I attempted to start a post but just ended up with a substack post. Not sure how to make it specific to PITT. So I'm posting here;
SPIRITUAL WARFARE PRAYER
A Prayer for Protection
Almighty God,
Thank you for creating us. Thank you for preserving us and our families until this time.
We pray for your protection against spiritual and physical enemies. We pray for strength to resist the devil’s attacks. Help us put on your full armor and your breastplate of righteousness. Protect us when we sleep and when we wake.
Please remove all the traps that have been set before us that we cannot see. Please protect us from the eyes and snares of the evil one. Order our steps for us so we do not walk in the company of the wicked.
Protect our families from any worldly cultures that will result in them losing their souls. Protect us from all evil attention from strangers and from those close to us. Block anyone with bad intentions from coming into our lives.
Be a shining light unto our feet so we won’t walk in the thorns or slippery slopes. Protect us from all evil including those we bring upon ourselves.
Let us not wander away from your protection come what may. Give us the strength to walk with you. Guide us from dawn till dusk. Watch over us in everything we do. Be our companion wherever we go.
Thank you for the answered prayer, Lord. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
The Graceful Chapter (revised)
I say this every evening at 7pm for all the PITT families. The original version was in the first person but I've altered it to conform to a prayer for the community. Please join me if you feel moved to do so.
I'm on EST, but I don't think it matters if we all pray at the same time or not.
Teach them the word PERVERT and then show them real world examples of this...there are plenty. This used to be the norm for societies. We have now been moved, by the leftist radicals, to see these perversions as identities, individual truths, natural occurrences "like rain or sunshine" and love..."all love is equal love"
It may seem harsh to indoctrinate your kid with such raw information early on, but compare that to what all of you are going through now. I'd much rather scare the living dog crap out of my child (if I had one) by telling/showing them the horrors of transition, as well as the wants of the PERVERTED POSs behind the movement, to literally screw them 10 ways from Sunday.
Show them the freaks that are pushing this societal rot and tell them they are sick, weirdos, that deserve to die. The reason this has been allowed to reach this scale is the tolerance that was sold to the Kens and Karens of the world. The virtue signaling and lack of hard pushback, comes at the cost of children.
Tell your kids that freaks like the one in the article below, are working hard to take them away from you, so they can have sex with them and let their PERVERT friends do the same. Harsh...Yes. True...You bet your ass it is. Don't be afraid to show them the raw truth, in order to protect them from it. Now, it is the only weapon, you still have.
"A Minnesota lawmaker (a man) wants adult sexual attraction to children to be included as a “sexual orientation” under state law"
teach your kids about many different religions. this can be done from an early age. most kids enjoy stories of the greek gods and old and new testamate. throw in how islam started and my favorite Mormonism. better yet cults when its time to explain gender ideology its just another religion or cult.
my tip for keeping kids off smart phones is provide phone with google family link installed. tell google your child is 2yo so its not disabled when theyre 12. this app lets you block any other app. bonus : google maps tells u where kids phone is
Show your children before and after sex "change" operation pictures, especially the ones that went wrong. That's what I did and there's no way my children will be falling for this nonsense as a result. Of course we continuously talk about the plan to depopulate the planet and how the homosexual and trans agenda plays right into that. "They hate you, white Christian/Catholic man/woman, and they don't want you to reproduce" goes a long way.
I know this is way too politically incorrect to be a major point on this essay but I refuse to self censor. We need to be upping our game as evil NEVER sleeps.
Absolutely! Definitely investigate the school first. I would avoid all-girls Catholic schools at this point, too -- they are small, and it's too easy for small cells to get started and socially infect all the students.
It pains me to see this but you are right. The Catholic church has been infiltrated by homosexual communists and it is ruining the credibility of the one true church started by Jesus Christ. This hurts my soul so much because people will refuse to join the faith (scandalized, I believe its called) as it looks like a dumpster fire to those who don't understand what is happening. I pray God exposes every last one of the rats responsible for this ideological mess.
That has not exactly been my experience in the Church, but I do understand these fears. It seems that no matter where you look, institutions are not doing themselves any favors.
That is refreshing to hear! Have you read the permanent instruction of the alta vendita or any of Bella Dodd's work or Maurice Pinay's "A Plot Against the Church"?
I’d also add for girls especially, teach them how their body actually works. Do a Fertility Awareness course together. You don’t have to use it as a contraceptive, but my mum teaching me the sympto-thermal method as a teenager (who was the worlds biggest tomboy) gave me a whole new appreciation for my body and it’s power. It also helped to know how to accurately predict my period and also just how finely tuned your reproductive system is! It’s women’s 5th vital sign and knowing a FAM can also pin point any emerging problems and provide decent doctors with valuable records to begin diagnosing and treating them!
My 2 cents. Pay attention to curriculum & teachers. I told my boys not to go to the office or counselor at school under any circumstances without me present. The surveys these schools are doing are fishing expeditions & they pull children in when they have answers that are not clear. An example of a question on our school forms (are you trans? Yes, no or I AM NOT SURE). Those answers get kids pulled in & do NOT trust schools at this point. We have had MANY discussions. My boys can point out brainwashing a mile away now. I do a homeschool/college combo now. I actually have a friend that literally sold her house and moved out of State within 30 days of her daughter questioning her gender. She actually saved her.
Many people have said *physical activity* and *jobs,* and I strongly agree. Intense physical activity makes kids care more about what their bodies can do than what they look like. Work gives kids a sense of purpose and a reason to feel proud. Both exercise and work are powerful antidotes to self-hatred.
I would add: Teach your kids straight up that just people are grown-up and in positions of authority it does not make them right. The teachers can be quite stupid, unfortunately. Doctors are often mentally-out-to-lunch as well, or under weird pressures to lie. Mental health professionals, unfortunately, are often insane. Politicians lie as a matter of course. Teach them the truth about how messed up the world is, and how to analyze news stories, and how to think critically. This can not be started too young. These poor souls are growing up in clown world and the sooner they catch on the better.
Except for 5. The LGBTQ++ alphabet monster has to be killed tooth and claw. 1 in 4 gen z identify as sexually perverse. Those statistics defy genetics. The reproductive organs are for the purpose of heterosexual reproduction. That is a scientific reality. There is no returning to an earlier factory reset just enough to save your kid from the latest perverse attack. The monster must be hanged, drawn and quartered. It has to be destroyed from it's fangs to its claws and the scales on it's vile back. Then the carrion has to be placed on a pyre and burned into ashes.
I would add that if you have young kids in school, ask about their curriculum materials. Many "DEI" mandates include teaching that gender is on a spectrum. Check out the books in your kid's kindergarten class about the gender spectrum. They are definitely out there in the bookstores books like Bye Bye Binary or Peyton's Pronoun Party. The ideology is everywhere. You should also be able to download your particular school district's curriculum information.
And for those parents who think, "Kids are born transgender; you can't make someone trans", you are wrong. Completely, 100% wrong. The numbers of girls identifying as trans has increased astronomically. Most have mental health co-morbidities. There is a social contagion or social influence factor at work here. I don't think any teen is immune.
Good list! I would just add: Look at what's coming down the pike in your school district, and change schools/home school if necessary. If the tuition at the local Catholic/Christian/Prep academy scares you, ask about scholarships or student aid -- I can only speak about Catholic schools, but the ones around here offer thousands of dollars of merit scholarships to students based on an entrance exam, and they also offer need-based scholarships.
Also, I would discourage your kid from participating in the Gay-Straight Student Alliance. I am fine with my kid having any friend of any persuasion, but it's creepy to search for friends based on their sexual attraction. It's always seemed a little propagandistic to me.
I will add...our local Catholic school just spent $20k for the same SEL/CRT curriculum our public middle school uses. Don't just blindly trust private schools.
Absolutely! Definitely investigate the school first. I would avoid all-girls Catholic schools at this point, too -- they are small, and it's too easy for small cells to get started and socially infect all the students.
If your kids are in public school, I think it’s important to warn your kids about the fact that they’ll learn falsehoods in health. “They’re going to tell you in health class that everyone has a ‘gender identity’, and that biological sex is assigned. That’s not true. Nod and do what the teacher asks, but understand that it’s incorrect. Sometimes teachers teach kids things that are incorrect, and this is one of those times.”
I was a slacker with the phone and internet and paid the price. My daughter got an iPhone after fifth grade. I also encouraged her social justice activism--praised her for championing the underdog and running with the misfits, a few who turned to T like junkies to H. I took her to her first pride parade. Even dyed her hair rainbow stripes. Took her to our local BLM March. Said, “That’s great honey,” when she said she was pansexual, then lesbian, knowing it was bullshit but having. No. Idea. What. This. Really. Was. Until the school changed her name and pronouns and she started identifying as a gay man for fucking out loud. Then the scales fell from my eyes in great sheets, like a wrecking ball slammed into my bones. If I could go back and do it again I’d go waaaayyy back and be assigned Republican at birth.
I have a serious question for you, that may help those who've yet to reach the point, where the system is chewing on their child.
What allowed you to be taken in, duped, deceived (pick a term) by the virtue signaling propaganda? Looking back, what allowed you to hold tight to the obvious cognitive dissonance?
While I understand that on a societal level, we are now awash with all thing gay, lesbian, trans and soon pedophile...so it's become the norm. Look around your town at church marquis and you see that LGBTQ friendly/welcome, has become the new societal version of Gluten Free...
Was this public mindset capture, part of the easy acceptance?
How would you tell others (non-parents as well, because the societal rot affects us all) to avoid the ideological pitfalls you fell into?
Thanks for sharing your story.
It illustrates that ANY leftist ideology, is a death sentence in one way or another...it literally is the Poison being mixed in with the sweetened Kool aide of societal tolerance, acceptance and virtue signaling.
Hi Connecting! Thanks for the question. What allowed me to be taken in was the fact that I started from the Democrat virtues I'd been spoon-fed since birth. I thought my daughter was being exemplary when at a young age she championed the underdog. By the time she was in fourth or fifth grade, she'd grown so enamored of the LGBT scene that it was like those scenes from A Hard Day's Night, when the teenaged girls go wild over the Beatles.
This was my first indication that something was fishy. Why was the LGBT scene something to go nuts over like that? She literally swooned to the ground when she saw lesbians walking down the street. They were rock stars to her. But I didn't question it because she was only a kid. It was silly and cute back then. Also, I thought all Republicans were "deplorables," so there was no other option, and I didn't question it. This was around 2017. Trump had just been elected and I had full-fledged TDS.
Your gluten free analogy is brilliant.
I didn't know I was captured until I came out on the other side. What allowed me to lean into the cognitive dissonance was the fact that my daughter is not trans. Watching her go from a "lesbian" to a "gay man" was such an obvious and absurd identity pretzel she was twisting herself into that I couldn't go along, even though I tried. I hadn't left the left until months later, so I gave it a go with the pronouns and the nicknames, even though it was like snacking on bricks.
Also, for my kid, it was obvious that her gateway wasn't that she was autistic or a lesbian. It was the social justice and the woke-ism. She couldn't bear to identify as the "cisheteronormative patriarchy." And she needed to be more than just an ally. She needed to be IN the flag and not just wave it for others. After all, she was forbidden from speaking on a subject unless it was from "lived experience." Thus when she realized she was attracted to guys, trans-masc was born.
Even though she expressed interest in hormones, I was lucky. Because my daughter hates conflict and pain, and she's lazy. It was easy to take her binders and throw them away. She never mentioned a thing about it. She never begged me to take her to the gender clinic. I didn't have to fight that particular fight. For us it was the social identity.
It was the school. Lower Merion High School changed her name and pronouns without my knowledge during lockdown, when she was in ninth grade. I contacted her teachers, counselor, principal, superintendent and spoke at a school board meeting all to a resounding chorus of crickets. I found the school's secret-keeping policy. I saw the capture up close. Here is the policy:
From there it was a hop, skip and jump to BLM, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay, Matt Walsh etc. etc. (too many to name!) and that was it. I was out. Changed my party affiliation to Independent and lived through months of fractured dynamics at home, since I was now the only non-democrat and my son and husband worried I'd become some flat-earthing mental patient. Of course this fracturing only underscored what I was learning—that American Marxism, postmodern and queer theory sought to destroy not only our children but our families.
So that taught me where and how the war needed be fought.
What I would tell any other person going through this is to focus on not letting the Marxists win. Fight for your family cohesion and sanctity. I have kept my daughter close through all of this and we have had some blowouts but are closer than ever, and she shows signs of desistance! Also, I happen to have married a great guy, who has worked through this with me. We know what's important. We might vote differently and take different approaches to this whole shitshow, but we're on the same team: Team Miller.
And I would tell people to reject the concept that questioning trans ideology is transphobic. If the ideology holds water, people who believe should welcome robust debate. To shut down conversation is immature, cowardly and suspect. I told my daughter from the beginning that I was skeptical and made one rule: she could not run away from our questions. Skepticism does not equal transphobia in our house. Period. That said, we don't talk about it at all. Instead we focus on anything and everything else.
My daughter knows that her parents are the good guys, and that she is blessed to have a stable, loving parents. She knows that boundaries equal love, even though she begged me to affirm her less than a year ago. She trusts me—the family TERF. I love her more than anything and she loves me back.
Thanks again CTD! Really appreciate you reaching out.
Thank you for such an excellent explanation and answer. I truly appreciate your taking the time to unpack your situation and steps to navigate it. There's allot of wisdom and useful insight here.
I'm always intrigued by the realizations of those, who've "come out the other side".
The once oppressive, crazy, radical right, becomes the marker for relative sanity and the left is shown to be the ones pushing these destructive agendas.
Luckily, the radicals always take it a step too far and that's when those like you have the scales fall. It is inevitable, however, that they will learn from thee repeated mistakes and measure their activism more precisely.
I remember when the first discussion started happening, around dangers of CRT in schools and people scoffed, saying "well that' just happening in that's blue state/city...crazy dems...that would never happen at my religious/private/charter school". And when people started warning that CRT was a cover for sexualization and gender indoctrination, many parents scoffed again..."not in my town/school".
Of course years later, like cancer, the societal body is riddled with tumors. There is no organ or patch of skin that is safe from the spread...especially since the distribution method is systemic (media/gov) and the masses have been taught that embracing the cancer, is courageous, laudable and a badge of honor.
"Snacking on bricks" explains it all so well. I will use that in other comments and my posts.
My hat is off to you and other parents, that have fought hard and long, in an attempt to keep your families in tact.
I've said before, that I have nothing but respect for all of you, but that respect ha increased ten fold in today's world of perverts and deviants, that lurk around each corner and classroom.
Thank you again for the great insight and advise!!
So I came across the following three videos of Allie Beth Stuckey's (I am a fan of hers), while deep diving into this trans-Chupacabra.
Her guest for all three pieces - Genevieve Gluck - I'd not heard of, nor had I heard of the site she co-founded named Reduxx.
All three of these are eye opening to say the least and intelligently make the connections, that I have clumsily alluded to here and other places. This "movement" has it's roots firmly in pedophilia, fetishism and porn, reaching back many decades.
The chaotic tips of the Trans-berg, that parents are rightly trying to zig zag their familiar Titanics away from, are the distraction, to just how and who is forming these society killers in the first place...past and present.
I hope these bring you and others here a bit deeper understanding of what this is, why it has gained so much systemic adulation and support and where it's headed, if not defeated.
I would also encourage those here to visit Reduxx and take a look at the the other part of this battlefield. They are doing great work and I have to give these feminists credit, for standing in the gap and fighting.
I am familiar with Genevieve Gluck through graham Linehan. Was blown away by her research and reporting on WPATH, eunuchs, fetishists and the story of the trans flag. Will check out your links as well. The lunatics are truly running the asylum. Just when you think your head cannot possibly explode more...
None of us expected this!! We were all just trying to not make a big deal out of all of it because kids grow up. I did alot of the same things really thinking it’s all part of growing up, growing out of it and moving into adulthood. Nope. My daughter also says she wants to be a gay man?!? It’s so bananas! I’m like, first of all, how do think you’re a man, you’ve never lived as a man, nevermind a gay man! So she says she wants to be a guy but is attracted to guys therefore in newspeak she’s a gay man. In normal speak in otherwords she’s a straight woman. I’m ready to get out of the never ending parody.
Word! God forbid they’re plain basic straight girls. How cringe! Meanwhile if the ones like our daughters get through this unscathed they’ll be married with babies in their thirties.
I never said or acknowledged any such thing. BLM does not hold a monopoly on decrying “police brutality against black people.” You read that into what I said. I’m against brutality by people against people, period. Once the veil was lifted regarding gender ideology, it was also soon lifted regarding the truth of the BLM movement and democrat policies that have undermined the lives, liberties and pursuit of happiness among black people. if you really want to dive into it, there are a couple amazing documentaries on the subject. I invite you to watch them.
I used to think the same thing as you till I woke up. The same exact thing. It’s so much saner over here. Come join us. The water’s warm. Seriously, watch the films and then come back to discuss the issue. I’ll be right here.
Thank you all for the very intelligent "Keeping your kid safe" piece and savvy comments that follow. I am hoping to share these with persons who can influence kids, including teachers, grandparents, and religious education folks....
I attempted to start a post but just ended up with a substack post. Not sure how to make it specific to PITT. So I'm posting here;
SPIRITUAL WARFARE PRAYER
A Prayer for Protection
Almighty God,
Thank you for creating us. Thank you for preserving us and our families until this time.
We pray for your protection against spiritual and physical enemies. We pray for strength to resist the devil’s attacks. Help us put on your full armor and your breastplate of righteousness. Protect us when we sleep and when we wake.
Please remove all the traps that have been set before us that we cannot see. Please protect us from the eyes and snares of the evil one. Order our steps for us so we do not walk in the company of the wicked.
Protect our families from any worldly cultures that will result in them losing their souls. Protect us from all evil attention from strangers and from those close to us. Block anyone with bad intentions from coming into our lives.
Be a shining light unto our feet so we won’t walk in the thorns or slippery slopes. Protect us from all evil including those we bring upon ourselves.
Let us not wander away from your protection come what may. Give us the strength to walk with you. Guide us from dawn till dusk. Watch over us in everything we do. Be our companion wherever we go.
Thank you for the answered prayer, Lord. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
The Graceful Chapter (revised)
I say this every evening at 7pm for all the PITT families. The original version was in the first person but I've altered it to conform to a prayer for the community. Please join me if you feel moved to do so.
I'm on EST, but I don't think it matters if we all pray at the same time or not.
That's great advice and I don't think they're weird at all.
Teach them the word PERVERT and then show them real world examples of this...there are plenty. This used to be the norm for societies. We have now been moved, by the leftist radicals, to see these perversions as identities, individual truths, natural occurrences "like rain or sunshine" and love..."all love is equal love"
It may seem harsh to indoctrinate your kid with such raw information early on, but compare that to what all of you are going through now. I'd much rather scare the living dog crap out of my child (if I had one) by telling/showing them the horrors of transition, as well as the wants of the PERVERTED POSs behind the movement, to literally screw them 10 ways from Sunday.
Show them the freaks that are pushing this societal rot and tell them they are sick, weirdos, that deserve to die. The reason this has been allowed to reach this scale is the tolerance that was sold to the Kens and Karens of the world. The virtue signaling and lack of hard pushback, comes at the cost of children.
Tell your kids that freaks like the one in the article below, are working hard to take them away from you, so they can have sex with them and let their PERVERT friends do the same. Harsh...Yes. True...You bet your ass it is. Don't be afraid to show them the raw truth, in order to protect them from it. Now, it is the only weapon, you still have.
"A Minnesota lawmaker (a man) wants adult sexual attraction to children to be included as a “sexual orientation” under state law"
https://substack.com/browse/recommendations/post/117678950
my tips:
teach your kids about many different religions. this can be done from an early age. most kids enjoy stories of the greek gods and old and new testamate. throw in how islam started and my favorite Mormonism. better yet cults when its time to explain gender ideology its just another religion or cult.
my tip for keeping kids off smart phones is provide phone with google family link installed. tell google your child is 2yo so its not disabled when theyre 12. this app lets you block any other app. bonus : google maps tells u where kids phone is
Show your children before and after sex "change" operation pictures, especially the ones that went wrong. That's what I did and there's no way my children will be falling for this nonsense as a result. Of course we continuously talk about the plan to depopulate the planet and how the homosexual and trans agenda plays right into that. "They hate you, white Christian/Catholic man/woman, and they don't want you to reproduce" goes a long way.
I know this is way too politically incorrect to be a major point on this essay but I refuse to self censor. We need to be upping our game as evil NEVER sleeps.
Absolutely! Definitely investigate the school first. I would avoid all-girls Catholic schools at this point, too -- they are small, and it's too easy for small cells to get started and socially infect all the students.
It pains me to see this but you are right. The Catholic church has been infiltrated by homosexual communists and it is ruining the credibility of the one true church started by Jesus Christ. This hurts my soul so much because people will refuse to join the faith (scandalized, I believe its called) as it looks like a dumpster fire to those who don't understand what is happening. I pray God exposes every last one of the rats responsible for this ideological mess.
That has not exactly been my experience in the Church, but I do understand these fears. It seems that no matter where you look, institutions are not doing themselves any favors.
That is refreshing to hear! Have you read the permanent instruction of the alta vendita or any of Bella Dodd's work or Maurice Pinay's "A Plot Against the Church"?
I’d also add for girls especially, teach them how their body actually works. Do a Fertility Awareness course together. You don’t have to use it as a contraceptive, but my mum teaching me the sympto-thermal method as a teenager (who was the worlds biggest tomboy) gave me a whole new appreciation for my body and it’s power. It also helped to know how to accurately predict my period and also just how finely tuned your reproductive system is! It’s women’s 5th vital sign and knowing a FAM can also pin point any emerging problems and provide decent doctors with valuable records to begin diagnosing and treating them!
My 2 cents. Pay attention to curriculum & teachers. I told my boys not to go to the office or counselor at school under any circumstances without me present. The surveys these schools are doing are fishing expeditions & they pull children in when they have answers that are not clear. An example of a question on our school forms (are you trans? Yes, no or I AM NOT SURE). Those answers get kids pulled in & do NOT trust schools at this point. We have had MANY discussions. My boys can point out brainwashing a mile away now. I do a homeschool/college combo now. I actually have a friend that literally sold her house and moved out of State within 30 days of her daughter questioning her gender. She actually saved her.
Many people have said *physical activity* and *jobs,* and I strongly agree. Intense physical activity makes kids care more about what their bodies can do than what they look like. Work gives kids a sense of purpose and a reason to feel proud. Both exercise and work are powerful antidotes to self-hatred.
I would add: Teach your kids straight up that just people are grown-up and in positions of authority it does not make them right. The teachers can be quite stupid, unfortunately. Doctors are often mentally-out-to-lunch as well, or under weird pressures to lie. Mental health professionals, unfortunately, are often insane. Politicians lie as a matter of course. Teach them the truth about how messed up the world is, and how to analyze news stories, and how to think critically. This can not be started too young. These poor souls are growing up in clown world and the sooner they catch on the better.
Except for 5. The LGBTQ++ alphabet monster has to be killed tooth and claw. 1 in 4 gen z identify as sexually perverse. Those statistics defy genetics. The reproductive organs are for the purpose of heterosexual reproduction. That is a scientific reality. There is no returning to an earlier factory reset just enough to save your kid from the latest perverse attack. The monster must be hanged, drawn and quartered. It has to be destroyed from it's fangs to its claws and the scales on it's vile back. Then the carrion has to be placed on a pyre and burned into ashes.
Very well said Donna.
I would add that if you have young kids in school, ask about their curriculum materials. Many "DEI" mandates include teaching that gender is on a spectrum. Check out the books in your kid's kindergarten class about the gender spectrum. They are definitely out there in the bookstores books like Bye Bye Binary or Peyton's Pronoun Party. The ideology is everywhere. You should also be able to download your particular school district's curriculum information.
And for those parents who think, "Kids are born transgender; you can't make someone trans", you are wrong. Completely, 100% wrong. The numbers of girls identifying as trans has increased astronomically. Most have mental health co-morbidities. There is a social contagion or social influence factor at work here. I don't think any teen is immune.
https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2022-11/29231-nea-pronoun-guide-2pgr-aug-22.pdf
https://www.glsen.org/activity/pronoun-form-educators
https://mynbc15.com/news/nation-world/school-district-mulling-plan-to-teach-elementary-schoolers-about-pronouns-gender-identity
https://ncte.org/statement/guidelines-for-affirming-gender-diversity-through-ela-curriculum-and-pedagogy/
Good list! I would just add: Look at what's coming down the pike in your school district, and change schools/home school if necessary. If the tuition at the local Catholic/Christian/Prep academy scares you, ask about scholarships or student aid -- I can only speak about Catholic schools, but the ones around here offer thousands of dollars of merit scholarships to students based on an entrance exam, and they also offer need-based scholarships.
Also, I would discourage your kid from participating in the Gay-Straight Student Alliance. I am fine with my kid having any friend of any persuasion, but it's creepy to search for friends based on their sexual attraction. It's always seemed a little propagandistic to me.
I will add...our local Catholic school just spent $20k for the same SEL/CRT curriculum our public middle school uses. Don't just blindly trust private schools.
Absolutely! Definitely investigate the school first. I would avoid all-girls Catholic schools at this point, too -- they are small, and it's too easy for small cells to get started and socially infect all the students.
If your kids are in public school, I think it’s important to warn your kids about the fact that they’ll learn falsehoods in health. “They’re going to tell you in health class that everyone has a ‘gender identity’, and that biological sex is assigned. That’s not true. Nod and do what the teacher asks, but understand that it’s incorrect. Sometimes teachers teach kids things that are incorrect, and this is one of those times.”
I was a slacker with the phone and internet and paid the price. My daughter got an iPhone after fifth grade. I also encouraged her social justice activism--praised her for championing the underdog and running with the misfits, a few who turned to T like junkies to H. I took her to her first pride parade. Even dyed her hair rainbow stripes. Took her to our local BLM March. Said, “That’s great honey,” when she said she was pansexual, then lesbian, knowing it was bullshit but having. No. Idea. What. This. Really. Was. Until the school changed her name and pronouns and she started identifying as a gay man for fucking out loud. Then the scales fell from my eyes in great sheets, like a wrecking ball slammed into my bones. If I could go back and do it again I’d go waaaayyy back and be assigned Republican at birth.
I have a serious question for you, that may help those who've yet to reach the point, where the system is chewing on their child.
What allowed you to be taken in, duped, deceived (pick a term) by the virtue signaling propaganda? Looking back, what allowed you to hold tight to the obvious cognitive dissonance?
While I understand that on a societal level, we are now awash with all thing gay, lesbian, trans and soon pedophile...so it's become the norm. Look around your town at church marquis and you see that LGBTQ friendly/welcome, has become the new societal version of Gluten Free...
Was this public mindset capture, part of the easy acceptance?
How would you tell others (non-parents as well, because the societal rot affects us all) to avoid the ideological pitfalls you fell into?
Thanks for sharing your story.
It illustrates that ANY leftist ideology, is a death sentence in one way or another...it literally is the Poison being mixed in with the sweetened Kool aide of societal tolerance, acceptance and virtue signaling.
It's only veiled intent is death and destruction.
Hi Connecting! Thanks for the question. What allowed me to be taken in was the fact that I started from the Democrat virtues I'd been spoon-fed since birth. I thought my daughter was being exemplary when at a young age she championed the underdog. By the time she was in fourth or fifth grade, she'd grown so enamored of the LGBT scene that it was like those scenes from A Hard Day's Night, when the teenaged girls go wild over the Beatles.
https://youtu.be/Pbg8T9r1DiQ
This was my first indication that something was fishy. Why was the LGBT scene something to go nuts over like that? She literally swooned to the ground when she saw lesbians walking down the street. They were rock stars to her. But I didn't question it because she was only a kid. It was silly and cute back then. Also, I thought all Republicans were "deplorables," so there was no other option, and I didn't question it. This was around 2017. Trump had just been elected and I had full-fledged TDS.
Your gluten free analogy is brilliant.
I didn't know I was captured until I came out on the other side. What allowed me to lean into the cognitive dissonance was the fact that my daughter is not trans. Watching her go from a "lesbian" to a "gay man" was such an obvious and absurd identity pretzel she was twisting herself into that I couldn't go along, even though I tried. I hadn't left the left until months later, so I gave it a go with the pronouns and the nicknames, even though it was like snacking on bricks.
Also, for my kid, it was obvious that her gateway wasn't that she was autistic or a lesbian. It was the social justice and the woke-ism. She couldn't bear to identify as the "cisheteronormative patriarchy." And she needed to be more than just an ally. She needed to be IN the flag and not just wave it for others. After all, she was forbidden from speaking on a subject unless it was from "lived experience." Thus when she realized she was attracted to guys, trans-masc was born.
Even though she expressed interest in hormones, I was lucky. Because my daughter hates conflict and pain, and she's lazy. It was easy to take her binders and throw them away. She never mentioned a thing about it. She never begged me to take her to the gender clinic. I didn't have to fight that particular fight. For us it was the social identity.
It was the school. Lower Merion High School changed her name and pronouns without my knowledge during lockdown, when she was in ninth grade. I contacted her teachers, counselor, principal, superintendent and spoke at a school board meeting all to a resounding chorus of crickets. I found the school's secret-keeping policy. I saw the capture up close. Here is the policy:
https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1647456302/lmsdorg/kxhsgnxegsbm1uqt9zjl/Policy_AR259.pdf
From there it was a hop, skip and jump to BLM, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay, Matt Walsh etc. etc. (too many to name!) and that was it. I was out. Changed my party affiliation to Independent and lived through months of fractured dynamics at home, since I was now the only non-democrat and my son and husband worried I'd become some flat-earthing mental patient. Of course this fracturing only underscored what I was learning—that American Marxism, postmodern and queer theory sought to destroy not only our children but our families.
So that taught me where and how the war needed be fought.
What I would tell any other person going through this is to focus on not letting the Marxists win. Fight for your family cohesion and sanctity. I have kept my daughter close through all of this and we have had some blowouts but are closer than ever, and she shows signs of desistance! Also, I happen to have married a great guy, who has worked through this with me. We know what's important. We might vote differently and take different approaches to this whole shitshow, but we're on the same team: Team Miller.
And I would tell people to reject the concept that questioning trans ideology is transphobic. If the ideology holds water, people who believe should welcome robust debate. To shut down conversation is immature, cowardly and suspect. I told my daughter from the beginning that I was skeptical and made one rule: she could not run away from our questions. Skepticism does not equal transphobia in our house. Period. That said, we don't talk about it at all. Instead we focus on anything and everything else.
My daughter knows that her parents are the good guys, and that she is blessed to have a stable, loving parents. She knows that boundaries equal love, even though she begged me to affirm her less than a year ago. She trusts me—the family TERF. I love her more than anything and she loves me back.
Thanks again CTD! Really appreciate you reaching out.
Thank you for such an excellent explanation and answer. I truly appreciate your taking the time to unpack your situation and steps to navigate it. There's allot of wisdom and useful insight here.
I'm always intrigued by the realizations of those, who've "come out the other side".
The once oppressive, crazy, radical right, becomes the marker for relative sanity and the left is shown to be the ones pushing these destructive agendas.
Luckily, the radicals always take it a step too far and that's when those like you have the scales fall. It is inevitable, however, that they will learn from thee repeated mistakes and measure their activism more precisely.
I remember when the first discussion started happening, around dangers of CRT in schools and people scoffed, saying "well that' just happening in that's blue state/city...crazy dems...that would never happen at my religious/private/charter school". And when people started warning that CRT was a cover for sexualization and gender indoctrination, many parents scoffed again..."not in my town/school".
Of course years later, like cancer, the societal body is riddled with tumors. There is no organ or patch of skin that is safe from the spread...especially since the distribution method is systemic (media/gov) and the masses have been taught that embracing the cancer, is courageous, laudable and a badge of honor.
"Snacking on bricks" explains it all so well. I will use that in other comments and my posts.
My hat is off to you and other parents, that have fought hard and long, in an attempt to keep your families in tact.
I've said before, that I have nothing but respect for all of you, but that respect ha increased ten fold in today's world of perverts and deviants, that lurk around each corner and classroom.
Thank you again for the great insight and advise!!
It’s a pleasure! Always happy to discuss this. All best!
So I came across the following three videos of Allie Beth Stuckey's (I am a fan of hers), while deep diving into this trans-Chupacabra.
Her guest for all three pieces - Genevieve Gluck - I'd not heard of, nor had I heard of the site she co-founded named Reduxx.
All three of these are eye opening to say the least and intelligently make the connections, that I have clumsily alluded to here and other places. This "movement" has it's roots firmly in pedophilia, fetishism and porn, reaching back many decades.
The chaotic tips of the Trans-berg, that parents are rightly trying to zig zag their familiar Titanics away from, are the distraction, to just how and who is forming these society killers in the first place...past and present.
I hope these bring you and others here a bit deeper understanding of what this is, why it has gained so much systemic adulation and support and where it's headed, if not defeated.
I would also encourage those here to visit Reduxx and take a look at the the other part of this battlefield. They are doing great work and I have to give these feminists credit, for standing in the gap and fighting.
https://rumble.com/v1anhne-revealing-the-disturbing-roots-of-transgender-ideology-guest-genevieve-gluc.html
https://rumble.com/v1rec35-why-men-are-becoming-girls-guest-genevieve-gluck-ep-702.html
https://rumble.com/v1rm9fn-trans-woman-murders-two-real-women-goes-to-womens-prison-guest-genevieve-gl.html
I am familiar with Genevieve Gluck through graham Linehan. Was blown away by her research and reporting on WPATH, eunuchs, fetishists and the story of the trans flag. Will check out your links as well. The lunatics are truly running the asylum. Just when you think your head cannot possibly explode more...
None of us expected this!! We were all just trying to not make a big deal out of all of it because kids grow up. I did alot of the same things really thinking it’s all part of growing up, growing out of it and moving into adulthood. Nope. My daughter also says she wants to be a gay man?!? It’s so bananas! I’m like, first of all, how do think you’re a man, you’ve never lived as a man, nevermind a gay man! So she says she wants to be a guy but is attracted to guys therefore in newspeak she’s a gay man. In normal speak in otherwords she’s a straight woman. I’m ready to get out of the never ending parody.
Word! God forbid they’re plain basic straight girls. How cringe! Meanwhile if the ones like our daughters get through this unscathed they’ll be married with babies in their thirties.
Truth.
Boiled that frog low and sloooowww then all of a sudden...
BLAMMO!
Yep...it is ALL connected.
I'm so sorry to hear that. I'll keep you and your daughter in my prayers.
Thank you for your candor with this! Super helpful
Is that you Canadian cockroach? You don’t add up. Troll. Coward. Anonymous. Lmao.
I never said or acknowledged any such thing. BLM does not hold a monopoly on decrying “police brutality against black people.” You read that into what I said. I’m against brutality by people against people, period. Once the veil was lifted regarding gender ideology, it was also soon lifted regarding the truth of the BLM movement and democrat policies that have undermined the lives, liberties and pursuit of happiness among black people. if you really want to dive into it, there are a couple amazing documentaries on the subject. I invite you to watch them.
https://youtu.be/QVLj-zARCv8
And more specifically:
https://youtu.be/TNyPtEsbYOY
And if you don’t already know Thomas Sowell, see if your belief system can stand up to his insight, experience and intellect—
https://youtu.be/WK4M9iJrgto
Peace
I used to think the same thing as you till I woke up. The same exact thing. It’s so much saner over here. Come join us. The water’s warm. Seriously, watch the films and then come back to discuss the issue. I’ll be right here.
Great advise!
Thank you all for the very intelligent "Keeping your kid safe" piece and savvy comments that follow. I am hoping to share these with persons who can influence kids, including teachers, grandparents, and religious education folks....