Like other parents of a teen caught in the steel grip of gender ideology, my life has been turned upside down. People not familiar with this issue would be stunned about how much time this tragedy can eat up in a day. I can’t speak for every parent stuck in this living nightmare, but I’m betting there are similarities.
Thank you for writing this as I can share it with family and friends in hopes they will understand my grief and daily battle. Grimacing, crying and fighting with you.
Raising children is the most difficult job there is. Mine’s are now adults but I am constantly grateful that this woo-woo wasn’t a ‘thing’ when they were in their teens. I genuinely feel for all the parents trying to navigate their way through this. Having outside forces getting into kids heads and there is nothing you can do about it, must be the scariest thing imaginable.
I will add my name to the - this is me too - list. Sadly. I hate this harmful ideology and I hate that it has brainwashed and harmed our children. Intelligent, clever, quirky children. Oh, how I miss our daughter. I cannot grasp that someone so smart has been so captured.
A beautifully written and heartfelt article which I find simultaneously comforting and disturbing for the same reason - that I am not alone in this nightmare. I hope, one day, that we can find some peace.
This is me. This is my life. I cannot believe that my progressive politics have so completely betrayed me. I’m so grateful to read these posts and not feel so alone. No one gets it unless they are living it.
I can so relate. When I first saw my kids new name in print, I was devastated. He’s off at college and estranged from us. I am going through all the years wondering WTH did I do wrong. I am listening to all the podcasts and reading all that I can find. What to do next. Anything? I took a break from stalking online for my sanity. I just started again and am wondering how a profoundly gifted kid can not question the ideology? I let my family convince me he was alright. Well, he’s not. I should always listen to my intuition, my mama bear intuition. I’m glad you are posting on PITT.
I feel like you broke into my brain and eloquently pieced together so many random thoughts of mine. Trying to save my daughter from this gender fix to her problems has completely taken over my life. I wonder how different things would be, what interests I may be following now, if I wasn't so compelled to fight this gender war. I really do not want to be doing this! But this messed up, backwards, societal thinking leaves me no choice. The silver lining is the other parents, like you, who can fully understand.
I can relate - aren't parents always looking for an angle, a way through the gender forest to reach our kid? To get them to understand that we are questioning it because we believe they are being groomed into believing a fantasy that will never give them true lasting happiness. We know that it will be on us to pick up the pieces.
I remain astounded how long this lie has been allowed to attack our children. The New York Times or Washington Post could end it tomorrow by publishing something like Malone's Medscape article. Not an op Ed. Facts.
I have lived the life that you speak of and continue to check all of the outlets. It is almost obsessive now. I fluctuate between having to tune it out to keep my sanity and then needing to press on for the sake of my child and others like him.
Thank you for writing this as I can share it with family and friends in hopes they will understand my grief and daily battle. Grimacing, crying and fighting with you.
I feel the same exact way.
Raising children is the most difficult job there is. Mine’s are now adults but I am constantly grateful that this woo-woo wasn’t a ‘thing’ when they were in their teens. I genuinely feel for all the parents trying to navigate their way through this. Having outside forces getting into kids heads and there is nothing you can do about it, must be the scariest thing imaginable.
In solidarity x
I will add my name to the - this is me too - list. Sadly. I hate this harmful ideology and I hate that it has brainwashed and harmed our children. Intelligent, clever, quirky children. Oh, how I miss our daughter. I cannot grasp that someone so smart has been so captured.
This is me, every day, every hour, every minute,.
A beautifully written and heartfelt article which I find simultaneously comforting and disturbing for the same reason - that I am not alone in this nightmare. I hope, one day, that we can find some peace.
This is me. This is my life. I cannot believe that my progressive politics have so completely betrayed me. I’m so grateful to read these posts and not feel so alone. No one gets it unless they are living it.
I can so relate. When I first saw my kids new name in print, I was devastated. He’s off at college and estranged from us. I am going through all the years wondering WTH did I do wrong. I am listening to all the podcasts and reading all that I can find. What to do next. Anything? I took a break from stalking online for my sanity. I just started again and am wondering how a profoundly gifted kid can not question the ideology? I let my family convince me he was alright. Well, he’s not. I should always listen to my intuition, my mama bear intuition. I’m glad you are posting on PITT.
I feel like you broke into my brain and eloquently pieced together so many random thoughts of mine. Trying to save my daughter from this gender fix to her problems has completely taken over my life. I wonder how different things would be, what interests I may be following now, if I wasn't so compelled to fight this gender war. I really do not want to be doing this! But this messed up, backwards, societal thinking leaves me no choice. The silver lining is the other parents, like you, who can fully understand.
I can relate - aren't parents always looking for an angle, a way through the gender forest to reach our kid? To get them to understand that we are questioning it because we believe they are being groomed into believing a fantasy that will never give them true lasting happiness. We know that it will be on us to pick up the pieces.
I remain astounded how long this lie has been allowed to attack our children. The New York Times or Washington Post could end it tomorrow by publishing something like Malone's Medscape article. Not an op Ed. Facts.
Add reading these wonderful PITT article to the list of things that take up our time - this is one that is well worth the time!!!
This is me.
I have lived the life that you speak of and continue to check all of the outlets. It is almost obsessive now. I fluctuate between having to tune it out to keep my sanity and then needing to press on for the sake of my child and others like him.