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#DiscoSexology Part V: An Interview With Zucker’s Patient

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By Cristan Williams Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome to […]

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Cristan Williams · May 6, 2024

Just as false is the claim that children must be forced to undergo natal puberty. Conversion therapy often attempts to leverage puberty as part of its operant conditioning to reinforce a cisgender identity. While the use of puberty blockers in trans youth gives the youth more time for psychological and…

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Your How-To Guide to Gender Critical Activism

Cristan Williams · March 3, 2020

It’s nice to switch your dehumanization up a bit, otherwise, people might catch on to the rhetorical con you’re perpetrating. So, pretend that trans people are actually an idea or myth that someone is trying to push upon rational people because, if “transgender” is an ideological -ism or lifestyle acquired…

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If transgendering is a thing, then so is cisgendering

Cristan Williams · February 26, 2020

Anti-trans sex essentialist activists love to pretend that “transgender” is a verb for the same reason anti-gay activists like to pretend “gay” is also a verb. If being gay or trans is a mere matter of behavior rather than selfhood, then people can just stop the behavior that makes them…

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WPATH responds to Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD)

Cristan Williams · September 6, 2018

The postulation that kids catch being gay or trans from other youth or various other sources (books, TV, video games, websites, school curriculum, etc.), is not new and is, in fact, a decades-old right-wing notion that’s popular with practitioners of illegal reparative therapies. Sensing a new vehicle to hitch their…

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Singal’s Florida: You’re very wrong about trans kids

Cristan Williams · February 25, 2018

In its heyday, Zucker’s GID clinic was one of the busiest and most prominent clinics of its type in the world and the vast majority of kids Zucker’s clinic “treated” didn’t have GD in the first place. Nonetheless, GID kids were treated for GID with behavioral therapies designed to make…

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Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.

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