Children can no more “consent” to have their healthy breasts and genitalia removed than they can “consent” to have sex with an adult. It is monstrous to believe otherwise and those who do clearly fit this description and will ultimately be held to account for their actions.
A side note: There's much to doubt about the significance of the event at Compton's Cafeteria. There was no coverage of a riot in the San Francisco press. Trans activists claim that the press didn't cover such stories then, although press records show that they'd covered police enforcement stories regarding the gay community in the years immediately preceding and after the event. Stryker claims that police records were destroyed. Perhaps most significantly, no one, including Stryker, can narrow the date to anything closer than some weekend in August. Was there a disturbance at the Compton's Cafeteria that summer? Probably. Was it of the scale that Stryker would have us believe? I doubt it. He provides no corroborating evidence. He appears to have made no effort to track down anyone from Compton's, as Carter did with Stonewall. Besides, it must be noted, Screaming Queens is virtually useless as a documentaries go.
Good point about Stryker hyping the "riot." I worried about that but decided there was at least enough corroborating evidence about the general Comptons milieu. For example, accounts from the minister and the police officer. Plus, a lot of the facts Stryker cites don't make the "queens" look good! If he were inventing everything then he'd come up with a more flattering story, make Comptons more of a villain and so on.
I stopped reading when I saw Mr. Susan Stryker quoted and know we can't believe a word he says. He recently got a slanderous article lying about me and quoting another man who has been harassing and stalking me since I was a teenager, in a former Lesbian publication, "Sinister Wisdom," which is now promoting the trans cult.
Thank you. I'll read more. I just keep seeing him referred to as the expert on Lesbian community and we don't have his privilege to counter his trans propaganda.
I’ll give you a spin. Consider that what is called AGP is actually about males who fantasize about presenting as female prostitutes. They tend to view estrogen as a cosmeceutical, and rarely have emasculating or castration surgery.
San Francisco at the period had plenty of underaged male prostitutes (hustlers) who worked Polk Street south of Russian hill, whereas Compton’s was in south Temderloin. Age of consent was 18 for women, I’m not sure what it was for boys, but literature is the period seems to indicate 14/15 was the lower common limit. I am likely off.
When I knew these type of kids in LA around 1980, transvestism, paychotic breaks from reality, and being a runaway with innumerable other problems created the environment you describe.
What always seemed to me to be happening was the ones with fewer mental issues were simple male hustlers, the ones with more serious issues started down the “I’m a woman” route.
“If your child has a birth defect, you get help.”
Parents like this are part of the problem.
Amen to that. ICYMI, an old Pat Cross cartoon, although I see the original site is defunct:
https://teesperky.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/45747-87.jpg
https://patcrosscartoons.com/2019/10/08/progressive-parenting/
Children can no more “consent” to have their healthy breasts and genitalia removed than they can “consent” to have sex with an adult. It is monstrous to believe otherwise and those who do clearly fit this description and will ultimately be held to account for their actions.
By underage prostitutes do you mean children? And by much older men do you mean pedophiles?
A side note: There's much to doubt about the significance of the event at Compton's Cafeteria. There was no coverage of a riot in the San Francisco press. Trans activists claim that the press didn't cover such stories then, although press records show that they'd covered police enforcement stories regarding the gay community in the years immediately preceding and after the event. Stryker claims that police records were destroyed. Perhaps most significantly, no one, including Stryker, can narrow the date to anything closer than some weekend in August. Was there a disturbance at the Compton's Cafeteria that summer? Probably. Was it of the scale that Stryker would have us believe? I doubt it. He provides no corroborating evidence. He appears to have made no effort to track down anyone from Compton's, as Carter did with Stonewall. Besides, it must be noted, Screaming Queens is virtually useless as a documentaries go.
Good point about Stryker hyping the "riot." I worried about that but decided there was at least enough corroborating evidence about the general Comptons milieu. For example, accounts from the minister and the police officer. Plus, a lot of the facts Stryker cites don't make the "queens" look good! If he were inventing everything then he'd come up with a more flattering story, make Comptons more of a villain and so on.
Was the police officer there or is that the later community relations officer?
I meant the officer corroborated points about the SF transsexual scene. I added a note to the post about the "riot" turning on Stryker's credibility.
Great article by the way. Thank you!
I stopped reading when I saw Mr. Susan Stryker quoted and know we can't believe a word he says. He recently got a slanderous article lying about me and quoting another man who has been harassing and stalking me since I was a teenager, in a former Lesbian publication, "Sinister Wisdom," which is now promoting the trans cult.
https://www.evakurilova.com/p/gender-wars-history-series-bev-jo
I mocked and debunked Stryker in this post.
Thank you. I'll read more. I just keep seeing him referred to as the expert on Lesbian community and we don't have his privilege to counter his trans propaganda.
Wow and thank you!
Would it be fair to say these were likely gay kids?
Can't prove it but there's so much circumstantial evidence. I'll talk more about the gay angle in Monday's piece.
Intriguing writing, well-considered.
I’ll give you a spin. Consider that what is called AGP is actually about males who fantasize about presenting as female prostitutes. They tend to view estrogen as a cosmeceutical, and rarely have emasculating or castration surgery.
San Francisco at the period had plenty of underaged male prostitutes (hustlers) who worked Polk Street south of Russian hill, whereas Compton’s was in south Temderloin. Age of consent was 18 for women, I’m not sure what it was for boys, but literature is the period seems to indicate 14/15 was the lower common limit. I am likely off.
When I knew these type of kids in LA around 1980, transvestism, paychotic breaks from reality, and being a runaway with innumerable other problems created the environment you describe.
What always seemed to me to be happening was the ones with fewer mental issues were simple male hustlers, the ones with more serious issues started down the “I’m a woman” route.
Johns who liked trans cultivated them.