#Time to Think

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

The Tavistock performed gay conversion therapy in broad daylight, while undertaking medical experiments on kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-feels-like-conversion-therapy-for-gay-children-say-clinicians-pvsckdvq2

So many potentially gay children were being sent down the pathway to change gender, two of the clinicians said there was a dark joke among staff that “there would be no gay people left”.

“It feels like conversion therapy for gay children,” one male clinician said. “I frequently had cases where people started identifying as trans after months of horrendous bullying for being gay,” he told The Times.

Transing the gay away is what Iran does.

[intheconflux]

It's time to think!

Pete and the gang are trying to figure out what the hell is going on. They need your help!

Below is a list of numbered questions. Through either the replies or the ask box, send in your ideas, including the number(s) of what you're answering. You can answer as many or as few questions as you like, and you're always welcome to add more in further replies/asks.

Asks will be published (with no commentary from the author) in the tag #time to think, and discussion amongst users is heavily encouraged. If you believe you know what's going on, it's your job to convince everyone!

On August 31st, the event will end and an update will post the following day.

If enough people answer a question correctly, the gang will agree on the truth (although they may still have doubts). If not, they will stay confused or argue about it.

The questions:

What does "glitching" do?

Is everyone glitching, or only specific people? What makes them different? Or, what happens to make someone glitch?

Do people that glitch know that they're glitching?

What is the best way to check if someone isn't currently glitched?

[dimalink]

Unexpectedly for myself, I find myself in a park. In a small forest. In the city. So, trees are high here. Roads are with asphalt. And benches. Whole location. Made out of roads and trees. And benches.

Birds are singing. Trees are high. Without leaves. And they are standing like that around a roads. Like a pillars. And you are walking such road. And road leads you somewhere in a far. So far that you cannot see the end. Like a fog. But there is no fog. It is simply, a big territory. Forest. And little roads. So, you can walk here for a long time. And watch these trees. And listen to the birds singing. Trees are with green moss and that’s gives them even more to be interesting. Looks like all these trees are growing here for a long time. And that’s gives idea one more time, about a whole universe out of trees. Someplace they are covered with moss.

And if you are find yourself tired – you can sit at the bench. Anyway, there is a place for civilization here. Asphalt on the roads. And benches. It is amazing but city landscape is near. So, you cannot be lost here.

And so, this way, it is a whole backrooms place. Where are trees along the road and it looks like it can be endless road! It is a beautiful place to think about QBasic. Or just have a rest, free time. Any kind of these places. Any kind of such park with trees.

[lesbianismstrength]

Institutionalized homophobia at the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children (part 1)

Clinicians who worked at Tavistock's Gender Service for Children (England) speak about homophobia in the transgender service: ‘I wouldn’t say we were overly sensitive,’ says Matt Bristow. ‘I think we put up with hearing homophobic remarks being made on a daily basis for a number of years. And when we tried to talk about that in the team, it was kind of ignored.’

"‘It could be completely silencing people who are gay,’ Anastassis Spiliadis says. ‘It could be dismissing the reality that sexuality can play a role in how someone identifies.’" [...] He recalls families who remarked, ‘Thank God my child is trans and not gay or lesbian.’ ‘We had this so many times.'"

"Some young people themselves would be repulsed by the fact that they were same-sex attracted. They did not identify as gay, because they did not see themselves as of their birth-registered sex. ‘I had kids telling me, “When I hear the word lesbian, I cringe. I want to die”… “I’m gonna vomit if I hear the word lesbian another time,”’ says Spiliadis."

"A large proportion of the teenage girls seen by GIDS were same-sex attracted. ‘Initially, some of them had identified as lesbian. And some of them had experienced a lot of homophobia and then started identifying as trans. It was almost like a stepping stone,’ explains Spiliadis."

"The level of homophobia she witnessed generally across her caseload shocked Entwistle. She says it wasn’t discussed in the team, and there was no training on how to talk about sexuality with young people. [S]he was surprised to find that homophobic bullying was not a ‘thing of the past’. Even more surprising, she says, was the language used by the young people themselves – ‘old fashioned slurs’ that she hadn’t heard since the 1980s."

"Matt Bristow came to feel that GIDS was performing ‘conversion therapy for gay kids’. It’s a serious claim. Some clinicians have relayed how there was even a dark joke in the GIDS team that there would be no gay people left at the rate GIDS was going. ‘I don’t think that all of the children there were gay, by any means,’ Bristow tells me. ‘But there were gay children there – in my view I think there were gay children – who were being pushed down another path.’"

Source: Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children (2023) by Hannah Barnes (x)

[annagxx]

Why do we find ourselves hesitating before posting something online or choosing what to wear? Why do we feel the need to check everything at least ten times, as if the opinions of others could define our worth? Is it because we fear someone might think we're asking for attention or being too bold? Are we worried about being judged by a random stranger or even someone close, thinking we're flexing ourselves or our bodies?

But why should it matter? We'll be judged anyway, and people will perceive things however they choose. So what’s really stopping us? Is it trauma, paranoia, or simply the fear of being sexualized? Does it make sense to let these thoughts hold us back from expressing ourselves?

In reality, you can't fully understand a person from a 15-second story or a single post. It's irrelevant to judge someone based on that. So, is it really worth overthinking before hitting the share button? Why should we let these fears control us?

[itsmargobaybee]

There are no words to describe the way my body yearns to run back into your arms. Regardless of that fact, I try to put it into words anyways.

[micwrs]

my brain just absolutely EXPLODED thinking about kim within the context of the special

roi singe... what are you up to in that evil verse? oh i need to explore it now.

[healingdemeter]

The Lie About Pediatric Transition

I am currently reading Time to Think which details the trans medical scandal at the Tavistock. I have been following this for awhile and am still shocked at the details that are emerging.

One lie I am tired of hearing is that the Dutch Protocol and Pediatric transition were immaculately researched and have a strong evidence base. This book shows how poor the evidence base was, how the research was funded by pharmaceutical companies, how the pressure to transition children was driven by activist groups such as Mermaids, and how poor funding for children’s mental health services all contributed to this perfect storm of putting children on a medicalized pathway that leaves them at risk of being anorgasmic, infertile, and whose consequences to brain development we do not yet understand. 

Children who are gender diverse deserve better than this! Gender diverse children deserve to learn to love their bodies and to have bodies that are fully functioning!

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Gender Clinic SHUT DOWN: Journalist Breaks Down Investigation

Francis Foster: It's also the element of, how many of these kids who are going through this process... they're just gay, They're just gay kids.

I mean, because the show has got quite big now, the people who come up to me, I get quite a lot of gay men and gay women wanting to talk to me about this. And I remember talking to this gay lady - makes me sound like I'm from the 1950s when I say that but - a few weeks ago, and we were talking about this and she approached me and we were having a nice conversation, and she just looked at me and she went, "thank God that I'm in my late 20s because if this had been around when I was 12, I would have transitioned, and I would have screamed the house down until, you know, there was medical intervention. because that's how upset I was at the fact that I was gay or I am gay."

Hannah Barnes: I think this is the part of the story which people, particularly in, you know, liberal metropolitan cities find the hardest to accept. And certainly that's like the reaction that I've had to the work, like, it just can't be true, you know. And clinicians themselves, they would get young people coming in and using these vile homophobic slurs that we had at school in the - I think we're probably a similar age - you know, the 80s and 90s. And hearing that I kind of, I thought we were done with that. I thought it just wasn't a thing anymore to, for people to think it's not okay to be gay. But it is, and it's not me saying that.

Every clinician I spoke to said that so many of those young people were same-sex attracted, even those that spoke really favorably about the work at GIDS, and particularly the girls and actually, when those clinicians who were gay themselves raise those concerns, they say they were accused of being too close to the work, that they were seeing something that wasn't there. And what they've turned around and they say, look at the data. It's really rubbish, we don't have much of it, but what we do have absolutely bears that out.

So, GIDS's data for every single young person that was referred to them in 2012, of the ones they have data for, which is the sort of the older ones, they didn't ask the very young kids, what was it, 90 percent of the girls identified as either same-sex attracted or bisexual. And eighty percent of the boys. And then in slightly more recent stats, those come down to about 70 and 60 respectively, but they're still incredibly high.

So they're saying, we weren't seeing something that wasn't there. And I've spoken to young people themselves, there's a there's a case in the book, Harriet, who said "I was a lesbian, and it was so obvious. I went into my GIDS assessment and I talked about the first relationship that I'd had with a girl, and I felt really ashamed about it because she wouldn't talk to me in public, and I've never been attracted to a boy." And all that was ignored.

So it's not... the data, the personal experiences, the experiences of the clinicians... it's there. And I have to stress that of the people I spoke to for the book, not all of whom are named or quoted but, collectively, they've worked with thousands of young people directly, sitting in a room like we are now, face to face. I don't think it's credible to pretend that the overwhelming number of people who might be affected by this are[n't] gay, bisexual, lesbian. And that's always been the case.

So, every study we have in this field is quite rubbish, but all of them highlighted that. And when Domenico De Chelly opened GIDS back in 89, he always made that point. That of any group of kids, some would grow up to be trans, but they would be the minority. The majority wouldn't, and the majority of them would be gay.

And somehow this gets lost over the years, even though it was in the clinical presentations. And even though their own data showed them that.

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"Gender affirming care" is gay conversion therapy.

[intheconflux]

Oh, finally, my time to shine!

1) "Glitching" seems to shift a person or group of people into a version of themselves from a different timeline. Things happened differently there to shape them into much different people- e.g. Max being nice in our timeline and dead + vengeful in the one he glitched into

2) Given the nature of Hatchetfield, I have to guess that the phenomenon is localized on our little town. (Fuckin Clivesdale doesn't even have to deal with it, assholes.) The glitching seems to be spread via physical contact, like a disease.

Note: Pete touched Steph when she glitched. Does this mean he's already glitched or simply immune? More research is required.

3) Both Steph and Max have been disoriented and even felt sick when they reverted to normal, and were entirely unaware of what had just happened. So, no, people who are glitched don't seem to retain memories of that period of time. Possibly because it's not actually them, but a separate version of them.

4) We've so far seen different clothing on glitched people, so that'd be your easiest tell. To dig a bit deeper, ask your potentially glitched person a few questions about events that have recently transpired to see if your versions of events line up! e.g. what happened at the Waylon place, the status of the Starlight Theater or the Lakeside Mall, etc.

Always willing to help! -🪶

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[sleepysnk]

i want to change my theme but i don’t even know what to 😐

i’m stuck between a tr one and bllk one so i don’t even know </3

[stellarpurplecollar]

I'd like to share something.

I am bipolar. I take medication, and I have a therapist I see on a weekly basis.

I am enrolled in a master's program for creative writing out of state.

I have put myself and my spouse through hell for this opportunity. We are considered homeless because we have been living in a second- rate motel room with a mini fridge and a cheap microwave for over six months. Our health has declined incredibly.

Now ..

School is saying I am in trouble. My attitude in class makes my classmates uncomfortable. (Enthusiastic to be there?) A classmate has decided that my poetry...p.o.e.t.r.y...is making him/her concerned for their life.

Our class is a zoom class.

They live a thousand miles away.

P.O.E.T.R.Y.

A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STATE.

I have NEVER intentionally written about ANY of my classmates. I reviewed my work, and there does not appear to be any indication that I had a specific person in mind while working on my poetry. I don't even know these people all that well. My crime? I used a name that sounded close to a student's name. Not a description, not an out-and-out personal attack, not even a classmate's NAME; just a name that sounded CLOSE TO someone's name.

My school expects me, and my bipolar-ness, to mind what I say and what I write. If I cannot mind my P's, Q's and themes of my work, then my participation in the program will be terminated.

Anyone who knows about bipolar manic will understand we don't always know we are manic, thus we don't see any changes in our behavior or our communication. It isn't until there is a problem brought up to us by someone else that we (mostly) take action and/or ask for help.

Knowing I am bipolar and knowing I have had issues in the past, I have always told professors how to help me so I can work on myself. I may not remember anything I said, but I have a witness to my interaction with class. But if it was a building concern, combined with the fact that I practically threw a User's Guide in my school's lap, I would think someone would have spoken up sooner. At least sooner than me facing expulsion.

And seriously? Someone who I don't really know who lives in a different state actually thinks I am out to physically hurt him/her? All because of poetry?

FUCKING POETRY?!

Does anyone want to pitch me their two cents about this scenario?

[bl-bam-beyond]

STARSTRUCK (2023, SOUTH KOREA)

Episode 4

- enjoying light snow fall with your best friend, who happens to be the guy you love.

- an expensive gift you can't afford thrown back at you.

- secrets revealed

- a confession of love

- but he runs off and you're left wondering

How will Jo Yoo Jae (ZUHO) react to all Seo Han Joon (KIM IN SUNG) has revealed once he takes it all in. @pose4photoml

[blogwithsaavi]

Going back to the same person again and again even after what they did.

ALWAYS

I guess , I don't care about myself anymore. I will justify all of his actions, not just to everyone but also to myself.

[105nt]

I am reading Time to Think by Hannah Barnes.