WHAT TRANS ‘SUPPORT’ REALLY MEANS
‘IHAVE been looking for a binder, but I have no clue where to get one?” a gender-confused adolescent asked on TrevorSpace, the anonymous online forum for LGBT youth the well-funded and influential Trevor Project hosts.
An adult user replied with a list of brands that sell binders, which are devices worn under the clothes to conceal female breasts.
This is the startling scene Rachel, a Brooklyn mom with a gender-dysphoric child, discovered when she went undercover as a preteen in the chat, searching for resources for detransitioners. She found none.
Instead, she opened a “Pandora’s box” of sexually perverse content, aggressive gender-reassignment referrals, adults encouraging minors to hide their transitions from their parents and many troubled kids in need of psychological counseling.
Rachel looked to the Trevor Project in desperation “when I thought my child was going to kill herself.” The group claims LGBT youth are more than four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers.
Under the advice of a “highly credentialed” medical and mental-health team, Rachel and her husband decided to socially transition their child a few years ago. After that, her child was hospitalized three times for self-harm and suicidality, including at least one suicide attempt. In New York, due to a ban on trans-questioning psychotherapy, so-called gender affirmation was the only legal option they could pursue, she said.
They were at their wit’s end, until her spouse presented her statistics that people who transition are, by a huge factor, much more likely than the general public to commit suicide. “My jaw hit the floor. I said, ‘Oh my God, we’ve been lied to,’” she says.
Since then, Rachel, a lifelong Democrat and feminist, has been dedicated to exposing the child gender-transition craze, which she argues is driven by “predatory medicine” the government incentivizes.
In TrevorSpace, she got a bird’s-eye view of the progressive nonprofit giant claiming to save young lives but really driving them further into existential rabbit holes, depravity and potential danger.
When people sign up for TrevorSpace, they have the option of placing themselves within the age ranges of “under 18” or “18-25.” The community is open to people 13-24, according to the site. There is no system in place to confirm a person’s age.
The kids Rachel followed on TrevorSpace spanned a diverse spectrum of gender disorientation, some confident in their belief that they are the opposite sex and some just gender curious. But they were all pointed in one direction: gender transition. In many cases, adults gave minors this validation.
“I still feel more masc and more fem on days, but it doesn’t matter what I’m feeling I will always prefer to be a girl,” one youth wrote. “Does that make me trans or am I still genderfluid? Help I don’t know.”
An adult replied: “If I had to guess based on your post, I’d say it sounds pretty trans.”
The Trevor Project has subforums on “Fashion and beauty,” “Dysphoria” and “Gender queer, non-binary, and gender fluid,” but none on detransitioning or desistance — the common phenomenon of children “growing out of ” their transgender identity as they age. One adult posted a message touting previous invasive medical interventions, noting a willingness to pursue nullification surgery, which involves removing all external genitalia from the abdomen to the groin for the purpose of appearing nonbinary. Rachel dove into an abyss of concerning sexual conversation. An adult male wrote, “So I woke up this morning with a huge urge to masturbate, even though I knew I couldn’t, and it would hurt me if I did, I went and did it anyway. And it felt awful, the sensations I felt, the kind of orgasm I had, it was all male, and it just completely shattered my womanhood and served as a cruel reminder of the female sensations I can’t hope to feel because of the male body I was born in.”
Users under 18 spoke with adults about their sexual preferences, including BDSM and polyamory. A user over 18 asked: “What’s the weirdest sexual thing you know?”
People responded with “gokkun” — the act of drinking multiple male ejaculations from a container; “bukkake” — the fetish of being covered with ejaculate; “scat play” — deriving sexual gratification from fantasies involving feces; and “forniphilia” — a form of bondage in which a person’s body is incorporated into furniture for sexual acts.
Alix Aharon, anti-pornography campaigner and creator of Gender Mapper, which tracks gender clinics across the country, was alarmed that the project allows contact between kids and adult strangers.
“There should never be a situation in which a young girl is talking to a man.” said Aharon, who is on the board of the radical feminist Women’s Liberation Front.
Many messages showed users attempting to connect privately. The Trevor Project did not respond to request for comment.
Blinded by its mission to affirm transgender-identifying youth, the Trevor Project ignores the underlying issues turning kids, especially girls, to its offerings, Aharon said. For girls, “we call it the trifecta: eating disorder, mental illness and early exposure to porn.”
The Trevor Project has also infiltrated classrooms nationwide. Steadily, it has increased its involvement in K-12 education, boasting that it has trained more than 20,000 educators “to create safe spaces in schools.”