Illinois State U. Student Paper Puts Trigger Warning on Story About Event Featuring Detransitioner
“transgender discrimination”
If you need a warning to hear about someone who detransitioned, are you really ready for college?
The College Fix reports:
ISU student paper calls detransitioner ‘anti-trans activist’; gives trigger warning for ‘transgender discrimination’
The Illinois State University student paper recently reported on an ISU Young America’s Foundation/College Republicans event featuring Chloe Cole, a “detransitioner” who speaks out against so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.
For that, The Vidette Editor-in-Chief Vivi Hughes referred to Cole as an “anti-trans activist,” and included a “content warning” at the top of her article regarding “transgender discrimination” and “explicit language.”
The College Republicans said the event’s purpose was to “remind our liberal university that transgenderism is a dangerous ideology, especially for children.”
According to her testimony before the Kansas Legislature, Cole began the process of “transitioning” to male between the ages of 12-16, which included taking puberty blockers and testosterone by age 13, and undergoing a double mastectomy at 15.
Cole said she “suffered a multitude of complications from the blockers, cross sex hormones,
and surgery” including “severe hot flashes,” “itching all over [her] body,” “joint pains and shooting pains in [her] spine,” and “severe uterine cramps.”In her talk at ISU, Cole said her doctors — “misguided” by transgender ideology — “attempted to change me to a boy when I was a child because I was a tomboy who was disinterested in feminine things and disliked the more uncomfortable parts of puberty, much like any teenage girl.”
Cole also warned of the influence social media has on young girls which can “lead them to believe they were meant to be men.” She said at age 12 when she decided to become a man, “the transgender community celebrated her transition.”
When Cole decided to “detransition” however, she said she was “met with insult and harassment” and “told that my transition regret was all my fault.”
On that point, the ISU Young Democratic Socialists of America held what Hughes called a “peaceful counterprotest” during Cole’s appearance.
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“The Vidette Editor-in-Chief Vivi Hughes referred to Cole as an “anti-trans activist,”
That’s like calling a Holocaust survivor an “anti-German activist.”
Well put! Blaming the victim is stock in trade for abusers and their apologists. However, it’s not going over as well as they would like nowadays, and there are signs that this newest generation may be in the process of casting off the collective insanity that has been foisted on them by the radicalized education system. The propaganda will persist, but the gullible market is shrinking, so we can expect the shrieking to intensify as they desperately clutch whatever shreds of their insanity still remain.