Great question, what parents that allowed this to happen will say to their children. That is what you wanted??
Parents don't allow their sons and daughters to drink a beer, you cannot drive until 15, and the list goes on but you know better regarding gender???
People should understand that this transgender thing is insane and only insane people go for it. Parents are not doing their job, they want to be "friends" or "be loved " or to "fit in" with their children and specially if they are divorced, they want to be the "cool" parent. We cannot call adults parents those that have that kind of immaturity.
Do what is right and stand for it, and you will never have a child that come to you and ask why you let them. This is a condition called gender dysphoria, always was, always will be and it has to be treated as a mental condition, sadly there are predators out there that prey in our insecurities out there and in the mental instability that characterized our times.
Two key bills would ensure long-term protection for Missouri's children from experimental interventions to modify sex traits:
House Bill 1607: Removes the 2027 sunset from the SAFE Act provisions banning “gender-transition” surgeries for minors.
House Bill 1608: Removes the same 2027 sunset from the law prohibiting opposite-sex hormones and puberty blockers for individuals under 18.
ANYONE, regardless of where you live, can easily and quickly submit written testimony online — this is a 5-minute action! Even a short note makes a difference.
The last chance to submit testimony is end of day TODAY, 1/19/26!
HB 1607 - Billington - PARTICIPATION IN ATHLETICS COMPETITIONS
Fill in your details, reference HB 1607 and/or HB 1608, and submit a brief statement of support (e.g., “I strongly support HB 1607 and HB 1608 to remove the sunset clauses and make these child protections permanent.”).
Check your email to verify your address.
Please act TODAY and share this alert with friends and family in Missouri or elsewhere who value protecting kids.
Yes. For most of the history of the species, our problem was getting enough calories to survive & breed. Now we in the west have solved this problem so overwhelmingly that we live in an obesogenic world, & our challenge is now to choose the most nutrient-dense calories, not the most available.
Thanks for posting this. Its heartbreaking and the various authorities you mention above have literally lose their minds. Its alike a collective madness has taken hold.
As far as “transition” goes, of course it’s especially awful and egregious in the case of children. But no one should support it for, or have the right to offer it to, adults either, in my opinion! Adults can be messed up and mentally ill, too, and capable of making some really awful decisions for themselves. Plus a great number of adults are also very stupid, easily led, and bad at critical thinking, even if they’re not mentally ill. But in my view, when anyone wants to head down this path, of having healthy body parts cut off, inverted or destroyed, and hormonally screwing themselves up with high doses of wrong sex hormones with really awful side effects, in an attempt to escape from themselves..? They are, by DEFINITION, mentally ill and unwell! Just like, (and I am sure most of the people who still support “transitioning” certain adults would agree with me on this), absolutely EVERYONE who requests for a doctor to cut off their healthy ear, simply because they do not like it, is mentally ill, by definition! And it should absolutely NEVER be done!! Same thing with ruining bodies, be it hormonally or surgically, because some people have spiralled into a mental obsession that makes them despise their sex, and want to pretend like they are not that sex.
Which, that is not even addressing all the large-scale SOCIOCULTURAL harm it leads to, “transitioning” certain adults who ask for it! Once we do this to men who want to be women, for instance..? They will now FOREVER be invested in being seen as women, and getting to use our spaces! As they have now sacrificed literally EVERYTHING for it!!! Their health, their genitals, their sexual functioning, their fertility, likely droves of relationships and other life prospects, and the list goes on… “Transitioning” ANY person equals enabling all the accompanying dysfunction and delusion based demands that inevitably come with it! At a massive cost to society, and our ability to maybe, hopefully, eventually, return to REALITY! Plus it further entrenches ALL these people in their delusions, and their faulty belief system… The more you accommodate them, and enable them, and the higher the stakes are, the harder it will be for them to EVER snap out of it and escape from it!! Much like, a person who’s just recently started taking Scientology courses, who hasn’t paid great money for any Scientology related courses or workshops, will be MUCH easier to wake up than someone who’s invested tons of time and money in it, and reached OT Level 7.
Not assuming that everyone who follows this Substack supports “transitioning” (certain) adults, either. But I still really like to make this argument, because I think it’s so important!! This stuff is ESPECIALLY awful and abusive in the case of children and minors, so I think the penalty for doing it to minors should be even MORE severe!! However, it is still really fucking awful in EVERY conceivable case, and it should simply never be done!! The answer should always be: “NO, we don’t do that here!! Let’s stick with reality, and then we can try to help you with your suffering, starting from that.” Is my opinion, anyway. 🙂
I disagree. Adults should have some options that aren't available to minors. I understand that it seems nuts to treat a mental health problem with changes to the body, but so-called sex change surgeries have been used for many decades, well before the current gender affirming insanity began. It can give relief to some patients who have not been able to overcome their gender dysphoria through years of psychotherapy. It's a course of "treatment" that we may object to, but in extreme cases it can help.
There’s no evidence that it can help. But I agree that surgery for adults and for minors is two different things. Bruce Jenner mutilated his body; he’s an adult and he had the right to do that. It’s still disturbing. And there still has to be (and, in fact, is, according to ethics) a line that shouldn’t be crossed: apotemnophiles get off on amputating body parts. They’re mentally ill. Doctors shouldn’t be lopping off toes and fingers and arms and legs just because an adult wants to.
Thank you for writing this, Cece. I completely agree with you. "They are, by DEFINITION, mentally ill and unwell!" at any age.
Other dangerous people who are fully invested are the parent true believers (not on this substack) who transed their children. They will fight forever for the ideology because to do otherwise would be to admit they harmed their own children by doctor (which should not be allowed). Unfortunately, many of them are politicians and also judges who do not recuse themselves from custody cases were Sex Rejecting procedures are at issue.
I have come around to believing that the entire Sex Rejecting Industry must be shut down for all ages. It helps no one. If it did not exist most people of all ages would just move on to other things - maybe change their wardrobes, maybe not. (A tiny number might "go to Brazil" but we cannot help that.) The fact that the Industry and supporting Pharma and Insurance exists in the US means confused people have this unhealthy goal to reach for and a plethora of medical people who promote it as the answer to whatever issues they are having. The numbers of people funneled into Sex Rejection Harm will only ever grow if it is not shutdown.
Drs Paul McHugh and Steve Levine have worked long and hard in this field and are the wiser heads which ought to prevail.
“Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution”
By Dr. Paul McHugh, former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Yes, this is an ethical problem that the plastic surgeons need to be educated about, then confronted about if they persist in harming people who are physically healthy. The cosmetic surgery industry has gotten out of hand generally, not just in the area of "transing" people. The money is so good that the ethical problems fade into the background. This will only get worse as technology continues to advance.
This 💯 adults shouldn’t be allowed surgeries as well because it really is mental health issues / I have a 24 year old daughter who was diagnosed with a multitude of mental health problems and yet she is still given testosterone and a mastectomy. How does that make sense?
So sorry about your daughter. It may sound pedantic, but personally, I prefer to frame it not as "adults shouldn''t be allowed surgeries" but as "DOCTORS should not be allowed to perform these surgeries". We are not asking to take away the rights of any adults, we are demanding that doctors stop harming the patients with completely unscientific barbaric treatments.
So sorry to hear that!! Hoping and praying that she one day wakes up and sees through it. 🫂❤️ Even if they refuse to question the ideology itself, I hope for some of them, once they start running into health issues from the wrong sex hormones, that can be a wake-up call! Seems like, for some of them, they are then able to go: “yup, I’m still TRANS, but I’m going to stop this, for health related reasons.” Which is better than nothing, I suppose! And then if they’re able to do that, hopefully they can eventually allow themselves to further question it all. I really hope so, anyway. 🙂 (Although of course it would be much preferable if they could wake up, and stop harming themselves, BEFORE they ran into health issues! Ugh.)
May all the grieving parents on this Substack get their kids back! And may they all wake up! <Sends good wishes out into the universe.> 🙏✨❤️☮️
“They told me I wouldn’t be loved or accepted as a feminine gay person. They really put it my head that if I grew into a man, I just be so unrecognizably ugly, that I might as well commit suicide.” I found that quote especially disturbing. People can say "nobody is pressured to transition" yet people frame growing up as a nightmare to kids, and instead of telling it how it is which is everyone is uncomfortable growing up and you will feel better when you get older, people tell them that they will never feel better unless they transition. They use suicide to manipulate. They say any pain you go through you will never get over without transitioning. People with mental health issues are so vulnerable to this. The message in the end is that you could not handle puberty, being male/female is a death sentence, you will be driven to suicide if you dont "fix" your body, there is no maybe, it will happen. No wonder kids and even adults see this as life or death and fear pushback so much. I write more about this here https://www.pittparents.com/p/a-false-sense-of-danger .
Great question, what parents that allowed this to happen will say to their children. That is what you wanted??
Parents don't allow their sons and daughters to drink a beer, you cannot drive until 15, and the list goes on but you know better regarding gender???
People should understand that this transgender thing is insane and only insane people go for it. Parents are not doing their job, they want to be "friends" or "be loved " or to "fit in" with their children and specially if they are divorced, they want to be the "cool" parent. We cannot call adults parents those that have that kind of immaturity.
Do what is right and stand for it, and you will never have a child that come to you and ask why you let them. This is a condition called gender dysphoria, always was, always will be and it has to be treated as a mental condition, sadly there are predators out there that prey in our insecurities out there and in the mental instability that characterized our times.
PLEASE BE AWARE EVERYONE:
Two key bills would ensure long-term protection for Missouri's children from experimental interventions to modify sex traits:
House Bill 1607: Removes the 2027 sunset from the SAFE Act provisions banning “gender-transition” surgeries for minors.
House Bill 1608: Removes the same 2027 sunset from the law prohibiting opposite-sex hormones and puberty blockers for individuals under 18.
ANYONE, regardless of where you live, can easily and quickly submit written testimony online — this is a 5-minute action! Even a short note makes a difference.
The last chance to submit testimony is end of day TODAY, 1/19/26!
Easy Steps to Submit:
Go to: https://house.mo.gov
Click on Hearings in the menu.
Look for “Submit Online Witness Testimony” (usually in the upper right corner).
Select the appropriate hearing/committee: Emerging Issues.
Check the following bills and ‘In Support Of’
HB 1608 - Billington - GENDER TRANSITION PROCEDURES
HB 1607 - Billington - PARTICIPATION IN ATHLETICS COMPETITIONS
Fill in your details, reference HB 1607 and/or HB 1608, and submit a brief statement of support (e.g., “I strongly support HB 1607 and HB 1608 to remove the sunset clauses and make these child protections permanent.”).
Check your email to verify your address.
Please act TODAY and share this alert with friends and family in Missouri or elsewhere who value protecting kids.
Yep, a whole generation reduced to their "feelings".
It began with the normalization of obese people refusing to see the harm they do to themselves (and society because of healthcare costs)
. There were very few obese people in the 40s and earlier.
Yes. For most of the history of the species, our problem was getting enough calories to survive & breed. Now we in the west have solved this problem so overwhelmingly that we live in an obesogenic world, & our challenge is now to choose the most nutrient-dense calories, not the most available.
There are no solutions, only trade offs!
There is that. I also think it started with boob jobs. Everybody has to have one. Except me of course.
Totally not related, but, elves have horns?? (I do agree with everything you are saying).
I thought elves had pointy ears
Thanks for posting this. Its heartbreaking and the various authorities you mention above have literally lose their minds. Its alike a collective madness has taken hold.
This is truly awful and so very sad, and all the more so because this DIDN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN.
This madness MUST END.
This absolutely breaks my heart.
As far as “transition” goes, of course it’s especially awful and egregious in the case of children. But no one should support it for, or have the right to offer it to, adults either, in my opinion! Adults can be messed up and mentally ill, too, and capable of making some really awful decisions for themselves. Plus a great number of adults are also very stupid, easily led, and bad at critical thinking, even if they’re not mentally ill. But in my view, when anyone wants to head down this path, of having healthy body parts cut off, inverted or destroyed, and hormonally screwing themselves up with high doses of wrong sex hormones with really awful side effects, in an attempt to escape from themselves..? They are, by DEFINITION, mentally ill and unwell! Just like, (and I am sure most of the people who still support “transitioning” certain adults would agree with me on this), absolutely EVERYONE who requests for a doctor to cut off their healthy ear, simply because they do not like it, is mentally ill, by definition! And it should absolutely NEVER be done!! Same thing with ruining bodies, be it hormonally or surgically, because some people have spiralled into a mental obsession that makes them despise their sex, and want to pretend like they are not that sex.
Which, that is not even addressing all the large-scale SOCIOCULTURAL harm it leads to, “transitioning” certain adults who ask for it! Once we do this to men who want to be women, for instance..? They will now FOREVER be invested in being seen as women, and getting to use our spaces! As they have now sacrificed literally EVERYTHING for it!!! Their health, their genitals, their sexual functioning, their fertility, likely droves of relationships and other life prospects, and the list goes on… “Transitioning” ANY person equals enabling all the accompanying dysfunction and delusion based demands that inevitably come with it! At a massive cost to society, and our ability to maybe, hopefully, eventually, return to REALITY! Plus it further entrenches ALL these people in their delusions, and their faulty belief system… The more you accommodate them, and enable them, and the higher the stakes are, the harder it will be for them to EVER snap out of it and escape from it!! Much like, a person who’s just recently started taking Scientology courses, who hasn’t paid great money for any Scientology related courses or workshops, will be MUCH easier to wake up than someone who’s invested tons of time and money in it, and reached OT Level 7.
Not assuming that everyone who follows this Substack supports “transitioning” (certain) adults, either. But I still really like to make this argument, because I think it’s so important!! This stuff is ESPECIALLY awful and abusive in the case of children and minors, so I think the penalty for doing it to minors should be even MORE severe!! However, it is still really fucking awful in EVERY conceivable case, and it should simply never be done!! The answer should always be: “NO, we don’t do that here!! Let’s stick with reality, and then we can try to help you with your suffering, starting from that.” Is my opinion, anyway. 🙂
I disagree. Adults should have some options that aren't available to minors. I understand that it seems nuts to treat a mental health problem with changes to the body, but so-called sex change surgeries have been used for many decades, well before the current gender affirming insanity began. It can give relief to some patients who have not been able to overcome their gender dysphoria through years of psychotherapy. It's a course of "treatment" that we may object to, but in extreme cases it can help.
There’s no evidence that it can help. But I agree that surgery for adults and for minors is two different things. Bruce Jenner mutilated his body; he’s an adult and he had the right to do that. It’s still disturbing. And there still has to be (and, in fact, is, according to ethics) a line that shouldn’t be crossed: apotemnophiles get off on amputating body parts. They’re mentally ill. Doctors shouldn’t be lopping off toes and fingers and arms and legs just because an adult wants to.
Thank you for writing this, Cece. I completely agree with you. "They are, by DEFINITION, mentally ill and unwell!" at any age.
Other dangerous people who are fully invested are the parent true believers (not on this substack) who transed their children. They will fight forever for the ideology because to do otherwise would be to admit they harmed their own children by doctor (which should not be allowed). Unfortunately, many of them are politicians and also judges who do not recuse themselves from custody cases were Sex Rejecting procedures are at issue.
I have come around to believing that the entire Sex Rejecting Industry must be shut down for all ages. It helps no one. If it did not exist most people of all ages would just move on to other things - maybe change their wardrobes, maybe not. (A tiny number might "go to Brazil" but we cannot help that.) The fact that the Industry and supporting Pharma and Insurance exists in the US means confused people have this unhealthy goal to reach for and a plethora of medical people who promote it as the answer to whatever issues they are having. The numbers of people funneled into Sex Rejection Harm will only ever grow if it is not shutdown.
Drs Paul McHugh and Steve Levine have worked long and hard in this field and are the wiser heads which ought to prevail.
“Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution”
By Dr. Paul McHugh, former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital
https://couragerc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TransgenderSurgery.pdf
"Psychiatrist Champion of Gender Reality and Patient Well-Being, Vindicated at 94"
https://www.pittparents.com/p/psychiatrist-champion-of-gender-reality?utm_source=publication-search
"Dr. Stephen Levine Reflects on 40 Years in Gender Medicine."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoNMzdZHQCs
For some reason my Dr. Stephen Levine link got cut off:
"Dr. Stephen Levine Reflects on 40 Years in Gender Medicine."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoNMzdZHQCs
Yes, this is an ethical problem that the plastic surgeons need to be educated about, then confronted about if they persist in harming people who are physically healthy. The cosmetic surgery industry has gotten out of hand generally, not just in the area of "transing" people. The money is so good that the ethical problems fade into the background. This will only get worse as technology continues to advance.
This 💯 adults shouldn’t be allowed surgeries as well because it really is mental health issues / I have a 24 year old daughter who was diagnosed with a multitude of mental health problems and yet she is still given testosterone and a mastectomy. How does that make sense?
So sorry about your daughter. It may sound pedantic, but personally, I prefer to frame it not as "adults shouldn''t be allowed surgeries" but as "DOCTORS should not be allowed to perform these surgeries". We are not asking to take away the rights of any adults, we are demanding that doctors stop harming the patients with completely unscientific barbaric treatments.
Well said.
💯
So sorry to hear that!! Hoping and praying that she one day wakes up and sees through it. 🫂❤️ Even if they refuse to question the ideology itself, I hope for some of them, once they start running into health issues from the wrong sex hormones, that can be a wake-up call! Seems like, for some of them, they are then able to go: “yup, I’m still TRANS, but I’m going to stop this, for health related reasons.” Which is better than nothing, I suppose! And then if they’re able to do that, hopefully they can eventually allow themselves to further question it all. I really hope so, anyway. 🙂 (Although of course it would be much preferable if they could wake up, and stop harming themselves, BEFORE they ran into health issues! Ugh.)
May all the grieving parents on this Substack get their kids back! And may they all wake up! <Sends good wishes out into the universe.> 🙏✨❤️☮️
Agree - I just pray that one sane doctor would interevene 🙏🙏😭
“They told me I wouldn’t be loved or accepted as a feminine gay person. They really put it my head that if I grew into a man, I just be so unrecognizably ugly, that I might as well commit suicide.” I found that quote especially disturbing. People can say "nobody is pressured to transition" yet people frame growing up as a nightmare to kids, and instead of telling it how it is which is everyone is uncomfortable growing up and you will feel better when you get older, people tell them that they will never feel better unless they transition. They use suicide to manipulate. They say any pain you go through you will never get over without transitioning. People with mental health issues are so vulnerable to this. The message in the end is that you could not handle puberty, being male/female is a death sentence, you will be driven to suicide if you dont "fix" your body, there is no maybe, it will happen. No wonder kids and even adults see this as life or death and fear pushback so much. I write more about this here https://www.pittparents.com/p/a-false-sense-of-danger .
Thank you for sharing your perspective. Your words might help kids in distress, so keep speaking about it.