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Dave's avatar

Hopefully with recent actions by our major medical associations and just yesterday by the International Olympic Committee we have turned a corner on the support for the insanity that has ruined so many families and lives.

Sharon Lee COWAN's avatar

I am bookmarking this one!

Christa's avatar

I like how this article gives us back our words. Thank you.

Odette R.'s avatar

This is brilliant. I just sent it to the last known contact address for my minor daughter from whom I have been estranged for all of the reasons you mention above. I keep sending messages into the ether. She…and yes she is a she…finally unblocked me. Hopefully someone, even if it is not her, is reading and paying attention. Thank you.

CA mom's avatar

This is beautiful. Thank you so much.

Lynnsey's avatar

Thank you for writing this so clearly and powerfully and lovingly. I hope we will all find our way forward together.

Joy Nevin Axelson's avatar

Love this. Good points.

Linoak's avatar

Yet here we are, with the BeKind™️ brigade always nipping at our heels, admonishing us for not catering to the abusive mob and the monsters who are working so hard to harm and derail our children and strip women of rights. “No” is the only answer to all of this, but it certainly gets exhausting having to endlessly say it.

Beeswax's avatar

What a perversion of the concept of "Be Kind."

Claire de Luna's avatar

PITT, a valued, constant sliver of hope over the past four years of trans hell that my life became. Thank you for the solidarity.

LovingMother's avatar

This is brilliant - every word.

I especially appreciate:

"We do not support prejudice against those who are 18, or 19, or 24, or 32, or any age, by saying that while children deserve evidence-based medicine and intact, healthy bodies, adults do not. We believe in equality of care across age groups.

We do not support discrimination against reality or biology."

"nor do we support discriminatory admonishments to "be kind."

"We do not support any form of prejudice against the messy, beautiful, and ever-evolving complexities of life, nor do we support the hijacking and limiting of the dreams, possibilities, and wonderfully intricate futures of our loved ones. We embrace and support the lifelong work of developing one’s character, honor, curiosity, resilience and integrity; we celebrate and encourage efforts to find meaning through real world connection and worthwhile, tangible pursuits that nourish the soul, body, heart and mind.

We reject all ideologies that reduce the richness of human life to a prison of perpetual identity rumination."

Beeswax's avatar

You said it: BRILLIANT. Talk about turning the tables. This needs to be published everywhere and with this specific focus.

It's not the parents who are bigots for trying to prevent their children from being kidnapped into a death cult.

The bigots are the holier-than-thou teachers, power-hungry politicians, misogynists, narcissists, homophobes, autogynephiles, and self-aggrandizing, money grubbing surgeons who exploit the naïveté of children for personal gain. Enough.

Alexander Joseph Hamburger's avatar

I am going to save this brilliant statement. I would like to put it on a web site or maybe use it youtube comments.

LovingMother's avatar

100%

Here's a small step:

"Tennessee Senate Passes Bill Allowing Malpractice Lawsuits Against Doctors for 30-Year-Old Gender Reassignment Procedures

The bill would let patients sue if they alleged they underwent transgender procedures as a result of what is described as coercion."

https://www.nysun.com/article/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-allowing-malpractice-lawsuits-against-doctors-for-30-year-old-gender-reassignment-procedures

https://tennesseestar.com/policy/tennessee-state-senate-passes-bill-creating-civil-liability-for-doctors-coercing-patients-to-accept-transgender-treatments-surgeries/tpappert/2026/03/24/

I like that the article points out that vulnerable adults should not be exploited either. "We do not support prejudice against those who are 18, or 19, or 24, or 32, or any age, by saying that while children deserve evidence-based medicine and intact, healthy bodies, adults do not. We believe in equality of care across age groups."

nina's avatar

Trans Activists were banking on the decades of gay and lesbian being exiled from families.

And it was effective as strategy

that said, no one is born in the wrong body and many who feel that way are in fact gay, lesbian or bisexual and unable to self accept

for others it is attention seeking and trendy

LovingMother's avatar

Trans activists definitely attached themselves to the LGB movement.

LGB, lose the T!

LovingMother's avatar

It can be kinda like anorexia affirmed by all of society in a straight girl.

nina's avatar

girls, straight is not needed there.

LovingMother's avatar

"that said, no one is born in the wrong body" Right!

"and many who feel that way are in fact gay, lesbian or bisexual and unable to self accept" Yes.

"for others it is attention seeking and trendy" Yes - but... I was trying to point out that it is more complicated than that. The cult gobbles up anyone who is vulnerable socially or emotionally. Young people are not all being harmlessly trendy when they adopt the identity outside of having internalized homophobia, or fetish. They walk step by seemingly small step into a very dark psychological and "medical" place, waved on by a sick system full of cheerleaders. So, you can be an opposite sex attracted girl who rationalizes that she must be a "gay" boy. No, problem, "we have drugs and surgeries for that, too!"

nina's avatar

I blame Ann Rice for making straight girls want to be gay boys

LovingMother's avatar

I did a search. Do you mean the author of those vampire books?

I think there could be a lot of reasons. A traumatized girl who still likes boys? Body hatred - not necessarily lesbian (like anorexia)? A contorted self explanation for a girl who believes in the inner gender fairies cult and that she is "not quite right" or wants to be her "authentic self" per cult, doesn't fit rigid stereotypes, was subject to "perpetual identity rumination"...?

Here is one from an old PITT:

"Why is this happening to my family?

A viral tweet suggests a new theory of race-based social identity threat and identity exit

Aug 09, 2022"

https://www.pittparents.com/p/why-is-this-happening-to-my-family

nina's avatar

Yes. Ann Rice wrote homoerotically and had a gay son who died of AIDS

that said, even before her, it was straight women who created Kirk/Spock porn fanfic...

LovingMother's avatar

Or, maybe straight, gifted, and groomed boys, or girls who think they are gay men.

1) “One puzzle has always troubled Blanchard: why did autogynephilic activists concern themselves with children—the group most likely to mobilize opposition? His hypothesis:

hiding autogynephilia required promoting innate gender identity. And if it’s innate, there must be trans children to prove it’s not sexual deviance. This messaging—pushed through schools across North America, media, and books like I Am Jazz—may have triggered what researcher Lisa Littman termed rapid-onset gender dysphoria

Stella O'Malley"

https://substack.com/@sexrealitybites/note/c-162568395?utm_source=feed-email-digest

(interesting comment by the way:

"u.n. owen

Oct 3

As queer kid femme boy survivor Rowling is right, there are no trans kids, puberty is nature's transition & 1 reason psychotics with NO experience of the subject lobby for puberty blockers, so their prey can be locked into permanent & vulnerable adolescence.")

2) "Results

Baseline characteristics

Baseline characteristics (Table 1) included that the vast majority of parents favored gay and lesbian couples’ right to legally marry (85.9%) and believed that transgender individuals deserve the same rights and protections as other individuals in their country (88.2%). Along with the sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria, the AYAs belonged to a friend group where one or multiple friends became gender dysphoric and came out as transgender during a similar time as they did (21.5%), exhibited an increase in their social media/internet use (19.9%), both (45.3%), neither (5.1%), and don’t know (8.2%) (Table 2). For comparisons, the first three categories will be combined and called “social influence” (86.7%) and the last two combined as “no social influence” (13.3%). Nearly half (47.4%) of the AYAs had been formally diagnosed as academically gifted, 4.3% had a learning disability, 10.7% were both gifted and learning disabled, and 37.5% were neither. Sexual orientation as expressed by the AYA prior to transgender-identification is listed separately for natal females and for natal males (Table 2). Overall, 41% of the AYAs expressed a non-heterosexual sexual orientation prior to disclosing a transgender-identification.

It is important to note that none of the AYAs described in this study would have met diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood (Table 3). In fact, the vast majority (80.4%) had zero indicators from the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for childhood gender dysphoria with 12.2% possessing one indicator, 3.5% with two indicators, and 2.4% with three indicators. Breaking down these results, for readily observable indicators (A2-6), 83.5% of AYAs had zero indicators, 10.2% had one indicator, 3.9% had two indicators, and 1.2% had three indicators. For the desire/dislike indicators (A1, A7, A8), which a parent would have knowledge of if the child expressed them verbally, but might be unaware if a child did not, 95.7% had zero indicators and 3.5% had one indicator. Parents responded to the question about which, if any, of the indicators of the DSM criteria for adolescent and adult gender dysphoria their child was experiencing currently. The average number of positive current indicators was 3.5 (range 0–6) and 83.2% of the AYA sample was currently experiencing two or more indicators. Thus, while the focal AYAs did not experience childhood gender dysphoria, the majority of those who were the focus of this study were indeed gender dysphoric at the time of the survey completion."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330

https://littmanresearch.com/publications/

nina's avatar

there is also ignoring fetishes are from trauma in childhood... so some people should not be parents. persons who claim to be trans are basically broadcasting their daddy and mommy issues. boys often wearing their moms or sister's underwear...

LovingMother's avatar

Dr. John Money certainly had daddy issues.

LovingMother's avatar

Fetish is certainly represented.

1) "Gender Dysphoria was created by committee. Some people sat down in a room in 2013 and simply invented its diagnostic properties. There was no application of the scientific method in its conceptualisation and categorisation. (Genevieve Gluck has done a lot of work on this, showing the behind-the-scenes influence of trans activists and castration fetishists in its creation). "...

"Gender Dysphoria as a diagnosis also lacks what psychologists call ‘face validity’, namely is something measuring (in this case describing), what it appears to be describing? How can a six-year-old with precocious puberty, a 16-year-old autistic boy, a 30-year-old lesbian, and a 50-year-old married autogynephilic (AGP) man who secretly wears his wife’s knickers, all be suffering from exactly the same clinical condition? This simply lacks credibility! "...

"Interestingly, Mia Hughes thinks Autogynephilia should have its own diagnostic category and that Gender Dysphoria, (such as it is), should become a secondary diagnosis to a primary diagnostic category, for example of autism or depression. This is an interesting proposition and I look forward to her expanding upon this."

From:

“Why ‘Gender Dysphoria’ is a lie” by Clinical psychologist Pamala Williams”

https://web.archive.org/web/20250120044738/https://dionneinlondon.substack.com/p/why-gender-dysphoria-is-a-lie

2) “My Eyewitness Account of UCSD's Transgender Symposium: It's All Activism, Zero Actual Science

Part 3: The Jacobs, Clintons, Radys and the UCSD machine—a San Diego elite operation”

https://melissaincalifornia.substack.com/p/my-eyewitness-account-of-ucsds-transgender?publication_id=2411526&post_id=156715925&isFreemail=true&r=khop7&triedRedirect=true

"Wassersug, Willette, and Johnson were again invited to speak at a 2011 WPATH conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It was during this conference that the decision was made to de-classify Gender Identity Disorder as a psychological condition. In its place, Gender Dysphoria would become the recommended terminology."

https://reduxx.info/top-academic-behind-fetish-site-hosting-child-sexual-abuse-fantasy-push-to-revise-wpath-guidelines/

https://reduxx.info/academics-involved-with-top-transgender-health-authority-publish-paper-on-choosing-castration/

"The Eunuch Archive is a long-standing forum which hosts nearly 10,000 fictional pornography stories of an extreme sadomasochistic nature. As previously reported by Reduxx, many of these stories feature a theme of the rape, castration, torture, and killing of children — specifically little boys.

Despite the forum’s highly disturbing nature, the Institutional Review Board of California State University Chico approved the research with the aid of a Eunuch Archive Steering Committee.

In the paper, the authors provide ample praise for WPATH’s most recent version of their Standards of Care and its inclusion of treatment options for those who identify with a eunuch gender."

Tugba Camli Canturk's avatar

Thank you so much for this wonderful work! It is like reading our minds and hearts. Wonder if we can use this statement officially in hearings, lawsuits or anywhere else that will make this madness stop?

Soleil Ney's avatar

Very well done.

I always appreciate when we just say the words, like Lupron for instance. It’s not a “puberty blocker” or a “pause to think.” It’s a powerful medication called Lupron, used for serious medical conditions such as cancer and endometriosis. I took it as part of the IVF protocol and it’s awful. Awful. Precocious puberty is a medical problem, and may require such a drug after careful evaluation of the physical issues. A kid liking stereotypically girl/boy things is not a medical problem. Talk about discriminating against your kid. You like unicorns? Damn son you must actually be a girl! To the cancer meds! 😡

Amelia McGee's avatar

This is amazing. Thank you for so eloquently sharing the challenges that us PITT parents face ❤️

OverIT's avatar

Thank you, this is a keeper!