I didn’t vote for Trump and don’t support a lot of what he is doing but I must admit that his administration is having a very positive effect on reducing the mutilation of children cases by the inaptly named gender affirming care.
What can we do to make it easier to detransition? Our daughter stopped taking testosterone after 18 months because of balding and other (more serious) health impacts. But she continues to identify as trans -- maybe because it's too embarrassing to turn back?
My son has removed all male body parts - at age 23. At 25 had breast implants. Now, going on 28, wants me to say he was born a female. I, and the rest of the extended family are to forget the first 18 years of his life. I have a liberal family member that I no longer have as executor of my Will, because he says if I take my son out of it, he couldn't follow through with my directive. Someone needs to start Law suits or something for the way our 18 and over children were surgically mutilated.
Imagine if we could all line up together to form one soiled resistance. Imagine if we could all be seen. What would the power of unity, the power of shared information, the impact of our collective presence be able to do? If those in opposition could actually see how many of us oppose what is happening, would this be taking so long to stop the nonsense? If we could actually like, comment and make social media post go viral? If we could all show up to a school board meeting? What is going to bring use out of the shadows?
Liberal people who don’t look into this topic support the transgenders. I did too, before I took 10 minutes to delve into the topic. So we are still a minority. But as Mattias De Smet said about mass formation: it only takes a minority to turn the tide.
Agree the parents are blamed for the trans resistance of their child no matter what age. And then there are those who blame the parents for something they did wrong in raising their children to cause them to become trans. It’s so tragic no one understands or cares who is not the parents ❤️
A friend of mine said: my grandchildren are immune for these things, when you put horses put a healthy meadow, they grow up to be fine. Her cardiology daughter re-assured me: stay away from the internet and trust the doctors.
The reaction to cutting off healthy body parts and taking cross sex hormones needs to be much stronger, this is not medicine, this is not therapy, this is madness, this is Gender Conversion Therapy and it MUST END!
Great essay. "For there is a bitter war being fought, and at stake are the very hearts, minds, and bodies of our gender-questioning children." I am fighting this fight right beside all of you! It is the fight of our lives, for all our children's futures, so they can have a healthy existence. I cannot think about 10 years from now and what the world will be like, or how many transgender children actually survive this war. There have already been too many casualties, and I worry the number will only continue to rise. How will we care for the wounded, maimed, emotionally, mentally, and physically scarred survivors? Will the world turn their backs on them like the Viet Nam vets? This is indeed the New Resistance, and we must all band together to fight this evil cult by continuing to speak the truth loud and clear. We must keep our strength up, cling to hope, and stop this war on children!
Oh, it is very much like the resistance in World War II. Except their is no definitive leader and city to march towards like Hitler in Berlin. Leaders who pose as activists, social media influencers, social justice warriors, and the like are everywhere and plenty of cities have bubbles of gender ideology with cheerleaders circling up around them. So we need to get smart and poke holes in those bubbles by outwitting them and exposing the harmful consequences of what they do.
Parents of adult trans children are also a part of the resistance. Like you, we desperately want to change the narrative— that, borrowing from an earlier PITT column, GAC is really Frankenstein medicine in disguise. And we desperately want to see detransition protocols and medical and therapeutic support be as widely available as GAC is now. It should be a mile-wide off-ramp out of the madness. Nobody is born in the wrong body.
This statement "Trans people themselves are not the enemy – far from it." is not correct. Trans people ARE the enemy. Once the trans psychosis has been accepted as a guiding belief, there is a lot of interest in getting others to also accept this. Trans actors (Ellen Page who calls herself "Elliot") present "exemplars" of successful trans persons.
The trans are often not the prime movers, true. But do not give them a pass.
You make a good point but it is one that also requires understanding. I have written quite a bit about social media influencers. There is an army of them who get clicks for cash in the digital marketplace because of the lies they sell. These lies coerce other youth into the trans cult. Some of the more prominent influencers (Chase Ross, Miles Mckenna, and others for the females, Gigi Gorgeous and others for the males ...) were underage when they began. YouTube is often their source of capture. This began to happen shortly after YouTube began in the 2005. Could this be a coincidence? I am skeptical. Early online (AOL) communities existed for males. Today these women are not so young and press on with hundreds of thousand of followers, promoting this lifestyle of drugs, surgeries, packers, binders, parent hatred, how to guides, etc.
These once young people were once gravely deceived and coerced but they cross a line to industry sales rep. There are levels of influencers but these ones are VERY dangerous. I retain most of my ire for YouTube and other tech platforms, the medical industrial complex and the like. Until they are brought to account, the FTM and MTF influencers are free to be the industry's golden sales class. We are a long way from this.
The regular, non-influencer type trans identified individuals may not be the enemy, but they are most assuredly not the "welcomed allies in this fight". Trans ideology IS the fight, how can those who believe in it be our allies? Most are victims for sure.
The whole ROGD thing is about kids influencing other kids. When a kid accepts the trans psychosis, they seem to try to get other kids also to join them. Social hysterias require social pressure.
I didn’t vote for Trump and don’t support a lot of what he is doing but I must admit that his administration is having a very positive effect on reducing the mutilation of children cases by the inaptly named gender affirming care.
What can we do to make it easier to detransition? Our daughter stopped taking testosterone after 18 months because of balding and other (more serious) health impacts. But she continues to identify as trans -- maybe because it's too embarrassing to turn back?
My son has removed all male body parts - at age 23. At 25 had breast implants. Now, going on 28, wants me to say he was born a female. I, and the rest of the extended family are to forget the first 18 years of his life. I have a liberal family member that I no longer have as executor of my Will, because he says if I take my son out of it, he couldn't follow through with my directive. Someone needs to start Law suits or something for the way our 18 and over children were surgically mutilated.
Imagine if we could all line up together to form one soiled resistance. Imagine if we could all be seen. What would the power of unity, the power of shared information, the impact of our collective presence be able to do? If those in opposition could actually see how many of us oppose what is happening, would this be taking so long to stop the nonsense? If we could actually like, comment and make social media post go viral? If we could all show up to a school board meeting? What is going to bring use out of the shadows?
Liberal people who don’t look into this topic support the transgenders. I did too, before I took 10 minutes to delve into the topic. So we are still a minority. But as Mattias De Smet said about mass formation: it only takes a minority to turn the tide.
Agree the parents are blamed for the trans resistance of their child no matter what age. And then there are those who blame the parents for something they did wrong in raising their children to cause them to become trans. It’s so tragic no one understands or cares who is not the parents ❤️
A friend of mine said: my grandchildren are immune for these things, when you put horses put a healthy meadow, they grow up to be fine. Her cardiology daughter re-assured me: stay away from the internet and trust the doctors.
The reaction to cutting off healthy body parts and taking cross sex hormones needs to be much stronger, this is not medicine, this is not therapy, this is madness, this is Gender Conversion Therapy and it MUST END!
Great essay. "For there is a bitter war being fought, and at stake are the very hearts, minds, and bodies of our gender-questioning children." I am fighting this fight right beside all of you! It is the fight of our lives, for all our children's futures, so they can have a healthy existence. I cannot think about 10 years from now and what the world will be like, or how many transgender children actually survive this war. There have already been too many casualties, and I worry the number will only continue to rise. How will we care for the wounded, maimed, emotionally, mentally, and physically scarred survivors? Will the world turn their backs on them like the Viet Nam vets? This is indeed the New Resistance, and we must all band together to fight this evil cult by continuing to speak the truth loud and clear. We must keep our strength up, cling to hope, and stop this war on children!
Oh, it is very much like the resistance in World War II. Except their is no definitive leader and city to march towards like Hitler in Berlin. Leaders who pose as activists, social media influencers, social justice warriors, and the like are everywhere and plenty of cities have bubbles of gender ideology with cheerleaders circling up around them. So we need to get smart and poke holes in those bubbles by outwitting them and exposing the harmful consequences of what they do.
Yes, NO child is ever born in the wrong body. Thanks for sharing a parent's perspective.
Parents of adult trans children are also a part of the resistance. Like you, we desperately want to change the narrative— that, borrowing from an earlier PITT column, GAC is really Frankenstein medicine in disguise. And we desperately want to see detransition protocols and medical and therapeutic support be as widely available as GAC is now. It should be a mile-wide off-ramp out of the madness. Nobody is born in the wrong body.
This statement "Trans people themselves are not the enemy – far from it." is not correct. Trans people ARE the enemy. Once the trans psychosis has been accepted as a guiding belief, there is a lot of interest in getting others to also accept this. Trans actors (Ellen Page who calls herself "Elliot") present "exemplars" of successful trans persons.
The trans are often not the prime movers, true. But do not give them a pass.
You make a good point but it is one that also requires understanding. I have written quite a bit about social media influencers. There is an army of them who get clicks for cash in the digital marketplace because of the lies they sell. These lies coerce other youth into the trans cult. Some of the more prominent influencers (Chase Ross, Miles Mckenna, and others for the females, Gigi Gorgeous and others for the males ...) were underage when they began. YouTube is often their source of capture. This began to happen shortly after YouTube began in the 2005. Could this be a coincidence? I am skeptical. Early online (AOL) communities existed for males. Today these women are not so young and press on with hundreds of thousand of followers, promoting this lifestyle of drugs, surgeries, packers, binders, parent hatred, how to guides, etc.
These once young people were once gravely deceived and coerced but they cross a line to industry sales rep. There are levels of influencers but these ones are VERY dangerous. I retain most of my ire for YouTube and other tech platforms, the medical industrial complex and the like. Until they are brought to account, the FTM and MTF influencers are free to be the industry's golden sales class. We are a long way from this.
The regular, non-influencer type trans identified individuals may not be the enemy, but they are most assuredly not the "welcomed allies in this fight". Trans ideology IS the fight, how can those who believe in it be our allies? Most are victims for sure.
The whole ROGD thing is about kids influencing other kids. When a kid accepts the trans psychosis, they seem to try to get other kids also to join them. Social hysterias require social pressure.