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Sharon Lee COWAN's avatar

Succinct and well said. Now how to spread this message? The media are starting to acknowledge that kids are being influenced by what they find online, but they have not yet made the link to skyrocketing rates of trans-ism.

Una-Jane Winfield's avatar

Thank you for discussing the initiation of the downward spiral. I will bookmark this article.

I am so so sorry that you too had to enquire, had to research a topic you never knew existed and never wanted to know about. Jennifer Bilek is an investigative journalist who "follows the money". https://www.the11thhourblog.com/ and on Twitter she is @bjportraits

Carla von Wowern-Wilde's avatar

I'm so sorry you had to go through this 🙏 Thanks for sharing your painful story. There are many good observations in there.

for the kids's avatar

I'm not sure it is a big organized group trying to do this, I think a few selfish people fixated on this are pushing it but that it caught on and got momentum. And there is a big organized group supporting it because they believe it is true and good and healthy. Teachers, community leaders, role models, doctors, therapists, companies (those flags!), activist groups trying to make the world better and thinking this is part of it....

Mothers Grim's avatar

"Queering technologies" has been a phenomenon seen since the advent of the online web. The perps who use them to solicit membership in this cult are very real. That the owners and managers allow it does not seem accidental either. Tech is what drives much of of the transgender to transhuman venture. Patients are needed to dissociate sex from reality and build markets for transition. Here is what a 2019 article on what queering Tumblr says: "Tumblr allowed trans users the changeability, network separation, and identity realness, along with the queer aspects of multiplicity, fluidity, and ambiguity, needed for gender transition." It then argues it must go further and include erotic content. Tech and medical get rich farming young bodies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2019.1678505#d1e462

Linda H's avatar

Thanks for sharing!

3 sons's avatar

Yes our son fell into this before we even saw it coming. This was years ago around Covid, and a highly anxious person was easily susceptible to this mind-virus. More susceptible than to covid actually. We didn't know what we didn't know. Satan did an end run around us and left us with a son who thinks he's a daughter. The more you say to them, the more you are marked as outdated and too "religious". If you try to speak truth they see it as an unsafe lie. He has spoken to me a couple of times so there's that but I live in fear of someone hurting him or worse and not knowing for months. I trust that the Lord is going to bring him through this somehow. He's sovereign over all, and I know that he loves our son more than we do, and he knows where he is at all times. I pray for all of our children. When the truth comes out to them, I pray that they will feel our love and come home. We will run to meet them.

Kathy Peterson's avatar

Amen and amen! Our son is on the spectrum and estranged from us 5 years ago. 😢 He came out at 18 but at age 37, 3 years ago, he told my sister he was transitioning....very fearful for his health and safety.

I keep putting him In God's Hands over and over- never felt this kind of ambiguous grief. He will be 40 this summer. Praying for all our adult kids, that they soon would see that this has not and will not do for them what they and desist.

High Noon's avatar

The evils perpetrated on our society by the Covid scam hurt all of us in so many ways, it is impossible to catalogue here. Isolation from family, friends, school & church is a key tool in their arsenal.

Abigail Starke's avatar

So sorry. Praying!!!

Melissa R.'s avatar

Exactly.

How many of our children were lost to Tumblr?

Emma (Trans)'s avatar

tumblr is so cool i’m sad i dont use it more

Mothers Grim's avatar

I think many of the early ones were but YouTube seems to be just as bad especially for the later generations. I have written several pieces on YouTubers and many of the prominent ones (like FTM Chase Ross) spread their wings across every platform out there. It is an evil web of platforms catching as many as possible.

Melissa R.'s avatar

Yes, no doubt!

I uncovered evidence of Tumblr long ago. And porn. Porn I didn't comprehend.

(Now I know what it was.)

I appreciated those long-ago posts from Helena on 4thWaveNow.

You have some great pieces, Mothers Grim. Excellent research!

Mama Bear Proud's avatar

Many, even those in the GC therapy field, do not seem to understand how vulnerable youth can be brainwashed into this. And since we have a "gender affirming" cultural beast giving credence to pseudoscience in medicine, therapy, government, schools and TRAs, how can vulnerable youth keep it from indoctrinating them?

EyesOpen's avatar

Exactly: "As youth digital safety advocate Officer Gomez says, “don’t confidently believe your parenting is stronger than billion-dollar social media algorithms.” And if your child is on the Autism spectrum, they are at far greater risk of being radicalized. It can be alluring to socialize online with people where there is no need for eye contact, reading social cues, or body language, along with feeling a sense of belonging."

My daughter (on the autism spectrum) has vanished and gone "off-grid", so I may never see her again either. Early on, she was on social media around the clock...

GenderRealistMom's avatar

Also, another mistake so many of us made was thinking "my child is way too smart to fall for something like this".

Emma (Trans)'s avatar

i was a smart kid in middle school! it actually helped me realize i was trans! because im smart i was able to understand how i felt , and that let me realize i was trans. maybe consider your “smart kid” is smart, and they are correct in realizing they are trans

Grieving Father's avatar

Great point. I’ve got two genius-level kids, both of whom fell to this mind virus. I too thought they were too smart to fall for this insanity, but I was wrong.

Abigail Starke's avatar

😖🫤🙏🙏🙏

senora sangria's avatar

some of the smartest adults i know have fallen for the ideology. It is mind-boggling

TJ37's avatar

Our Aspergers daughter, like yours also genius-level, fell into it on Tumblr and through peers, indoctrinatory teachers and extended family members, backed by unthinking herd media. A top university affirmed to the hilt the cruel lie that she was not a woman.

We'd had an affectionate, loving relationship. The total shock when she began showing signs of the 'parents are unsafe' grooming, and knowing that everyone else in her life seemed to be righteously pushing her off a cliff, cheering on profound self-harm and greatly diminished life chances, traumatises us to this day. Our wonderful, autistically suggestible kid was entirely betrayed by people who pretended to care about her well-being.

She has duly followed the physical 'transition' checklist, having come to believe herself a gay man. We've managed to keep channels from closing shut by letting her know our love for her in little ways over the years, avoiding perjuring ourselves through avoiding sexed language. She loves us despite what she's been coached by bad actors, is now more mature and although still a rigidly autistic believer in her transness, is more openly affectionate toward us, lets herself enjoy our company when our paths cross.

I hold out hope for more, alongside a sorrow without end at what she has been led to lose, and hope that all families invaded by the gender virus/cult can find ways to mend the crucial bonds of parent-child love. These poor kids, so egregiously and cynically used and thrown away by malevolent others whose reach into the minds of the young has been turbocharged by the internet, and who couldn't care less how much damage they leave in their wake.

Linda H's avatar

Thanks for sharing your difficult journey. We too had an “affectionate, loving relationship.” We began seeing the signs as well and then our loving autistic son disappeared overnight. All those pushers including his university facilitated his capture. I had no desire to write or speak publicly but if it prevents one child and their family from entering this nightmare, it’s worth it.