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Nov 11, 2022Liked by the radical center

This is an amazing article!! Not just for the excellent content, but your style, your voice, very powerful!!

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Nov 11, 2022Liked by the radical center

Oh, this is so very beautiful! What an excellent article. Thank you for writing this!

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Nov 11, 2022Liked by the radical center

Amen, SISTER! Well spoken.

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Nov 13, 2022Liked by the radical center

Wonderful Leslie, informative and humane.

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Nov 21, 2022Liked by the radical center

I whole heatedly agree with your sentiments and the way you have expressed them. I too have suffered multiple miscarriages and also had an ectopic pregnancy (at age 33 coincidentally). Most recently with IVF, after losing my left fallopian tube, I have absolutely felt ignored by the system and callous doctors. Before a procedure to retrieve my eggs, I was in writhing pain. The doctor said I should just wait until the procedure scheduled for the following morning. Turns out I had ovulated prematurely, losing most of my eggs and bleeding internally. Poor clinical decision making by doctors who see us as walking ovaries and/or walking dollar signs. Reproductive medicine is prohibitively expensive and yet completely lacking in humanity and empathy for patients. The pain of women never was and never will be taken seriously.

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Nov 19, 2022Liked by the radical center

"women and men who have been conned into believing they can alchemize themselves into the opposite sex using a magic spell of will-power, social collusion, and medical intervention"

What an accurate and concise way to describe the current-day situation. Thank you!

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Nov 29, 2022Liked by the radical center

Such power!

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Superbly dignified and graceful indignation. Reclaim the language from the ghouls.

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Nov 19, 2022·edited Nov 19, 2022Liked by the radical center

I am overjoyed that I found this blog! Your youtube channel is fantastic, and I hope you'll visit Ute Heggen YouTube channel and check out my short clips as well. I am a trans widow--ex husband claims he's "mom" as well and does every possible act to erase me--alienating our 2 grown sons with woke nonsense. I blog at uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com and mostly present mindful movement on my yt channel. I also wrote & published a memoir, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022) which I can send to those who give me a mailing address in the contact form on my channel. You are very well-spoken. I hope you'll respond to the email I sent to your website. Here's a short, which explains it all in about 25 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_Sgl9Vl8_bk

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I feel exactly the same way and yet really fear speaking out. I am a counselor of many years and I still fear the backlash in my small community. I am curious how you managed to gather your courage and write about these things under your actual identity. I admire that. I live north of seattle in a scarily woke town and I would definitely be cancelled ( aka lose my livelihood).

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Sue the institution for false advertising, if they do not cater to women than their sign is wrong. Say you are offended and it should speak the truth. When they change it to UW People with Ovaries Health Centre their idiocy will be displayed full on for all to see. Of course they wont, they will simply rename it UW Health Centre. Then have every man in the area go there whenever they have a health problem. Eventually they can sue for false advertising when they are continually turned away. So they will have to put 'People With Ovaries Health Centre' on the sign after all and their twistedness will be on display for all to see and for them to contemplate every morning... Surprisingly they will probably find comfort in 'having corrected reality'. Eventually they will have to breakaway their 'civilisation' since reality will have no place for it anymore, despite having tried to accommodate and heal their illness for so long.

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