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Deadnames's avatar

Just when I thought I could shed no more tears I find myself weeping for you, your family & your beautiful nephew.

It just goes to show that when you thought you could not read anything more tragic, this cult just continues to inflict unbearable pain even when hope seemed possible for your nephew. The pain must be unbearable & I hurt with you & your family.

We must defeat this death cult by speaking our truths & relying on love & truth to give us comfort & give us strength to fight, fight, fight!

Bless you & all the families that are being mentally abused over & over again by this evil!

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Holly's avatar

I am sorry for your huge losses.

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Emily Ann's avatar

Absolutely heartwrenching. I am so sorry for your loss.

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Nora's avatar

I'm so sorry.... my now adult child was groomed as well, but refused to admit it. He consistently said it was "his choice"...finally in conversation I heard him say to a friend, he was groomed. I was elated. It hasn't changed the ideology ...but it's a tiny drop of reality. It's a war against an insidious contagion. My heart breaks for your sister and you. Prayers to all.

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Ann's avatar

I’m so sorry for your loss.. so sad that the evil

of this world robbed an innocent child from a long and healthy life. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. May God give you comfort and peace as you lean on Him.

Sincerely.

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Wendi Shaffner's avatar

This is the saddest story I know. This poor beautiful boy taken away for no good reason. I am so sorry for your loss and still so angry for this inconceivable evil.

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Hong An's avatar

Thank you for sharing. I can’t imagine the pain that your family and your nephew had been through. I pray for peace and comfort for you all. 🙏🙏🙏

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Anon's avatar

And to my neighbor & all those that congratulate me on having a daughter now & not a son, you have no idea. To the people out there who say ‘I have no problem with trans’. Let them be. How can we not be bitter, these are our troubled youth. Your story is too sad. ❤️

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Joanna Vital Health's avatar

I call the transgender ideologues the "transmafia".

Some of us here in NYC are fighting them. We went to Community Education Council District 2's monthly meeting last night for that purpose. The public is given an opportunity to speak, but because of the incessant harassment of the transmafia, many from our side are afraid to speak.

I was the only one from our side to speak. Below is the Link. I speak at about the 1 hour and 10 minute mark and the 3 hour and 30 minute mark.

--Joanna from NYC's Medical Freedom Alliance

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7blNYocj-cE

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Jenny Poyer Ackerman's avatar

Your courage is extraordinary, and the madness in that room terrifying. Thank you for standing up to it -- not many of us could, sadly.

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Joanna Vital Health's avatar

Thank you so much for your comment, Jenny. I remind myself that if no one speaks against them, then theirs are the ONLY voices that can even be heard. They also tried to prevent me from event speaking by snatching up the sign-up sheet from me (TWICE!)

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Jenny Poyer Ackerman's avatar

That is truly deranged behavior! I want to interview a psychologist who can help me understand how grownups can act this way in public. Btw, I really appreciated the way you paced side to side as it made visible the antics of the activists in the back. Was that a silent Macarena meant to demonstrate the importance of drugging and cutting up kids?? What the everloving fuck?!

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Joanna Vital Health's avatar

Hi Jenny,

Yes, many of the transactivists present were dancing the Macarena as I spoke. They appear to be led by a "transwoman" who goes by the name of Alaina Daniels and is also a TEACHER, for maximum target potential, I suppose.

I pace when I speak for multiple reasons. Having studied self-defense, I know that a moving target is less likely to be hit with something (in case they throw things or WORSE) and also because I want the Video viewers to be able to see a little of the madness that is going on there. They have so many other antics that Video viewers can't see.... like fake coughing, fake crying, and humming in unison....all done very LOUDLY, for maximum disruption.

It is a circus and some of the panelists there, like Gavin Healy, actually encourage this behavior.

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Melissa R.'s avatar

Heartbreaking. This should never have happened.

I cannot imagine why people celebrate this disappearing of self.

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Anonamom's avatar

Too many thoughts and feelings about this nightmare. Some destructive ideas should never come to fruition. So many people contributing to the dissociative identities and triangulating families. Love to you and your family.

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L RiverOtter's avatar

I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you and the rest of his family continue to find strength and healing in the love and good memories you have of him.

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GrannyAnny's avatar

I’m so sorry for your profound loss, and I also want to commend you for your persevering, tender and grounded love for your nephew and your sister. This is true and exemplary compassion.

To the rest of us, I know I’m preaching to the choir and myself, but I think this will encourage us all in the fight:

I just heard a talk about the difference between empathy and sympathy/compassion. While it can be good to feel WITH someone (empathy), it becomes a problem when empathy casts you with both feet down the rabbit hole or in the deep water to drown with them. Sympathy/compassion stays grounded on something firmer than the feelings of the sufferer, and offers help to get out of the pit or deep water. People might not like the concept of sympathy because it implies a stronger person rendering help to a weaker one. But in life we all normally take turns being the stronger or weaker one. It’s not a defect on character to need help, and we should all be willing both to give and receive real compassion/sympathy. We must know what our grounding is. In this group some are grounded on God’s revelation in religious texts, prayer, encouraging words of truth, and availability to the sufferers. For others it is grounding in the facts of nature and basic biology, persuasive words, availability or even good activism to stop the harmful activism. For many, it is grounding in both realms because both the groundings are mutually compatible. Stay grounded out there, and keep giving real compassion to those suffering from this evil ideology.

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Average Dad's avatar

Think I heard that as well on Stephanie Winn's Podcast recently. Episode 149, empathy is you go drown with the person, to really feel what they feel, sympathy is you care so much that you throw them a life ring and pull them back to sanity or safety.

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LovingMother's avatar

This is a lovely comment to a profoundly sad article, GrannyAnny. When my RODG daughter was in high school one of the many odd things I recall hearing from the school was that we should no longer speak of sympathy but only empathy. You have so clearly stated why that is wrong - on top of a big pile of other wrong thinking foisted upon us - by our "queering"/destroying cultural betters? - who have no proper empathy or sympathy?

And, can't they stick to basic academics? I'm for ending the Department of Education for one thing.

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Beeswax's avatar

I'm with you on the so-called Department of Education. There's no education going on there, just ideological capture and fear mongering. Our children deserve so much better, it's a cruel joke to have to mention it at all.

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Paranoid Mother's avatar

Thank you for writing this. I only knew him through PITT essays, but I think about him and his family frequently--the joy of his return and the devastation that followed. Thank you for keeping in the fight for all the other lost boys and girls.

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Marie's avatar

Heartbroken to read such a beautiful tribute to your nephew. We loved him even though we had never met him. We prayed for him as we pray for all of our kids. Sadly, the shocking outcome was one that none of us expected or dreamed could be possible. RIP beautiful sweet boy. Your memory will live on in our herts. I pray daily for his parents to have peace and let the sweet memories of his short life wash over them and bring them comfort.

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ccGrandpa's avatar

I am so sorry to hear of his death. The phrase "seemingly unscathed" haunts me. I imagine he was trying to forget his year of indoctrination, and the contradictions overwhelmed him. God Bless us all as we work to save our country, one confused teenager/20-something at a time.

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