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Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult by Mary Margaret Olohan
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informative
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Book Review
Detrans
5/5 stars
"Old wine in new bottles; Readable and interesting"
*******
I would consider this book as a continuation of two other excellent books about the transgender hysteria:
1. Abigail Shrier's "Irreversible Damage" detailed the way in which it is a social contagion: 99% of people that wanted to change gender before were males, but now the number of males and females are roughly equal. But, this book talks about three specific females instead of abstract, faceless ones.
2. Miriam Grossman's "Lost in Transnation" detailed the fact that there are actual medical procedures that make this true. Things that require surgery and anesthesia, and therefore involve some amount of risk. This book talks at greater length about the gruesome experiences of three actual females that did this.
*******
The events in this book seem new, but really they are just so much old wine in new bottles.
Theme 1: Figuring out what is a medical treatment. (Lobotomies used to be a standard medical treatment for many types of mental illnesses. Bone marrow transplant used to be indicated for HIV. And any number of other gruesome examples.)
So, the topic of the hour is gender transition. And they will have to be another people who realize that it's not like it appears on TLC and enough lawsuits will have to be pressed before the procedure is realistically understood. All three of the subjects of this book have open lawsuits, and I really believe that the court system IS going to be the final arbiter of this.
Theme 2: People join some type of mass movement because they want to be free of an unwanted self. Hoffer observed this about seven decades ago. ("On the other hand, a mass movement..... appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self.)
So, IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE you have all of these people with various types of mental illness (particularly autism) that think that if they just change their gender, on the other side of that transformation will be the person that they want to be. (There are resonances to black jailbirds who decide that they're going to convert to Islam/ Hebrew Israelism/ Hotepism because they will leave behind their low IQ / criminal nature and on the other side of that transformation then they will be respected and successful people.)
Theme 3: Bored/over-pampered white people killing themselves / each other in service of some bizarre idea. (What was The Inquisition about? For that matter, what about the First and Second World Wars?)
Honestly, I see this at least twice a day just in real life. So, I'm pretty anesthetized to it at this point. (What CAN'T be turned into self-actualization therapy for Bored White People?)
In this way, the book doesn't add that much value.
Theme 4: Word redefinition / bowdlerization.
So, here, vaginal atrophy/hormone induced rage / side effects from the creation/maintenance of a faux vagina are all redefined as "gender confirmation surgery." Of course, puberty is a " disease" to be treated.
(It's kind of The way that a baby is redefined as a "fetus" or abortion is "health care.")
Apparently, anything can come into existence in reality if you just define it that way!
Theme 5: Before we know what medical treatments work, those that don't work have to be falsified by experiments involving human lives. And it is usually poor/less fortunate people that are the experimental material.
The Tuskegee experiment was done on black people.
Yesterday.
This experiment is being conducted mostly on vulnerable/mentally ill people.
Today. (It's just that it is the Washington University Transgender Center at St Louis Children's Hospital in lieu of Tuskegee. So be it.)
Theme 6: Medical establishment corruption. This has been shown to be the case in best selling books such as Nina Teichholz's "Big Fat Surprise" or Jason Fung's "Code" books. Or, really any book that details the way that false ideas become entrenched through professional societies.
*******
Verdict:
Recommended
The book is expensive, but it is worth the read. And it does give business to a conservative publishing house that will say what others will not.
*******
Of the book:
-11 chapters over 227 pages. 11 pages/per
-The whole book can be read in an afternoon
-326 references (56 were phone interviews; 64 "ibid" citations) It works out to about 1.5 sources per page, and that is forgivable because this is meant to be documenting something that happened in real time and through the words of the subjects.
Detrans
5/5 stars
"Old wine in new bottles; Readable and interesting"
*******
I would consider this book as a continuation of two other excellent books about the transgender hysteria:
1. Abigail Shrier's "Irreversible Damage" detailed the way in which it is a social contagion: 99% of people that wanted to change gender before were males, but now the number of males and females are roughly equal. But, this book talks about three specific females instead of abstract, faceless ones.
2. Miriam Grossman's "Lost in Transnation" detailed the fact that there are actual medical procedures that make this true. Things that require surgery and anesthesia, and therefore involve some amount of risk. This book talks at greater length about the gruesome experiences of three actual females that did this.
*******
The events in this book seem new, but really they are just so much old wine in new bottles.
Theme 1: Figuring out what is a medical treatment. (Lobotomies used to be a standard medical treatment for many types of mental illnesses. Bone marrow transplant used to be indicated for HIV. And any number of other gruesome examples.)
So, the topic of the hour is gender transition. And they will have to be another people who realize that it's not like it appears on TLC and enough lawsuits will have to be pressed before the procedure is realistically understood. All three of the subjects of this book have open lawsuits, and I really believe that the court system IS going to be the final arbiter of this.
Theme 2: People join some type of mass movement because they want to be free of an unwanted self. Hoffer observed this about seven decades ago. ("On the other hand, a mass movement..... appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self.)
So, IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE you have all of these people with various types of mental illness (particularly autism) that think that if they just change their gender, on the other side of that transformation will be the person that they want to be. (There are resonances to black jailbirds who decide that they're going to convert to Islam/ Hebrew Israelism/ Hotepism because they will leave behind their low IQ / criminal nature and on the other side of that transformation then they will be respected and successful people.)
Theme 3: Bored/over-pampered white people killing themselves / each other in service of some bizarre idea. (What was The Inquisition about? For that matter, what about the First and Second World Wars?)
Honestly, I see this at least twice a day just in real life. So, I'm pretty anesthetized to it at this point. (What CAN'T be turned into self-actualization therapy for Bored White People?)
In this way, the book doesn't add that much value.
Theme 4: Word redefinition / bowdlerization.
So, here, vaginal atrophy/hormone induced rage / side effects from the creation/maintenance of a faux vagina are all redefined as "gender confirmation surgery." Of course, puberty is a " disease" to be treated.
(It's kind of The way that a baby is redefined as a "fetus" or abortion is "health care.")
Apparently, anything can come into existence in reality if you just define it that way!
Theme 5: Before we know what medical treatments work, those that don't work have to be falsified by experiments involving human lives. And it is usually poor/less fortunate people that are the experimental material.
The Tuskegee experiment was done on black people.
Yesterday.
This experiment is being conducted mostly on vulnerable/mentally ill people.
Today. (It's just that it is the Washington University Transgender Center at St Louis Children's Hospital in lieu of Tuskegee. So be it.)
Theme 6: Medical establishment corruption. This has been shown to be the case in best selling books such as Nina Teichholz's "Big Fat Surprise" or Jason Fung's "Code" books. Or, really any book that details the way that false ideas become entrenched through professional societies.
*******
Verdict:
Recommended
The book is expensive, but it is worth the read. And it does give business to a conservative publishing house that will say what others will not.
*******
Of the book:
-11 chapters over 227 pages. 11 pages/per
-The whole book can be read in an afternoon
-326 references (56 were phone interviews; 64 "ibid" citations) It works out to about 1.5 sources per page, and that is forgivable because this is meant to be documenting something that happened in real time and through the words of the subjects.