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senora sangria's avatar

well said, thanks. how DO we approach the captured minds and hearts to bring forth some sanity when we have been living in The Age of Alternative Facts? What kinds of efforts can we put forth besides changing laws? How can we best support de-transitioners and help get their stories heard? How can we help kids in pain? How can we support women who (rightfully) resist the intrusion of guys into private spaces? I am so thankful for the clear writing of you and others -- people from diverse political and personal places -- uniting around our concerns about this ideology which affects US ALL. I am hoping that now at least there MIGHT be less suppression of information and there MIGHT be less suppression of discussion.

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Raelene  Stokes's avatar

However isn’t the senate blocking this under congress?

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Michal Platek's avatar

To the author and anyone else who “has the balls to swallow a truth”:

It seems that your appreciation for Trump’s executive order stems from personal experience—specifically, how trans ideology has affected your own family. I can understand why this issue resonates deeply with you. However, I find it contradictory to support abortion rights while opposing transgender ideology.

At its core, both abortion and transgender ideology stem from a rejection of natural law. Abortion denies the inherent right to life, while transgender ideology denies biological reality. If one believes it is acceptable to terminate a child in the womb, why should it suddenly be a problem if that same child—had they been allowed to live—later becomes a victim of gender ideology? The underlying issue in both cases is the rejection of objective truth about human nature.

To be consistent, one cannot uphold natural law in one area while discarding it in another. If life and biological reality matter, they must matter at every stage.

Why am I writing this? Because amongst all you’ve written and I appreciate, this part I cannot overlook:

“• The Democrats betrayed us from 2021 to 2023 by not codifying abortion rights when they had full power in DC (as they did in 1993-1995 and 2009-2011).”

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E. Kathryn Stanley's avatar

Trump can't end gender ideology by decree. He's making it harder for Democrats to see the light.

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Gala Mother's avatar

What a FABULOUS expose on where we are and part of how we got here. RIP "Woman's March". Now, like so many of the orgs that used to champion and advocate for women (PP, NOW, LLL and more) , the "be kind" mantra has sadly put way too many women to sleep. So much so they cannot see they have just agreed to climb up on the pyre & light the match themselves.

Thank you for this excellent writing. Thank you for calling out the Dim Party and their FULL trouncing on opportunities to support the rights, safety and sex based needs of women and girls and our children who are being drugged and mutilated. They are not the Party I registered to be part of as an idealistic, passionately liberal, young woman. And if they cannot stop pointing fingers at EVERYONE else besides themselves, it is likely they won't see power again for a long, long time. They need to OWN their part of this situation. It didn't happen in a vacuum.

Identify politics are dangerous and harmful to so many. WHY they refused to listen to those of us sounding the alarm is anyone's guess. Hubris? Stupidity? Arrogance? Perhaps all of those.

I gave them one more chance. I held my nose and voted Biden even though there were numerous outstanding women the party could have gotten behind, but like what they did with Hillary, they refused to champion a female candidate and instead chose another old white guy. When he ignored his opportunity to protect the rights of women and girls and even began dismantling all the protections we worked so hard to get into place in the 1970's Women's Liberation Movement, I was done. His pandering to Dylan Mulvaney by inviting him to the White House as a "brave girl" sealed the deal.

We are in for a rocky 4 years, I have no doubt. However, since the hill I was willing to die on was stopping the mutilation and sterilization of our children and restoring the reality of the sex binary to protect the rights and safety of women and girls, I am relieved and encouraged for what has happened in that regard so far. Will it be worth the trade off? We don't know yet what chaos may unfold. But we know it's coming. Will saving Title Nine, getting men out of women's prison cells and locker rooms and sports and homeless shelters and bathrooms be worth it?

And the most heinous of all... stopping the mutilation and chemical castration of our children? I know what answer I came to. I am still hopeful it was the right one. And if it wasn't, I hope that whatever else happens, we will come out the other end as a stronger and reinvigorated country. May it be so.

Tough call. We each have to make our own peace with what we decide.

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S. A. Dad's avatar

Despite that we agree on gender issues, we need an alternative to Trump. Gulf of America? Need I say more?

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Gary Mullennix's avatar

Did you vote for the alternative in Nov? How would that have gone? In Mexico, it's the Gulf of Mexico.

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S. A. Dad's avatar

When you have such more important issues to deal with such as the transgender cult, why should there be a distraction over the name of a piece of water. It makes him look like an idiot. It works against those that are serious about transgender issues.

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Melissa R.'s avatar

Well-stated!

I do worry about trans panic:

https://x.com/elizamondegreen/status/1887936941481455713

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Robin's avatar

The entire trans edifice is no more than a men's rights movement built on lies and falsehoods. https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/misinformation-disinformation-and

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Gala Mother's avatar

and violence and intimidation. Death threats, Rape threats, Loss of employment have happened to many many woman... and some male allies. I agree with you... however it is good to acknowledge that the "edifice" has teeth.

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Adri Mans's avatar

Trump got the balls to call things as they are! I guess you are also because you admitted it that you were wrong supporting this madness (still I cannot imagine like people can support these things) and now you are suffering the results in your own home. But in your case your kid is confused because you have been confused all along. They watch their mothers with ridiculous pussy cats fighting for non-sense, because as almost everyone knows by now the feminist movement was created for a man to get rid of responsibilities over women and have free sex, of course that is not the "official" story. But what goes around comes around and now we are ALL suffering the decisions of the democrats that advocate for madness and imposed that madness on the rest of us (the party of freedom?). But it is good that you are taking responsibility (time to grow up) and I expect you fight back no matter the cost, and don't vote democrat because the democrat party of JFK is gone decades ago. The party estructure is destroyed in the States realistically and the two parties should ceased to exist (that will not happen because there is a lot of money involved). The bi party is an illusion for the masses to keep us divided. Look at Trump, he was a democrat all his life, friend of the Clintons, they have been in their children weddings that are not transgenders by the way, transgenderism is for the populace. People who could afford it should be able to present themselves as candidates for the presidency without the need to belong to any party but be voted only for their actions plan and ideas. I know I am a dreamer but the illusion of two have two "very opposite" parties is a joke, but they will keep milking that cow of partisan identity. Democrats are the "nice" and "kind" and "open mind" "good heart" who care about the environment and drive EC, opposite the Republicans that are "greedy", "big corporations", "bigots", "chauvinists" , do not "care about the earth" but they pollute the rivers and the ocean with their "oil" and "drive big trucks", and that is the way that the political elites control us. The reality is that both parties are conformed by real people who had their own ideas in different degrees but that at the end of the day all want the same things: live in peace, have freedom, have ORDER and Clean cities, care our environment with common sense (not burned a whole town to protect a fish that neither is from this country) respect each other, privacy( cancelling any parade that means naked people having sex in public) we have the rights as citizens not to be expose to defecation and urination in the streets or any human act that should be kept in private rounds. We the people want all the same, but there are some evil in the world that are pushing these agendas for perverse ulterior motives and we need to counter this and reject evil whenever we can but for that we need to recognize it first. Cheers!

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E. Kathryn Stanley's avatar

Trump doesn't have balls. Everything he does is driven by his narcissism.

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Un-silent's avatar

Correct, the two party system is a farce. Both sides are against we the people. It's just a game of good cop bad cop and we are the losers. Trump will bring in the NWO and the age of AI, while the Dems were in charge of destroying the country so that Trump can remake it. Until we all wake up and remove ourselves from the left right paradigm, we will continue to be destroyed so that they can build their one world government.

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John's avatar

What a beautifully written essay! Thank you for that. Every democratic official needs to hear from their democratic constituents, "Stop transing our kids", "Stop transing our kids", over and over until they finally get it. I think eventually they will.

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Gala Mother's avatar

I agree wholeheartedly.

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Kawika56's avatar

Many children change their minds later, but if a “loving” parent or official has had them physically or chemically “castrated”, it’s much too late! Enabling stupidity and delusions is stupid, delusional… and cruel!

However, many times it is the children themselves, along with the schools, teachers, psychologists, and medical personnel, who are the ones ganging up on the parents to succumb to this insanity! The children are coached into what to say and how to act towards the parent to browbeat the parent into submission. Then parents are then encouraged to show them full support, but never any condemnation, even if the parent is dying inside because their child now claims to be transgender. Leftists have made it a Criminal Offence to counsel the person on their transgender mental delusions!

Mentally sick parents or other “authorities” who have control of the child, push the child into ‘presenting’ as the opposite gender and pushing children to question their sexuality and receive overt ‘medical care’ just to prove the parents’ or authorities’ own point is a most damaging form of Child Abuse.

“Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy”

https://www.healthline.com/health/munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy

The Munchausen Syndrome (MS) is a mental disorder that causes a person with a deep-seated need for attention to fake sickness or injury. Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSP) is a disorder in which the caretaker of a child either makes up fake symptoms or the parent causes real symptoms to make it appear as though the child is injured or ill. The term “by proxy” means “through a substitute”. Though MSP is primarily a mental illness, it’s also considered a form of severe Child Abuse.

BTW: There is no such thing as Transsexual, or ‘gender dysphoric’, it is only people with mental problems!

Sex or gender is definitely NOT “Assigned at Birth”! Your mother’s gynecologist was not stupid and made an error, nor were your parents and your pediatrician imbeciles!

You are the sex that God “assigned” to you at your conception, your DNA was set for LIFE the moment you were conceived! Then your body was formed and developed accordingly.

There are at least 6,500 Genetic differences between Males and Females and every cell in the body proclaims the difference! Surgery, hormones, drugs, or ‘feelings’ cannot and will not change those scientific FACTS!

FROM: https://www.common-sense-science-and-religion.org/analytical-articles/settled-science-two-genders

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Awoman's avatar

It's not a distraction. It's observation of your thinking.

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George Q Tyrebyter's avatar

You need to learn how the comment system works. You don't understand it, which is why these hit comments show up at the top of the list.

- to make a new comment, enter comment into the box at the top

- to reply to another comment, hit "reply" and then comment.

This is basic stuff, but you spend your time whacking at others rather than mastering the basics.

You're welcome.

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Awoman's avatar

Continue to claim credit for being the party with all the answers and I WILL come at you.

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Colleen's avatar

Amen sister!

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JimBUWDawg's avatar

The paragraph about what's going on at your son's school is depressingly overwhelming, seemingly a comprehensive list of gender ideology run amuk and attempting, sucessfully far too often, to poison the minds of our youth. Pure insanity.

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Kawika56's avatar

The DemonRats want to either kill you in the womb, or kill your ability to have children of your own!

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charlotte johnson's avatar

You’ve said everything that needs to be said!

Thank you!

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