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Lucy Leader's avatar

Far from being helpful to confused and delusional young people, groups like this are actively engaged in spreading as much harm as possible. I wrote about this in relation to anorexia and other mental health issues here: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/sticks-and-stone-can-break-my-bones

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Yvonne van Dongen's avatar

Thank you. Yes, I was concerned that anyone reading the msm story about Vanessa and her messaging on these groups might think she was communicating with super caring individuals, but the reality is more complicated and sinister than that.

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Lucy Leader's avatar

I think that it was a great disservice to these delusional and confused people when any gender doubts (which of course are all mental fantasies) were removed from the DSM.

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Yvonne van Dongen's avatar

Completely agree. That was a helluva of swift political power move with devastating consequences. It was an attempt to normalise this mental illness and fetish and silence dissenters. The knack in these censorious times is to not give a damn and tell the truth anyway.

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