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Beeswax's avatar

PITT is a fantastic site for excellent writing on the trans epidemic. This article is particularly well done. You did some important things here, such as comparing U.S. policy with that of enlightened foreign countries not captured by trans ideology.

This article deserves a wide audience. I'm wondering how you can publish it more widely, so that people who are on the fence or who are uninformed because they have no personal experience with the issue can read it and be educated.

I assume you sent it to the White House. I think we all should, and not just to the White House but to our elected representatives.

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Kathleen Sawchuk's avatar

We need a world wide movement to protect these kids. Two years of lockdown has had an immense toll on these kids. Keep in mind a child’s brain is not fully developed until age 25ish. A child with ASD will most likely fall behind that number and need more time. Most of these kids have two or more co-morbidities. My daughter was diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder at 5, first full psychological test at 7. She has dyslexia, ADHD, anxiety and thanks to Covid, depression. She came out as trans after huge amounts of time on the internet, mostly TikTok, during the pandemic. No prior questioning at all. Did not prefer “boy” toys, loved her Barbie’s. She had access to both.

We are not parents who are transphobic, most consider themselves allies. We are parents who over the years have watched our kids development and see a problem. We want our kids to get a healthy sense of self in whatever form that takes but changing the wrapping paper does not change the gift inside. These kids need to learn to love and appreciate all there special gifts before taking drugs and having surgeries that are not proven to help.

My daughter had ADHD, cocaine is a known stimulant, if she came to me and said I function better on cocaine, I wouldn’t give it to her. I’d seek the help of a medical professional that knows and understands how to approach ADHD. We are allowing these kids to self diagnose based on “internet stories”.

Dear God, let someone in authority please get educated on this matter. Parents are engaged in rapid fire learning to save our kids while the “rule makers” haven’t got clue

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