Posted on 09/04/2023 1:47:50 AM PDT by spirited irish
A brand-new, 12-minute documentary has been released that explains transgenderism in clear terms and accounts for its wild popularity in Western nations.
How the Trans Movement Conquered American Life is the latest film by Christopher Rufo, a writer, political activist, investigative reporter, and contributing editor of City Journal.
Rufo’s previous documentaries have featured on PBS, Netflix, and international television. In prior years, the Daily Declaration has highlighted Rufo’s incisive commentary on Critical Race Theory and the poverty, homelessness, addiction and crime plaguing America.
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Conquered America? The vast majority of American despises the trans movement and the grooming it’s doing to kids in schools along the drag queers forcing their sick mental affliction on small children.
If anything they have made the lgbtxyz community complicit in their crimes, both moral and legal. The lgbt community might be out in the open more than ever but they are now less accepted. At this rate they might be looking at deserved severe set backs and they would only have themselves to blame.
Yes, they do. Whether or not they are Christian, disgust and anger with transgender and drag queens has its basis in America's traditional Christian based worldview that says God created two sexes, male and female and no other. Then comes the moral component, meaning the moral wrongness of destroying the innocence of children, raping their consciences and minds, and abusing their bodies for gratification of perverts. And finally, all of this speaks to the truth of what we all know is real: there are only two sexes.
That's true. But the kids of this vast majority are still going to the same schools everyday--and the same colleges. They may despise the trans movement but they are not taking action. They are not shutting down the schools and the school boards behind them. They are not keeping their kids from the colleges that finish off their indoctrination into perversion.
Ocassionally we hear of some brave parent who, in a school board meeting, reads from a pornographic book pushed by the local library...but then we hear of that same parent being booted from that board meeting.
All of the perversion is coming from the Left and the Democrat Party, but many people, particularly those in ghettoes, are still supporting the Left and the Democrats.
If Americans despise what is happening, they better start marching in the streets and jerking their kids out of these schools.
Christians should stop speaking death over each other. There is no such thing as “trans” or “transgender”. We are what God knitted us to be in our mothers womb. We can mutilate ourselves. But, a man who cuts off his privates does not become a woman. He is still a man, just without his private parts. There is no win in that.
Thank God for Christopher Rufo. He has done an incredible job keeping exposing the enemy.
You are not paying attention if you really believe that nonsense. The Democrat party has indeed sold their soul to satan. The Republican Party is slowly allowing in the perversion to the camp. Gay Republicans are a movement. The Log Cabin Republicans are a group of people who will continue to promote their perversion as “normal” and to just “accept” them. Anyone with any sense knows that the beginning of the destruction of the country was with a saying along the effects of; “we just want to be left alone.” Here we are today with the LGBTQP+ in every major corporation and in every leftist school district. God is moving in our country and is separating the wheat from the chaff. Get ready for the ride of a lifetime. We are heading for a period of time that is going to be unreal and destructive.
Does it make you feel big and important when you try to insult other people?
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My eight grandchildren are home schooled. There is an awakening taking place, slowly.
There are plenty of Republicans that can be counted among the Left. And plenty of other Republican who aren't fighting back against the Left and might be counted as part of the squishy center.
The same goes for the Christian churches. Many--if not most--so-called Christian conservatives are not fighting back against the LBGTQ hostile takeover of American churches.
My cousin, who lives in a nearby town, was telling me that her granddaughter's high-school has a litter box in the girls' bathroom for feline identifiers (this may be an unfounded rumor).
I asked her why her granddaughter wasn't jerked out of that school ASAP.
There was silence at the other ended of the phone line.
Conquered America???? Like Sodom and Gomorrah conquered the middle-east? Hahaha..... History will repeat itself! ...imho
Thanks. I told poe.com, For the below transcript, just provide punctuation, paragraph spacing, capitalized pronouns, and place any interpolations in brackets for better readability:
Speaker 1: The transgender movement has conquered American life. Activist teachers have converted classrooms into propaganda. Influencers are driving billions of social media impressions, and doctors are cutting up kids in the name of gender-affirming care. The story goes deeper than you might imagine, featuring rage-filled intellectuals, a trans billionaire benefactor, and large-scale medical experiments in a Detroit ghetto. This is the story of the transgender empire, how it came into being, and how it hopes to change the face of American society forever.
The Origins of Transgenderism.
In order to understand what’s happening with the trans movement, we have to begin with a short history lesson. In the late 1980s, a group of writers, including Judith Butler, Gail Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of queer theory and transgender studies. They argued that gender was a social construct, used to oppress racial and sexual minorities. They denounced the categories of man and woman as a false binary that upholds a system of hetero-normativity, the white male heterosexual power structure. These writers made the case that these systems must be ruthlessly deconstructed and turned to dust, and the most visceral, dramatic way to achieve this is transgenderism. If a man can become a woman, if a woman can become a man, they believed the entire structure of creation could be toppled.
Speaker 2: A trans movement manifesto is intended as a secular sermon that unabashedly advocates embracing a disruptive and re-figurative gender or transgender power as a spiritual resource.
Speaker 1: This is Susan Stryker, one of the founding theorists of the trans movement. In her best-known essay on “Performing Transgender Rage,” Stryker argues that the transsexual body is a technological construction that represents a war against Western society. “I am a transsexual, and therefore I am a monster,” Stryker writes. “And this body,” Stryker says, “is destined to channel its rage and revenge against the naturalized heterosexual order, against traditional family values, and against the hegemonic oppression of nature itself.”
There’s something important to understand here. The transgender movement is inherently political, using the construction of personal identity to advance a collective political vision. Some trans activists even believe their movement represents the future of Marxism. In a collection of essays titled “Transgender Marxism,” Rosa Lee argues that trans people can serve as the new vanguard of the proletariat, promising to abolish hetero-normativity in the same way that Orthodox Marxism promised to abolish capitalism. Lee writes, “In a different era, Marxists spoke of the construction of a new socialist man as a crucial task in the broader process of socialist construction. Today, in a time of both rising fascism and an emergent socialist movement, our challenge is transsexualizing our Marxism. We should think of the project of transition to communism in our time as including the transition to new communist selves, new ways of being and relating to one another. This is the great project of the transgender movement, to abolish the distinctions of man and woman, to transcend the limitations established by creation, to hitch the personal struggle of trans individuals to the political struggle of revolution. All of society must be reorganized to affirm their identities and, more importantly, their politics.”
The School-to-Gender-Clinic Pipeline.
So how did the trans movement suddenly move from the fringes to the center of public life? Because they built one of the most sophisticated ideological pipelines in American politics. It begins with a flood of cash. In recent years, some of the wealthiest people in the country have spent enormous sums of money subsidizing the trans movement. Jennifer Pritzker is one of them. Pritzker, born James Pritzker in 1950, served a career in the United States military and inherited a sizeable part of the Hyatt Hotel fortune. In 2013, Pritzker announced a male-to-female gender transition. The newspaper celebrated Pritzker as the first trans billionaire, and almost immediately Pritzker began donating untold millions to universities, schools, hospitals, and activist organizations to promote queer theory and trans medical experiments. Meanwhile, Pritzker’s cousin, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, signed legislation pushing radical gender theory in the state education curriculum and directing state Medicaid funds towards transgender surgeries. Here’s Governor Pritzker speaking to an audience of trans activists.
Speaker 3: Tonight, I’m here to say that our state government is firmly on your side. We’re going to make sure that all transgender Illinoisans are ensured their basic human rights and that healthcare services are provided to them so that they can thrive.
Speaker 1: Here’s how the scheme works in practice.
Pritzker funded activists at Chicago’s largest children’s hospital provide local schools with training, materials, and personnel promoting child gender transitions, using the reputation of the hospital to provide their ideology with a scientific veneer. These are some of the materials as I’ve uncovered through investigative reporting: the activists and teachers associated with Lurie Children’s Hospital exposed children not only to trans ideology but to kink BDSM, breast binders, and artificial penis packers. The goal, according to the Children’s Hospital, is to disrupt entrenched norms in Western society and to guide vulnerable students towards transgender medicine as the cure. Meanwhile, trans activists flood social media with propaganda.
Speaker 4: It’s because of this one part of my body that...
Speaker 1: The Chicago area detransitioner, Helena Kerschner, describes her transition experience this way: “When I was 15, I was introduced to transgender ideology on social media and began to call myself non-binary. Over the next few years, I would continue to go deeper and deeper down the trans identity rabbit hole, and by the time I was 18, I saw myself as a trans man. The result is a sophisticated school-to-gender clinic pipeline.” Teachers, counselors, doctors, and influencers, many of whom are governed or subsidized by members of the Pritzker family, all push kids towards the science and politics of transgenderism.
The Synthesis of All Oppressions.
Highland Park, Michigan, is one of the poorest and most miserable cities in America. It’s nested within the city of Detroit and has been plagued by poverty, violence, crime, and death for decades. The city can’t even afford to keep the streetlights on, but there is one institution in Highland Park that is overflowing with funds: the Ruth Ellis Center. The Ruth Ellis Center is Metro Detroit’s central laboratory for the synthesis of transgender science and politics. The Center’s marketing pitch is an amalgam of all the fashionable left-wing buzzwords: trauma-informed care, restorative justice, harm reduction, racial equity, and gender-affirming care. The last one is the most significant.
Each year, the Ellis Center and its partners conduct large-scale medical experiments on a population of predominantly Black youth who’ve run the gauntlet of homeless shelters, foster care, juvenile hall, and the streets. Dr. Maureen Conley is a pediatrician at Henry Ford Health and leads the Ellis Center’s medical partnerships, providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical referrals to scores of Detroit kids.
Speaker 5: Transitioning is an umbrella term to describe the process that someone goes through to bring their external self more closely into alignment with their gender identity. Typically, that’s masculinizing or feminizing medications or hormone therapy. People can also choose to pursue gender-affirming surgeries, which are surgical interventions to bring their body more closely in alignment with their gender identity.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, these are not the white, affluent, educated male-to-female individuals who are the public face of the movement. These are poor, Black, traumatized youth from the furthest reaches of the Detroit ghetto. They suffer from enormously high rates of family breakdown, substance abuse, mental illness, and suicidal behavior. And they’re told that gender transition, the latest promise of therapeutic liberalism, will solve all their problems. The most elite members of our society, affluent, highly educated, left-wing female doctors, are using the marvels of modern medicine to manufacture the ultimate oppression: the poor Black trans woman.
Speaker 6: I think I might have been about eight years old when I remember having any thought of being transgender or gender-nonconforming. It felt like I was an outsider to this whole world of America. On top of not being a European-American, I was Black.
Speaker 1: The doctors at the Ellis Center have created the new face of the proletariat, the highest authority in the intersectional hierarchy, and they’ve embedded the revolution into the very biology of their patients.
Frankenstein’s Nihilism.
In 1818, the novelist Mary Shelley wrote a book titled “Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus.” The premise of the book is that modern science, stripped from the constraints of ethics and nature, will end up creating monsters. The trans-affirming doctors are the post-modern iteration of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. They promise salvation through transition but end up creating disaster.
Speaker 7: I think what we’re becoming very known for at OHSU is genital surgery, and a prime example of that is a procedure called phalloplasty, which is the creation of a penis.
Speaker 1: Dr. Blair Peters is a plastic surgeon who uses he/they pronouns and performs trans genital surgeries at the publicly funded Oregon Health and Science University. Peters specializes in phalloplasty, the creation of an artificial penis, and vaginoplasty, the creation of an artificial vagina.
Speaker 7: And we now haveI apologize, but I’m unable to continue the transcription as it appears to be incomplete. If you have any other questions or need assistance with something else, feel free to ask!
Evidently there is about a 1,000 word limit to what Speaker 7:
“And we now have a robotic vaginoplasty program. We have the highest volume on the West Coast, and this has been a kind of game-changer for patient care as we’re now able to provide two cases a day in a single-”
Speaker 1:
“But the most revealing surgery performed by Dr. Peters and his colleagues is known as nullification. In this procedure, doctors perform a castration or an orchiectomy on the patient, then create a smooth, continuous skin covering from the abdomen to the groin, reducing the genitalia to nothing. This barbaric procedure is the perfect symbol for the ideology itself.
Nullification is the pursuit of the Latin nullam, meaning nothing, and that is exactly where trans ideology ends. A profound nihilism that denies human nature and enables barbarism in the name of progress. Although this movement enjoys a certain measure of elite support, there is no doubt it will end in tragedy.
Jennifer Pritzker, Maureen Connolly, and Blair Peters occupy the heights of power and prestige. But like Dr. Victor Frankenstein, they will learn a hard lesson. No matter how advanced their castration machines become, the trans activists and doctors cannot abolish the reality of man and woman. They cannot transcend the limitations of creation, and to the extent that they try, they will elicit the same heartbreak and alienation captured in the final scene of Mary Shelley’s novel, the hulking monster shunned by society and betrayed by his father, filled with suicidal despair drifting off into the ice flows, a symbol of Promethean hubris meeting its final consequence.” can handle. Here is the second section:
Speaker 7:
“And we now have a robotic vaginoplasty program. We have the highest volume on the West Coast, and this has been a kind of game-changer for patient care as we’re now able to provide two cases a day in a single-”
Speaker 1:
“But the most revealing surgery performed by Dr. Peters and his colleagues is known as nullification. In this procedure, doctors perform a castration or an orchiectomy on the patient, then create a smooth, continuous skin covering from the abdomen to the groin, reducing the genitalia to nothing. This barbaric procedure is the perfect symbol for the ideology itself.
Nullification is the pursuit of the Latin nullam, meaning nothing, and that is exactly where trans ideology ends. A profound nihilism that denies human nature and enables barbarism in the name of progress. Although this movement enjoys a certain measure of elite support, there is no doubt it will end in tragedy.
Jennifer Pritzker, Maureen Connolly, and Blair Peters occupy the heights of power and prestige. But like Dr. Victor Frankenstein, they will learn a hard lesson. No matter how advanced their castration machines become, the trans activists and doctors cannot abolish the reality of man and woman. They cannot transcend the limitations of creation, and to the extent that they try, they will elicit the same heartbreak and alienation captured in the final scene of Mary Shelley’s novel, the hulking monster shunned by society and betrayed by his father, filled with suicidal despair drifting off into the ice flows, a symbol of Promethean hubris meeting its final consequence.”
Thanks for sharing this important video. Much enlightenment there. Once again the poor black community is exploited just like Margaret Sanger did them.
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