How Many Trans Kids Do You Know?
Last month, an old college friend posted the classic update on Facebook: “Our [daughter] is so brave and now wants to be known by [androgynous name]. We support them fully and their non-binary status.” The comments submitted below were all thoroughly positive and cheerful. “Way to go [androgynous name]!” “So glad to support you!”
I paused. I drank my cup of coffee. I battled with myself, and then I sent a private message to my old friend. “Hey, I saw your note about your kid. I’m sure you’ve been seeking lots of resources and info... I just wanted to draw your attention to the surveys that suggest non- binary girls have the highest rates of attempted suicide. I hope everything is okay...”
He responded privately. He implied she’d had some self-injury behaviors already. He expressed surprise that little ol’ me was up-to-date on the studies and the topic since I live in the Midwest (unlike him, in his East Coast progressive college town.)
I explained the 3/8 girls in my daughter’s class announced they were trans in the fall of 2020. 3/100th of the kids in our school’s senior class are socially transitioned. 2/4 of the 15 year-old-kids on my block have transitioned—one of them had a double mastectomy. And none of these stats include my child, who had a year of gender confusion, and is all good now, by the way.
A few months ago, my 20-something niece and I were discussing my concerns about socially transitioning kids, and she asked me accusingly: “Do you know any trans kids?” And I actually had to laugh. I know so many kids who say they are trans that I literally cannot keep track of them.
So – yeah – this gender dysphoria problem is across the nation. It’s everywhere. What are your stats? Post your kid’s classroom ratios and your state below.
Yes, excellent post! Along with all of the social media problems - our children, for a very long time now, have been taught: 'America - bad'. 'Humans bad', (we are the scourge of the planet/killing it), 'white people bad'. The only voices worthy of being heard are the marginalized, the oppressed. Well, what better way to feel heard, and worthy of being heard, and good - than to become one of the them? "I'm trans." "I'm one of YOU now." "I am not responsible for the 'wreck' of this world - I am one of you! I am oppressed, I am marginalized! You cannot shut me down now. I am righteous. I'm one of the good guys now." This anti -human/America/Western indoctrination began from my children's kindergarten years, and progressively marched on through every year of their education. Is it any surprised that they have been primed for this intersectional moment of the social media era?
Where will it end? I do not know the numbers in the entire class, or school, but I do know that at least 7 out the 30 kids in my daughter's class are non traditional, and these are just her friends we know of. It feels to me as a parent the society is out of control, where is the reset button here?
I just want my baby girl back, this person walking about my house is not her.