Note: This text was lightly expanded from a piece of submitted written testimony to the United States Senate for a hearing regarding the World Health Organization and its current impacts on American life. The information provided herein is primarily derived from the book The Queering of the American Child by Logan Lancing and James Lindsay.
The World Health Organization is currently developing New Guidelines on the provision of gender-affirming care. This should concern every parent and grandparent in America.
The reason for concern is that those guidelines are not based in “any stable reality,” to quote relevant scholars, but in an academic doctrine called Queer Theory. Queer Theory is not a genuine academic theory of the world. It is the doctrine of a cult religion that seeks to initiate and capture American children in particular.
Queer Theory seeks to give our children “queer identities,” like various “gender identities” and “sexual identities”—generally, “queer identities”—and it then seeks to affirm these to lock them into a child’s psyche. The process, in their own words, quoting the Queer Educator Kevin Kumashiro, in a 2002 paper titled “Against Repetition,” meant to induce a crisis in the child and then make sure the teachers “structure experiences that can help them work through their crises productively” on the terms set by Queer Theory. To quote Kumashiro directly,
Repeating what is already learned can be comforting and therefore desirable; students’ learning things that question their knowledge and identities can be emotionally upsetting. For example, suppose students think society is meritocratic but learn that it is racist, or think that they themselves are not contributing to homophobia but learn that in fact they are. In such situations, students learn that the ways they think and act are not only limited but also oppressive. Learning about oppression and about the ways they often unknowingly comply with oppression can lead students to feel paralyzed with anger, sadness, anxiety, and guilt; it can lead to a form of emotional crisis. (p. 74)
Once in a crisis, a student can go in many directions, some that may lead to anti-oppressive change, others that may lead to more entrenched resistance. Therefore, educators have a responsibility not only to draw students into a possible crisis, but also to structure experiences that can help them work through their crises productively. (pp. 74–75)
This process, in this context, is what they call “gender-affirming care,” which is advocated by the WHO. In Mao’s China, it was called sīxiǎng gǎizào (思想改造), which means “ideological transformation” or “ideological remolding,” or, more bluntly, xǐnǎo (洗腦), which means “brainwashing.” It is no coincidence how often the cult of Queer Theory talks about the transformation of individuals, institutions, and society.
Crucially, however, “queer identities” are not identities at all. That is, they are not essential identities, like sex is an essential identity intrinsic to one’s person and that cannot be changed. They’re not part of the person themselves; they’re a political stance. David Halperin, who defined the word “queer” for Queer Theory in his 1995 book Saint Foucault, writes this, “Queer identity need not be grounded in any positive truth or in any stable reality. As the very word implies, ‘queer’ does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant” (p. 62).
Halperin also takes pains to point out that “queer” has virtually nothing to do with what he terms “gay identities.” Those, he insists, are rooted in “homosexual object-choice,” a stable, if not essential, human reality. With “queer identities,” by contrast, “There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers.” He continues, “It is an identity without an essence” (p. 62).
Queer identities that are “affirmed” in our children by “gender-affirming care” are revolutionary political identities that are, by definition, framed as whatever is at odds with the normal and legitimate. They are not based in any positive truth or stable reality. They are the result of putting children into a destabilizing crisis and then affirming them into a destructive politicized sense of self. They are made seemingly concrete in our children through a Maoist process of ideological remolding into an oppositional, defiant new mold.
We therefore don’t need to wait to hear what the implementation guidelines and “evidence-based standards” will entail from the WHO. The WHO has already told us that their objective is to affirm a person’s “gender identity,” which is a political article of the Queer Theory cult, not a genuine essential identity of a human being.
The World Health Organization says that the forthcoming guidance aims to “increase access and utilization” of “gender-affirming care.” So, they have already given the game away: they support the ideological remolding of our children into a destabilizing cult political identity through initiation by means of induced identity crises and confirmation through “affirmation.” Those familiar with cult psychology would recognize this process not as one of “affirmation” but as textbook trauma bonding.
The WHO’s goal is increasing “gender-affirming care” access, not evaluating whether “gender affirming care” might actually cause tremendous harm to many of those that receive it. Deliberately detaching children and their developing senses of self from “any stable reality” and “any positive truth” is guaranteed to cause tremendous harm to the vast majority of those subjected to it.
This is a monumental scandal because Queer Theory explicitly targets children. It does so because children are vulnerable and still forming their core identities as well as their ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. Queer Theory offers confused or struggling kids a promise of making them whole—of solving any confusion or pain they may have while treating them like the center of the universe to manipulate them socially and emotionally. The WHO surely knows this, and it either doesn’t care or seeks to take advantage of it. The American public deserves to be protected from this monstrous program, not subjected to it.
Queer Theory intentionally places children into an identity crisis—into “gender dysphoria,” as it is now called—so those children can be convinced to live “queerly.” It isn’t about empathy for homosexuals; it’s about “alternate modes of ‘embodied kinship’” and discovering “queer aspects” of oneself through identity crisis. The WHO recommends medical professionals worldwide affirm this destructive practice. According to the academic literature, all kids are “queer,” they just don’t know it yet. The WHO wants doctors to help them realize it.
Kids are learning all of this in their schools, which, taken with guidance from organizations like the WHO, sets up a school-to-medicalization pipeline that destroys the minds and bodies of our nation’s youth. What is happening here isn’t a civil rights movement. It’s the greatest child abuse scandal in the history of the world, and it’s being perpetrated by precisely the institutions who should be working to protect children from it. If the WHO is set on going this direction, the United States of America should be equally set on taking no further direction or recommendation from the WHO.
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That video James was in from another YouTuber I have to disagree with him since the woke left and Islam have not formed a alliance and the woke left hate all religions including Islam Because that’s how Marxism works. And the woke left plant to do the same to Muslims what they do to Christmas and Jews but won’t openly admit it.
I’ve never heard of this AC Grayling person so looked him up — EGADS!
“Anthony Grayling was a Fellow of the World Economic Forum for several years, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world.”
A WEFian, an Islam pusher (mainlining Saudi corruption money no doubt), and possessor of the weirdest hairstyle this side of Divine from Pink Flamingos (what is the deal with his hair!).
Yet another egghead rich-pig know-it-all uppity scumbag. Are they being hatched in mad scientist laboratories? Where are those aliens to take me away from this insane planet?!?
“…heuristically trivial…”
There are many paths through the forests of life, trivial and profound (often both at the same time if you’re lucky).
“But if you study the logistics
And heuristics of the mystics
You will find that their minds rarely move in a line
So it’s much more realistic
To abandon such ballistics
And resign to be trapped on a leaf in the vine”
Brian Eno 1977 “Backwater”
from “Before And After Science” album
My comment just disappeared into the ether.
Fuck this
Spent half an hour writing the goddamned thing and I won’t try to reconstruct it.
Brutalism is the “art” and “architecture” admired and advocated by totalitarian troglodytes. It is the sociopath’s and psychopath’s presumed entitlement to brutalize, subjugate, and enslave all expressed in concrete.
“A House To Die In
[Queer and super-rich Norwegian] artist Bjarne Melgaard’s design ‘concept’ for his own [uber-brutalist Oslo studio and] residence is a dystopian take on the self-built dream home, ‘a house to commit suicide in, a house to die inside, a house for not living’.”
Is the Western world even a thing any more?
I hope you are kidding now! All Bjarne Melgaard is doing is stroking his ego and abusing paper when he is drunk or using drugs!
Everything is not art just because someone is saying that it is!
Of course I was kidding. (Sarcasm detection skills have disappeared from the universe I see.)
Bjarne Melgaard is the biggest fraud since Marina Abramovic and Damien Hirst! All are indeed “artists”: Con Artists — so is every “artist” for the last 40 years (see UK’s putrescent Turner Prize winners since 1980 or anything in any art gallery anywhere).
As someone who attended art college in the 1970s and still makes art as a private hobby 50 years later, I can attest to the truth that ART DIED decades ago. Art no longer exists; but like everything else today, the concept of art was stolen and is now worn as a skin suit as part of a status commodity luxury goods marketplace of decadent rubbish for corrupt and vile elites. Rich progressive “people” love to show off their sneering chic to peers by spending $millions on literal garbage (they can even purchase tins of an “artist’s” literal feces — look it up).
Art was the canary in the coal mine: Western civilization is DEAD. And it is never coming back.
@sociologist,
Marcuse was no intellectually honest intellectual, and he was certainly no economist. I suggest you read a lot less Marcuse and a lot more Ludwig von Mises and George Reisman for a sound education in economics. And try to rewrite your comments in order to make them more intelligible.
Queer Theory is the Diarrhea of Totalitarianism.
And the Pharma/Medical/Corporate/Ideological Complex’s Child Transing is Queer Theory’s soiled toilet paper.
Humanity must flush Trans Inc’s globalist putrefaction down the sociocultural-political toilet once and for all. Stop Child Transing NOW!
The Western world demands that the UN/WHO release comprehensive current and historical statistics on medical/pharma Child Transing in the 57 Islamic UN member countries, all sub-Saharan African member countries, China, and amongst all world Indigenous peoples for consideration before any Western country will respond to their edict.
“New Study: Trans Youth Not At Elevated Risk Of Suicide”
[underlying/untreated mental illness is the cause of “trans” youth suicidality NOT “transness” which masks/ignores causal mental illness for Queered political ends]
unherd.com Feb 19, 2024
“All-cause and suicide mortalities among adolescents and young adults who contacted specialised gender identity services in Finland in 1996–2019: a register study”
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1 Jan 2024
It is clear to me that the fundamental goal of queer theory is to make a schizophrenic way of thinking and behaving the norm in society, and cancel/imprison anyone who disagrees with queer schizophrenics who insist that not only are they, in fact, the opposite sex of the one that they were born, or that they are neuter (non-binary), but also that the furniture, walls, etc. are, in fact, talking to them.
When madmen rule sanity becomes the disease.
If you don’t mind I would like to view your sources for this piece. Specifically the source for this reference, “According to the academic literature, all kids are “queer,” they just don’t know it yet. The WHO wants doctors to help them realize it.”
Thanks.
“In 1991, Eve Sedgwick published an essay that may be said to have initiated contemporary queer theory’s consideration of childhood as a site of heteronormative intervention… [I] suggest that a queer methodological approach to child development and education can more generally disrupt teleologically constructed narratives of growth that require a developmental sequence which culminates in normalcy… Applying queer methods of analysis to studies of childhood can help to queer the rhetoric of innocence that constrains all children and help to refuse attempts to calculate the child’s future before it has the opportunity to explore desire… Strengthening a conceptual relation between ‘queer’ and ‘childhood’ can help to cultivate a culture of critique concerning the interruptive force of heteronormativity on the child’s development…”
“Queer futurity and childhood innocence: Beyond the injury of development”
Hannah Dyer
Oct 2016
journals.sagepub.com/
More people need to actually read the arguments coming from this cabal of twisted sophists. “Explore desire”? How about a rationalization for child rape? Intervene in a child’s sexual awakening by raping him or grooming him to passively cooperate with sexual abuse. That’s how we should treat our children–scare and bully them into submitting to pederasty.
Jump into the middle of a kid’s adolescent confusion and coerce him into buggery. Once it was judged as “paranoid” when anyone observed that “the homos are trying to turn everyone queer.” Here is the blueprint, one iteration of the actual method of attacking heterosexuality. Coerce a minor into homosex then convince him it’s right and “natural” and that heterosexuality is “oppressive” so one is justified in destroying “heterosexual normativity.”
What a brutal outlook–cynical, destructive, intended to generate chaos and confusion.
“The leaders of the trans cult that occupied [NYC Roman Catholic cathedral] St. Patrick’s [and held a Christianity-mocking funeral for a ‘trans saint’ celebrated as ‘St. Cecilia, the mother of all whores’ *] should be regarded as attempting to establish a political religion, the ideological bases of which find their origins in the thinking of the Marquis de Sade. As the late Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddhin noted in ‘Leftism Revisited’, de Sade believed his politics of pornography would prevail over Christian mores. ** [De Sade’s] philosophy encouraged the elevation of the perverted elements of society determined to destroy all the institutions of the ancien regime…”
“The Jacobins Occupy St. Patrick’s Cathedral”
Fay Voshell Feb 2024
* KJV Revelation 17:5: “And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.”
** [“godfather” of Queer Theory] Michel Foucault “A Preface to Transgression” 1977 (essay):
“Perhaps the importance of sexuality is our culture, the fact that since Sade [sexuality has] persistently been linked to the most profound decisions of our language, derives from nothing else than this correspondence which connects [sexual transgression] to the death of God.”
Queer/Trans vs Christian Church: chicken or egg? It seems that the (anti-Christian) calls were actually coming from inside the (Christian) house. Marx to Pope, come in, over:
Gustavo Gutierrez “A Theology of Liberation History, Politics, and Salvation” 1971. Chapters include: “Theology and Liberation”, “Theology as Critical Reflection on Praxis”, and “From the Critique of Developmentalism to Social Revolution”.
“[Guitierrez’ work] is the credo and seminal text of the movement… later characterized as liberation theology. The book burst upon the scene in the early seventies, and was swiftly acknowledged as a pioneering and prophetic approach to theology which famously [centred] the economically wretched… [and] the oppressed…”
liberationtheology.org
Gutierrez’ Liberation Theology did the same thing for Christianity that Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed did for children’s education and that Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth did for non-white Third World vengeance, Marcuse’s Repressive Tolerance did for university megalomania, Fabian Socialism’s Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing did for upper middle class traitors, and WEFian-Schwabism’s ESG did for corporate corruption: REVOLUTIONIZED them.
Instead of a chaotic mob of ignorant masses, the church, the children, the non-white poor, the academics, the upper middle classes and the corporate leaders would themselves become the New Proletariat, the ultimate weapon against any oppositional “bourgeoisie” to ensure The Party’s 1000-year reign of Utopian socialism. Quite a feat.
ps. for the definitive book on the history and impact of Socialism see “Leftism From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse” 1974 by Erik von Kuehnelt Leddihn. (free downloadable copy from far-left website Wikipedia’s entry on E. von Keuehnelt-L)
Thank you that was most helpful.
As I am in the beginning stages of fighting this content in my schools and district (I am a public 5th grade teacher), articles and the content at New Discourses has been invaluable. It provides a clear explanation of the problems I see, and it brilliantly uses the words of the original theorists to help understand the sinister purposes behind all this crap. I am really appreciative of all the work done by Lindsay and those who work with him.
Good luck!
Once you submit a lesson plan rejecting queer theory and/or Friere’s praxis, let us know when and how you get fired.