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This is a “first world problem,” and I notice it is especially prevalent among white, upper middle class children. The mothers I have observed seem to enjoy the attention and I can’t help but think Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

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Transhausen by proxy.

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I think you’re on to something, Matt.

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I've been a TERF going on six years, we've already got a word for just about everything troons do.

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My brother is in the Army and long ago told me they love their acronyms. I started seeing so many acronyms surrounding identity politics and wondered why, and as I type this I realize it's probably born from their internet cultist members having to create acronyms for all their psuedo-intellectual gender theories because it's a chore to type out and they can use them like hipster dogwhistles among their comrades 🤷, even though most times they are used incorrectly because the people that use them don't have a coherent thought to begin with 😂

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It seems pretty clear that for a certain segment of affluent white progressives, having a trans child is a status symbol. Unlike lower income families, they have the time and money for such things. And because Critical Theory has conditioned them to believe that they’re oppressors with no hope of escaping that label, they see transing their kids as a way to join an oppressed class for which they’re celebrated instead of condemned.

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Take Munchausen by proxy, multiply by the power of a fad

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One needn’t be a bona fide psychologist to understand that a young person who comes to see him or herself as transgender might be experiencing social or emotional problems that precede concerns about their gender identity, or is simply under the influence of a peer contagion. What gender-affirming care really means is sacrificing a kid’s psychological and emotional needs for the sake of a political and ideological stance. It’s the abdication of adult responsibility toward kids.

https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/gender-ideology-is-toxic-nonsense

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Jun 13, 2023·edited Jun 13, 2023

Leave. Children. Alone.

[Then check out unskool.substack.com]

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What a nightmarish situation... we need more people to wake up!

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Again - Excellent article Libs of TikTok!

When I read this article, the one thing that popped in my head (aside from my disgust) is "follow the money." We know that the health care industry is corrupt - COVID showed that in living color. I call it the Pharma-industrial-complex and rightly so. It is NOT about the Hippocratic Oath - it's all about greed. Kaiser Permanente is looking for more revenue streams and butchering kids is just another way to pay for the second and third vacation homes for doctors and board members. So, all this virtue signaling on respecting fluid gender roles is just the bullshit cover for making more money. Clearly this is a war on the families and the sanctity of our God-given traits. We are now gods and can remake someone into something else. I used to think evil described people like Hitler and Pol Pot but it can be as mundane as your local doctor looking to pad his profits. May God watch over today's families as they have to deal with this latest intrusion into their home.

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Why are insurance companies paying for this? Maybe that’s where we should start. I had to pay for my Lasik surgery because it was cosmetic even though I was definitely myopic.

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Yikes! I used to work at a Kaiser in research- I valued them for being evidence-based. That obviously has changed.

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Josef Mengele meets ‘Isle of Doctor Moreau’.

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"The Platinum Rule" is capitalism doing the upsell in social justice language https://www.evakurilova.com/p/no-we-dont-need-to-update-the-golden

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"Dr" Kim is a Chinese plant - part of a larger effort to weaken America. It seems to be working.

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kim is a common korean name. most the kim's in china are from korea. lots of koreans in LA. in parts of LA korean is the most common language other than english and spanish. kaiser says this kim is from TX. heres her bio on kaiser website.

"I grew up in Houston, Texas, and completed my undergraduate studies at Stanford University in California. I attended the University of Texas at Houston for medical school and returned to California to complete my residency in internal medicine at the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, followed by a year of chief residency. I pursued a fellowship in infectious diseases at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and then joined Kaiser Permanente at West Los Angeles. After practicing infectious disease care including HIV medicine for more than 10 years, I transitioned my practice to focus on the healthcare needs of the transgender and gender nonconforming community."

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It sad to know that this psychological paroxysm infects even those without a political motivation. OK then, just a fellow traveler - a mindless minion.

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yup. but also its pretty well known that kaiser drs make more salary than other drs in southern california area. i speculate this is becuase kaiser has so many members their appt system keeps their drs so buzy with appts each 15 mins all day long. the head of entire depts at other hospitals in so cal dont make as much as just a reg kaiser dr. so this Kim lady is making bank and thats why shes doing it

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I am a "bona fide psychologist", and I was about to minutes away from resigning my license after seeing the mandatory Continuing Education Hours required and endorsed by the American Psychological Association. Sixteen courses on "gender-affirming care" and all of them are reprints of the Kaiser guidelines. Not one single suggestion that the brainwashing AKA "therapy' would require anything close to genuine questioning and helping the person to reach the source of their anxiety and depression. Guidance provided on how to write the professional letter that child mutilators need to deform an adult---or a child. I renewed my license in the hope that one day I'll get a call out of the blue from a lawyer wanting me to testify as an expert in child development, which I am. Let me at 'em...please!

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I am a "bona fide psychologist", and I was about to minutes away from resigning my license after seeing the mandatory Continuing Education Hours required and endorsed by the American Psychological Association. Sixteen courses on "gender-affirming care" and all of them are reprints of the Kaiser guidelines. Not one single suggestion that the brainwashing AKA "therapy' would require anything close to genuine questioning and helping the person to reach the source of their anxiety and depression. Guidance provided on how to write the professional letter that child mutilators need to deform an adult---or a child. I renewed my license in the hope that one day I'll get a call out of the blue from a lawyer wanting me to testify as an expert in child development, which I am. Let me at 'em...please!

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