1  I wonder how many people have connected the dots and found that its big pharma behind this. Just like covid that are making a killing on profits while killing the hand that fed them.

2 Yeah; and another thing: who came up with this "gender assigned at birth" crap? I'm not exactly sure at what point in cellular development chromosomes begin to be recognizable, but it's certainly before birth. I prefer the term "gender assigned at conception" until somebody proves me wrong.

And of course, it's actually the sex that gets assigned, not gender.

3 Mike that aspect of it goes unnoticed but is undoubtedly a huge part of it. Think how much money they make from the hormone treatments which last a lifetime! I'd ike to find a cost analysis of transing a child done sometime. I won't find it online with my ancient equipment, of course, if it IS online at all. But I would think someone has done it - and if not they should. I'd do it myself if I could get into the websites I would need to work it all out.

Righto Dana. Sex is assigned by nature and nature's God,not by man. It is only "assigned" when it is written on a birth certificate. Yes, sometimes they have trouble figuring it out (or used to; with DNA testing it's not so tough), but in the end it's not the doctor or the parents or society that does the assigning.

When the Left speaks of "gender" they mean the cultural practices that differentiate male and female of course. And a baby has none of that. Yes, it may start then; the baby is put in pink if a girl or blue if a boy, but babies are pretty much treated the same for the first year of their lives.

The differentiating between sex and gender was a sneaky but clever ploy; it allowed them to completely deny science while claiming they are the champions of the aforementioned.

And this follows in the wake of the success of the homosexual movement in changing the definition of words to favor themselves. The gay movement originally argued they did what they did by choice, because otherwise they were sick and medical science would work out cures for them. So they denied being sick, just claimed to be rebels, making sex a radical act. But Americans didn't like that and they gained little traction so they flipped the script, saying they had no choice in the matter, that it was "who we are" as opposed to what they do. This put them in the template of other protected minorities. Just like black folkss can't change their skin color, gays then claim they can't change their "sexual orientation" and that it is in fact just an alternate biological trait. It was inevitable they would take this a step further and deny that sexuality is a basic characteristic at all. Now they argue it is a cultural construct imposed on children and they are "liberating" those children with hormones, with pretending they are whatever sex they claim to be, and with surgery to remove things God put there for good reason.

It's an enormous con game and sadly it has worked with many, especially the young who believed the lies told them by their teachers and by their hip media outlets.

I would take this to it's spiritual element now. Wasn't this sort of thing the exact same thing Lucifer and his angels indulged in? They simply recreated themselves by telling themselves lies and making themselves believe them. They wanted to be like God and they granted it to themselves in their own minds. This is no different. I would argue transgenderism is an act of witchcraft. It is an attempt to overthrow God's order via an enormous lie repeated often enough, an incantation if you will.

At any rate the only "assigning" of "gender" (which is a function of language, not of biology) is done by these crazy Leftists when they tell a kid he's not a boy but a girl "trapped in a boy's body". (Funny; there are so very many more male to female than female to male trannies - how is that possible if it's just a matter of sexual "assignment"? My mother used to work in a maternity ward and she said in cases of hermaphrodism they always made the kid female because that is the natural way the body develops without hormonal intervention. If Mom was right then most trans folks should be female to male.)

You also wouldn't have the extraordinarily high incidents of homosexuality among trans people, far, far higher than in the general population. By that I mean m to f trannies who have sex with women, or f to m trans who do it with men. See, their sexuality remains the same, it's just the way they pose themselves and behave that is "trans" in a great many of them. (Granted, many "straight" trannies were homosexual but didn't want to admit that to the public in the first place and so found an easy answer.)

I am not unsympathetic to their suffering and desire to fix their lives. But thiss is not the answer. It just makes them even more miserable in the end, freaks who castrated themselves. Straight men are not going to want to date them, and neither will gay men, who want actual men. They are a lonely, desperate group of people and by normalizing it we are just guaranteeing they remain desperate and lonely. This is an evil movement.