Broken Body, Broken Dream: The Faint Promise Of Child Transitions

“Just simply by saying we will never accept natal males in women's spaces, well, it is their son that we're talking about. And they've told their son that he can get himself sterilized and destroy his own basic sexual function, and women will accept him as a woman. And if we don't (accept him) there's no way back for them and that child. They've sold their child a bill of goods that they can't deliver on…” — author Helen Joyce

One of the frustrations for those following the Hunter Biden story or the Justin Trudeau agitprop is why, after their reckless claims have been proven incorrect they— and their media pals— do not retract the stories, apologize and promise to do better. 

Even as the first-hand evidence accumulates that Hunter Biden and his father ran an international influence racket for millions of dollars— contradicting their persistent earlier denials— Biden loyalists like MSNBC Joe Scarborough  and the New York Times/ Washington Post refuse to acknowledge their error and cover the story as they did the Donald Trump impeachments. 

The epitome of this hubris occurred when neither the Times nor the Post returned their Pulitzer Prizes after their stories of Russian interference in 2016 turned out to Hillary Clinton election dirty tricks— aided by the FBI, DOJ and CIA. Nor did the Pulitzer zealots ask for their prizes back. 

In Canada, Trudeau’s repeated falsehoods (murdered babies in residential school cemeteries) and ad hominems (truckers are racists and anti-science) remain uncorrected by a stream of media and communications types who still portray him in heroic Sunny Ways, plunging into hostile crowds with his rictus smile. And an audience that is fine with giving away free speech and information.

They even manufactured a claim that someone in Belleville hurled an anti-semitic insult at Trudeau, who is not Jewish. [This absurd claim recalls Woody Allen spoofing his own neuroticism in “Annie Hall”: "I was having lunch with some guys from NBC and I said, ‘Did you eat  yet?’ and [they] said, ‘No, Jew?’ Not, ‘Did you,’ but ‘Jew eat? Jew?’  Not ‘Did you,’ but ‘Jew eat?’” To which Tony Roberts replies, “Max, you see conspiracies in everything.”]

Part of this mania is the slavish devotion to an “expert culture” of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, says influencer Theo Jordan. They exploited two waves of Milllenial kids “raised by helicopters and friend-parents who are now obsessed with safetyism and willing to subordinate themselves to the elections of others. Not just willing, but excited to…” 

Many on the Left have pushed their hand too far to retreat now. Here are the actors from Disney’s new Woke Snow White describing their new “reality”. "It's not 1937. She’s not gonna be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be." But they’re runnijng into a wall.

Helen Joyce (Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality ) sees these apostles of the trans movement being stymied by feminists who want no part of trans men appearing in their orbit. Thus, denying their promise to their sons that they’d be accepted. Leaving the parents with no room to backtrack. “So those people are going to be like the Japanese soldiers who were on Pacific islands and didn't know the war was over. They've got to fight forever…This is another reason why this is the worst, worst, worst social contagion that we'll ever have experienced.” 

Not every intimidation tactic is so blatant, says Joyce. Sometimes it is the power of silence in organizations and businesses, such as when a single employee becomes the parent of a trans child. Their struggle, no matter how misguided, casts a pall on everyone else who wishes to speak out. “The entire organization gets paralyzed by that one person. And it may not even be widely known at that organization that they have a trans child. But it will come out, people will have sort of said quietly, and now you can't talk truth in front of that person, and you know you can't, because what you're saying is: "You as a parent have done a truly human-rights abuse level of awful thing to your own child that can not be fixed.”

It is the same for Climate extremists who are currently having the vapours because July gets very hot in North America. (Note: The percent of the U.S. to reach 95F (35C) through July 23 continues at a record low 43 percent, down from 90 percent in 1931.) They are blanketing media with claims that the current drought conditions in Arizona or California or Saskatchewan are the result of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere. 

Just Stop Oil, with its wealthy trust funders and complacent scientists, has convinced media like CBC and politicians like John Kerry to join their crusade. The end goal is to win acclaim and influence for their Luddite Cause, citizenship badges for their jackets. (And an expense account for Kerry.) Critics who show that temperatures have been as high and sustained in the past— when there was no extra CO2 in the atmosphere— are dismissed as paid lobbyists for Big Oil. 

Again, there seems to be no humbling these prophets of doom when confronted with contrary data. They insist that today’s heatwaves are 'virtually impossible' without climate change. Here’s Kerry dismissing science in favour of approval by “96 presidents and prime ministers”. Backed by gullible Wine Moms and Boy Scout progressives, they proceed on destroying the fabric of society with alienation and intimidation.

One of the drawbacks for climate extremists is the lack of first-hand experience. Unless they confuse weather with climate they have nothing approaching the experience of trans parents. The bulk of their dogma is instead pushed not by anecdotal evidence but the tsunami of media Armageddon stories, the wild-eyed Al Gore doom documentaries. 

But the effect can be the same in groups where a fellow employee or colleague is the parent of a child who, after a little Greta Thunberg brainwashing, is now glueing themselves to art works or climbing hydro towers. Sympathetic to the parental connection to these deluded agents of agitprop, the people around them will self-muzzle anytime the issue comes up, afraid of a ballistic rant from the parent of the Just Stop Oil foot soldier. 

Censorship is a problem. But as we now see in dealing with a small number of committed radicals, self-censorship may be far, far worse. 

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Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the fifth-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His prize-listed 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx