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Faith Zotto-Yznaga's avatar

I could’ve written this letter to my son… Thank you for putting into words everything that’s in my heart, and everything that’s in my soul.

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Anon's avatar

Another great & sad post on PITT & a reminder that our kids just aren’t being rational. Your letter makes too much sense and nothing about this makes sense :(

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Erica Weinstein's avatar

Mom: This is naked beauty. You are an inspiration.

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jas9mom@yahoo.com's avatar

Why isn't eveyone on this site providing comments to the FTC?:

https://www.regulations.gov/document/FTC-2025-0264-0001/comment

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Anon's avatar

Ditto!!

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Mommom's avatar

My grief pales in comparison to the grief his young brother feels. For a sibling to experience this unnecessary tragedy is a crime.

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Average Dad's avatar

All true, all so painful, so sick of all of this mess. Gender Affirming Care, Trust the Science, we are truly in an Orwellian world. Benjamin Boyce on podcast Calmversations recently said that a few years ago if a boy/man was having sex with a toaster therapy, and anyone, would guide them away from such an idea, today the same person can go online and find a community of like minded people who are all having sex with toasters.

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Elisabeth MacKinnon's avatar

Like watching your child starve herself....to death.

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Hopefully Unidentified's avatar

Your letter to your son captures many of the ways I respond to my daughter's commitment to her "identity" as a man

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Jane Doe's avatar

"But I’ve also noticed that how you’re presenting yourself seems to be making it harder for others to connect with you — whether it’s in finding a job, forming lasting relationships, or simply being taken seriously in public." - No truer words spoken! I see the quizzical looks he gets from well-meaning strangers who don't know how to respond to his manner of dress which is, frankly, off-putting because it is strange and unflattering but also neither masculine or feminine making him look like he dressed himself while having a psychotic break. The hair bows are worthy of a Vera De Milo sketch (for those who remember In Living Color). I hear him say "people don't seem to like me" and "people call me strange" and it rips me in two emotionally. I've tried to gently point out that the outfits aren't helping (when I feel brave) but that usually ends in disaster because there's only one reality he accepts - his. Thank you for sharing this and know you are far from alone.

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Christine's avatar

I am going through the same thoughts and feelings. I have already offended my son enough and haven't let him know how much playing dress up is insulting to me. His whole world consists of other men who claim to be women, so they all validate each other.

The biggest crime is that the process is too easy for vulnerable people who should be getting mental care instead of free hormones and surgery. If he had to pay for any of that, he wouldn't have gotten himself castrated and breast implants. It is sooooooo sad.

Sending love to you from another devastated mom.

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Adri Mans's avatar

Beautiful. He will understand it in a future now he is in self-denail/delusion phase and everybody who do not comfort to that vision is the enemy, but it is good that you wrote it, you do not explain if you did give it to him and his reaction.

Remember when the second wave feminists arrived and demanded to have jobs like men, and work long hours like men, and have bullies as bosses like men, long hours like men and died young of a heart attack as men do? Women wanted what men wanted or were, the results are for all to see. So in many ways I understand more a woman or a girl that think the solution of their lives is become a man, a fallacy because both genders have good and bad things but the perception in all these "movements or cults" is that "being the other is better", when we should focus in the real problem. Why I cannot accept myself as I am and as I've born?

In the case of boys or men wanted to be women is more complex because who want to be a woman? I don't want to be a woman in this world of madness, a woman that may become a mother of children who (maybe) do not want to be what nature has given them. We do not choose our gender, we comfort to it in a very natural way, we construct our behavior according to our natural biological reality, we accepted not without trauma specially in a society that has descend to madness and where evil is normalized. But gender is also very open to variables, not all men want to play soldiers or care about sports, are men who are more attracted by music or arts or intellectual endeavors, social issues, or doers who are always building things, some love to write and create stories and some as my husband and my father love to cook in spite it is not the only thing they do. Women in the other hand also are in different spectrum, I was a tom boy, I like the trees and be on nature also build stuff, later in life I became more feminine specially when I felt in love for first time. The transition was very natural and nobody questioned me about my gender or never occurred to me that I wasn't nothing else that what I was because I like ride bicycles and wear jeans all the time, now I love dresses!

The no acceptance of the self will never be fixed by exterior changes, it doesn't matter what the celebrities tell you, neither when Cher's daughter tells you that her life is fantastic now that she lost all that weight and cut her tits. She is having all the attention now and probably she will never accept that she was wrong or that she is not a man although she looks kind of one, a feminized male? Sadly these celebrities are monsters in so many ways specially with the most weak, some of them had started to open up about the horrors of their surgeries and sufferings and pain and all the medications they have to have aside of the hormones, because nature rebels against what it is impose on it. If your body is a female body all that testosterone will ruin your kidneys and liver and then you will need medicine for those too, and then all your life will be fighting against your own nature and in the moment you forgot to have them your female characteristics will start to emerge again, so it is a life of fighting against nature, against the current and that is for the rest of your life and you mention dating, you only can date people who are confused like you or they do not give a dam and only want the experience, never a normal man will date a transgender woman. I saw videos where are men with beautiful Barby kind of way "women" that show how these "women" make this men so happy, some of them did not told them that they were fake because they don't believe that so they forgot to mention, they think that they had reach the pinnacle of womanhood, that as you also mentioned, It is offensive for real women. I asked all the men I know if they would go out with a transgender woman, the unanimous answer is _NO WAY- and they also think that if men like that is because they have their own issues. So for a young man wanted to dress up and feel like a woman it takes an extra step of ignorance of what to be a woman entitles and we should tell them not only the truth about it is impossible to change nature and biology in spite that the mad scientists trying to do it all the time but that doesn't mean that the cost of that is very dangerous for humans, nature and society. But also we should explain to them looking to "become" a woman that they will need and extra pair of balls, so please men pretenders do not castrate yourself, do not be the euchnucs of the modern times. We must explain to them clearly what be a woman and a man really means in the inside, in our brains and minds and our hearts. We are attacking our own bodies forcing it to be something that in essence is not, and for that a lifelong of misery will follow.

I know we look appealing but "being" a woman "by choice" is a very stupid thing to do.

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Debra's avatar

I feel exactly the same. This is very close to what I sent my son. In reading it the only difference would be that he has a wife (of 10 + years) who is going along with it and he studied statistics.

I have dreams about finding out who the psychologist is that is encouraging this suicidal path he is on. To see which Big Pharma /political new world order strings are tied to their paychecks. Which college equipped them with the delusional rhetoric with which they are sterilizing an entire generation of the worlds population. I want to stand with those who are exposing the lies and manufactured stats. To go to war with these radicals and hold them accountable for the crimes they are committing against our children!

Thanks for sharing this- I feel the same for my son- who will never be my daughter. I lament for the childhood this idea is destroying with manufactured memories and imagined feelings from a childhood that does not look the way he paints it when he tells his sister how he felt. Saying he always wanted To be a girl while she followed him trying to be just like the boys.

It is just maddening !

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AW's avatar

Complete madness

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Joan P's avatar

Love this. I feel like I could copy it and paste it and send it to my own darling son. It’s that perfectly applicable. He’s even an engineer in a relationship with someone who not only accepts him, but affirms him. Her love has made mine expendable.

Maybe I will forward your words on to him. Thank you.

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Deb DiPietro's avatar

Breaks my heart 💔

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Eleanor Leech's avatar

Beautifully put, I’m sure there’s many mums here who could have written the same. I wonder if your son ever saw that letter or if you write them in hope he may one day be ready to read them. I hope he understands your point of view and finds himself again.

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Joan P's avatar

You’ve chosen a good pen name for yourself, Albert Camus, because the craze of trans ideology is the plague of our generation.

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Pirate Hag's avatar

If genitals don’t matter for clothing why did you cut yours off skoptsy? Do try to keep up - we’ve all noticed by now - you genderborgs are the ones clinging to ludicrous regressive sex-stereotypes, which you project on the rest of us. You can’t even tell the difference between gay and “trans”, you clown. Off you jog with your weird cult, enjoy your lives on remote communes contemplating your gendered thetans - that’s your future now that the normies have gotten sick of you.

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paleblue's avatar

The utterly ludicrous nature of the cult aside, that is perhaps the most obvious fault line that SHOULD be creating cognitive dissonance in its adherents. They're all so liberated, yet their entire house of cards is predicated on regressive stereotypes!

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Pirate Hag's avatar

There are a lot of immature autists suffering black & white thinking, and with no theory of mind in the ranks ( or should I say congregation), and a stalinist ability to rewrite history. For decades no one had a problem with gender-bender styling, we’re only paying attention now it comes attached with sexist homophobic clowns who take it as literal evidence of sex change or a sexed soul. With autist, virginal, high school debating team energy the genderborgs accuse the normies of being “obsessed with genitals” etc - as if arresting puberty and getting cosmetic surgery on genitals is no big deal.

They parade around pouring scorn on ordinary families and thinking they sound clever and progressive and not like every other damn cult that broke up families. It’s not for nothing I call them Sexed Soul Scientology. It will be poor old mum and dad who have to clean up, pay up and support the inevitable fallout in decades to come when the world moves on (there will be a new identitarian mass formation, I reckon something AI mediated), and the consequences of the medical experiment become clear etc.

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Eleanor Leech's avatar

You are showing no understanding of this topic, perhaps educate yourself before joining in the chat. I don’t care what clothes my kids wear, my son wears trousers as do I and his sister. I do care that he is damaging his health by injecting unregulated hormones.

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ARaf4's avatar

This captured all of the worries I have for my son.

Thank you for sharing.

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