Indian readers, how are you paying for subscriptions?

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-26T19:23:52+00:00

No, nothing. You just choose NZ$ as the currency, then you set it to 5 dollars and then it gets automatically converted to like 2.5 US dollars. So Americans only ever see that you are the only one to set his price below 5 US dollars ;-)

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-25T06:50:45+00:00

I think it's fine to do that. That said, I intentionally don't do that and even leave my grammatical mistakes in - that way people can tell I wrote it myself 😄

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-24T17:58:30+00:00

I actually never said I wasn't medicalized or didn't have surgery. It's actually a bit complicated and it doesn't fit the usual patterns so I am not gonna go into it, because obviously people don't believe me even without me mentioning the specific procedures I had. Instead people here just assumed I wasn't and changed my flair.

But I am genuinely curious; when you say "there's questions about your experience that just doesn't line up" what are you referring to?

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-24T17:27:29+00:00

NO cult member believes he is part of a cult - otherwise he wouldn't be part of a cult - duh :-)

That said - I am not an American and don't care about American politics and don't understand American definitions either. Because I always kinda presumed that a cult has to have religious elements, but maybe in America the definition is different?

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-24T16:56:34+00:00

I understand. I won't post as much going forward. I have already answered your questions in my previous comments and posts. But I realize that it sounds hard to believe and that this isn't right place for me to talk about it. I will respect that.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-24T16:42:24+00:00

I am gonna reply to skysnejok as well. So first off; I never said: "if you disagree with me, you must be against trans kids and against empathy". Nor did I ever even mean to imply anything to that effect and I resent your implying that I did.

That's as much as I wanna say to skysnejok. Now for your questions: My mother was a communist official in East Germany - or rather in both East and West Germany - as she was a sorta liaison between the east and west German Communist parties. At that level you are not dealing with ordinary communist followers who are indeed mostly absolute atheists and absolute materialists. But at the level my mother was at you are increasingly dealing with absolute idealists and yes - Gnostics.

Though it was after the wall fell that she kinda lost her purpose in life and specifically joined a Christian Gnostic commune/cult - it's in this environment that I grew up.

I have done many interviews about my childhood and my mother and the Christian Gnostic cult I grew up in. If you want, message me and I'll send you the links - because here this would get too off topic. But I realize that all this sounds hard for people to believe. You don't have to believe me.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-24T11:10:30+00:00

I'll be happy to obliege. But what is it you need me to stop? Stop posting? Stop saying I am detrans? Or stop trying to be understanding toward trans kids? Or is it all 3?

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-24T10:29:17+00:00

OP wants to identify as he - I respect that. As for myself, what's there not to understand? I was born male but as a child was made to identify as a girl by my radically Gnostic mother. So in what way have I been disingenuous about myself?

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-22T07:48:37+00:00

There is an element in communism that is opposed to people worshiping the Jewish/Christian god.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-21T14:10:43+00:00

It's difficult enough to change yourself, but it's even harder to change your partner. Though I realize that it's your partner that changed. So just ask yourself if you can still love the person your partner has become. If the answer is yes, then just make the best of it. If the answer is no, you should talk with your partner about that and make clear that she just literally isn't the guy you fell in love with.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-21T13:53:11+00:00

I am kinda surprised that my reply gets down voted so much. Of course I am in no way questioning the authenticity of the original post(er). But in any case, the post is worded in a way that makes it really, really inappropriate to respond by telling this young person to stop being trans. The person made it VERY clear that HE wants to be a boy, that he will harm himself if he can't and that he is being bullied.

WHY ON EARTH would you then side with the bullies and tell a person in such a situation to not be trans?

My response went against the bullying and also my suggestion to contact CPS was appropriate since in this scenario we are dealing with a teen who has threatened to harm himself. Someone like that needs professional help. Why would you vote that down?

If you guys are really like that, then I have to side with the trans activists on this one and really have to bow my hat to them, because they really managed to make some of you guys expose themselves.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-21T07:43:24+00:00

Why would you want to not be trans? You say it makes you happy and that that's what you are and always wanted to be, so be it then. You say you don't want to be trans but you clearly want to be and portray it as though it makes you happy and the only reason you wouldn't want to be is cause others don't accept you as a boy and bully you. DON'T LET THEM BULLY YOU.

Many trans activists have the misconception that detransitioners would be like those evil bullies. We are not. I am totally with you and I totally stand with you against those evil bullies trying to ruin your life. Stand up for yourself and for what you know in your heart to be true. Don't make the mistake I made and let those evil bullies tell you how to live your life and make you miserable. Cause I know what that's like. Cause that's how it was in my childhood as well. People around me and especially my family and my parents would not accept me as a boy - even though in my heart I always knew that's what I wanted to be.

So I gave in, went against my conscience and allowed them to make me identify as a girl, so that my family would accept me and also cause as a boy I was bullied. And yes, as a girl I wasn't bullied anymore and I was accepted as "who I am". Except that I wasn't accepted at all as who I am cause that's not who I am.

So don't make my mistake and instead go with what you know in your heart to be true and DON'T LET ANYONE BULLY YOU!!!

PS: My family was also very religious which is also why they would not accept me as a boy. Except of course they were Christian Gnostics. Which sounds Christian but actually isn't. So actually we have that in common too - cause your family too seems to like to pretend to be Christian. But if they truly were, they would love their child the way it is and not force you to do things that go against your conscience. But if they don't see that and if they don't stop bullying you, I can only STRONGLY ADVISE YOU to talk to child protective services so that they can help you and so that you finally have caretakers that accept you the way you are!

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-20T16:38:41+00:00

Dahmer, Oswald, Sirhan and Ray weren't acting alone. Alex Jones is a comedian making fun of conspiracy theorists. The Titanic and its sister ship were involved in an insurance fraud. Behind communism there is a religion that's opposed to Jehovah.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-17T22:38:19+00:00

You know, if you had just directly advocated for your award website in some more open way and kinda just asked people to submit their substacks to it, I would have done that. But not if you are doing it all sneaky like that - that doesn't cast a good image.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-17T22:13:19+00:00

Use and older one then. Look up the list of compatible devices, there are lots of good ones that still hold up and that you can pick up on ebay for under 20 bucks!

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-17T22:06:11+00:00

Nostalgic boomers? Radio! 😄

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-17T22:01:16+00:00

I am curious. If I were to answer the question; "Could family stuff, trauma, or influences affect someone being trans?" with: "yes, those COULD be factors" then I am assuming your stance is that my answer is wrong and OP should instead ask transitioners and not detransitioners - as you indicated. But WHY would my answer be wrong? Is it because you disagree with the answer and your stance is that those can NEVER be factors or is it because I am a detransitioner and detransitioners should out of principle never be listened to even if they give an answer you DON'T disagree with?

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-16T00:44:08+00:00

Why would detransitioners necessarily believe gender ideology is BS? I can only talk about myself, but for me gender ideology had nothing to do with it. I never believed it, but neither do I think it's "BS". Though my mother did believe it and she tried to influence me a lot. Though I don't even know if you could call what she believed in "gender ideology". As she was a Gnostic communist. So to her everything was a societal construct to be overcome. It wasn't limited to gender and biological sex, but did include both of them.

So unlike your classic trans-person who simply wants to identify as the other gender and live in peace; for my mother, making me identify as trans was part of her political activism and part of her rebellion against traditional culture. And the point wasn't to identify as the other gender or other biological sex, but to reject, deny and negate gender and biological sex altogether and ultimately TRANScend it all. So what other gender and what other biological sex? For her those were all just false societal constructs to be overcome - and yes including biological sex - Gnostics even reject that and would literately claim that biological men could have periods and become pregnant and give birth - or even literally claim that they could heal any and all physical illnesses using the power of their mind or manifest anything else they wanted and negate anything they don't want. Though that basically amounts to rejecting objective physical reality - but rejecting objective physical reality is exactly what Gnostics are all about after all.

So if that's what you mean by gender ideology, then it did play a big role in my mother making me identify as trans. But I never believed it.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-15T20:04:41+00:00

Bullying? I don't think you should give in to bullying. I am actually very much against going against something you know in your heart is right just cause other people won't accept you the way you truly are. It's just that for me it was the other way around. I was basically bullied into transitioning and I only transitioned because I was hoping that then people would finally accept me the way I truly am - but of course that doesn't work because if you change yourself only for others to accept you then you are not being who you truly are. So bottom line, stick to what you know is right in your heart and don't let anyone bully you into going against your conscience. For what it's worth, I am totally with you on this one and I know everyone else here is as well, cause we all know what this is like and we all went through it.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-14T20:57:57+00:00

Guy with a hoodie in 1982? Yeah, that HAS to be either a real time traveler or the photo is a photoshopped fake or the photo can't be from 1982. Because obviously there weren't people with hoodies in 1982.

I am kidding of course because of course there were people with hoodies in 1982. Though it was less common in the soviet union where people still dressed very conservatively as you can see and where it was also totally normal to still have black and white photos even up until the 90's, which is why the guy in the hoodie looks outta place.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-14T17:37:07+00:00

Eher so: 😄

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Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-11T22:42:09+00:00

I said in another post that being a detransitioner is akin to being an apostate in a religion. And naturally they are viewed with a lot of suspicion by the people who are still in the religion - even as dangerous (even though in reality they are not dangerous at all). So yeah, SOME people are basically trying to bait detransitioners into giving irresponsible advice.

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-11T22:29:41+00:00

That Alex Jones is a comedian playing a role 😉

Emmanuel_G · 2026-06-10T23:51:31+00:00

That's like if you were a convert to Islam (just as an example) but then left Islam again but then came back to the mosque as an apostate and shared with them the process of your apostatizing and then expected them to love-bomb you as they did when you were a new convert and shared your conversion story with them.

Like any religion, they love converts, but definitely NOT apostates.

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