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This information needs to circulate more, as it thoroughly debunks any idea that the meteoric rise in "trans" young people is in any way organic or spontaneous. It's being created -- by profiteers

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I've tried to raise the alarm at the K-12 level about new surveys rolling out to kids that ask lots of questions about gender identity. In the name of diversity, inclusion, and equity.

These surveys are carried out on a Google platform, at schools that use Google Classroom. It's not paranoid speculation that Google collects individual data on kids through Google Classroom-- they settled a lawsuit with the state of New Mexico *conceding* that they did.

even if you are 100% on side with gender ideology, do you want Google to know how your child identifies? So they can squirrel that information away for marketing purposes? Have it on hand in case the government asks for it as part of one or another citizen surveillance program?

Every time I raised this -- school board meetings, letters to school board, letters to newspaper: crickets. Like I am a crazy person, and probably a bigot to boot. On this matter, however, it's not even necessary to agree on gender ideology's premises. One would just have to agree that having Google hoovering up this amount of data linked to identifiable children is no bueno.

Nope. No one cares. If you attach it to "EDI" it has to be benevolent and good, gosh golly.

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Are you familiar with woman from the Philly (USA) area who has a website call Wrench in the Gears? see https://wrenchinthegears.com/

I am new to her material but as I begin to dig further on the trans insanity I am increasingly convinced electronic records (both educational and medical) are key to the orchestrators in charge of the madness. She has done a recent multi episode podcast with another woman regarding this datamining venture and tech futures in TX where they claim they have collected the most data on students. Tons of tech outfits are lining up to partake in the windfall with zero regard for what this is really about and what it does to children. They get the same responses when they reach out to legislators. No one cares. It is like it is a done deal before anyone began to understand what what was happening. My next piece will begin to unwind some of this. It is like the gender clinics. It happened before many knew it was happening.

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No I had not! Wow! Looking forward to your next piece!

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Thanks. Being stuck in the Outerverse of Australia has its upside as we are forced to develop a wider view. It’s common knowledge here that those in the US write as though their country is the centre of the world, which it has been in terms of power though not looking so powerful now. Australians however are noticeable perhaps for our inferiority complex and brashness, most likely from our convict and colonising history.

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Thank you. I like your connections made to the Flexner report’s professionalisation strategy that cemented in allopathic medicine in the US. But your article was confusing to this non-US reader, jumping around using terms and concepts I’m unfamiliar with. I will re-read as some of your ideas are useful to my critique of the Yogyakarta principles and the Denton’s political strategy document.

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Thank you for the criticism. Most readers hail from a history of being in the gender critical movement in the US. Expanding readership is key so I will keep this in mind moving forward.

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Fortunately teens find these surveys/crud amusing

" in a 2003 study, 19 percent of teens who claimed to be adopted actually weren't, according to follow-up interviews with their parents. When you excluded these kids (who also gave extreme responses on other items), the study no longer found a significant difference between adopted children and those who weren't on behaviors like drug use, drinking and skipping school. The paper had to be retracted. In yet another survey, fully 99 percent of 253 students who claimed to use an artificial limb were just kidding."

41% of "transgender teens" claim to be 7 feet tall or.extremely short, and part of a criminal gang.

As these questions arise in a fantasy universe, so do the reaponses.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235637789_An_Exploratory_Study_about_Inaccuracy_and_Invalidity_in_Adolescent_Self-Report_Surveys

No researcher can use these reports for any reason because it only takes a tiny handful of problems to show a particular response cannot be true.

You do have to like teens a bit after all, it's a big middle finger to the enterprise of junk science.

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