Suggesting the one is in no way related to the other shows a lack of imagination. I expect I will be off with most of these, but a few might come close to something worthy of exploration before the journey is made.

1. Some memories are false/colored. We had a family meal some time after your grandfather died, your aunts, your Oma, and I. Things were remembered very differently. Things that seemed earth-shaking to one were of no note to others.
2. Memories can be implanted. “The Little Rascals Day Care Center was a day care in Edenton, North Carolina, where, from 1989 to 1995, there were arrests, charges and trials of seven people associated with the day care center, including the owner-operators, Bob and Betsy Kelly. In retrospect, the case reflected day care sex abuse hysteria, including allegations of satanic ritual abuse. The testimony of the children was coached.”
   Eye-witness accounts vary even when un-coached. In one case I recall, a witness had positively identified a perpetrator, but when they revisited the scene, it was impossible to identify any person in the car under the conditions that were supposedly present.
3. Interpretations can be manipulated or invented. What you may have given no credence to at the moment you may have come to see as a pattern of something evil later.

The joy, the smiles, the time together at any outing may be tranformed to a world of oppression and “making you go” places you did not want to even if they did not occur that way at the time the visits were made.

Time changes impressions. I am sure I was pretty miserable in high school, quite clueless in college—certainly undisciplined, as your Saba would have attested to—knowing myself as a person who couldn't/was a fraud, etc. As I look now, maybe I was just a teenager trying to make his way in an unfamiliar world unsure of the tools he had to negotiate it.

All g-ds are jealous. All ask something of you. The one who would take a little skin is of a different nature than the one who would take an organ and deprive you of future generations.

We sometimes spite ourselves when we seek to prove something to others or the world.

We sometimes spite ourselves when we seek to prove something to ourselves.

I won't grow up to be like him.

I won't subject my children to him.

I won't grow up to be the same kind of monster.

I won't grow up to be a monster.

I will be a different kind of monster.

I will show you how to properly say “F You.”

I will punish you like you punished me.

I am not like you.

I will never be like you.

I can kill myself any number of ways.

This is what happiness looks like.

I won't be happy anyway.

I loved someone and she stopped being a she. Maybe I need to stop being a he.

Someone told me that maybe I am not what I am.

It is better to be “oppressed” than to be the “oppressor.”

I can get along without you.

If you don't understand me, that's your fault, not mine.

You lack in the ability to see life from another perspective.

The oppression can give way to a world of good.

The same act can be viewed as abuse, neglect, an invitation to action, an opportunity to grow, or all of these at the same time.

Sometimes a lens has a smudge.

Sometimes it is out of focus.

Sometimes the light is just wrong.

Sometimes it is pointed in the wrong direction.

Sometimes we give importance to the wrong things.

Sometimes we don't see them at all.

Sometimes we can't just because of where we are.

Sometimes we see ourselves best when we stop looking in the mirror.

Sometimes people truly are animals.

Sometimes it's appropriate to act according to our animal natures.

Sometimes people we love miss stuff.

Sometims they are mean.

Sometimes they are clueless.

Sometimes we should judge them.

Sometimes we should be generous with them.

Sometimes we should read Kohellet.

Maybe we can't know the cost yet because people aren't finished paying the price.

Maybe the cost is already too high without knowing more.

Attempts to punish others often rebound much worse on ourselves.

If we can't enroll those who most love us, maybe there is something false in what we are pursuing.

Maybe the religion or agenda of those who would “help you” is not aligned with your best interest.

Gender Ideology as a Religion “Colette Colfer is an academic who lectures in world religions and ethics. In her presentation, Colfer will explore the religious aspects of gender ideology including ritual, faith, remembrance events, cis-heteronormativity as profane, flags as totems, and biology as taboo. She will question the presence of the transcendent in gender ideology and look at the importance of community as congregation.”

Maybe others are asking you to pay the price for their invented suffering.

There might be something worth exploring with a therapist if the risk of suicide goes up.

Some things more resemble social contagions than medical conditions.

Ovariotomy

A consensus can be built around dangerous ideas.

Lobotomy

Apotemnophilia: removal of a healthy limb.

A New Way to Be Mad
“The phenomenon is not as rare as one might think: healthy people deliberately setting out to rid themselves of one or more of their limbs, with or without a surgeon's help. Why do pathologies sometimes arise as if from nowhere? Can the mere description of a condition make it contagious?”
By Carl Elliott, The Atlantic

Growth Hormones

Activists need not be scientists.

Manu 2014

Manu, Lani, Mom 2014

Manu Lani 2022

Family Fall 2022

Boys October 2023

Maybe this is a symptom of an undiagnosed “tism.” It seems most of the family is touched anyway.

Vulnerable Placed onto a Medical Conveyor Belt
“I was just a traumatized autistic girl.” Laura Becker; “The destruction of my testacles was just too much of the movement to ask of me.” Forrest Smith.
“ Genspect director and psychotherapist Stella O'Malley and Dr. Carrie Mendoza, Director of Genspect USA, host a webinar with detransitioners Laura Becker, Abel Garcia, and Forrest Smith about their transition and detransition experiences. They also speak with Mia Hughes, author of the WPATH files, to reveal WPATH's stance on detransitioners and their ‘care’ recommendations.”

Gender-Affirming Care Turns Kids Into Lifelong Patients: Dr. Miriam Grossman

Gender: A Wider Lens – Live from Lisbon with Billboard Chris
“In this conversation, Chris explores the psychological and cultural forces influencing social changes around gender, sharing his motivations for activism and the journey that led him to raise awareness about the implications of puberty blockers for children. He also discusses strategies for facilitating constructive dialogues with those who hold differing views, emphasizing the significance of calm, rational discourse in controversial discussions.
“This episode examines the complex interplay of gender ideology in our culture, focusing on ongoing debates over children’s medical treatments, freedom of speech, educational content in schools, and the critical need to address the mental health challenges surrounding gender dysphoria.
“Chris shares personal anecdotes from his activism, including experiences at the United Nations and community engagement, emphasizing the importance of parental involvement and informed consent in children's healthcare decisions.
“Listeners will be confronted with a compelling exploration of the current landscape surrounding gender issues and the potential for meaningful change through open dialogue.”

Silenced for Asking Questions About Gender Medicine with Dr. Jillian Spencer

Bad Therapy and Irreversible Damage with Abigail Shrier

The Detransition Survey - Christina Buttons “Christina Buttons is an investigative reporter dedicated to revealing the weak scientific foundations supporting gender ideology. In this video, she presents ‘The Detransition Survey,’ a report that explores the connection between autism and gender dysphoria. Christina explains how a significant number of young people with autism are being diagnosed at gender clinics. She discusses the impact of gender-affirming care and shares personal stories from individuals who regret their medical transitions after discovering they were misdiagnosed.”

“My Entire Childhood Was Medicalized with Scarlet” “Sasha and Stella share a profound and moving conversation with Scarlet, a young person who just wants ‘my story to add to the conversation around the impacts of transitioning as a youth - physically, mentally, and socially - both positives and negatives.’ A crucial Detransition Awareness Day exploration of the nuances of self-discovery in a gender-affirming landscape.”

Why Biological Sex Is Being Undermined - Dr. Colin Wright

Silenced for Asking Questions About Gender Medicine with Dr. Jillian Spence

Bad Therapy and Irreversible Damage with Abigail Shrier

There are Two and ONLY Two Sexes - Heather Heying “Our lineage has been sexually reproducing for 500 million years.” “Sex is more fundamental and basic to what we are even than legs.”

Woke Doctors Gave Me FACIAL HAIR & Low Voice Forever - DeTrans Keira Bell | heretics. 98

Trans Rights and Gender Identity with Kathleen Stock | Ep 19

“male and female were they created. And when they were created, [G-d] blessed them and called them Humankind.” Genesis 5:2.

If they are only your friends when you are moving in a certain direction, they never really were your friends.

WOW! The Most INSANE DeTrans Story I've Ever Heard - DeTransitioner Maia Poet: I thought that my body was wrong.

The Dutch Leaks: Trans Regret is Possibly 33%

The Cat With Two Heads

My Own Kind of Hat

The TRUTH About Gender Mutilation: Mia Hughes is an Ottawa-based British journalist and researcher for Michael Shellenberger's nonprofit, Environmental Progress. Mia authored the WPATH Files report, which exposed widespread medical mistreatment of children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults in the realm of gender-affirming care.

Frankenstein

Karl Marx

Paulo Freire

Sex is a biological fact: it can not be changed.

The chances of developing osteoporosis and cardiovascular problems increase with feminizing hormones.
“A 2012 paper [1] found that a quarter of the male-to-female transsexuals it studied had osteoporosis at the lumbar spine and radius.
“In the same study, 6% of male-to-female transsexuals experienced a thromboembolic event (a blood clot causing obstruction), and another 6% experienced other cardiovascular problems. These effects were observed after only 11.3 years of hormone treatment on average.
“A further study [2] found that long-term bone mineral density decreases in transwomen who take cross-sex hormones in the long term.”
REFERENCES
[1] Wierckx, K., Mueller, S., Weyers, S., Van Caenegem, E., Roef, G., Heylens, G. & T’Sjoen, G. (2012). Long-Term Evaluation of Cross-Sex Hormone Treatment in Transsexual Persons. The Journal of Sexual Medicine 9 (10): 2641-2651. [Link]
[2] Delgado-Ruiz, R., Swanson, P., & Romanos, G. (2019). Systematic Review of the Long-Term Effects of Transgender Hormone Therapy on Bone Markers and Bone Mineral Density and Their Potential Effects in Implant Therapy. Journal of clinical medicine 8 (6): 784. [Link]

You wouldn't eat from a bag of twenty M&Ms if you knew one would kill you.

It is possible that following this course makes you more like the parent you try not to identify with rather than less.

We are who we are either because of or in spite of our parents. You should be careful not to throw out the good with the bad.

Maybe this isn't yours: Maybe you are being just like me.

Maybe this isn't yours: Maybe you are playing out someone else's program.

It's just a lot easier to not to.

Maybe it is ridiculous to think anything can be yours anyway.

Maybe G-d asks a lot less of you, and is happy to give you a beautiful world in exchange.

Maybe you've got another hundred reasons of your own.