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Al's avatar

This is fantastic

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Susan Doherty's avatar

So heartbreaking ,and brilliantly put. This horror will surely come to an end soon and I would love to see some " Nuremberg " trials come out of this. Faint hope ,I know ,but SO MANY people deserve to be jailed for crimes against humanity because of this . It's hard to believe that ,in spite of the ever increasing evidence of the serious damage gender "medicine" is causing ,as well as the release of the WPATH FILES ,these ideologues and " doctors " are continuing to groom and medically mutilate children. There's a special place in Hell reserved for these people ,I'm sure. God Bless ,everyone 🙏♥️x

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Truthbetold's avatar

I am not judging. I would really like to know why people leave their children in the hands of the enemy, sending them off everyday, for a majority of their waking hours. My family member was captured in college. Now we know. It is known what is going on. It is in our face. I pulled my children because of 13 year old girls in binders & underwear in the boys locker room next to my son.. The teacher insisted they are boys & my son & friends will be sent to the principal if they dare complain about being uncomfortable again. Not only is their a chance to end up captured like my family member, this takes away their childhood. It will not be fixed with a board change or new congressman. Not in your child's few years or decade left of school. Why expose them like this? I realize it is difficult, a challenge and a sacrifice to do something different but why keep handing them over to the enemy everyday?

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Jody's avatar

Some people have complicated family situations. It can be difficult to move, or to put kids in private or home schooling. Sometimes other family undermine a parent’s position and jeopardize their situation by getting or threatening to get social services involved, or challenge the (competent, safe) choice of therapist for financial or argumentative reasons. There are sometimes other kids in the family with special needs too, or a divorce going on which complicate matters further.

So I don't think we can just paint everyone whose child transitions with the same brush of blame. Many parents were blindsided by this and didn't see the consequences of things far enough in advance to head them off, or got bad advice from "experts." And some were simply brainwashed along with their kids.

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Delightful Oddling's avatar

Spot on. Thank you for posting.

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Grandma Eileen's avatar

Brilliant! You conveyed your points so well. An amazing poem which spoke the truth. I cannot imagine sitting in the audience and witnessing this tragedy. I would not have been able to applaud either. Your outrage may not have been heard in the theater, but it is being heard loud and clear in this sub stack. We all get it. The parents who support this travesty are dragging our innocent children along with their children into the T rabbit hole and it is not fair. Safety in numbers? Birds of a feather? As long as one other person plays along and pretends that a boy can become a girl or that a girl can become a boy, it gives fuel to this insane ideology fire. I pity the lonely, the lost, the ones left behind to pick up the broken pieces of these young, ruined lives.

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Mara U.'s avatar

This doesn’t come across like you wrote this with any concern or compassion for the girls. This comes across like a middle-aged Regina George writing in her online Burn Book. “So-and-so…is…an…oily-haired…little…ghoul…with…fugly…bacne.”

I did high school theater twenty years ago, and the thought of a castmate’s mother writing a piece scrutinizing my body and posting it online - anonymously or not - is just gross. There were other ways to write about this experience without sounded disgusted and contemptuous, and without sounding like you’re dehumanizing these girls.

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Mara U.'s avatar

Yeah, keep using homophobic slurs. See where that gets you. Do you want to actually change people's minds, or do you want to sit around and smirk with your self-ascribed moral superiority?

Again: there were ways for this author to write about this experience without sounded disgusted and contemptuous, and without sounding like she was dehumanizing these girls. They're not "ghouls." They're teenage girls who were essentially turned into medical experiments by adults who ought to know better. People write so many posts here about how their vulnerable, beloved teenage children were essentially brainwashed into a trans identity, so why is this author suddenly turning around and talking about them like they're these repulsive, subhuman creatures?

If you think this kind of rhetoric doesn't affect detransitioners and potential detransitioners, you're the one who's completely clueless and unable to actually comprehend what's going on. I lurk on the Detrans subreddit and I see it all the time - "I'm thinking about detransitioning, but I feel like I'm not feminine enough to be a girl anymore. I'd rather have people see me as a trans boy than as this ugly failure of a girl who was dumb enough to think she was trans." "I detransitioned a year ago, and I'm completely depressed because I don't think I'll ever find anyone who wants to date me."

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Robyn N-R's avatar

Harsh and despairing but oh so raw and true. Thank you for your candour, a parent’s lonely view.

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Joan's avatar

Wow, talent indeed--- surely the 'bard' is dwelling within!

A tragedy----

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Ellen's avatar

wow ... that poem was ... wow ...

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charlotte johnson's avatar

We hear you, we see you, we ARE you. Thank you for sharing. We WILL win, but it’s going to take all of us! Be brave every one-keep speaking out!

The truth is like a lion; you don’t need to defend it, just set it loose!

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Anon's avatar

This is insane. What State is this…??

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Kathy Lux's avatar

Excellent and terrifying and sad, all at the same time.

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Notorious P.A.T.'s avatar

"But tucked inside the play in a play was a third production, rolled up like so much harvested skin"

A wonderfully terrifying turn of phrase, worthy of Stephen King himself.

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Barbara Pecze's avatar

The poem says it all with honest rage, sadness and regret that's yet to come for kind but cruel parents.

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WomanOnTheEdge's avatar

Wow!

Words of rage and power. Your daughter is lucky to have you.

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Not so young anymore.'s avatar

How can people not think it’s social contagion?

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