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EyesOpen's avatar

I'm so sorry for your loss. It is awful that, "The few friends he had took to social media to blame us for his death". Those friends weren't friends and have no idea the reality of the situation or your relationship.

You said, "These kids become convinced they will kill themselves if they don’t transition because that is what they are taught by doctors and social media...Blackmailing parents into accepting the gender affirmation model is causing tremendous psychological harm to the parents and makes it hard for their kids to move on after they realize the false promise of transitioning. " Doctors (and everyone else) need to stop saying this! I can't believe the field of medicine has degraded itself to such a tactic as emotional blackmail to push a medicalized pathway.

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Bob Frank's avatar

> The suicide trope of “dead son or alive daughter” is tragically misguided and a criminal lie

Properly understood, it's a very specific type of crime. Telling someone that a third party will be killed if your demands for money and/or ideological actions are not fulfilled is hostage-taking. The appropriate response to hostage-taking involves a SWAT team.

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