WE ALL HAVE
HEARD THE STORIES ~ Of guys meeting an attractive female and later discovering
that she was no female - but a guy in drag, better known today as a
"transgender." Yes, that has happened to me, not in a personal
sense, but in a business connection.
In the 1970s I was Regional Sales Manager for a Boston computer company. I personally sold our computers and managed a network of independent sales companies, i.e., Manufacturers Sales Representatives who contracted to sell products for maybe ten companies whose products were related and compatible.
My Southern California sales rep asked me to meet with a lady prospect connected with a group that was organizing a small computer products trade show in Russia, and she was interested in including my computer product. The three of us met for lunch, he introduced her as Sue, and since this was before I became a Christian, I made a special effort to not use any off-color words or innuendos, i.e., to be on my best behavior.
At that time, the early 1970s, at least on the West coast and I believe in the entire country, computer sales was a male dominated career field. The first female computer sales rep I recall was at Data General. When I left Data General, a female application engineer transferred into sales and took over the territory I was leaving.
This lady, Sue, was the second female I knew who was connected with computer sales. As our lunch was drawing to a close and we were just chatting, I asked her, "With computer sales being so male dominated, in a situation where you are making a sales presentation, what do you do when a man questions your knowledge about the product you are selling?" Without hesitation Sue answered, "I just say, 'Look, the mother-f - - - - r works!' " Taken by surprise, all I could say was, "That works for me."
Fast forward to about 1981, I was Regional Sales Manager for Genisco, a Southern California computer graphics company. My boss, John Fletcher, and I went to a meeting with customers at JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) in Pasadena, In the meeting with John and me were several JPL engineers and a consultant, my friend Sue.
After the meeting a JPL employee was walking John and me to the lobby and asked, "Did you notice anything different about Sue?"
From my first encounter with Sue, I had noticed that she was a blonde lady, as tall as me at 6'3" - and had a very deep voice. But I have met tall females before and I have met women with deep voices before. And I had met women who could swear like a sailor. So I replied, "No, what is different?" He smiled and said, "Sue is a man!" Back then we did not call them transgenders men or women, so to us Sue was just a tall man who dressed and lived like a woman. Bill Gray's first encounter with what became the Transgender Nation.
For about 20 years or more, I have been receiving the Imprimis newsletter publication from Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College has been praised, at least by conservatives, as the perfect college in America, and for several reasons: It is financially independent, not accepting any federal funds - it has a Christian curriculum and social environment - and it is a shining beacon on the hill attracting many very knowledgeable speakers from organizations who set the standards for political, religious, moral, ethical, international, and other fields of importance to Christian America.
Just as I do not read and then dispose of a book, I never discard a copy of the Imprimis newsletter. And recently seeking something to read, I pulled out a stack of older Imprimis newsletters. Two in particular caught me eye, seeming to fit together. They both speak to a problem in America, actually in all the western world, which has become a festering sore all across America.
I am speaking of the Transgender Movement which like a cancer has metastasized across America - especially in our schools - K-12, and most all colleges - drawing our children and young people into its deceptive world.
When I began re-reading the first Imprimis newsletter "Inside The Transgender Empire" - that is when I realized that there is a very high probability that I have rubbed elbows with one of the leading founders of that movement. In the first Imprimis newsletter intro below, second paragraph, you will read, "In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of 'queer theory' and 'transgender studies.'”
And in the next paragraph, "Susan Stryker, a male-to-female transgender professor currently at the University of Arizona, . . . . describing his work as 'a secular sermon that unabashedly advocates embracing a disruptive and refigurative genderqueer or transgender power . . . ."
Hmmm? I am 95% sure that Susan Stryker is the same Sue from my two earlier meetings.
Below is an introduction to the first Imprimis newsletter "Inside The Transgender Empire." I strongly encourage you to read the full newsletter. It is not a long read, but it is a very revealing and important read. Important for everyone who loves our nation, our children, and our legacy to those children.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Inside The Transgender Empire
By Christopher F. Rufo - Author, America's Cultural Revolution
September 2023 | Volume 52, Issue 9
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/inside-the-transgender-empire/
The following is adapted from a talk delivered by Christopher F. Rufo on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on its behalf, and activist health professionals are promoting the mutilation of children under the euphemistic banner of “gender-affirming care.” The sudden and pervasive rise of this movement provokes two questions: Where did it come from? And how has it proved so successful? The story goes deeper than most Americans know.
In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of “queer theory” and “transgender studies.” These academics believed gender to be a “social construct” used to oppress racial and sexual minorities, and they denounced the traditional categories of man and woman as a false binary that was conceived to support the system of “heteronormativity” - i.e., the white, male, heterosexual power structure.
This system, they argued, had to be ruthlessly deconstructed. And the best way to achieve this, they argued further, was to promote transgenderism. If men can become women, and women men, they believed, the natural structure of Creation could be toppled.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Bill, how did the Transgender Movement spread so quickly across America?" Great question, and the answer is MONEY! Yep, good old American money. And if you have ever traveled and spent a night in a Hyatt hotel - YOU have contributed to that movement. Yes, the Hyatt Hotel fortune, at least one person who inherited a portion of that fortune, is responsible for a lot of the chaos we are seeing in America today, especially in colleges, the medical field, and our cities.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Further on in the Imprimis newsletter "Inside The Transgender Empire" we read:
One of these people is Jennifer Pritzker, who was born James Pritzker in 1950. After serving several years in the U.S. Army, Pritzker went into business, having inherited a sizable part of the Hyatt hotel fortune.
In 2013, he announced a male-to-female gender transition and was celebrated in the press as the “first trans billionaire.” Almost immediately, he began donating untold millions to universities, schools, hospitals, and activist organizations to promote queer theory and trans medical experiments.
This money was (also) allied with political power, as Pritzker’s cousin, Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker, signed legislation in 2019, his first year in office, to inject gender theory into the state education curriculum and to direct state Medicaid funds toward transgender surgeries.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Yes, the sitting governor of Illinois - Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker - has been a prime mover in tying Transgender Movement money into his political platform - and bringing misery to an untold number of young children.
How did this work?
First, this combination of well-funded activism and political influence works in practice: Pritzker-funded activists at Lurie Children’s Hospital (the largest children’s hospital in Chicago) provide local schools with training, materials, and personnel who promote gender transitions for children.
Then, Lurie Children’s Hospital, through its outreach presentations in Chicago public schools, encourages teachers and school administrators to support “gender diversity” in their districts, automatically “affirm” students who announce sexual transitions, and “communicate a non-binary understanding of gender” to children in the classroom.
And, in effect, this results in a sophisticated school-to-gender-clinic pipeline. Teachers, counselors, doctors, and activists on social media and elsewhere - many of whom are employed or subsidized by members of the Pritzker family - push children in that direction.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The second Imprimis newsletter "Gender Ideology Run Amok" is just as troubling:
Gender Ideology Run Amok
By Abigail Shrier - Author, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
June/July 2021 | Volume 50, Issue 6/7
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/gender-ideology-run-amok/
The following is adapted from a speech delivered by Abigail Shrier on April 27, 2021, in Franklin, Tennessee, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar.
In 2007, America had one pediatric gender clinic; today there are hundreds. Testosterone is readily available to adolescents from places like Planned Parenthood and Kaiser, often on a first visit - without even a therapist’s note.
How did we get to this point? How is it that we are all supposed to pretend that the only way you can know I’m a woman is if I tell you my pronouns?
How did we get to an America in which a 13-year-old in the State of Washington can begin “gender affirming” therapy without her parents’ consent? How did we get to an America in which a 15-year-old in Oregon can undergo “top surgery” - elective double mastectomy - without her parents’ permission? And what can we do about it? . . . .
Historically, this has been the classic presentation of gender dysphoria. When these children were left alone - when no one intervened medically or encouraged what we today call “social transition” - over 70 percent of them naturally outgrew their gender dysphoria.
Most of those who outgrew it became gay men. Those who did not outgrow it became what used to be known as transsexuals. They did not believe they were women, but they felt most comfortable presenting themselves as females.
Today, however, we don’t leave these children alone. Instead, the moment children seem not to be perfectly feminine or perfectly masculine, we label them as “trans kids.” Teachers encourage them to reintroduce themselves to their classes with new names and new pronouns. . . . .
You may not know the name Keira Bell. She is a young woman in the U.K., very troubled in adolescence, who was rushed to transition in her teen years and came to regret it. She underwent double mastectomy and spent years on testosterone, only to realize that her problem had never been gender dysphoria.
She sued the U.K.’s national gender clinic, and last December, after the High Court of Justice examined her case and the claims of similarly situated plaintiffs, she won.
The Court examined the medical protocols applied to Keira Bell - protocols identical to the ones we have in the United States - and was horrified that a young girl had been allowed to consent to begin a process of eliminating her future fertility and sexual function at an age, 15, when she could not possibly have gauged that loss.
Hailed as a “landmark case” by The Times of London, The Economist, and even The Guardian - Bell’s victory was widely viewed as a serious condemnation of the effort to fast-track teen girls to gender transition. One of the appalling things the Court noted was that the national gender clinic had been unable to show any psychological improvement in the adolescents it had treated with transitioning hormones.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I cannot say exactly where I read the quote, but it has stayed in my mind. I am speaking of a quote from Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels, founders of Marxism and the Communist Party, which implied, "Win the minds of the children and you can conquer a nation without firing a shot."
In other words, take over the National Board of Education (think Federal Board of Education, NEA [National Education Association]). Add to that the newest attack, aka, the medical industry, the Liberal news media, etc., and you can control the nation.
~ Karl Marx, in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, called for the abolition of the (nuclear, aka, traditional) family.
~ Karl Marx realized that the way to completely change (a) society was to destroy the most important civil society institution, the family.
Most importantly, Marx said that communism would ensure that children would be educated by the state and not by their parents. Communists, he wrote in the Manifesto, would “rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.” The making of the “New Man” was the priority, and the family was an obstacle.
Folks, America is in a fight for our traditional families, our children, even our nation. Isn't it time we stopped the destruction of our families and take back the life, health, and souls of our children? Think about it!
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
In the 1970s I was Regional Sales Manager for a Boston computer company. I personally sold our computers and managed a network of independent sales companies, i.e., Manufacturers Sales Representatives who contracted to sell products for maybe ten companies whose products were related and compatible.
My Southern California sales rep asked me to meet with a lady prospect connected with a group that was organizing a small computer products trade show in Russia, and she was interested in including my computer product. The three of us met for lunch, he introduced her as Sue, and since this was before I became a Christian, I made a special effort to not use any off-color words or innuendos, i.e., to be on my best behavior.
At that time, the early 1970s, at least on the West coast and I believe in the entire country, computer sales was a male dominated career field. The first female computer sales rep I recall was at Data General. When I left Data General, a female application engineer transferred into sales and took over the territory I was leaving.
This lady, Sue, was the second female I knew who was connected with computer sales. As our lunch was drawing to a close and we were just chatting, I asked her, "With computer sales being so male dominated, in a situation where you are making a sales presentation, what do you do when a man questions your knowledge about the product you are selling?" Without hesitation Sue answered, "I just say, 'Look, the mother-f - - - - r works!' " Taken by surprise, all I could say was, "That works for me."
Fast forward to about 1981, I was Regional Sales Manager for Genisco, a Southern California computer graphics company. My boss, John Fletcher, and I went to a meeting with customers at JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) in Pasadena, In the meeting with John and me were several JPL engineers and a consultant, my friend Sue.
After the meeting a JPL employee was walking John and me to the lobby and asked, "Did you notice anything different about Sue?"
From my first encounter with Sue, I had noticed that she was a blonde lady, as tall as me at 6'3" - and had a very deep voice. But I have met tall females before and I have met women with deep voices before. And I had met women who could swear like a sailor. So I replied, "No, what is different?" He smiled and said, "Sue is a man!" Back then we did not call them transgenders men or women, so to us Sue was just a tall man who dressed and lived like a woman. Bill Gray's first encounter with what became the Transgender Nation.
For about 20 years or more, I have been receiving the Imprimis newsletter publication from Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College has been praised, at least by conservatives, as the perfect college in America, and for several reasons: It is financially independent, not accepting any federal funds - it has a Christian curriculum and social environment - and it is a shining beacon on the hill attracting many very knowledgeable speakers from organizations who set the standards for political, religious, moral, ethical, international, and other fields of importance to Christian America.
Just as I do not read and then dispose of a book, I never discard a copy of the Imprimis newsletter. And recently seeking something to read, I pulled out a stack of older Imprimis newsletters. Two in particular caught me eye, seeming to fit together. They both speak to a problem in America, actually in all the western world, which has become a festering sore all across America.
I am speaking of the Transgender Movement which like a cancer has metastasized across America - especially in our schools - K-12, and most all colleges - drawing our children and young people into its deceptive world.
When I began re-reading the first Imprimis newsletter "Inside The Transgender Empire" - that is when I realized that there is a very high probability that I have rubbed elbows with one of the leading founders of that movement. In the first Imprimis newsletter intro below, second paragraph, you will read, "In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of 'queer theory' and 'transgender studies.'”
And in the next paragraph, "Susan Stryker, a male-to-female transgender professor currently at the University of Arizona, . . . . describing his work as 'a secular sermon that unabashedly advocates embracing a disruptive and refigurative genderqueer or transgender power . . . ."
Hmmm? I am 95% sure that Susan Stryker is the same Sue from my two earlier meetings.
Below is an introduction to the first Imprimis newsletter "Inside The Transgender Empire." I strongly encourage you to read the full newsletter. It is not a long read, but it is a very revealing and important read. Important for everyone who loves our nation, our children, and our legacy to those children.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Inside The Transgender Empire
By Christopher F. Rufo - Author, America's Cultural Revolution
September 2023 | Volume 52, Issue 9
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/inside-the-transgender-empire/
The following is adapted from a talk delivered by Christopher F. Rufo on September 12, 2023, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.
The transgender movement is pressing its agenda everywhere. Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on its behalf, and activist health professionals are promoting the mutilation of children under the euphemistic banner of “gender-affirming care.” The sudden and pervasive rise of this movement provokes two questions: Where did it come from? And how has it proved so successful? The story goes deeper than most Americans know.
In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of “queer theory” and “transgender studies.” These academics believed gender to be a “social construct” used to oppress racial and sexual minorities, and they denounced the traditional categories of man and woman as a false binary that was conceived to support the system of “heteronormativity” - i.e., the white, male, heterosexual power structure.
This system, they argued, had to be ruthlessly deconstructed. And the best way to achieve this, they argued further, was to promote transgenderism. If men can become women, and women men, they believed, the natural structure of Creation could be toppled.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Bill, how did the Transgender Movement spread so quickly across America?" Great question, and the answer is MONEY! Yep, good old American money. And if you have ever traveled and spent a night in a Hyatt hotel - YOU have contributed to that movement. Yes, the Hyatt Hotel fortune, at least one person who inherited a portion of that fortune, is responsible for a lot of the chaos we are seeing in America today, especially in colleges, the medical field, and our cities.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Further on in the Imprimis newsletter "Inside The Transgender Empire" we read:
One of these people is Jennifer Pritzker, who was born James Pritzker in 1950. After serving several years in the U.S. Army, Pritzker went into business, having inherited a sizable part of the Hyatt hotel fortune.
In 2013, he announced a male-to-female gender transition and was celebrated in the press as the “first trans billionaire.” Almost immediately, he began donating untold millions to universities, schools, hospitals, and activist organizations to promote queer theory and trans medical experiments.
This money was (also) allied with political power, as Pritzker’s cousin, Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker, signed legislation in 2019, his first year in office, to inject gender theory into the state education curriculum and to direct state Medicaid funds toward transgender surgeries.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Yes, the sitting governor of Illinois - Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker - has been a prime mover in tying Transgender Movement money into his political platform - and bringing misery to an untold number of young children.
How did this work?
First, this combination of well-funded activism and political influence works in practice: Pritzker-funded activists at Lurie Children’s Hospital (the largest children’s hospital in Chicago) provide local schools with training, materials, and personnel who promote gender transitions for children.
Then, Lurie Children’s Hospital, through its outreach presentations in Chicago public schools, encourages teachers and school administrators to support “gender diversity” in their districts, automatically “affirm” students who announce sexual transitions, and “communicate a non-binary understanding of gender” to children in the classroom.
And, in effect, this results in a sophisticated school-to-gender-clinic pipeline. Teachers, counselors, doctors, and activists on social media and elsewhere - many of whom are employed or subsidized by members of the Pritzker family - push children in that direction.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The second Imprimis newsletter "Gender Ideology Run Amok" is just as troubling:
Gender Ideology Run Amok
By Abigail Shrier - Author, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
June/July 2021 | Volume 50, Issue 6/7
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/gender-ideology-run-amok/
The following is adapted from a speech delivered by Abigail Shrier on April 27, 2021, in Franklin, Tennessee, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar.
In 2007, America had one pediatric gender clinic; today there are hundreds. Testosterone is readily available to adolescents from places like Planned Parenthood and Kaiser, often on a first visit - without even a therapist’s note.
How did we get to this point? How is it that we are all supposed to pretend that the only way you can know I’m a woman is if I tell you my pronouns?
How did we get to an America in which a 13-year-old in the State of Washington can begin “gender affirming” therapy without her parents’ consent? How did we get to an America in which a 15-year-old in Oregon can undergo “top surgery” - elective double mastectomy - without her parents’ permission? And what can we do about it? . . . .
Historically, this has been the classic presentation of gender dysphoria. When these children were left alone - when no one intervened medically or encouraged what we today call “social transition” - over 70 percent of them naturally outgrew their gender dysphoria.
Most of those who outgrew it became gay men. Those who did not outgrow it became what used to be known as transsexuals. They did not believe they were women, but they felt most comfortable presenting themselves as females.
Today, however, we don’t leave these children alone. Instead, the moment children seem not to be perfectly feminine or perfectly masculine, we label them as “trans kids.” Teachers encourage them to reintroduce themselves to their classes with new names and new pronouns. . . . .
You may not know the name Keira Bell. She is a young woman in the U.K., very troubled in adolescence, who was rushed to transition in her teen years and came to regret it. She underwent double mastectomy and spent years on testosterone, only to realize that her problem had never been gender dysphoria.
She sued the U.K.’s national gender clinic, and last December, after the High Court of Justice examined her case and the claims of similarly situated plaintiffs, she won.
The Court examined the medical protocols applied to Keira Bell - protocols identical to the ones we have in the United States - and was horrified that a young girl had been allowed to consent to begin a process of eliminating her future fertility and sexual function at an age, 15, when she could not possibly have gauged that loss.
Hailed as a “landmark case” by The Times of London, The Economist, and even The Guardian - Bell’s victory was widely viewed as a serious condemnation of the effort to fast-track teen girls to gender transition. One of the appalling things the Court noted was that the national gender clinic had been unable to show any psychological improvement in the adolescents it had treated with transitioning hormones.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I cannot say exactly where I read the quote, but it has stayed in my mind. I am speaking of a quote from Karl Marx or Friedrich Engels, founders of Marxism and the Communist Party, which implied, "Win the minds of the children and you can conquer a nation without firing a shot."
In other words, take over the National Board of Education (think Federal Board of Education, NEA [National Education Association]). Add to that the newest attack, aka, the medical industry, the Liberal news media, etc., and you can control the nation.
~ Karl Marx, in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, called for the abolition of the (nuclear, aka, traditional) family.
~ Karl Marx realized that the way to completely change (a) society was to destroy the most important civil society institution, the family.
Most importantly, Marx said that communism would ensure that children would be educated by the state and not by their parents. Communists, he wrote in the Manifesto, would “rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.” The making of the “New Man” was the priority, and the family was an obstacle.
Folks, America is in a fight for our traditional families, our children, even our nation. Isn't it time we stopped the destruction of our families and take back the life, health, and souls of our children? Think about it!
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill
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