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Why are trans activists furious with this pro-trans article?

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A recent article in a venerable American magazine expresses the belief that suffering can be relieved through sex reassignments, and yet it has inspired a volley of angry tweets and articles from trans activists. Why? Because of the author of the Atlantic piece , Jesse Singal, interviews women who have regretted their transgender treatments, parents who resisted pressure to allow their minor children hormone therapy, and sex-reassignment therapists who urge caution. Victor Manuel Markoff tweeted, “F(***) off with this transphobia. And on pride month too. This article and cover are an absolute disgrace. You should be ashamed of yourself.” Parker Malloy tweeted, “This guy’s one-man crusade against trans people has gone on for years. It really doesn’t make sense. Sad that the Atlantic gave him a cover story to spread his pseudoscience and bigotry.” Harron Walker of Jezebel magazine got in on the Singal-bashing action by writing “a lot of trans people, myself included, loathe his cove

He used to be transgender. Now his birth certificate tells the truth again

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After 28 years as a legally-recognized woman, Walt Heyer won his long battle to have his birth certificate restored to its original gender. Heyer’s first attempt to restore his legal gender as a male on his birth certificate was in 1989, but California state authorities would not allow it. Years earlier, he had physically altered his body to look like a woman and was officially recognized as a female. Finally, with the help of lawyers from Liberty Counsel, Heyer’s birth certificate was changed back this year to its original, God-given gender. “The restoration of my original male gender many years later shows man’s unwillingness to consider carefully the long-term consequences,” he told LifeSiteNews. Heyer was abused as a boy by his uncle. His grandmother also abused him by sewing dresses for him to wear. Hence, like so many others who are abused and mistreated, he began identifying with an opposite-sex alter ego.   Throughout adolescence, Heyer was obsessed with feminin