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Jason #transphobia jasonlionheart.substack.com

Dr. Paul McHugh, former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins, opens with the sentence that should have stopped this entire movement in its tracks:

“Should their psychological idea take precedence over the physical fact when they diverge? It’s as simple as that.”

Every single one of the elders at this table answers no—but each brings a different understanding of why.

McHugh brings historical memory: he watched the first gender clinic rise and fall. He shut it down when the evidence failed.

Bradley brings developmental insight: she witnessed children resolve dysphoria spontaneously when given time, support, and space to grow.

Zucker brings long-term outcome data: 80–90% of children desisted when not socially or medically transitioned.

Blanchard brings typology clarity: gender dysphoria is not one thing but multiple pathways with identifiable origins.

Levine brings adult psychiatric outcomes: surgery satisfies but does not heal; suicidality remains unchanged.

Van Meter brings endocrine precision: puberty blockers were repurposed from a specific medical condition into an ideological tool.

Lappert brings the scalpel: gender surgeries create dependency, not liberation.

Goldis brings the legal forecast: lawsuits are coming, discovery will be damning, and medical institutions will not survive what is coming.

What unites them is not ideology, but shared recognition that the psychological idea—”I was born in the wrong body”—was elevated into dogma without evidence, without caution, and without regard for the long-term consequences.

My reflection: In truth, what these elders are naming is a rupture in our cultural spine. We traded discernment for deference, complexity for simplification, and human development for ideological certainty. When elders across disciplines converge on the same warning, we are no longer dealing with a debate—we are dealing with testimony. And testimony requires us to listen not with defensiveness, but with moral courage.

Jason #homophobia #transphobia #conspiracy jasonlionheart.substack.com

[Context: This is from a long post pretending to care about neurodivergent schoolkids so that he can use them to bash LGBTQ+ people]

A child who is constantly corrected but never fully understood will eventually ask a dangerous question: Why am I like this?

For a neurodivergent child, that question is not abstract. It is embodied. Deep in their flesh. It lives in the nervous system.

In today’s schools, there is an answer readily available.

Identity.

More specifically, LGBTQ identity frameworks.

These frameworks offer something powerful: permission to be different without apology. Language for distress. Moral protection. A story that explains why fitting in has always felt impossible.

For a neurotypical child, identity can be explored, revised, and discarded. It is flexible.

For a neurodivergent child, it can become totalizing.

It does not explain part of their experience. It explains everything.

And once it does, abandoning it feels like erasing the only coherent story they have ever been given.

[… more pretending to care about neurodivergent kids …]

The rise in transgender identification among children is not the root problem. It is a symptom.

It reflects a school system (amongst other factors) that cannot accommodate neurodivergence without trying to normalize it. A system that mistakes compliance for health and performance for wellbeing.

Until schools learn to recognize neurodivergence as something to be understood — not corrected — this pattern will continue.

Children will keep disappearing into labels because labels are the only place they are allowed to rest.

That is not inclusion.

It is institutional failure, and it is camouflaged and dressed up as care.

If schools applied the same rigour to understanding neurodivergence as they do to identity and LGBTQ+ awareness campaigns, fewer children would be driven toward ideology, self-harm, or medicalization as a way of making sense of unsupported nervous systems. Fewer parents would be left searching for answers in the dark.

Jason #transphobia #pratt jasonlionheart.substack.com

In myth and psyche alike, boundaries are sacred. In ancient tales, to trespass the gods’ delineations—between mortal and divine, between realms of day and night—was to invite chaos. So too, in our human world, one boundary runs deep in every culture and legal system: the line between female and male. This boundary is not a trivial line on a map; it is inscribed in our bodies, our language, and our hard-won civil rights. Yet today, an ideology has arisen that seeks to erase this line, claiming that an internal sense of gender identity should override biological sex.

And so we find ourselves in a cultural fever dream—a society willing to dissolve the very edges that once defined our shared reality. What was once sacred has become negotiable. What was once evident—rooted in anatomy, biology, and common sense—has been rebranded as prejudice. It is as if we are being asked to forget the story of humanity itself, to deny that our flesh tells a truth older than any ideology or belief.

I’m going to say the quiet part plainly: you cannot protect both. If law elevates identity over sex, sex-based rights dissolve. If a male can claim womanhood and inherit women’s provisions, then those provisions no longer belong to women. That’s not inclusion; that’s annexation. And it doesn’t only wound women—when women enter male-only spaces under the same logic, it also erodes male sovereignty. Either we anchor public life in the immutable reality of sex, or we drift in a sea of self-declaration that demands everyone else’s compliance to keep it afloat.

Jason #wingnut #racist jasonlionheart.substack.com

I didn’t need a curriculum to tell my four‑year‑old that people are different. He sees it before breakfast—at the shoe pile by the door: tiny red sneakers beside size‑12 boots. Different hair. Different voices. He notices, then looks up at me to learn what difference means. That second part—what we model in the space after noticing—is where a culture is made or unmade.

Lately, we’re teaching something else. We’re training children (and the adults who teach them) to scan the room for harm and punish first, ask later. We call it care. We call it safety. It often looks like neither. It’s control, dressed up in compassion.

The truth is simple: awareness is innate. Suspicion is learned. And suspicion is being taught.

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In this article, DEI is shorthand for that identity‑centric, punitive frame now moving through schools and institutions […] where this frame rules, the outcomes below tend to follow: more reports, more punishments, colder rooms—and children who learn to distrust their own eyes.

We used to teach kids how to live with difference—how to hold their shape and still be kind; how to argue an idea without exiling a person; how to say, “I might be wrong,” and mean it. Now, in the name of anti‑oppression, we’re giving them a lens that pre‑loads malice into ordinary friction. A clumsy question becomes an incident. An awkward moment becomes a microaggression. Disagreement becomes harm.

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I’m not handing my child’s conscience to a committee. […] I will model tolerance—the grown‑up version that holds fierce differences without exile—and I’ll teach him to do the same. Because if our antidote to prejudice is teaching kids to hunt for it, we’ll raise sharp detectives and poor neighbours. I want something better: citizens. Neighbors. Men and women with a spine and a heart.

Jason Lionheart #transphobia jasonlionheart.substack.com

Across Europe, health authorities have pulled back from fast-tracking minors into irreversible medical transitions. […]

And yet, here in Canada, and in British Columbia, the accelerator remains pressed to the floor.

The Numbers We’re Not Supposed to See
Between 2018 and 2023, at least 300 minors in Canada (outside Quebec) underwent double mastectomies—healthy breast removal surgeries—at ages as young as 14. That is roughly one child every six days. Thousands more were placed on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, though national data is obscured by design. British Columbia […] likely accounts for a significant share of these interventions.

[…] B.C. continues to align itself with the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)—an organization whose leaked internal documents reveal knowledge of harm and lack of evidence, but a continued push for medicalization anyway.

The Money Trail
In B.C., gender-affirming care is not only permitted—it is incentivized. All treatments are fully funded under the provincial health plan. […] The system rewards affirmation. Clinics and outpatient surgical centres that are contracted to deliver publicly funded care can schedule full days of chest surgeries without question, often with long waitlists of youth lined up for their turn.

Inside the Operating Room: What a B.C. Anesthesiologist Reported
Recently, an anesthesiologist working with a Vancouver-area private surgical centre described the following:

- Throughput: the centre can perform up to ten double mastectomies in a single day, including on patients as young as 14.
- Payment differential: for breast removal due to cancer, the clinic is paid roughly $400; for the same operation performed for gender reasons, the clinic is paid roughly $1,400 by government.
- Workforce ethics: some nurses refuse to participate in these pediatric gender cases, but the surgeries proceed regardless.

Jason #transphobia #wingnut jasonlionheart.substack.com

Puberty is not a pathology. It is a human right.

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Because we are now living in an era where interrupting puberty is not only normalized, it is institutionalized. Where the body’s sacred transition from child to adult is pathologized under the language of “affirmation.” Where adult discomfort with gender non-conformity leads to the chemical freezing of youth in developmental stasis. This is not science. It is social engineering.

Let me say it plainly: this is not compassion. It is eugenics in a progressive mask.

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Puberty Blockers: The Sterile Knife of Silence
We are told they are reversible. We are told they are safe. We are told they are lifesaving.

We are told lies.

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Across Europe, nations are retreating from this reckless model. […] Why? Because the risks are profound, and the benefits are unsubstantiated. And yet in Canada and the United States, we have doubled down. It is codified into our legal frameworks. And now we find ourselves fighting—not for luxury, but for the most basic right of all: to grow up.

This is not medical care. This is chemical conversion therapy by another name.

The Psychological Hijack
Children do not come to gender distress in a vacuum. Their identity is shaped in interaction with a world that is fractured, chaotic, and increasingly hostile to real embodiment. They are the symptomatic expression of the world that they find themselves in.

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Rather than address the root causes—trauma, anxiety, sensory integration issues, neurodivergence, social contagion, autism—we reach for the quick fix. […]

We have outsourced the role of elder to clinicians with prescription pads. We have replaced sacred rites of passage with pharmaceutical checkpoints. We have abandoned mentorship in favour of medicalization. And the medical professional can do that in 90 minutes or less—super convenient in a world built for speed.

This is not affirmation. It is abdication.

Jason #transphobia jasonlionheart.substack.com

There was a time when truth was the highest good.
When parents were the guardians of reality, the first line of defence between a child's imagination and the real world.
But we no longer live in that time.

Now, to name what is self-evident—a boy is a boy, a girl is a girl—is considered "harmful."
Now, to parent from a place of clarity and conscience is to risk being accused of abuse.

This is not just an American problem.
It’s not just a Canadian problem.
It is a global restructuring of the family by the State.
A redrawing of ancient lines.
A quiet rewriting of authority—who raises the child, who defines reality, who holds the final say.

We are witnessing a convergence of medical institutions, activist legal bodies, corporate NGOs, and education systems that have all abandoned their original mandates in service of a single ideology: that self-declared identity must override biology, parental rights, and psychological development.

The Rebranding of Abuse
Across western nations, child protection agencies have been infiltrated—not by radicals with signs, but by lobbyists with language.
The term "abuse" is being redefined—repurposed to serve an ideology rather than truth.

Where once it meant neglect, starvation, physical or sexual harm—it now includes:

Refusing to use a child's self-declared pronouns
Raising a child according to their biological sex
Delaying medicalization for the sake of caution
Asking questions
Seeking therapy
Standing firm in the storm of social pressure

And it has been done slowly, deliberately, and—until recently—quietly.

[skipping a lot of examples of parents being punished for transphobia]

This isn’t justice. It’s jurisdictional capture.
This isn’t safeguarding. It’s institutional grooming.

This is how a faith becomes law without a vote.
This is how a worldview becomes mandatory through policy, not persuasion.

Jason #transphobia #pratt jasonlionheart.substack.com

There’s a phrase that echoes through the chambers of today’s ideological cathedral:

“I feel like a woman.”

It sounds harmless—compassionate even. But it’s not. It’s the linguistic sleight of hand that attempts to elevate emotion over embodiment, imagination over incarnation. And it has consequences—especially for our children.

Because let’s be honest: you cannot feel like a woman if you were never biologically one. What you can feel are the ideas you’ve associated with womanhood—ideas you’ve absorbed, imagined, romanticised, or projected onto.

But ideas are not bodies. Ideas are not chromosomes.

Biology Is Not Bigotry

Every cell in your body—every strand of DNA—testifies to your sex. Chromosomes (XX or XY) are not accessories. They orchestrate everything: brain development, hormone release, immune system function, skeletal design, and reproductive capacity. These are not arbitrary features—they are the conditions of life.

No amount of hormone injections or surgeries will rewrite the code embedded in every cell. Biological sex is not assigned at birth—it is revealed. And it cannot be changed, only approximated.

To “identify” as something different doesn’t override biology—it overrides meaning.

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Children Are Becoming Canvases for Our Unresolved Pain

A girl who’s a tomboy is now told she’s really a boy. A sensitive boy who plays with dolls is diagnosed as “transgender” before he even knows what sex is. Why? Because we, as a society, have become too fragile to sit in the complexity of development.

We’ve abandoned symbolic thinking. We've replaced rites of passage with prescriptions. We've handed over the mirror of inner work to the scalpel of outer transformation.

This is not compassion. This is collusion.

We are medicating our children so we don’t have to confront our own wounds. And we are legalising this confusion—locking it into state policy—so we don’t have to feel the shame of our abandonment.

Jason #transphobia jasonlionheart.substack.com

For transparency, I am a bisexual man. That’s it. Not part of a collective, not a letter in an ever-expanding acronym, not a member of an identity-based voting bloc. […]

Yet, despite this, my sexual orientation is being used—without my consent—to promote political movements, ideologies, and corporate agendas that have nothing to do with me. The expectation is clear: If you are not fully on board with the packaged narrative of "LGBTQ2I+," you are a problem.

But here’s the truth: It’s not possible to be an “LGBTQ2I+ person.” That’s a marketing construct, not an identity. […] slapping an acronym over disparate groups and pretending they have the same needs, the same struggles, or the same desires is both disingenuous and deeply misleading.

If this movement truly stood for diversity and inclusion, how is it that everyone under its umbrella is expected to have exactly the same political, social, and cultural stance? How can people with fundamentally different experiences be pressured to conform to a single ideology?

This is not about unity. It is about control.

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This is not a movement designed to uplift individuals. It is a system designed to erase them.

This movement does not celebrate the diversity of thought. It demands uniformity. It does not allow for individuality. It enforces ideological alignment. You must think a certain way. Vote a certain way. Speak a certain way. Or you are an outsider—cast out from the very community that claims to support you.

What’s happening today under the LGBTQ2I+ banner is not just about advocacy. It is about a forced redefinition of truth

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But what is happening now is not about supporting trans individuals—it is about compelling the world to accept an ideology that overrides biological reality, undermines women’s rights, and, in many ways, erases same-sex attraction itself.

Jason #transphobia jasonlionheart.substack.com

Something Has Entered the Room

There’s a moment—often quiet, often private—when a parent realizes something has changed. Not just in their child, but in the atmosphere of the home. It’s as if something foreign has entered the room. Something invisible, but heavy. It doesn’t speak in full sentences, but it has a language. A rhythm. A command. It stirs confusion, tension, and silence. It rearranges trust.

You can’t name it at first. But you feel it. You feel it in the pauses. In the new vocabulary. In the discomfort that creeps into once-effortless moments with your child. You feel it when the air in the house starts to thicken—not from conflict, but from something unnamed and uninvited.

It’s not simply grief. It’s not simply fear. It is something else entirely.

A possession.

Something ideological. Something spiritual. Something designed to displace—not just beliefs—but bonds.

Ideological Possession.

You Don’t Just Observe It—You Carry It

What makes ideological possession so devastating is not just what it does to your child—but what it does to you. […]

You become both witness and victim.

This is what many parents struggle to articulate. Not because they lack words, but because the experience itself is unspeakable. You see your child repeating phrases, shifting identities, mirroring groupthink. But what hits harder is the internal rupture: the way your own body begins reacting. The tightening of your chest when you’re told to “just affirm.” The nausea after reading another article instructing you to be silent and supportive, or risk being labeled unsafe.

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If you’re in the middle of this—watching your child shift into someone unrecognizable, navigating daily life while trying to preserve your sanity—then you need more than resilience. You need tools to stay tethered to yourself.

This isn’t about fixing your child. This is about protecting your center so you don’t collapse under the weight of what’s happening.