Podcast appearances and mentions of helena kerschner

Does social contagion play a part in young people's gender identity? In today's episode, we're digging into our content library to share one of our most popular talks that we presented several years ago on the topic of Identity, Teens & Gender. Preston Sprinkle, a biblical scholar, interviews Helena Kerschner, a former transgender man who gives a powerful perspective. Tune in as Helena shares her personal story of transitioning and de-transitioning, and as they discuss the topic of rapid onset gender dysphoria, including the related social contagion and mental health impact. Resources Create a free THINQ Account to access more trusted content like this on topics from all channels of culture at thinqmedia.com. More LGBTQ content from THINQ Register for Next Gen Summit, November 8-9, 2024 in Nashville.

In early 2019 I began interviewing a group of young women who wished to speak about their experience with transition and detransition, launching one of my longest running series of interviews, Detrans Stories. I've been rewatching these in the hopes of transcribing them into a book with broader reach, and have decided to repost this lightly edited interview from March 2019, featuring Helena Kerschner, who can be found at https://twitter.com/lacroicsz Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce https://cash.app/$benjaminaboyce https://www.buymeacoffee.com/benjaminaboyce --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/calmversations/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/calmversations/support

Programa escrito, presentado y producido por Gabriel Porras, filósofo, periodista y actor de voz profesional. Música: “Gone with the winds”, de Veaceslav Draganov en artlist.io ******* Aprende mucho más sobre este URGENTE tema siguiendo estos enlaces: La historia de Helena Kerschner, que lamenta haber “transicionado” como adolescente: https://youtu.be/Ibq3ld087Y4 El Proyecto de ley en Irlanda que elimina las palabras “mujer”, “madre”, y más del lenguaje legal: https://4w.pub/ireland-to-strip-maternity-law/ La nueva jueza de la Suprema Corte de EEUU Ketanji Brown no puede decir qué es una mujer: https://youtu.be/BWtGzJxiONU …y luego rehúsa contestar preguntas claras sobre la autoafirmación de una mujer: https://youtu.be/BWwx-UrL0e4 El documental “¿Qué es una mujer?” de Matt Walsh: https://youtu.be/8wlZWZoqRlo Estadísticas de discapacidad en el Reino Unido: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9602/CBP-9602.pdf Acta de Reforma de Reconocimiento de Género en Escocia (Transgender Trend): https://www.transgendertrend.com/scotland-gender-recognition-act-reform-bill/ El Proyecto de Reconocimiento de Género del Partido Nacionalista Escocés es una amenaza para las mujeres (Spiked Online): https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/05/the-snps-gender-recognition-bill-is-threat-to-women/ Ministros enfrentan las reacciones del público a las reformas sobre el reconocimiento de género (The Times): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-face-public-backlash-over-gender-recognition-reform-plans-dvgljmqrf Premios Brit 2023: Por qué no hay mujeres nominadas a mejor artista (BBC) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64264069 Es hora de denunciar el sinsentido de lo no binario (Spiked online) https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/16/its-time-to-call-out-the-nonsense-of-nonbinary/ "El feminismo tóxico es el ÚNICO tipo de feminismo": https://youtu.be/mOSS8yBp3go “La biología triunfa sobre el género”, dice el presidente de la Asociación Mundial de Atletismo: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10934773/World-Athletics-president-Sebastian-Coe-backs-FINAs-ruling-transgender-athletes-banned.html El “triunfo” del (la) atleta transgénero Lia Thomas: https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/ncaa-title-for-lia-thomas-is-joke-with-biological-women-as-punchline-hardly-a-laughing-matter/ La “campeona” transgénero de artes marciales Fallon Fox golpea tan violentamente a su oponente mujer que le rompe el cráneo: https://www.bjjee.com/articles/transgender-mma-fighter-who-broke-female-opponents-skull-are-we-getting-too-politically-correct-with-reality/ Por qué las atletas mujeres deben alzar la voz cada vez que un transgénero intente competir contra ellas: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sharron-davies-the-trans-debate-is-toxic-its-made-my-life-hell-but-female-athletes-must-speak-up-xllplkmp3 Los sanitarios en nuevos edificios públicos deben ser distintos para hombres y mujeres: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/02/single-sex-lavatories-mandatory-new-public-buildings/ Pero los activistas trangénero consideran esto “transfóbico”: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a40497357/new-buildings-must-have-single-sex-toilets/ Es “injusto” forzar a alguien “que ya está enfrentando exclusión” a usar sanitarios que no sean “neutrales” o “neutros”: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/17/gender-neutral-toilets-public-buildings-single-sex-uk-robert-jenrick/ La alarmante “disforia de género” entre menores de edad, que saltó de 138 casos en 2010 a 2,383 en 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/10/nhs-gender-identity-service-for-children-cant-cope-with-demand-review-finds El acoso y la violencia contra niñas que se atreven a cuestionar la agenda transgénero en sus escuelas: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/girl-driven-out-of-school-for-questioning-trans-ideology-ls790krdh

A programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional philosopher, journalist and voice actor. Music: "Gone with the winds", by Veaceslav Draganov on artlist.io ******* Learn more about this URGENT topic by following these links: The Story of Helena Kerschner, who regrets having “transitioned” as a teenager: https://youtu.be/Ibq3ld087Y4 The Irish Bill to remove the words "woman", "mother", and more from legal language: https://4w.pub/ireland-to-strip-maternity-law/ New Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown cannot bring herself to say what a woman is: https://youtu.be/BWtGzJxiONU …and she then refuses to answer clear questions about self-definition as a woman: https://youtu.be/BWwx-UrL0e4 Documentary “What is a woman?” by Matt Walsh: https://youtu.be/8wlZWZoqRlo Disability statistics in the UK: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9602/CBP-9602.pdf Scotland's Gender Recognition Reform Act (Transgender Trend): https://www.transgendertrend.com/scotland-gender-recognition-act-reform-bill/ The SNP's Gender Recognition Bill is a threat to women (Spiked Online): https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/05/the-snps-gender-recognition-bill-is-threat-to-women/ Ministers face public backlash over gender recognition reforms (The Times): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-face-public-backlash-over-gender-recognition-reform-plans-dvgljmqrf Brit Awards 2023: Why no women were nominated for Best Artist (BBC) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64264069 The nonsense of nonbinary (Spiked online): https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/16/its-time-to-call-out-the-nonsense-of-nonbinary/ "Toxic feminism is the ONLY kind of feminism": https://youtu.be/mOSS8yBp3go "Biology trumps gender," says the president of the World Athletics Association: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10934773/World-Athletics-president-Sebastian-Coe-backs-FINAs-ruling-transgender-athletes-banned.html The "triumph" of transgender athlete Lia Thomas: https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/ncaa-title-for-lia-thomas-is-joke-with-biological-women-as-punchline-hardly-a-laughing-matter/ Transgender martial arts "champion" Fallon Fox punches her female opponent so violently that he (she) breaks her skull: https://www.bjjee.com/articles/transgender-mma-fighter-who-broke-female-opponents-skull-are-we-getting-too-politically-correct-with-reality/ Why female athletes should raise their voices every time a transgender athlete tries to compete against them: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sharron-davies-the-trans-debate-is-toxic-its-made-my-life-hell-but-female-athletes-must-speak-up-xllplkmp3 Toilets in new public buildings should be separate for men and women: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/02/single-sex-lavatories-mandatory-new-public-buildings/ But transgender activists consider this "transphobic": https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a40497357/new-buildings-must-have-single-sex-toilets/ It is "unfair" to force someone "who is already facing exclusion" to use toilets that are not "neutral" or "gender neutral": https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/17/gender-neutral-toilets-public-buildings-single-sex-uk-robert-jenrick/ The alarming "gender dysphoria" among minors, which jumped from 138 cases in 2010 to 2,383 in 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/10/nhs-gender-identity-service-for-children-cant-cope-with-demand-review-finds Bullying and violence against girls who dare to question the transgender agenda in their schools: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/girl-driven-out-of-school-for-questioning-trans-ideology-ls790krdh

I speak with Helena about the incredible speed at which transgender ideology has captured the liberal mind, what is behind it, and how it feels to have been to hell and back as a female to male trans person and then as a detransitioner. Helena Kerschner is a 23-year-old girl who has believed herself to be transgender since she was a teen. She is now trying to educate people about "gender-affirming care" as an advisor for Genspect, through her Substack, her Twitter, and her many appearances on alternative and mainstream media on the subject. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aksubversive/message

A complete oxymoron: Gen Z Conservative. I talk about my journey, and why I am a conservative despite the leftist culture around me. Also we talk about Helena Kerschner, and how conservatives can help fight transgender suicide rates. SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://bit.ly/cttsubscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lightthetorch/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lightthetorch/support

First off, some will attempt to dismiss anyone and everyone who has not transitioned as not an authority on the issue. (This would be a variation on the appeal to authority fallacy.) So today we'll attempt to primarily use non-Conservative, Transgender, and Detransitioner sources, in keeping with our general standard. However, if logical conclusions are obtainable in a conversation, then anyone with the facts can attempt to make sense of an issue. The Bible has all that we need, but we'll go over plenty of other evidence as well. When we covered body dysmorphia, a common refrain was Psalm 139: Psalm 139:13-18 “For thou hast possessed my reins: Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, When I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; And in thy book all my members were written, Which in continuance were fashioned, When as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee.” With that in mind, there are plenty of folks who have not enjoyed the peace that comes with this. Helena Kerschner is a prime example of one such individual who suffered from such feelings who was led to believe that she would be best served by the Transgendered lifestyle. She is one of many individuals who Dr. Lisa Littman would categorize as a victim of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. Dr. Littman caused a severe dust up a few years ago for merely suggesting that a significant amount of girls were affirmed erroneously online as transgender, and acted medically. This, however, led to detransitioning later on, but with the side effects of the cross-sex hormones. Statistics on this topic are hard to come by, due to the nature of the topic and affirmative care attitude of “health care professionals” involved. However, one case where informed consent is breached is one too many and there are many cases that meet the standard of not being given enough information for consent. None of this is new, however. People like Walt Heyers have existed for years. People who go through the so-called transition and have the temerity to return to living as they once did in their biological gender. Heyers was prodded by his family members to identify as a girl when he was just starting to walk. This later culminated in a transition, detransition, and a life with the scars of the fake transition. So where should the Church be in this? For starters, we need to be there for our youth. The only way LGBT can really reproduce is to co-opt our youth (barring medical intervention, but even then.) We need to be there for those who are struggling. This is not some law that we can pass. No amount of money can be donated or thrown at it. We need to invest in others' lives, just as Christ does in ours. We need also to sound the alarm of cases like Tulip R, Helen Kerschner, and Walt Heyers. There are many more who have spoken out, but I suspect even more do not for fear of retribution from the LGBT community. Christians need to be ready to welcome these folks back to reality with a stiff dose of truth, mixed with abundant love. If we are there with the uncompromised Gospel (make no mistake, sin is sin. but forgiveness is offered to everyone), then they can have hope for the future. https://www.parentsofrogdkids.com/ Megan Kelly Interview with Dr. Lisa Littman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGrEJd-5dCw&ab_channel=MegynKelly Graphic "reasignment" mutilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czY25eZGets&ab_channel=LEARNIdeas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcpnlnkDHlw&ab_channel=TheOffensiveTranny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMB9Wx5VlOc&ab_channel=TEDxTalks Graphic* Mutilation/Transition Surgery https://youtu.be/5Mur3XP6yWM What she wished she knew before transitioning. https://youtu.be/rC7EtIeWrPs

In 2018, social scientist Lisa Littman published a study on “rapid-onset gender dysphoria.” The study pointed to an increasing trend of adolescent girls suddenly identifying themselves as transgender, perhaps due to social pressure and media influence. Preston Sprinkle, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality and Gender, talks with a former transgender person Helena Kerschner to discuss this topic and provide practical guidance for parents and teens.

We took the podcast on the road this week — to Provincetown for a live chat with Jamie Kirchick, whose new book, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, I reviewed last week. We were able to discuss much more than could be covered in pixels — with questions from the audience as well.You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player above (or click the dropdown menu to add the Dishcast to your podcast feed). For two clips of my convo with Jamie — on the similarities between anti-Semitism and homophobia, and on whether J. Edgar Hoover was gay — head over to our YouTube page. Also: new week, new transcript — this time with Charles Murray. It was one of the most popular episodes last year, and if you never listened to it, now’s your chance to read it as well.Looking back to our episode with Kathleen Stock (who has since moved to Substack!), we still have many unaired emails from listeners. The first writes:I just wanted to email to say thank you for the work you’re doing on the (potential) threat of trans ideology to cis gays. I’m a 33-year-old cis gay in Australia, and I was a bit confused by trans stuff at first, because I felt I was supposed to implicitly understand trans issues, existing in that “LGBT” bloc. Back around 2013, any trans-related conversation amounted to laughing about the silliness of the “xe/xir” stuff, while still acknowledging that it’s simple human decency to use whatever pronouns someone asks me to use.As Kathleen Stock said on your podcast, respecting trans people through their struggle always seemed “costless.” Clearly, that is no longer true. Something has changed for the worse; the most visible, loud and most obnoxious segment of the LGBT community are the “queer fascists.” I’m called a bigot for simply acknowledging that there exist people who detransition (without even mentioning whether transgenderism might be a form of gay conversion therapy, in some cases). I could go on and on, obviously, but again: thank you.P.S. I adored your point on Brendan O’Neill’s show about how the queer community used to be the resistance, but has transitioned into being the censorious puritans.Here’s a clip from the Stock pod:From another listener who “LOVED the conversation with Kathleen Stock”:I’m an intersex person and can say with authority that human bodies are weird. Mine doesn’t produce enough sex hormone. I tried testosterone and developed anxiety, depression, and depersonalization, so I’m now going in the other direction and I’m much happier. My pronouns are “whatever you want,” and I’m fully aware that I’m atypical. I don’t care for the “trans” label because of how ridiculous it has become. That makes my heart hurt for those who have battled very hard to be recognized only to watch their identity subverted into something meaningless by a vicious and thoughtless mob. I hate what was done to Kathleen or anyone else who says, “Hey, wait a minute, we should talk about this.” I don’t know when talking about our differences became so damn dangerous. It’s intellectually dishonest. Weren’t universities supposed to be the places to halt this kind of thing, where ideas could be debated and reasoned through? But if the universities are all businesses now, and their incentives are about how to get more paying students, then where else can the debate be had? Where are the incentives more closely aligned with the public good rather than the almighty dollar? I don’t know. I worry that place doesn’t exist here in the US.One thing that was truly horrifying was when you mentioned that gay kids are being told they’re trans because they’re gay. That’s evil. I don’t know what else to call it. Human brains aren’t done forming until what, our 20s? There’s a reason peer pressure is so pernicious for teenagers, and it seems strange that many adults seem to have forgotten it and blithely go along with kids (rare exceptions aside) who want to block their own puberty or have a double mastectomy before they can legally vote.Anyways, I enjoyed every minute of your conversation with Kathleen, even the part where you went on about how “I don’t even know what non-binary IS,” because that’s how I feel as a non-binary person! I’m not comfortable with either of given options, nor am I comfortable in any same-sex space (but I manage in airports). Again, I’m atypical on the chromosomal level, so while I can’t speak to everyone’s experience, I can say mine is a bit more existential than the random 16 year old who’s decided, along with their entire social circle, that they’re suddenly non-binary and have all dyed their hair blue. Sometimes it feels like I’m riding around in a clown car, to be honest.From another fan of the episode, a medical doctor:I admire both you and Kathleen Stock. The more I learn about what is being done to children who don’t conform to stereotypes, the more horrified I’ve become.  During my lifetime, much has been done to accept people, including children as they are. We’ve come to recognize that there’s a great deal of variance of normal around the mean. But when it comes to subjecting children to dangerous medical interventions, we no longer need to worry about causing real harm? To me it appears that some physicians have no qualms about experimenting on healthy children. Malicious intent is all that’s missing for this to be criminal misuse of medical science.I have no platform to use to try to stop this. I appreciate that you and Dr. Stock are making an effort to put the brakes on this madness. Another medical doctor who sounded off on the trans debate was the great Dana Beyer:Listen to the whole episode here. Another listener reflects on the trans debate more broadly:Though I find the entire trans/gender battle beyond exhausting, the recent events surrounding the swimmer at Penn brought it front and center for me. Partly because I was a competitive swimmer in HS, but mostly because my girlfriend’s daughter is a championship-level swimmer with a scholarship to a top-tier program after HS. (By the way, the daughter is not okay with the Penn swimmer.)I have a degree in English, and I’m fortunate to have a lifelong best friend whose father is a linguist. And there were two linguistic tools recently designed to serve one group’s agenda while doing a terrible disservice to the one that should matter. The first was to change the term transsexual to “transgender,” shifting from a term defining the biology of gender dysphoria to one that is intentionally far more vague. The second was to create the shorthand term “trans,” which acts a vehicle for the first by turning something that affects .03% of the population into something broader and far more inclusive.It’s these subtle yet effective shifts in language that facilitate the gender vs biological sex movements, and accepting that someone who still has a penis can be defined as a woman. Now, “trans” is a definition designed to cover any permutation of gender non-conformity instead of actual gender dysphoria, as defined in the DSM-5. And it has opened the door to well-meaning (I assume) adults making terrible decisions regarding child development.Growing up as a boy, all my closest relatives — sister, cousins, an aunt three years older than me — were girls. I ended up playing with them often, regardless of the game or what items were involved (dolls, etc). I followed their lead and even thought I was supposed to pee sitting down. None of this was driven by a desire to be a girl, but rather just to be included. And like many boys, my first forays into my own genitalia involved other boys, as we learned about our bodies. But by the time I neared puberty, it was clear that I was both male and heterosexual. Yet, I fear that children growing up today in similar circumstances will find themselves in a world of confusion, brought on by adults, not their playmates.Speaking of confused kids, another listener:I’ve heard you express frustration and/or disbelief at the rate of depression among gay youth today, despite how much easier things are for them compared to the ‘70s and ‘80s. I just wanted to point out that many young people seem to believe that gay means same-gender attraction, not same-sex. This seems to be part of the Queer umbrella where heterosexual people can identify as another gender and so claim a gay identity. This makes no sense to me (I also find it homophobic), and I wonder if the whole mess contributes to the rates of depression among Millennials and Gen Z.One of those confused kids was Helena Kerschner, a young woman who transitioned and then detransitioned:Listen to her whole story, along with the inimitable Buck Angel’s, here. Another good point comes from this listener:I see the current kerfuffle about trans identities as reflecting the inability to experience complexity without anxiety and a desire to simplify things. That a person can have what are seen as conflicting senses of themselves — as a man, as a man/woman, woman/man, or somewhere in-between — is too complex for some people. Some I expect do find the idea anxiety-provoking — leading to questions about themselves, in a Freudian way — and they are trying to solve their problems by forcing others into boxes.Circling back to the Stock episode, another listener:I do want to push back on, and encourage you to revisit in depth, your point of disagreement with Kathleen over the use of puberty blockers and hormone treatments in transgender youth. While the issues are surely different in the case of adults who have reached the age of consent (though even here there is a strong reason for limiting what can be done in the name of medicine in the strict sense, with consequences for what insurance policies should have to cover), the idea that a child could be given permanently life-altering treatments on the basis of a diagnosis for which, as Kathleen observed, there are simply no rigorous criteria, and to treat a psychological condition that could very well turn out not to be lasting, seems utterly abhorrent. What serious arguments are there in defense of this? What are the responses to the obvious objections? Finally, what should liberal people, who are opposed to these treatments but nevertheless prize individual autonomy and fear governmental overreach, think about the various legislative strategies that are on offer to forbid or restrict access to them? I hope that this is a conversation you’ll be able to keep on having.For more debate on this ongoing issue, check out the Dishcast episode with Mara Keisling, the founding executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. A clip of our constructive disagreement:Lastly, a listener looks ahead:I’m writing to suggest a guest (though I am not sure she accepts podcast invitations). There’s a point of view on trans issues I haven’t really heard adequately represented on your podcasts or in your blog posts. I think the person who best articulates it is Natalie Wynn, aka Contrapoints. I recently watched her YouTube episode on J.K. Rowling (and TERFs in general). It was brilliant, and opened my mind to many of the tropes and biases we hear all the time that I wasn’t fully hearing. Natalie is extremely smart, articulate, funny, and not afraid to say things that piss off her tribe. Thanks so much for the suggestion. Keep them coming — along with your dissents, assents and personal stories: dish@andrewsullivan.com. And you can browse the entire Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy. Get full access to The Weekly Dish at andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

As an adolescent, Helena identified as trans. But high doses of testosterone led to such extreme mood swings that she was hospitalized twice — yet none of the professionals on her team ever questioned what she was doing to her body, or why. In this powerful and courageous interview, detransitioned woman Helena Kerschner shares her inside view on the fantasy versus reality of trans — the hopes and dreams she pinned onto a new identity, compared to the harsh realities she discovered from trying to live as a man. She unpacks the complex psychosocial factors she now sees contributed to her discomfort with being female, and how her therapist let her down by failing to see her true needs. She tells us about giving up the sunken cost fallacy, making up for lost time, and the arduous process of picking up the pieces of a shattered false identity to find out who she truly is.Wise beyond her years, Helena Kerschner is an outspoken advocate for her fellow detransitioners, victims and survivors of gender medicine. You can follow her on Twitter @lacroicsz or read her blog at lacroicsz.substack.com.If you enjoyed this conversation, please rate & review it on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Share this episode with a friend, or on social media. You can also head over to my YouTube channel, subscribe, like, comment, & share there as well.To get $200 off your EightSleep Pod Pro Cover visit EightSleep.com & enter promo code SOMETHERAPIST. Be sure to check out my shop. In addition to wellness products, you can now find my favorite books!MUSIC: Special thanks to Joey Pecoraro for our theme song, “Half Awake,” used with gratitude and permission. www.joeypecoraro.comPRODUCTION: Thanks to Eric and Amber Beels at DifMix.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Helena is a female-to-male-to-female detransitioner, Limpida is a male-to-female detransitioner, Josh Slocum (host of Disaffected Podcast) is a gay man who's a couple years younger than me, and I'm Benjamin Boyce, of no known novel sexual or gender identities. In this conversation, the four of us tackle the negative impacts that popular feminism has had on young people, and young men in particular. Find us on twitter at @lacroicsz, @americandog1998, @OriginalRecipeG, and @BenjaminABoyce because I made my account when I was an adult and haven't yet had to make a replacement. Helena's substack: https://lacroicsz.substack.com Limpida's substack: https://strigoi.substack.com Benjamin's substack: https://theaphorist.substack.com support this channel https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/calmversations/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/calmversations/support

Follow all things barebactrian: linktr.ee/barebactrian Follow basil on twitter ( twitter.com/basii___ ) This week, Basil is joined by Helena Kerschner ( twitter.com/lacroicsz ) and Limpida ( twitter.com/americandog1998 ). Together they discuss the scourge that is the online Radical Feminist/Gender Critical/TERF cult and its role in advancing, reifying, and advancing gender ideology by serving as a pressure release valve for disgrunteled leftists who want to reject gender ideology but cant reject the left or who simply want the left to DO BETTER! We Talk: Our experiences with the toxic, mentally unhinged cult that is the Online Gender Critical Feminist/TERF community The Role of Gender Critical Feminists as an auxiliary cult to the left along with the Gender Cult The shared tactics of TERFs and the Gender Ideologues The Academia-NGO industrial Complex Its All One Thing Sending Basil Back to Afghanistan AND MORE! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/barebactrian/support

Tim, Ian, Seamus of FreedomToons, and Lydia host de=transitioner Helena Kerschner to discuss how the left is trying to use vet-grade pills to induce abortions as Roe is threatened, what the loss of Roe might mean to the left, the start of a possible new Civil War, leftist women's views on abortion, what puberty blockers do to young people, and the Florida mother suing a school for helping her daughter transition to another gender without her knowledge or consent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vince talks about the recent story surrounding Helena Kerschner and what is the transgender agenda. Plus, comments made by Elizabeth Warren on student loan debt and comments made By Kevin McCarthy on former President Trump. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Schools across the country are implementing "gender inclusive" guidelines for staff that instruct staff to keep gender identity changes in students secret from parents. A family in Massachusetts is fighting back. Ludlow Public Schools secretly promoted our kids' gender transition: parents (nypost.com)B.F., who is 11, wrote in a February 28, 2021, email to school staff listing the pronouns they preferred, according to the legal filing.“I am genderqueer. … My new name will be R**** … If you deadname me or use any pronouns I am uncomfortable with I will politely tell you … A list of pronouns you can use are: she/her he/him they/them fae/faerae/aer ve/ver xe/xem ze/zir. … Please only use the ones I have listed and not the other ones. I do not like them,” B.F. wrote, the parents said in court papers. Marie-Claire Foley, B.F's guidance counselor, replied to B.F. and the other school staff on the email exchange: “R**** [B****] is still in the process of telling his parents and is requesting that school staff refer to him as B**** and use she/her pronouns with her parents and in written emails/letters home,” the parents charge. “The term groomer is being used a lot today,” Beckwith told The Post. “Imagine what goes through any parent's mind when you have some other adult talking to your kid about sexuality — and saying we're going to hide this conversation from your parents.”In a story of detransitioning, Helena Kerschner, talks about how doctors and other “providers” encourage youth in transition to cut off their family if they do not fully accept the new identity. Calling it “cultish”A Story Of Detransitioning | Michael Knowles Interview - YouTube *Prohibiting Discrimination in Washington Public Schools (www.k12.wa.us) Transgender Youth & School Facilities Separation_and_Stigma_2017.pdf (glsen.org)Guide to communicating with parents and families: Schools-In-Transition.pdf (hrc.org) Dennis Prager clip on Bill Maher (sorry, I referenced Jon Stewart in the podcast...wrong show) in 2019 saying we would be called homophobes if we said men can't menstruate: Bill Maher THEN VS NOW - "Menstruating/Pregnant Men (feat Dennis Prager & TikTok Libs) - YouTubeJen Psaki talking to Chris Wallace about the need to teach “gender identity” to elementary school studentshttps://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1516935355785748482?s=20&t=rrmCEvC2H-X__qbAhyHKNwConnect/Contact:julie@conservativeladiesofwa.comHome - Conservative Ladies of Washington(1) Julie Barrett (@juliecbarrett) / TwitterJulie Barrett Womansplaining | FacebookJulie Barrett (@realjuliebarrett) • Instagram photos and videos

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[04.19.22] EPISODE 264, RUN TIME: 21:54 WATCH: This clip was removed from YouTube, but watch it here. It's a short piece of Tucker Carlson interviewing Helena Kerschner, a 23 year-old "DETRANSITIONED" girl Parents fight back against the school system that is transitioning their son and daughter. Look at this sickness running for congress HUGE advances nationwide in Republican voter registration Another device to steal elections. Planned Parenthood: now making money off of TRANS services!

We're told that for young people struggling with their gender identity, becoming transgender will bring about positive change. People, including young children, are sold the lie that being trans means they'll finally feel comfortable in their skin, living "their truth". It has never been easier to walk into a clinic and receive physically and emotionally altering hormones. There are massive movements on social media platforms like Reddit, Tumblr, and TikTok that proclaim transitioning as the answer to any and all problems for those struggling to fit in and love themselves. What happens when teenagers and young adults buy into the Big Lie, take the hormones, and change who they are only to regret it a few years or even just months later? On this episode of The Spillover, Helena Kerschner and Ryan Sereno tell their stories of struggling with gender identity, transitioning to the opposite gender, and then detransitioning once they realized they weren't actually trans.TRY MOINK HERE and get free filet mignon for a YEAR!APPLY HERE FOR TPUSA'S Young Women's Leadership Summit with code: POPLITICSLooking for like-minded friends? Join the Cuteservative Facebook group HERE.Listen at 9 PM PST/ MIDNIGHT EASTERN every Thursday by subscribing to ‘The Spillover' on Apple Podcasts and Spotify ☕️✨  Watch this episode HERE.

Carole Hooven is an Ivy League lecturer who's recent book: "T: The Story of Testosterone" delves deep into the science of the male hormone and its effect on our bodies and society. Helena is an outspoken detransitioner (female-to-male-to-female) who took a high dose of testosterone for eighteen months, in a bid to identify as a transman. Follow them on twitter @lacroicsz and @hoovlet Links for further reading: http://www.carolehooven.com Helena's writing: https://lacroicsz.substack.com Article Helena mentioned: https://blogs.feministwiki.org/socjuswiz/2019/10/20/masculinity-anime-and-gender-dysphoria/ Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/calmversations/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/calmversations/support

Helena Kerschner, shares her story about being brainwashed and manipulated into transitioning into a man, and the way she saved herself from the radical ideology and her journey as she detransitioned back into a woman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Helena Kerschner, shares her story about being brainwashed and manipulated into transitioning into a man, and the way she saved herself from the radical ideology and her journey as she detransitioned back into a woman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2018, social scientist Lisa Littman published a study on “rapid-onset gender dysphoria.” Preston Sprinkle, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality and Gender, and Helena Kerschner, a former transgender man who is now de-transitioned, discuss this topic and provide practical guidance for parents and teens.

Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) is a psychological term coined by Dr. Lisa Littmann from Brown University in a study published in 2018, and made more popular by the highly publicized book Irreversible Damage by Abigail Schrier. The words RAPID ONSET describes the quickness by which many teenagers today seem to be experiencing GD—teenagers who had no prior history of Gender Dysphoria. It seems that they come out as “trans” or “nonbinary" seemingly out of nowhere; or at least, in ways that were completely unexpected by their parents. This topic is volatile, contested, heated, controversial, and incredibly important. In this episode, I talk to three different moms whose teenage kids experienced ROGD. In a very vulnerable way, they talk about their experiences as parents and how they had to navigate some very complex conversations with their kids. For an overview of ROGD and another testimony of a girl who experienced it, see this talk I gave with Helena Kerschner at the 2021 Q Ideas conference: https://youtu.be/t884B0V8XngTheology in the Raw Conference - In Person or OnlineAt the Theology in the Raw conference, we will be challenged to think like exiles about race, sexuality, gender, critical race theory, hell, transgender identities, climate change, creation care, American politics, and what it means to love your democratic or republican neighbor as yourself. Different viewswill be presented. No question is off limits. No political party will be praised. Everyone will bechallenged to think. And Jesus will be upheld as supreme.Faith, Sexuality, and Gender Conference - Live in Boise or Stream OnlineIn the all-day conference, Dr. Preston Sprinkle dives deep into the theological, relational, and ministry-related questions that come up in the LGBTQ conversation.Support PrestonSupport Preston by going to patreon.comVenmo: @Preston-Sprinkle-1Connect with PrestonTwitter | @PrestonSprinkleInstagram | @preston.sprinkleYoutube | Preston SprinkleTwitter | @RawTheologyInstagram | @TheologyintheRawCheck out Dr. Sprinkle's website prestonsprinkle.comIf you enjoy the podcast, be sure to leave a review.

In 2018, social scientist Lisa Littman published a study on “rapid-onset gender dysphoria.” The study pointed to an increasing trend of adolescent girls suddenly identifying themselves as transgender and seeking treatment, perhaps due to social pressure and media influence. The study was met with controversy and left many debating this new idea. Together, Preston Sprinkle (President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality and Gender) and Helena Kerschner (a former transgender man who is now de-transitioned) discuss this topic and provide practical guidance for parents and teens. Want to engage in more conversations like these? Join us for The Collaborative, an eight-month cohort for Christian leaders. Learn more and register: qideas.org/cohort.