Woke identity extremism poisons puberty blockers which empowers political transphobic spite

Govt’s puberty blockers move attracts strong reactions

The imminent pause on puberty blockers has provoked strong feelings on both sides of the debate: supporters say it will keep children safe, while critics warn it will cause “profound distress”.

Cabinet has signed off on plans to halt new prescriptions for puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria from mid-December, pending the results of a major clinical trial in the United Kingdom, expected in 2031.

The drugs – known as gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues – would remain available for people already using them for gender dysphoria, as well as for other medical conditions such as early-onset puberty, endometriosis, and prostate cancer.

Groan.

In 2014-2020 the middle class woke ruled the cultural roost with their cancel culture social media Lynch mobs alienating everyone who didn’t agree with their pure temple identitarianism.

The woke’s cancel culture bullshit alienated vast groups of voters and drove them into the arms of the reactionary right.

It was madness because no family in poverty is sitting around the kitchen table cancelling each other for misusing pronouns, they are trying to work out how to pay the fucking bills.

Our Middle Class woke with their fourth wave feminist allies and non-binary activists  turned the trans debate radioactive with a humility bordering on Māo’s cultural revolution.

I was one of the few on the NZ Left to point this all out, for which I have been cancelled by the Wellington Woke a dozen times.

The cultural backlash to woke victimhood and intersectionalism erupted with Trump’s victory and the woke fever over the Left finally broke but we are all living with the hangover.

When it comes to the trans debate, I’m old fashioned.

Being comfortable in your own skin and knowing oneself is one of the most important human journeys there is. The idea that there are some men who believe they are women and some women who believe they are men is as uncontroversial to me as the range of eye, skin and hair colour in the human species.

I of course will respond to anyone by the pronouns and names they request out of basic human decency, but where I detract from the woke, and where I get threats to my pets from trans activists, is my position that you can’t actually force trans people into spaces for biological women.

I have no issue sharing prison, toilet or changing room spaces with a Trans person because most women transitioning into men don’t physically intimidate me, but I certainly see how that could be very intimidating to biological women.

For this position I am apparently transphobic according to the Wellington Woke.

This poisoned chalice of toxic culture war hate, that the middle class woke personally contributed to, has now been spat back by this Culture War Government with the decision to stop puberty blockers.

I absolutely agree that there needed to be more checks and balances on Puberty Blocker use…

…and the Cass Review successfully argued that there needed to be more research into puberty blockers, but the Cass Review also took into account the regret of those who had surgically transitioned and that’s just not something we have a hell of a lot of in NZ. Puberty Blockers alongside other treatments are the main ‘transitioning’ in NZ, where as the Cass Review had to take into account the growing number ion mostly young women who had transitioned surgically.

The reality is we don’t have the problems the UK had because we don’t have that many surgical transitions.

The pro-Trans groups argue that puberty blockers are used for other ailments so they are safe, but those other ailments aren’t about changing your gender, they are for cancer treatment or precocious puberty, so it’s not the same issue.

So yes, we need more research into puberty blockers and how they impact while limiting surgical transition to only those who truly require it, but what the Government has done here isn’t a medical decision, it’s a political one.

Only you, your guardian, your psychologist and your dr should be  involved in this discussion, what the fuck is the Government doing getting involved in medical care?

This is about using the resentment the middle class woke have generated and manufacturing that into a toxic culture war political attack on the trans community for the lowest gutter politics dog whistling.

This Government doesn’t give a shit about Trans Kids, they care about dog whistling to their reactionary right voters while pretending to care about Trans kids.

I am the first to argue that the way the Trans and their woke middle class allies have gone about trying to secure their rights has been counterproductive and deeply alienating, but we can’t allow their idiocy to doom an entire group of people.

This is a political culture war attack and the State shouldn’t be deciding your medical needs, that’s between you and your dr!

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