Detransition Awareness Day - March 12, 2024
Detransition Awareness Day - March 12, 2024
Make Reasonable Choices
Imagine the worst decision you made as a teenager or young adult. Maybe you turned down a scholarship at an out of state school because you were reluctant to leave home. Maybe you took some bad drugs. Maybe you stole something. Maybe you got a large tattoo. On your neck.
Now imagine you were cheered on in that decision by the adults and institutions in your life. Your teachers, doctors, maybe even your parents, celebrated you for making that decision. They celebrated you, not in spite of that decision, but because of it.
And then you grew older and wiser and came to regret your decision. You now see it as a huge mistake. This time, instead of being supported for having the maturity to recognize your mistake, you are pilloried. People who wanted to hear how damaged and self-loathing you felt no longer have any interest or patience in hearing how you are becoming healthier. In fact, they resent you for it. They wanted you when you were hurt and down. They want nothing to do with you when you show agency, own your mistake, and change course.
Most of us can move on from our worst decisions. It’s much tougher for detransistioners. So, today, Detransistion Awareness Day, we celebrate them today.
If you are on PITT, you probably are the parent of a child suffering from the delusion that they can be born in the wrong body. And that child is probably hectoring you to approve/pay for the drugs and surgery which will irrevocably alter their bodies. You may not be able to voice your fears for them because you fear alienation or estrangement.
So, we parents are especially grateful to the detransistioners. We thank them for bringing awareness to a topic that many people don’t want to face and for helping PITT parents navigate the many perils of gender “affirmation”. The decision some detransistioners have made to speak up, to testify, to put their names and faces out their shows their bravery, altruism and maturity. If this decision defines them, they are heroes to us.
The Editors of PITT
P.S. Yes, we included a photo of Will Farrell with a neck tattoo that reads “Make Reasonable Choices” in Sanskrit. And yes, we know Will Ferrell has a new film out where he and his longtime friend, who recently came out as trans-identified woman, take a cross country trip. We’re asked to respect the rights and decisions of mature, mentally-balanced adults. We ask only that detransitioners are extended that same respect.
Happy Detransitioners Day! I applaud each and everyone of you. We need to hear your individual experiences, your knowledge, your wisdom from your first-hand knowledge of this painful journey. You are brave, respected and admired. We need your stories to help others caught in this trap. Thank you. You matter to all of us… you pave the way home for some of our lost children.
"We’re asked to respect the rights and decisions of mature, mentally-balanced adults."
No problem. Mentally balanced adults don't believe they are the opposite sex. Those who do should not have their decisions respected. They need to be committed to a mental institution before they harm themselves or others.
As to "parents" of mentally ill children getting harassed into paying for "gender affirming care". If you are being successfully bullied by a mentally ill minor under your roof there is a solution. It is never to late to start being a parent and use the magic word real parents have been using for all generations of humanity: NO!
If you start using that magic word when they are a toddler they won't become suicidal when they hear it as a teenager.
If you have a gender confused child chances are you didn't say no when they threw a fit over the toy at the end of the grocery store isle. You probably didn't employ any corporal punishment in your "parenting". You probably didn't say no when they wanted to watch television shows promoting LGBTQLMNOP culture. You probably didn't say no when they wanted unlimited internet access to chat with LGBTQLMNOP friends/groomers online. You probably worked way too hard to "understand" your child instead of making your child understand that life isn't fair and you can't always get everything that you want.
My ten year old son stopped being friends with a boy who started identifying as gay. I didn't have to
force him or tell him to do that. I simply instilled basic morals which equipped him to make the right decision. I'm sure the former friend's parents celebrated their son's "choice" to begin the descent into a lifetime of moral depravity and unhappiness. My wife and I celebrated our son's ability to recognize a moral hazard, make an adult decision, and follow through with the consequences of that decision.
100 years ago homosexuality was widely regarded as morally repugnant. Also, 100 years ago 0% of parents of teenage children had to worry about transitioning or detransitioning their children. Weird.
Of course, correlation is not causation so just keep giving in to the whims and whimsies of your society that can't seem to identify what a woman is. Your children should be just fine.