Sunny Side of The Stream: Reality-Affirming Therapist Makes Hilarious Memes Exposing Transgenderism
Sometimes when I see illogical, powerful, deadly, widely-believed lies mocked and exposed as ridiculous and baseless, my heart fills with a wholesome feeling. A feeling of hope that the truth will prevail, perhaps aided by humor and satire.
I love a good laugh, too. I love it when lies are exposed. So I smiled as I kept running into a collection of memes just released by Stephanie Winn, a licensed marriage and family therapist, senior fellow with Do No Harm and associate producer of the film No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care.
Sometimes satire is beautiful because it is powerful. May these memes help someone see the truth and bring a healing balm by cutting through darkness.
Waging Battle With Memes
First, Winn mocks the idea that we should trust kids to know what’s best for them and let them choose harmful behaviors based on how they “self identify.”
Children know who they are. Let them lead. pic.twitter.com/1y1LcaV944
— Stephanie Winn, Sanity Specialist (@sometherapist) September 5, 2023
They’re not old enough to consent to inking their bodies. But they’re old enough to consent to losing their reproductive abilities and harming their sexual function.
Yesterday we discussed why it’s important to #ProtectAlcoholicKids. Today, let’s #ProtectMinorBodyMods.
Just like children know when they’re ready to drink & drive, they also know when they’re ready for tattoos. Bigoted adults, get out of the way. Let children lead. pic.twitter.com/HkgUNmILE2
— Stephanie Winn, Sanity Specialist (@sometherapist) September 6, 2023
This one was posted by a different account, but seems to be in the same series.
Some kids know they want to chain-smoke as young as 2-3 years old. Early signs include pretending to puff on a crayon, holding a pencil between their middle and index fingers, strong cravings for candy "cigarettes," and rapidly making "huffing" sounds or deeply exhaling.
Be an… pic.twitter.com/C51FZruxoe
— Dark Hegel™️ (@xxclusionary) September 7, 2023
Winn mocks the false and deadly narrative that kids will kill themselves if they’re not aided towards pretending to be someone they aren’t.
Did your child put things in her mouth as soon as she was able to reach? She was trying to tell you something: she needed a cigarette.
Smoker children know who they are from as young as infancy.
It's cruel to deprive them of the life-saving cigarettes they so desperately need. pic.twitter.com/SCYoty6if1
— Stephanie Winn, Sanity Specialist (@sometherapist) September 7, 2023
“Trans women are women,” they say. “Cardboard wings are wings,” Winn retorts.
Cardboard wings work just as well as wings assigned at birth.
It's time to end hatred once and for all. If someone tells you he's a bird, then he IS a bird.
Bird Kids just want to experience the euphoria of diving off of cliffs. Let them fly!#CWAW #LetBirdKidsFly #DoBetter pic.twitter.com/HbcjHaUVwZ
— Stephanie Winn, Sanity Specialist (@sometherapist) September 7, 2023
Why wouldn’t you let sex-offending men in women’s prisons when they say they’re women?
Sheep*+ belong in the single-species spaces they feel most comfortable identifying with, no matter what species they were assigned at birth.
Fear & aversion are useless, antiquated emotions. Good sheep never question anyone's motives regarding how they identify. Good sheep… pic.twitter.com/6gHaeu2wIz
— Stephanie Winn, Sanity Specialist (@sometherapist) September 8, 2023
Why do we treat people who irrationally say their sex is wrong differently from people who irrationally say something else about their body is wrong? Body dysmorphic disorder is a mental illness and so is gender dysphoria.
Oppressive parents have the nerve to try to tell their children how they should see themselves.
“You’re not fat, honey. You’re perfect just the way you are.”
🙄 Oh, please!
Do you have any idea how much damage it does to a young person when you fail to affirm their self-image?… pic.twitter.com/oMfMIQ1hM1
— Stephanie Winn (@sometherapist) September 8, 2023
“Liposuction is a human right.” What a great line.
There’s no test to determine who “actually” has a soul in the wrong body (a nonsense idea), and who will regret their transition after a few years or decades. So the logical and moral answer is just to push the kids through, give them exactly what they’ve been indoctrinated to say they want, enable their mental illnesses, sterilize them and make money in the process, right? There couldn’t be any other answers, right?
Cancer-questioning people frequently ask: how do I know if I have cancer?
Only you can know your true cancer status. But if you've ever thought you might have cancer, it probably means you have cancer.
A good doctor will respect your self-diagnosis without asking too many… pic.twitter.com/YoVYoU8Siu
— Stephanie Winn, Sanity Specialist (@sometherapist) September 8, 2023
When it comes to gender identity — and gender identity alone — abandon the norms of therapy and always affirm the patient in whatever she thinks about herself.
Therapists have ONE JOB: showing patients the exact reflection of themselves they want to see, so that they feel validated and affirmed in their self-perceptions.
Anything else is malpractice and should result in immediate revocation of licensure.#BanConversionTherapy pic.twitter.com/ENYLjHUtR2
— Stephanie Winn, Sanity Specialist (@sometherapist) September 8, 2023
Detransitioners shouldn’t rain on the pride parade for everyone else.
Terrible people are trying to take away bird kids' rights and stop them from flying.
So-called "de-bird-kids" even claim that just because cardboard wings didn't work for them, that no one should have the right to fly.
Look, de-bird-kids. Sorry about your broken leg and all,… pic.twitter.com/SbvsQw9Gno
— Stephanie Winn, Sanity Specialist (@sometherapist) September 8, 2023
Winn made a thread with all of her memes:
I had fun with memes the last few days. Here's a thread with all of them.https://t.co/LL8uNSXVTG
— Stephanie Winn, Sanity Specialist (@sometherapist) September 8, 2023
Truth matters. Let’s share it.
Aliya Kuykendall is a staff writer and proofreader for The Stream. You can follow Aliya on X @AliyaKuykendall and follow The Stream @Streamdotorg.
