We must consider the TQ. It is of vital importance. I will make it plain from the start of this short essay: I think it is nothing more than a psychosomatic response. Give me all your ‘trans’ history, give me all your pomo justification, I don’t see how it could be anything other than made-up. We’re all warped, and the poor people who have to use sexual identity as a crutch have been warped the most. Just what the hell is going on?
Something is spreading, that is for sure. Social contagion is a documented phenomenon. It’s been observed in animals as well as humans, and could be as simple as when suicides spike when the news covers a celebrity death-by-pills. In Australia there is an interesting example, though I struggle to find the documentation, of ‘Greek back’ where a certain subset of the population all developed sciatica. My belief is that as visibility of homosexuality increased, more people not only subconsciously chose to accept it, but also to embrace it, and the trooner question comes from this. It is almost definitely a figment of society’s imagination, or perhaps lack there of.
At its heart I think the problem we face is an inability to live in boredom or pain. Ask anyone under 30 what their sexuality is (a strange question in itself perhaps 20 years earlier) and they will probably launch into a spiel about fluidity and preferences and so on. When they recite this litany, you can tell they enjoy it. The justification is the pleasure. They will of course accept anyone who says they are anything, for no other fact that they want to be accepted for what they purport to be. It is not crazy to think that trooners are only so prevalent now because it’s almost cool to be one. Perhaps it is not so much cool as an excuse. Progs almost believe in progress because they have to. It’s an article of faith. Their minds need to grasp at an answer in order to function. If you’re depressed, unsatisfied or otherwise flailing, perhaps changing your sex is the answer. The grass is always greener.
I think a lot of the right are also obsessed with needing answers, just as much as the progs. Specifically one answer is desperately sought: the answer to ‘why is everyone so gay now?’ As is the typically Enlightened response, they snatch at materialistic answers. It’s the chemicals in the food, water, air. It’s the 5g. It’s the anti-depressants. The answer is probably simpler, and been with us since before the Industrial Revolution. We’ve forgotten the faces of our fathers. We’ve forgotten God. We’ve languished in nihilism, coupled it with materialism, and produced troonerism. The right needs a spiritual basis from which to attack this trend.
Thankfully there are some people out there willing to consider the TQ even if it means facing censorship or attacks. The book When Harry Became Sally by Ryan T. Anderson was banned by Amazon and attacked by tranissaries. Its Goodreads page is filled with deboonkers and a lot of hate mixed with praise. A quick glance proves the TQ is a polarized one. Since then other authors have come forth with their own inquiries. What follows is a short overview of the literature.
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
Further quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/72960520-irreversible-damage-the-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters
The title of this book, I have been told, is hyperbolic. Masectomies and hysterectomies do seem somewhat irreversible to me, but maybe that’s just my narrow-minded bias. Anyway, the book itself deals with the widespread trend of young, teenage girls ‘coming out’ as trans. This is in comparison to the oft-quoted The Man Who Would be Queen which looks at the related but very different fascination that some older men have with turning into ugly women. Troonerism has many shades. The gist of Damage is that young people, girls in particular, are mentally unwell. Shrier says, “But they are in pain - lots of it. They are anxious and depressed. They are awkward and afraid. Like the infant that leans to avoid the edge of a bed, they sense a dangerous chasm lies between the unsteady girls they are the glamorous women social media tells them they should be. Bridging that gap feels hopeless.” What these girls don’t seem to know is that they can turn this feeling around, that they will get through it.
What Shrier shows, however, is that their peer groups, media, schools and even the psychologists - basically their support networks - do the complete opposite. By talking to parents, detransitioners, trans spokespeople, psychologists and others involved, Shrier makes it quite clear that in every step of the process there are forces at work trying to encourage conversion, rather than trying to talk it down. Take this passage:
‘Without her mothers’ [sic] knowledge or permission, Julie’s teachers administrators and friends all acceded to Julie’s request and began referring to her as a male student and by her new male name. Julie began to lead a kind of double life. “When she was too much at school, too much at her computer, she became morose, withdrawn, angry. We had no idea she was indoctrinating herself with these YouTube videos.”’
It is frightening that those with responsibility acquiesce to a child’s whim, but of note is the part about YouTube. There is quite a lot in the book about how not only are social media and technology depressing teenagers, they are being used to create a trooner mindset. They all talk about right-wing rabbit holes, but if the Matrix is a trooner analogy, then the rabbit hole theory works far better here. I’ve seen things on Discord anyone over the age of 35 would find hard to fathom, ‘poppers’ being in all honesty a mild example.
Later in the book Shrier talks about a trooner activist, Chase Ross (an example of a trooner that Shrier actively reaches out to and interviews in case anyone wishes to criticize her for not doing so). Shrier writes, ‘In fact, YouTube facilitated Chase’s own trans epiphany. “I always knew that there was kind of something ‘off’ about me,” he says. “Not like being trans is something off, but I just felt different from other people. I didn’t feel like I fit in. And one time I was watching probably cat videos on YouTube when I was fifteen and I stumbled across a trans person.” That’s how easy it is. The book talks a lot about social contagion, peer pressure and influence, and the overall medicalisation of our society, but the real takeaway for me was the ways in which the internet seeps into young mind’s. Thankfully when I was fifteen all I saw was Goatse and gore.
In the end Shrier offers some suggestions on how to minimize the risk of your children going trooner. It’s light-touch stuff, and fairly obvious. Observe their internet use, talk to them, etc. Overall I think she is to empathetic towards the movement, even though she points out what almost looks like a conspiracy. If all these forces are working on children, could they be working in concert? For that answer you have to look elsewhere…
The Transgender-Industrial Complex by Scott Howard
Purchase from the publisher: https://www.antelopehillpublishing.com/product-page/the-transgender-industrial-complex-by-scott-howard
A word of warning. Scott really names them in this book. Like, endlessly. But can you really blame him? The book itself is basically a list of names of NGOs and organizations and powerful people who all push a LGBTQIAP agenda. Another warning: it’s rather boring. But if you want to know where the money comes from and where it gets pushed and by who, this is the book for you.
I don’t particularly want to say too much about this book. I didn’t finish it and it seemed a little paranoid to me. But there is no denying most of the connections that Scott makes. For example:
‘[In reference to the marketing of Cuties] Given that one of the co-founders of Netflix is a descendant of Sigmund Freud and Edward Bernays, though, marketing the film in this fashion-and Mendelson’s defense of it-and running shows like AJ and the Queen and many of Netflix’s other “woke” programs is to be expected.’
This is the bare basics when it comes to connecting dots, but Scott goes deeper and deeper into the woods beyond TV shows and marketing and into politics and funding. If Abigail Shrier’s book is a depiction of what is happening on the surface, Scott’s is an exploration of the levers that make all of it possible. It is quite eye-opening to see how many institutions have been created and that work together to make homosexuality, and in particular troonerism, palatable to the general public. But we wouldn’t be in the mess at all if we had not lost faith…
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman
To sum up the thrust of this book, let me quote Carl directly: ‘Because men have forgotten God, they have also forgotten man; that’s why all this has happened.’ That about covers it. The book charts the trajectory of our fall, from early philosophers to Freud to the modern triumph of the legal system. The writing is excellent, the rhetoric rock solid, and the overall conclusion should be embarrassing.
What is at stake is essentially how we see ourselves as people, and the book makes it clear that how we see ourselves has been manipulated. It’s crazy to think that Freud has no true scientific basis, but because he told a good story most of society thinks it’s true. This idea of the sexual being, of finding your true self, is pervasive. Carl says that, ‘The intuitive moral structure of our modern social imaginary prioritizes victimhood, sees selfhood in psychological terms, regards traditional sexual codes as oppressive and life denying, and places a premium on the individual’s right to define his or her own existence. All these things play into legitimizing and strengthening those groups that can define themselves in such terms.’ He then goes on to say, ‘…transgenderism provides an excellent example: people who think they are a woman trapped in a man’s body are really making their inner psychological convictions absolutely decisive for who they are; and to the extent that, prior to “coming out”, they have publicly denied this inner reality, to that extent they have had an inauthentic existence.’ I know one thing is true above all else, and you don’t need a psych degree to recognize it: humans are good liars. And they are particularly good at lying to themselves. Since that is 100% true, it immediately casts doubt on any trooner story.
This book is a powerhouse argument, and puts the guilt on everyone. We are all spiritual trooners. Some identify as gamers, or we have a passion for guns. Whatever it is, we are subsumed by the need for individuality. I will also link this back to the previous books, as both of them mention Obergefell v. Hodges. Well, Carl goes a step further and discusses a number of landmark legal cases that laid the groundwork for gay unions that are called ‘marriages’. He is meticulous in his research and the piecing together of his argument. Unless you are blind to reason and logic, there is no chance you put down this book in favour of troonerism.
This is where we are at considering the TQ. There are great minds at work looking into it, and there many connections being made. What they show is that nothing exists in a vacuum. Whether it is social contagion, moneyed-interests or philosophical claptrap, there is a vile potion, a seething cauldron of it, that is fucking with people’s minds. Common sense provides an easy answer.