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Joe Burgo

@jburgo55

Psychotherapist, supervisor, expert witness and writer. #gaynotqueer. realityslaststand.com/p/psychoanalyt…

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Please realize: Gender dysphoria is a junk diagnosis based on the faulty premise of an innate “gender identity.” It was created by sexologists and fetishists to normalize child transsexuals and commit insurance fraud. Myself and other mental health professionals have critiqued

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Excellent. Why awkward shame-ridden white boys, reared within a misandrist culture, sometimes "identify out" of being male. pittparents.com/p/that-could-b…

Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you do not allow yourself to be kept in touch with the world by the gravity of objective truth, you will end up being as light as a feather in the winds of popular opinion, social pressire, and intellectual fads.

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How are you to build resilience in a world where "pain relief" is the expected goal of every intervention, and "bad" feelings are viewed as an enemy to be vanquished?

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I'm in a foul mood this evening, for perfectly understandable reasons, and I'd like to say this: a major sign of emotional maturity is knowing at times like this that what you're feeling has nothing to do with all those INCREDIBLY IRRITATING THINGS people around you keep doing!

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I'm teaching Melanie Klein's Envy and Gratitude in class this week. One of her great insights is how spoiling the envied object embodies a defensive effort to alleviate the pain of envy.

Helen Rogers (@conviction19c) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Helen Saxby Helen Joyce “Quite apart from the harms, everyone knows humans can’t change sex, and that the differences between male and female are real and consequential. If a media outlet is determined to keep lying about something so obvious, why trust anything it says?”

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If you've been following Andy's work over the years like me, you will know what a big deal this is, and such a richly deserved acknowledgment of a man who put his life at risk to cover events the mainstream media refused to acknowledge. Go Andy!

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The NYT fails to understand that gender non-conforming gays & lesbians in the West ALSO feel pressure to conform, even if homosexuality is legal here. Distinguishing supposedly "true trans" from shame-ridden gays and lesbians is bogus. nytimes.com/2025/10/10/wor…

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I read through all the comments on this podcast, something I almost never do; I wanted to see if anyone else felt about it as I did -- surprised and annoyed by the disability rights language and by the minimization of the extreme suffering caused by social/emotional deficits that

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When did every house cleaner start folding back the corners of the last exposed toilet paper sheet and why do they do it?