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How The 'Trans Kids' Were Invented

How The 'Trans Kids' Were Invented

Reading the 2019 book that explained it all

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Matt Osborne
Aug 13, 2025
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Jazz Jennings has lost weight with Ozempic but he's still not right
Jazz Jennings is visibly shorter and heavier than all of his siblings. He is also objectively less accomplished and will likely never form a romantic attachment. But he does clean up nice for photo shoots to keep the ‘trans kids’ looking happy

Brunskell-Evans, Heather and Moore, Michele. Inventing Transgender Children and Young People. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.


“Transgender and LGBT organisations such as Allsorts, Mermaids, Stonewall, the Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES) and Gendered Intelligence in the UK are not child and youth support groups in any non-partisan sense, but activist organisations at the forefront of shaping public policy and government legislation,” Stephanie Davies-Arai charged in 2019. “The denial of biological sex is not a hidden ideological agenda” in the transgender ‘rights’ lobby, which has no resemblance to a ‘marginalized community’.

“They are heavily funded by government departments and lottery grants, and collectively they advise and provide training for the police, the Home Office, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Prison and Probation Service, along with the Department of Education, and the National Health Service, including its Gender Development Identity Service (GIDS).” All of this policy capture was leveraged against the children of Britain.

Reading in the rear-view mirror, the perverse policing of the current-day United Kingdom — two-tier justice, with social media speech investigated and punished while rape gang investigations languish — seems inevitable. Government by the most-offended is a bad system of power-distribution. Fear of trespassing the new speech and behavior codes of the activists has demolished safeguards and led to harm, as well as enormous damage awards in UK employment tribunals.

With ‘queer theory for kids’ effectively installed as official ‘education’ throughout the length and breadth of society, the demographics of transgender identification suddenly flipped. “Since children have been taught that every human being has an innate gender identity and it is this identity which defines the person as male or female, the boy/girl ratio has reversed, and girls now make up over 70% of referrals to the Tavistock clinic,” Davies-Arai notes. This ought to have been a clue in 2019 that something was wrong, a huge red flag, but instead the world was subject to an even greater intensity of activist gaslighting.


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