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Thank you for sharing your story. I understand your feelings regarding your parents (at least, I think I understand them.) But, as a parent of an adult daughter who half a year ago decided to "come out" as gender non-binary and demanded us to 'affirm' her 'true identity, I urge you to consider parents' feelings.

We live through a lose-lose situation: we know that we are losing our daughter by refusing to 'affirm' her imaginary 'identity,' and we know that we will lose her if we affirm this identity. My daughter is a 29 years-old woman, an English teacher who lives in a different country and works for a company that employs foreigners to teach English in schools. She "came out" via email a few months after her best friend left back to the US and married another woman and when gender non-binary teachers became the coolest trend on LGBTQAA+ supportive media. She is currently in a state of mind where all her life ambitions came down to changing her name, cutting off her breasts, doing whatever other medical procedures she hadn't decided on yet, and accusing everyone who opposes trans-hype of being transphobic bigots. In her bubble, which she refuses to leave, her father, brothers, and I are transphobic bigots and her enemies.

We know that our daughter is not a transgender but a victim of a cult that uses her and other easily influenced single teachers as recruiters to convert children. We know with 100% certainty that she is ruining her life and will regret her decision, if not right away, then in a few years. But, the trans cult is too strong and has too many powerful lobbyists to take over science, ideology, politics, and morality. We can do nothing to stop our daughter from mutilating herself and irreversibly damaging her body.

Parents of adult 'trans' at least don't have to deal with gender therapists and social workers coercing them to 'affirm' kids' identities by asking, "Do you prefer to have a dead daughter or a living son?" Parents of young kids and teens have to go through this when their children sit next to them, and a 'helping' professional makes a diagnosis based purely on symptoms that kids picked up from TikTok videos and 'cool' gender non-binary teachers.

If you want to use your story to help parents to protect their kids from becoming the next victims of this mass psychosis, you need to expose psychiatrists, gender therapists, and, which is probably most important, sex-reassessment doctors who mutilate children and young adults like you for profit and bribe politicians to censor scientists for daring to fight against the cult.

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