At some point dad, you're going to have make a decision for yourself, about you, and what you are going to do with YOUR life going forward. I understand having others to live for to get you out of your darkest days. If it weren't for my younger son, my husband and my mom, I would have just walked away. disappeared. not taken my life, that's not me and my mom already lost a son to suicide. I would never do that to her. But those 3 kept me from abandoning my life. just get on the trail and walk...
You have to keep going, for yourself, for your daughter. You have to make that decision every day sometimes, sometimes every moment. There is a fork in the road - your daughter has to make a decision about what she is going to do, and so do you, dad. You are a person other than dad. You have dreams, interests, and you can think about what you want to do with your life. I don't say any of this casually.
You have to get healthy so when she grows up a little more, and changes her views in time, you are a healthy person, you are not deeper in the hole of despair and resentment. You don't want to resent her for all she has taken away from you as she is trying to figure out life, captured in her impressible youth. This is a picture of me and my son, trans identified for 3 years. I've walked this painful and destructive journey too. I have a lot of work to still do, and it's damn hard to find the help I need. But I'm trying. And I want you to. God bless. We'll get through this together. 💗
Thanks for the kind words, 7 months since I walked away and I'm in a much better place now.
Me and my daughter are back on talking terms and have even spent a few hours together a couple of weeks back.
It's a funny kind of truce but we both understand we are so very far away from each others views.
I've actually started to feel like my old self again, not the person who spent the last few years tiptoeing around someone else's feelings but the real old me.
It's amazingly liberating just to be able to speak the truth freely.
Things will never return to the way it was, I still can't bear the thought of being anywhere near my ex partner for a start but life goes on.
I hope you find your way through your own struggles, I think we all know how mentally challenging this whole ridiculous circus is.
It has been helpful to me to hear about all the others with family estrangement due to this issue. My brother is now joining my son and his girlfriend as an ally telling me I need to stop writing letters and talking to people about this problem I do not know of a group for families estranged by the gender cult but I would be willing to set up a zoom chat if any of you want to talk about this Zoom is a way we can connect from all countries If you are interested my name is Judy and you can email me at GrandparentsFightBack@yahoo.com I was thinking about the rainbow meme I saw that tells teens and others that if their family does not accept them they are their new family .I guess we could start a new family also
That passage was very moving because I feel like I’d act the same way as the author. I have no kids myself but I feel so driven on this topic.
It really is like I’m watching some type of alien invasion movie in which the aliens have implanted a virus into the political class and susceptible social justice warriors. Why are we immune from this virus while so many seemingly intelligent people succumb to it?
Powerful and tragic! Kids and teens don't have the maturity to think about the future; they're in the here and how which creates problems. Puberty is normal and anything that disrupts that is not.
These are the facts that need to be reported TO ALL. So many won’t listen. When I share these types of facts with my son (who now goes by May) he told me “those are niche situations”... ok whatever that means. The brainwashing is strong. For us, the fight is futile with him. Sad.
I have tried talking to medical professionals online. The ideological capture is beyond belief.
One claimed to work at the tavistock clinic (UK) and told me I was being ridiculous and regret was only 1%. I showed her a study which found 8% regret done by her own clinic 🤷.
What I showed her another recent American study which found over 25% she said I was just lying 🤥.
Another time I was told by a Psych nurse working with gender dysphoric youth that biological reality was actually Nazi propaganda from the 1940's....
Yesterday a medical professional claiming to work on evidence based medicine though not gender care told me I had simply cherry picked the things that supported my biases so it was all nonsense. I pointed out a lot of it was the very nonsense that got the tavistock clinic closed down.
Crazy times for sure.
Use love with your son. When you point out evidence say things like I saw this and worried about you, I don't know how I would cope if anything happened to you.
All we can do is support one another. People talk about how we all have to tip toe around people with dysphoria. No one mentions the mental stress and strain the family go through.
That's why I love places like this. We all understand what each other is going through and all remind each other we aren't the crazy ones
I understand your twighlight zone thoughts. In my case it's not my partner but my entire family. My sister transitioned her beautiful daughter early on, the same sister whose entire life is a mental health disaster. My parents/brother went along as my sister won't allow for any questioning. As this happened when the whole trans thing began I didn't say much but as I too ventured down the rabbit hole i was horrified. I was not willing to parrot taking points and now I am estranged from them all. You have my heartfelt sympathy on the loss of thode so important to you and my kudos on your courage. This has to be the most devastating ideology ever to infect mankind!
You can't tell her anything, each time she brings her daughter back from a doctor's appointment she's proudly announcing a new label, the latest is 'on the spectrum'. 8 months before that was adhd. Last year at 13 she had a heart attack, the drugs her mom pumps into her trying to make her a boy have given her such high blood pressure it requires medication and she now weighs 260lbs. It's sick and my heart breaks for her kid who is so messed up i don't think there is much hope she'll ever get to just be 'normal" girl. All of this so my sister can feel important. What a narcissist.
Honestly it breaks my heart. I've seen parents talking of how their 7 year olds are trans and it just screams narcissism with a healthy dose of child abuse.
Yet if you tried to get social services involved they would say you were the one who was wrong.
It's all back to front. Makes absolutely no sense yet so many people who should be safe guarding vulnerable young people are all actually cheering it all on.
I hope one day they need to answer for the medical harms happening to people.
I appreciate you sharing this painful life you are living. While it is hard for you, you are helping others of us who have also felt like walking away, or worse. How they mess with our head and heart by being specifically cruel to us parents. You are helping me to stick around to love her from afar and to be here to fight at least another day, a week, a month? I hope you do to.
Colin, thanks for your story. Between mRNA and trans it's been a hell of time for parents. I hope the best for you and your family to reunite in some way. But as someone born intersex (but not the .018% type) I'd like to suggest that the reality of babies born like me is not allied with any agenda. When I was born, doctors refrained from making a sex determination until after they tested my chromosomes. Then I was subjected to several surgeries attempting to conform my body to XY. Even with these modifications, I didn't enter puberty, I remained sterile, and certainly knew I was different from boys. While I am a kind of male, I had a bodily experience distinctly different from male, and I suffer(ed) more from what was done to me than from anything naturally occurring. A naturally occurring variation from M/F is not the enemy -intersex people are not the enemy. Being used as a pawn between the 1.7% or the .018% sucks - and we've already been betrayed by medical system and culture. Please don't make our existence about trans.
While I haven't mentioned intersex people in my story I do hear the intersex argument on a regular basis. I'm sure anyone who speaks out against the trans cult does.
Usually goes trans people are real because there's a whole spectrum of sex like intersex people and they are as common as people with red hair.
Cue reply
Intersex is a broad term hence the red hair analogy but chromosomal differences only account for 0.018 of the population and they all sit on the male /female spectrum. Only 2 sexes male and female so xxx still female xxy still male, your best chance to justify trans ?
46xy female in appearance can get pregnant yet male chromosomes. They aren't trans, they are male and female. They can't change from one to the other like a chameleon changes colours.
I then normally point out that using a small genetic variation to justify trans people would be like you and I gluing our heads together and insisting we are co-joined twins. We wouldn't be co-joined twins we would just be 2 people who have made their lives more difficult by gluing our heads together.
Intersex people have been treated badly by the medical profession, the old "it's easier to build a pole than dig a hole" doctors probably thought they were doing good.
Personally I think people like yourself have suffered enough throughout the years without being lumped together with the narcissistic body modification cult. I certainly agree you have been betrayed by the medical profession.
Most people realise they are just using you to try and justify their movement
I am not sure why you are somewhat attacking the OP. The "I" -- a medical condition -- has been force-teamed with the "T" exactly as the LGB (sexual orientation) has. The T isn't a medical condition but rather a psychological condition being treated as NO OTHER psychological condition is treated: with body modification. I and most of us oppose ANY surgeries on the healthy bodies of minors (I also oppose quack medical procedures, procedures not proven safe/effective, being performed on vulnerable adults), including the bodies of children born with Differences of Sexual Development, previously called intersex. I can't seem to find that part in the above essay, so IDK what your case has to do with his essay.
First of all, tone doesn’t translate in text like this. I bear no vitriol, malice, condescension, or judgment toward you or anyone else. Your situation is heartbreaking. Regarding the “little voice inside my head” that said “you can't do this…”, that was Almighty God reaching out to you. Whether or not you believe doesn’t change what is true. I was an outspoken unbeliever (not raised in a Christian home) who almost 8 years ago (at 45 yo) was in a cemetery not with a rope but with a bottle of mixed pain meds when “that voice” spoke to me in much the same manner. It was a Damascus road experience and I’ve never been the same. Jesus IS REAL and He is alive.
The state of this world is what the wholesale rejection of Jesus Christ looks like. Without knowing the Lord we have no identity and the world quickly and happily fills the that void with lies and destruction. Jesus is your salvation and the salvation of every lost soul. And trans boys and girls are heartbreakingly lost thanks to the generational accumulation of being raised without Him. This is the result…these youngsters have a void where their God-given identity should be.
The “trans” movement here in the US has openly embraced satanism. It is as anti-God and anti-family as you can get. First there was abortion (and still is up to and in some states even after giving birth), “feminism”, and anti-marriage (one of the worst things to happen to children is to not have married parents or having divorced parents…marriage matters bc it’s the foundation of family.). Then the rejection and almost criminalization of men and masculinity…including fatherhood (which is why you can’t win where your daughter and her mother are concerned). Then the homosexual movement (like “trans” it results from lack of identity…it was pre-trans) which has given way to “trans.” Only the Lord can fix this broken world, open the eyes of the spiritually blind, and heal broken hearts…people need to turn to Him because He is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life…”
Let's just say I have had experiences which have led me to a different spirituality but one of the people who helped me through those days after I walked away from those woods was a Christian and that man was definitely a blessing
That was the grace of God. He is good and He loves you with a love that has no earthly comparison. I once walked “spiritual” paths whose sherpa is Satan…those paths and their deceitful travel guide landed me in a cemetery empty and broken. The Lord lifted me from the depths of the pit and placed me on His firm foundation…if you’re not in Christ you are traveling a dead-end road. There is but one heaven and there is but one way to heaven and that way is Christ Jesus. That’s not “my truth” but Almighty God’s absolute truth. Don’t be deceived by a world that encourages “universalism,” individual “truth” and self-reliance. All lies of the devil.
I’ll be praying the Lord quickens your heart and opens your eyes before it’s too late…the God of all creation pre-appointed your birth and your death…only He knows the day and time.
“There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.” Proverbs 14:12
What happens when (not if) it all goes wrong is that the majority of these enablers are just going to shrug and walk away - "Oh dear, I was wrong. Sorry!" Those of us with conscience are going to bear the brunt because we failed to make people listen. The guilt is going to have more of us contemplating trees...
Several years ago, I read a piece by Mel Brooks in which he talked about making the movie “Blazing Saddles.” As I’m sure many of you know, it’s an outrageous, no-holds-barred satire of Westerns. Anyway, the one part that he thought might be too outrageous was the part where the villains punch a little old lady in the face. (After several punches, she looks at the camera and plaintively asks, “Have you ever seen such cruelty?”) That’s because since time immemorial, people have known that an old woman is typically the most vulnerable adult victim of violence. Convicts in prison might get along with the guy who killed another man, but not with the guy who killed an elderly woman.
I don’t think you had much of a choice about leaving your partner. There are some differences of opinion we can live with, and some we can’t.
You describe the way cognitive dissonance can eat away at your life so well. I've been living in this state for 5 years. Both of our children are allies and my husband and I are the bigots. I feel fortunate he does not support this ideology, but he is weary of my pain and finds my reaction nearly tedious as time moves on. I can't seem to shake the overwhelming dissonance of calling my child by another name. We are blessed he has not chosen to medicalize, but asks the world to call him another name and "they" instead of he. It is utterly insane! I am so sorry you have experienced this. I too found myself looking at the rafters with a rope in my hand. We can't let them win. When the house of cards falls and the damage is revealed, we have to be there to pick up the pieces. Everyone will say - we didn't know. But we know.
Fighting back and trying to do good for the world wherever you can is what has helped me I pretend my two children who estranged me have been replaced by aliens and are not my children I pray and hope that my young grandchildren are resilient will survive this and come out OK I am connecting with another family with small children to be a substitute parent and grandparent to fill the hole left by not being allowed to see my 9, 6, and 1 year old grandchildren There are people who need and will appreciate you . You can build a new life with them
I too, fear the day when the tsunami of regret comes crashing down on these young people. It will be more than they can bear. I’m glad you are still with us, hang in there.
At some point dad, you're going to have make a decision for yourself, about you, and what you are going to do with YOUR life going forward. I understand having others to live for to get you out of your darkest days. If it weren't for my younger son, my husband and my mom, I would have just walked away. disappeared. not taken my life, that's not me and my mom already lost a son to suicide. I would never do that to her. But those 3 kept me from abandoning my life. just get on the trail and walk...
You have to keep going, for yourself, for your daughter. You have to make that decision every day sometimes, sometimes every moment. There is a fork in the road - your daughter has to make a decision about what she is going to do, and so do you, dad. You are a person other than dad. You have dreams, interests, and you can think about what you want to do with your life. I don't say any of this casually.
You have to get healthy so when she grows up a little more, and changes her views in time, you are a healthy person, you are not deeper in the hole of despair and resentment. You don't want to resent her for all she has taken away from you as she is trying to figure out life, captured in her impressible youth. This is a picture of me and my son, trans identified for 3 years. I've walked this painful and destructive journey too. I have a lot of work to still do, and it's damn hard to find the help I need. But I'm trying. And I want you to. God bless. We'll get through this together. 💗
Thanks for the kind words, 7 months since I walked away and I'm in a much better place now.
Me and my daughter are back on talking terms and have even spent a few hours together a couple of weeks back.
It's a funny kind of truce but we both understand we are so very far away from each others views.
I've actually started to feel like my old self again, not the person who spent the last few years tiptoeing around someone else's feelings but the real old me.
It's amazingly liberating just to be able to speak the truth freely.
Things will never return to the way it was, I still can't bear the thought of being anywhere near my ex partner for a start but life goes on.
I hope you find your way through your own struggles, I think we all know how mentally challenging this whole ridiculous circus is.
It has been helpful to me to hear about all the others with family estrangement due to this issue. My brother is now joining my son and his girlfriend as an ally telling me I need to stop writing letters and talking to people about this problem I do not know of a group for families estranged by the gender cult but I would be willing to set up a zoom chat if any of you want to talk about this Zoom is a way we can connect from all countries If you are interested my name is Judy and you can email me at GrandparentsFightBack@yahoo.com I was thinking about the rainbow meme I saw that tells teens and others that if their family does not accept them they are their new family .I guess we could start a new family also
That passage was very moving because I feel like I’d act the same way as the author. I have no kids myself but I feel so driven on this topic.
It really is like I’m watching some type of alien invasion movie in which the aliens have implanted a virus into the political class and susceptible social justice warriors. Why are we immune from this virus while so many seemingly intelligent people succumb to it?
Powerful and tragic! Kids and teens don't have the maturity to think about the future; they're in the here and how which creates problems. Puberty is normal and anything that disrupts that is not.
Oh so true particularly that last statement. We are talking about peoples lives, the rest of there lives.
I live in Lumpkin County which is Northeast of Atlanta. I am hoping you are close enough for me to visit.
Other side of a big pond unfortunately. I'm in the UK
These are the facts that need to be reported TO ALL. So many won’t listen. When I share these types of facts with my son (who now goes by May) he told me “those are niche situations”... ok whatever that means. The brainwashing is strong. For us, the fight is futile with him. Sad.
I have tried talking to medical professionals online. The ideological capture is beyond belief.
One claimed to work at the tavistock clinic (UK) and told me I was being ridiculous and regret was only 1%. I showed her a study which found 8% regret done by her own clinic 🤷.
What I showed her another recent American study which found over 25% she said I was just lying 🤥.
Another time I was told by a Psych nurse working with gender dysphoric youth that biological reality was actually Nazi propaganda from the 1940's....
Yesterday a medical professional claiming to work on evidence based medicine though not gender care told me I had simply cherry picked the things that supported my biases so it was all nonsense. I pointed out a lot of it was the very nonsense that got the tavistock clinic closed down.
Crazy times for sure.
Use love with your son. When you point out evidence say things like I saw this and worried about you, I don't know how I would cope if anything happened to you.
He will find it harder to fight against that
Unfortunately we currently have no contact with him. Thank you for taking the time to respond and for your supportive thoughts.
All we can do is support one another. People talk about how we all have to tip toe around people with dysphoria. No one mentions the mental stress and strain the family go through.
That's why I love places like this. We all understand what each other is going through and all remind each other we aren't the crazy ones
I understand your twighlight zone thoughts. In my case it's not my partner but my entire family. My sister transitioned her beautiful daughter early on, the same sister whose entire life is a mental health disaster. My parents/brother went along as my sister won't allow for any questioning. As this happened when the whole trans thing began I didn't say much but as I too ventured down the rabbit hole i was horrified. I was not willing to parrot taking points and now I am estranged from them all. You have my heartfelt sympathy on the loss of thode so important to you and my kudos on your courage. This has to be the most devastating ideology ever to infect mankind!
I hope you told your sister she has Munchausen's by proxy 🙊.
I absolutely despair how some parents are transing their kid like it gives them their social justice warrior badge.
You can't tell her anything, each time she brings her daughter back from a doctor's appointment she's proudly announcing a new label, the latest is 'on the spectrum'. 8 months before that was adhd. Last year at 13 she had a heart attack, the drugs her mom pumps into her trying to make her a boy have given her such high blood pressure it requires medication and she now weighs 260lbs. It's sick and my heart breaks for her kid who is so messed up i don't think there is much hope she'll ever get to just be 'normal" girl. All of this so my sister can feel important. What a narcissist.
I hope ypur neice knows she can come to you when the times right
I hope so too but we've been estranged for years and god knows what her mom had told her.
Honestly it breaks my heart. I've seen parents talking of how their 7 year olds are trans and it just screams narcissism with a healthy dose of child abuse.
Yet if you tried to get social services involved they would say you were the one who was wrong.
It's all back to front. Makes absolutely no sense yet so many people who should be safe guarding vulnerable young people are all actually cheering it all on.
I hope one day they need to answer for the medical harms happening to people.
I could not agree more. The whole ideology is nonsensical.
I appreciate you sharing this painful life you are living. While it is hard for you, you are helping others of us who have also felt like walking away, or worse. How they mess with our head and heart by being specifically cruel to us parents. You are helping me to stick around to love her from afar and to be here to fight at least another day, a week, a month? I hope you do to.
Colin, thanks for your story. Between mRNA and trans it's been a hell of time for parents. I hope the best for you and your family to reunite in some way. But as someone born intersex (but not the .018% type) I'd like to suggest that the reality of babies born like me is not allied with any agenda. When I was born, doctors refrained from making a sex determination until after they tested my chromosomes. Then I was subjected to several surgeries attempting to conform my body to XY. Even with these modifications, I didn't enter puberty, I remained sterile, and certainly knew I was different from boys. While I am a kind of male, I had a bodily experience distinctly different from male, and I suffer(ed) more from what was done to me than from anything naturally occurring. A naturally occurring variation from M/F is not the enemy -intersex people are not the enemy. Being used as a pawn between the 1.7% or the .018% sucks - and we've already been betrayed by medical system and culture. Please don't make our existence about trans.
While I haven't mentioned intersex people in my story I do hear the intersex argument on a regular basis. I'm sure anyone who speaks out against the trans cult does.
Usually goes trans people are real because there's a whole spectrum of sex like intersex people and they are as common as people with red hair.
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Intersex is a broad term hence the red hair analogy but chromosomal differences only account for 0.018 of the population and they all sit on the male /female spectrum. Only 2 sexes male and female so xxx still female xxy still male, your best chance to justify trans ?
46xy female in appearance can get pregnant yet male chromosomes. They aren't trans, they are male and female. They can't change from one to the other like a chameleon changes colours.
I then normally point out that using a small genetic variation to justify trans people would be like you and I gluing our heads together and insisting we are co-joined twins. We wouldn't be co-joined twins we would just be 2 people who have made their lives more difficult by gluing our heads together.
Intersex people have been treated badly by the medical profession, the old "it's easier to build a pole than dig a hole" doctors probably thought they were doing good.
Personally I think people like yourself have suffered enough throughout the years without being lumped together with the narcissistic body modification cult. I certainly agree you have been betrayed by the medical profession.
Most people realise they are just using you to try and justify their movement
It seems you've got it all figured out, then.
I am not sure why you are somewhat attacking the OP. The "I" -- a medical condition -- has been force-teamed with the "T" exactly as the LGB (sexual orientation) has. The T isn't a medical condition but rather a psychological condition being treated as NO OTHER psychological condition is treated: with body modification. I and most of us oppose ANY surgeries on the healthy bodies of minors (I also oppose quack medical procedures, procedures not proven safe/effective, being performed on vulnerable adults), including the bodies of children born with Differences of Sexual Development, previously called intersex. I can't seem to find that part in the above essay, so IDK what your case has to do with his essay.
Am I attacking Colin? Not my intent. ed to add: I can't speak for all intersex but I don't wish to be forced teamed at all, or un-forced teamed.
First of all, tone doesn’t translate in text like this. I bear no vitriol, malice, condescension, or judgment toward you or anyone else. Your situation is heartbreaking. Regarding the “little voice inside my head” that said “you can't do this…”, that was Almighty God reaching out to you. Whether or not you believe doesn’t change what is true. I was an outspoken unbeliever (not raised in a Christian home) who almost 8 years ago (at 45 yo) was in a cemetery not with a rope but with a bottle of mixed pain meds when “that voice” spoke to me in much the same manner. It was a Damascus road experience and I’ve never been the same. Jesus IS REAL and He is alive.
The state of this world is what the wholesale rejection of Jesus Christ looks like. Without knowing the Lord we have no identity and the world quickly and happily fills the that void with lies and destruction. Jesus is your salvation and the salvation of every lost soul. And trans boys and girls are heartbreakingly lost thanks to the generational accumulation of being raised without Him. This is the result…these youngsters have a void where their God-given identity should be.
The “trans” movement here in the US has openly embraced satanism. It is as anti-God and anti-family as you can get. First there was abortion (and still is up to and in some states even after giving birth), “feminism”, and anti-marriage (one of the worst things to happen to children is to not have married parents or having divorced parents…marriage matters bc it’s the foundation of family.). Then the rejection and almost criminalization of men and masculinity…including fatherhood (which is why you can’t win where your daughter and her mother are concerned). Then the homosexual movement (like “trans” it results from lack of identity…it was pre-trans) which has given way to “trans.” Only the Lord can fix this broken world, open the eyes of the spiritually blind, and heal broken hearts…people need to turn to Him because He is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life…”
I appreciate periodic reminders like this of why I'm not a Christian.
Let's just say I have had experiences which have led me to a different spirituality but one of the people who helped me through those days after I walked away from those woods was a Christian and that man was definitely a blessing
That was the grace of God. He is good and He loves you with a love that has no earthly comparison. I once walked “spiritual” paths whose sherpa is Satan…those paths and their deceitful travel guide landed me in a cemetery empty and broken. The Lord lifted me from the depths of the pit and placed me on His firm foundation…if you’re not in Christ you are traveling a dead-end road. There is but one heaven and there is but one way to heaven and that way is Christ Jesus. That’s not “my truth” but Almighty God’s absolute truth. Don’t be deceived by a world that encourages “universalism,” individual “truth” and self-reliance. All lies of the devil.
I’ll be praying the Lord quickens your heart and opens your eyes before it’s too late…the God of all creation pre-appointed your birth and your death…only He knows the day and time.
“There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.” Proverbs 14:12
What happens when (not if) it all goes wrong is that the majority of these enablers are just going to shrug and walk away - "Oh dear, I was wrong. Sorry!" Those of us with conscience are going to bear the brunt because we failed to make people listen. The guilt is going to have more of us contemplating trees...
Several years ago, I read a piece by Mel Brooks in which he talked about making the movie “Blazing Saddles.” As I’m sure many of you know, it’s an outrageous, no-holds-barred satire of Westerns. Anyway, the one part that he thought might be too outrageous was the part where the villains punch a little old lady in the face. (After several punches, she looks at the camera and plaintively asks, “Have you ever seen such cruelty?”) That’s because since time immemorial, people have known that an old woman is typically the most vulnerable adult victim of violence. Convicts in prison might get along with the guy who killed another man, but not with the guy who killed an elderly woman.
I don’t think you had much of a choice about leaving your partner. There are some differences of opinion we can live with, and some we can’t.
You describe the way cognitive dissonance can eat away at your life so well. I've been living in this state for 5 years. Both of our children are allies and my husband and I are the bigots. I feel fortunate he does not support this ideology, but he is weary of my pain and finds my reaction nearly tedious as time moves on. I can't seem to shake the overwhelming dissonance of calling my child by another name. We are blessed he has not chosen to medicalize, but asks the world to call him another name and "they" instead of he. It is utterly insane! I am so sorry you have experienced this. I too found myself looking at the rafters with a rope in my hand. We can't let them win. When the house of cards falls and the damage is revealed, we have to be there to pick up the pieces. Everyone will say - we didn't know. But we know.
I'm glad I walked out of the woods that day .
I can't believe I nearly let the cult win.
If you ever feel the rafters calling you need to decide, do they win or do you stay and fight?
I'm going to fight
Fighting back and trying to do good for the world wherever you can is what has helped me I pretend my two children who estranged me have been replaced by aliens and are not my children I pray and hope that my young grandchildren are resilient will survive this and come out OK I am connecting with another family with small children to be a substitute parent and grandparent to fill the hole left by not being allowed to see my 9, 6, and 1 year old grandchildren There are people who need and will appreciate you . You can build a new life with them
I too, fear the day when the tsunami of regret comes crashing down on these young people. It will be more than they can bear. I’m glad you are still with us, hang in there.
this is part of the Malthusian Transhuman agenda. Sickening.