Thank you for addressing these issues from these important perspectives.
I would add that the transgenderization movement is limiting the definitions of man and woman to very narrow traditional models, while insisting that if you want to look like a specific gender model, then your body must match. And, convenient for the trans-radicals, if you don’t identify with their gender model matching your body, you will be physically altered and neutered in the process, which amounts to “cleansing“ the population of deviation in future generations. This is more like a fascist action than anything else it may pretend to be.
You have shown that State or ideology sponsored separation of kids from patents is always a move for power and not for provision. Its about societal change. Often the movers, like trans activists, dont have kids of their own.
Abusive families do need intervention, but abusive families are the exception, while activists would make them the rule.
Thank you for a thoughtful piece that helps put this anti-family trend into historical perspective. I found the comparison to Maoist thought particularly apt.
"The impulse to help gender-questioning children,"....we all want to help them. The problem is thinking that the help required is locking out the parents, helping with social and medical transition, etc., and acting on it. Keeping the parents in the dark, colluding, in some cases, mental illness (do they help anorexics get what they wish?), and not even being responsible enough to learn these interventions lack an evidence base and have terribly harmed many.
Our schools are not qualified nor hired to do (especially non evidence supported) psychosocial interventions without parental approval or involvement. It's pure and destructive hubris.
And let's not forget that most kids are not gender-questioning to begin with, until the ideology is implanted in their brains by indoctrinated teachers using colorful propaganda geared for children, and behavior modification in the form of social rewards when the kids "discover their true gender identity" at the age of seven.
Agree. My daughter was never "gender questioning". In fact, she's always been very feminine - begged for ballet classes - and is even straight - loved her family and everything about her life before high school. She had interests all over the board (as in if your mother ever gave you a truck and a train set in addition to a doll and you liked to build things sweetly you must be a boy now) - is very bright, making her less part of the "in" social pack. Then, the girl - like mine - falls under the sway of a cool narcissist student leader - gets sucked in as an ally in the GSA and is slowly groomed to a new identity. They get re-imagined pasts. Then, teachers either think they are being wonderful gas lighting the kids behind the backs of parents with new names and pronouns or else they think its not so big a deal - let the kids experiment at this age - they can always drop it. Either way, it sets up a terrible opposition to parents in the mind of a minor and I take Sad Parent's point that teachers are neither qualified nor paid to do this. It is pure and destructive hubris on our dime whether it is public or private school.
I'm enraged and heartsick on your behalf and on behalf of your daughter, used as a pawn in this obscene juggernaut. The "experts" who do this to children and families belong in prison, and there's a lot of guilt to go around.
I appreciate that very much, Beeswax. She is indeed a sweet naive pawn. My daughter has not been physically harmed so far and I am hopeful. I will be forever thankful if we get out of this in one piece. But, there has been a lot of trauma to the family. I did not expect this onslaught.
Have you been on the Truth Fairy today? The trolls are out. They call names and deflect. If you are not on board with grooming and Gender Ideology you must want someone "dead" instead of same sex attracted. There is no logic or love. This is mental illness and our society has rolled over.
Yes, I saw. Abigail takes it on the chin every day. What a brave, exemplary woman. I'm pretty sure she goes through the comments sections and deletes the offensive stuff on a regular basis. It serves no useful function.
I'm very happy to know that there's hope for your daughter! She's lucky to have you for her mother, that's for certain.
Abigail is one of the most amazing humans of our time. Maybe that will be recognized after the dust settles and we come through the other side. I cannot believe we will be on the Looney Tunes setting indefinitely.
This is one of the most important articles PITT has published. It takes all the heartbreaking and infuriating stories published here up to now and highlights the ideological and organizational corruption that underlies them all. If parents think critical race theory is bad for society, it has nothing on gender ideology.
They've been on stealth mode - acknowledged below - so that most people have no clue what has happened. And, trans activists work to hide their cause behind other issues like race & class:
Ryan Grim: Trans Rights Memo Warns Movement Badly Losing Sports Debate, Signals Uphill Climb
Wow. Grim is the definition of a simpering tool. I can hear his mind working: how can I sound sympathetic to trans activists, so they won’t dogpile me and destroy my career? I was happy to see Robby Soave hem and haw only a little before stating the obvious, that trans women are men who shouldn’t be competing against women, and that trans activists are intolerant ideologues who eat their own. It’s a remarkable exchange on a mainstream channel, actually.
In fact, Grim did us a favor by pulling back the curtain and exposing the trans gaslighting strategy on this issue. It’s not going to work.
Thanks for the link. There is hope and sanity here.
Anche le sette religiose come prima cosa allontanano i sudditi dalle loro famiglie amorevoli, è il modo per rendere più vulnerabili e sicuramente meno lucidi le persone che si vogliono manipolare.....per me è quello che stanno facendo gli attivisti e tutto questo viene enfatizzato con l'utilizzo dei social in primis e dell'istruzione pubblica in secondo luogo.
Thank you for addressing these issues from these important perspectives.
I would add that the transgenderization movement is limiting the definitions of man and woman to very narrow traditional models, while insisting that if you want to look like a specific gender model, then your body must match. And, convenient for the trans-radicals, if you don’t identify with their gender model matching your body, you will be physically altered and neutered in the process, which amounts to “cleansing“ the population of deviation in future generations. This is more like a fascist action than anything else it may pretend to be.
This movement is Totalitarian (at best), a form of Fascist thinking and anti-humanist.
Thank you for this article. I think it is the most important one yet. I often think of The Chinese Cultural Revolution myself.
James Lindsay makes this connection on his latest New Discourses podcast.
Thank you!
You have shown that State or ideology sponsored separation of kids from patents is always a move for power and not for provision. Its about societal change. Often the movers, like trans activists, dont have kids of their own.
Abusive families do need intervention, but abusive families are the exception, while activists would make them the rule.
In England I observed the same destructive tendency to destroy the traditional family unit. The State has become overpowering.
The chances of me being shot are less than in China, and the good news is I have more freedom of speech now that websites such as this exist.
Thank you for a thoughtful piece that helps put this anti-family trend into historical perspective. I found the comparison to Maoist thought particularly apt.
"The impulse to help gender-questioning children,"....we all want to help them. The problem is thinking that the help required is locking out the parents, helping with social and medical transition, etc., and acting on it. Keeping the parents in the dark, colluding, in some cases, mental illness (do they help anorexics get what they wish?), and not even being responsible enough to learn these interventions lack an evidence base and have terribly harmed many.
Our schools are not qualified nor hired to do (especially non evidence supported) psychosocial interventions without parental approval or involvement. It's pure and destructive hubris.
On our dime.
And let's not forget that most kids are not gender-questioning to begin with, until the ideology is implanted in their brains by indoctrinated teachers using colorful propaganda geared for children, and behavior modification in the form of social rewards when the kids "discover their true gender identity" at the age of seven.
Agree. My daughter was never "gender questioning". In fact, she's always been very feminine - begged for ballet classes - and is even straight - loved her family and everything about her life before high school. She had interests all over the board (as in if your mother ever gave you a truck and a train set in addition to a doll and you liked to build things sweetly you must be a boy now) - is very bright, making her less part of the "in" social pack. Then, the girl - like mine - falls under the sway of a cool narcissist student leader - gets sucked in as an ally in the GSA and is slowly groomed to a new identity. They get re-imagined pasts. Then, teachers either think they are being wonderful gas lighting the kids behind the backs of parents with new names and pronouns or else they think its not so big a deal - let the kids experiment at this age - they can always drop it. Either way, it sets up a terrible opposition to parents in the mind of a minor and I take Sad Parent's point that teachers are neither qualified nor paid to do this. It is pure and destructive hubris on our dime whether it is public or private school.
I'm enraged and heartsick on your behalf and on behalf of your daughter, used as a pawn in this obscene juggernaut. The "experts" who do this to children and families belong in prison, and there's a lot of guilt to go around.
I appreciate that very much, Beeswax. She is indeed a sweet naive pawn. My daughter has not been physically harmed so far and I am hopeful. I will be forever thankful if we get out of this in one piece. But, there has been a lot of trauma to the family. I did not expect this onslaught.
Have you been on the Truth Fairy today? The trolls are out. They call names and deflect. If you are not on board with grooming and Gender Ideology you must want someone "dead" instead of same sex attracted. There is no logic or love. This is mental illness and our society has rolled over.
I will never forget or stop fighting for reality.
Yes, I saw. Abigail takes it on the chin every day. What a brave, exemplary woman. I'm pretty sure she goes through the comments sections and deletes the offensive stuff on a regular basis. It serves no useful function.
I'm very happy to know that there's hope for your daughter! She's lucky to have you for her mother, that's for certain.
I appreciate that. :)
Abigail is one of the most amazing humans of our time. Maybe that will be recognized after the dust settles and we come through the other side. I cannot believe we will be on the Looney Tunes setting indefinitely.
XO, LM
Amen
This is one of the most important articles PITT has published. It takes all the heartbreaking and infuriating stories published here up to now and highlights the ideological and organizational corruption that underlies them all. If parents think critical race theory is bad for society, it has nothing on gender ideology.
Agreed.
They've been on stealth mode - acknowledged below - so that most people have no clue what has happened. And, trans activists work to hide their cause behind other issues like race & class:
Ryan Grim: Trans Rights Memo Warns Movement Badly Losing Sports Debate, Signals Uphill Climb
https://youtu.be/lxR78esqpEQ
Wow. Grim is the definition of a simpering tool. I can hear his mind working: how can I sound sympathetic to trans activists, so they won’t dogpile me and destroy my career? I was happy to see Robby Soave hem and haw only a little before stating the obvious, that trans women are men who shouldn’t be competing against women, and that trans activists are intolerant ideologues who eat their own. It’s a remarkable exchange on a mainstream channel, actually.
In fact, Grim did us a favor by pulling back the curtain and exposing the trans gaslighting strategy on this issue. It’s not going to work.
Thanks for the link. There is hope and sanity here.
He did.
Yes, exactly!!
Anche le sette religiose come prima cosa allontanano i sudditi dalle loro famiglie amorevoli, è il modo per rendere più vulnerabili e sicuramente meno lucidi le persone che si vogliono manipolare.....per me è quello che stanno facendo gli attivisti e tutto questo viene enfatizzato con l'utilizzo dei social in primis e dell'istruzione pubblica in secondo luogo.
This is so well written! It is just undeniable that this has all gone way too far!