In 2014, my son started to ask for the popular block-building computer game known as "Minecraft." Later that year, my wife and I decided to get said game for him, and he loved it.
Some disturbing, needlessly cruel comments being posted here. I hope admins will delete them. Anyone steeped in trans ideology (and obviously full of hatred) doesn't belong here.
So, if you care about your child's mental health, her physical health, and her future well-being (including her fertility and sexual function), that makes a parent a "transphobe?" Okay.
You might want to actually look at Planned Parenthood's own website, where it is clearly stated that cross-sex hormones are given out to adult patients on demand. No note a from doctor or psychiatrist required.
I also have read many accounts written by PITT parents who have said hormones or puberty blockers were prescribed on a first visit. I'm not in a position to know if that's true, but that's what they report. I do think we should all question who profits by providing medical treatments for gender dysphoria. Doctors may have some self interest in prescribing these hormones and surgeries. After all, this so-called gender affirming care is a huge industry, and quite profitable. See: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sex-reassignment-surgery-market-worth-102900490.html
These are people who LOVE their children, and haven't rejected them. For most of the parents here, it's exactly the opposite experience. Their kids are caught up in trans ideology, and as a result go "no contact" with their families. No wonder these kids become so hostile toward their parents, if they are meeting up with hateful people like you.
They often go no contact because they are urged to do so by their online communities or online "therapists." It's the in thing to do. Haven't you noticed? They aren't listening to their parents because they don't want to believe that parents might be right. Again, parents know their own kids. They know their child's interests, friendships, their school performance, their personality and their full psychiatric history. Imagine you have a daughter who always loved dolls, dresses, princesses and all things feminine. Then this kid decides at puberty that she's really a a boy. Are you going to celebrate that your daughter is now your son, or are you going to wonder if something else is going on? A good parent wants to know where the gender dysphoria came from and how long it has been going on. You'll want your kid to go through therapy and not rush into anything medical.
As for being deadnamed, you might think about it from a parent's perspective for once. Parents put a lot of thought into choosing names for their children. Sometimes names are in honor of a family member or they have personal significance for some other reason. It hurts when a child rejects the name you lovingly chose for her. I know from experience. Also, it's a huge adjustment for a parent to make, even if the new identity is supported. I would never demand people call me by a new name and use new pronouns for me. It's too much to ask.
They don't support their kids getting sucked into a cult that leads them to believe they were born in the wrong body, and that hormones and surgeries are necessary if suicide is to be avoided. These parents know their kids and their entire history. They KNOW their kids didn't have gender dysphoria until they were exposed to trans ideology and their peers began identifying as trans or nonbinary. In their world, it's cool to be trans. Cisgender is not. Even gay is boring.
These parents want their kids to accept themselves and their bodies. How horrible is that?
What a bunch of horrible recent comments. These people have no regard for empathy or respectful tones in a conversation and are so needlessly obsessed and terminally online, that I see 7 different comments from one account hating on you. So obsessed and insecure to affirm their gender, it's sad to see.
What nobody seems to realize is that when in an echo-chamber, ideas and radicalization is bound to happen and shape you in a way you and your fellow peers want to be. An example of this is your son.
Conversely, if one were to be around differing opinions, they would retract to a more open mind and logical thought form.
Also, I saw several different comments saying the once 11 year old son of yours who was "confused" about their gender knew themselves better than they you knew him. Immediately block these individuals as they are on an offender list.
Thanks for sharing your painful story. I hope your son realizes one day that he can never be a woman. And I hope you can find some peace with your situation. Minecraft may have been your son's way in, but the indoctrination is everywhere. It's not your fault.
People have been able to create online avatars, or play games as characters who differ from them, for much longer than the trans craze. Back in the mid-2000s, I was part of this online role-playing game where all the main characters were young gay men in Victorian England. In real life, they were nerdy female history geeks/Oscar Wilde fans of assorted orientations. Writing as “Peregrine Summerhill” (or whatever my character’s goofy name was) didn’t make me thing I must really be a gay man, because back then, “transgender people” were thought of as rare, lifelong dysphorics who could barely stand to look at their own genitals.
I don’t see anything specific to Minecraft that makes it particularly nefarious. Teenagers have unsupervised conversations all the time, whether it’s 2014 and they’re on Minecraft or it’s 1984 and they’re passing notes in study hall.
Of course there was no online world to distract us from reality back when we were kids. (I grew up in the '70s.) We had our school pictures taken for the yearbook, and that was as close as we got to creating an "avatar," which would have been no use to us anyway since our games existed in reality. Oh, I take that back ! There were little game pieces of different shapes, like those used in Monopoly, and I suppose we could call them our avatars in the game -- but I'm just joking. There was a clear divide between fantasy and reality.
Kids today can morph into whatever they want to be in their fantasy worlds, so is it any wonder they start wanting to change their bodies in real life?
Kids have always been able to morph into whatever they want to be in their fantasy worlds. Before the spread of trans ideology, only the mentally disturbed thought that they could actually turn into a fictional character in a game.
Unlike kids acting out their fantasies back in our day, these kids are addicted to online gaming. It's a different world. Many kids get sucked into fantasies and lose their own sense of self. I can't blame them for being confused.
What's sad and deranged is how addicted young people are to their electronic devices. They spend so much time living in a fantasy world that the lines between what's real and what is not gets blurred. There's no comparison between the games my generation had and those today.
Yes, and it is not the Minecraft game that is to blame. These "conversations" can happen everywhere. The dilemma is, freedom vs control. Now, many here would argue, that we need to protect our vulnerable children. There is a need to guide them properly. The world seems to have lost its mind! Therefore we should talk with our children about that, just like we talk about not going out alone in tbe dark, stay away from alcohol, drugs, tobacco, sex, guns, etc. "Behave properly!", what does that mean?
Now that the counter movement against the pseudocult has gained some momentum and substance, it is time to integrate the polarities and find the new middle way. For me, that we mean something like, you can be who you are, but let's explore what that really means. Who am I? Then make clear what the risks are of being confused. However, you will find a generational conflict as old as mankind lurking in the dark. That's why it is so hard to address this. You must allow some freedom and yet set certain bounderies. This is the eternal churning of ideas. We have to confront that. What is good and what is bad in the "new" thing...
Minecraft, Roblox, and anime are all predatory. When my son was little he used to play Roblox. I was watching him play once and his avatar was in a room with pizza slices for wall paper and he was humping the walls. That was the last time he played it. Anime is full of gender bending and animal human cross breeds.
Burning in hell? For what? For daring to callout evil in plain sight turning children into prey? It will be those who perpetrate crimes on the innocent who will burn in the lake of fire. Prayers for you Jadyn, seek Jesus.
If that makes you feel better about it, you're right. All of these things are really good for kids and there are no predators out there. What was I thinking?
You are absolutely correct! My son’s gateway drug was “my little pony”! He became a “Brony”. Can’t you just imagine the adult men pedos trolling that site??
When he announced his trans identity, I asked him why he thought he was transgender.
His answer: I always like being the female character in role play. So there you have it! I’m really a girl! Onto the hormones that he was enthusiastically prescribed by the Sacramento gender clinic after one therapy session with an intern barely older than he was at 19.
MLP is an awesome show, though, its weird adult male fanbase aside. Rainbow Dash is exactly the sort of character people would want to spin as trans or “non-binary” - loves sports, is aggressively competitive, doesn’t want anyone to think she likes anything traditionally feminine - but she’s indisputably a female pony, and no one ever acts like she’s weird. Creator Lauren Faust said she conceived the show around the idea that “there’s no wrong way to be a girl.”
Hmmm correlation or causation? I'd venture to say that Minecraft perhaps became another outlet for transgender manifestation, the influence of which was coming from plenty of other sources outside of Minecraft.
You know, this is exactly parallel to the mind control that occurs in online romance scams. I am a retired federal Special Agent and INVARIABLY, victims of online romance scams REFUSED TO BELIEVE their online "lover" was nothing more than a nefarious thief. No amount of evidence to the contrary, eg: victims wired sometimes HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, (God I knew of one man that wired over a million dollars) of dollars to their online "lover" only to never see their money again OR their romantic predator. No matter how many stock photos we showed them that the perpetrator was using as his or her image (yes, it happens across both sexes equally, men and women seem to be equally vulnerable, no matter how many documents we showed that their money ended up in some Chinese bank and withdrawn, no matter how many times their romantic "partner" promised to come to the U.S. and never did, NONE OF THAT MATTERED. They, to the very last victim, refused to believe that what they were seeing on the screen and the words they were reading, were not real. Very, very tragic.
At issue here is a larger problem of all online platforms, whether gaming, SM or "info-esque" can groom or indoctrinate our kids. Robust parental controls and getting porn off the internet except with verified DL or gov't idea would be a start.
Welcome to the Videodrome, all hail the new flesh. The problem is not the game itself, but the kind of interactivity it enables between your son and his boyfriend. "Virtual" communication now vastly exceeds daily meatspace communication, where we have defenses and heuristics to protect us. Simulated "skins" promote disembodiment and we have nothing to protect us.
Some disturbing, needlessly cruel comments being posted here. I hope admins will delete them. Anyone steeped in trans ideology (and obviously full of hatred) doesn't belong here.
So, if you care about your child's mental health, her physical health, and her future well-being (including her fertility and sexual function), that makes a parent a "transphobe?" Okay.
You might want to actually look at Planned Parenthood's own website, where it is clearly stated that cross-sex hormones are given out to adult patients on demand. No note a from doctor or psychiatrist required.
See: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-mar-monte/patient-resources/gender-affirming-care
I also have read many accounts written by PITT parents who have said hormones or puberty blockers were prescribed on a first visit. I'm not in a position to know if that's true, but that's what they report. I do think we should all question who profits by providing medical treatments for gender dysphoria. Doctors may have some self interest in prescribing these hormones and surgeries. After all, this so-called gender affirming care is a huge industry, and quite profitable. See: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sex-reassignment-surgery-market-worth-102900490.html
These are people who LOVE their children, and haven't rejected them. For most of the parents here, it's exactly the opposite experience. Their kids are caught up in trans ideology, and as a result go "no contact" with their families. No wonder these kids become so hostile toward their parents, if they are meeting up with hateful people like you.
They often go no contact because they are urged to do so by their online communities or online "therapists." It's the in thing to do. Haven't you noticed? They aren't listening to their parents because they don't want to believe that parents might be right. Again, parents know their own kids. They know their child's interests, friendships, their school performance, their personality and their full psychiatric history. Imagine you have a daughter who always loved dolls, dresses, princesses and all things feminine. Then this kid decides at puberty that she's really a a boy. Are you going to celebrate that your daughter is now your son, or are you going to wonder if something else is going on? A good parent wants to know where the gender dysphoria came from and how long it has been going on. You'll want your kid to go through therapy and not rush into anything medical.
As for being deadnamed, you might think about it from a parent's perspective for once. Parents put a lot of thought into choosing names for their children. Sometimes names are in honor of a family member or they have personal significance for some other reason. It hurts when a child rejects the name you lovingly chose for her. I know from experience. Also, it's a huge adjustment for a parent to make, even if the new identity is supported. I would never demand people call me by a new name and use new pronouns for me. It's too much to ask.
They don't support their kids getting sucked into a cult that leads them to believe they were born in the wrong body, and that hormones and surgeries are necessary if suicide is to be avoided. These parents know their kids and their entire history. They KNOW their kids didn't have gender dysphoria until they were exposed to trans ideology and their peers began identifying as trans or nonbinary. In their world, it's cool to be trans. Cisgender is not. Even gay is boring.
These parents want their kids to accept themselves and their bodies. How horrible is that?
What a bunch of horrible recent comments. These people have no regard for empathy or respectful tones in a conversation and are so needlessly obsessed and terminally online, that I see 7 different comments from one account hating on you. So obsessed and insecure to affirm their gender, it's sad to see.
What nobody seems to realize is that when in an echo-chamber, ideas and radicalization is bound to happen and shape you in a way you and your fellow peers want to be. An example of this is your son.
Conversely, if one were to be around differing opinions, they would retract to a more open mind and logical thought form.
Also, I saw several different comments saying the once 11 year old son of yours who was "confused" about their gender knew themselves better than they you knew him. Immediately block these individuals as they are on an offender list.
Yeah, just like the genderbread character.
Trans ideology will co-op it to indoctrinate.
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Thanks for sharing your painful story. I hope your son realizes one day that he can never be a woman. And I hope you can find some peace with your situation. Minecraft may have been your son's way in, but the indoctrination is everywhere. It's not your fault.
Starting to think ur high on ketamine or??
People have been able to create online avatars, or play games as characters who differ from them, for much longer than the trans craze. Back in the mid-2000s, I was part of this online role-playing game where all the main characters were young gay men in Victorian England. In real life, they were nerdy female history geeks/Oscar Wilde fans of assorted orientations. Writing as “Peregrine Summerhill” (or whatever my character’s goofy name was) didn’t make me thing I must really be a gay man, because back then, “transgender people” were thought of as rare, lifelong dysphorics who could barely stand to look at their own genitals.
I don’t see anything specific to Minecraft that makes it particularly nefarious. Teenagers have unsupervised conversations all the time, whether it’s 2014 and they’re on Minecraft or it’s 1984 and they’re passing notes in study hall.
Of course there was no online world to distract us from reality back when we were kids. (I grew up in the '70s.) We had our school pictures taken for the yearbook, and that was as close as we got to creating an "avatar," which would have been no use to us anyway since our games existed in reality. Oh, I take that back ! There were little game pieces of different shapes, like those used in Monopoly, and I suppose we could call them our avatars in the game -- but I'm just joking. There was a clear divide between fantasy and reality.
How times have changed! Just google "avatar generator" and you'll get plenty of results like these: https://www.canva.com/create/avatars/
https://avatarmaker.com/
https://www.adobe.com/express/create/avatar
https://unionavatars.com/
https://meiker.io/games/tag/avatar-maker
Kids today can morph into whatever they want to be in their fantasy worlds, so is it any wonder they start wanting to change their bodies in real life?
Kids have always been able to morph into whatever they want to be in their fantasy worlds. Before the spread of trans ideology, only the mentally disturbed thought that they could actually turn into a fictional character in a game.
Unlike kids acting out their fantasies back in our day, these kids are addicted to online gaming. It's a different world. Many kids get sucked into fantasies and lose their own sense of self. I can't blame them for being confused.
What's sad and deranged is how addicted young people are to their electronic devices. They spend so much time living in a fantasy world that the lines between what's real and what is not gets blurred. There's no comparison between the games my generation had and those today.
Yes, and it is not the Minecraft game that is to blame. These "conversations" can happen everywhere. The dilemma is, freedom vs control. Now, many here would argue, that we need to protect our vulnerable children. There is a need to guide them properly. The world seems to have lost its mind! Therefore we should talk with our children about that, just like we talk about not going out alone in tbe dark, stay away from alcohol, drugs, tobacco, sex, guns, etc. "Behave properly!", what does that mean?
Now that the counter movement against the pseudocult has gained some momentum and substance, it is time to integrate the polarities and find the new middle way. For me, that we mean something like, you can be who you are, but let's explore what that really means. Who am I? Then make clear what the risks are of being confused. However, you will find a generational conflict as old as mankind lurking in the dark. That's why it is so hard to address this. You must allow some freedom and yet set certain bounderies. This is the eternal churning of ideas. We have to confront that. What is good and what is bad in the "new" thing...
Minecraft, Roblox, and anime are all predatory. When my son was little he used to play Roblox. I was watching him play once and his avatar was in a room with pizza slices for wall paper and he was humping the walls. That was the last time he played it. Anime is full of gender bending and animal human cross breeds.
Burning in hell? For what? For daring to callout evil in plain sight turning children into prey? It will be those who perpetrate crimes on the innocent who will burn in the lake of fire. Prayers for you Jadyn, seek Jesus.
If that makes you feel better about it, you're right. All of these things are really good for kids and there are no predators out there. What was I thinking?
Apparently you don't understand the pizza meaning.
It is a symbol predators use to avoid using the actual words.
Yes indeed. My daughter was into games and anime and the same thing..
You are absolutely correct! My son’s gateway drug was “my little pony”! He became a “Brony”. Can’t you just imagine the adult men pedos trolling that site??
When he announced his trans identity, I asked him why he thought he was transgender.
His answer: I always like being the female character in role play. So there you have it! I’m really a girl! Onto the hormones that he was enthusiastically prescribed by the Sacramento gender clinic after one therapy session with an intern barely older than he was at 19.
MLP is an awesome show, though, its weird adult male fanbase aside. Rainbow Dash is exactly the sort of character people would want to spin as trans or “non-binary” - loves sports, is aggressively competitive, doesn’t want anyone to think she likes anything traditionally feminine - but she’s indisputably a female pony, and no one ever acts like she’s weird. Creator Lauren Faust said she conceived the show around the idea that “there’s no wrong way to be a girl.”
Hmmm correlation or causation? I'd venture to say that Minecraft perhaps became another outlet for transgender manifestation, the influence of which was coming from plenty of other sources outside of Minecraft.
You know, this is exactly parallel to the mind control that occurs in online romance scams. I am a retired federal Special Agent and INVARIABLY, victims of online romance scams REFUSED TO BELIEVE their online "lover" was nothing more than a nefarious thief. No amount of evidence to the contrary, eg: victims wired sometimes HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, (God I knew of one man that wired over a million dollars) of dollars to their online "lover" only to never see their money again OR their romantic predator. No matter how many stock photos we showed them that the perpetrator was using as his or her image (yes, it happens across both sexes equally, men and women seem to be equally vulnerable, no matter how many documents we showed that their money ended up in some Chinese bank and withdrawn, no matter how many times their romantic "partner" promised to come to the U.S. and never did, NONE OF THAT MATTERED. They, to the very last victim, refused to believe that what they were seeing on the screen and the words they were reading, were not real. Very, very tragic.
Ann R That is crazy - the stuff of movies, but it actually happens in real life. How sad that lonely people get sucked into this.
I hope this doesn't offend, but if I were you, I'd be so relieved I wasn't invited to that sh*t show of a wedding. I am deeply sorry about your son.
At issue here is a larger problem of all online platforms, whether gaming, SM or "info-esque" can groom or indoctrinate our kids. Robust parental controls and getting porn off the internet except with verified DL or gov't idea would be a start.
Welcome to the Videodrome, all hail the new flesh. The problem is not the game itself, but the kind of interactivity it enables between your son and his boyfriend. "Virtual" communication now vastly exceeds daily meatspace communication, where we have defenses and heuristics to protect us. Simulated "skins" promote disembodiment and we have nothing to protect us.
Rando internet tr00n scared of truth LOL