Magic the gathering can be a fun activity to pass the time when camping but certainly should never be used as an excuse to not go hiking. I have happy memories playing magic at camp, but it was always in the off times.
It's not just the boys' troops in BSA - it's also the girls' troops in BSA that are dealing with this. National policy is that youth are allowed to participate in a troop of the gender with which they identify. It is a very difficult situation for troop leadership to navigate. There are limitations on tenting arrangements. This is protective of privacy and physical safety. However if leaders don't use the pronoun and name preferences of youth, they put themselves at odds with national policy and can be considered to be harassing youth. We are expected to educate youth about personal safety and grooming behavior, but the organization has remained silent on this aspect of potential grooming.
This is a massive development with powerful people, institutions, and money behind it. In our circle of Scouts, church, and the school where we taught, I can name seven transgender individuals, with two more that I suspect will declare themselves such shortly. Only two of them are adults over the age of 21. I'm sure there are more that I'm unaware of, since our own children are older and out of school.
I think all of us will be dealing with this cultural development soon, if we're not already doing so. There are many teachers, mentors and other leaders who want to protect youth from undue influence while respecting their personal choices. The trans pressure is coming from many directions, and non-discrimination policies are being issued in many institutions at a dizzying rate. It is a quagmire of legal and peer pressure.
What a shock and horrible realization for you and your family. It seems that our children are not safe anywhere from being influenced and brainwashed. There are too many secrets being kept from parents and our innocent children are being caught up in the crosshairs. I am saddened by your news. I think we all have felt our intuitions spring into high alert at one time or another and then we go against the warning only to later learn that we were right. Do not blame yourself. The gender ideology cult likes to trick parents into thinking they are wrong or confused because the lies are what hooks our children - and the more lies that are told the more innocent people believe them. The gender ideology lies shock me every day - how is our society buying into this cult? The more I read the more angry I become. We cannot give up this fight and we must continue to expose the lies so the truth will prevail. You are not alone! Stay strong! Praying that God will help us before its too late.
As a parent of a trans identifying kid and as a former scout, I find this outrageous and ridiculous. As an atheist, I feel some schadenfreude that the scouts have been reduced to this without the "corrosive" influence of atheists.
Magic the Gathering is basically a card version of Dungeons and Dragons. It's not inherenty a gateway to anything gender bending the way anime might be. It's just nerd culture. I do see signs that trans ideologues are trying to infiltrate nerd culture, no doubt to predate on the socially awkward and insecure kids who are deeply into nerd culture. And as a nerd at heart, it makes me sad.
It is a crock of &^%$#*! Women's intuition is always sound. I'm so sorry this has happened. Transgenderism is a cult supported by rich and influential people who seek to pervert and ruin children and teens' lives; they're lab rats. More and more from every background have got to wake up! Thankfully, detransitioners are coming forward with their horror stories, and suing! We need more of all of this which is more or less what Hillier's medical doctors did to Jews and even their own.
" I couldn't understand why everyone was buying into it---" (gender).
One reason established for many decades of women's history is with every man made breath, that women are born to look after them, and (2) women are not meant to have a voice unless its about babies, clean homes and freshly ironed shirts etc, etc.
Smacking of ice edged sarcasm I know, but it's all in the detail while screaming of headlines.
Males bring home the wherewithal of bacon and bread, etc, etc, including a biology which reeks of ownership over domestic and world dominion.
Fundamentally it's about the pink and blue syndrome, which we are fed from our first intake of breath; outrageous nonsense.
Without this societal, ancient and doddery construction, women would be free to be one wholly formed human being---
The word for all this, is the poisoned and reinforced chalice of STEREOTYPES, absolutely relied upon to reinforce the trans dream; a woman's nightmare strewn with the trip ups we are meant to swallow whole.
When Boy Scouts is done as it was intended, it is wonderful for boys. My husband says his scout master had the biggest influence on him as a teen. He was a scout master for 4 years and has made an impact in the lives of several young men. Then the scouts adopted gays, our church dumped their support, my husband is now in a church position where is basically doing the same thing he was before with our youth-activities and camping. These are such good things. It’s so sad to see organizations get infiltrated with ideology and we lose all the good. My husband lives by the scout motto and has been trying to do a good turn daily for the last 40 years.
Boys need boy only spaces and men who are good men to be mentors to them.
In the not too distant past, the Boy Scouts were supported by churches and would not accept gay leaders. They caved to pressure and many churches cut their support. If you usher in gay you apparently usher in the T and next will come “Minor Attracted Persons”.
The Boy Scouts should have stood their ground and sought cover under 1st amendment religious protection.
Distressing to see one of the last all-boy spaces in the US being dismantled like this. I would like to point out, though, troops are quite different from one another depending on the adults involved, so I’d like to gently push back on condemning all of BSA. We were fortunate to participate in a “high adventure“ troop with a lot of military families, so it was the real deal. But other troops in our area sound more like the one described above. As with anything, buyer beware.
Do you guys think part of the reason there are fewer male specific organizations is because there is social taboo to that now? Women have so many different groups and organizations in society (civic, professional, and non-profit) and in turn, we help women and girls with sex-specific programs and funding.
This is not true for boys and men. Their organizations have been deemed as sexist for excluding women over the past few decades --- even the damn golf clubs are targeted. 🤦🏾♀️ I think this is something that needs to be revisited and fought for --- single sex spaces for boys and men. Maybe they’ll have to re-structure in a way that allows for controlled exclusion (i.e. invitation-only application process, sponsorships -- as in the only way you can get in is if certain members within the organization endorse it, etc.). These large scale scouting programs aren’t going to cut it because the corporate leadership don’t have the backbone to stand up to the woke mob.
Some may not like this answer, but when it comes to where can we go to avoid this ideology, there’s no godless secular escape route. I’ve heard it said It’s not whether or not a society or institution will have a religion/God, but which one will it follow. Every person, every society and institution has an idea of what’s right and wrong, what’s loving and just (and what’s not) based on what they believe about God and mankind. There are always laws, rules and morality. This is ‘religion’ regardless of whether or not one is a part of an organized group. The trans cult is religious!
If we just evolved randomly from amoebas and there is not a transcendent Creator God who determines good and evil and gives us value outside of our own opinions, then anything goes. When we say it’s wrong to tell an insecure girl that she’s a boy, it must be based on the fact that she was created by God in His image as a woman and he declares it is good per the Bible. If you reject God, then the question is ‘Says who? By what standard?’
I have great sympathy for non believing parents who rightly want to protect their children and I’m grateful for the wisdom God has given you in recognizing the evil. I would happily work alongside you to combat it but without a robust biblical understanding, I don’t see a way forward.
I can guarantee you that a group of Social Scientists, Developmentalists, Neuroscientists etc from around the world have gotten together in secret meetings to work all of this out over the last 50 years. This isn't organic or natural in any way, shape or form. You know, in 1969, the Ford Foundation and Carnegie foundation came together to create Sesame Street. During the same time, MacArthur, Ford and Johnson and Johnson were in the home studying neglecting mother infant pairs. Johnson and Johnson was one of the big players in the Opioid crisis (and studying neglect for a decade was a big help because infants who are severely neglected become alcohol and opioid addicted adults). Johnson and Johnson also patented the first Puberty Blocker. It's about creating a market and breaking people is how it's done. The corporations use our Scientists and Research to understand us far better than we understand ourselves.
"I knew nothing about transgender at the time but I soon learned what a crock of shit the whole gender ideology is." MY GOD YES. Thanks for the belly laugh.
Stella O'Malley & Sasha Ayad's podcast Gender: A Wider Lens just dropped an episode today that might be helpful to you, OP, and to many other parents. It features another PITT essayist (pseudonym Dr. Maggie Goldsmith) whose daughter desisted a year ago, and has lots of ideas for parents of trans-ID'd kids. She makes the point that trans-ID often appears at a time when adolescents are searching for peer groups/identities, and the importance of connecting kids to sensible groups that foster reasonable boundaries (as opposed to the gender "crock of shit").
Someone PLEASE tell me the groups and organizations that are NOT a gateway to trans! I can't find a counselor who doesn't automatically call my SON "they" or "she" immediately! And how come I didn't know about anime? Where is this information? I was just happy my son was reading, now I find this out?! WE need to save our sons! SOS!!!!
Magic the gathering can be a fun activity to pass the time when camping but certainly should never be used as an excuse to not go hiking. I have happy memories playing magic at camp, but it was always in the off times.
It's not just the boys' troops in BSA - it's also the girls' troops in BSA that are dealing with this. National policy is that youth are allowed to participate in a troop of the gender with which they identify. It is a very difficult situation for troop leadership to navigate. There are limitations on tenting arrangements. This is protective of privacy and physical safety. However if leaders don't use the pronoun and name preferences of youth, they put themselves at odds with national policy and can be considered to be harassing youth. We are expected to educate youth about personal safety and grooming behavior, but the organization has remained silent on this aspect of potential grooming.
This is a massive development with powerful people, institutions, and money behind it. In our circle of Scouts, church, and the school where we taught, I can name seven transgender individuals, with two more that I suspect will declare themselves such shortly. Only two of them are adults over the age of 21. I'm sure there are more that I'm unaware of, since our own children are older and out of school.
I think all of us will be dealing with this cultural development soon, if we're not already doing so. There are many teachers, mentors and other leaders who want to protect youth from undue influence while respecting their personal choices. The trans pressure is coming from many directions, and non-discrimination policies are being issued in many institutions at a dizzying rate. It is a quagmire of legal and peer pressure.
What a shock and horrible realization for you and your family. It seems that our children are not safe anywhere from being influenced and brainwashed. There are too many secrets being kept from parents and our innocent children are being caught up in the crosshairs. I am saddened by your news. I think we all have felt our intuitions spring into high alert at one time or another and then we go against the warning only to later learn that we were right. Do not blame yourself. The gender ideology cult likes to trick parents into thinking they are wrong or confused because the lies are what hooks our children - and the more lies that are told the more innocent people believe them. The gender ideology lies shock me every day - how is our society buying into this cult? The more I read the more angry I become. We cannot give up this fight and we must continue to expose the lies so the truth will prevail. You are not alone! Stay strong! Praying that God will help us before its too late.
As a parent of a trans identifying kid and as a former scout, I find this outrageous and ridiculous. As an atheist, I feel some schadenfreude that the scouts have been reduced to this without the "corrosive" influence of atheists.
Magic the Gathering is basically a card version of Dungeons and Dragons. It's not inherenty a gateway to anything gender bending the way anime might be. It's just nerd culture. I do see signs that trans ideologues are trying to infiltrate nerd culture, no doubt to predate on the socially awkward and insecure kids who are deeply into nerd culture. And as a nerd at heart, it makes me sad.
It is a crock of &^%$#*! Women's intuition is always sound. I'm so sorry this has happened. Transgenderism is a cult supported by rich and influential people who seek to pervert and ruin children and teens' lives; they're lab rats. More and more from every background have got to wake up! Thankfully, detransitioners are coming forward with their horror stories, and suing! We need more of all of this which is more or less what Hillier's medical doctors did to Jews and even their own.
" I couldn't understand why everyone was buying into it---" (gender).
One reason established for many decades of women's history is with every man made breath, that women are born to look after them, and (2) women are not meant to have a voice unless its about babies, clean homes and freshly ironed shirts etc, etc.
Smacking of ice edged sarcasm I know, but it's all in the detail while screaming of headlines.
Males bring home the wherewithal of bacon and bread, etc, etc, including a biology which reeks of ownership over domestic and world dominion.
Fundamentally it's about the pink and blue syndrome, which we are fed from our first intake of breath; outrageous nonsense.
Without this societal, ancient and doddery construction, women would be free to be one wholly formed human being---
The word for all this, is the poisoned and reinforced chalice of STEREOTYPES, absolutely relied upon to reinforce the trans dream; a woman's nightmare strewn with the trip ups we are meant to swallow whole.
I wish you so very well---
When Boy Scouts is done as it was intended, it is wonderful for boys. My husband says his scout master had the biggest influence on him as a teen. He was a scout master for 4 years and has made an impact in the lives of several young men. Then the scouts adopted gays, our church dumped their support, my husband is now in a church position where is basically doing the same thing he was before with our youth-activities and camping. These are such good things. It’s so sad to see organizations get infiltrated with ideology and we lose all the good. My husband lives by the scout motto and has been trying to do a good turn daily for the last 40 years.
Boys need boy only spaces and men who are good men to be mentors to them.
In the not too distant past, the Boy Scouts were supported by churches and would not accept gay leaders. They caved to pressure and many churches cut their support. If you usher in gay you apparently usher in the T and next will come “Minor Attracted Persons”.
The Boy Scouts should have stood their ground and sought cover under 1st amendment religious protection.
Distressing to see one of the last all-boy spaces in the US being dismantled like this. I would like to point out, though, troops are quite different from one another depending on the adults involved, so I’d like to gently push back on condemning all of BSA. We were fortunate to participate in a “high adventure“ troop with a lot of military families, so it was the real deal. But other troops in our area sound more like the one described above. As with anything, buyer beware.
Do you guys think part of the reason there are fewer male specific organizations is because there is social taboo to that now? Women have so many different groups and organizations in society (civic, professional, and non-profit) and in turn, we help women and girls with sex-specific programs and funding.
This is not true for boys and men. Their organizations have been deemed as sexist for excluding women over the past few decades --- even the damn golf clubs are targeted. 🤦🏾♀️ I think this is something that needs to be revisited and fought for --- single sex spaces for boys and men. Maybe they’ll have to re-structure in a way that allows for controlled exclusion (i.e. invitation-only application process, sponsorships -- as in the only way you can get in is if certain members within the organization endorse it, etc.). These large scale scouting programs aren’t going to cut it because the corporate leadership don’t have the backbone to stand up to the woke mob.
Some may not like this answer, but when it comes to where can we go to avoid this ideology, there’s no godless secular escape route. I’ve heard it said It’s not whether or not a society or institution will have a religion/God, but which one will it follow. Every person, every society and institution has an idea of what’s right and wrong, what’s loving and just (and what’s not) based on what they believe about God and mankind. There are always laws, rules and morality. This is ‘religion’ regardless of whether or not one is a part of an organized group. The trans cult is religious!
If we just evolved randomly from amoebas and there is not a transcendent Creator God who determines good and evil and gives us value outside of our own opinions, then anything goes. When we say it’s wrong to tell an insecure girl that she’s a boy, it must be based on the fact that she was created by God in His image as a woman and he declares it is good per the Bible. If you reject God, then the question is ‘Says who? By what standard?’
I have great sympathy for non believing parents who rightly want to protect their children and I’m grateful for the wisdom God has given you in recognizing the evil. I would happily work alongside you to combat it but without a robust biblical understanding, I don’t see a way forward.
Where? Check out PragerU videos for yourself and son.
I can guarantee you that a group of Social Scientists, Developmentalists, Neuroscientists etc from around the world have gotten together in secret meetings to work all of this out over the last 50 years. This isn't organic or natural in any way, shape or form. You know, in 1969, the Ford Foundation and Carnegie foundation came together to create Sesame Street. During the same time, MacArthur, Ford and Johnson and Johnson were in the home studying neglecting mother infant pairs. Johnson and Johnson was one of the big players in the Opioid crisis (and studying neglect for a decade was a big help because infants who are severely neglected become alcohol and opioid addicted adults). Johnson and Johnson also patented the first Puberty Blocker. It's about creating a market and breaking people is how it's done. The corporations use our Scientists and Research to understand us far better than we understand ourselves.
"I knew nothing about transgender at the time but I soon learned what a crock of shit the whole gender ideology is." MY GOD YES. Thanks for the belly laugh.
Stella O'Malley & Sasha Ayad's podcast Gender: A Wider Lens just dropped an episode today that might be helpful to you, OP, and to many other parents. It features another PITT essayist (pseudonym Dr. Maggie Goldsmith) whose daughter desisted a year ago, and has lots of ideas for parents of trans-ID'd kids. She makes the point that trans-ID often appears at a time when adolescents are searching for peer groups/identities, and the importance of connecting kids to sensible groups that foster reasonable boundaries (as opposed to the gender "crock of shit").
Solidarity & much love to you and your boy.
Someone PLEASE tell me the groups and organizations that are NOT a gateway to trans! I can't find a counselor who doesn't automatically call my SON "they" or "she" immediately! And how come I didn't know about anime? Where is this information? I was just happy my son was reading, now I find this out?! WE need to save our sons! SOS!!!!