{"id":188678,"date":"2019-05-22T05:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T05:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188678"},"modified":"2019-05-24T07:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T07:20:09","slug":"expert-psychologist-banned-from-twitter-over-controversial-statement-on-gender-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188678","title":{"rendered":"Expert Psychologist Banned From Twitter Over Controversial Statement on Gender Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Activist Mommy \u2013 May 18, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For all their hollow declarations that they are \u201cpro-science\u201d, the left continually demonstrates that they only accept \u201cscience\u201d that affirms their own radical science-defying ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is never truer when applied to the increasingly fascistic and dominant \u201cgender ideology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If you are a college professor and would like to lose your job, your tenure, your credibility, and even your access to social media, go ahead and present your clinical findings that contradict social justice warrior talking points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ray Blanchard, the groundbreaking psychologist who helped craft the diagnostic and treatment procedures for clinicians dealing with transgenderism, was blocked on Twitter this weekend when a handful of his tweets on the issue were flagged for \u201chateful conduct\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is how Twitter and Facebook both have been silencing any ideas that challenge the left-wing narrative, a fact we know all too intimately here at Activist Mommy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Any facts that challenge the leftist narrative are deemed \u201chateful\u201d and you\u2019ll find yourself punished on social media for WrongThink before you even know what hit you.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My beliefs include the following 6 elements: (1) Transsexualism and milder forms of gender dysphoria are types of mental disorder, which may leave the individual with average or even above-average functioning in unrelated areas of life.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ray Blanchard (@BlanchardPhD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlanchardPhD\/status\/1127286054858502152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While there are many people who would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/parenting\/2016\/08\/21\/real-life-victims-of-the-transgender-cult\/\">beg to differ<\/a><\/strong><\/span> with Blanchard\u2019s conclusion that sex change surgery is the best treatment for some patients, the fact that Blanchard simply doesn\u2019t happen to think the mutilation and removal of perfectly functioning organs is the best treatment for all patients is sheer anathema to the LGBT mafia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What really set these tyrants off was Blanchard\u2019s declaration that surgery and other aggressive treatments of gender dysphoria should not be used on children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">You\u2019d think that, in a civilized society, most sensible people would see that there\u2019s nothing at all controversial about warning against life-altering surgery and hormone treatment for children, but alas, welcome to 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sadly, the left abandoned logic in favor of twisted gender ideology long ago, now we have governments testing such treatments on<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/testosterone-being-given-to-8-y-o-girls-age-lowered-from-13-doctors.html\">8-year-old children<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/teen-transgender-celebrity-to-undergo-surgery-on-same-day-the-supreme-court-legalized-gay-marriage\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>teen trans activists<\/strong><\/span><\/a> being <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/trans-activists-went-after-this-womans-husband-her-kids-even-her-ex-for-opposing-transgenderism\/\">surgically castrated<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5841333\/#__sec4title\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Studies indicate<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that, if allowed to experience normal puberty, around 80 percent of children who suffer from gender dysphoria typically revert back to their actual gender, making Blanchard\u2019s statements nowhere near as radical as people seem to think.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(2) Sex change surgery is still the best treatment for carefully screened, adult patients, whose gender dysphoria has proven resistant to other forms of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ray Blanchard (@BlanchardPhD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlanchardPhD\/status\/1127286299638095872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cGender dysphoria is not a sexual orientation, but it is virtually always preceded or accompanied by an atypical sexual orientation \u2013 in males, either homosexuality (sexual arousal by members of one\u2019s own biological sex) \u2026 or autogynephilia (sexual arousal at the thought or image of oneself as a female),\u201d Blanchard continued in his thorough Twitter thread. \u201cThere are two main types of gender dysphoria in males, one associated with homosexuality and one associated with autogynephilia. Traditionally, the great bulk of female-to-male transsexuals has been homosexual in erotic object choice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And then, Blanchard committed the ultimate thought crime: he stated that, while he supports reasonable legal accommodations for transgender individuals (such as changing their listed sex on their driver\u2019s license), such individuals should be excluded from areas where their biological gender gives them an unfair advantage:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(6) The sex of a postoperative transsexual should be analogous to a legal fiction. This legal fiction would apply to some things (e.g., sex designation on a driver\u2019s license) but not to others (entering a sports competition as one\u2019s adopted sex).<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ray Blanchard (@BlanchardPhD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlanchardPhD\/status\/1127287093661765633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That last tweet may have been what pushed the leftist hordes over the edge. Shortly thereafter, Blanchard was banned from Twitter:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/HJJoyceEcon\/status\/1127476326603079680<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Thankfully, this injustice did not go unnoticed and many Twitter users expressed their outrage that Blanchard\u2019s unbiased, factual statements were considered \u201chate speech\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cGender dysphoria is in the DSM-5. Despite endless rumor-mongering and misinformation to the contrary, it *is* considered a mental disorder. Maybe it shouldn\u2019t be! But it\u2019s beyond insane to suspend someone for expressing an opinion which lines up with the DSM,\u201d tweeted <em>New York Magazine<\/em> contributor Jesse Singal. \u201cI have less and less faith that, as a journalist who often writes about science, I will be able to continue using Twitter without getting punished for communicating scientifically accurate information (sic).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cAnyway, this is part of a larger problem of a complete meltdown, in elite progressive spaces, of the ability to accurately convey science on stories having to do with social justice. Journalism, academia, social media \u2014 same story everywhere. It\u2019s a slow-motion disaster,\u201d Singal added.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4\/This is how you get the most important outlet in the world running an extremely misleading column on testosterone, the ACLU arguing women can compete w\/and beat men in competitive sports. etc.<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;re approaching a Soviet\/fundamentalist\/take your pick level of science denialism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SJ6ia3NvLe\">pic.twitter.com\/SJ6ia3NvLe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jessesingal\/status\/1127606430520029185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In response to the uproar, Twitter reexamined its actions and restored Blanchard\u2019s account, issuing this apology:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twitter has unlocked my account and graciously apologized for their error. My sincere thanks to the people who expressed their concern during the past 24 hours. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fblijhdi5k\">pic.twitter.com\/fblijhdi5k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ray Blanchard (@BlanchardPhD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlanchardPhD\/status\/1127744928694587392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is what they always do. Shadowban and censor and see just how much fascism they can get away with. When they get busted out, it\u2019s always \u201coops! We\u2019re sorry\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yeah, right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We have to keep standing up to the tech giants and standing up to the fascists on the left who want to censor the troubling truth about gender confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Don\u2019t ever let your voice be silenced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/activistmommy.com\/expert-psychologist-banned-from-twitter-over-controversial-statement-on-gender-identity\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest example of how tech giants are clamping down on the free exchange of ideas on the pretext of fighting \u201chate speech\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":170486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188680,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188678\/revisions\/188680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}