Silicon Valley’s ‘Mission Protocol’ Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass
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They came to build the future and make money in the process.
Puberty had been distressing and rough. He’d began to cut himself, and saw transition as a way out.
The difference between the civil rights movement and CRT isn’t one of degree or shade. It’s foundational.
Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.
Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.
Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.
The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties.
Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.
Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process.
The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment.
The ranks of this new ruling class are refreshed by immigrant academics who come to understand themselves in the way progressivism understands them: as minorities who can also act victim-like if they want—a precious endowment in the cultural academic market.
This isn’t to say that all causes of transgenderism are exogenous: the presence of neuro-atypical cognition comes up over and over, as does the sons’ process of discovering (or rejecting) their sexuality.
But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes.
The basic fact that famous experts are often wrong is not itself in dispute—but is worth reviewing.
Many of the young men in question have, in moments of candour, hinted that their motivations for transition are unrelated to actual gender dysphoria.