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Ute Heggen's avatar

I write as a trans widow, that is a woman who married a seemingly normal husband. Then he went down the rabbit hole of trans identification. And trees were not trees, bees were not bees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHDK0y9GZrk&t=28s

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lauren glass's avatar

I can understand how that can be it just didn’t enter your consciousness that you could be exposed to someone that you could never have dreamed up. Mine was the opposite political direction in 1978 and the trajectory of that person was horrifying and until this year I had never read the newspaper over the event. I had to take 3 children and get in the car and leave protected by the sheriffs dept. my brain just couldn’t have come up with that. I’m sorry you had to go through that.

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Ute Heggen's avatar

Did he identify as "trans?" If so, please contact me through my channel, Trans Widow Ute Heggen. in any case, I understand and have other stories of women who had this exit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHDK0y9GZrk&t=35s

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Jeffrey Peoples's avatar

Calling yourself a "trans widow" is a bit like someone calling themselves a "black widow" or a "white widow" or a "gay widow" or a "straight widow" or a "redhead widow." I recognize that there are probably some awful people who are trans, but what makes them awful isn't the fact that they are trans, just like what makes white people who are awful isn't the fact that they are white. What you are producing is something that will likely contribute to bigoted antipathy toward people who are trans, such as myself.

The ideology of the dominant trans cult though arguably does contribute the awfulness of many people who are trans unfortunately. But the solution to that problem is not to stigmatize trans people, but to stigmatized the cult that has acquired much of the mindshare among people who are trans. Part of the reason why the cult has acquired the mindshare it has I suspect is because the cult established itself as a "refuge" for trans people while much of society viewed trans people with revulsion and fear. If there is no other social groups other than the dominant trans cult that provides a refuge for trans people, the cult will continue to grow. What you produced will unfortunately feed the cult, not starve it.

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Ute Heggen's avatar

trans widow is a term not invented by me but in the common colloquial. See the documentary, Behind the Looking Glass, by Indian filmmaker, Vaishnavi Sundar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frffv2sB8zE

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Jeffrey Peoples's avatar

What does it matter if you invented it or not? You didn't invent nigger either; are you going to call black people niggers?

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Ute Heggen's avatar

Why would you ask me this? I have nothing to do with the N word I worked 3 jobs, took my son who wanted to kill himself by jumping off the top of his school to a court qualified psychologist (and his trans identified father refused to attend) for months and I worked to pay for. It does matter whether I've invented it or not because I've been accused of using my situation to GRIFT. Thus, I make sure to state that I only use this term because it arose naturally, in language. This is my fist day here. FU 2.

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Jeffrey Peoples's avatar

I was using it as a comparison to get you to possibly understand the social impact of its usage and the irrelevance of its origins. I did not intend it as a "fuck you". So "FU2" doesn't make sense. I understand my comparison is jarring. That was intended. But it's true. Sometimes the truth is jarring.

As another jarring comparison. I have a parable.

A white woman was married to a black man. They had a child and the the child was very distraught to the point of suicide. The father didn't care. And he didn't work. The black father went out every night to bars and got drunk and had sex with hookers. He also got heavily involved with the Black Panthers. The white woman worked hard every day and night to take care of the family. Eventually the son was about to kill himself by jumping off a building and the mother was fortunately there to talk him off the building and she brought him to a psychotherapist. The mother got a divorce. The white woman then wrote a book of stories from other white woman who had ordeals with black husbands and divorced them. She titled the book "black widow." When a black man in a substack comment section with quite a few people who probably have prejudices against black people pointed out the bigotry that the title suggests, the white woman told him fuck you and told him how she worked day and night while his black husband fucked hookers and hung out with thugs and his son tried to commit suicide and it was her first day here promoting her book "black widow" and that "black widow" is a common way of referring to white women who were once married to black men.

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Ute Heggen's avatar

This has nothing to do with me, Jeffrey Peoples. Do your media empire not on comments replying to me. Thanks. Todah

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lauren glass's avatar

No he was opposite of that, but was a horror in the realization what he was like.

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Ute Heggen's avatar

Mah zeh?

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lauren glass's avatar

I don’t know what that means

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Ute Heggen's avatar

Hebrew: "what?"

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John Doe's avatar

My concern is antifa is going to change tactics. Start using bombs, fire, up close shootings, up close stabbings, suicide bombings, etc. Anything is on the table with these people.

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Linda Delgado's avatar

Pray to God for the protection and safety of Andy and all of the other truth tellers. This is a war between good and evil. Charlie knew that.

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Marilyn F's avatar

Yes. He definitely knew that.

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John Carlson's avatar

Andy, thank you for your courage. You are truly fighting the good fight by attempting to uncover and report on a violent ideology and its adherents at personal risk to yourself. Hopefully, more will see the what you’ve painstakingly illuminated over the years.

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Marilyn F's avatar

You opened our eyes years ago & nearly lost your life to the evil of antifa. Now our sweet Charlie is gone because of them.

Thank you for sharing your story.

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lauren glass's avatar

Wonderful interview with Winston Marshall

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Truth Teller's avatar

Andy, regarding a comment you made, the UK media has changed over the past 4 or so years. It's essentially every bit as corrupt as the US. The BBC and Sky have "both sides" panels where each side says things about Trump that would make even MSNBC gasp.

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