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Suzie Homemaker's avatar

I ask myself these questions everyday. How can I counter the harm my own child is perpetrating? How can I protect others, if not my own? How do I play a part in turning this tide?

Like this.

By writing, or speaking to anyone who will listen. Family and friends have pulled away, they don’t want to hear, they want to be allies, to be “kind,” without realizing how cruel that is. And by encouraging others who are in the same boat. We have to keep rowing, we can’t grow weary, so we must encourage one another along the way as well. And by remembering to take care of myself, too, because I’m battle worn and discouraged at times.

Keep fighting the good fight!

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Grandma Eileen's avatar

I will not comply either! Together we are strong.

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Sara Bush's avatar

I have a sweatshirt with the logo “Do Not Affirm. Do Not Comply”. It is available at the Darkhorse podcast Store”.

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Barbara Pecze's avatar

Inspirational poem! I will not comply!

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Stephanie's avatar

“I will not comply” - four words with such huge meaning!

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Team Reality's avatar

"There are 4 lights"

(Nerds of a certain age will get this)

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Susan's avatar

As bad as what is being done to children is, there is for me an even deeper and more disturbing reason why the trans agenda should terrify us: it is pushing a lie. Men and women cannot change their sex. Period. If they can get people to believe this, and double down on this, and persecute and punish others for not going along with this, all is lost. They are pushing people not to trust their senses, their instincts. If you are wondering where all this is headed --- or are you even there yet? You probably are too distracted by the mutilation of young bodies and the ruin of young lives, which is understandable. This is where it is headed: this is a long, slow march toward the acceptance and legalization of pedophilia. How much of a leap is it to say that children can have sex lives, when "we" are already saying that they can choose their sex? This is a very important video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8B__ZWRVMk&t=24s

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Susan Z's avatar

If biology doesn't matter, then age doesn't matter. Because age is reflected in biology. If it's all how you feel, than why not allow a kid to "feel" older. This is a complete shit show that is ruining civilization.

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Susan's avatar

I think you have to subscribe to read it, but I now follow Holly Mathnerd on Substack who writes about these topics. She has an excellent (and depressing) piece entitled "Next Step in the War on Kids." It might interest you because she touches on how the trans age movement is dovetailing with the transing of children, both with the ultimate goal of allowing lustful adults to get their greedy paws on children to exploit them sexually.

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Susan Z's avatar

thanks for the suggestion. Ill check it out.

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Susan's avatar

Yes. Another very good point.

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Nomomomo's avatar

Yes. The truth matters and the ignorant willingness to push truth aside in favor of feelings, is a huge and dangerous departure from the wisdom developed over centuries of human learning and culture. We are literally trying on human life to see if we AGREE with the way it truly is. Like that's even possible? Monumental pride.

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Susan's avatar

If "we" decide we are going to embrace and enforce lies, we should be very afraid of the lies coming down the pike. "The sky is red" might be at most annoying, but "children are vibrant beings capable of enjoying and consenting to sex" is a tad more problematic to most of us. I was just running errands and caught the tail end of a story on NPR that mentioned the "preoccupation of the right with 'gender affirming care.'" As if it's a curious obsession some of us have, like checking the stove ten times before you leave the house.

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Nomomomo's avatar

YEs. I am running into these kinds of deprecating comments more and more. Comments along the lines of, "its all a right-wing conspiracy theory..."

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Team Reality's avatar

To be clear, I'm not right wing by any stretch. But tonight the detrans reddit has an RIP up for a 23 year old who died after "bottom surgery" and was autistic. He had horrible complications. I am horrified that the cheerful sounding "affirmative care" really means slow suicide by torture for far too many.

The situation is portrayed as left right but that's really institutional, not individuals. Institutions are totally on board with the activist agenda, individuals are not so much.

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Susan's avatar

I am sure you know how Canada is just wild about euthanasia right now. Got a hang nail? Your toast fell butter down onto the floor? Euthanasia! But when a trans person wanted to be allowed to die b/c he was living in excruciating pain from his surgery, he was denied. I have no doubt that the authorities do not want the trans agenda to face the bad publicity that would cause.

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Delightful Oddling's avatar

Thank you

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Ann's avatar

I thought the WPATH files would explode things. So for only conservative news outlets are covering it. I I plan to call and email CNN, MSNBC, BBC, New York Times and any others I can think of. Extremely disappointed

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Suffering Mother's avatar

The new bill in congress is loaded with money for transgender procedures and medications for children without parental consent!!! We all need to call our representatives and express our rage over this. It’s the Democrats who put it in the bill which is loaded with other nonsensical pork wasting taxpayer money

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Hope 4 Change's avatar

Please do so! I keep waiting for mainstream news to cover this scandal!

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Ann's avatar

Me too. 😣

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James Loewen's avatar

CNN, MSNBC, BBC, New York Times and all other main stream media, and much "independent" media is bought and paid for by the parasite elites who own everything and are running the show. The left/right political division is part of the illusion created by the same elite/parasites. When you realize how the system is run, you'll be shocked, and also less disappointed when your sources don't respond. You'll understand why this is happening.

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Ann's avatar

I know a bit about it. I do believe what you’re saying. However I’ve always believed that the squeaky door gets oiled. It’s time (past time) to start making noise.

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James Loewen's avatar

Absolutely! Time to make noise. Just wanted to warn that the MSM is not democratic, neutral or impartial. They are the propaganda arm, the mouthpiece of the elites who own them, and they have their orders to promote the agenda. All the power to you to speak out.

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Anon's avatar

It’s tough to keep going & hard to temper our feelings around others. I experience huge surges of optimism with each story like ‘this is it, this is the one’. But it is a blip in other people’s lives. News is at the forefront of our minds because we live with it every day, we are exhausted, we want it to be over.

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Clare Kerchhoff's avatar

These are my feelings exactly! It is heart breaking and infuriating but we have to keep doing whatever we can to fight for the truth.

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Carol Dansereau's avatar

Thank you for articulating what so many of us feel. Hang in there. Bit by bit the false edifice of gender ideology is beginning to crumble. May it come crashing down resoundingly soon.....perhaps within this very year. The seeds we each sow against all odds, despite being ignored or shunned, are important. Thank you for being one of the ones who stands up for children. May we all find each other; may we build new loving friendship networks that can withstand destabilizing attacks deployed by toxic ideologies like gender identity.

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Doors Of Perception's avatar

The first word of Lamentations is “How?”

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James Loewen's avatar

Speak the truth. You don't have to convince anyone, just plant the seeds. Often, people respond to information that goes against the beliefs of their peer group by covering their ears. Just speak the truth and plant seeds. Some will grow.

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Suffering Mother's avatar

Parents are literally brainwashed when their children say they’re transgender. Those professionals start pounding them with your kid is gonna kill themselves and you have to affirm them right now or horrible things will happen. So parents become afraid I think and they don’t investigate further. That’s the problem they go along with it, keeping it going

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AJ's avatar

Don't give up! Three years ago, it looked like legalization of hard drugs could sweep the nation; today, San Francisco and Oregon are both reversing course.

I'm hopeful that in five year's time, we will look at this moment of trans craziness, and see, in the words of Hunter S. Thompson (in a different context) "...the high-water mark -- that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

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Susan's avatar

I have been saying (and praying for) something similar. I hope a decade from now, we'll be watching a documentary on "The Rainbow Brigade" on Netflix or Hulu. I hope we look back on the Trans Craze in awestruck wonder in the same way we now look at the Satanic Panic of the 80s (daycare centers, etc...)

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James Loewen's avatar

Netflix is created to advance the parasite/elite's agenda, which includes promoting big pharma and transgendering children and youth.

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