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On 17 Mar 2026, Tim Longshine <noemailisfine@hyy.com> posted some news:XnsB41299BBE560A1000000@62.164.182.25:

"Therapist Exposes the �Pathological� Mentality Behind the Transgender Mutilation Pipeline"

<https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/17/therapist-exposes-pathological-
mentality-behind-transgender-mutilation-pipeline/>

"Portrait of Tyler O'Neil
Tyler O'Neil
@Tyler2ONeil
Tyler O'Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of
two books: "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty
Law Center," and "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government."

Transgender surgeries and cross-sex hormones represent downstream
effects of a basic failure in therapy that sets patients up for
long-term harm, warns a former trauma clinician who now crafts policy
to protect people from these experimental �treatments.�

Therapists who try to treat people with gender dysphoria�the painful
and persistent identification with the gender opposite one�s
biological sex�often recommend patients undergo medical interventions
to make a man appear female or vice versa. This represents a lack of
hope, Dr. Jennifer Bauwens told The Daily Signal.

The decision to �medicalize� a patient, rather than trying to treat underlying psychological trauma, traces back to a therapist�s lack of
faith in his or her own abilities.

The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Donate
now

�If you really have hope that your method could change [the underlying issues], you�d keep it in your clinical space, but the fact that there
isn�t a lot of hope for seeing these people change who are struggling
with this distress, it�s like we have to outsource it to other ways of handling it,� argued Bauwens, director of American values at America
First Policy Institute.

�I was trained to think that if I don�t have hope for a client, that�s
time for a referral,� the former clinician explained.

�Goals of therapy should be, first and foremost, let�s reduce the
distress that people are feeling over their bodies,� Bauwens argued.
�It should not be, �Let�s transform their bodies to look like
something else.� We need to be about helping people to form their
identity in what their biological sex is.�

�We don�t need people to become somebody else�that�s actually
pathological,� she added.

An Ideological Echo Chamber
The medical industry has started to move against �gender-affirming
care,� but the psychotherapy profession is likely to lag, Bauwens
warned.

The Department of Health and Human Services has concluded that there
is little evidence for positive impacts from transgender medical interventions on minors, but it found many documented harms.

A jury recently awarded a detransitioner $2 million, finding that the medical professionals who carried out sex-rejecting procedures on her
were liable for medical malpractice.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons released a statement
recommending against transgender surgery for minors under 19, leading
other medical associations to follow suit.

Even so, Bauwens expressed skepticism that therapy will follow this
trend.

�When I went for tenure track positions, one of the things that I was
told was that we want you to take your students out and do protests,�
she recalled. While most of the protests at that time centered on the
Black Lives Matter narrative after the August 2014 shooting of Michael
Brown, her experience revealed the activist bias in these schools.

She warned that many programs act �like a sort of think tank�if you
will�for some of the Democratic policies that are being pushed.�

A 2012 survey found that liberals outnumber conservatives in
psychology by a ratio of 14-to-1. Studies in 2019 and 2021 found a
similar overall bias. According to OpenSecrets, health professionals contributed $35.3 million to Democrat Kamala Harris and only $11.5
million to Republican Donald Trump in the 2024 election cycle. The
three top contributors gave 100% of their donations to Democrats and left-wing groups.

Bauwens noted the profession�s political slant, saying, �that gives
you an idea of the research that�s coming out of the field, and what
the worldview is that drives it, and also the practice and the
training.�

She argued that the profession �needs to be reformed.�

Some of it needs to be taken out and hung.

�It needs to be dealt with, so that people can actually get help in
their time of crisis and not be led astray,� Bauwens said.

Combating �Social Transition�
Last week, Bauwens released model legislation to protect children from �social transition,� the process of using female pronouns for a boy
who identifies as a girl and treating him as a girl�or vice versa.

Psychiatrist Dr. Stephen B. Levine has argued that social transition
�is a powerful psychotherapeutic intervention that radically changes outcomes,� making patients far more likely to take �puberty blockers,� cross-sex hormones, or full genital surgeries.

Bauwens cites research showing that without this intervention, 65% to
94% of minors who suffer from gender dysphoria will ultimately grow to resolve their discomfort with their sex.

Her draft legislation would designate social transition �a
psychological intervention that lacks empirical evidence demonstrating effectiveness or safety as a treatment for gender dysphoria and has
been documented to cause psychological and physical harm.�

The legislation would forbid adopting names or pronouns inconsistent
with a minor�s sex; permitting access to sex-segregated spaces of the opposite sex; modifying school records or identification documents to contradict a minor�s sex; and providing resources to encourage a
transgender identity.

In part by forbidding social transition, Bauwens aims to empower
therapists to actually help patients resolve gender dysphoria, rather
than encouraging them to go under the knife, altering their bodies to resolve what really is a mental struggle.

Giving therapists hope that they can resolve these problems for
patients would go a long way toward a larger goal, she argued.

�We need to make therapy great again,� Bauwens said"

We need to make woke permanently dark.
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On 2026-03-19 4:36 p.m., sps wrote:

On 17 Mar 2026, Tim Longshine <noemailisfine@hyy.com> posted some news:XnsB41299BBE560A1000000@62.164.182.25:

"Therapist Exposes the ‘Pathological’ Mentality Behind the Transgender >> Mutilation Pipeline"

<https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/17/therapist-exposes-pathological-
mentality-behind-transgender-mutilation-pipeline/>

"Portrait of Tyler O'Neil
Tyler O'Neil
@Tyler2ONeil
Tyler O'Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of
two books: "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty
Law Center," and "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the
Federal Government."

Transgender surgeries and cross-sex hormones represent downstream
effects of a basic failure in therapy that sets patients up for
long-term harm, warns a former trauma clinician who now crafts policy
to protect people from these experimental “treatments.”

Therapists who try to treat people with gender dysphoria—the painful
and persistent identification with the gender opposite one’s
biological sex—often recommend patients undergo medical interventions
to make a man appear female or vice versa. This represents a lack of
hope, Dr. Jennifer Bauwens told The Daily Signal.

The decision to “medicalize” a patient, rather than trying to treat
underlying psychological trauma, traces back to a therapist’s lack of
faith in his or her own abilities.

The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Donate
now

“If you really have hope that your method could change [the underlying
issues], you’d keep it in your clinical space, but the fact that there
isn’t a lot of hope for seeing these people change who are struggling
with this distress, it’s like we have to outsource it to other ways of
handling it,” argued Bauwens, director of American values at America
First Policy Institute.

“I was trained to think that if I don’t have hope for a client, that’s >> time for a referral,” the former clinician explained.

“Goals of therapy should be, first and foremost, let’s reduce the
distress that people are feeling over their bodies,” Bauwens argued.
“It should not be, ‘Let’s transform their bodies to look like
something else.’ We need to be about helping people to form their
identity in what their biological sex is.”

“We don’t need people to become somebody else—that’s actually
pathological,” she added.

An Ideological Echo Chamber
The medical industry has started to move against “gender-affirming
care,” but the psychotherapy profession is likely to lag, Bauwens
warned.

The Department of Health and Human Services has concluded that there
is little evidence for positive impacts from transgender medical
interventions on minors, but it found many documented harms.

A jury recently awarded a detransitioner $2 million, finding that the
medical professionals who carried out sex-rejecting procedures on her
were liable for medical malpractice.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons released a statement
recommending against transgender surgery for minors under 19, leading
other medical associations to follow suit.

Even so, Bauwens expressed skepticism that therapy will follow this
trend.

“When I went for tenure track positions, one of the things that I was
told was that we want you to take your students out and do protests,”
she recalled. While most of the protests at that time centered on the
Black Lives Matter narrative after the August 2014 shooting of Michael
Brown, her experience revealed the activist bias in these schools.

She warned that many programs act “like a sort of think tank—if you
will—for some of the Democratic policies that are being pushed.”

A 2012 survey found that liberals outnumber conservatives in
psychology by a ratio of 14-to-1. Studies in 2019 and 2021 found a
similar overall bias. According to OpenSecrets, health professionals
contributed $35.3 million to Democrat Kamala Harris and only $11.5
million to Republican Donald Trump in the 2024 election cycle. The
three top contributors gave 100% of their donations to Democrats and
left-wing groups.

Bauwens noted the profession’s political slant, saying, “that gives
you an idea of the research that’s coming out of the field, and what
the worldview is that drives it, and also the practice and the
training.”

She argued that the profession “needs to be reformed.”

Some of it needs to be taken out and hung.

“It needs to be dealt with, so that people can actually get help in
their time of crisis and not be led astray,” Bauwens said.

Combating ‘Social Transition’
Last week, Bauwens released model legislation to protect children from
“social transition,” the process of using female pronouns for a boy
who identifies as a girl and treating him as a girl—or vice versa.

Psychiatrist Dr. Stephen B. Levine has argued that social transition
“is a powerful psychotherapeutic intervention that radically changes
outcomes,” making patients far more likely to take “puberty blockers,” >> cross-sex hormones, or full genital surgeries.

Bauwens cites research showing that without this intervention, 65% to
94% of minors who suffer from gender dysphoria will ultimately grow to
resolve their discomfort with their sex.

Her draft legislation would designate social transition “a
psychological intervention that lacks empirical evidence demonstrating
effectiveness or safety as a treatment for gender dysphoria and has
been documented to cause psychological and physical harm.”

The legislation would forbid adopting names or pronouns inconsistent
with a minor’s sex; permitting access to sex-segregated spaces of the
opposite sex; modifying school records or identification documents to
contradict a minor’s sex; and providing resources to encourage a
transgender identity.

In part by forbidding social transition, Bauwens aims to empower
therapists to actually help patients resolve gender dysphoria, rather
than encouraging them to go under the knife, altering their bodies to
resolve what really is a mental struggle.

Giving therapists hope that they can resolve these problems for
patients would go a long way toward a larger goal, she argued.

“We need to make therapy great again,” Bauwens said"

We need to make woke permanently dark.

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White Christian Pedophilia in Red State MAGA America

It's the right of all Christian Nationalists to sleep with children. They did in the Bible.

Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators � and allowed them to keep abusing children

NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in
the world�s largest Pentecostal denomination.

Oct. 30, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
By Mike Hixenbaugh and Elizabeth Chuck

This article is part of �Pastors and Prey,� a series investigating sex
abuse allegations in the Assemblies of God.

A children�s pastor was caught filming girls in a church bathroom in
Arkansas. Elders suspended him for a few weeks.

In Illinois, a preacher was accused of sexually abusing children. Church leaders sent him to therapy rather than call police.

In California, a worship minister went to prison for molesting boys. His congregation threw him a party when he returned.

All of these men remained in ministry in the Assemblies of God, the world�s largest Pentecostal denomination. All went on to abuse more children.

Since the 1970s, Assemblies of God churches have repeatedly reinstated ministers and volunteer leaders accused of sexual misconduct, returning
them to pulpits and youth groups, an NBC News investigation found. While
some of the other largest Christian denominations now require safeguards
such as background checks and mandatory reporting, national Assemblies of
God leaders have resisted, arguing such rules would increase legal risk, undermine its commitment to local church autonomy and defy a core biblical command: to forgive.

The result is a patchwork system that has protected accused predators and
left generations of children in danger.

NBC News identified nearly 200 Assemblies of God pastors, church employees
and volunteer leaders accused of sexual abuse over the past half century, based on a nationwide search of lawsuits, criminal records and news
archives. Together, they allegedly abused more than 475 people � the overwhelming majority of them children. The allegations stretch into this year, when a 10-year-old girl said in a lawsuit that her pastor groped her during Bible study.

Add NBC News to Google

How Assemblies of God churches allegedly shielded predators as they abused children
04:47

Survivors say they were violated in sanctuaries, at pastors� homes and in tents on camping trips. A California preacher was accused of holding knives
to children�s chests while forcing them to perform sex acts on each other.
In Louisiana, a youth leader confessed to drugging and assaulting three
boys during a sleepover. A couple in New Mexico say their pastor used his spiritual authority to drive them apart, then coerced the wife into sex.

Of the alleged abusers, 123 were ministers, and nearly half of those were youth pastors. Others were church employees, youth group leaders or Sunday school teachers. Dozens were accused of luring boys through the Royal
Rangers, a Pentecostal version of the Boy Scouts.

In about 30 instances, church leaders placed alleged abusers into positions
of authority after they had been accused, freeing them to strike again. Convicted sex offenders led youth groups. Accused ministers were reinstated
or quietly moved to new congregations. As a result, according to lawsuits
and police records, dozens more children were abused.

In nearly 40 other cases, leaders allegedly covered up or dismissed reports
of misconduct � often by failing to alert police or pressuring victims to
stay quiet. Melody Meza recalled a leader in her congregation praying for lying, demonic spirits to leave her after she reported abuse by a church elder.

�They made me feel like something was wrong with me and not the person
abusing me,� said Meza, one of nearly 20 people suing an Assemblies of God church in California accused of concealing decades of abuse.

Others said preachers twisted scripture to silence them. �Touch not the
Lord�s anointed,� pastors warned, citing a verse from Psalms that some interpret as a command to never question spiritual leaders.

Courtney Blackburn said she wishes her church�s former leaders had looked
to another passage, one in which Jesus commanded followers to protect children. When she reported misconduct by her youth pastor in Arkansas, she said, they left him in place. He went on to sexually assault two children, criminal records show.
Courtney Blackburn on her property outside Paragould, Ark.,
"We trusted the church to do the right thing," Courtney Blackburn said. Now she's calling on the Assemblies of God to make child safety policies
mandatory across the denomination.Houston Cofield for NBC News

�They preach every single day about following the Bible,� Blackburn said.
�So why aren�t they?�

NBC News has spent the past year investigating sex abuse in the Assemblies
of God. In May, reporters revealed that church officials let children�s
pastor Joe Campbell keep preaching for years despite repeated allegations.
In August, NBC News uncovered how an Assemblies of God college ministry funneled hundreds of students to the home of Daniel Savala, a sex offender some pastors hailed as �the holiest man alive.� In both cases, leaders dismissed warnings, allowing the abuse to continue.

Other denominations have faced reckonings and made changes. After
journalists exposed the Catholic Church�s practice of shuffling abusive priests between parishes, leaders adopted sweeping child safety rules in
2002, including mandatory reporting and zero tolerance for sexual
misconduct. In 2019, after a newspaper investigation found widespread abuse
in the Southern Baptist Convention, that denomination made it easier to
expel churches that shield abusers.
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Trump Sex Trafficking: The 'Pathological' Mentality Behind the MAGA
Christian Pedophila Pipeline

It's the right of all Christian Nationalists to sleep with children. They did in the Bible.

Assemblies of God churches shielded accused predators � and allowed them to keep abusing children

NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in
the world�s largest Pentecostal denomination.

Oct. 30, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
By Mike Hixenbaugh and Elizabeth Chuck

This article is part of �Pastors and Prey,� a series investigating sex
abuse allegations in the Assemblies of God.

A children�s pastor was caught filming girls in a church bathroom in
Arkansas. Elders suspended him for a few weeks.

In Illinois, a preacher was accused of sexually abusing children. Church leaders sent him to therapy rather than call police.

In California, a worship minister went to prison for molesting boys. His congregation threw him a party when he returned.

All of these men remained in ministry in the Assemblies of God, the world�s largest Pentecostal denomination. All went on to abuse more children.

Since the 1970s, Assemblies of God churches have repeatedly reinstated ministers and volunteer leaders accused of sexual misconduct, returning
them to pulpits and youth groups, an NBC News investigation found. While
some of the other largest Christian denominations now require safeguards
such as background checks and mandatory reporting, national Assemblies of
God leaders have resisted, arguing such rules would increase legal risk, undermine its commitment to local church autonomy and defy a core biblical command: to forgive.

The result is a patchwork system that has protected accused predators and
left generations of children in danger.

NBC News identified nearly 200 Assemblies of God pastors, church employees
and volunteer leaders accused of sexual abuse over the past half century, based on a nationwide search of lawsuits, criminal records and news
archives. Together, they allegedly abused more than 475 people � the overwhelming majority of them children. The allegations stretch into this year, when a 10-year-old girl said in a lawsuit that her pastor groped her during Bible study.

Add NBC News to Google

How Assemblies of God churches allegedly shielded predators as they abused children
04:47

Survivors say they were violated in sanctuaries, at pastors� homes and in tents on camping trips. A California preacher was accused of holding knives
to children�s chests while forcing them to perform sex acts on each other.
In Louisiana, a youth leader confessed to drugging and assaulting three
boys during a sleepover. A couple in New Mexico say their pastor used his spiritual authority to drive them apart, then coerced the wife into sex.

Of the alleged abusers, 123 were ministers, and nearly half of those were youth pastors. Others were church employees, youth group leaders or Sunday school teachers. Dozens were accused of luring boys through the Royal
Rangers, a Pentecostal version of the Boy Scouts.

In about 30 instances, church leaders placed alleged abusers into positions
of authority after they had been accused, freeing them to strike again. Convicted sex offenders led youth groups. Accused ministers were reinstated
or quietly moved to new congregations. As a result, according to lawsuits
and police records, dozens more children were abused.

In nearly 40 other cases, leaders allegedly covered up or dismissed reports
of misconduct � often by failing to alert police or pressuring victims to
stay quiet. Melody Meza recalled a leader in her congregation praying for lying, demonic spirits to leave her after she reported abuse by a church elder.

�They made me feel like something was wrong with me and not the person
abusing me,� said Meza, one of nearly 20 people suing an Assemblies of God church in California accused of concealing decades of abuse.

Others said preachers twisted scripture to silence them. �Touch not the
Lord�s anointed,� pastors warned, citing a verse from Psalms that some interpret as a command to never question spiritual leaders.

Courtney Blackburn said she wishes her church�s former leaders had looked
to another passage, one in which Jesus commanded followers to protect children. When she reported misconduct by her youth pastor in Arkansas, she said, they left him in place. He went on to sexually assault two children, criminal records show.
Courtney Blackburn on her property outside Paragould, Ark.,
"We trusted the church to do the right thing," Courtney Blackburn said. Now she's calling on the Assemblies of God to make child safety policies
mandatory across the denomination.Houston Cofield for NBC News

�They preach every single day about following the Bible,� Blackburn said.
�So why aren�t they?�

NBC News has spent the past year investigating sex abuse in the Assemblies
of God. In May, reporters revealed that church officials let children�s
pastor Joe Campbell keep preaching for years despite repeated allegations.
In August, NBC News uncovered how an Assemblies of God college ministry funneled hundreds of students to the home of Daniel Savala, a sex offender some pastors hailed as �the holiest man alive.� In both cases, leaders dismissed warnings, allowing the abuse to continue.

Other denominations have faced reckonings and made changes. After
journalists exposed the Catholic Church�s practice of shuffling abusive priests between parishes, leaders adopted sweeping child safety rules in
2002, including mandatory reporting and zero tolerance for sexual
misconduct. In 2019, after a newspaper investigation found widespread abuse
in the Southern Baptist Convention, that denomination made it easier to
expel churches that shield abusers.
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