This is a great resource for families affected by this phenomenon. I would add that, because I have two adult “kids“ who transitioned at age 30, that medical and psychological professionals often push the transgender solution on emotionally disturbed adults, too. My kids were traumatized as children by a mentally ill relative and were dysfunctional, but needed care other than transgender medicalization. Don’t think this is only affecting school children!
this is one of the best things I've read on this site. Thanks so much for putting together all this useful information & references.
You might also want to take a look at the research & writing of Jennifer Bilek (Google or U Tube), who delves into some of the origins of and funding of the ideology.
What an excellent source of great information. Thank you! This would have been very useful for me and my family years ago. We had no research and facts to find. Times have changed and now the truth and resources are readily available. Do Not Affirm! So important to fight and protect your child. Be leery of everyone in authority as only you will have your child's best interest at heart. Transgender is an evil cult, a poison, full of lies. Be very careful who you trust but never lose hope! You are not alone in this fight to protect the innocent.
This is great. I wish I had found it back in 2023. I will use many of your points to challenge her so called therapist. Hopefully I can do it in a way that is not confrontational but meant to make her think. Glad it was reposted. I find value in older writings before I got here.
It might be better to change to a non-affirming therapist. I found someone in the Therapy First network. There might not be someone near you, but many do telehealth appointments.
This is a superb essay. I hope the authors can find ways to disseminate it to as many media platforms as possible, because not everybody is on Substack. This could include television and podcast interviews.
I have one suggestion that would not detract from the article, but rather give it a more global relevance. I'm referring to this remark: "We are NOT anti-trans. Adults have the right to live their lives as they see fit, free of discrimination — period."
I agree with this. Bodily autonomy for adults is a basic human right, and for children too, although children require the oversight of loving parents and a compassionate society to protect them from predators and from themselves. Where adults are concerned, have at it...EXCEPT that the predilections of individuals must not infringe on the rights of others while in the process of exercising their own freedoms.
I'm talking about the rights of women under current transgender norms. Men are not women, but they pretend that they are, and thus demand to be "affirmed" as women, with access to the same protections that women receive in society in response to the basic fact that men and women are biologically different in specific ways. We currently privilege the demands of men who identify as women (whatever that means), so that the rights, safety and freedoms of women are undermined. The eradication of women-only sports, women's shelters, bathrooms and other women-only spaces, and especially THE PRISONS -- which have turned incarceration into a medieval nightmare for incarcerated women -- are examples of how women's rights have been breached.
In other words, adults have the right to live their lives as they see fit, free of discrimination -- period -- AS LONG AS THEY RESPECT THE BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO IMMUTABLE SEXES, AND ARE NOT STANDING ON THE NECKS OF OTHERS WHILE LIVING THEIR LIVES AS THEY SEE FIT.
Thanks for the reminder that the harms are multiple and widespread.
While this site focuses on parents & children, the ideology hurts women, gays, and lesbians. There is also the concern regarding the suppression of information and discussion, and the idea that technology can re-make human beings to our liking. The whole culture is affected, and the future of humankind. It's important that our children learn the reality of our bodies and not be indoctrinated with "alternate facts".
It does take vigilance on the part of the parents, because the internet is totalizing and can take kids down roads that you didn’t know existed and would be horrified to discover. And kids are impressionable by definition.
Add to that, that you are not a mature adult at 18!!! 8teen is still a teenager, and should not be allowed to have any of this medical or surgical intervention until they are way older.
I'm not disagreeing, but there's an issue that makes 18 years of age a contentious metric. 18 year-olds can vote, join the military, and drive. Depending on the state, 18 year-olds can also be accused of statutory rape for having sex with a minor. "Age of consent" is frequently set at 18.
I believe It will take the full-fledged cooperation of medical professionals, especially neurologists and biologists who understand the maturation process, to pass a law barring all 18 year-olds from medically transitioning.
That will take some time, given how ideologically captured the medical establishment is at the moment.
Very good essay. Although this may not help those already embroiled in this madness, perhaps it will help parents deal with this monster before it actually reaches their children’s immature brains.
If only I could have read this essay before my son was pushed off the sanity cliff by nefarious Planned Parenthood. That said, my husband and I tried with substantial effort to help our son escape from the poisonous gender cult tentacles when they first infected him as a teen. Likely curtailing more of his social media access may have helped. He was an excellent student often on his laptop working to achieve all A's, and we didn't suffienctly realize how utterly corrupting social media was/ is. I may always beat myself up about this regret. But in high school, my son went into remission from his "trans" obsession with the help his father and I did offer, and we thought we were out of these dark, treacherous woods. Unfortunately (a massive understatement as words to convey this horror are invaribly inadequate,) while he was sealed in his dorm room during his first semester at college in 2020 when the fear of COVID was peaking, the "trans" virus resurfaced to claim his mind, health and his potential, and simultaneously torpedoed the hearts of his parents, inflict loss on his clear-thinking sister, and destroy our once close family. As time in this psychological hell went on and on, I recognized the need to let go of short term hope as necessary to emerge from profound despair. But I need to allow long term hope that my son will somehow wake up. In reference to the title of today's lucid PITT essay, I also allow yearning for a "trans"-educated society to emerge and pummel the idiocy, indifference, virtue signaling, greed, and the cruelty of this evil cult back into the depths of hell where it burns to oblivion.
So similar to my daughter’s story, except my she never seemed obsessed about it prior, just dabbled in it and then renounced it, so I thought it was just a passing fad. Until covid lockdowns at college.
I’m so sorry for your heartbreak. I’m sorry for all of us in this nightmare. I also yearn for the complete destruction of this evil, and hope for our kids to recover their lives.
This is mostly a very helpful essay except for looking for allies among the "Many transgender and transsexual adults .." No, no, they are not natural allies. Nobody is real trans. Seeing trans identified adults as allies is especially dangerous for older teens who may just be "slow walking", biding their time until they turn 18 (and the link took me to some odd page btw).
Amazing analysis. I normally recommend people read www.newdiscourses.com. This article, by contrast is worthy of sending to James Lindsay, it's author. This is high quality discourse, applied specifically to transgenderism. I will be checking out your links in detail. God Bless.
I am planning to set up discussions on content for parents interested in learning how their children developed these thinking patterns. If you are interested in participating and learning please email me at Pindymcgregor@gmail.com
This is a great resource for families affected by this phenomenon. I would add that, because I have two adult “kids“ who transitioned at age 30, that medical and psychological professionals often push the transgender solution on emotionally disturbed adults, too. My kids were traumatized as children by a mentally ill relative and were dysfunctional, but needed care other than transgender medicalization. Don’t think this is only affecting school children!
this is one of the best things I've read on this site. Thanks so much for putting together all this useful information & references.
You might also want to take a look at the research & writing of Jennifer Bilek (Google or U Tube), who delves into some of the origins of and funding of the ideology.
What an excellent source of great information. Thank you! This would have been very useful for me and my family years ago. We had no research and facts to find. Times have changed and now the truth and resources are readily available. Do Not Affirm! So important to fight and protect your child. Be leery of everyone in authority as only you will have your child's best interest at heart. Transgender is an evil cult, a poison, full of lies. Be very careful who you trust but never lose hope! You are not alone in this fight to protect the innocent.
This video explains how the UN and WHO are totally in on it.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-154854769
An emphatic thank you for reposting this from 2021. I can use this to help educate & inform parents with whom I work.
This is great. I wish I had found it back in 2023. I will use many of your points to challenge her so called therapist. Hopefully I can do it in a way that is not confrontational but meant to make her think. Glad it was reposted. I find value in older writings before I got here.
It might be better to change to a non-affirming therapist. I found someone in the Therapy First network. There might not be someone near you, but many do telehealth appointments.
Agree… these therapists will not be convinced
A powerful sentence: "If you are not scared out of your mind about the whole trans thing, you are not up to speed yet."
Good overview.
This is a superb essay. I hope the authors can find ways to disseminate it to as many media platforms as possible, because not everybody is on Substack. This could include television and podcast interviews.
I have one suggestion that would not detract from the article, but rather give it a more global relevance. I'm referring to this remark: "We are NOT anti-trans. Adults have the right to live their lives as they see fit, free of discrimination — period."
I agree with this. Bodily autonomy for adults is a basic human right, and for children too, although children require the oversight of loving parents and a compassionate society to protect them from predators and from themselves. Where adults are concerned, have at it...EXCEPT that the predilections of individuals must not infringe on the rights of others while in the process of exercising their own freedoms.
I'm talking about the rights of women under current transgender norms. Men are not women, but they pretend that they are, and thus demand to be "affirmed" as women, with access to the same protections that women receive in society in response to the basic fact that men and women are biologically different in specific ways. We currently privilege the demands of men who identify as women (whatever that means), so that the rights, safety and freedoms of women are undermined. The eradication of women-only sports, women's shelters, bathrooms and other women-only spaces, and especially THE PRISONS -- which have turned incarceration into a medieval nightmare for incarcerated women -- are examples of how women's rights have been breached.
In other words, adults have the right to live their lives as they see fit, free of discrimination -- period -- AS LONG AS THEY RESPECT THE BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO IMMUTABLE SEXES, AND ARE NOT STANDING ON THE NECKS OF OTHERS WHILE LIVING THEIR LIVES AS THEY SEE FIT.
Thanks for the reminder that the harms are multiple and widespread.
While this site focuses on parents & children, the ideology hurts women, gays, and lesbians. There is also the concern regarding the suppression of information and discussion, and the idea that technology can re-make human beings to our liking. The whole culture is affected, and the future of humankind. It's important that our children learn the reality of our bodies and not be indoctrinated with "alternate facts".
It does take vigilance on the part of the parents, because the internet is totalizing and can take kids down roads that you didn’t know existed and would be horrified to discover. And kids are impressionable by definition.
I second that! This is a superb essay. Excellently written, very clear and precise. This needs to be widely published.
Add to that, that you are not a mature adult at 18!!! 8teen is still a teenager, and should not be allowed to have any of this medical or surgical intervention until they are way older.
I'm not disagreeing, but there's an issue that makes 18 years of age a contentious metric. 18 year-olds can vote, join the military, and drive. Depending on the state, 18 year-olds can also be accused of statutory rape for having sex with a minor. "Age of consent" is frequently set at 18.
I believe It will take the full-fledged cooperation of medical professionals, especially neurologists and biologists who understand the maturation process, to pass a law barring all 18 year-olds from medically transitioning.
That will take some time, given how ideologically captured the medical establishment is at the moment.
Unfortunately that is the issue we face
Now there is therapy first, for anyone reading this wanting more help
Very good essay. Although this may not help those already embroiled in this madness, perhaps it will help parents deal with this monster before it actually reaches their children’s immature brains.
If only I could have read this essay before my son was pushed off the sanity cliff by nefarious Planned Parenthood. That said, my husband and I tried with substantial effort to help our son escape from the poisonous gender cult tentacles when they first infected him as a teen. Likely curtailing more of his social media access may have helped. He was an excellent student often on his laptop working to achieve all A's, and we didn't suffienctly realize how utterly corrupting social media was/ is. I may always beat myself up about this regret. But in high school, my son went into remission from his "trans" obsession with the help his father and I did offer, and we thought we were out of these dark, treacherous woods. Unfortunately (a massive understatement as words to convey this horror are invaribly inadequate,) while he was sealed in his dorm room during his first semester at college in 2020 when the fear of COVID was peaking, the "trans" virus resurfaced to claim his mind, health and his potential, and simultaneously torpedoed the hearts of his parents, inflict loss on his clear-thinking sister, and destroy our once close family. As time in this psychological hell went on and on, I recognized the need to let go of short term hope as necessary to emerge from profound despair. But I need to allow long term hope that my son will somehow wake up. In reference to the title of today's lucid PITT essay, I also allow yearning for a "trans"-educated society to emerge and pummel the idiocy, indifference, virtue signaling, greed, and the cruelty of this evil cult back into the depths of hell where it burns to oblivion.
So similar to my daughter’s story, except my she never seemed obsessed about it prior, just dabbled in it and then renounced it, so I thought it was just a passing fad. Until covid lockdowns at college.
I’m so sorry for your heartbreak. I’m sorry for all of us in this nightmare. I also yearn for the complete destruction of this evil, and hope for our kids to recover their lives.
Amen!!!!!!!
This is mostly a very helpful essay except for looking for allies among the "Many transgender and transsexual adults .." No, no, they are not natural allies. Nobody is real trans. Seeing trans identified adults as allies is especially dangerous for older teens who may just be "slow walking", biding their time until they turn 18 (and the link took me to some odd page btw).
Amazing analysis. I normally recommend people read www.newdiscourses.com. This article, by contrast is worthy of sending to James Lindsay, it's author. This is high quality discourse, applied specifically to transgenderism. I will be checking out your links in detail. God Bless.
I am planning to set up discussions on content for parents interested in learning how their children developed these thinking patterns. If you are interested in participating and learning please email me at Pindymcgregor@gmail.com