Oddly and sadly enough, I think you and all the parents who identify as liberal and are facing this crisis with the rest of us—conservatives, independents, libertarians, and, like me, the a-political few who just want to work, live, and treat others as they want to be treated—are the key to our collective voices being heard. It is all to…
Oddly and sadly enough, I think you and all the parents who identify as liberal and are facing this crisis with the rest of us—conservatives, independents, libertarians, and, like me, the a-political few who just want to work, live, and treat others as they want to be treated—are the key to our collective voices being heard. It is all too easy for the people pushing this ideology to dismiss their declared enemies with snarky barbs and diminish their logical questions and counter points by labeling them as ‘phobic, privileged, or alt-right. You are the disrupters. Your political pedigree challenges their assertions that anyone who questions the absolutism of affirmative care and medicalization of children and young adults to treat gender dysphoria is a Republican, and therefore evil. This should not be distilled as a red or blue issue, but if your liberal credentials give people pause long enough to hear the truth and helps blunt the spread, wave them from the highest flagpole!
Oddly and sadly enough, I think you and all the parents who identify as liberal and are facing this crisis with the rest of us—conservatives, independents, libertarians, and, like me, the a-political few who just want to work, live, and treat others as they want to be treated—are the key to our collective voices being heard. It is all too easy for the people pushing this ideology to dismiss their declared enemies with snarky barbs and diminish their logical questions and counter points by labeling them as ‘phobic, privileged, or alt-right. You are the disrupters. Your political pedigree challenges their assertions that anyone who questions the absolutism of affirmative care and medicalization of children and young adults to treat gender dysphoria is a Republican, and therefore evil. This should not be distilled as a red or blue issue, but if your liberal credentials give people pause long enough to hear the truth and helps blunt the spread, wave them from the highest flagpole!
You are so right.