{"id":100988,"date":"2026-02-22T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=100988"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:54:42","slug":"the-trans-cult-attracted-many-mentally-ill-people-offering-instant-visibility-attention-and-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/the-trans-cult-attracted-many-mentally-ill-people-offering-instant-visibility-attention-and-status\/","title":{"rendered":"“[T]he trans cult … attracted many mentally ill people [offering] instant visibility, attention, and status”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the visible-to-cheapskates portion of his Weekly Dish<\/em> post, Andrew Sullivan<\/a> tries to point out how the Democrats can salvage something from their decade-long, all-in approach to all things trans (warning, contains Andrew Sullivan):<\/p>\n

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I had dinner this week with a young gay man who was castrated and had his endocrine system permanently wrecked as a result of “gender-affirming care” for minors. He was super girly as a kid and had an undiagnosed testosterone deficiency which delayed his male development. He liked playing with girls, seemed to act like one, and when he socially transitioned as a teen, he passed easily. Suddenly all the sneers of “faggot” he’d endured as a boy went away. In today’s “gender-affirming care” environment, that was enough.<\/p>\n

“Compassion” and “science” took a gay boy, flooded his young male body with estrogen, and removed his genitals \u2014 because the docs and the shrinks determined he was too effeminate to be a “real man”. Only when he personally figured this out as an adult and got himself off estrogen and onto testosterone did everything change. He felt energy and mental clarity for the first time. And his life as a man could finally begin \u2014 although his body will never be fully repaired.<\/p>\n

Readers keep telling me to shut up about this topic (I can hear your groans now). I’m obsessed, you say, and this is a trivial (boring) matter. I’ve lost some good friends who feel very much that way, and my social life has shrunk. But then I meet someone like Mike (a pseudonym) \u2014 and I’ve met many others, gay and lesbian \u2014 and realize not a single gay group or resource is on his side. In fact, the “LGBTQIA+” lobby all but denies he exists, or dismisses him as transphobic \u2014 a dreaded “detransitioner”.<\/p>\n

I was thinking about Mike as I read the latest polling<\/a> \u2014 out this week in a liberal online mag, The Argument<\/em>. The poll shows what we well know: 63 percent<\/a> of Americans want to protect trans people from discrimination. This isn’t a transphobic country. But, equally, 62 percent oppose transing minors<\/em> (50 percent strongly<\/em>), 60 percent support banning transwomen competing against women in sports, and 53 percent want to ban gender ideology in elementary schools. These numbers have gone up the more the debate has raged. The backlash is so intense it has even reversed the public’s previous opposition to bathroom bills.<\/p>\n

Now check out the liberal response. Bluesky erupted in fury that the poll was published at all. “Please help us,” one X member tweeted<\/a> with direct appeals to Tim Cook and McKenzie Scott, who have bankrolled this campaign. Jill Filipovic complained<\/a> that the “Dems … should have focused on things like ending discrimination in housing and employment”, rather than sports and kids, unaware that the Bostock<\/em> decision already did that with employment. Most liberals have literally no idea that trans people already have civil rights. Off-message.<\/p>\n

In this air-tight ideological bubble, where Bostock<\/em> is unknown, the Dems flounder. “This isn’t happening” was the first gambit. Good try. Then: “this has all been ginned up by the far right, and Dems did nothing”. Did they miss the Obama and Biden Title IX diktats<\/em><\/a>, Admiral Levine’s removal of lower age limits<\/a> for transing kids, Biden’s “nonbinary” official Sam Brinton stealing dresses<\/a>, or other embarrassments like the White House invite to Dylan Mulvaney<\/a>? Then they say it’s a tiny issue. But it helped Trump massively in 2024. And if it’s tiny, why not compromise? After that, it’s just MLK-envy all the way down, the desire to be the next Rosa Parks. But it’s odd to campaign for “civil rights” when you already have them<\/em>.<\/p>\n

After trying to debate, you come to realize it’s pointless. The woke mind is not really a mind; it’s more like a bunch of synapses. Presented with an actual argument, they snap shut. This is part of what Eric Kaufmann calls the “sacralization<\/a>” of minorities. For the woke, the “oppressed” are sacred. And in the social justice hierarchy, no minority is as oppressed and thereby as sacred as trans.<\/p>\n

And so what sacred trans people say they want \u2014 or rather, what a tiny group of trans activists say they want \u2014 is all that matters<\/em>. Anything else is illegitimate or “hate”. And any opponent is a bigot. Try arguing your way out of that dogmatic thicket. It’s like trying to disprove the Holy Trinity. I’ve given up.<\/p>\n

But the real world keeps intervening. We just saw a ground-breaking lawsuit<\/a> that won a $2 million judgment for a double mastectomy at 15. And this month saw two awful mass shootings by mentally unwell men caught up in the trans craze. Between Tumbler Ridge, Canada<\/a>, and a Rhode Island hockey match<\/a>, 12 people are now dead, including 6 children. And this is no longer a shock. Ask yourself what the 2023 Nashville Covenant School shooting<\/a>, the 2025 Annunciation Catholic Church shooting<\/a>, and even the 2024 attempted assassination<\/a> of Trump, have in common.<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s categorically wrong to link trans people to mass killings. That’s false and dangerous. But you’d be dumb not to worry that the trans cult of the last decade may have attracted many mentally ill people into a space where they have instant visibility, attention, and status. We have set up an open-ended subjective category \u2014 anyone who says they’re trans is trans, period \u2014 almost designed to attract delusional narcissists, and, with every safeguard thrown away, there’s no way to distinguish the nutters from the genuinely in need. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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