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Yesterday Swedish folkpartiet (Svenska folkpartiet (Sfp)) had an event in connection with the PRIDE-festival called Stop using us as bats.
Link to source
The host for the Pride event was Ted Uhro. He's also the director for Swedish folkpartiets (Sfp) think tank Agenda. Uhro welcomed everyone, gave president Trump a slap (very common in Finland), and then he introduced the keynote speaker – Kristian Wahlbeck, a member of Sfp, and a psychiatrist by training.
Wahlbeck presented the result from a survey – Ungdomsbarometern (The Youth Barometer), from which he claimed that:
- 15% of Swedish-speaking young people feel they belong to a sexual minority.
- the prevalence of anxiety is much higher among girls compared to boys (he showed a graph).
- LGBTQ+ children are 2-3 times more likely to have mental health problems, including eating disorders.
- Wallbeck's explanation:social factors – mistreatment in society, and current politics.
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He said, somewhat hopefully, that it would be resolved when you turned eighteen, because then you could decide for yourself.
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He also reiterated the pop-meme No. 1: social media and smartphones.
- It was also mentioned that 100 000 Finns are outside the job market because of mental health issues.
Here's a few quotes (not verbatim):
- Adlercreutz said that those who belonged to gender minorities had issues in school to a greater extent than other kids. He joined forces with Uhro to give president Trump a slap.
- hetero-normativity, toxic masculinity was mentioned as part of the explanations.
- that more school psychologists will not help.
- the home environment was mentioned.
- Mental health issues cost 11 billion of Finns tax money (Uhro).
The commonality between the panel members and the host (Uhro) was the they are Finns, Swedish speaking, members of the Swedish folkpartiet, and in some way connected to the rainbow minorities, for example: Adlercreutz testified that his own daughter was part of the rainbow minority, which he claimed, had made him more aware about the minority group.
Adding to that, except for Wahlbeck, the panel was based on people who promoted ideological stuff, for example, on March 26 2025, Moa Gammelgård (SU) who previously have promoted the marxist feminist idea about economic violence in the context of domestic violence:
“Economic violence occurs in 90 percent of cases where other types of violence in close relationships occur. This is shown by a study conducted by Svenska Yle. Economic violence is a form of hidden violence and often comes from a partner or a family member. Moa Gammelgård, a member of the Swedish Youth Federation board, believes that protection against economic violence must be strengthened and that information about this problem must increase”.Link to source.
After the session I had a conversation with Kristian Wahlbeck.
We had met before, at Relanders Grund, a former lighthouse ship which now serves as a restaurant in Helsingfors harbor, during the 2023 election.
Wahlbeck said he remembered me and that I was in Finland because I'm a research psychologist (or a psychological scientist). It was a nice [academic oriented] conversation.
He concurred when I said that he will likely refer to American Psychiatric Association (APA) whereas I will likely refer to American Psychological Association (APA). It's confusing that both organizations use the abbreviation APA.
That means, in the nature & nurture continuum, psychiatrists tend to lean more towards nature, whereas psychologists tend to lean more towards nurture.
I asked him about the 15% he mentioned, and said that I thought it was unlikely. He did not object, but neither gave a comment.
How do one go about to validate or dismiss the claims made at the conference?
So I'm in Finland because of my psychological expertise. And even though I'm not a clinical but research psychologist, or maybe therefore, I may look at these issues in a more thorough way compared to most people.
Let's break it down from a scientific point of view.
“Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe” (Wikipedia).There are many criteria which should be taken into account, for example:
- Validity – that you measure what is supposed to be measured (there are a number of sub-sets).
- Reliability – a test should withstand the influence of chance. That means, if you replicate the study in accordance with the method described in the study, the result should be very similar.
- Representativeness – a sample should be representing the population.
First, do the people in the panel represent all Finns who feel a sense of belonging to the rainbow community?
Probably not.
Second, is 15% really a valid number?
My rationale for asking that question is the american documentary What is a Woman, where it was revealed that the prevalence of:
- trans-identity was 0.0015%, and that they were divided into two groups:
- Gender Flexibility
- Gender Dysphoria.
We can use numeracy and calculate the amount of Swedish-speaking Finnish children 15% versus .0015% represent. And for children to have a sense gender identity, puberty is a resonable marker. The upper limit is 18 years of age.
If 15 %: (18-12)*55 000*.056*,15= 2772
If .0015%: (18-12)*55 000*.056*.0015=27.7.
The span is huge: 27.7 - 2772.
Third, In the documentary, it was revealed that Gender Flexibility (GF) and Gender Dysphoria (GD) have different characteristics.
GF is typically a broad, inclusive approach to gender expression. Refers to individuals (often children, but not exclusively) who explore or express gender roles beyond traditional norms without distress.
GD, on the other hand, is a diagnosable psychological condition (DSM-5) involving significant distress.
There's correlation between GD and Complex childhood trauma (CCT), and even, to some extent, causation: “reactive gender dysphoria” may be caused by Complex childhood trauma (Chat Gtp).
Fourth, part of being a scientist to gather information, for example, from the Finnish government and organizations.
In 2019, Mark Pagel delivered his Gifford talks (n=4). During his third talk (2019), Pagel talked about tribalism, which is marked endogami – only marrying with the tribe – and moral shaming, to keep people within the tribe. One of the examples was Finland. Tribalism seems to be more prevalent in areas of Finland where fewer people speak the trade language around the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic sea.
In 2020:
In 2022 – 2025, I received the following information from Finnish officials and organizations:
Link to source.
The study Finnish Times referred to (Suokas et al. 2025), concluded the following:
This discourse was promoted by Norwegian feminist sociologist Eva Lundgren, who in the 1990s, was recruited to Uppsala university by the Swedish government. Together with Gun Heimer, a gynecologist, Ann-Marie Kalliokoski, a social worker, and Jenny Westerstrand, a jurist, she conducted a pilot study where men were excluded. Even so, they concluded that domestic violence was explained by gender/sex (Lundgren et al. 2001).
In 2005, Uppsala university got a bit suspicious, and decided to start an investigation into Lundgren's work. They concluded that raw data and conclusion didn't match, and according to Lundgren herself, she was banned from teaching and supervising students about violence, gender, and power (Hagekull, 2005; Holm, 2011).
In 2002, I spoke with Lundgren, and she admitted that she was aware of existing validated models to assess domestic violence, and the result.
What did this result show?
Intimate partner violence. Studies using validated models such as the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS; Straus, 1979; Straus et al. 1996) or similar, show the following distribution:
Ergo. Domestic violence is a typically female phenomenon, and big challenge in Finland.
(Archer, 2000, 2004; Bates, Graham-Kevan och Archer , 2014; Bates och Graham-Kevan, 2016; Bates, 2018; Bates, Kaye, Pennington och Hamlin, 2019; Bergkvist, 2002; Crick och Grotpeter, 1995; Hyde, 2005; Thornton et al. 2012).
Listen to Dr Elizabeth Bates: Intimate Partner Violence: Intimate Partner Violence (34 minuter).
Custody conflict is thus a female conflict that is explained by relational aggression (psychological violence) which is also typically female (Hyde, 2005). The explanation for women's custody conflicts is often high levels of neuroticism and Borderline personality disorder (Jiang, Dong och Wang, 2022; Ode et al. 2009; Ruffalo, 2024; Weisberg et al. 2011; Zalewski et al. 2014).
Coincidentally, when I returned to the conference after-party, I spoke with a young woman. When I told her about the above, she replied: – that's my mother.
A likely conclusion is that at least “reactive gender dysphoria” partly emerges as a consequence of mother's psychological domestic violence.
Another par may be explained by malnutrition.
Länk till källan.
A recent meta-analysis shows that people who abstain from animal sourced food report issues like neuroticism, anxiety, and depression (Dobersket et al. 2023) and that meat consumption is related to:
But in Finland, nutritionists promote the idea that animal fats and meat are bad for health (Österberg, 2025).
And remember, Finland has the highest rate of Alzheimer's in the world, twice the rate per capita compared to Sweden (we share biology and phenotype). Noteworthy, an early marker for Alzheimer's is aggression.
Conclusion. In Finland, they put a lot of emphasis on mental health issues, including gender Dysphoria, which to some extent seem to be related to Complex childhood trauma, mothers domestic violence. That in turn seems to be related to malnutrition as a function of non-scientific advice about nutrition.
Epilog. Two years ago, I attended that Years conference: AgendaPride: All straight panel. Ted Uhros påstående om transidentitet är falsk. The bad Apple effect.
Then, the host, Uhro, who I already new, got furious when I said that trans-identity is a social construct. He blocked me on social media, and refused to say hi! when we met on other occasion. This event was no exception. When I remained afterwards, to talk to people, he rushed out the locale.
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If 15 %: (18-12)*55 000*.056*,15= 2772
If .0015%: (18-12)*55 000*.056*.0015=27.7.
The span is huge: 27.7 - 2772.
Third, In the documentary, it was revealed that Gender Flexibility (GF) and Gender Dysphoria (GD) have different characteristics.
GF is typically a broad, inclusive approach to gender expression. Refers to individuals (often children, but not exclusively) who explore or express gender roles beyond traditional norms without distress.
GD, on the other hand, is a diagnosable psychological condition (DSM-5) involving significant distress.
There's correlation between GD and Complex childhood trauma (CCT), and even, to some extent, causation: “reactive gender dysphoria” may be caused by Complex childhood trauma (Chat Gtp).
Fourth, part of being a scientist to gather information, for example, from the Finnish government and organizations.
In 2019, Mark Pagel delivered his Gifford talks (n=4). During his third talk (2019), Pagel talked about tribalism, which is marked endogami – only marrying with the tribe – and moral shaming, to keep people within the tribe. One of the examples was Finland. Tribalism seems to be more prevalent in areas of Finland where fewer people speak the trade language around the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic sea.
In 2020:
- Acting prime minister Sanna Marin and her cabinet, Katri Kulmuni (Centern), Maria Ohisalo (Gröna), Li Andersson (Vänsterförbundet) and Anna-Maja Henriksson (Swedish folkpartiet) opted to to ignore the experts and lock down parts of Finland, and Nyland in particular. A few month later, Finnish media reported a 15% increase in suicide (Yle News, 2020),
- ~100 000 Finnish children (~10 %) still live in poverty. The link is from 2016, but the person who told me this referred to a media report from October, 2020.
- schools serve low-fat milk, and at least once a week they serve vegetable alternatives to real food. The afternoon meal is occasionally apple cake with vanilla sauce or chocolate mousse.
- according to researchers at the Finnish Folkhälsan Research Center and Helsingfors University, child obesity in Finland is soaring (Roos, November 5, 2020). Obesity is associated with NAFLD (Sahota et al. 2020), which is associated with all other Welfare diseases mentioned above.
In 2022 – 2025, I received the following information from Finnish officials and organizations:
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Finnish women's relational aggressiveness (psychological domestic violence) is the big challenge (Helsingfors Police department, April 6, 2022).
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Too many Finnish school kids fail reading comprehension and numeracy (Ministry of education and culture, May, 2022).
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Finland has the highest rate of Alzheimer in the world (Österberg, 2022).
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20% of Finnish kids and young born 1997 or later, have mental issues (Elina Pekkarinen, Finland's child commissary, November, 2022).
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Swedish-speaking Finns have better health and live longer (Researchers at the city of Helsingfors, February, 2023).
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Finn's physical and mental health has deteriorated since 2010 (KELA/FPA and THL, April, 2023)
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20% of the Finns who die, die of Alzheimer's/dementia. In comparison, in neighboring Sweden, that number is 10% (EU/OECD, 2023).
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The research at the University of Helsingfors has collapsed (Bäckgren, 2023).
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40% of the Finnish school kids are victims of psychological domestic violence (Estlander, Bensow, November, 2023).
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50% of all Finnish women, and 30% of all Finnish men over the age of 45, are predicted to contract a serious brain disease (they mean Alzheimer/dementia) (Finnish Brain Foundation, September, 2024 (In context (Österberg, 2024):
“Almost one in five Finns dies of memory loss – there is no cure – yet”.
“One in two women and one in three men over the age of 45 will develop a serious brain disease during their lifetime”.
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Entrepreneurship and innovative thinking has hit rock bottom (Atte Jääskeläinen, Sitra, December, 2024).
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Too many Finnish school kids fail reading comprehension and numeracy (Ministry of education and culture, April, 2025).
- Finnish Times published an article about soaring mental health diagnosis in Finland:
Link to source.
The study Finnish Times referred to (Suokas et al. 2025), concluded the following:
“Most, though not all, individuals experience at least one type of mental disorder, often during youth. Capturing the overall occurrence of mental disorders requires including both primary and secondary care data”.If we return to Gammelgårds statement on economic and domestic violence. This discourse is typically communicated by people within the marxist feminist movement, claiming that domestic violence should be spelled Men's violence against women. In that discourse, economic violence is included on the premise that typically single mother's suffers during divorce and custodial conflicts.
This discourse was promoted by Norwegian feminist sociologist Eva Lundgren, who in the 1990s, was recruited to Uppsala university by the Swedish government. Together with Gun Heimer, a gynecologist, Ann-Marie Kalliokoski, a social worker, and Jenny Westerstrand, a jurist, she conducted a pilot study where men were excluded. Even so, they concluded that domestic violence was explained by gender/sex (Lundgren et al. 2001).
In 2005, Uppsala university got a bit suspicious, and decided to start an investigation into Lundgren's work. They concluded that raw data and conclusion didn't match, and according to Lundgren herself, she was banned from teaching and supervising students about violence, gender, and power (Hagekull, 2005; Holm, 2011).
In 2002, I spoke with Lundgren, and she admitted that she was aware of existing validated models to assess domestic violence, and the result.
What did this result show?
Intimate partner violence. Studies using validated models such as the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS; Straus, 1979; Straus et al. 1996) or similar, show the following distribution:
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Physical intimate partner violence – women are responsible for slightly more than half of the incidence and injuries.
- Lethal domestic violence – is equally unlikely (0.000005) to affect children, men or women (Liem och Koenraadt, 2008).
- Psychological violence (relational aggression (Crick och Grotpeter, 1995, Hyde, 2005) – typically female. Remember, Finnish women’s relational aggression (psychological domestic violence) is the big challenge – 40% of Finnish schoolchildren are are victims.
Ergo. Domestic violence is a typically female phenomenon, and big challenge in Finland.
(Archer, 2000, 2004; Bates, Graham-Kevan och Archer , 2014; Bates och Graham-Kevan, 2016; Bates, 2018; Bates, Kaye, Pennington och Hamlin, 2019; Bergkvist, 2002; Crick och Grotpeter, 1995; Hyde, 2005; Thornton et al. 2012).
Listen to Dr Elizabeth Bates: Intimate Partner Violence: Intimate Partner Violence (34 minuter).
Custody conflict is thus a female conflict that is explained by relational aggression (psychological violence) which is also typically female (Hyde, 2005). The explanation for women's custody conflicts is often high levels of neuroticism and Borderline personality disorder (Jiang, Dong och Wang, 2022; Ode et al. 2009; Ruffalo, 2024; Weisberg et al. 2011; Zalewski et al. 2014).
Coincidentally, when I returned to the conference after-party, I spoke with a young woman. When I told her about the above, she replied: – that's my mother.
A likely conclusion is that at least “reactive gender dysphoria” partly emerges as a consequence of mother's psychological domestic violence.
Another par may be explained by malnutrition.
Länk till källan.
A recent meta-analysis shows that people who abstain from animal sourced food report issues like neuroticism, anxiety, and depression (Dobersket et al. 2023) and that meat consumption is related to:
life satisfaction, “positive mental health”, self-esteem, and vigor. The secondary outcomes were “meaning in life”, optimism, positive emotions, and psychological well-being (Dobersek et al. 2024).Adding to that, in order to function properly, the brain needs animal fat (Calabrese, Frase and MGhaloo, 2024; Ede, 2019).
But in Finland, nutritionists promote the idea that animal fats and meat are bad for health (Österberg, 2025).
And remember, Finland has the highest rate of Alzheimer's in the world, twice the rate per capita compared to Sweden (we share biology and phenotype). Noteworthy, an early marker for Alzheimer's is aggression.
Conclusion. In Finland, they put a lot of emphasis on mental health issues, including gender Dysphoria, which to some extent seem to be related to Complex childhood trauma, mothers domestic violence. That in turn seems to be related to malnutrition as a function of non-scientific advice about nutrition.
Epilog. Two years ago, I attended that Years conference: AgendaPride: All straight panel. Ted Uhros påstående om transidentitet är falsk. The bad Apple effect.
Then, the host, Uhro, who I already new, got furious when I said that trans-identity is a social construct. He blocked me on social media, and refused to say hi! when we met on other occasion. This event was no exception. When I remained afterwards, to talk to people, he rushed out the locale.
Please support the blog via Swish (Sweden), MobilePay (Finland) or Wise.
More about my expertise:
Executive coaching for CEOs/managers and workshops to facilitate Organizational Performance, Learning, and Creativity for Problem Solving | Lectures: Nutrition for physical and mental health | Course/lecture: children's emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development | Language training - Swedish | Academy Competency | CV | Teaching skills and experience | Summary of research project | Instagram | Linkedin | YouTube-channel | TikTok | Twitter
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