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Wendi Shaffner's avatar

Thank you! I’m going to print this up

And stick it in her pocket. ♥️

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S. A. Dad's avatar

I was and am a flag waving supporter of LGB rights and people. I just can't see how Trans fits in with that.

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Prayingmother's avatar

Your story is mine except my son is now 28 and still on the trans train. He cut me off in December. I miss him so much and pray daily the Dear Lord will intervene and open his heart up to know his family loves him and he was tricked into this cult. Jesus I trust in you. ❤️

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Alistair P-M's avatar

Beautiful and heartbreaking. I'm not a parent so feel free to dismiss my opinion, but nonetheless it pains me to hear parents say they are sorry for not being the trans-flag-waving mum or dad their child thinks they want. You did what you could x

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pat's avatar

As much sadness have in my heart for kids sucked into this cult.

Equally have fury at medical establishment, schools, and those dreaded allies...

That have promoted this.

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aileen's avatar

Whenever i read these stories i'm struck by how much incredible unconditional love that us parents have for our children. This is an incredibly powerful cult, this trans ideological cult, that it is able to tear apart the relationships between parent and child and the love so great that comes with so much grief. True evil...always destroying what is good.

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BestRegards's avatar

Wow I could have written this. I am so sorry. Thank you. You are not alone. We need to continue to fight until this evil cult is defeated. 2025 will be a great year. We will get our kids back.

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Emily Ann's avatar

This hits hard. None of us here are the parents these kids believe they want. We aren't the parents their glitter families tell them they deserve. But we are the only people in their lives who love them for who they are - it's just sad they don't understand that yet. Hang in there. The truth must prevail.

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Average Dad's avatar

There is not a place in time except today that parents have to worry, reinforce, protect, or fret over what sex their children are at birth and that sex is not mutable. Our government, leaders, teachers, doctors, professors, clergy, everyone except a brave few have failed civilization spectacularly. The diabolical want this step to normalize pedophilia this is as clear as day. God help us all!

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RFM's avatar

The fact that he cannot comprehend the immense love you have for him based on the effort you took to conceive him is appalling and very sad. You have taken the right path and I hope your prayers are answered that he will come to his senses before too much damage is done. Stay true to your beliefs.

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Faith B's avatar

l am not a mother so l can't put myself in your shoes. However l read your very sad posts and l am brimming with tears. The instigators of this disgusting cult should be locked away in a dark dungeon because mentally that's what they have done to you. l hope and pray that one day your children will wake up from this crazy trance they are in and contact you again.

What really disgusts me is the authorities who support this shite. The very idea of a man being able to change his sex on birth certificate is monstrous. If the powers that be were to stop supporting this nonsense it would disappear much quicker.

hugs to you mums and dad's. xx

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CA mom's avatar

You could have responded to him completely differently with his coming out, and the outcome could still be the same. I hope you do not blame yourself in any way.

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Rachel's avatar

I did. I told my son I would use his pronouns and call him by his new name, and that he could even come visit and I would walk in the parade with him if that's what he wanted but that in my heart, I'm not able to believe that he is female. He said, "that's just tolerance, not acceptance, and that's not good enough." He hung up on me and that's the last time I ever heard from him. He also doesn't allow us to see our grandchildren anymore. 💔😪

So. Unless you say you actually believe they have changed sex, it doesn't matter. Nothing matters.

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CA mom's avatar

That is heartbreaking, and I am so sorry.

I affirmed. I attended parades. And was also shunned. I hang on to the belief that there is hope for both of our families. Hearts can change.

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Awoman's avatar

I feel exactly the same way. The ache in my heart and the fear for my beautiful son's health is relentless. Why him, why me, why them? It's excruciating. 💔

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Grandma Eileen's avatar

This story made me cry - it hit very close to home. I feel like I failed my nephew, I should have done more, tried harder to reach him. I should have listened with an open heart when he told me he was trans. Instead, I questioned him, doubted him, asked for proof and logical answers. He hung up on me. I never heard his voice again after that. I sent him dozens and dozens of text messages - I do not know if he read any of them. He only responded when I sent him money for his birthday and for Christmas with a sweet "thank you". Dear author, I share your heart ache. I understand. This evil cult robbed us both.

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Realitycheck's avatar

Grandma Eileen, I thought you shared that your nephew desisted?

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Grandma Eileen's avatar

Yes he did desist…he even returned home. But life has ups and downs and sadly his story ended differently than what we had hoped for.

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Realitycheck's avatar

Grandma Eileen, I am truly sorry to hear this. So much evil and sadness with this cult. May God Bless you and your family. xxxxx

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DLM's avatar

It was my older allied son who told me I was not the mother they wanted. He said I listened to the wrong people. I thought the wrong thoughts. So I listened to the people he suggested and I still thought the “wrong” thoughts. They were both happy when they first told me. They thought I went along. What they thought was agreement was shock and having enough experience to think before I spoke. My younger son, the one who was told he was a woman, cut off contact with me the day after I told him that men cannot be women and that this was a dangerous idea. My older son gradually stopped replying after sending me the letter that I told me I thought wrong.

I guess my younger son has the brother and sister-in-law he wants. I recently learned he had dropped out of university and moved in with them.

I wonder how long will they continue to want him?

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Lunafalls's avatar

Why have no colleges and universities noticed how often dropping out follows a student's trans declaration? Why isn't this on anybody's radar?

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Girl Mom's avatar

Exactly! My daughter dropped out in her sophomore year after starting on testosterone in the beginning of her freshman year. Now she job hops at low paying jobs and was homeless for awhile. She's cut us off, so we have little information about her now, at the ripe old age of 21.

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Alice Stone's avatar

I‘m so sorry.

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FHLmom's avatar

This is our story too! Only, by strength beyond my own, I was able to lovingly listen and tell him just what you had wished to have done. I told him I was there for him and would love him no matter what and that we would figure this out as a family. It was not enough and I doubt it would have been enough for you either. It was not enough to release the hold his predators had and still have on him.

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Concerned Parent's avatar

We walked that tight rope as well for a while until our efforts "weren't good enough" The other family had a greater pull. We can all play the what if game but in the end does that matter?

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