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The Negative Impact of Gender Ideology on Children (Part 2) | Ep. 107

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The negative impact of gender ideology on children is a growing concern for parents, educators, and mental health professionals alike. In this episode of The Wellness Connection, host Fiona Kane dives deep into the complexities surrounding gender ideology and its real-world consequences on youth. Drawing from recent research, expert insights, and lived experiences, Fiona explores how political activism, social influence, and misguided medical practices are affecting vulnerable children.

Whether you're a concerned parent, a health practitioner, or simply seeking clarity on a controversial issue, this conversation aims to provide a compassionate yet honest look at what’s happening—and why we need to talk about it.

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Fiona Kane:

Hello and welcome to the Wellness Connection. I'm your host, Fiona Kane. This is a little bit of a continuation of the last episode, which was episode 106. So I would recommend that you probably don't need to necessarily watch or listen to that one first, but I would recommend you listen to this episode and that episode In combination. They will make a lot more sense together than if you listen to them separately.

Fiona Kane:

So I'm continuing on my discussion in regards to my concerns around transing our youth, transing our children and the effects on children, and I've gone a lot into why I feel that way in the last episode, in this episode I will. In the last episode, actually towards the end of the episode, when I was talking about the sort of political and societal, some of the things around transgender activism, I was actually quoting from Anne Hersey Alley. I was actually quoting from Anne Hersey Alley and her. So what I will do in probably in both of these episodes, I'll put a link to her sub stack where I got this information from, and she talks about how like I was talking last time about it this being a philosophical, political and social betterment activist group and ideology, and so she sort of says here that trans activism is a form of revolution which lacks the precondition of typical revolution, which is a top-down oppression. So what I was saying last time is it's sort of it's, it's um, you have to just uh, these people who are trans are all identified as being oppressed. But then, because all of a sudden, they've got all these oppressed people, you have to find oppressors, and so then they make up that there's a, there's oppressors, that there's people out there trying to hold them down and all that sort of stuff. Um, so she says here that, she says that it's um, here you go, top-down oppression.

Fiona Kane:

Instead of dismantling a terrible regime, gender ideology restlessly locates its enemy in perfectly healthy ideas and norms, for instance the idea that puberty, though difficult, is a natural and transformative period in a child's life. Also anathema is the more basic idea that the sexes are physically different and that single-sex spaces are necessary, especially for the safety of women. These permanent truths and ubiquitous norms are recast as oppressive, giving the revolutionary gender ideologue his lifeblood permanent and ubiquitous sources of outrage. So that's essentially what it's doing. It's actually. The enemy is perfectly healthy norms and perfectly healthy bodies of these young people.

Fiona Kane:

So Aya Ayane, hirsi Ali she goes on to say it champions mental illness simply because mental illness confers victim status. And she talks about Christ's beatitudes. Sorry, not pronouncing it very well, but the blessed are the meek right, so have been perverted by the desire of activists to stand with the blessed meek. So, for obvious reasons, this harms those who are already mentally ill. Their mental illness is not abetted but encouraged, and even in depraved and damaging ways, rewarding the cult-like features of the LGBTQIA2S++ community, which rallies around its most oppressed members and even canonizes them.

Fiona Kane:

There is a myth behind. There's an annual transgender day of remembrance and there's a whole myth behind that and it's not true. The story behind it is not true, and this is my words, not hers. But then she says and then there's an ongoing and the story that there's an ongoing genocide which I talked about before, an ongoing genocide against trans people. That demonstrates it right. So they have a transgender day of remembrance. I would understand if you this was a day of like. I know there's a history of some terrible violence against gay people, but that's not what this is. This is a very different thing. This is a made-up thing. So I'm not saying that no one who's trans has ever been hurt or anything like that, but the way that this is written, you would think that many, many thousands of people are being destroyed and decimated and there's a genocide happening on the streets, kind of thing.

Fiona Kane:

So it's clear that trans activists flourish in conditions of self-converted victimhood. They often adopt their own markers of uniqueness in the form of non-binary pronouns which exist independently of gender dysphoria. This provides them with bristling revolutionary spirit without exposing them to any real danger, since the transitioners who criticize misguided gender affirming therapies are exiled by the communities which once embraced them, and that is what happens. So these young people, when they go online trying to explore what their problems are and they're usually having some sort of mental health problems they describe their problems and they get fed this sort of answer that says oh okay, clearly you're trans. Obviously, there's no other answer. The answer is that you're trans or non-binary or something, and so the answer to all of their problems is that they're trans. And so these children are accepted by the trans community and young adults and the trans community they love, bomb them, they give them all the support and we love you and don't care about your parents. They're horrible, terrible people, but we love you, we care about you. You're one of us, we're going to protect you, blah, blah, blah, blah blah.

Fiona Kane:

But the moment that any of these children start saying you know what? I think maybe I'm not trans, I think it was a mistake. It's quite the opposite. Not only do they shut them out, but they try and destroy them. It's like trying to leave Scientology or something right. Leave Scientology or something right. It is a cult, because once you decide to leave, you are not just kicked out. So if you think of these children especially, a lot of them are people with mental health issues right, and they might be quite isolated and that's the reason they got involved in this stuff in the first place and they finally felt somewhere where they belonged and finally had support. And then they realize that maybe they're not trans and they don't really want to do the surgeries or the hormones or whatever it is. And as soon as they say that, they get kicked out of the tribe. Not only kicked out of the tribe, but they try and destroy them and you can imagine why you would not want to say that you have changed your mind and why you would almost and some people do go along with the treatments and things just to stay in the tribe.

Fiona Kane:

There was actually a case now I can't remember his name, but it was a boy who was told he was transgender and he was on the Heretics podcast just in the last few months, but I can't think of his name and he said that he was a drug addict and he had been through all sorts of terrible abuse and he was having therapy, but he was having therapy in the. It was therapy for trans people. It was a special type of therapy that was a therapy that was free and available to people who were trans. And when he finally went in and said, look, you know what? I don't think I'm trans, they said, well then, you can't have therapy anymore. And they were just going to cut him loose, right, and he was in a really precarious position. He was on drugs and he'd been through all this trauma and all this abuse, and so he stayed and just kept saying he was trans and ultimately ended up having his genitals removed, um, in the name of this, because it was the only way he could get therapy.

Fiona Kane:

I mean, goodness me, like that's just. Goodness me is not the words I'm thinking, but they're the words. That, right, that's, that's just, that is just dreadful. That's why I worry about these children and he said he regretted the surgery straight away, immediately. He regretted it because he didn't want to have it in the first place. He knew he wasn't trans, but he just needed that psychological support and so being cut off for these young people, if they finally do get included somewhere and helped somewhere and supported somewhere, the worst thing they can do is come out and say, oh look, I've changed my mind. And it's a really important part of this is you must be allowed to say I've changed my mind because most of them do, or many of them do, I don't know, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but it's very common. So here Ayaan says yeah, so teenage. The grim reality is teenage girls accessing hormone replacement therapy, which makes their bones brittle, their vaginas atrophy, which is damage and waste away, and their hairlines recede, remains uncomfortably far from the view of the average dutiful March attending activist. They don't see that girl right.

Fiona Kane:

And, despite the errors I've just described, gender ideology has been undeniably successful in its self-replication. This is because the majority of people want to be on the right side of history. This is all this right side of history stuff we hear, right, um, and so we, and we have this desire. We just have this desire to do the right thing, which is I was talking about compassion before we really have the desire to do the right thing, which is why I believe many of the people that I would know who are acting like activists, who are activists that they are well-intentioned. I feel like they're just misinformed, but they are well-intentioned. So they recruit normal people who wish to virtue signal but have no experience in dealing with vulnerable, gender-confused children, and it's how it captures institutions and workplaces and that sort of thing. Then she also goes on to say that you know, what the well-meaning masses will come to realize sooner rather than later, I believe, is that gender ideology is in fact, regressive. Most obviously, it confuses feminine qualities in men for evidence that they are too real women, and this leads to the encroachment of men upon women's spaces, which societies view womanhood as a cluster of rigid female stereotypes and, ultimately, male supremacist worldview.

Fiona Kane:

A certain organized religion comes to mind. If you read Anne Ali's history, you'll know about that. She's originally from Somalia. I won't go into that detail, it's a whole other topic, but you can read her sub-stat and read about her. Gay men tend to manifest more feminine characteristics and thus make up a highly visible chunk of trans women, which is cheered on by activists in spite of the abject horrors and permanently damaging, even life-shortening, effects of what they call bottom surgery. They like to use these euphemistic terms, which increase the numbers of gay men, solicit, numbers of gay men solicit.

Fiona Kane:

And she goes on to say in which regimes are gay men refashioned into straight women? So she explains that it happens. One of the biggest countries that do these kinds of surgeries is a place like Iran, and reason being is it's not acceptable to be gay there. So, essentially, if they cut your bits off and call you a woman, you can still be gay, right, but you're not really gay. You get what I'm trying to say. So they were talking about gay conversions. I would call that gay conversion, right? Is you have to cut off your bits to be a homosexual? How, oh my God. Anyway, that's what's happening in Iran at the moment for that reason. So they're doing the same thing, but they're just doing it for different reasons. So she says, encouraging the view that gay men are, or should be, women is kind of a progress, but a dystopian kind of progress. So let people just be who they are. It's fine. Now, okay.

Fiona Kane:

So she talks about the CAST review here I spoke about last time and what they've come up with. They did a comprehensive report and it's finding that dozens of studies, which WPATH who I told you they were the influential, well, professional organization for transgender health, who are really a whole bunch of activists, but they use all this terminology to justify medicalizing children. Well, these studies do not show that medical interventions for trans-identifying youth are safe or that the rate of regret is low, despite WPAS claims to the opposite. These small, poorly executed, ideologically driven studies were latched onto by activists who desperately needed to display their enlightened credentials. And now she's saying here yeah, I'll keep going, just going down further, because I don't want to read every single word of this, anyway. So then she goes on to say that you know what WPATH did. Is they all that these people did? Is they rushed to endorse unethical, faulty studies to justify catastrophic healthcare advice?

Fiona Kane:

The Cass Review is a watershed moment. The Cass Review came out about a year ago I think it was around March 2024, and it shows this medicalising children as the scandal that it is. Now what they've done is in. I'll just go further down here because I did have a list of what it was, because I did have it listed what it was. So, yeah, the CAST review is Dr Hilary CAST.

Fiona Kane:

She published a 400-page report on gender identity services for children and young people. It was commissioned by the National Health Service in England and she came up with 32 specific recommendations around this. Now what she said is she said that there's a couple of things here. She said that, let me just find it, just looking for it. Okay. So she looked at 237 papers from 18 countries providing information on a total of 113 269 children and adolescents. And, uh, and she, it's the largest, most comprehensive study to date, um, and although the activists all try and tell you that it's been debunked, it hasn't they just need to believe that? So, and what she found is, she found let me just find it here. Okay, so she said there's no simple explanation to increased numbers of predominantly young people and young adults who have a trans or gender diverse identity. She said that some conflicting views about a clinical approach there needs to be. An appraisal of international guidelines for care and treatment of children and young people with gender incongruence found that there's no single guideline that could be applied in its entirety to the NHS England. While considerable amount of research has been published in this field, systematic evidence reviews demonstrated the poor quality of the published studies, meaning there is not reliable evidence based upon which make clinical decisions for children or their families to make informed choices. And then she's saying here that yeah, she said.

Fiona Kane:

The rationale for early puberty suppression remains unclear, with weak evidence regarding the impact of gender dysphoria, mental or psychological health. The effect on cognitive and psychosexual development remains unknown. The use of masculizing or feminine hormones for those under the 18 presents many unknowns, despite longstanding use in transgender population. The lack of long-term follow-up or data commencing treatment at earlier age means there's inadequate information. So basically she's saying we don't know the risks. She went on to say that like I won't go in here and just read every little bit of it. But she went on to essentially say that what we do know is that it's not reducing things like the end of life stuff I was talking about in the last episode, and that there's just the evidence that they've used is so flimsy that it's ridiculous. So essentially he gazed against groomers. What they said about it is British professionals have confirmed that children, mostly girls, are being recklessly subjected to dangerous castration experiments with no robust long-term data treatment, treating them like lab rats.

Fiona Kane:

And the detransitioners, most of which were just same-sex oriented teenagers, the victims of this catastrophic neo-conversion therapy. They are being left unsupported and ignored. Gender affirming care is a lie. It's not healthcare, it's a safety hazard with no regard for the lifelong devastation it creates. So what's happened in England is they've actually stopped funding gender affirming care for children, and it's also they've stopped it in a lot of other places, like in a lot of Northern countries, I think, like Norway and Sweden and Finland and places like that. They were quite early adopters of some of this stuff and they're kind of they're saying the wrong way, go back. And so it's happening all around the place and which is also why now in the US they're putting a hold on it as well. So a lot of people and in parts of Australia, right now in Queensland, they're putting a hold to it and it shouldn't just be a hold, it should be a stop, but at least a hold is a good start. But yeah, there's just no long-term studies that this is helpful and a lot of information that it is harmful.

Fiona Kane:

Now I just want to go over to talk a little bit more about a detransitioner. Her name is Laura Becker and she's talking about the psychology of detransition and in that she talks about transition and detransition, but she also talks about her motivations for, like, what was going, the reasons why people might become trans. I've talked about some of that before but I'll talk about it a little bit more. So anyway, she's got this great definition I agree with, and she said it's the act, transition is the act of coping with psychological discomfort about being male or female through body modifications like hormones and surgery to aesthetically mimic and socially be treated as the opposite sex. And then she said gender dysphoria is the psychological distress a man or woman feels when they are unhappy about their biological sex and or their sex role. Two components the physical, sex dysphoria and the social, cultural dysphoria, social dysphoria.

Fiona Kane:

So she said, underlying motivations for someone making these changes one is to feel better about their bodies, two is to be treated better by others and three is to like themselves better. And then she said the fantasy is and this is what I was talking about before I think might have been the last episode, but the fantasy is my body is the problem, and so I've just got to get away from my body. If I can just not have this body, I'll be okay. So all discomfort is blamed on the body, all interpersonal struggles is blamed on the body, all interpersonal struggles are blamed on the body, all self-loathing is blamed on the body. And so you can see why they so desperate to get these services, which is why it's so hard for parents and health practitioners dealing with this, because these children are very definite that they want to get this done, and the reason they are very definite about it is they have been told that the solution is their body. If they get rid of the body, everything will be fine.

Fiona Kane:

So when detransition, she says, her definition is when someone who identified as transgender got medical treatment, including hormones and or surgery. Detransition, she says, is when they accept and return to living as their biological sex. Desistance is when someone who identified as a transgender psychologically and socially, but who never got the medical treatment, accepts and returns to living as their biological sex. Now she said that the transition fantasy was that the biological sex causes all discomfort. Therefore, modifying it will help me feel better about myself and I'll be treated better.

Fiona Kane:

So the person begins detransition regardless of surgical or social failure or success, when they realize that there were other issues and it wasn't just about their body. So when they understand that their transition didn't solve their underlying problems and this is why it doesn't reduce their risk of the self-harm I was talking about before, the end-of-life self-harm sort of 12 months after transition they go back to the same risk they had before, because that's when they realize that the changing their body didn't fix things, and because it doesn't fix things because more often than not, this problem is not about their body, we're not about being in the wrong body. So they realize that transition wasn't a panacea for self-improvement. And so this is when the grief process begins for these people. And so essentially, essentially, they go through all the emotions of grief, they go through denial and they go through anger, and they so they might start saying, oh, I don't regret it and, um, you know, transition saved my life and all this kind of stuff.

Fiona Kane:

But, uh, and then they start having anger and they get angry at the doctors who did this to them and and how did I let myself do this and how did I agree to it? And then they start going through, like she said, the bargaining, which is all of the if-only scenarios. If only I had a better surgeon, or I didn't want kids anyway, so it doesn't matter that I can't have kids. They have all this kind of discussion and then they go into a depression. So she said a sadness and despair, hopelessness and this where they start feeling at the end of life, uh, thinking comes about, um, numbness, disassociation, I have nothing to live for, there's no future for me. I was stupid enough to ruin my life, I deserve the pain.

Fiona Kane:

And so she said, it's this whole, like this whole spiral, um, and eventually they come to acceptance, where they can no longer, they're no longer in shock or denial, they make sense of their loss, they start making plans for the future and um, and they start believing you know, I am the woman or man that I always was and I must find a way to safely stop the hormones, and what happened was wrong, but I'm still alive and I can heal. And so she said, detransiting is a healing cycle of life death and rebirth, and um, so then she she talked about, um, you know the reasons that people detransition, but also the reasons that they transition. So she said that, of course, uh, when people detransition, they do it because they realize the body isn't the problem they? They still have underlying issues. Living a lie is exhausting because it is a lie, you really are the other sex, and that's actually the thing.

Fiona Kane:

When I was right at the beginning of the last episode, I was referring to transsexuals. Transsexuals still know that they really are a man or whatever it is, so they don't believe they're a woman. They're just trying to pass as one and live their life as one and that's fine and that's whatever. They can deserve that dignity. But they never believed that they really were a woman and so they acknowledged that they were not and they didn't try and encroach on women's rights, whereas these days that's a different story. So so she said the living lie is exhausting and she said avoidance creates and compounds original problems. So because they're avoiding the problem, because the problem was cause of their body, the problem's still there, the problems are still an issue.

Fiona Kane:

So she started talking about the common underlying issues that people have, the reason that they might transition it in first place, and so she refers to all of these reasons and I will go through those. So just have a sip of my tea, sorry. So she says that the reasons they might be doing this are bodily trauma. So maybe if you have a chronic illness, maybe if you have any kind of body dysmorphia, if you've been sexually abused, the common reasons that people will want to transition and won't feel comfortable in their body.

Fiona Kane:

She says attachment, so basically familial alienation, struggles with romance and dating, that kind of thing and any other kind of abuse or neglect. So basically, insecure attachment to your family of origin. And, interestingly enough, when the people, when they do get caught up in the web of these activists, the first thing they're trying to do is separate from their parents. Your parents don't love you, your parents hate you, your parents don't understand, blah, blah, blah. I understand you, your parents don't. So they actually try and separate them from their family and their parents more, which makes it obviously worse for them, which is why it's harder for them to go back, because by that stage they've ruined their relationships with their family.

Fiona Kane:

So, mental health reasons, other mental health reasons like they might have depression or anxiety, really, really common, any kind of trauma or PTSD, and often people have things like OCD. So then developmental well, why do they want to make the change? Well, puberty or adolescence, it's hard, right. Like I was just saying before, it can be really, really hard to make that change and go through puberty and suddenly you've got all these adult problems and maybe you just don't want them and so you want to not deal with being a woman or whatever. It is Peter Pan syndrome, where you just want to be a child forever. And then there's things like complex PTSD.

Fiona Kane:

Then she talks about autism. So people have sensory differences, social emotional issues or nonconforming behavior. They often get caught in this web and if you know people with autism, they can be very obsessive about things. So they get very caught on. If they find out that the answer to their problem is this, they're very determined to do this. And I can't remember the percentages, but one time I looked at the percentage numbers in girls and I think it was something like 30% of girls who transition have autism. So it's actually about the autism, not about something wrong with their body. And then there's a sexual confusion. So there might actually be just lesbian or gay or those kinds of things. And then there's like, for it's more for men than anything, but they're also with men. There are things like paraphilias. I won't go into that here because this point of this is to talk about children and that's not really a relevant conversation here.

Fiona Kane:

So you know, essentially these people have all these underlying issues and they're the issues that need to be treated. And they're the issues that need to be treated and they're the issues that the psychologist needs to go through with them. And that is not gay conversion therapy, or conversion therapy as I like to call it. That's actually just exploring why someone might be having an issue right and doing it respectfully and kindly. And she sort of said that you know, how do you support someone who wants to detransition, uh? And so she just said, uh, you know, most of the issues that they're having are not specific to people during transitioning. Uh, they are issues around, uh, feeling betrayed and and grief, and they're very common feelings for people for all different reasons. So she said you don't need to reinvent the wheel to heal A detransition is similar to other forms of complex grief, and so there are many resources for grief and trauma. So go to those resources. You know a lot of people. Pain is an existential thing that all humans feel at different times. Unfortunately, the trust in healing professionals has been betrayed and there's trauma often around that. And then most resources don't have detransition competency.

Fiona Kane:

I would say check out Genspect. Genspect have some really great resources around all of these issues and I will put the link in this episode. But I've been referring to this detransition information of Laura Becker and she's got a book coming out called Surviving the Trans Myth and she's got laurabeckerorg as her website. Laura L-A-U-R-A, becker, b-e-c-k-e-r. So this is her. I've been reading from what she presented at a recent Genspect conference.

Fiona Kane:

So it's important to remember that the reason people transition is usually got nothing to do with the fact that they really are trans and everything to do with a whole bunch of other issues. So it's important to help people with those other issues. It's important to keep communication open with your child because, um, you know they they're getting told to, um, to that you don't care and that you don't understand and everything, and so you can be caring and compassionate. But being caring and compassionate doesn't necessarily mean that you accept that they are the opposite sex. Uh, there is another detransitioner. Her name is maya poet and it took her about 10 years, but she was really glad that her parents never accepted that she like they loved her and they cared about her and they looked after her, but they never accepted that she was the other sex. She said she was really glad for that because you need people who tell you the truth, and so that was kind of really important for her.

Fiona Kane:

But it's really really challenging with these children because they get there's a lot of activists who try and tear them away from their family if their family want to believe that they really are the girl that they were born as or whatever it is. So, look, I suppose I want to finish by just saying, look, the reason that children go through this experience, or the reason that young adults go through this, is complicated. There's politics involved, there's a lot to do with trauma and sexual trauma and things like that, and when you look at a lot of the young movie stars and people who are doing some of these surgeries and things, you will see if you read about them. A lot of these people have had sexual trauma. So they're essentially getting the bits cut off that you know that were touched in, a violent cut off, that you know that were touched in a violent or bad way you know. So this is a really complicated issue and it's not being transphobic or being awful to be questioning of this.

Fiona Kane:

It really is a cult and children are being damaged by this cult and this group, wpath, who try to pretend that they're a professional organization. They are not. They are full of uh, they are full of activists and in their most recent, they do create something. It's a bit like the dsm, but it's like their version of trans health care that they produce. The most recent version that they produce has a new category and the new category is eunuch. And when you go into the document and read the chapter about eunuch, which is basically people with their private bits cut off, when you go into this chapter, you will see that when they link to their references, their references are chat rooms for men who enjoy eunuchs. Their references are not medical references, right, and it's important to understand that one of the people who first started, the person who first started using kind of the word gender in terms of gender identity in this language that I referred to in the last episode, I think it was actually John Money, who was a psychologist who did some very damaging and horrific experiments on children and was not a very good person.

Fiona Kane:

So, unfortunately, a lot of this, without going into a lot of detail, a lot of gender ideology. It's got its basis and its background in people who have very, very bad ulterior motives for your children. Let me just say that much all right. So what has? But what's happened is people have been pressured into. You know you are not a kind or compassionate or modern, caring, progressive person if you don't just kind of, you know, affirm that all these children really are born in the wrong body. No, they're not all born in the wrong body. That is ridiculous and we, a lot of people who are kind and warm-hearted and well-intentioned, have been caught up in this.

Fiona Kane:

And the unfortunate thing is that the people who will probably be the last for one of the term, the last man standing in this fight, will actually be the mothers who have trans to their children. Because the idea, as a mother, if you've supported your child, to have top surgery, which is a double mastectomy, or bottom surgery, which is genitals removed, inverted, changed whatever to look like the other, If you've done this to your child and your child is now permanently damaged, you can't acknowledge that, because acknowledging that you did that as a mother probably is one of the most painful, horrible things that you could do. So, instead of acknowledging that, they actually have to stick with the belief of the cult, basically, and so they have to stay with the ideology and stay in the activism, and that's why you see a lot of those Hollywood type mothers who have done this to their children are the biggest activists. The reason being is that they're just going to keep out there on the campaign and talking about trans genocide and talking about saving children, and all this because they're actually the ones that have damaged the children, so that the biggest ones shouting and yelling at other people who are harming their children, when unfortunately they're the ones that have allowed it, which is really sad, but they are the ones that will fight to the end. And also, just in regards to the surgeries and the gender-affirming care, the puberty blockers. I talked about them a bit in the last episode and I'll just mention it again and sorry to be so graphic, but this is like I've got to tell the truth and the truth is this is graphic If I use the language that the users say. They use language like top surgery and bottom surgery and gender affirming care and what do they call it health care? And all this instead of saying what things really are and unfortunately this you really need to know what things really are.

Fiona Kane:

But for boys being put on puberty blockers one of the issues that's really important to know. So puberty blockers they use the same medication that they use to chemically castrate pedophiles, right? So that's the medication they're using. Now, what happens is, if you put these boys on this medication before they go through puberty is the penis does not grow. It's just this little tiny penis and it never grows. Right, now that ends up being a problem, regardless of the choice of this boy, right? Because if the boy realizes he's a boy and wants to stay a boy, there's an obvious issue there that he's never grown a man-sized penis, right?

Fiona Kane:

If he does eventually decide he wants to transition and he wants to have the surgery to not that he can become a girl, but to imitate what it might look like to be a girl, to be a girl, they use the tissue from that penis to create this inverted hole, and if it hasn't grown, they don't have the tissue to use. And because they don't have enough tissue to use, they start using things like the bowel lining and lining of other places within the abdominal abdominal cavity. And there is an issue now with young men dying from those surgeries and having some really horrific side effects in regards to the type of tissue that's being used to make this neo-vagina, as they call it. So please understand that when you drill down into this and you really look at what they're doing to the children, what the outcomes are for the children and knowing that there really is not the studies to confirm that any of this is safe and any of this is saving them and helping them, and most of them have other issues that are behind this and they don't need and shouldn't have any of these interferences and surgeries. Honestly, the best thing you can do, the most affirming thing you can do to a child, is confirm that they are in the right body and that they will be okay and they'll eventually love and enjoy being in that body. And they just need to go through puberty and you can support them through it. But, honestly, if they understand that puberty is going to solve their problem, they're told the opposite. They're told that if you go through puberty, it's going to be so much harder for you to change and be who you really are. And who they really are is the person going through that puberty as that sex. So what we do is support them to just go with nature and how they really are, and that works out for 85 to 90, I think 95 plus percent is closer to 98, 99% of children, which is wonderful. And for that small, very, very small percentage of people who that doesn't work for, it's really unfortunate and I really feel for them and I really hope they get all of the support that they need. But we cannot interfere with all of the children and cause these long-term terrible health outcomes mental and physical health outcomes for all of the children, for the very small percentage of children who do have this issue. It's got to go back to being something that we address with the people who need it and not something we do to all of the children or many of the children.

Fiona Kane:

The other issue is that you know, in my opinion, if we, you know, children are allowed to have childhood, let them have childhood. They do not need to be sexualized in childhood Children. They've got all these things like the gender bread man and all this sort of stuff that they teach children. They're teaching them gender ideology when they're two, three, four, five years old. They don't need any of that right. And why do you think there's people on television saying, oh, my child knew it was a boy, shut up. No, let your child just be, and it doesn't matter how they can dress how they want, and they can play with Barbbies or not, play with barbies or all of that, it doesn't matter. That's what's like it's.

Fiona Kane:

This is so regressive. It's so regressive because, as there's there's there's gender, these gendered roles that we rejected for so long, the whole point of this ideology is to go drill right back into those roles again. Why can't you know? Boys can just be who they want to be. Girls can be who they want to be.

Fiona Kane:

There's not one right way. This is what Bill Ball Chris says. There's not one right way of being a boy. There's not one right way of being a girl. Be how you want to be, and you can do that without surgeries and hormones and pubic blockers and all of that interference. You can also do that without someone giving you the idea that maybe you could have been born in the wrong body, maybe that doctor made a mistake. Instead of they're told that doctors assign them their sex, they don't assign them, they observe it. They're told that they assign your sex and hey look, you could maybe be 85 other things.

Fiona Kane:

How confusing for a child. Let them be, let them go through childhood, let them go through puberty and that solves most issues and give them the support they need for whatever the issues are, whatever the mental health issues that they have, whatever it is that's driving these issues. Give them the support for that, but don't feed them all of this gender ideology which is just confusing them and damaging them and harming them in so many ways. Anyway, I will leave it at that. I'll put some links in the bio in regards to the things I talked about. And, yeah, look, I really wish the best for young children and for people going through gender dysphoria. It must be a terrible, terrible thing to go through and the people I've known who've gone through it have found it very, very distressing for themselves and their families. However, we cannot be in denial about the truth of this and we must support these children, not damage them further, and this ideology is damaging the children. Anyway, again, please like, subscribe and share and tell other people about this podcast.

Fiona Kane:

I'm always happy to engage in discussion on these things as long as they are in good faith. I do not engage in abusive discussions. So if you want to do that, go away, because I'm not interested and I will not engage, but if you want to have good faith discussion I'm all about that, that's the whole point of my podcast is important conversations about things that matter, and I think this is a very important conversation and this really does matter. So we need to be able to talk about it and to be able to talk things through and get things right. We need to be prepared to be able to talk and maybe sometimes be wrong about some things, but we need to have the discussion. If we don't have the discussion, we can't resolve this issue, and what we do at the moment these days is shut down all discussions on difficult topics and say, no, this is the rules, we follow this ideology and we're not allowed to discuss it. That is dangerous, no matter what topic you're talking about.

Fiona Kane:

Anyway, I hope you have a great week and I'm sorry to be this. Last couple of episodes have been quite heavy but doomsday, but I really. This is a very important issue that I've been seeing, uh, for a long time and I really wanted you to um understand what was going on, because you may not have heard some of the things that I have discussed in these last two episodes. Anyway, uh, thank you for watching and listening and I will see you next week. Thank you, bye.

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