This happened to my daughter during the pandemic as well. Sadly she was only 11 years old . She is now 16 and still believing and practicing this ideology. I have lost so many years with her but even more heartbreaking is the years of her childhood that she lost. Praying for all the hurting parents.
I’m convinced that my daughter (who was socially in the trans cult for 4 years) was in the wrong place (SF Bay Area) at the wrong time (COVID lockdown). In the ‘before times,’ she was a totally normal (incredibly gifted) 13-yr old that missed the dances, parties, schools trips, orchestra tours, sports teams that would have course corrected. Instead she got sucked into the online dungeon and the loneliness of her mind—and then once she finally got back to public school with masking in place for a year, they were thrilled to affirm her new social identity. As a family, we helped bring her out and now she’s thriving at college (as a ‘normal girl’). I look forward to watching this film.
Our son was in his dorm room for 2 years during the lockdowns, learning and tutoring from there. He's now non binary, wearing feminine clothes, nail polish and styling his hair. I talk to him and he sounds like a 13 year old girl. He's into candles, pink stuff and hugs a squishmellow toy. His favorite movies are kids' ones like Zootopia etc. He's regressed when he was supposed to become a young adult. As a child he was more fearful of things than other boys, btw.
He feels like this is the identity he was meant to have but I'm seeing it as a psychological mechanism to deal with lockdowns, uncertainty, fear of long covid etc. Instead of helping my fearful son, doctors have given him hormones to grow breasts.
This trans identity is a coping strategy for many.
Deep research will show there is no "long covid" or regular "covid" just an orchestrated fear campaign to manipulate and control the masses. Research into this fake pandemic reveals a great many other orchestrated events have been presented to us through governments and media to frighten and manipulate the people. John Hamer's book, "The Falsification of History" is a great resource. There are many others.
Indeed, trans identity is a coping mechanism, often adopted as a response to various forms of trauma.
Your statement, "as a child he was more fearful of things than other boys" resounds with me. Sensitive boys often have difficulty visualizing themselves as adult men. They need kind and gentle men as role models to realize they don't have to emulate the men most often presented in the corrupt media. If your son can hear the sobering and heartbreaking stories of adult male detransitioners, Forrest Smith, Richie Herron, Shapeshifter, Daniel Black, Airiel Salvatore, and many more, perhaps it will give him pause for thought, and recognize and appreciate his perfect body.
I wish he would be open to ideas outside of this cult ideology but no. I warned him that cults will try to brainwash him when he goes to University but I thought religious cults. And sure enough it happened to him at that vulnerable life stage.
Wishing you success getting through to him before it's too late. PITT has so many great resources in the experiences of parents who have had luck getting their children to desist. GENSPECT is another excellent resource. Researching this issue, and the issue of cults, so deeply that you know it better than your son will put you in a good place for discussions with him.
Thank you for sharing. I will definitely watch. My kid, too, fell into this during the COVID crisis.
The lockdown was a mechanism of power.
Children encouraged to distrust parents.
Parents excluded from major decisions.
Institutions claiming to “protect” children from their own families.
Policies that elevate child–institution relationships over child–parent relationships.
This happened to my daughter during the pandemic as well. Sadly she was only 11 years old . She is now 16 and still believing and practicing this ideology. I have lost so many years with her but even more heartbreaking is the years of her childhood that she lost. Praying for all the hurting parents.
I’m convinced that my daughter (who was socially in the trans cult for 4 years) was in the wrong place (SF Bay Area) at the wrong time (COVID lockdown). In the ‘before times,’ she was a totally normal (incredibly gifted) 13-yr old that missed the dances, parties, schools trips, orchestra tours, sports teams that would have course corrected. Instead she got sucked into the online dungeon and the loneliness of her mind—and then once she finally got back to public school with masking in place for a year, they were thrilled to affirm her new social identity. As a family, we helped bring her out and now she’s thriving at college (as a ‘normal girl’). I look forward to watching this film.
Congratulations on your daughter's recovery from trans identity! Thanks for sharing.
Our son was in his dorm room for 2 years during the lockdowns, learning and tutoring from there. He's now non binary, wearing feminine clothes, nail polish and styling his hair. I talk to him and he sounds like a 13 year old girl. He's into candles, pink stuff and hugs a squishmellow toy. His favorite movies are kids' ones like Zootopia etc. He's regressed when he was supposed to become a young adult. As a child he was more fearful of things than other boys, btw.
He feels like this is the identity he was meant to have but I'm seeing it as a psychological mechanism to deal with lockdowns, uncertainty, fear of long covid etc. Instead of helping my fearful son, doctors have given him hormones to grow breasts.
This trans identity is a coping strategy for many.
Deep research will show there is no "long covid" or regular "covid" just an orchestrated fear campaign to manipulate and control the masses. Research into this fake pandemic reveals a great many other orchestrated events have been presented to us through governments and media to frighten and manipulate the people. John Hamer's book, "The Falsification of History" is a great resource. There are many others.
Indeed, trans identity is a coping mechanism, often adopted as a response to various forms of trauma.
Your statement, "as a child he was more fearful of things than other boys" resounds with me. Sensitive boys often have difficulty visualizing themselves as adult men. They need kind and gentle men as role models to realize they don't have to emulate the men most often presented in the corrupt media. If your son can hear the sobering and heartbreaking stories of adult male detransitioners, Forrest Smith, Richie Herron, Shapeshifter, Daniel Black, Airiel Salvatore, and many more, perhaps it will give him pause for thought, and recognize and appreciate his perfect body.
I wish he would be open to ideas outside of this cult ideology but no. I warned him that cults will try to brainwash him when he goes to University but I thought religious cults. And sure enough it happened to him at that vulnerable life stage.
Wishing you success getting through to him before it's too late. PITT has so many great resources in the experiences of parents who have had luck getting their children to desist. GENSPECT is another excellent resource. Researching this issue, and the issue of cults, so deeply that you know it better than your son will put you in a good place for discussions with him.