What if the Gender Identity Movement is a PSYOP?

Dane Peterson
4 min readApr 30, 2024

Warning: What I’m about to suggest will be triggering to some.

As a privileged white male, I’ve felt a sense of compassion for people experiencing discrimination. I’ve fought for them. I’ve pitied them. I consider all humans worthy of joy and fulfillment. Religious or not, I believe it’s in our nature to be Christ-like and moral.

That said, I’ve come to understand that life is truly what we make of it. As Tony Robbins says, “Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you’re focusing on grows.” This is true in both gratitude and misery. The unhappiest people I’ve ever known all shared one tendency: to blame exterior causes for their suffering.

When we become convinced of something, we generate and experience that result. In reflecting on this, I’ve concluded that the oppression of the LGBTQIA+ community is, at least primarily, a politically-fabricated illusion.

One might say, “Easy for you to say, privileged white male!” But no, it’s actually not. In 2024, saying such things loses you friends and gets you banned or blocked on Social Media. Which is exactly the reason I’m choosing to speak out.

I was as happy as anyone back in 2015, when the Supreme Court ruling meant the end of something. However, it also meant the beginning of something else. Equal rights advocates and moral crusaders had won, but like the hero slaying the villain, lost their sense of purpose in the process. “People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high. Being self-righteous and morally superior feels good.” — Mark Manson. These activists needed something new to be mad about! And wouldn’t you know it, the media was happy to oblige. Cue the trans hate crimes, and lots of them!

We were repeatedly exposed to horrific stories of violence toward the LGBTQIA+ community, and convinced–through repetition–that we needed our government to intervene. Politicians built entire campaigns on these myths. Like millions of others, I drank the kool-aid and locked arms with the “oppressed”, because again, how difficult their lives must be… I cannot possibly understand. As a moral, caring person, I bought into this illusion of oppression, failing to see the man(ipulation) behind the curtain.

Suddenly, questioning or rejecting this movement in any way was perceived as not only insensitive, but inhumane. This “evil” way of thinking earned “morally justified censorship”, and yet people don’t seem to care. Our First Amendment rights are eroding, and many are even celebrating this!

We need to be concerned. Americans are being censored from calling out the government for siphoning billions of dollars through equality and DEI programs with little to no transparency. And they get away with it, because “who would dare question such a moral platform?” You gotta hand it to ’em; they’ve done a truly remarkable job of diverting any criticism or responsibility.

Let me be perfectly clear: Those that question DEI and equality movements are not the enemy. They might even be the heroes, speaking out in spite of a flurry of name-calling, rage, and censorship. As minorities are well aware, it takes guts to stand against large groups of opposition to share a different perspective.

Even if the politicians’ motives are monetary, my greater concern lies in how this manipulation is poisoning our population. Minority groups have been encouraged to be offended. They’ve been empowered to feel victimized. Any falsified narratives of hate and rejection only make their self-acceptance (which many struggle with already) more difficult. When the media constantly tells them they’re hated, they will eventually start to believe it. It’s the illusory truth effect.

Who is responsible for someone becoming offended, the offender or the offended? The answer, as all psychologists will agree, is the offended. But those frequently offended will deny this to their grave. Why? Because quite simply, they lack self-accountability. They don’t understand the flaw in taking offense.

People prefer to feel oppressed, because it frees them from being responsible for their own misery.

The naive want to believe in their righteousness by supporting these movements, but they’re being conned.

While everything I’ve said to this point could be dismissed as opinion, this part is difficult to dispute: Discrimination will always exist. It’s a permanent human flaw, and every person exhibits it in some way. Anyone who claims otherwise is delusional.

Believing the government can fix discrimination is a logical fallacy–politicians are well aware of this–which is why so much of their energy is focused on these topics. Look at the last fifty years. Have they fixed racism? No. Have they fixed homelessness? No. Have they fixed global conflicts? No. But they’ve proudly spent hundreds of trillions of dollars on initiatives to make you think they want to fix them; to make you think they care.

Any time the media focuses their energy on a certain topic, consider the ulterior motive. It won’t always be obvious, which is very much the goal.

The equality movement is a PSYOP used to manipulate the insecure and naive for power, which is the conduit for money.

As I said before, the unhappiest people I’ve ever known all shared one tendency: to blame exterior causes for their suffering. We mustn’t subjugate our power. The human rights of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness are better described as human rites; we alone determine our experiences.

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