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Dee's avatar

I have lost friends on the right for not raising my children in the church, for not just “telling her she’s not a boy”. I have lost friends on the left for not affirming, for “not seeing him as he wants to be, not as you want him to be”. It’s a lonely place. I’m lucky that I have a few friends who see it as I do, a good therapist who believes in reality, and a husband who’s at my side, constantly hoping she will snap out of it and trying to plant seeds.

I do think that blaming the parents helps people reassure themselves that it will never happen to them - if we did something terribly wrong to cause this, something they would never do, then they don’t have to accept that such a thing could happen to their family.

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Adri Mans's avatar

True parents don't have a public platform but it can be done on X and YT and other places. Parents are the more affected, their kids are victims and sadly the increase of this phenomenon shows the elephant in the room no that parents are not supportive by the society anymore but that parents are not respected at all. SM and all forms of enterteinment have more power than parents that compite with these savages.

Parents need to recover that power and be assertive, be again the guides of their progeny, not an easy task. There is a lot of work to do! Maybe when all this backfire and doctors start to go to jail for the Mengele type experiments on humans, this will slow down. Media can push this agenda but if we do not have doctors who dare to do this procedures things will end fast it doesn't matter how much the activists complain about -don't be serve-

We have to focus in go for the Doctors and therapists first.

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Sam N's avatar

I count myself as extremely lucky that my son didn't follow his core friend group into 'trans' identification. These kids all attended the same primary school. They were kind to my boy, who was diagnosed as Aspergers (before it was removed from the DSM). Some of the group were gay/ lesbian, but most identified as 'non- binary'. He seemed safe with these kids, they shared a lot of the same interests. And it's bullying we feared for him, more than anything. Being safe in a (slightly odd) crowd, seemed better than navigating high school alone.

But over time, these kids started taking hormones. And parties involved alcohol. And he told me that some of the group started to insist he "must be a bit fruity" and making some awkward sexual advances toward him. It was tough - he chose to distance himself from the kids who had been his friends. His confusion at girls thinking they were boys. His sadness at a girl he was particularly fond of, wanting to be a boy.

I didn't know at the time, but there was one conversation he and I had, that made a massive difference. We talked about how two things could be true at once. That his friends could be clever, kind people- and also wrong about being the opposite sex. It wasn't an argument, but he didn't agree. I didn't push.

Later, I realised he had pondered the thought - and come to agree.

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Lydia A mothers roar's avatar

I was saying this just yesterday. We not be acknowledged publicly for our efforts to end this Trans train wreck. There was no photo op of parents huddled around Trump as he signed 2 executive orders that stop the bleeding of our children. We are in the shadows and also parents like me who are willing to stick their neck out and be public. We will have to give ourselves a pat on the back. Because it is parents like you. Parents like me. Who have been called bigots, transphobes and abusive because we tow the line of reality. Our kids are not born wrong. Trans is a lie. It is the Nothing from the Never Ending Story. Destroying everything in it's path. We will win! We will be on the right side of history. We will be blamed for ending this nightmare!

You are a good parent. I see you. Even if I don't know you. I have met hundreds of parents. We love our children.

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Donna's avatar

My only response is that Liberal Parents voted with relish for Obama, and this came with Obama's open promotion of the rainbow peeps.

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Freies Kalifornien's avatar

We should not care about their opinion...

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Islander_58North's avatar

You were heard! We recently just defeated a pro-trans agenda that was being pushed on our school board. You, the recent election, and the President's XO's have turned the tide.

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Mom First's avatar

I have a copy of a school districts gender support plan.

In the 5 page document that a child can fill out with the school without a parent this is the only text on there about parents where a child can simply say no.

PARENT/GUARDIAN INVOLVEMENT

Are guardian(s) of this student aware and supportive of their child’s gender status? Yes/no

If not, what considerations must be accounted for in implementing this plan?

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Realitycheck's avatar

Sarah, Do you have a link to this support plan?

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Mom First's avatar

I’d really love to get these forms out and make the public aware of what is actually going on at schools.

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Lydia A mothers roar's avatar

I have 3 different gender support plans 2 from elementary school districts and 1 from high school. It's what they ask of this kids in secret that make me so angry! I think all parents should do public records requests.

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Mom First's avatar

Would you mind sending yours to info@awakeil.com? Or here https://donoharmmedicine.org/share-your-concern/

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Lydia A mothers roar's avatar

Sure I will send you the gender support plans I have uncovered. You can also do your own public records requests from your school district. I will email you a template for that.

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Mom First's avatar

Agreed! Parents are left out of the conversations. These forms should be brought out into the open.

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Mom First's avatar

No link, it was sent via email via a school counselor.

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Dave's avatar

Many, many did wrong, but it was not you. There will be a reckoning.

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Jenny Poyer Ackerman's avatar

I’m not surprised to read a number of comments here from parents who really want to speak out and be heard but don’t feel they can. I understand the reasons and I don’t second guess anyone.

I also have a podcast, and have been wanting to invite parents to speak, anonymously or not, to get their stories, opinions and feelings out there. I know from my own experience that it’s incredibly therapeutic. I’m not thinking of an hour long interview —more like a 5-minute vent. If you’re interested in exploring this idea, please email me at:

jen.poyerack@gmail.com

Please put ‘PITT reader’ in the subject line. My Substack is called TransMuted and the podcast is UnMuted. ❤️

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Gay J's avatar

You ask many of the questions that I, as the parent of a 'trans' child, have asked without receiving an answer. Why has this huge increase in kids identifying as the opposite sex come about? Why are doctors, teachers, just about anyone, affirming this craziness? Why are we allowing kids to diagnose themselves? When kids in the past harmed themselves with eating disorders doctors tried to help them, took away their diet pills and laxatives, did their best to get them to eat and care for their bodies. But now they are prescribing drugs which will ultimately harm these young people. It's crazy.

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Anne's avatar

Same here. I ask those same questions. When will this nightmare end?

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Ann's avatar

Growing up in the 80s, I knew so many guys and girls with eating disorders. (Anorexia, bulimia or a little of both). I knew both guys and girls with it (although most were female). All of them grew up, got married and had families. Most got therapy along the way. I can’t help but think that if it were today’s times all those people I knew then would either be trans or somewhere under the queer umbrella. I just keep praying daily for an end to this madness.

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Hazel-rah's avatar

We did do something horribly wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ we just didn't realize at the time. People make mistakes, people make mistakes with their kids. So did we.

Is your problem that your ego is having a hard time accepting that truth?

Too bad. Suck it up. Get your ego under control, and move forward with clarity and integrity 👍🏼

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Lunafalls's avatar

But how is that reaching those who need to hear it? They aren't following that group on Twitter, I guarantee that!

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EndThisMadness's avatar

I hear this loud and clear. My son transitioned at 40, just a couple of years ago, to female. There was no indication of anything off or unusual about him as a child, zero signs. And we were shocked as we had no idea this was something he would do. Very secretive. When I said there was nothing to indicate issues while he was growing up, his response was basically "imagine going to us with this issue because of our beliefs". We did not go to church, never made the kids do that even though we both are people of faith, we never really talked about politics until they were much older, even then it wasn't nearly as controversial as it is now. But he basically blames us for something that never happened. Under no circumstances would I have ever ignored something like in my child. And it wasn't even "a thing" when my kids grew up. They lived happy, healthy lives. He was exposed to the whole movement after he left home, and became immersed in it. We just never knew how far it went, and I regret that, however his choice. I see parents blamed all the time, and I have to stay silent in some cases because I do not share this with family and friends. A lot of them are unaware of my son and I do not want to discuss him. And we do not have a relationship, also his choice. It's very sad.

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Beeswax's avatar

I guarantee that your son would not have come up with this "revelation" on his own. Trans is pure indoctrination dressed up as a panacea. It's snake oil in the form of hormone injections and surgeries.

Parents, with their inconvenient love and common sense, are in the way and must be swept aside. It's amazing how motivated the butchers, politicians, and activists are to destroy bodies and families.

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Lunafalls's avatar

This is what puzzles me the most -- the blindness of therapists, pediatricians, teachers, and legislators to the fact that this was NOT happening to kids even 20 years ago!

Only since the ideology became pushed on the internet and preached (and even celebrated) in the schools, have hundreds of thousands of youth suddenly been "born in the wrong body".

The very people who can't recognize this would consider themselves great "critical thinkers". What a joke!

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Hazel-rah's avatar

Now don't do the same thing to them that people do to us 😂

They have been deliberately kept in the dark by trans activists and their liberal media outlets. And they have fooled themselves and made excuses as people do. They are not so different than us.

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Beeswax's avatar

It's a profound observation. The cluelessness of those who should know better is a clear sign that we're dealing with a cult, a mass formation. Humans are susceptible to it, no matter who we are, if the incentives and penalties are powerful enough.

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EndThisMadness's avatar

And the more being exposed by our current admin about the money this country has sent to other countries specifically supporting this ideology is absolutely insane. The US has been called the antichrist by other nations and it is strictly due to the absolute flagrant support and encouragement of this ideology and cultish behavior. Very concerning.

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Anon's avatar

I’ll never understand the ‘no contact’. What has happened to their souls. It’s a very dangerous movement, way too dark. The wrong direction. Needs to stop.

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Deadnames's avatar

Hi Anon. I have read somewhere something that helped me understand "no contact".

As a mum, but it applies to any parent who is experiencing this phenomena, we are seen by the child as the truth keeper. They fear that any contact with us might come with some sort of suggestion that they might want to question their choices. They fear that any contact might connect them to a time when they were happy & memories of the nurturing & loving family life that they once had.

Any sorts of thoughts of these are a threat to the death cult so "no contact" is an essential rule for the continued indoctrination & commitment to the cult & the destruction of the child & the family.

These are my beliefs on this topic & it is a terrible thing but it also makes sense & I think diminishes the mystery of "no contact". I believe we must remember that many of the words of actions made by our kids are the mouthpiece of pure evil!

Bless us all & believe that love & truth will defeat this death cult!

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Anon's avatar

…so messed up… 💕

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EndThisMadness's avatar

That has been my thought. We are the truth keepers and the people they have disappointed most.

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Lunafalls's avatar

Classic cult behavior. "Non-believers" are to be shunned. They might make a logical argument against the madness.

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George Q Tyrebyter's avatar

I know of a number of parents who aided and abetted in the destruction of their own children. They enabled by using the preferred pronoun, by bullying relatives, and by going along with the child. There's no difference between this and buying heroin for a child. Those I blame.

I think recently most parents have not enabled. Those are innocent bystanders really.

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MeetandGreet's avatar

I blame all the school administrators signing their emails and website profiles with their dumb pronouns. Everywhere a young person looked the messaging was the same, and now that the funding webs are being revealed, I can see why it happened everywhere and all at once including globally.

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Marjorie's avatar

Do tell? I haven't seen anything on the funding webs and I'd be interested to find out. Been trying to "follow the money" for a long time.

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Anon's avatar

Literally financial incentives to collude with this BS

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