I often wonder how the psychiatric community is dealing with adolescents or younger children who have a parent who has transitioned. Are those children receiving the mental health counseling they so need?
After witnessing this happen I can testify to seeing the following behavior, all of which I find extremely harmful.
Father transitions from male to female after divorcing his wife. (Divorce was much more than the trans issue). He disowns his own parents because they do not celebrate the transition nor do they get excited with his planned surgeries. He totally cuts them out of his life.
Trans parent celebrates when his own children show any signs of being "queer" or different in any way. He posts photos of the children on his social media account and refers to them as his “queer kids”. Each one has gone through their own identity crisis-changing names, wearing clothes associated with the opposite sex, and a little one claiming to be something they're not. Pride parades and drag shows and all the things. All of this being celebrated by the trans parent.
Thankfully, the children are coming out the other side as they grow and experience life. So far they are living as their true selves, like most of this country does.
My question, and just my thoughts, are why would a trans parent celebrate a child showing signs of trans-identification when the parent themself has gone through hell in many cases, caused turmoil in family relationships, and become a life-time medical patients with unknown side effects, not to mention the social backlash they face every day? Why would anyone want that for their child? What about the concern for a female child and possible impact on her fertility? There are zero positive outcomes here.
One could argue the gender ideology mantra (proven false by the way) that transitioning saved their life. Did it? How about their future? Did they receive honest psychiatric treatment for underlying causes of unhappiness, depression, and other issues? Studies have shown this is a common issue with the majority of trans individuals, their underlying causes are all attributed to gender dysphoria and not truly addressed.
Is the psychiatric community presenting all the risks of transitioning when consulting with clients? Adding in the social risks, the mental risks, the higher percentage of suicidal ideation, and the physical harm? I doubt it.
There are too many stories now being shared of young people having on one or two consultations before being prescribed cross-sex hormones. Surgeries ARE being performed on underage children It is proven by some of those who are now detransitioning and speaking out.
This is a national travesty. This needs to stop and the psychiatric community needs to be held accountable. We need to save the children from this madness.
Adults - do what you want to your own lives, with appropriate treatment prior that you deserve, but leave the kids out of it.
The impact on others is never addressed because trans is a fundamentally narcissistic ideology. Anyone who raises questions is “phobic” and must be immediately and publicly cancelled. The trans-identified person is the star of their own story; all other family members must submit to their narrative that they are now their true self, which means all relationships from before transition cannot be tolerated if those individuals don’t comply. I know too many people devastated by this rewriting of history and relationships.
Hello! I’m the daughter of a transsexual and I’ve written a lot on this subject, at childrenoftransitioners.org and I also speak in the film Behind the Looking Glass on YouTube. As parents of ROGD kids know, you are encountering a system where being trans is a protected status, and having a ‘queer’ family is seen as something you must affirm and celebrate. So it’s difficult to get objective therapy and the US org for children (Colage) is very pro-trans and calls kids ‘queerspawn’. There is a concerning lack of safeguarding, including for the poor babies used by trans-identified men who want to lactate. There are lots of perspectives from female partners of men who transition at transwidowsvoices.org too.
I am in touch with therapists who can offer unbiased help to young people affected by this issue :-)