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Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

I think the "cheerleader" you treat with such disdain may have come to find your son's actions quite predatory. "I'm a girl too, come shopping with me" as a cover for "I am sexually interested in you and have persuaded you to show me your underthings on the pretext that I'm a girl inside": as the mother of a teen girl, I can tell you I would HIT THE CEILING if I heard a boy had run this on my daughter.

I'm very sorry for what your son is dealing with, but you will be doing him a big parental favour by telling him that girls have the right to reject his advances and that repackaging advances as "we girls are being girls together" is not acceptable. Romantic rejection happens to *all* young people, and it hurts; but it's part of growing up. It's not an injustice being done to him. One of the serious dangers of trans identification is the frightening entitlement and resentment it coaches young people-- especially young men -- to feel. it's not a good idea to encourage this.

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GenderRealistMom's avatar

This essay hit me hard. As a mom of a desisted girl who has taken male friends clothes shopping , I am so, so sorry. My daughter is no cheerleader. She is an introvert , a typical ROGD girl we see here on PITT. I was barely able to pull her out of the gender swamp and still fear that she may slip and fall back in. I hate that she is an ally now. How I wish she wasn't! Yet, she is a conscientious person who sincerely believes she is helping these young men. I both anxiously await and dread the day when she wakes up and realizes that she contributed to the harm. These young people have no idea what they are doing. They have an awful influence on one another.

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