Nice story time but not to go to sleep. I wonder what would happen if parents demand curricula before enroll their children, oh, I forgot, they can because its a public school, and how much a parent has to pay if the children do not attend school? What about enrolling the child in another neighborhood public school. maybe of a smaller town, oh I forgot, you cannot go to a different area school, you are subject to be there at least you can afford a private school. so tell me when people say "we do not have social classes in America" well yes we have. The education a child get in a public school is not the education a well off or rich child get. I know private schools are not under these kind of pressure to put "transgender affirmation programs" in their curricula, they have to or they lose the founds, so how that is freedom? Or democracy, a word that you hear enough, when parents do not have a say. So many things are wrong in the public school system, it is so obsolete, it does not respond to the challenges of this time on history, we are going backwards instead to teach children useful things to navigate the waters of these world, and the waste of time dedicated to confuse children, who needs that? No the children, for sure.
I'm very conservative / libertarian, but watching this ideology roll through the the private sector over the last few years has really shaken my confidence. Capitalism says there should be lots of competition among private schools, some of which will embrace wokeness and some of which will actively eschew it. Where is that? Capitalism says companies will put their profits and shareholders first by staying out of controversial issues that will turn off large percentages of potential or current customers. Yet that isn't what's happened.
To be honest, I am now willing to actively consider things that I would have lambasted as authoritarian or even near-fascist as recently as 5 years ago. Even though I don't like the term, you could say the march of gender ideology has "radicalized" me. If David French is correct and teenagers slicing off their private parts is a blessing of liberty... count me as an illiberal now.
I ask you to consider another perspective. There is a force in this world that works for evil, and people, institutions, governments, and economics can be co-opted. When that happens, you’ve added another element to the purely scientific or economic or social processes at work. You’ve thrown a monkey wrench into the gears.
So much pain, too many lies...a deadly game. Pretending. Make-believe. Nonsense. Such an evil cult. Mark my words - the truth is coming loud and clear. There will be push back, denial, then panic, then blame. Our children have been tricked. We will pick up the broken pieces and our stories will be told, and our voices will be heard. So much damage has been done. Recovery will be long and painful for all the ruined lives, just like any war, but this war was focused on innocent children. Many will have blood on their hands that will not wash off for the groomers, the therapists, the teachers, the counselors, the doctors and surgeons. Justice will be served.
And social workers. They gave my ex husband a stroke and then a subsequent brain haemorrhage when they groomed my daughter to run away from home with promises of accommodation and money and destroyed our sanity every time they called my daughter “he”. I wish they would be in jail
Thank you. He still has trouble moving his left arm but thanks to God he didn’t lose his ability to speak or communicate which was very important to him. My daughter hasn’t even contacted him in all this time to wish him well despite knowing what happened to him. She’s like bewitched.
I’m happy to hear he has his speech. My nephew suffered a terrible stroke and the left side of his brain died. The brain can do amazing things with therapy and he went from having a tracheotomy and a stomach peg to being able to walk. He still does not have movement in his right arm but the doctors say that should come back. He does not have his speech yet, though he seems to understand others.
This emotional trauma from having a child going trans can definitely cause health issues for us poor parents. I should feel blessed that I have only lost half of my hair.
And the cruelty of your daughter not showing any compassion or concern is even more painful. I am truly sorry. I hope your husband continues to improve.
I met a man at a professional conference recently. He teaches at a famously left-wing small liberal arts college, & told me (boastfully) that “48% of our students are LGBTQ+!” I replied “that’s not real” & rolled my eyes. He said, “what do you mean it’s not real?” Like I was some kind of thought criminal for doubting the sacred genders & boutique sexualities of his students. I tried to explain that these are political identities, not real sexual or gender IDs. I don’t think he got it, but all I could think of was Katie Herzog’s request for a non-binary Republican!!! Lolz. The best she could do was a Libertarian.
We have to remember that many youths are identifying as bisexual or queer in polls (as one example) because it's popular, and/or to appear supportive. In point of fact, in their private sexual lives they're plain ol' hetero. This could explain at least part of that high percentage.
I remember those bumper stickers from the 80s and 90s: "Straight but not narrow." I guess now that's not good enough. Better and more supportive to identify as not straight, I guess?
In the late 2000s, I graduated from a women’s college that’s famous for having a large non-straight population. It’s had this reputation since at least the 1970s. Campus polling data while I was there indicated around 20% of the student body responded that they were lesbians, bisexual, or transgender.
Mara, I think you & I might be alumnae of the same college. Yes, loads of women at my women’s college ID’d as lesbians, but it’s so funny: some of the biggest dykes on campus ended up marrying men, & some people I never read as lesbian are married now to women. Life is funny; women are weirdos. One of my best friends now was 💯 a gold star lesbo for 30+ years & is now married to a man:
Well, to be fair it does make sense for lesbians to favor women' s colleges. After all, many if not most students want to find love. I would have guessed the number to be higher than 20%
I’m saying that if the place with a decades-long reputation for a large lesbian/bi population only had about 20% unstraight students, it’s super-ridiculous for this guy to claim his school had 48%.
When my office mates in Massachusetts wanted to put Rainbow paraphernalia in our waiting room I objected on the basis you articulated in this essay. That lead to an inquisition about my heresy during which I objected to LGBTQ Orthodoxy. One of the fine social worker ladies reported me to the licensure board on the basis of that wrongthink conversation only. Thankfully the board honored my right to free speech.
You are so brave. I voiced my opinion about school playground equipment being painted in rainbow colors. The idea was to show inclusivity. I didn’t that was appropriate for preschool aged kids. It was clearly virtue signaling to prospective parents. They did it anyway.
I used to love the Rainbow, the sign of God’s covenant with us, pets crossed the rainbow bridge and it was comforting. But now it stands for the sick cult that is destroying families and children’s bodies.
Part of me wants to say “Let the sickos have it” but part of me wants to say “no! Let’s reclaim the rainbow for what it has always meant!” Now they’re taking the Gingerbread “Person.”
The word Kind doesn’t mean Kind anymore, it means “Treat me special, go along with the cult, OR ELSE!”
I see signs and slogans now that say "be kind," etc., and I read it as a veiled threat and it comes across as menacing now. Yet another word that has taken on a different tone because of the Bizarro World we now live in.
This made me cringe because it's so accurate, in such a sinister way. Lost innocence and youth. The new generation of teachers are teaching this insanity in schools, starting in Kindergarten, where I live! Woke, Koolaid-mustached teachers. So tragic. My daughter has been estranged, mostly for 1 year now. She goes on and off with it. She thinks that her Mom is a monster and that her Dad needs to talk some sense into her. Her Dad tells her we're on the same page, but her warped mind makes up it's own version of reality. We also just learned that she thinks being "trans" is the same as being "queer". So, she drinks the Koolaid.
Not all teachers are doing this. I’m retired now, but when this nonsense was going on, I just shut up and said nothing to my young colleagues who were all over this. I did not engage the students on the topic either. I suspect there are many teachers like me who are too afraid to dissent from this extreme orthodoxy.
I appreciate you, but the older teachers are intimidated and retiring early and these younger ones are full of righteous energy. It’s a scary combination.
I know of two teachers who retired early because they were tired of being forced to lie to parents and support this harm of children. There are probably many more- tough position to be in!
I think you're onto something but you're not quite there yet. My daughter ,22yrs, estranged for 2 yrs now, started out as non-binary/gender queer with trans thrown in there for some good measure, plus a good dose of pronoun extremism. I really think the underlying cause has been "queer theory" all along. If you can remove yourself from your own misery, you can start to see that it is/was the "queer theorists" who have been orchestrating from behind the curtain. The "trans" narrative is appealing to teens who do everything in their power to break from family and to look edgy and cool in social circles. Trans is a fad....just like goth or emo....and some emotionally vulnerable young people got really hurt. The tide is changing on "trans", but Queer Theory is the heart of the movement and it is starting to be revealed.
Queer theory is all about normalizing pedophila and sexualizing kids to make them comfortable with adults being indecent, half naked and introducing porn to them. The founders of these "theories" were either pedos themselves or some are women who are trying to make pedophiles into victims because they are looked at as deviant. They try to say that kids are sexual because of some behaviors such as taking off clothes, sitting on people's laps as young children and that it is not traumatic because some kids want to have a sexual relationship with an adult. NAMBA tried to do this and normalize pedophila during the beginning of the gay rights movement but it got shut down because of the backlash from the community, now the q+ is trying to do the same thing by calling them MAPS and blurring the line of what minors are able to consent to. If they are able to consent to irreversible medical intervention then sexual relationships with adults is a small thing. Pedophila is the connection between all of these theories and the ideology. Making women the enemy and the men weak leaving the kids defenseless. The transexual men are allowed to threaten women and the women in the community are no different than handmaid's that obey and serve the men. It's really insane how seemingly normal people have bought into the lie and even though there's proof of rampant child abuse and porn, it's being brushed under the rug and anyone who calls it out is the enemy.
I believe this as well, but it’s difficult to even have my husband listen to me talk about this. I think this possibility is so disturbing to people that they figuratively put their fingers in their ears and say “lalalalala.” Not sure the answer.
I have been saying for a while now, the ultimate goal of all of this is: the acceptance of and legalization of sex with children. As you said, if children are being empowered to choose their sex --- which obviously is going to impact their future sexual lives -- is it such a stretch to begin to assert they have the right to embrace sex and to experience pleasure? There are already people choosing to identify as people of other ages. It is all related.
So, is "queer theory" the same ideas that John Money came up with? If so, they have no business teaching such perverted, pedopholic ideas to kids! I learned that he coined the phrase, "gender ideology"- is that the same thing? I believe one can think they're "trans" without being homosexual, right?
John Money wanted to prove his nature vs. nurture theory by using "gender" and gender stereotyping on children. He was a perverted monster....a pedophile IMHO. Queer Theory is about "queering" the norm. One doesn't have to be LGB to be "queer" although some are. Most are straight and caught up in "the movement". It's all of these ideologies that converge together to give us "intersectionality". The idea is to upset/destruct the norms of a society so that it can be rebuilt/created into a new idea of "utopia". Look at BLM (of course black lives matter!)....the underlying theory of it is Critical Race Theory....which fits under the umbrella of Intersectionality. All of the strange language comes out of college academia. Just try and read Judith Butler (who BTW, just published another non$ensical gender book $$$).
Oh I can relate to this completely since my daughter cut off contact with the whole family 8 months ago and took refuge in institutions who are doing nothing but affirm her delusion.
She has not even contacted us to get her child trust fund documents. I don’t even think she wants to transition medically. I think deep down she’s relieved that she hasn’t got her money yet. Something in the brain must be telling her to slow down.
Wow! Nicely said.
Sad but true.
Having read way too many of those mouse/cookie books, congratulations for nailing the format. 🙂
Awful.. brutally honest and just awful. Thank you for sharing this.
Nice story time but not to go to sleep. I wonder what would happen if parents demand curricula before enroll their children, oh, I forgot, they can because its a public school, and how much a parent has to pay if the children do not attend school? What about enrolling the child in another neighborhood public school. maybe of a smaller town, oh I forgot, you cannot go to a different area school, you are subject to be there at least you can afford a private school. so tell me when people say "we do not have social classes in America" well yes we have. The education a child get in a public school is not the education a well off or rich child get. I know private schools are not under these kind of pressure to put "transgender affirmation programs" in their curricula, they have to or they lose the founds, so how that is freedom? Or democracy, a word that you hear enough, when parents do not have a say. So many things are wrong in the public school system, it is so obsolete, it does not respond to the challenges of this time on history, we are going backwards instead to teach children useful things to navigate the waters of these world, and the waste of time dedicated to confuse children, who needs that? No the children, for sure.
I'm very conservative / libertarian, but watching this ideology roll through the the private sector over the last few years has really shaken my confidence. Capitalism says there should be lots of competition among private schools, some of which will embrace wokeness and some of which will actively eschew it. Where is that? Capitalism says companies will put their profits and shareholders first by staying out of controversial issues that will turn off large percentages of potential or current customers. Yet that isn't what's happened.
To be honest, I am now willing to actively consider things that I would have lambasted as authoritarian or even near-fascist as recently as 5 years ago. Even though I don't like the term, you could say the march of gender ideology has "radicalized" me. If David French is correct and teenagers slicing off their private parts is a blessing of liberty... count me as an illiberal now.
Btw, I appreciate the honesty and insight of this question!
I ask you to consider another perspective. There is a force in this world that works for evil, and people, institutions, governments, and economics can be co-opted. When that happens, you’ve added another element to the purely scientific or economic or social processes at work. You’ve thrown a monkey wrench into the gears.
So much pain, too many lies...a deadly game. Pretending. Make-believe. Nonsense. Such an evil cult. Mark my words - the truth is coming loud and clear. There will be push back, denial, then panic, then blame. Our children have been tricked. We will pick up the broken pieces and our stories will be told, and our voices will be heard. So much damage has been done. Recovery will be long and painful for all the ruined lives, just like any war, but this war was focused on innocent children. Many will have blood on their hands that will not wash off for the groomers, the therapists, the teachers, the counselors, the doctors and surgeons. Justice will be served.
I hope you’re right. Surely truth must win out. But the damage is real, extensive and severe. God help us all.
And social workers. They gave my ex husband a stroke and then a subsequent brain haemorrhage when they groomed my daughter to run away from home with promises of accommodation and money and destroyed our sanity every time they called my daughter “he”. I wish they would be in jail
How is your husband doing now? This is so sad.
Thank you. He still has trouble moving his left arm but thanks to God he didn’t lose his ability to speak or communicate which was very important to him. My daughter hasn’t even contacted him in all this time to wish him well despite knowing what happened to him. She’s like bewitched.
I’m happy to hear he has his speech. My nephew suffered a terrible stroke and the left side of his brain died. The brain can do amazing things with therapy and he went from having a tracheotomy and a stomach peg to being able to walk. He still does not have movement in his right arm but the doctors say that should come back. He does not have his speech yet, though he seems to understand others.
This emotional trauma from having a child going trans can definitely cause health issues for us poor parents. I should feel blessed that I have only lost half of my hair.
And the cruelty of your daughter not showing any compassion or concern is even more painful. I am truly sorry. I hope your husband continues to improve.
I hope sincerely that your nephew improves soon 😃
We are sending many prayers!
Thank you. I really appreciate it 💕
Another shockingly truthful testimony to this evil cult.
Yes I hope so! Yesterday is already too late! We should encourage everyone to read the Cass Review and WPATH files!
Give a mouse a cookie. I loved that story. Thanks for using that storytelling pattern to make an important point.
I met a man at a professional conference recently. He teaches at a famously left-wing small liberal arts college, & told me (boastfully) that “48% of our students are LGBTQ+!” I replied “that’s not real” & rolled my eyes. He said, “what do you mean it’s not real?” Like I was some kind of thought criminal for doubting the sacred genders & boutique sexualities of his students. I tried to explain that these are political identities, not real sexual or gender IDs. I don’t think he got it, but all I could think of was Katie Herzog’s request for a non-binary Republican!!! Lolz. The best she could do was a Libertarian.
We have to remember that many youths are identifying as bisexual or queer in polls (as one example) because it's popular, and/or to appear supportive. In point of fact, in their private sexual lives they're plain ol' hetero. This could explain at least part of that high percentage.
Absolutely. Many of those who say they’re something other than heterosexual have not yet had any sexual experience (with another person).
I remember those bumper stickers from the 80s and 90s: "Straight but not narrow." I guess now that's not good enough. Better and more supportive to identify as not straight, I guess?
In the late 2000s, I graduated from a women’s college that’s famous for having a large non-straight population. It’s had this reputation since at least the 1970s. Campus polling data while I was there indicated around 20% of the student body responded that they were lesbians, bisexual, or transgender.
Mara, I think you & I might be alumnae of the same college. Yes, loads of women at my women’s college ID’d as lesbians, but it’s so funny: some of the biggest dykes on campus ended up marrying men, & some people I never read as lesbian are married now to women. Life is funny; women are weirdos. One of my best friends now was 💯 a gold star lesbo for 30+ years & is now married to a man:
Well, to be fair it does make sense for lesbians to favor women' s colleges. After all, many if not most students want to find love. I would have guessed the number to be higher than 20%
I’m saying that if the place with a decades-long reputation for a large lesbian/bi population only had about 20% unstraight students, it’s super-ridiculous for this guy to claim his school had 48%.
Makes perfect sense. Sorry, I misinterpreted your original comment.
I find the same everywhere I go. People seem to just get it, or they don’t. It’s exhausting
In the immortal words of Orwell: "there are some ideas so absurd that only an academic can believe them."
He is stupid for believing it's "real", and even stupider for thinking it's something fabulous to boast about.
When my office mates in Massachusetts wanted to put Rainbow paraphernalia in our waiting room I objected on the basis you articulated in this essay. That lead to an inquisition about my heresy during which I objected to LGBTQ Orthodoxy. One of the fine social worker ladies reported me to the licensure board on the basis of that wrongthink conversation only. Thankfully the board honored my right to free speech.
You are so brave. I voiced my opinion about school playground equipment being painted in rainbow colors. The idea was to show inclusivity. I didn’t that was appropriate for preschool aged kids. It was clearly virtue signaling to prospective parents. They did it anyway.
I used to love the Rainbow, the sign of God’s covenant with us, pets crossed the rainbow bridge and it was comforting. But now it stands for the sick cult that is destroying families and children’s bodies.
Part of me wants to say “Let the sickos have it” but part of me wants to say “no! Let’s reclaim the rainbow for what it has always meant!” Now they’re taking the Gingerbread “Person.”
The word Kind doesn’t mean Kind anymore, it means “Treat me special, go along with the cult, OR ELSE!”
Sorry for the rant in a reply.
I see signs and slogans now that say "be kind," etc., and I read it as a veiled threat and it comes across as menacing now. Yet another word that has taken on a different tone because of the Bizarro World we now live in.
That’s great news. More of us need to stand up to the cult tactics & paraphernalia. Congratulations!
This made me cringe because it's so accurate, in such a sinister way. Lost innocence and youth. The new generation of teachers are teaching this insanity in schools, starting in Kindergarten, where I live! Woke, Koolaid-mustached teachers. So tragic. My daughter has been estranged, mostly for 1 year now. She goes on and off with it. She thinks that her Mom is a monster and that her Dad needs to talk some sense into her. Her Dad tells her we're on the same page, but her warped mind makes up it's own version of reality. We also just learned that she thinks being "trans" is the same as being "queer". So, she drinks the Koolaid.
Not all teachers are doing this. I’m retired now, but when this nonsense was going on, I just shut up and said nothing to my young colleagues who were all over this. I did not engage the students on the topic either. I suspect there are many teachers like me who are too afraid to dissent from this extreme orthodoxy.
I appreciate you, but the older teachers are intimidated and retiring early and these younger ones are full of righteous energy. It’s a scary combination.
I know of two teachers who retired early because they were tired of being forced to lie to parents and support this harm of children. There are probably many more- tough position to be in!
I think you're onto something but you're not quite there yet. My daughter ,22yrs, estranged for 2 yrs now, started out as non-binary/gender queer with trans thrown in there for some good measure, plus a good dose of pronoun extremism. I really think the underlying cause has been "queer theory" all along. If you can remove yourself from your own misery, you can start to see that it is/was the "queer theorists" who have been orchestrating from behind the curtain. The "trans" narrative is appealing to teens who do everything in their power to break from family and to look edgy and cool in social circles. Trans is a fad....just like goth or emo....and some emotionally vulnerable young people got really hurt. The tide is changing on "trans", but Queer Theory is the heart of the movement and it is starting to be revealed.
Queer theory is all about normalizing pedophila and sexualizing kids to make them comfortable with adults being indecent, half naked and introducing porn to them. The founders of these "theories" were either pedos themselves or some are women who are trying to make pedophiles into victims because they are looked at as deviant. They try to say that kids are sexual because of some behaviors such as taking off clothes, sitting on people's laps as young children and that it is not traumatic because some kids want to have a sexual relationship with an adult. NAMBA tried to do this and normalize pedophila during the beginning of the gay rights movement but it got shut down because of the backlash from the community, now the q+ is trying to do the same thing by calling them MAPS and blurring the line of what minors are able to consent to. If they are able to consent to irreversible medical intervention then sexual relationships with adults is a small thing. Pedophila is the connection between all of these theories and the ideology. Making women the enemy and the men weak leaving the kids defenseless. The transexual men are allowed to threaten women and the women in the community are no different than handmaid's that obey and serve the men. It's really insane how seemingly normal people have bought into the lie and even though there's proof of rampant child abuse and porn, it's being brushed under the rug and anyone who calls it out is the enemy.
I believe this as well, but it’s difficult to even have my husband listen to me talk about this. I think this possibility is so disturbing to people that they figuratively put their fingers in their ears and say “lalalalala.” Not sure the answer.
I have been saying for a while now, the ultimate goal of all of this is: the acceptance of and legalization of sex with children. As you said, if children are being empowered to choose their sex --- which obviously is going to impact their future sexual lives -- is it such a stretch to begin to assert they have the right to embrace sex and to experience pleasure? There are already people choosing to identify as people of other ages. It is all related.
So, is "queer theory" the same ideas that John Money came up with? If so, they have no business teaching such perverted, pedopholic ideas to kids! I learned that he coined the phrase, "gender ideology"- is that the same thing? I believe one can think they're "trans" without being homosexual, right?
John Money is part of the whole story which ultimately goes back to postmodern theorists.
I think Queer theory is the Marxist evolution of John money’s idea that trans is normal
John Money wanted to prove his nature vs. nurture theory by using "gender" and gender stereotyping on children. He was a perverted monster....a pedophile IMHO. Queer Theory is about "queering" the norm. One doesn't have to be LGB to be "queer" although some are. Most are straight and caught up in "the movement". It's all of these ideologies that converge together to give us "intersectionality". The idea is to upset/destruct the norms of a society so that it can be rebuilt/created into a new idea of "utopia". Look at BLM (of course black lives matter!)....the underlying theory of it is Critical Race Theory....which fits under the umbrella of Intersectionality. All of the strange language comes out of college academia. Just try and read Judith Butler (who BTW, just published another non$ensical gender book $$$).
Thank you for the clarification!
Brilliant!
Can you do some more for the series, please? Maybe , "If you give an AGP a skirt" or "If you give Dylan a pronoun".
Love the Mouse / Cookie parody! For thus subject, one alternated between laughing and crying, and this is a good day to laugh.
Oh I can relate to this completely since my daughter cut off contact with the whole family 8 months ago and took refuge in institutions who are doing nothing but affirm her delusion.
She has not even contacted us to get her child trust fund documents. I don’t even think she wants to transition medically. I think deep down she’s relieved that she hasn’t got her money yet. Something in the brain must be telling her to slow down.
We as parents can relate to this story about the craziness of “gender” being something chosen in a moment of high anxiety.
I have been thrown out. My girl is now a grown “man” aged 25. No contact. I dread to think what is going through her mind. Is she lost?
Even if she is, there is hope she will find herself. She will need you more than ever if that happens. My heart and prayers go out to you.
Fabulous!