While words feel woefully insufficient here, I am grateful for your courage and dedication. It can never be enough, but our household is glad that at least we are able to give direct donations toward your critically important work.
While, as an ROGD mother, my words don't draw much traction (they just assume I hate my daughter because I don't want her to reject her body, deny reality and, most importantly, harm her health with unnecessary chemicals and surgeries), your words touch so many. I have heard a few of your speeches and they mean so much. They are clear, concise and touching - and, most of all, TRUE. I will keep my fingers crossed that you aren't physically attacked, and that Corinna, whose words also pierce through the insanity of gender ideology, is not attacked again. Please know that, no matter who is or isn't in the room with you, you are never alone because so many people who may not be present are with you in spirit, cheering you on. Thank you so much.
I thank you for your bravery and doing the right thing despite a mountain of resistance and hate.
I know all too well the ramifications of being a public speaker. I am currently home bound due to my circumstances. It’s not fair. It’s not right. But at least I’m safe for now.
I cannot be that person that says nothing in light of the absolute devastation I see in just the Reddit /Detrans forum. We have over 56k members. Many of these members are new and got “transed” as kids. It truly breaks my heart to hear their stories of regret. I feel their pain intimately as a detransitioner.
Given all that, I can’t in good conscience stay silent. I have been tasked to shepherd and help these very broken girls just as fast as possible. For me, there is nothing more important.
So for me, while the cost of speaking out is very high, the cost of not speaking out is even higher.
I am pretty sure it is more than 56K on detrans reddit. There is a disclaimer on the site that reddit stopped tracking the numbers at least 1.5 years ago (if I remember correctly). At that time the number was 54K and growing about 1,000 a month.
Well done Jamie. I listened to your recent testimony and found it very powerful. It's hard to see why Democrats aren't moved by such evidence. Maybe they are moved but they risk deselection if they admit it.
Thank you as always for your bravery, Jamie. That of both your words and your physical presence. This lifetime lefty woman and mom continues to be grateful for you.
Jamie, I give thanks for your wisdom, your voice, and your personal sacrifices and I pray for your short and long term safety. When TRA say falsehoods over and over again, they don’t magically become truths, even when AAP and WPATH endorse them. “This is a medical catastrophe; not a circus”!!!! It is slipping towards a cultural catastrophe of denying truth. For such a time as this, you are here to speak Truth. Thank you.
But then I wonder if it isn’t truth, but trust, that’s at the root of this, and truth is the forbidden fruit. It feels like we’ve been severed from each other into separate epistemic universes due to a lack of mutual trust and understanding.
Wow. Kudos to you and Cori Cohn, Jamie Reed! Thank you for crossing the country to speak up for girls and women, at great cost to yourself and at great risk of assault.
I got a taste of what you're going through when testifying against males in my own swimming locker room after a registered sex offender hung out there, so to speak -- allowed in because of their trans-inclusive policy, which they still refuse to change.
A large group of trans activists took up most of the Arlington County Board room -- by coincidence, I think. I was afraid to walk home in my own town, having read of other attacks on TERFs. They did not follow me, fortunately, but my experience of fear for my own safety gave me even more appreciation for your work.
I am dismayed that Dem lawmakers don’t look at this patently unhinged contingent of TRAs and share your concerns, not only about safety but about whether this ideology and medical pathway helps anyone, treats anything, improves anyone’s life.
Terrible that you have to endure this menacing and threats, just for speaking out for at-risk youth and to the harms of institutionlized medicalization of gender distress. Much respect for your determination, eloquence, and courage.
They have assaulted me, but haven't caused injury. They have yelled idiotic chants that have included my name ("KARA DANSKY, YOU ARE NASTY!"). I thought that was mildly amusing because it doesn't even rhyme. But the only reason I could find it amusing was that I was behind a police barricade and the police were doing their job. I've just been assuming for the past five years or so that one of them is going to kill me. To be honest, I'm surprised that hasn't happened. I have no plans to die any time soon, and I don't particularly want to. I would love to live to be old. But I'm willing to die on this hill if I have to.
Women like you and Jamie Reed are the ultimate bad asses in this fight for reality and sanity. Your supporters are working in the background to get all of their captured friends, family members, government and school officials to snap out of it. TRAs may be many millions of dollars and several years ahead of us, but in the end, lies always crumble under the weight of truth. Thank you for your leadership and continuing to grind this out in the face of so much backlash!
Thank you for staying compasionate towards everyone in the face of threats and intimidation. You are a beacon. And please do all you can to stay safe. You are needed in this and out of it.
While words feel woefully insufficient here, I am grateful for your courage and dedication. It can never be enough, but our household is glad that at least we are able to give direct donations toward your critically important work.
While, as an ROGD mother, my words don't draw much traction (they just assume I hate my daughter because I don't want her to reject her body, deny reality and, most importantly, harm her health with unnecessary chemicals and surgeries), your words touch so many. I have heard a few of your speeches and they mean so much. They are clear, concise and touching - and, most of all, TRUE. I will keep my fingers crossed that you aren't physically attacked, and that Corinna, whose words also pierce through the insanity of gender ideology, is not attacked again. Please know that, no matter who is or isn't in the room with you, you are never alone because so many people who may not be present are with you in spirit, cheering you on. Thank you so much.
I thank you for your bravery and doing the right thing despite a mountain of resistance and hate.
I know all too well the ramifications of being a public speaker. I am currently home bound due to my circumstances. It’s not fair. It’s not right. But at least I’m safe for now.
I cannot be that person that says nothing in light of the absolute devastation I see in just the Reddit /Detrans forum. We have over 56k members. Many of these members are new and got “transed” as kids. It truly breaks my heart to hear their stories of regret. I feel their pain intimately as a detransitioner.
Given all that, I can’t in good conscience stay silent. I have been tasked to shepherd and help these very broken girls just as fast as possible. For me, there is nothing more important.
So for me, while the cost of speaking out is very high, the cost of not speaking out is even higher.
I am pretty sure it is more than 56K on detrans reddit. There is a disclaimer on the site that reddit stopped tracking the numbers at least 1.5 years ago (if I remember correctly). At that time the number was 54K and growing about 1,000 a month.
Oh my goodness, so many detransitioners. And young ones. It truly breaks my heart.
I wonder how much of the threats and screaming are coming from terror—terror that you are speaking truth.
Thank you for all you do.
Well done Jamie. I listened to your recent testimony and found it very powerful. It's hard to see why Democrats aren't moved by such evidence. Maybe they are moved but they risk deselection if they admit it.
Thank you as always for your bravery, Jamie. That of both your words and your physical presence. This lifetime lefty woman and mom continues to be grateful for you.
Jamie, I give thanks for your wisdom, your voice, and your personal sacrifices and I pray for your short and long term safety. When TRA say falsehoods over and over again, they don’t magically become truths, even when AAP and WPATH endorse them. “This is a medical catastrophe; not a circus”!!!! It is slipping towards a cultural catastrophe of denying truth. For such a time as this, you are here to speak Truth. Thank you.
“Truth has become the most radical stance in America.”
Oh, Jamie. You’re right, though I dearly wish you weren’t.
But then I wonder if it isn’t truth, but trust, that’s at the root of this, and truth is the forbidden fruit. It feels like we’ve been severed from each other into separate epistemic universes due to a lack of mutual trust and understanding.
Wow. Touching and compelling, thank you for your strength in the midst of this storm.
Thanks for your bravery. You are an inspiration.
Thank you so much, Jamie! You are a true hero. I bet your kids are super proud of you!
Wow. Kudos to you and Cori Cohn, Jamie Reed! Thank you for crossing the country to speak up for girls and women, at great cost to yourself and at great risk of assault.
I got a taste of what you're going through when testifying against males in my own swimming locker room after a registered sex offender hung out there, so to speak -- allowed in because of their trans-inclusive policy, which they still refuse to change.
A large group of trans activists took up most of the Arlington County Board room -- by coincidence, I think. I was afraid to walk home in my own town, having read of other attacks on TERFs. They did not follow me, fortunately, but my experience of fear for my own safety gave me even more appreciation for your work.
https://strongerwomen.substack.com/p/transgender-man-exposes-himself-in
I am dismayed that Dem lawmakers don’t look at this patently unhinged contingent of TRAs and share your concerns, not only about safety but about whether this ideology and medical pathway helps anyone, treats anything, improves anyone’s life.
Terrible that you have to endure this menacing and threats, just for speaking out for at-risk youth and to the harms of institutionlized medicalization of gender distress. Much respect for your determination, eloquence, and courage.
They have assaulted me, but haven't caused injury. They have yelled idiotic chants that have included my name ("KARA DANSKY, YOU ARE NASTY!"). I thought that was mildly amusing because it doesn't even rhyme. But the only reason I could find it amusing was that I was behind a police barricade and the police were doing their job. I've just been assuming for the past five years or so that one of them is going to kill me. To be honest, I'm surprised that hasn't happened. I have no plans to die any time soon, and I don't particularly want to. I would love to live to be old. But I'm willing to die on this hill if I have to.
Women like you and Jamie Reed are the ultimate bad asses in this fight for reality and sanity. Your supporters are working in the background to get all of their captured friends, family members, government and school officials to snap out of it. TRAs may be many millions of dollars and several years ahead of us, but in the end, lies always crumble under the weight of truth. Thank you for your leadership and continuing to grind this out in the face of so much backlash!
Thank you for staying compasionate towards everyone in the face of threats and intimidation. You are a beacon. And please do all you can to stay safe. You are needed in this and out of it.