#walt heyer

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Posting this on main in hopes someone sees this and spreads the word, because I think it's important.

I just got an ad on Youtube, for what seems like a legitimate documentary, published by Epoch TV. It's a docudrama.

The ad topic? "Transgenderism". The trailer for this documentary presents the "Transgender Movement" as an agenda created by social media, corporations, the government, social media, etc. as a means to create a division between Parents and their Children.

This advertisement, EXPLICITLY says that. It says "They're turning our children against us [parents]". It says "'You should let your child transition. Or else their chance of suicide increases.' Therapists are trained to say that."

This so-called truth-revealing documentary presents the "Transgender Movement" as a war against Parents. It is FEAR MONGERING and MISINFORMATION. It is TRANSPHOBIA.

It's blatant lies if you're educated enough about trans people. It's not blatant lies if you're uneducated about trans people. It's an advertisement directed at anyone who isn't educated about trans people, who don't have the time, or energy, or education to look up real research studies.

It's an ADVERTISEMENT, directed at PARENTS. On YouTube. YOUTUBE. This is an advertisement I got on a video that was an anime song quiz. Anyone can get this ad.

Really YouTube? You're going to force everyone to stop using adblock, and then play this shit? This passed your advertisement standards?

This is what the website looks like. There is an embedded trailer if you scroll down.

Beneath the trailer, there are 14 featured guests. Most of them are labeled as anti-trans activists or "investigating the roots of the transgender movement", or something similar, on a quick google search. They have "patriotic", conservative, and/or religious beliefs.

Beneath that, there are three reviews.

All three of these reviewers are in the movie. And profiting from the movie.

Pamela Garfield is a known anti-vaccination, anti-trans activist. More information can be found at this link.

Walt Heyer is a detransitioner. I do not know much about him other than the fact that he is also an anti-trans activist. More information can be found at this link.

I'm fucking pissed about this. There is already a lack of media literacy. There is already a lack of critical thinking skills, fact checking, etc.. There is already enough hate towards trans people.

It should be ILLEGAL to present your propaganda as fact and scientific research. It should be ILLEGAL to intentionally spread misinformation, advertised not only as "the real truth" , but also using it as a means to make money. It costs you $5 to watch the documentary. That is evil, preying on people who are uneducated or who won't google a researched statistic, and then manipulating them to parrot your beliefs.

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Cross-dressed by his grandmother as a child, abused by his uncle, confused and hurting, Walt Heyer sought to become a woman. As a young man, he underwent attempted gender-reassignment surgery, lived as a trans-identifying woman for eight years, and ultimately detransitioned.

Heyer, now 83, has spent the past few decades offering support to men and women who also have been taught to believe they were born in the wrong body. As part of that effort, he told The Daily Signal, he’s written a number of books and answered “thousands” of letters from individuals, often men, who seek his help.

Now, he’s partnering with Ascend Pictures Productions to produce a movie about his story, tentatively titled “Who Am I.” That movie will pose the question, Heyer says: “Who do we think we are?”

“There’s been nothing like it,” he said in a Tuesday telephone interview. “It is a powerful movie.”

Heyer knows his story has inspired many people, and he believes it should be shared through movie. When he was only 4 years old, he has shared, his grandmother would secretly dress him in a purple chiffon dress.

The attention and affirmation—which made Heyer feel very special as a child—“would be his mustard seed of torment.”

Heyer sought transgender treatments that “promised relief,” but those treatments only “led to the destruction of his marriage, his family, and his career.” The movie would explore Heyer’s journey, he said, which includes his ultimate discovery of his Christian faith and the “road back to redemption” and forgiveness.

Heyer emphasized to The Daily Signal that he wants the film to focus on sharing his story, rather than being preachy: “We really want it to appeal to people who don’t know Jesus. And I think it will.”

He wants viewers to understand that the issues he was dealing with, and the issues that other individuals who try to transition are experiencing, go much deeper than gender. And gender therapists are not going to be able to help individuals struggling in this way, Heyer maintains.

But the movie will need financial support to make it happen. Heyer encourages supporters to visit the prospective film’s website, where they can sign up for updates.

“We need support,” he noted. “We need the crowdfunding to get it off the ground. Crowdfunding is the most important part.”

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this file ("Deutsch emails") contains the complete source of email threads for the 2023-03-08 Mother Jones story “Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country”. the emails are comprised of communications spanning 2019-2021 principally regarding an attempt to pass a trans youth transition treatment ban in south dakota in 2019, spearheaded by republican rep. fred deutsch and sen. lee schoenbeck.

there are extensive discussions between deutsch and notorious anti-gay and anti-trans “experts” associated with known hate groups targeting transgender healthcare in the united states, including dr. quentin l. van meter and dr. michelle cretella of the catholic medical association, dr. andre van mol of the christian medical & dental associations and american college of pediatricians, dr. michael k. laidlaw of the kelsey coalition, dr. william j. malone of the society for evidence-based gender medicine, dr. paul w. hruz of the national catholic bioethics center, laura haynes of narth, and deacon dr. patrick w. lappert of catholic reparative therapy group courage international. participants discuss crafting their language to avoid acknowledging that transgender people exist, constructing new ways to define doctors as criminals for providing gender-affirming care, and targeting a federal agency publication that correctly points out the dangers of anti-gay conversion therapy. their emails frequently digress into personal vendettas and ambitions of destroying established professional groups such as the endocrine society, and they typically celebrate their anti-trans legal and political achievements as a victory of the christian god.

the emails describe a wider national effort against transition treatment for minors, which included discussions with idaho rep. julianne young and sen. steve vick, georgia rep. ginny earhart, and florida rep. anthony sabatini. several anti-lgbt conservative legal groups are intimately involved in the discussion, including alliance defending freedom, adf-affiliated detransitioners hacsi horvath and walt heyer, eunie smith of eagle forum, adf-linked attorney vernadette r. broyles of the child & parental rights campaign, jane robbins of the american principles project, kara dansky and natasha chart of women’s liberation front, richard mast of liberty counsel, and emily zinos of minnesota family council and hands across the aisle. more recently, the transphobia-captured state of alabama harassed the endocrine society and wpath with subpoenas for their internal communications regarding hate groups and individuals participating in the deutsch emails, including segm, the american college of pediatricians, michael laidlaw, william malone, andre van mol, michelle cretella, and quentin van meter. the release of the deutsch emails is in the public interest and brings an equivalent level of transparency to the internal work of these major anti-trans advocacy and lobbying groups.

[leophnyx]

Soul: Neckrel and I have been hanging out lately - I've been feeling a bit depressed (medical troubles) and needed cheering up. We ended up watching a few videos on LGBT+ rights (we got recommended a video on the recent Olympic controversies and went down from there) and now we're on a video on conversion therapy (against, not for)

And I came across a part that piqued my interest. At 22:20, on Stealing Souls:

There was a psychologist, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, who believed that you could cure homosexuality using hypnosis. Within 45 sessions and a trip to a brothel, he claimed he cured a man's homosexuality, and that he was now straight.

And it all clicked - why it's always so violent, why conversion therapy never seems to work except for a few - it seems like it's a form of traumatic tulpamancy? Because even with other therapies you don't see this form of violence - we're not beating schizophrenics to get them free of their delusions, for example (or at least I hope we're not!) and it seems strange to reccomend as a therapy for something so innocuous. But if you're a hypnotist, you know what you're doing - you're making a new headmate, a new identity, and replacing the original person. This guy was a psychologist and a medium, he knew what he was doing.

I'd like to believe that I was overthinking things, but with some prominent anti-trans detrans who are multiple (Walt Heyer comes to mind) and some trans multiples talking about how they buried their gender deep down until they became a headmate, I think this is a plausible explanation for things.

I would love to see religious conversion therapy advocates freak out when they realize they've been allowing demons into their patients (we know they don't believe in plurality) and/or enabling a mental disorder lol

[deaconjohn1987]

Venus Rising With Walt Heyer: Understanding

[morogwen]

Debunking transphobic claims

https://www.scienceforgeorgia.org/knowledge-base1/dispelling-myths-around-puberty-blockers/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/

Efficacy of Puberty Blockers

https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(16)31941-4/abstract

https://thinkprogress.org/allowing-transgender-youth-to-transition-improves-their-mental-health-study-finds-dd6096523375/#.pqspdcee0

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/145/2/e20191725/68259/Pubertal-Suppression-for-Transgender-Youth-and?autologincheck=redirected

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/134/4/696/32932/Young-Adult-Psychological-Outcome-After-Puberty?redirectedFrom=fulltext

40-year follow up study

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36149983/

(Posting this one because even after a ridiculously long longitudinal study, and all of the other studies pointing in the exact same direction, transphobes are still going to deny it. )

Here's the American Academy of Pediatrics document on supporting trans kids. https://assets2.hrc.org/files/documents/SupportingCaringforTransChildren.pdf Adding the American Psychological Association's stance as well, to debunk claims that this person would make about psychology:

https://www.apa.org/about/policy/orientation-diversity

Here's a recent one from Ireland: https://irishpsychiatry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Memorandum-of-Understanding-on-Conversion-Therapy-on-the-Island-of-Ireland-v1.pdf

Further edit: Daily wire is a right wing news source: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/daily-wire Walt Heyer is a right wing writer that writes for The Federalist, another right wing source: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/federalist His story is routinely passed around in right wing circles, and routinely dismissed by people that know what they're talking about: https://archive.thinkprogress.org/review-when-harry-became-sally-transgender-moment-4033a1b06dbb/

Just a reminder of every time I rant about 2 years or more of therapy before being able to even take hormones. And I'm not talking affirming therapy. I'm talking you cause and adversarial therapy. (Not aggressive, just not mindless agreement)

Because how many more people will have to destroy their bodies until we actual act like a civilized society and put barriers in place to stop people from rushing shit like this. I believe in an age of consent yes. But mental disorders, trauma, and hell even manipulation affect adults too. As does large scale peer pressure. Imagine hearing all the time from love activists, "OMG you'd make such a good man. Clearly that's what your were meant to be. No there's nothing wrong with you, you're just in the wind body. Of course you hate how you look, you're not the real you. Just take hormones and get the surgeries you'll feel so much better".

Then you look online and you see, "perfectly safe" non stop. And, "OMG the rush of endorphins from the T, I felt better instantly". Umm yeah. Because it's like taking drugs. And it wears off. Otherwise guys would be a bundle of sunshine and rainbows. We aren't. The suicide rates are proof of that.

[walkonandtwo]

Opponents of Montana transgender bill say it could cripple health care, lead to more suicides

Proponent: ‘To be allowed to make this mistake as a child … is a travesty beyond words’

BY: BLAIR MILLER - JANUARY 27, 2023 5:54 PM

 Sen. Bob Fuller, R-Kalispell, testifies in favor of his Senate Bill 99 on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill aims to deny gender-affirming care to transgender youth and penalize medical professional who support and perform those procedures. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan)

A woman who testified in opposition to a Republican measure that seeks to deny gender-affirming care to transgender youth in Montana and penalize doctors and nurses who support those efforts – the third such bill over the last two sessions – said she thought about killing herself every day for 50 years before she finally transitioned at age 62.

She was one of more than 90 opponents of Senate Bill 99 who testified Friday the bill is unconstitutional, a threat to health care practitioners and would lead to more suicides among an already vulnerable group.

Dr. Lauren Wilson, a pediatric hospitalist at Community Medical Center in Missoula, said if the bill passes, it could effectively defund all Montana hospitals because the measure says public funds cannot be provided to institutions that offer or subsidize gender-affirming care. Sen. John Fuller, R-Kalispell, prepares to open testimony at the Senate Judiciary Committee on his Senate Bill 99 on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan)

SK Rossi, a lobbyist representing Bozeman, said the bill, sponsored by Sen. John Fuller, R-Kalispell, if signed into law, could put Montana’s Medicaid program at risk as well because the Affordable Care Act affirms gender as a protected class and the measure would have the state deny coverage under Medicaid and other means of funding.

Forty-four proponents of the measure testified at the hearing too, including several from out-of-state, people representing religion-linked think tanks, an OB/GYN who said her views were not popular within the medical community, and lead proponent Walt Heyer, an activist from California whose nationwide work is focused on detransitioning after he did so himself in 1991.

“I think this bill is not only very powerful, it’s very necessary. I think the way to reduce regret is to tackle the underlying issues before we introduce them to hormones and surgical procedures that they will regret,” Heyer said.

Fuller, who had two similar bills related to the trans community die in the 2021 session, said in his opening statements that his bill was about protecting children from what he called a “purely cosmetic and irreversible” procedure when they are not mentally able to make those choices. 

He called the hours of testimony that was to come from opponents about the bill being discriminatory and unconstitutional “red herrings designed to deflect attention away from a very real issue.”

But the slate of opposition – including many trans adults and children, medical doctors, pediatricians, public employee representatives, psychologists and parents of trans children – for more than three hours pleaded for lawmakers to table Fuller’s latest attempt because of the sweeping harms they say it will cause to Montana and its residents.

“Less terrible versions of this bill have died twice. I’m not sure why we’re back here now,” Rossi said. “… Honestly, it insults the values that most Montanans hold dear.”

Opponents: Bill would penalize providers of gender-affirming care

Amendments for the bill have already been introduced but will not be voted on until the bill sees executive action at a later date. But as introduced, the measure says public funds can’t be used or paid to anyone who provides medication or surgery tied to gender dysphoria, nor can any advocacy be done for any children under age 18 who are experiencing it.

It would prohibit treatments including hysterectomies, voice surgery, mastectomies, testosterone doses and other hormones, puberty blockers, genital reconstruction and more for any minors.

If the Senate does not table this, we will fight like hell for you in the House.

– Rep. Zooey Zephyr, Missoula Democrat

The measure, as introduced, would also subject any providers of those treatments to civil liability until the person they treated is 43 if that person decides they suffered any physical, psychological, emotional or physiological harm. It would also allow the state attorney general to bring actions.

Further, the measure would prohibit liability insurance for health care workers against those liabilities and subject the providers to a minimum one-year license suspension if they provide anyone with gender dysphoria treatments.

“To make this mistake as an adult is a travesty,” said Jeff Laszloffy, the president of the Montana Family Foundation. “But to be allowed to make this mistake as a child, with all the adults around you telling you you’re doing the right thing, and figure out later it was the greatest mistake of your life, is a travesty beyond words.”

Several other proponents said they or their children fit in better with boys or were tomboys when they were young and believed they would have been forced to transition. Others pointed to their Christian values as reason for backing the measure. 

Some said they believed school or psychological counselors were trying to actively convince children they should transition. And many said that children were not mentally prepared to make decisions about their gender identity when they are teenagers, saying they feared those children would regret their choices.

“Here’s the dirty little secret. There is no reliable scientific evidence this improves the long-term mental health of these minors, let alone that the benefits outweigh the regrets,” said Jay Richards with the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank. “… This is emotional blackmail.”

‘These decisions are not impulsive; they are life-saving’

Many of the opponents said most of those claims were wrong based on their own experiences. They also called Fuller and the Republicans on the committee who seemed to favor the bill hypocrites.

Dr. William Gallea, a Helena-based physician, said the bill would have “unprecedented effects” on Montanans’ privacy and would be a gross intrusion by the government into medicine and medical practices.

He read aloud the Republican Party of Montana platform adopted last year in which the party said it believes the government should limit its scope of activity, avoid infringing on lawful activities of citizens, protect individual privacy and free will and give parents the sole right to all reproductive decisions.

Rossi said not only did the bill and proponent testimony put Montana’s children in jeopardy, it ignored and attacked the medical community and experts in gender-affirming care at the same time “the halls of this building are filled with cries for parental rights, and protecting medical freedom, autonomy and privacy.”

“This bill runs afoul of all three of those principles,” Rossi said, adding that if it passes, the state would see a battle in court. “It is also the most blatant and most obvious attempt we’ve seen thus far this session to intimidate and erase transgender people in Montana.” Opponents line up to speak against Senate Bill 99 in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. More than 90 people testified in opposition to the bill. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan)

Several Montanans, including multiple transgender and nonbinary teenagers, testified how they or their children had been on the verge of committing suicide until they worked with counselors, medical professionals and their parents – even when it was difficult for both sides to understand – to begin hormonal treatments after years of gender dysphoria.

Susan Howard told the committee she had felt like she was born a girl, but in the 1960s, treatments were not a widespread option. She attempted suicide as a teenager and waited 52 years, she said, until she transitioned.

“I don’t think there were too many days that went by from [age 10] until I turned 62 that I didn’t feel like killing myself,” she said.

Several parents said the bill was an attempt to undo their parental rights and the vast improvements their children have seen since beginning to transition.

“If you have not witnessed the brutal reality of the suffering, or the freedom and relief that comes on the other side of gender-affirming care, you cannot possibly know what’s best for my son or any other transgender child,” said Jaime Gabrielli of Butte, whose now-18-year-old son transitioned. “These decisions are not impulsive; they are life-saving decisions. And they do not belong in the hands of uninformed strangers who do not understand the type of help and support that my child needs to thrive and survive.”

Physicians say health care field could be crippled under measure

Dr. Eric Lowe, an emergency physician based in Bozeman, provided letters to the committee signed by more than 350 Montana health care providers opposing the bill. He and other medical professionals said lawmakers had no place legislating patient care.

He said not only would many doctors – especially pediatric endocrinologists who are often involved in gender-affirming care treatments – leave the state, Montana would struggle to recruit other doctors and medical professionals amid an existing shortage.

And specialists like those who perform gender-affirming care also do important work like treating pediatric diabetes, he said, which could force children who have other medical needs to transfer to emergency rooms outside of Montana.

Others refuted claims from proponents about gender-affirming care. Multiple medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, have deemed hormone therapy and surgeries medically necessary in certain cases. Some opponents wondered why Montana should then decide they are not only illegal but punishable by law.

“These are the result of research and careful consideration. Lawmakers should not use their authority to override the consensus of the medical community,” said Dr. Heather Zaluski of Shodair Children’s Hospital in Helena. “More broadly, this bill is problematic because it would drive away the doctors. Doctors do not want to practice in a state that criminalizes evidence-based treatments.” Rep. SJ Howell, D-Missoula, testifies in opposition to Senate Bill 99 on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan)

Dr. Kathryn Brogan, a psychiatry specialist at Shodair, said the measure would force doctors to choose between their sworn oath of “do no harm” or adhering to law outsourced from the medical community “to non-medical lawmakers.”

Two Montana state representatives testified in opposition as well – Missoula Democrats SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr. Howell is nonbinary and Zephyr is the first elected transgender lawmaker in Montana.

Howell said they believed the task of lawmakers was to make Montanans’ lives better through their shared values of privacy, freedom, fairness and protection from government overreach.

“This bill does not do that,” Howell said.

Zephyr said she specifically ran for office because of the measures Fuller introduced last session.

“I’m here because I believe when we are going to talk about trans people, when we are going to draft legislation that is going to directly impact trans people, we need to hear and listen from trans people in our community,” she said.

Zephyr said she took issue with the description of gender-affirming surgery that proponents gave as “mutilation” because she has undergone the surgery. She said she’s heard from constituents who say their children or grandchildren who are trans feel scared to come back to Montana or want to leave because of measures like SB99 and that she would stand up on behalf of the trans community. Rep. Zooey Zephyr, D-Missoula, testifies in opposition to Senate Bill 99 on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan)

“If the Senate does not table this, we will fight like hell for you in the House,” she said.

During questions from lawmakers, some Republicans seemed to trivialize the discussion at hand. Sen. Daniel Emrich, R-Great Falls, tried to get a psychiatrist to say gender dysphoria was a dissociative disorder. She declined. Sen. Chris Friedel, R-Billings, repeatedly conflated gender-affirming care with a hypothetical “suicide affirming care,” asking the psychiatrist why if his son was set on killing himself he could not find a facility to provide such care.

“No, sir, you should seek help for your son,” the psychiatrist said.

By the end of the five-hour hearing, doctors and representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana had agreed that the bill was unconstitutional and would put funding of hospitals, care providers and clinics at risk of losing funding altogether and subject practitioners to “financial ruin,” as Dr. Timothy Mitchell testified.

Dr. Mary Anne Guggenheim, a pediatric neurologist and former House representative, told lawmakers all the evidence showed they should table the bill and “keep it there.”

“This is absurd. It will not only hurt children and families, it will harm the state of Montana. Some physicians and health care providers and customers will likely leave. Many others will never consider coming to a state where they are prevented from giving appropriate medical care,” she said. 

“The stain on Montana’s reputation will be long-lasting.”

I see no reason for getting all up in arms , If your queer your queer so what nobody cares , Quit gripping about more rights and learn to stand on your own two feet , Nobody cares your queer just don't be grab assing in front of the rest of us it is gross and leave the kids alone nobody is trying to make more queers.

[gettothestabbing]

Mindy was isolated for six days in the hospital from her parents, who were refused updates. Reflecting on this time, the mother says, “She was hospitalized in February for out of the blue with anxiety and depression…I’m still amazed this happened in the first place and my husband and I weren’t given any choice. They told us she was suicidal and she needed to be taken to be evaluated in house [hospitalized].”

“Three days turned into 6 and they were trying to keep her longer…refusing us updates or anything, so we told them we were coming to get her with or without their blessing… I was so overwhelmed leaving my daughter there in the first place…not allowed to see her any and only talking to her for about 3 minutes a day. This is a 10-year-old that had only spent the night 3 times in her whole life away from home. This stay was the direct result of a therapist talking to her without our presence.” . . .

“She began counseling at the pediatrics office and [they] quickly diagnosed her with gender dysphoria (without telling us) and possible Asperger’s in addition to the previous GAD [Generalized Anxiety Disorder]. I felt like they did not listen to me…I told the pediatrics office and counselor that this started when my daughter changed school… leaving her friends and the only school she had ever been to. [Then] school became virtual [and] nothing was normal.”

Notice how the counselor didn’t listen to the parents and their knowledge of their child. Obvious triggers—changing schools, leaving friends behind, lockdowns, and the resulting anxiety and depression—were ignored. To me, this is reckless medical malpractice and it happens far too frequently.

Notice, too, how the counselor leapt over Mindy’s co-existing issues in a rush to affirm her in a transgender identity. Depression, anxiety, Asperger’s, and GAD all have root causes and corresponding treatments that have nothing to do with gender identity. . . .

Online, communities and popular apps are incubators, chock-full of transgender-pushing accounts ready to indoctrinate a vulnerable child. “Social contagion” is now a major factor in teens flocking to trans identities.

Mindy’s mom discovered the negative influence of those communities when Mindy made friends with two older kids online: “[Mindy] began to have anxiety more frequently after talking to them / panic attacks while online with these kids,” the mother wrote. “My gut knew this played a part.”

Mindy’s observant mother rightly sensed that Mindy’s online activity contributed to her anxiety and confusion. Most of the parents who contact me report their child has spent too much time online in chat rooms or video games. Many times, we discover the child was not gender dysphoric at all. . . .

Mindy’s mother demonstrated how parents can release a child from the grip of a “gender dysphoria” diagnosis. She didn’t follow blindly the opinions that ran contrary to her observations and common sense. Instead, she researched and found resources to educate herself, starting with the Heritage Foundation panel discussion.

She withdrew her daughter from the harmful influence of trans-affirming health professionals, then sat quietly with her daughter and listened with love. It worked. She writes,

She finally opened up stating the very same things I said all along… the school change began her anxiety…different school, no friends, feeling different, starting to develop (didn’t like that) and she had been bothered on the bus by an older kid but most of all the she had been encouraged and exposed to the Transgender World by the same 2 kids and researched it on the internet…needless to say [she received] bad info…she was just on overload with everything. She says [she’s] not a transgender and was doing it because the 2 were her friends encouraged her…she felt like they would not be her friends if she didn’t play along. You saved my daughter’s future and my family.

By Mindy’s own admission, she’s not trans. Her former therapist was attempting to manufacture a transgender child out of an overwhelmed ten-year-old who needed friends after changing schools. Happily, the parents put a stop to that madness.

[azdoine]

When I went into my period of attempted abstinence from transgender medical care, I racked up four psychiatric hospitalizations and a life-threatening blood clot. The blood clot occurred because I self-medicated on dangerous supplements to lower my testosterone. Before that, none of those things had happened to me.

I diligently went along with what got suggested as my cure. I tried talking to God. I made a go of reading the bible. I even took one to the psych ward during my fourth involuntary commitment. I had many therapy sessions with a Christian therapist, and afterward, we prayed. I did a year or so in a worthless 12-step program that claimed all addictions were the same. And I went to church on Sundays. But none of it worked. In April of 2021, the VA involuntarily committed me for sixteen days after I hit my breaking point and threatened to remove my testicles in a hallway outside one of their emergency rooms. I had to see a judge get out. And after the judge released me, the VA put me back on prescription hormones. I’ve been doing okay since. But thanks for asking. For remembering the fallen.

Talking now about my less-than-honorable behaviors is vital because I couldn’t quit taking hormones, yet I was expecting kids or transgender people like me not to do the same thing. But I understand their suffering now. I spent sixteen days locked up and looking out an impenetrable window while thinking about it. Weighing what I got myself involved in with all of you.

Walt, it’s your turn now. Do all of you know that Walt Heyer confessed to me in an email that he couldn’t take testosterone after he desisted? Walt claims it made him return to cross-dressing, but I see it differently. My opinion is testosterone brought back his gender dysphoria. I’ve come to think of that as the dirty little secret of this new detrans movement that’s getting so much attention.

Many detrans folks are screaming mutilation for the cause in front of the cameras, but how many are getting their breasts restored or jetting off to Serbia to get another penis? It’s easy to be a so-called detransitioner when the problem causing your gender dysphoria got removed.

Walt also told me on the phone one day that he wasn’t all that religious. Walt, I felt genuinely let down by these admissions. I put my faith and trust in you that sheer willpower could get me through recovery. But from the looks of things, it’s been about turning detrans into a money-making scheme for you. Peddling books, and giving speeches, telling people what they want to hear while passing the collection plates.

still thinking about the sheer amount of Posting from the lady who leaked those emails in the first place. absolutely roasting detrans grifters over an open flame

[wisdomfish]

“The reprieve provided by surgery and life as a woman was only temporary. Hidden deep underneath the make-up and female clothing was the little boy hurt by childhood trauma, and he was making himself known.”

~ Walt Heyer

[therainbowtimes]

Walt Heyer: Misdiagnosed Trans Woman Rails Against Trans People, Pride 2018, More

Walt Heyer: Misdiagnosed Trans Woman Rails Against Trans People, Pride 2018, More

By: Nicole Lashomb*/Editor-in-Chief—

Walt Heyer, a formerly self-identified trans woman, is no stranger to the media circuit and uses it to achieve his apparent goal—to discredit and disaffirm the LGBTQ community, particularly the transgender community. Since de-transitioning after living as a woman for eight years, he has become the echo chamber for the extreme right-wing argument against the…

[freedomtotalk]

"Walt Heyer is an author and public speaker who formerly identified and lived as transgender. He is the author of several books, and through his website, SexChangeRegret.com, Heyer raises public awareness about those who regret gender change and the tragic consequences suffered as a result. He shared his story and warned against implementing radical hormonal and surgical interventions for gender dysphoric children."

Listen to the victims, and believe them. Validate their pain, validate their existence, and tale their side against the perpetrators of child abuse.