In the Netherlands, a group called ‘The Transgender Network’ is acting like pirates, outraging many. Parliament is deeply divided. The lobby group issued a 5-point proclamation in September 2022 encouraging legislators to adopt new laws. Children of all ages need now merely write a letter to the authorities and ask to change their official sex registration if they want to. No further questions need be asked, such are the demands. Are the pirates overhauling sane reason itself?
What are these people proclaiming? They prophesize a new logic, making “transitioning” sound like the norm: healthy, safe, and sound. But this can only be done with fake news and pseudo-logic. Can they get away with it?
Statement #1:
Their proclamation starts off with:
“The era that transgender people were thought to suffer from a disorder lies behind us”.
In this brilliantly written opening sentence, all psychiatry is flushed down the toilet and relegated to the dustbin of history. All in one go, a remarkable feat, can’t say otherwise. I fail to agree however, so let’s analyze that statement, word by word. Bear with me:
1.“An era”
They call criticism merely an “era”. Does that mean that critical thinking just withers away over time? If you wait long enough, critics will just shut up?
We feel that there is no such thing as the “time spirit”. There is no imaginary god of “Progress” rushing forward. That “era” which supposedly lies behind us, is back again, or rather: it has never been away unless you are ignorant of the scientific debate that has always been going on, and are in a state of denial. This time around, critical thinkers have science unequivocally on their side. They can safely puncture a hole in the bubble of the media-frenzy of the “trans revolution”, a term that some journalists conjure up.
A scientific dawn is rising in the third decade of the new millennium, forcing the radical-activist cancel culture to work full speed ahead and the fully employed spin doctors to do overtime in an effort to salvage the castration campaigns:
“Has your little boy got a penis? Well, not for long (smile, smile). After all, he won’t be needing it”.
In 2019, massive research into the genetic profile of half a million persons who label themselves LGBTQIA+++ demonstrated that transgenderism and same-sex attractions are a software issue and a software issue only. There is no consistent genetic pattern, no underlying hardware. It was a major shock to the radical-activist community.
As of 2019, we can safely turn the narrative around and say
“The era that gender-confused people could insist they were “born that way” lies behind us”.
We must rewrite the dominant narrative. It is an ideological mistake to write that a person can actually be a “transgender”. It is far more correct to write that an individual is temporarily a “victim of gender confusion”.
As long as the confusion is not affirmed, 98% of the victims get over it and proceed to lead a healthy life, according to the Psychiatric Diagnostic Manual 5th edition, stemming from the American Psychiatric Association. Only 2% appear to persist, so they write on page .
The condition is not something you necessarily have forever and ever. The good news is that the agonizing state of mind is temporary as long as the individual keeps all options open. Current scientific evidence leads to this conclusion. Science has even proven that 85% of all early-onset youngsters get over it by the age of 16, and that this number increases to 98% by the age of 26. That is the story they (the activists) don’t tell you.
2 “Disorder”
The word “disorder” that this Dutch radical network quotes, is outdated.
These days, psychiatrists prefer to see this state of mind (and also other auto-aggressive impulses) as a complex of emotions, originating from present and past life events, leading to the creation of coping mechanisms to deal with reality, for lack of better, a lonely inner turmoil. But things can get better, as long as the mental problems are not located (projected) into the body or into society, that is to say: assigned to the body which would then be ‘faulty’, or into other people who would then have a disorder, a ‘phobia’.
We know for sure that ‘wrong’ bodies do not march around in the streets, as little as do undead bodies (‘vampires’), people from Mars (‘martians’) or untrustworthy little old ladies (‘witches’). Thousands of women were burnt at the stake because of the belief that inside you, there is another you. And now, society is doing it again: ‘wrong bodies’. You would not be who you are in the here and now.
But there is no other you. You can only get over your problems, emotions, confusion, and hang-ups once you start to own them and to acknowledge them as your very own challenge.
Bottom line: there is not a wrong body in sight, it’s a myth. If you will: we witness a new secular doctrine, a conviction, a state of mind, an ideology directed at the own body. May I insist: hate speech!
‘I hate myself like I have never hated myself before. I really hate me. Let’s get rid of me. Let’s get rid of the little boy. If I act effeminate, it’s because of a deeper layer in me, the woman inside. Yes, she is me, but what does that awful dick got do with it? Let’s get rid of it. Let’s find us an identity. Let us transcend’.
3. Disorder and psychiatric criteria
The Dutch psychiatric association has been infiltrated by radicalized LGBT activists, leading the chairman on 23rd March 2023 to dramatically announce that gender dysphoria is a normal condition to be left alone by psychiatrists, as should be done with all conditions where there is nothing noteworthy really happening.
Hmm, the infiltration has paid off, because we do not agree with all this. The gentleman is not following the normal criteria for diagnosis and therapy.
What constitutes a mental disorder? On the website psychiatry.org, we read,
“Mental illnesses are health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking or behavior (or a combination of these). Mental illnesses can be associated with distress and/or problems functioning in social, work or family activities.”
Okay, then when these are the criteria, we put it to you that every one of these criteria can be seen in the person struggling with gender dysphoria. Psychiatrists are not full of hatred or phobias; we are full of concern for people who are going to be left to struggle on their own if the activists have it their way.
There are
– changes in emotion (self-doubt and distress; the emergence of a double life on the inside)
– the accumulation of extreme self-hatred and aggression toward the own body comparable to anorexia nervosa
– the emergence of pseudo-logic and an “Alice In Wonderland” train of thought, a topsy-turvy world-view,
– the distress of inner turmoil leading to an abundance of suicide attempts.
Gay organization, the Williams Institute, writes,
“More than 40% of transgender adults in the US have attempted suicide. A new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds that 81% of transgender adults in the U.S. have thought about suicide, 42% of transgender adults have attempted it, and 56% have engaged in non-suicidal self-injury over their lifetimes.
Using data from the U.S. Transgender Population Health Survey (TransPop), researchers examined the prevalence of hazardous drinking, problematic drug use, serious psychological distress, suicidality, and non-suicidal self-injury between transgender and cisgender adults. Results from this study, which is the first national probability sample of transgender people in the U.S., support previously reported findings that showed significant disparities in health outcomes for transgender as compared with cisgender Americans.
While transgender and cisgender adults reported similar rates of hazardous drinking and problematic drug use, transgender people were significantly more likely to experience poor mental health during their lifetimes. Compared to cisgender adults, transgender adults were seven times more likely to contemplate suicide, four times more likely to attempt it, and eight times more likely to engage in non-suicidal self-injury.
Notably, transgender nonbinary adults reported higher rates of harmful substance use and poor mental health than transgender men and women.”
“The rates of suicidal ideation and self-injury among transgender people are alarming—particularly for transgender nonbinary adults,” said study author Ilan H. Meyer, Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy at the Williams Institute.”
And then the Dutch Association of Psychiatrists is now implying that all of this does not merit psychiatric care? Especially when we know that the strugglers can get over it as long as professionals do not affirm it?
To make matters worse, evidence demonstrates that the (in all other cases totally unacceptable) levels of inappropriate hormones lead to blood clots, cerebral hemorrhages, and heart attacks. 40% die in agony from the cardiovascular system alone. Not to mention the array of hormone-induced bouts of depression, leading to an great array of suicide attempts and usually ending in suicide. The average age of a transgender is 35 years of age, less than half of the normal life expectancy.
The hormones also lead to cancers, often undetected because one does not expect breast cancer in a genetically male person. A hereditary constitution will however lead to the cancer if high levels of deliberately injected female hormones are present. Did your mom or aunt die of breast cancer? Well, chances are you may too. Activists never inform clients of these numbers.
We can also safely say that the sexual instructions that the activists wish to make available for all schoolchildren is based on disinformation and deliberate neglect of realities. The activists are living in a delusional world that they themselves fail to grasp.
The predicament gets worse when non-deluded professionals think they are doing well to appease each and every activist step. The professionals have been led to believe that they are on the right side of history because talking with a deluded patient has this real-world quality, as is always the case with delusions.
And if these professionals gang up on non-believers with a whole professional society, that still does not rule out the fact that we are witnessing ideological mistakes. The number of professionals who appease does not mean anything, it is the content that counts.
The average age in men with persistent gender confusion declines from 83 to 35, and yet we are to believe that all this should be considered normal in the medical sense of the word? Safe and sound medical reasoning has been thrown overboard and highly subjective stances are taking over. The pirates are at work.
Hoist the sails, they say. Long live the Jolly Roger, the pirate flag (okay, the trans flag has been planted into the rainbow flag, okay, they have added the Black Lives Matter flag too as of late. It is increasingly becoming a gigantic projection screen, meaning anything you want it to mean. That comes in very handy for an activist when the annoying takeover of the public sphere by symbols is criticized. The critic always loses the debate).
Therefore, these psychiatric professional institutes are failing in their core duty to people in need. And yes, with so much mortality and morbidity, but also with so much self-limiting positive turn of events, the condition falls under the realm of hard-core psychiatry, whether an activist wishes to hear it or not.
We are facing the golden age of the extreme-left-wing anti-psychiatry movement. And they want to go global.
4 “Suffer”
As far as “suffering” is concerned in the opening sentence of the activists, do people suffer?
Yes, their comment is spot-on. They go to great extremes to conceal the level of auto-aggression (aggression toward the self). It leads to self-killing in 35% of the cases (the highest of all conditions in psychiatry).
When “treatment” starts in terms of “transitioning”, it leads to gross bodily harm (40%) in the sense of cancers, strokes, heart attacks, and thromboses stemming from the presence of inappropriate hormones injected into the blood stream. In all other realms of medicine, this doctor’s behavior is criminal; why not here?
The delusion-affirming internist gets a lot of work on his plate. He is making money for the rest of his life, checkups galore. But so does the psychiatrist, a state of equilibrium is never reached.
The condition itself and the inappropriate hormones lead to therapy-resistant depressions which are a direct consequence of the hormonal imbalances.
Normal doses of anti-depressant drugs will not do, and when elevated levels of drugs are used, successful suicides are a predictable consequence because these drugs give so much energy that it becomes easier to get it “over and done with” (suicide) then to face a year’s hard work of painful psychotherapy at a minimum.
Another blow, namely the fact that your capabilities to reproduce are fading into the sunset, usually hits the victim like a hurricane at a certain point.
Of course, he/she cannot express this on social media where most victims spend their time and find their “support”. After all, you only get Internet ‘Likes’ with a likable smile on your face, not with a frown.
Except if you can blame someone else, which can make you a Youtube starlet once again, finding recognition in the Cloud with its selfies and thumbs-ups gestures. You belong. And that blaming is directed at others, the out-crowd, to which you have chosen not to belong.
5. Late-onset remorse
Psychiatrists observe that late-onset remorse eclipses the early-onset honeymoon with the surgical and hormonal interventions.
After age 30, many gender-confused victims who boast about their new breasts and sport their convincing hairdos and gigantic surreal eye-lashes, witness a sad array of funerals in their self-inflicted “community”. They see and are horrified about how life expectancy is almost slashed in half when you adhere to the “transgender revolution”.
Daily life of “transition” becomes an obsession which knows no end. Clothes, make-up, jewelry, voice training, more surgery, more self-doubt, more selfies, and more visits to the GP to check if all is well. Not to mention the isolation of drifting away from your full genetic potential to be as normal as everyone else. You are normal but you have your doubts and, sadly, have taken a wrong turn in life.
At age 16, you thought that a change of gender would kiss it better.
Did you know that at age 18, almost all recruits in the army think they can take on the whole world and will not get killed or maimed in battle? Their horizon is infinite. They think they are invincible, or rather, they don’t give it a thought. That is the very reason that new soldiers are always recruited or conscripted at age 17 or 18, and not at age 40. The same applies to the “transgender revolution”.
Perhaps it is wise to put an age restriction on genital mutilation, castration, and toxic levels of inappropriate hormones. What say you? Perhaps we should not affirm a psychiatric delusion at any age, the most sensible thing to do. After all, a delusion is a delusion at age 12 but also at age 40. What has age got to do with it?
6. “Consistency”
In statement #2, the Transgender Network writes to parliament:
“The gender identity of transgender and non-binary youths is just as consistent as the identity of cisgender youths.”
What a one-liner! Let’s chop this down and take it one step at a time.
The truth is that “cisgender” youths do not exist as such. You are either in a transient state of gender-confusion and gender-confused, or you have swung back into being, or always were, non-confused. But you can swing into confusion, nevertheless. To and fro. There is nothing consistent about it.
How does it feel? Confusion hurts, non-confusion doesn’t. Confusion is a big deal, non-confusion isn’t. Gender-confusion and keeping up appearances for those who have decided that the changes to the body are long overdue, is a full-time occupation. Experiencing non-confusion isn’t.
Those are not two different people. You are one and the same.
Gender confusion is not your destiny; it can very well be an all-consuming predicament but it is not your fate. 98% get over it as long as it is not hyped. And activists will hide that fact as part of their delusional masquerade.
Only by use of state-approved violence, the law, can they impose their view onto others, can they get non-confused individuals to shut up and become cheering squads.
And get non-believers to face prison sentences for non-compliance. In Iowa, a man got 16 years prison sentence for publicly disagreeing with the waving of the rainbow flag and demonstrating his disapproval. In Iran, they hang you for disapproval. In our view, the LGBT takeover in the USA appears to be heading in the same direction. I did not say ‘beheading‘, although you never know. After all, we are living in scary times. The rainbow flag is not a symbol anymore, it has become a sword with the full protection of the law. It has a definite Iranian quality if you even dare point at it.
Ultimately, the cheering squads become queering squads.
There is nothing nice, tolerant, and diverse about this movement: the radical-trans Henry Benjamin Foundation has taken over the age-old Gay Liberation Front. This LGB “front” consists of baby-boomers running out of gas after gay marriage became normal and for many troublesome because “gay” divorce rates have even knocked “straight” divorce rates from the charts. And “straights” were bad!
As of 2010, along comes the transgender movement. This influx is heavenly sent for the dwindling Gay Liberation Front. With a take-over, the radical trans lobby tries to throw its weight around, hoping to end all debate: they go for the lawmakers, not for scientific debate. As soon as their mantras are embedded in law and chiseled in stone, then the ideology will become fixed, as solid as a rock, safe from criticism. Stones don’t move, there is no movement in stone. Hence, radical activism kills the (moderate) emancipation movement itself. Things will now stay fixed for decades to come. And standing still will have you lagging behind in the advance of social movements.
7. The identity of “cisgenders”
It is unfair to stigmatize non-confused people as being a certain kind of person.
Gender confusion in the individual comes and goes. Therefore, the identity of non-confused youths is not consistent: it can change and it does change, back and forth. Therefore, the identity of “cisgenders” is not consistent. Every gender-confused person was non-confused once. The myth that a state of non-confusion (‘cisgender’) never existed in the mind of the confused (‘transgender’) is the rewriting of personal history. It is a social construct, a baloney story that you can apparently get away with in the media.
If a “transgender” activist sells you the story on TV or in the legislative chambers that it felt that way since age 5, ask him/her about the Tooth Fairy. He no doubt believed that too, at age 5. As most five-year-olds do. But we must not allow that to be the foundation for legislation to silence other, more adult, views. We sadly observe these neurotic (=based on childhood traumas) victims rising to power.
Is he a danger? Yes, most certainly dangerous to the Western narrative where efforts are deliberately carried out by this lobby to rewrite normality, psychiatry, and to cancel, delete, shame, and marginalize other opinions.
To this end, hundreds of activist organizations are founded under leadership of the ILGA (International Lesbian and Gay Alliance), and if at all possible, to have them financed by the state.
The ILGA is, for example, co-funded by the European Union and the Government of the Netherlands.
On the ILGA Europe website we read,
“In collaboration with and on behalf of over 700 LGBTI member organisations across Europe and Central Asia, we are a driving force for political, legal and social change”.
Worldwide, however, the ILGA represents 1977 organisations. Many people assume that the way they think about matters is the result of free choice and free access to information. Little do they realize that the ILGA has become the world #1 factory of labels, stigmas, and us-them thinking. They do nothing else. And in doing so, its segregational policies are very worrying. Even the EU now, with which the ILGA has allied, has become a driving force in the background to shapen personal opinions the “right” way. We are talking about millions of euros being invested, purely to “correct” your feelings and thinking. Most people are not even aware of it.
They have invented a new term, a new stigma: ‘endosex’. They also call it “dyadic“. The labeling industry just goes on and on. What will the confused mind come up with next? Spoiler alert: “perisex“! Not to mention: “juxtasex“!
The gay-hijacked Williams Institute writes that criticism of the take-over by the Harry Benjamin Foundation would be politically motivated. But it is the ILGA that writes that it is “a driving force for political, legal and social change”. Not the other way around. The critics are not seizing political power: it is the ILGA going for it.
At the same time, all problems that deluded patients face are attributed to an imaginary outside world, justifying political actions and sheer hostility, the easy way out:
“A lack of societal recognition and acceptance of gender identities outside of the binary of cisgender man or woman and increasing politically motivated attacks on transgender individuals, increase stigma and prejudice and related exposure to minority stress, which contributes to the high rates of substance use and suicidality we see among transgender people.”
Others are to blame, not me, so the Williams Institute insists. In doing so, psychiatry which analyses problems at a personal level, is written out of the equation. It is canceled. The problems that stare us in the face would be social. This is the anti-psychiatry movement.
8. Cash
The cash flow is enormous. In the USA, it is called ‘pink money’, in the UK ‘the pink pound’. In wikipedia we read,
“Pink money has become politically acceptable, especially as a major source of liberal funding for the Democratic Party—in 2000, contributing $5 million to the Democratic National Committee alone, “a total that puts them among the top tier of Democratic givers, along with unions and trial lawyers”.[8] Major candidates such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, John Kerry, and Joe Biden have actively campaigned for the gay vote”.
The volunteers, recruited by the gay sponsors, then go from door to door to motivate people to vote for their endorsed candidate.
Without this endeavor, Joe Biden would never have won the elections from Donald Trump. After all, it was a very close margin in 2020 and this gay support (not to mention the millions of pink dollars) made the difference.
In return, however, the politician has to repeat all the rhetoric that is fed to him by the sponsor, and to admit policy makers of the gay organizations into the administration.
In this way, activist Samuel Brinton and Human Rights Campaign spokesman, the transgender Sarah MacBride, magically rose to political power. Biden is forced to promote MacBride as senior federal spokesman on all LGBT issues on behalf of the Biden administration. McBride is normalizing every word of the transgender agenda. And he is full-blown radical.
It is not the fact that these political moves are being made in the US, because it apparently is part of the US system. This development in politics is worrying when the voices are based on pseudo-logic. It is not as if one or other acceptable political policy is rising to power, it is pseudo-logic now reigning supreme. And this should be worrying for all, whether one is left-wing or right-wing.
Pseudo-logic is a threat for sanity and public health worldwide, especially when Biden explicitly sees a global audience as his goal. A sort of Messiah with a message for the planet Earth. That is what the activists paid him for, that is what the activists are getting.
The trans activist seeks to reproduce his predicament in as many youngsters that he and his colleagues can get their hands on. The earlier the “liberation” reaches youngsters, the better.
This is a consequence of the phony ‘born that way’ narrative, the idea that transgenderism is inborn and present in the genes even from conception.
Science now knows as of 2019 that such is not true. It is purely a transient and contagious mental condition acquired at later ages; the good news is that it withers away in 98% of the cases as long as it is not affirmed. Normality will win the battle in the heart of the individual unless someone decides to intervene, obstructing the individual in his right to become normal.
9. Leverage
And, as a means of political leverage, activists use the greatest tool of them all: the victim role. Can’t go wrong if you are a victim.
Normality is then presented as a lurking menace to children, a doom, an ill-fated mistake made by Mother Nature herself. Transitioning is your heritage. Normality is defined by the radical-trans lobby as the biggest genetic disorder that can overcome an innocent child. Worse than Down’s syndrome, worse than Huntington’s genetic dementia, worse than Fragile X syndrome. Castration facilities need to be called to the rescue, it is “all hands on deck”.
Did you know that, as of 2023, there are radical-trans activists calling for all children to be put on puberty blocking hormones to “give them time”?
After all, if it is healthy for one child, why not for all? This is radical-trans logic. We observe puberty now being defined as a horrific event that can be postponed, giving the innocent child time for “your true you” to emerge.
Castration facilities are dangerous for us all, once the child grows up. After all, no balls, no straight. And no balls, no gay.
They are transing the gay away. If a 12-year-old boy acts effeminate and gets sexual feelings for the men he admires, he won’t be doing that for long. He will be turned into a girl with a crush on the opposite sex. See? She is now nice and straight. Not praying the gay away, no, transing the gay away.
What has science got to do with it? Well, we live in the era that scientific evidence has it all sorted out at last. We know for sure that gender confusion is not a fixed state, it comes and goes. In doing so, it cannot be a hardware issue because hardware issues are persistent. If 98% of the cases demonstrate swings in the degree of confusion, then the condition can only be explained by software theory. No hardware theory, however imaginative, fits the facts. In other words, gender identity is not consistent.
Therefore, it is not immutably created at conception, nor is it a condition arising during birth, nor is it the ‘true you’ that you have found at last. It is a temporary coping mechanism to try to deal with a great array of mental issues, all of which can be resolved, as long as you don’t go along with the fairy tales that are emerging and as long as you are careful not to unknowingly reinforce them.
10. The ruthlessness of legislation
Disinformation is false information deliberately spread by the Transgender Network to deceive people. We see an orchestrated adversarial activity in which the network employs strategic deceptions and media manipulation tactics to advance their hijack of the emancipation lobbies, politics, public health, and the education system. They want to be everywhere, sitting front row.
If activists want new gender identities to be written into passports and other official documents because it would be a consistent change of identity, then this stance is not backed up by science. There is nothing consistent about it.
All psychiatrists worldwide are in agreement on this issue, including the American Psychiatric Association. In their diagnostic manual, they admit that only 2% have difficulties acquiring normality in the long run. The scientific field sees activists stealthily infiltrating organizations in accordance with Rudi Dutschke’s ‘Long March Through The Institutions’, a radical left-wing tactic from West Germany of the seventies, long gone.
11. Conclusion, a pirates’ tale
Like pirates, they sneak up in an almost invisible dinghy and hoist themselves onto ship in the dead of night. No wind or moon, not a ripple on the surface of the sea. On tiptoes, they pitter-patter to the bridge and perform a total take-over, cutting a talkative throat here and there, while the crew below-deck is fast asleep. Next morning, a guy who looks like the captain makes his grand entrance, wearing a dress, ta-dah, and orders new messages to be sent to the press.
On land, however, the keen telegraph operator sounds the alarm bell and rushes to his superiors: “Sirs, we have signals from that vessel at sea. Look carefully: telegrams. Sirs, I believe it is fake news”.
The Titanic is once again heading for disaster with few to tell the tale.
Bottom-line: there is nothing consistent about the “Transgender Revolution”.
In the fogs of disinformation, in the darkness of deliberate fake-news, in the wake of plastic surgery, the vessel of Progress is heading for an iceberg. The first mate who hid in a closet (no pun intended) during the nightly Battle of the Era’s, makes his way to the bridge and grasps the microphone: ‘Attention all passengers! Abandon ship! Women and children first!’
They say “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”. Well, I’d keep clear of him, no matter what.
To be continued,
Job Berendsen, MD.