The tsunami-like wave of gender indoctrination, from which Southern Europe has been shielded for the most part so far, is about to hit us and our children at full force.
I’d pull my kid immediately if his pre school teacher was trans. And I’d be fine to accept the sneers and whispers of other parents who’d call me transphobic. Much like the author, my red line is children, particularly my own.
I made the enormous mistake of moving from Asturias back to my husband 's country, great Britain, in 2015. My daughters then wefe 11 and 5. Pre covid the eldest declared a trans identity. She had been struggling with the move from Spain to England in all likelihood.
Her sister is on her side and I am presently estranged from both and totally devastated.
Texas and Florida just passed laws prohibiting the medical interference with puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and surgeries in minors. Kids will be allowed to go through normal development and get psychiatric therapy of the useful kind if they experience gender dysphoria.
Reminder: gender dysphoria is extremely uncommon, afflicting one in 30,000 boys and one in 100,000 girls. It appears in childhood.
What we are seeing now is a thousandfold increase over medical statistics, appaearing much more commonly in girls that boys, and appearing not in childhood but shortly after getting on social media and in peer groups. This is not a medical condition, this is a fad.
Yes it is a cult. Doubt is always present in the cult recruit. Yes this is a uniquely American cult. We took the world in, created this virus in a wet market laboratory of fading institutions and consumer capitalism, and unleashed it on the world. I blame Oprah.
Let your hope that this will pass, be a spur toward taking action to ensure that it does so.
Regardless of the ultimate outcome, the extremism that compelled the current trajectory has guaranteed that its arc will destroy the lives of many. The best that can be done now is to shorten the arc and try to assist those afflicted by it.
An aging, retired mental health professional I know, recently recanted a lifelong commitment to her identity as a "liberal." She is now a confirmed "moderate."
I pleaded with her to resist the forceful movement of the Overton window and reclaim the term "liberal" by retaining it as self-descriptor.
She remains adamant, and is now aware of the way in which she and many thousands of her colleagues of yesteryear were duped into being the vanguard of today's destructive agenda. During those early years, the non-prescribing therapists dutifully believed the dishonest assertions of their professional organizations that puberty blocking is only a pause in something that can be turned on and off, and is entirely reversible of affect. They referred clients to the gender monsters, with only the best interests of those clients at heart and in mind.
For the therapeutic community in those years, client suicide was the most dire threat imaginable, and no one questioned "the experts."
It has come to pass that now, no one in the field CAN question "the experts" without destroying themselves professionally and personally.
And my dear friend now looks back with revulsion at how she, with the very best of intentions, delivered youthful clients into the hands of the castrating mutilators.
Remorse is a powerful emotion, and it's a sign of deep compassion when those who could have stopped this at the outset experience and express it.
It is one of life's cruel ironies that only the wisest and kindest have the courage to admit their ignorance.
Meanwhile, the "they should have known" cohort helps to stigmatize and vilify those whose openly-expressed remorse could help to bring this sordid chapter in history to a close.
The middle school counselor does well to retain anonymity; one can do no good for children when standing in an unemployment line.
The trans activists insist there is no such thing as ROGD. They used to say there are no detransitioners at all, now they say it's only people who are forced to detrans because they can't afford the medication any longer. Any, and I mean any use of critical thinking makes the activists obviously wrong.
Do all you can early to inform those in positions of power. Tell them about the Cass Review from the UK and reviews from Sweden, Finland, FL, USA, and that those countries plus Norway and France have paused 'transing' minors. Transgender Trend and Genspect are both doing excellent work in this area. And tell them that most minors--up to 90% -- desist by going through puberty before they settle into their bodies --and some of those kids just realize they are LGB. And that bringing 'gender identity' curriculum into the schools is planting a seed. And inform them that the medicalization of minors -- and adults -- is experimental and has grave implications for both physical and mental health. And, it is also unfair to force other students and teachers to have to acquiesce to such an absurd ideology as the price of getting an education or keeping a teaching position. So, yes, just leave the kids alone to grow up and figure out who they are.
Same here in Victoria, Australia. This was the first state to legislate Self ID (under the influence of some powerful 'trans' gender radical advocates), followed by the anti-conversion (=LGB conversion) laws. Our premier Daniel Andrews called gender critical women 'nazis' and 'bigots' in the house of parliament! Then also hosted a gala for drag queens grinning all the way into the media cameras. The witch hunt of sane people :((
There's more coming. Taking anxious pubescent kids and have them publicly declare pronouns has a psychological effect in and of itself. That's a foot in the door to start the kids searching for trans issues on the internet, and the vast majority of it is fantasy land of wonderfulness.
You get to pick your new name! You get to tell adults, and your parents to use your new name, and if they balk, they're bad people and transphobic, and you can get your teacher fired over it! Power!
Hormones are the best, they'll make you feel like your true "gender angel" wants you to feel. All the stuff the transphobes tell you about how hormones have side effects that include cancer, osteoporosis and infertility are just lies.
The world of modern social media is how this social contagion spreads, so quickly and so nastily. There's a whole mythology about gender that is preached by the activists, and then injected without thought into mainstream media.
It would be so much easier to let kids outgrow it as a phase if there wasn't such a push to use drugs and surgery.
Last - COVID + Remote Learning was the proverbial NOS button for the trans engine. Covid leading to anxiety and remote learning giving access to search it up, leading to transition as the answer.
Here in Spain, the government has passed self ID. It's hard to keep young people on the right path when the message from our leaders is that transgender is just a thing that's quite OK to be part of.
I said it in another comment further down as well: The Ley Trans was pushed by a spineless careerist (Irene Montero). These people don't care about children.
All the more reason we need to step up. It's up to us, the adults, to make this a grassroots movement that will swap over into politics.
I appreciate your insight, and the perspective of a teacher who is not in the United States. Thank you.
Like you, I wish otherwise, but gender ideologues are not going to leave kids alone, because young people comprise the current bulk of gender dysphoria, and as such represent the future of the movement.
As an out lesbian in the '80s and '90s, I recall gays being accused of "recruiting" young people to be homosexuals. (I guess because it was such a popular thing to be gay then, and also because it's possible to talk somebody into sexual orientation.) It seems to me that "recruiting" is, actually, not far off for gender ideologues, from early public school indoctrination through social "transition" to uncritical application of "gender affirming care" (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, sometimes surgery) to create full-fledged "trans" youth. Kids (many with other mental health issues) are easy to groom, are groomed and then "transitioned." Kind of sounds like recruitment to me.
Affirmation is a virtual drug, that causes addiction. It provides you with a bunch of new feelings, you feel high and then in the same kind as with drugs, you need a higher Dosis. You feel even lower as at the beginning, but you have learned, you can feel better. So you go and look for more drugs.
I wish more teachers were like you: caring and in touch with reality. We are in a desperate situation where teachers like you need to unite with parents and make a stand. We must reject anything to do with gender ideology in our schools. The poison was silently injected and many parents are still unaware of the danger waiting for their kids. Many parents have no idea that their families could be torn apart and that it all started with the schools. We must stop teachers actively spreading this madness in their class. Let's start with no more mentions of pronouns. Thank you for adding your voice to PITT.
Speak up loudly, forcefully and get allies in this fight where ever you are. Vocal parents and teachers that push back hard and make trouble for politicians who support trans ideology or who are wobbly can and doake a difference. I met with my state representative and state Senator earlier in the spring in my Midwestern state and others did too and it was just banned in my state.
Texas just won a very hard fought battle and got a bill prohibiting the medicalization of kids in order to make them appear the opposite sex. It was complete with massive protests and idiocy from the trans cultists but our Rep Oliverson was an immovable rock of resolve and defended the bill beautifully. We filled the gallery with a red shirted support squad each time the bill went back to the House. We the People stood behind him and our other legislators en masse. This is what it takes. Trans ideology is built on a lie. It ruins families and destroys our children. It must stop.
As long as Texas upholds gay and lesbian rights and LGB protection laws like anti-vilification of gay people in this process. Quite a few teens now 'identifying' as 'trans' turn out to be gay in their twenties.
i hated my body so much i removed all of it and now im a cool floating head, i have a wonderful wife and a powerful job.
This is an excellent interview ….it may provide something.. https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/walt-heyer-transgender
Also, he has a website (excellent resources)
https://sexchangeregret.com/
I’d pull my kid immediately if his pre school teacher was trans. And I’d be fine to accept the sneers and whispers of other parents who’d call me transphobic. Much like the author, my red line is children, particularly my own.
I made the enormous mistake of moving from Asturias back to my husband 's country, great Britain, in 2015. My daughters then wefe 11 and 5. Pre covid the eldest declared a trans identity. She had been struggling with the move from Spain to England in all likelihood.
Her sister is on her side and I am presently estranged from both and totally devastated.
Texas and Florida just passed laws prohibiting the medical interference with puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and surgeries in minors. Kids will be allowed to go through normal development and get psychiatric therapy of the useful kind if they experience gender dysphoria.
Reminder: gender dysphoria is extremely uncommon, afflicting one in 30,000 boys and one in 100,000 girls. It appears in childhood.
What we are seeing now is a thousandfold increase over medical statistics, appaearing much more commonly in girls that boys, and appearing not in childhood but shortly after getting on social media and in peer groups. This is not a medical condition, this is a fad.
Yes it is a cult. Doubt is always present in the cult recruit. Yes this is a uniquely American cult. We took the world in, created this virus in a wet market laboratory of fading institutions and consumer capitalism, and unleashed it on the world. I blame Oprah.
Let your hope that this will pass, be a spur toward taking action to ensure that it does so.
Regardless of the ultimate outcome, the extremism that compelled the current trajectory has guaranteed that its arc will destroy the lives of many. The best that can be done now is to shorten the arc and try to assist those afflicted by it.
scrolling through signatories, you can see "the violence inherent in the system" when the middle school counselor from los angeles is "anonymous"
An aging, retired mental health professional I know, recently recanted a lifelong commitment to her identity as a "liberal." She is now a confirmed "moderate."
I pleaded with her to resist the forceful movement of the Overton window and reclaim the term "liberal" by retaining it as self-descriptor.
She remains adamant, and is now aware of the way in which she and many thousands of her colleagues of yesteryear were duped into being the vanguard of today's destructive agenda. During those early years, the non-prescribing therapists dutifully believed the dishonest assertions of their professional organizations that puberty blocking is only a pause in something that can be turned on and off, and is entirely reversible of affect. They referred clients to the gender monsters, with only the best interests of those clients at heart and in mind.
For the therapeutic community in those years, client suicide was the most dire threat imaginable, and no one questioned "the experts."
It has come to pass that now, no one in the field CAN question "the experts" without destroying themselves professionally and personally.
And my dear friend now looks back with revulsion at how she, with the very best of intentions, delivered youthful clients into the hands of the castrating mutilators.
Remorse is a powerful emotion, and it's a sign of deep compassion when those who could have stopped this at the outset experience and express it.
It is one of life's cruel ironies that only the wisest and kindest have the courage to admit their ignorance.
Meanwhile, the "they should have known" cohort helps to stigmatize and vilify those whose openly-expressed remorse could help to bring this sordid chapter in history to a close.
The middle school counselor does well to retain anonymity; one can do no good for children when standing in an unemployment line.
Please consider signing this open letter about a study on ROGD. The trans activists do not want it published and are doing what they can to stop it.
https://www.fairforall.org/open-letters/archives-of-sexual-behavior/
Signed as a retired child care director.
Thank you for the heads up! I have signed and Tweeted.
The trans activists insist there is no such thing as ROGD. They used to say there are no detransitioners at all, now they say it's only people who are forced to detrans because they can't afford the medication any longer. Any, and I mean any use of critical thinking makes the activists obviously wrong.
Do all you can early to inform those in positions of power. Tell them about the Cass Review from the UK and reviews from Sweden, Finland, FL, USA, and that those countries plus Norway and France have paused 'transing' minors. Transgender Trend and Genspect are both doing excellent work in this area. And tell them that most minors--up to 90% -- desist by going through puberty before they settle into their bodies --and some of those kids just realize they are LGB. And that bringing 'gender identity' curriculum into the schools is planting a seed. And inform them that the medicalization of minors -- and adults -- is experimental and has grave implications for both physical and mental health. And, it is also unfair to force other students and teachers to have to acquiesce to such an absurd ideology as the price of getting an education or keeping a teaching position. So, yes, just leave the kids alone to grow up and figure out who they are.
Agree 100%! You've captured this madness (collective psychosis?) very well in a nutshell.
Welcome to the circus. I hope the "experts" and people in charge in your country are smarter than those in ours.
Same here in Victoria, Australia. This was the first state to legislate Self ID (under the influence of some powerful 'trans' gender radical advocates), followed by the anti-conversion (=LGB conversion) laws. Our premier Daniel Andrews called gender critical women 'nazis' and 'bigots' in the house of parliament! Then also hosted a gala for drag queens grinning all the way into the media cameras. The witch hunt of sane people :((
There's more coming. Taking anxious pubescent kids and have them publicly declare pronouns has a psychological effect in and of itself. That's a foot in the door to start the kids searching for trans issues on the internet, and the vast majority of it is fantasy land of wonderfulness.
You get to pick your new name! You get to tell adults, and your parents to use your new name, and if they balk, they're bad people and transphobic, and you can get your teacher fired over it! Power!
Hormones are the best, they'll make you feel like your true "gender angel" wants you to feel. All the stuff the transphobes tell you about how hormones have side effects that include cancer, osteoporosis and infertility are just lies.
The world of modern social media is how this social contagion spreads, so quickly and so nastily. There's a whole mythology about gender that is preached by the activists, and then injected without thought into mainstream media.
It would be so much easier to let kids outgrow it as a phase if there wasn't such a push to use drugs and surgery.
Last - COVID + Remote Learning was the proverbial NOS button for the trans engine. Covid leading to anxiety and remote learning giving access to search it up, leading to transition as the answer.
Here in Spain, the government has passed self ID. It's hard to keep young people on the right path when the message from our leaders is that transgender is just a thing that's quite OK to be part of.
I said it in another comment further down as well: The Ley Trans was pushed by a spineless careerist (Irene Montero). These people don't care about children.
All the more reason we need to step up. It's up to us, the adults, to make this a grassroots movement that will swap over into politics.
How the whole government was captured is beyond me.
I appreciate your insight, and the perspective of a teacher who is not in the United States. Thank you.
Like you, I wish otherwise, but gender ideologues are not going to leave kids alone, because young people comprise the current bulk of gender dysphoria, and as such represent the future of the movement.
As an out lesbian in the '80s and '90s, I recall gays being accused of "recruiting" young people to be homosexuals. (I guess because it was such a popular thing to be gay then, and also because it's possible to talk somebody into sexual orientation.) It seems to me that "recruiting" is, actually, not far off for gender ideologues, from early public school indoctrination through social "transition" to uncritical application of "gender affirming care" (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, sometimes surgery) to create full-fledged "trans" youth. Kids (many with other mental health issues) are easy to groom, are groomed and then "transitioned." Kind of sounds like recruitment to me.
yes
Affirmation is a virtual drug, that causes addiction. It provides you with a bunch of new feelings, you feel high and then in the same kind as with drugs, you need a higher Dosis. You feel even lower as at the beginning, but you have learned, you can feel better. So you go and look for more drugs.
I wish more teachers were like you: caring and in touch with reality. We are in a desperate situation where teachers like you need to unite with parents and make a stand. We must reject anything to do with gender ideology in our schools. The poison was silently injected and many parents are still unaware of the danger waiting for their kids. Many parents have no idea that their families could be torn apart and that it all started with the schools. We must stop teachers actively spreading this madness in their class. Let's start with no more mentions of pronouns. Thank you for adding your voice to PITT.
Thank you.
And yes: We must vehemently reject gender ideology at school and elsewhere. It's toxic.
Well spake.
On target.
Speak up loudly, forcefully and get allies in this fight where ever you are. Vocal parents and teachers that push back hard and make trouble for politicians who support trans ideology or who are wobbly can and doake a difference. I met with my state representative and state Senator earlier in the spring in my Midwestern state and others did too and it was just banned in my state.
1. Awareness
2. Allies
3. Action
4. Victory
Everyone needs to speak up.and push back hard.
Texas just won a very hard fought battle and got a bill prohibiting the medicalization of kids in order to make them appear the opposite sex. It was complete with massive protests and idiocy from the trans cultists but our Rep Oliverson was an immovable rock of resolve and defended the bill beautifully. We filled the gallery with a red shirted support squad each time the bill went back to the House. We the People stood behind him and our other legislators en masse. This is what it takes. Trans ideology is built on a lie. It ruins families and destroys our children. It must stop.
As long as Texas upholds gay and lesbian rights and LGB protection laws like anti-vilification of gay people in this process. Quite a few teens now 'identifying' as 'trans' turn out to be gay in their twenties.