Horrifying. We are all living a nightmare. Truth is stranger than fiction indeed but this trans-ideology is beyond shocking. The layers are so deep, the lies are so manipulative, the destruction is so cruel.
I completely relate to what the author of this piece is saying. I also wanted to be a boy because they had so much freedom, got to wear pants, etc. But in the 50s and 60s no parent would jump to "born in the wrong body" or "birth defect." I will never understand why they are so quick to transition rather than helping them come to terms with their body and let them know that they don't have to be bound by gender stereotypes to be happy in this world.
Like Kai Shappley, Jackie Green, Jazz Jennings and others, this boy has been manipulated to hate and reject his healthy body, and has actually been experimented upon with toxic chemicals (and likely scalpels) simply because he does not conform to stereotypes. It is destructive and regressive. For the adults orchestrating this and putting these children in harm's way, it is a manifestation of ignorance, arrogance and narrow-mindedness at best, and a self-centered, all-consuming God-complex at worst.
Besides the child with mental health issues, look to the parent. Is it their real concern or just seeking their own affirmation for "raising" a trans child.
Not Just a Phase: Raising a Transgender Kid. In the very first part of the essay, the author said she remembers watching a documentary a few years ago. Click on the word "documentary" and it'll take you there.
Thanks for this essay. It's so fascinating to me that, just as the pediatric establishment imported a rather extreme and last-ditch effort to "cure" so-called "gender identity disorder" in adults to impose it on kids, so the trans movement has also imported so many of the manipulative lies these adults tell for transhausen moms to repeat. First, the "birth defect" explanation, which I've seen so many AGPs use to explain why and how they can be women--just with a "birth defect." Then the suicide threat.
I don't believe any EIGHT YEAR OLD child is suicidal on his own, without someone planting that idea in his head. How evil and manipulative to tell children that they will surely kill themselves if they don't get the cosmetic deformations they demand.
How is anyone still falling for this insanity? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
The eight year old has more common sense and instinct for self-preservation than the parents. He doesn't want surgeries! He doesn't want shots! Of course he doesn't, why would he?
Step one: indoctrinate the parents, who are status conscious and incapable of thinking for themselves.
Step two: transmit the indoctrination to the son, and voila, another mutilated child.
Who told him he wants breasts in the first place?
Hide your sons and daughters. The ghouls are coming for them.
If that story is true about the nail clippers or whatever - *if* - then Josie's mother is criminally delulu. If your son wants to cut off his penis, you don't call the gender doctor - you call the cops, because someone's molesting your kid!!
I would love to see an essay or a book about the role that parents themselves are playing in this transgender ideology. There does seem to be a lot of fear of their children, especially when they get to puberty. This may come from the current generation of adults who are reacting to the restrictions they were raised under. Also, that children who have problems such as autism or in general do not feel comfortable in their school setting, are likely to feel suicidal and the parent will do anything to neutralize that, including supporting them in changing their sex.
I read about factitious disorder which can be used to get attention as a hurt child or caregiver. Hollywood parents are a good examples since they often support transsexuality to get attention.
The most effective incentive for parents’ decision to “affirm” their kid as trans is the myth that their child will commit suicide if not allowed to transition. It’s a total lie (suicide rates go way up AFTER transition, not before) but it is the most effective weapon trans activists use against parents. IT IS A LIE.
A very serious side effect is that moms like this often hold power over the rest of us parents - as they are judges who rule for affirming parents in divorce proceedings, and lawmakers at the federal, state, and local levels. I am not the first one to observe this - I am trying to think of who it was who first brought this to my attention... but if you drill down there is normally a Factitious Disorder mother behind a bad decision or policy. Or else a parent who was manipulated into going along with transing her kid - and if they don't double down on what they've done by promoting the harm to everybody else then they have to admit they've done the worst thing ever to their own child.
Most of the girls who trans out during high school can therefore not be protected. And, trying to help your kid be happy in his/her skin is "conversion therapy".
So many parents of kids born around the turn of the 21st century know other parents who have transed their own kids. Of course they're going to want to normalize this deeply disordered way of thinking about children and young people.
I used to think that the American impulse to "reach for a pharmaceutical to resolve a normal human experience" was exaggerated. Then came the trans. It's disgusting how dependent on technology, pharmaceuticals, and so-called "experts" parents of my generation have allowed childhood to become. Read both of Abigail Shrier's books, Bad Therapy and Irreversible Damage. Brilliant writer, brilliant woman, brilliant analyst of what ails America.
Helen Joyce has observed in organizations where see trans ideology will find a parent who has 'transed' child in leadership. Joyce says these are the Japanese soldiers fighting on islands after WW2. They will have to admit they harmed their own child and will not. Chilling.
Canadian PM Mark Carney. Activist KC Jolyon Maugham. Cynthia Nixon. Annette Benning and Warren Beatty. Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest. And now, Robert DeNiro (although his son seems to have been grown). Charlize Theron. Many have also become prominent activists--a difficult Progress Pride flag pole to climb down from.
I hate when people try to compare any kind of questioning of a trans identity in a medical setting to gay conversion therapy. Conversion therapy sends the message that you are not okay as you are and need to be changed. So does trans ideology. Questioning it is suggesting that you are alright as you are. And "affirm only" should never be a model. Harmful beliefs should not be affirmed as true. Just how I said in this example if a child says they hate their body and think its wrong and deformed, it is abusive to tell them that they're right
Affirming young children is abuse. (Affirming teens might be, in some cases, an act despair after the parents were abused and manipulated by their health care provider). Everything else aside, an average healthy 8 year old doesn't think about penises and vaginas, their own or of others. I know that documentary, and it is disturbing and sick.
Well, I don't like that solution either. The abuse can happen in many ways -- this is just one of them, and presently has the endorsement of the zeitgeist.
Many of us have watched the documentary featuring Josie and his mother, however this writer's transcription of the dialog between them really focusses attention on the words between them, and her well-informed analysis of the conversation, reveals much more than viewing the documentary does.
Since Josie's mother made their lives public, it will be interesting to follow their progress. Perhaps the writer of this essay might provide a follow-up. I hope Josie can see more options than the course his mother is manipulating him toward.
The documentary is old he's an adult now. He is still identifying as a transgender woman and an article said he "fully transitioned" which is somewhat vague, it suggests hormones as well as surgery but I can't confirm that. He has medically transitioned. Although that doesn't show if he is truly happy with this decision or not, it is very hard to question something you believed about yourself since you were very young. He may not consider detransition as an option even if he didn't want this anymore, but I'm not sure if that's the case for him. Another comment said he started medically transitioning as a child with hormones
Horrifying. We are all living a nightmare. Truth is stranger than fiction indeed but this trans-ideology is beyond shocking. The layers are so deep, the lies are so manipulative, the destruction is so cruel.
I completely relate to what the author of this piece is saying. I also wanted to be a boy because they had so much freedom, got to wear pants, etc. But in the 50s and 60s no parent would jump to "born in the wrong body" or "birth defect." I will never understand why they are so quick to transition rather than helping them come to terms with their body and let them know that they don't have to be bound by gender stereotypes to be happy in this world.
Like Kai Shappley, Jackie Green, Jazz Jennings and others, this boy has been manipulated to hate and reject his healthy body, and has actually been experimented upon with toxic chemicals (and likely scalpels) simply because he does not conform to stereotypes. It is destructive and regressive. For the adults orchestrating this and putting these children in harm's way, it is a manifestation of ignorance, arrogance and narrow-mindedness at best, and a self-centered, all-consuming God-complex at worst.
This is disgusting, evil child abuse and should be illegal.
I think Josie does porn now
Besides the child with mental health issues, look to the parent. Is it their real concern or just seeking their own affirmation for "raising" a trans child.
What was the documentary called? I would like to watch it.
Not Just a Phase: Raising a Transgender Kid. In the very first part of the essay, the author said she remembers watching a documentary a few years ago. Click on the word "documentary" and it'll take you there.
This is child abuse. It should be treated the same as locking your child in a cage and making him think he’s a dog.
Thanks for this essay. It's so fascinating to me that, just as the pediatric establishment imported a rather extreme and last-ditch effort to "cure" so-called "gender identity disorder" in adults to impose it on kids, so the trans movement has also imported so many of the manipulative lies these adults tell for transhausen moms to repeat. First, the "birth defect" explanation, which I've seen so many AGPs use to explain why and how they can be women--just with a "birth defect." Then the suicide threat.
I don't believe any EIGHT YEAR OLD child is suicidal on his own, without someone planting that idea in his head. How evil and manipulative to tell children that they will surely kill themselves if they don't get the cosmetic deformations they demand.
How is anyone still falling for this insanity? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
The eight year old has more common sense and instinct for self-preservation than the parents. He doesn't want surgeries! He doesn't want shots! Of course he doesn't, why would he?
Step one: indoctrinate the parents, who are status conscious and incapable of thinking for themselves.
Step two: transmit the indoctrination to the son, and voila, another mutilated child.
Who told him he wants breasts in the first place?
Hide your sons and daughters. The ghouls are coming for them.
If that story is true about the nail clippers or whatever - *if* - then Josie's mother is criminally delulu. If your son wants to cut off his penis, you don't call the gender doctor - you call the cops, because someone's molesting your kid!!
exactly
I would love to see an essay or a book about the role that parents themselves are playing in this transgender ideology. There does seem to be a lot of fear of their children, especially when they get to puberty. This may come from the current generation of adults who are reacting to the restrictions they were raised under. Also, that children who have problems such as autism or in general do not feel comfortable in their school setting, are likely to feel suicidal and the parent will do anything to neutralize that, including supporting them in changing their sex.
I read about factitious disorder which can be used to get attention as a hurt child or caregiver. Hollywood parents are a good examples since they often support transsexuality to get attention.
The most effective incentive for parents’ decision to “affirm” their kid as trans is the myth that their child will commit suicide if not allowed to transition. It’s a total lie (suicide rates go way up AFTER transition, not before) but it is the most effective weapon trans activists use against parents. IT IS A LIE.
Abuse.... Lies, no matter how well intentioned, are still lies.
Reading these stories is especially hard when framed as compassionate, heroic parents.
But does lead me to believe have a serious parent problem over a trans kid one.
I agree. We have a very serious parent problem.
A very serious side effect is that moms like this often hold power over the rest of us parents - as they are judges who rule for affirming parents in divorce proceedings, and lawmakers at the federal, state, and local levels. I am not the first one to observe this - I am trying to think of who it was who first brought this to my attention... but if you drill down there is normally a Factitious Disorder mother behind a bad decision or policy. Or else a parent who was manipulated into going along with transing her kid - and if they don't double down on what they've done by promoting the harm to everybody else then they have to admit they've done the worst thing ever to their own child.
Most of the girls who trans out during high school can therefore not be protected. And, trying to help your kid be happy in his/her skin is "conversion therapy".
So many parents of kids born around the turn of the 21st century know other parents who have transed their own kids. Of course they're going to want to normalize this deeply disordered way of thinking about children and young people.
I used to think that the American impulse to "reach for a pharmaceutical to resolve a normal human experience" was exaggerated. Then came the trans. It's disgusting how dependent on technology, pharmaceuticals, and so-called "experts" parents of my generation have allowed childhood to become. Read both of Abigail Shrier's books, Bad Therapy and Irreversible Damage. Brilliant writer, brilliant woman, brilliant analyst of what ails America.
yup - I like her Truth Fairy Substack as well.
"Of course they're going to want to normalize this deeply disordered way of thinking about children and young people." Correct!
And, then there is the fact that there is soooo much money in the Frankenstein Industrial Complex.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address
Helen Joyce has observed in organizations where see trans ideology will find a parent who has 'transed' child in leadership. Joyce says these are the Japanese soldiers fighting on islands after WW2. They will have to admit they harmed their own child and will not. Chilling.
Yes - Helen Joyce. Thank you. She's right.
Canadian PM Mark Carney. Activist KC Jolyon Maugham. Cynthia Nixon. Annette Benning and Warren Beatty. Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest. And now, Robert DeNiro (although his son seems to have been grown). Charlize Theron. Many have also become prominent activists--a difficult Progress Pride flag pole to climb down from.
I hate when people try to compare any kind of questioning of a trans identity in a medical setting to gay conversion therapy. Conversion therapy sends the message that you are not okay as you are and need to be changed. So does trans ideology. Questioning it is suggesting that you are alright as you are. And "affirm only" should never be a model. Harmful beliefs should not be affirmed as true. Just how I said in this example if a child says they hate their body and think its wrong and deformed, it is abusive to tell them that they're right
Affirming young children is abuse. (Affirming teens might be, in some cases, an act despair after the parents were abused and manipulated by their health care provider). Everything else aside, an average healthy 8 year old doesn't think about penises and vaginas, their own or of others. I know that documentary, and it is disturbing and sick.
What is the name of the documentary?
https://youtu.be/qV8b8hsQups?feature=shared
Not just a phase: raising a transgender kid
Female abuse, like female evil, may be more subtle than male abuse or wickedness. But it's quite horrific too.
Something is wrong with this mother. Seriously wrong.
Hate to think that we have to check out parents to see if they should be raising children.
Well, I don't like that solution either. The abuse can happen in many ways -- this is just one of them, and presently has the endorsement of the zeitgeist.
Thank you for writing this essay. Have you written separately about your desistance?
Yes, you can read my other articles here
https://www.pittparents.com/p/breaking-free-my-journey-through?utm_campaign=post
https://www.pittparents.com/p/the-cult-of-gender-ideology-psychological
Many of us have watched the documentary featuring Josie and his mother, however this writer's transcription of the dialog between them really focusses attention on the words between them, and her well-informed analysis of the conversation, reveals much more than viewing the documentary does.
Since Josie's mother made their lives public, it will be interesting to follow their progress. Perhaps the writer of this essay might provide a follow-up. I hope Josie can see more options than the course his mother is manipulating him toward.
The documentary is old he's an adult now. He is still identifying as a transgender woman and an article said he "fully transitioned" which is somewhat vague, it suggests hormones as well as surgery but I can't confirm that. He has medically transitioned. Although that doesn't show if he is truly happy with this decision or not, it is very hard to question something you believed about yourself since you were very young. He may not consider detransition as an option even if he didn't want this anymore, but I'm not sure if that's the case for him. Another comment said he started medically transitioning as a child with hormones
Horrifying.