Jack Molay
1 min readSep 18, 2021

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1. There is no gender ideology.

2. Transitioning normally leads to a significant reduction in psychological distress. The rate of regret is between 0% and 4% according to science.

3. Experts on transgender conditions agree that the reason trans people suffer from more emotional trauma than cis people is transphobia, and not the gender incongruence in itself.

4. If American slaves or Japanese prisoners had lower suicide rates than trans people today, it is most likely because the ones close to them, family and friends, did not invalidate their identity. They gave them support.

5. To the extent gay and lesbian people report less distress it is because they have increasingly been accepted by people in general. It is the social exclusion and the harassment that cause the trauma.

6. Gender identity is indeed assigned at birth. The doctors and midwives have no way of knowing what kind of gender identity the kid will have when older.

7. It is people like you who give us a 41% suicide rate.

8. Stop lying!

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Jack Molay

Writer and news curator looking at everything transgender, nonbinary and queer.