Parents with current young children: what questions are you asking your pediatrician to determine their clinic’s stance on this? I’m at the point where I will be doctor shopping if my kids’ current pediatrician goes along with this. It’s hard because I am medical - you just follow policies and procedures, but the current stuff being recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics is… junk.
Please offer suggestions, I have 3 years to find a new one. Some questions I am considering:
1) Do you believe biology affects one’s gender or is biology completely untethered to one’s gender identity?
2) If a patient admits to you they feel like the opposite sex, what is this clinic’s stance or policy in treatment?
3) Do you have a list of therapists or therapies you recommend for these patients - is it available to the public?
4) do you follow the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations in these cases?
Any advice you all have is greatly appreciated, especially if anyone has done this before. So weird to have to do.
Trump didn’t make Trump the boogeyman foil for trans-activists. The media carried that water, and the Democrats were happy to place themselves on the “compassionate” side of the campaign without thinking through the consequences of their actions. Driving wedges between groups and identity politics has been the base of Democrat politics and social activists for decades. Making Trump the spring board for these activists was part of a larger planned movement. Much of which, the author had already alluded to. Number 10 should have been: Legacy media props up social activists.
Many good points. Regarding Trump are you saying that the Democrats are in favor of destroying children's lives just to prove they do not support Trump. Biden inviting trans people to white house celebrations and making a display of it promotes a pro trans agenda. I wish the democrats had the guts to speak against this even if it meant they supported Trump on this idea. The real problem is lack of common sense and adults on the left fearing what others think. JUST SPEAK AGANIST THIS EVIL.
As weird as that sounds, I suspect there's something to it. The Democrats have gone all-in on Orange Man Bad. Trump is a fascist, so if Trump likes it, it must be fascist.
Perhaps the best example of this is immigration. Trump had the border under control using a variety of techniques, mostly his "remain in Mexico" policy. Joe Biden ended those policies during his first week in office and specifically said he was doing it because Trump was racist and thus his policies were racist (Orange Man Bad). His administration has refused to reinstate these policies despite a flood of millions of people over the last 3 years and the obvious fact that they worked. Since Trump promoted them, Democrats must oppose them. Even if 60%+ of Americans favor them. Even if a plurality of their own voters favor them. The paradigm of Trump Derangement Syndrome is more important.
Working class Democrats and Republicans are almost indistinguishable. Middle class Dems and Reps can still coexist (but often don't since they have the money to self-segregate, ala The Big Sort), but the further up the economic ladder you go the more divorced the views of these groups become from each other and from reality as a whole. Money insulates you from the consequences of your policies: Rob Henderson's "luxury beliefs" in action.
Your run-of-the-mill Democrat on the street is not in favor of slicing the private parts off children. But Democratic leadership has made this a partisan issue, and has convinced their voters that Trump is a fascist dictator and Republicans want to black people back in chains and women back in the kitchen. When the party that doesn't want to mutilate children is Nazis, what's your average, uninformed, voter supposed to do?
I think that out of pure ignorance they believe they're saving children's lives. They believe what they've been told about gender affirming care, in that it is necessary to keep kids with gender dysphoria from committing suicide. Since trans issues have been lumped in with gay rights (take a look at the updated pride flag), they believe this is another human rights issue. They're told that trans people are being persecuted, and they don't question whether it's true. None of these people (I would bet Biden is among them) have read any of the books or articles we are reading.
And when presented with information that challenges this narrative they put their hands over their ears and eyes because they do not want to know. Their comfort and political beliefs take precedence over my child.
It's not about your child. You make everything personal, and you just upset yourself by doing so. The Democrats have a long way to go, but I think the tide is turning.
Good job, so helpful. This one's a keeper. I especially appreciate the "Mindlessness" problem that's enabled trans, and several other very bad ideas to go unchecked, unstudied and unchallenged. Many people are too overwhelmed to think; they are getting news, updates, info, ideas, stories, soundbites, at fire-hose volume. Add to that their real fear of saying/doing/feeling anything wrong and getting shouted off the "team." The lack of curiosity that can be witnessed in my beautiful, blue west coast bubble is astounding, even if I do understand it.
Great analysis. Re: the analysis of Trump and the Republicans, I would note that Trudeau's Liberals in Canada have also embraced the madness of sterilizing children and cutting off healthy body parts of teens and adults. And Canada has no Trump-like person in politics. I would also suggest the size of the U.S. and the lack of centralized healthcare may continue to contribute to the "head-in-the-sand" stance of many so-called health professionals. In the UK, the NHS can perhaps establish policy in ways that thousands of separate hospitals and health insurance companies cannot. It would be easier to question the policies of the NHS (in the UK) than to take on policies of thousands of U.S. affiliated centres. Then again, Canada has provincial healthcare bodies in each province and they also have signed onto this rubbish, so maybe that's not the answer. Some food for thought at least.
I agree. Trump didn't cause the polarization that has been firmly on its way for well over a decade. Trump threw the light on what was already seething.
Not just the social media, but the handheld anxiety machines through which it came. Not just the clinicians and therapists and teachers, but the entire adminstrative class. Not just the terror of Trump, but the use of "trans kids" as a shibboleth to retain standing in the administrative class. Not just the accusations of transphobia, but the entirety of campus witch hunts and the acceptability of cancel culture to the class of Americans who run America, but who no longer believe in democracy or freedom or America. An ersatz civic religion.
I've been following the trans ideology's conversion of minors, reading and researching intensely. My interest is because of its horrible impact on teenagers who have enough problems without this. I have a couple of thoughts.
First, It seems that many parents are giving in too easily. There has been a revolt against the stricter parenting that I grew up with, resulting in many swearing to never do that to their kids. I can't say that the stricter method was better, but it seems that it's gone too far the other way. The current situation has parents almost afraid to challenge their children. They are also too vulnerable to the guilt trip laid on their by activists saying their child will commit suicide if they don't go along with transitioning.
The other thing that is intriguing is the cult aspect. When I was young, parents were stressing over Moonies and other similar groups. Too many humans are seduced by cults that say to leave your family because it is your enemy. The Moonies hypnotized young people by "love-bombing" them which can win anybody who feels like he/she doesn't fit in.
There is one other factor, the "need to be cool" factor. Every teen wants to be cool. When I was a teen, being cool meant long hair for guys, no bras for women, smoking dope, and free sex. I had the long hair, but not enough free sex. I smoked a little dope, dropped a little acid. Far out, babee.
Today, being cool means being queer. If you are queer, you are at the forefront of the pack. The more queer you are, the more cool you are. If you are queerer than everyone, you are a cool leader.
This made me remember a conversation with my husband and another parent with a daughter pretending to be a boy. We were sitting around a fire pit drinking beer and wishing our daughters would just drink, smoke pot and have sex in cars like we all did lol. And to think, those were once some of my worries as a parent with daughters.
Yeah sex and pot seem so harmless. I remember when my daughter was 16 I thought "I'd much rather you get knocked up and drop out of high school than graduate with a perfect gpa, go to an Ivy league university and medically transition".
I wasn’t aware of trans ideology until my daughter was 16 and as she had a girlfriend not a boyfriend I didn’t have worries about her getting knocked up either. The teenager years are hazardous no matter what. Teenagers are often reckless short term thinkers. But I would definitely rather be dealing with those kinds of issues than the trans stuff. At least the rest of the world wouldn’t be cheering on her self destruction. And sometimes it’s laugh or cry. I cry a lot. But sometimes I do laugh at the absurdity of it all. Sometimes I have to just to get through another day.
Some have noted that these girls are having their breasts removed before the breasts are caressed by a lover. They are certainly being removed before a baby has a chance to suckle from mommy. I have heard that for the males, they have never masturbated. These kids are removing sexual equipment before it is used as the original function intends.
Trump did not "mishandle the COVID-19 pandemic". He should have been less involved, but did a lot of good. He put "Operation Warp Speed" in place, which resulted in a vaccine in a record time. No one knew that COVID was much like influenza, in that the disease is a family of diseases, and mutates very quickly.
Operation Warp Speed was important, but there was a lot of time wasted in the beginning, and dishonesty about what was happening. “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” Yeah, right.
Well, yeah, because no one had the slightest fucking idea about anything at that point. When you don't know anything, it looks confused. And it was confused. As to the "under control", yes, they said that. Because panic is very ugly and controlling panic is very important.
Nice try, but no. The public needed to hear the truth, but Trump didn't have the slightest idea what that was, or what to do about it. How could he possibly win the trust and the cooperation of the public under those circumstances?
As I recall, he seemed more in line initially with what Sweden ultimately did. I wonder if he didn’t give in to the pressure of the “experts” eventually. But it was Biden who carried forward with the extreme lockdowns and mandatory vaccines.
I don't see "Schools" listed as a factor contributing to transmania.
In many areas children are being taught a full spectrum of gender woo as scientific fact. The curriculum may start in elementary school, long before children develop critical thinking abilities, and is often provided by the trans-pushing activist organizations themselves.
Then we have schools that think a child's gender confusion should be hidden from parents, so they keep secrets and reinforce it before a parent even knows what is going on.
I agree. Do you think this can be traced to higher education where we have generations indoctrinated in Gender Theory at a university level teaching children?
Lengthy, but comprehensive. There is indeed so much at play here & honestly it takes a while to explain to those who cannot see. Probably explains why I seem to fail so miserably & end up exhausted. Just today at work(preschool) a mom shared her concerns about how all the boys are wearing nail polish & her son’s cartoon shows show same sex characters kissing. She is shocked by the explicit books for children in the public library & her son wants to know why he can’t wear a dress to school just like ‘x’ in the other class. What’s so telling is that this was shared in a whisper. It’s an unpopular opinion to say ‘ this isn’t normal’
I don't think the problem is that the hormones are synthetic, it's that they are the wrong levels for these people's bodies. There are normal levels of testosterone and estrogen for each person and it is sex dependent. Giving one group the levels for the other is causing an unhealthy hormonal imbalance. Doesn't matter if it's not synthetic. It's the wrong fuel if you will for their system.
It's absolute hubris to think it's fine to put a kid on these for the rest of their lives and not even track what happens to them. We already see life expectancy cut in half (Brik et Al, 2021)
Parents with current young children: what questions are you asking your pediatrician to determine their clinic’s stance on this? I’m at the point where I will be doctor shopping if my kids’ current pediatrician goes along with this. It’s hard because I am medical - you just follow policies and procedures, but the current stuff being recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics is… junk.
Please offer suggestions, I have 3 years to find a new one. Some questions I am considering:
1) Do you believe biology affects one’s gender or is biology completely untethered to one’s gender identity?
2) If a patient admits to you they feel like the opposite sex, what is this clinic’s stance or policy in treatment?
3) Do you have a list of therapists or therapies you recommend for these patients - is it available to the public?
4) do you follow the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations in these cases?
Any advice you all have is greatly appreciated, especially if anyone has done this before. So weird to have to do.
Trump didn’t make Trump the boogeyman foil for trans-activists. The media carried that water, and the Democrats were happy to place themselves on the “compassionate” side of the campaign without thinking through the consequences of their actions. Driving wedges between groups and identity politics has been the base of Democrat politics and social activists for decades. Making Trump the spring board for these activists was part of a larger planned movement. Much of which, the author had already alluded to. Number 10 should have been: Legacy media props up social activists.
This is my point. I'm not interested in finger pointing or blame gaming.
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Many good points. Regarding Trump are you saying that the Democrats are in favor of destroying children's lives just to prove they do not support Trump. Biden inviting trans people to white house celebrations and making a display of it promotes a pro trans agenda. I wish the democrats had the guts to speak against this even if it meant they supported Trump on this idea. The real problem is lack of common sense and adults on the left fearing what others think. JUST SPEAK AGANIST THIS EVIL.
As weird as that sounds, I suspect there's something to it. The Democrats have gone all-in on Orange Man Bad. Trump is a fascist, so if Trump likes it, it must be fascist.
Perhaps the best example of this is immigration. Trump had the border under control using a variety of techniques, mostly his "remain in Mexico" policy. Joe Biden ended those policies during his first week in office and specifically said he was doing it because Trump was racist and thus his policies were racist (Orange Man Bad). His administration has refused to reinstate these policies despite a flood of millions of people over the last 3 years and the obvious fact that they worked. Since Trump promoted them, Democrats must oppose them. Even if 60%+ of Americans favor them. Even if a plurality of their own voters favor them. The paradigm of Trump Derangement Syndrome is more important.
Working class Democrats and Republicans are almost indistinguishable. Middle class Dems and Reps can still coexist (but often don't since they have the money to self-segregate, ala The Big Sort), but the further up the economic ladder you go the more divorced the views of these groups become from each other and from reality as a whole. Money insulates you from the consequences of your policies: Rob Henderson's "luxury beliefs" in action.
Your run-of-the-mill Democrat on the street is not in favor of slicing the private parts off children. But Democratic leadership has made this a partisan issue, and has convinced their voters that Trump is a fascist dictator and Republicans want to black people back in chains and women back in the kitchen. When the party that doesn't want to mutilate children is Nazis, what's your average, uninformed, voter supposed to do?
I think that out of pure ignorance they believe they're saving children's lives. They believe what they've been told about gender affirming care, in that it is necessary to keep kids with gender dysphoria from committing suicide. Since trans issues have been lumped in with gay rights (take a look at the updated pride flag), they believe this is another human rights issue. They're told that trans people are being persecuted, and they don't question whether it's true. None of these people (I would bet Biden is among them) have read any of the books or articles we are reading.
And when presented with information that challenges this narrative they put their hands over their ears and eyes because they do not want to know. Their comfort and political beliefs take precedence over my child.
It's not about your child. You make everything personal, and you just upset yourself by doing so. The Democrats have a long way to go, but I think the tide is turning.
It’s not about my child for you. But for me it is very much about my child.
The mother of all of this is cultural Marxism.
You lost me at Trump. TDS is real.
There is a kind of derangement going on, but it's not what you think. People need to start listening to what this man actually says.
Good job, so helpful. This one's a keeper. I especially appreciate the "Mindlessness" problem that's enabled trans, and several other very bad ideas to go unchecked, unstudied and unchallenged. Many people are too overwhelmed to think; they are getting news, updates, info, ideas, stories, soundbites, at fire-hose volume. Add to that their real fear of saying/doing/feeling anything wrong and getting shouted off the "team." The lack of curiosity that can be witnessed in my beautiful, blue west coast bubble is astounding, even if I do understand it.
Great analysis. Re: the analysis of Trump and the Republicans, I would note that Trudeau's Liberals in Canada have also embraced the madness of sterilizing children and cutting off healthy body parts of teens and adults. And Canada has no Trump-like person in politics. I would also suggest the size of the U.S. and the lack of centralized healthcare may continue to contribute to the "head-in-the-sand" stance of many so-called health professionals. In the UK, the NHS can perhaps establish policy in ways that thousands of separate hospitals and health insurance companies cannot. It would be easier to question the policies of the NHS (in the UK) than to take on policies of thousands of U.S. affiliated centres. Then again, Canada has provincial healthcare bodies in each province and they also have signed onto this rubbish, so maybe that's not the answer. Some food for thought at least.
I agree. Trump didn't cause the polarization that has been firmly on its way for well over a decade. Trump threw the light on what was already seething.
Not just the social media, but the handheld anxiety machines through which it came. Not just the clinicians and therapists and teachers, but the entire adminstrative class. Not just the terror of Trump, but the use of "trans kids" as a shibboleth to retain standing in the administrative class. Not just the accusations of transphobia, but the entirety of campus witch hunts and the acceptability of cancel culture to the class of Americans who run America, but who no longer believe in democracy or freedom or America. An ersatz civic religion.
I've been following the trans ideology's conversion of minors, reading and researching intensely. My interest is because of its horrible impact on teenagers who have enough problems without this. I have a couple of thoughts.
First, It seems that many parents are giving in too easily. There has been a revolt against the stricter parenting that I grew up with, resulting in many swearing to never do that to their kids. I can't say that the stricter method was better, but it seems that it's gone too far the other way. The current situation has parents almost afraid to challenge their children. They are also too vulnerable to the guilt trip laid on their by activists saying their child will commit suicide if they don't go along with transitioning.
The other thing that is intriguing is the cult aspect. When I was young, parents were stressing over Moonies and other similar groups. Too many humans are seduced by cults that say to leave your family because it is your enemy. The Moonies hypnotized young people by "love-bombing" them which can win anybody who feels like he/she doesn't fit in.
There is one other factor, the "need to be cool" factor. Every teen wants to be cool. When I was a teen, being cool meant long hair for guys, no bras for women, smoking dope, and free sex. I had the long hair, but not enough free sex. I smoked a little dope, dropped a little acid. Far out, babee.
Today, being cool means being queer. If you are queer, you are at the forefront of the pack. The more queer you are, the more cool you are. If you are queerer than everyone, you are a cool leader.
This made me remember a conversation with my husband and another parent with a daughter pretending to be a boy. We were sitting around a fire pit drinking beer and wishing our daughters would just drink, smoke pot and have sex in cars like we all did lol. And to think, those were once some of my worries as a parent with daughters.
Yeah sex and pot seem so harmless. I remember when my daughter was 16 I thought "I'd much rather you get knocked up and drop out of high school than graduate with a perfect gpa, go to an Ivy league university and medically transition".
I wasn’t aware of trans ideology until my daughter was 16 and as she had a girlfriend not a boyfriend I didn’t have worries about her getting knocked up either. The teenager years are hazardous no matter what. Teenagers are often reckless short term thinkers. But I would definitely rather be dealing with those kinds of issues than the trans stuff. At least the rest of the world wouldn’t be cheering on her self destruction. And sometimes it’s laugh or cry. I cry a lot. But sometimes I do laugh at the absurdity of it all. Sometimes I have to just to get through another day.
Some have noted that these girls are having their breasts removed before the breasts are caressed by a lover. They are certainly being removed before a baby has a chance to suckle from mommy. I have heard that for the males, they have never masturbated. These kids are removing sexual equipment before it is used as the original function intends.
Trump did not "mishandle the COVID-19 pandemic". He should have been less involved, but did a lot of good. He put "Operation Warp Speed" in place, which resulted in a vaccine in a record time. No one knew that COVID was much like influenza, in that the disease is a family of diseases, and mutates very quickly.
Operation Warp Speed was important, but there was a lot of time wasted in the beginning, and dishonesty about what was happening. “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” Yeah, right.
Well, yeah, because no one had the slightest fucking idea about anything at that point. When you don't know anything, it looks confused. And it was confused. As to the "under control", yes, they said that. Because panic is very ugly and controlling panic is very important.
But lying is wrong.
No, that's wrong. Lying is NOT wrong. In some cases, a lie is the right thing to do. Certain lies are wrong. Certain other lies are OK, even good.
If a person with a knife is running down the street and asks "Where did Jane go?", should you tell the truth? I say "No". Tell him a lie.
In specific, when there is an incipient panic, saying "We have a plan" even if you do not can quell the panic.
Nice try, but no. The public needed to hear the truth, but Trump didn't have the slightest idea what that was, or what to do about it. How could he possibly win the trust and the cooperation of the public under those circumstances?
As I recall, he seemed more in line initially with what Sweden ultimately did. I wonder if he didn’t give in to the pressure of the “experts” eventually. But it was Biden who carried forward with the extreme lockdowns and mandatory vaccines.
I don't see "Schools" listed as a factor contributing to transmania.
In many areas children are being taught a full spectrum of gender woo as scientific fact. The curriculum may start in elementary school, long before children develop critical thinking abilities, and is often provided by the trans-pushing activist organizations themselves.
Then we have schools that think a child's gender confusion should be hidden from parents, so they keep secrets and reinforce it before a parent even knows what is going on.
I agree. Do you think this can be traced to higher education where we have generations indoctrinated in Gender Theory at a university level teaching children?
Lengthy, but comprehensive. There is indeed so much at play here & honestly it takes a while to explain to those who cannot see. Probably explains why I seem to fail so miserably & end up exhausted. Just today at work(preschool) a mom shared her concerns about how all the boys are wearing nail polish & her son’s cartoon shows show same sex characters kissing. She is shocked by the explicit books for children in the public library & her son wants to know why he can’t wear a dress to school just like ‘x’ in the other class. What’s so telling is that this was shared in a whisper. It’s an unpopular opinion to say ‘ this isn’t normal’
She is being convinced that it is.
It’s a Johnny Genderseed strategy, sowing the seeds of gender dysphoria.
Section number 10 is a list of ways democrats made the problem worse.
This is a great analysis, thank you!
I don't think the problem is that the hormones are synthetic, it's that they are the wrong levels for these people's bodies. There are normal levels of testosterone and estrogen for each person and it is sex dependent. Giving one group the levels for the other is causing an unhealthy hormonal imbalance. Doesn't matter if it's not synthetic. It's the wrong fuel if you will for their system.
It's absolute hubris to think it's fine to put a kid on these for the rest of their lives and not even track what happens to them. We already see life expectancy cut in half (Brik et Al, 2021)