Hi - I am in the exact same place. My 18 year old just announced the same. We don't have any more levers to stop this, and I am trying to figure out a response. She knows we do not support this, but it's been so difficult to have any conversations with content as the defensiveness kicks in and communication impossible. She knows we love …
Hi - I am in the exact same place. My 18 year old just announced the same. We don't have any more levers to stop this, and I am trying to figure out a response. She knows we do not support this, but it's been so difficult to have any conversations with content as the defensiveness kicks in and communication impossible. She knows we love her, and we are doing our best to make sure that she knows we will always love her, no matter what. You nail it with "our kids are pawns in a political and financial game". They don't know it, and the ones wielding the power have no skin in the game.
To the author - my heart breaks for you. I am in CA, a "sanctuary state", courtesy of a legislator who is not a parent. Pitting children against their parents like this is doing enormous damage.
i hope you are aware of the protectkidsca.com initiative to try to end this sanctuary state status. Anyone in the USA can donate. California registered voters can sign and gather signatures.
Whose insurance? She likely can't give informed consent and wpath requires other possible causes of gender incongruence to be identified and ruled out????
My child is just 18. Informed consent FTW. It's how the clinics sidestep any liability. No insurance needed at many clinics (looking at you, Planned Parenthood), no background check, no follow up care. The age for this "care" with no parental involvement is 16 in CA. At 18, she can do what she wants anywhere the medicalization is an option. The more bans the far right put into effect, the easier the left makes it to medically transition in response. The kids are the footballs.
Hi - I am in the exact same place. My 18 year old just announced the same. We don't have any more levers to stop this, and I am trying to figure out a response. She knows we do not support this, but it's been so difficult to have any conversations with content as the defensiveness kicks in and communication impossible. She knows we love her, and we are doing our best to make sure that she knows we will always love her, no matter what. You nail it with "our kids are pawns in a political and financial game". They don't know it, and the ones wielding the power have no skin in the game.
To the author - my heart breaks for you. I am in CA, a "sanctuary state", courtesy of a legislator who is not a parent. Pitting children against their parents like this is doing enormous damage.
i hope you are aware of the protectkidsca.com initiative to try to end this sanctuary state status. Anyone in the USA can donate. California registered voters can sign and gather signatures.
Whose insurance? She likely can't give informed consent and wpath requires other possible causes of gender incongruence to be identified and ruled out????
My child is just 18. Informed consent FTW. It's how the clinics sidestep any liability. No insurance needed at many clinics (looking at you, Planned Parenthood), no background check, no follow up care. The age for this "care" with no parental involvement is 16 in CA. At 18, she can do what she wants anywhere the medicalization is an option. The more bans the far right put into effect, the easier the left makes it to medically transition in response. The kids are the footballs.