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Thank you thank you thank you! I want to get involved and help any way that I can. I will review all of this tonight after work. Thank you so much!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Thank you on behalf of all the parents and kids caught in this mess. I do hope we win this thing, as the higher ups in power atm seem to think they are above the law and don't care a hoot about facts.

Pls God, fight this battle for and with us 🙏❤🙏😔😔😔

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Parents need to make huge noise, and also use the only two real leverages they have - voting and the recourse of the law.

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Yes, the re purse of law and voting can help now but if we.ocrata win then I'm afraid they will change the law and control the vote.... It will be a disaster

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This is very inspiring. Thank you for doing this.

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My few bits as a marketing professional and creative director:

A snappy subject line on the email will get more views. Maybe something like "The Mindfulness Tip Every Good Educator Needs."

The text should be punchy, urgent: "Please step back and listen to the other side. It's all I ask." Why is this information urgent? Why do educators need to at least listen to the other side and look at the data? Would they teach subjects that aren't evidence-based? Make it clear that's what they're doing but in a compassionate way — their hearts are in the right place, but their loving-kindness has been abused by the identity politics of theorists. Most of them already know it, you just have to assure them it's okay, that they won't be threatened. Appeal to their respect for knowledge, don't attack.

Do NOT use exclamation marks or other forms of emphasis, like bold, italics and all caps! No shouting in writing — educators, like writers, are sensitive to formatting and punctuation. Your outrage has no place in the mission to get the right information to the people who matter; it's a symptom of the problem, not the cure for it. Keep it here, not out there. You already have the moral high ground and the superpower of being right and on the right side of history. Be resolute and firm; communicate calmly and emphatically.

I would separate the graphics of the book and the doc in two distinct paras in the email, doc first. The 'No Way Back' graphic is too weak, the modified caduceus cliché, pointing to nefarious capitalist intentions, which undermines the message and purpose of the email; most people hate being wrong and will go to great lengths to create justifications for what they've supported — see Trumpists and the 2020 election myth that 1/3 of the country believes.

I would embed the trailer from YouTube, assuming there is one, and customize the thumbnail with a screen grab of a detransitioner looking directly into the camera.

The book cover shouldn't be on an angle, just the graphic facing us. No 3-D book effect needed.

The explanatory text for both the book and the doc likewise needs to be punched up to snappy marketing copy, not blurbs. No tiny text, a Verdana set to normal, or 12 pts.

Great, memorable graphics and copy matter far more than most people realize.

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Thank you so much for the pro feedback, I appreciate it. We will incorporate all your suggestions in the emails. We wanted the tone to be professional and not too pushy, though. Still, your suggestions are great.

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If you'd like to send me drafts and mockups when you're ready, I'd be happy to consult pro bono.

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my email is panacolprods[at]gmail com. Please ping me. I am grateful to you for your help. An MD helped us shape up the postcard text, but I'm always open to suggestions for improvement.

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Thank you. While I certainly applaud this effort, it falls short of what it could be without professional guidance. I am also surprised that it's necessary for the recipients to spend money to watch the documentary or read the book. If I received this postcard, I would toss it once I realized that I was being asked to buy something.

I'm sorry to be negative here, but best efforts require good guidance.

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Thank you!!!!

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Yes! Light a candle, and don't curse the darkness...or go ahead and curse too!

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Now that's taking charge! Well done.

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What a brilliant idea! Thank you so much for doing this

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Ii emailed you a while back while trying to send a donation to your postcard campaign . Since that time I have connected with a few other grandparents through Our Duty US. We have started a letter writing campaign urging senators to support the Protect Children’s Innocence Act which recently passed the House with no support from Democrats We created a form letter for people to use to contact senators urging them to help pass this act to ban the genital mutilation, chemical castration and sterilization of innocent children . Our letter was sent to PITT and will hopefully be published soon Without Democratic support this bill could die in committee and never get to a Senate vote. Please write to your senators soon and tell them to join with Senator JD Vance to promote and pass this important act

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Thank you so much!! Please email me the Letter template. I have a part-time assistant whose job is to email politicians. I will have him email as many politicians as possible. panacolprods[at]gmail com Thank you !!

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I sent it . If you did not get it let me know

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What a great idea!

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Is there a way to purchase a pack of these postcards to mail out to my area schools and school board?

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Hi, please email me at panacolprods[at]gmail com. I will email you the "proof." Then you can send it to any local print shop. They will print on standard 6x6 postcards, and then you can mail them as needed. Quite a few parents are doing it this way. Thank you so much for your support!

Or just download the card from the download link at the bottom of the blog.

The printing company we used mailed all the cards. I did not order any extra....

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Question- does your list of principals include private schools? I will email the image there as well

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It was a mix of mostly public and private schools, with very few religious schools thrown in the Address List.

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God lives in those like you who cannot sit still in the face of evil. 🙏🏽

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Can you tell us which five states were not included?

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Hawaii (fires), North Dakota, South Dakota, Florida (they already have a very strong anti-medicalization acts), Puerto Rico. All other states were included.

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Thanks. I'll definitely follow up with local school personnel.

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The war is won by one parent reaching out to one school principal, teacher, school psychologist at a time, and this is exactly what this campaign does. Gender clinics started when parents of trans identifying kids demanded it. What are YOUR ideas?

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The laws differ in different places and many teachers /principal/etc do have quite a bit leeway on how to handle this. Even in California one district refused to hide kids identity from the parents. California! And under a moderate principal in a moderately liberal Midwestern suburban school, I saw different teachers act differently. Some were open to conversation. We totally CAN change the minds and actions of some. You think we need right-wing politicians, I think we need gutsy scientists, somebody else thinks we need journalists / lawsuits /etc. How about we all try to change things where we think it is helpful and not put down the efforts of those who do something else - in the same battle.

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Sep 8, 2023
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I never said people on the Right are uneducated. In fact I agree that they are right about many things. I don't bundle my political views anyway. Your anger at me seems misplaced. You seem to be reading into my comment what you want to read. I simply suggested not putting down the efforts of other people who try to fight this from a different angle. We will not win this by brute force alone. We need more than conservative lawmakers. (PLEASE don't interpret this as if I am saying we don't need conservative lawmakers).

And yes, CA district is getting sued. But they are trying, they are getting publicity - it's a positive change.

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I completely agree. I'm a 67-yr-old lifelong Democrat and liberal activist, but starting in 2022 I began voting straight Republican. I will be lending my modest political talents to local Republicans for Nov.2024.

But sadly even most Republicans do not understand the stakes, and fail to run on this issue (which would be a huge winner for them). A Kansas state-legislature Republican who had introduced a ban on child mutilation (aka "gender affirming care") was interviewed by the NYT, and it was clear he had no clue as to what the acutal numbers are. I sent his office the Reuters article with the numbers, and received a thank you.

I assume everyone here knows the numbers, but just in case:

>The Komodo analysis of insurance claims found 56 genital surgeries among patients ages 13 to 17 with a prior gender dysphoria diagnosis from 2019 to 2021.

>Among teens, “top surgery” to remove breasts is more common. In the three years ending in 2021, at least 776 mastectomies were performed in the United States on patients ages 13 to 17 with a gender dysphoria diagnosis, according to Komodo’s data analysis of insurance claims. This tally does not include procedures that were paid for out of pocket.

>At least 14,726 minors started hormone treatment with a prior gender dysphoria diagnosis from 2017 through 2021, according to the Komodo analysis.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/

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I get it. I'm originally from a small town in rural Ohio, was just back for my 50th high school reunion. The Democratic party elite has (sadly) been captured by a formerly fringe but now powerful identitarian movement that leaves us out. Every day I see more and more of what you were seeing/feeling in 2010.

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The RNC recently adopted a very well crafted "Resolution to protect children from unsafe sex trait modification and experimentation". I plan to encourage Republican candidates at every level to endorse this, and to make it part of their campaigns:

https://prod-static.gop.com/media/Resolution-to-Protect-Children-from-Unsafe-Sex-Trait-Modification-and-Experimentation.pdf

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Excellent resolution !

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PEC did it - they mailed postcards to therapists. Every bit potentially helps.

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