem to signify anything substantial at all other than to act as tools to muddy all debate.
'Dragged from homes and murdered'. That's a fantasy of what they'd like to do that they turn into a victim narrative to help get there. The depth of psychosis of the TRA movement is literally Hitlerian.
Truly fantastic piece by Eliza Mondreegan. Shows how much being well travelled is good for the mind! :)
It's basically about creating straw men. The Trans activists have their image of the Trans hater .... and there are actors out there who supply that very image. They're probably getting paid for it.
The message is, in it's most literal sense, 'kill or be killed'.
They have surpassed clown world
Is that the Amanda Knox who was mixed up in the Perugia murder? A lot of weirdness going on there.
Brilliant article. This is becoming more and more a mass delusional psychosis. Do these people even realise what they're saying ? None of this makes any sense and it's the biggest lie ever foisted on society. Women are being murdered ,mostly by men ,on a regular basis in this country and even across the world and that's being ignored in favour of the non existent " trans genocide " mantra. Truth is ,violent crimes and sexual assaults , including rapes, have increased and are the highest they've been for 5 years ! Thank you for posting. We need to keep speaking the TRUTH no matter what it costs.🙏❤️