Pride month was really hard to go through, as a parent caught up in this gender twilight zone. Something that particularly bothered me were the popular, rainbow-colored, Facebook posts that said things like: “If your parents don’t support you, I’m your mama now. Get some sleep. Eat breakfast. Take your vitamins.” You may have seen similar, colorful, easy-to-share memes. It really hurt to see nice women I know re-share these seemingly simple sentiments. I dejectedly thought, You have no idea...
“One peek behind the curtain reveals a burgeoning industry of gender therapists, pharmaceutical companies and surgeons whose profits are soaring” - this is the painful truth of what is happening! Money is driving this cult and our innocent children are paying the price. We are all heartbroken and terrified of the future for our children who are caught in this web of lies and greed. I HATED pride month and cringed every time I saw a rainbow sign or shirt, flag, flyer, advertisement, or social media posting. I will continue to pray every day for the truth to be revealed and for the safety of our children and for the strength we need to fight this! Do not give up!
YES! When the TRANS bomb goes off in your own home it tries to destroy everything in its path. I really appreciate all these stories shared by other concerned loving parents. It helps me realize I’m not alone in this fight to save our kids from this cult-like ideology. Thank you for sharing!❤️
I'm so sorry for what your family is going through. This epidemic of girls being dragged into trans ideology is so distressing. I'm so very sorry.
I know this is not the same thing, but my relative (biological male) came out as trans about a year ago. He has struggled with mental health issues his entire life. He was also sexually abused when he was very young and as a preteen, sexually abused his younger (about 3 years younger) cousin. When he was a teen, he started having sex (please know I'm using this loosely) with adult men. Now, in his early 20s, having never gotten help for his many issues and trauma (his parents are equally troubled), he's now trans. I just can't wrap my head around how clear psychological issues and traumas are being overlooked and estrogen (in his case) is just handed out. Incidentally, his mom came out as non-binary about 4 months ago.
I agree with you that the majority of "affirming" parents, friends, doctors, and therapists think that they are being supportive and doing the right thing. As a parent, I'm often irritated out how little that virtue signaling costs them and how much their good intentions cost me. But there you are.
Still, I urge you and other parents like you, to be gentle and very careful in your interactions with these people. Simply put, we need them to be our allies by not accepting "gender affirmation" uncritically. This means recognizing that some kids really are gender dysphoric and will later identify as trans adults, while at the same time pointing out that not all kids who identify this way will do so permanently. It means suggesting that cultural influences such as friend groups and the Internet do matter without implying that they are the reason for every kid's identification. (This shouldn't be that hard. Most liberals already recognize that social media has other negative effects, like promoting unhealthy body images, particularly for girls.) It means pointing out that gender is a confusing part of identity in a time of development when kids are confused about growing up in general, and that parents and friends can be supportive of kids' explorations and experiments without affirming that these identities are "true" or unchanging.
I think I can hear where your heart is here Christopher, but I question certain elements. For example it appears clear to me that there is, particularly in the USA, a lucrative trans industry. When large amounts of money are involved, actual 'care' comes in a poor second. These healthcare practitioners do not have a vested interest in conceding that ANY children presenting with GD will grow out of it, and consequently I would argue that such people are NOT operating in good faith. Ethics and money rarely mix well.
I guess that may be true. I don't have evidence to either confirm or dispute it. I can only say that from my own experiences with medical/psychological professionals in regard to my own teenager, I think that they aren't motivated by profit but by ideology. They want to believe that they are working for marginalized and oppressed people. I think that their good intentions do harm but I don't think they come from bad faith. That's my personal experience--but it's admittedly anecdotal.
I' probably have grown quite bitter and cynical lately and suspect that many, many "supporters" are not well-meaning and actually experience schadenfreude . Especially, about the bright kids who for whatever reason fall so easily for this evil ideology (As in, you thought your kid was so bright and gifted. Look at them now) . Not all are but many actually enjoy the downfall of other people's children. It makes evolutionary sense - more potential partners and opportunities for their own genes.
This notion that "gender dysphoria" is real is completely unsupported by any evidence. Kids like Jazz are CREATED by the parent's reaction to his innocent statements. Parents who support or agree with gender-confusion create horrible situations like Jazz.
Every "real gender dysphoric child" has a parent who has condoned and affirmed his/her delusion.
You basically are giving cover to the "gender insanity". Why is that?
I believe that some kids--a very small minority--do grow up to be trans. These people's stories are widely available. Some people transition and regret it. Some people transition and do not. I see no reason to disbelieve adults' stories about their own lives. The key here is the word "adult."
You say that gender dysphoria is unreal, is a delusion. Do you have evidence for this statement?
Again--I'll repeat my main point. We need people to question their knee-jerk response that "affirmation" is always appropriate. Dismissing the entire idea of gender dysphoria and the existence of trans people entirely is not going to win over these people. Besides that, it's just wrong.
The "evidence is required" is on the side of those who contend that this delusion is real. I don't have to produce evidence. YOU need to produce evidence.
As Sagan said many years ago, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
Show me a single study (I have read many) that provides an OBJECTIVE test for the existence of "a male brain in a female body" or vice versa. There is none. Show me a single test which can detect trannie-hood in children. There is none.
What there is, in point of fact, is parental mismanagement of the delusion.
The unsupported contention that the trannie psychotic delusion is "real" has never been shown to be true. We do know, from thousands of years of human history, that psychotic confusion is found in many people. Trannie delusions are no different.
If you are saying that a teenager's self-reporting that they feel extremely uncomfortable in their own body is not evidence of gender dysphoria (the current diagnostic used in the DSM), then I agree with you. Teenagers experience distress and anxiety and discomfort with their identities for a variety of reasons, and to simply assume that their self reporting of GD is the last word is a terrible practice. This is infuriating, and I've had to deal with it with my own teenager in my interactions with medical and psychological professionals.
But if you are saying that every adult who experiences these feelings, eventually transitions, and is okay with it, then I would questions why you think that person is delusional. At that point the question of male brains and female bodies isn't really the point. It's have they had the time and support to really consider the consequences of their own actions and are they living happily with the results? Of course, we should be gathering data about this, but if the answer is yes, then I think at that point, the burden of proof is on you to disprove their experience.
In no other area of life are parents expected to simply accede to a child’s weird version of “reality”. There is no other medical condition that a child can self-diagnose, that has no objective test, and where parents are pushed into blindly allowing life-altering medications and surgeries.
My little brother thought he was Superman when he was 4. Bless him, he was genuinely devastated when he found he couldn't fly! And yet Stonewall UK believes a child can 'know' they're trans as early as 2 years old.
Yes and no. Any area that falls under the whimsical rubric of "mental health" is fair game for overreaching schools and overreaching government bodies. And – not coincidentally – they all profit pharma.
“… suicide danger is actually much higher for individuals 7-10 years following transition—when they realize transition wasn’t the panacea they had been promised.”
This doesn’t surprise me, and I’d love to know the source so that I can quote it.
I recently discovered that the false assertions that young people who aren’t affirmed have a heightened risk of suicide and that exploring causes of gender dysphoria is tantamount to “conversion therapy” go all the way up to the APA. I assume the APA is kowtowing to the trans rights activists. How on earth did they come to wield this kind of power?
Also, I have read accounts where kids are taught exactly what to do/say in order to convince their parents/counselors etc that they will kill themselves if they don’t get what they think they need in “affirmation care”.
"How on earth did [American Psychological Association, correct?] come to wield this kind of power?"
I'd like to hear the answer from someone in this space. I'm not strongly versed in this space, but I'm guessing that WHO lobbied APA (since it relentlessly promotes a transhumanist agenda); and that pharma lobbied APA, since trans kids represent nonstop and lifetime earnings for the medical system and pharma.
This is not exactly what you are asking for, but if you like reading about studies, this is a really deep dive into several studies, research methodology, findings, flaws, and the ways in which various studies have been used to support claims about gender medicine. It's long... but fascinating. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/science-vs-cited-seven-studies-to
I am still searching through my bookmarks, saved articles and studies to see if I can get a good link to that often quoted “suicide goes up after 7-10 years.” I know that Scott Newgent of Trevoices.org who had major life threatening complications due to transition often talks about this phenomenon. But I’ll see if I can find a source to a study. If anyone else already has a link handy that would be helpful.
Thank you so much, Jennifer. Just today, a well-meaning friend sent a Today article to a support group I attend (which is for parents of kids with challenges, but not necessarily trans kids), claiming there is no such thing as ROGD or social contagion, and that there hasn't been any uptick in kids declaring themselves trans. I wanted to scream! The more hard data I can find to counter that kind of sloppy journalism and ignorance, the better.
I don't know what 'Today' is, but that's not sloppy journalism OR ignorance. It's the relentless promotion of a hard agenda. ROGD and social contagion can't be denied. It's in everyone's face all over the web-connected world.
Thanks for that. Terrible. I didn't know this Turban.
Off-topic RE trans kids, but on-topic RE psychiatrists and their personal agendas: 20 years ago in Vancouver (Canada), local psychiatrist and trauma expert Dr Gabor Maté used trash studies to promote "harm reduction" (free heroin for anyone who wants it) for heroin addicts.
The far-left poverty industry was behind his agenda (since it meant endless employment and grants for endless NGOs and three levels of marxist bureaucrats). Free heroin was established. Homelessness/addiction/crime is substantially worse than it was. Even junkies say out loud, "There's no motivation to rehab." What "harm" was "reduced", and for whom? Next year, personal amounts of MDMA, cocaine, and meth will be decriminalized.
Agenda-promoting psychiatrists using trash science to promote agendas that will injure and kill. Rinse and repeat.
(Sorry to go off-topic, but the similarity hit me.)
One of the researchers, Jack Turban, is a big public face of the "science" and is often pointed to in the media (even on NPR which makes me sad.) Jack Turban is frighteningly unprofessional, with more focus on activism than psychiatry when devising & interpreting his research. Scary because he's going to be a professor at UCSF, teaching the next generation of psychiatrists.
That is the same article my friend sent around, and I'm so glad Jesse Singal wrote a rebuttal. It's sad to think that only people like us will read it. I'm going to print it and try to have his arguments ready to respond with when people repeat the idiotic things Jack Turban says. It is very scary that he will be teaching the next generation of psychiatrists at UCSF. Maybe by the time those folks graduate, there will be so many detransitioners around that nobody will buy what he's selling anymore.
The very first priority of this ideology,the teachers that hide your kids,the therapists and medical professionals that have made our children their new business model is to create a wedge between you and your children. That is how they steal them from you. It is premeditated, systematic and cruel. I hope they all burn in hell for what they do.
Thank you for sharing. Out of curiosity I went on the internet and took an ‘are you trans quiz’. Yes it declared me trans lol. I’m almost 50 and have been married for over 20 years… to a man. Lol.
Thank YOU. I followed suit. Didn't know these quizzes were everywhere. I'm your demographic. My result:
"You have a higher test result than an overwhelming majority of cisgender people. I wonder why? Remember, the issues you might have may not necessarily have anything to do with you being transgender - if you care at all, you should explore your gender identity a little."
Imagine if I was a confused 13-year-old. My God. The normalization of "gender exploration" is HORRIFYING and is the gateway drug.
I have taken a few other quizzes just to check them out. Even the ones that declared me “most likely not transgender’, suggested I explore my gender if that interest me. The way these questions are worded, I imagine most teenagers (going through the wired puberty changes), would test at some level of transgender. It gets presented as the magic cure
Glitter moms lack boundaries sticking their beaks where they don't belong. I deleted my FB account 2 years ago because of all the politics. I spent so much time on it and now I rarely think about it. There are some friends who I never interact with anymore which is sad. FB did make me feel crummy a lot of the time. Some people live on FB. I said goodbye to that world.
Keep up the good fight. The image that comes to mind is of a mother confronting kidnappers. Because that what this mindset is. We would die for our children. We are capable of confronting the devil and winning. Picture Sigorney Weaver's, Ripley, in Aliens when she confronts the alien in order to save her little ward. Fierce. I wish you all the best and thank you so much for your cogent thoughts and the pain you're going through.
“One peek behind the curtain reveals a burgeoning industry of gender therapists, pharmaceutical companies and surgeons whose profits are soaring” - this is the painful truth of what is happening! Money is driving this cult and our innocent children are paying the price. We are all heartbroken and terrified of the future for our children who are caught in this web of lies and greed. I HATED pride month and cringed every time I saw a rainbow sign or shirt, flag, flyer, advertisement, or social media posting. I will continue to pray every day for the truth to be revealed and for the safety of our children and for the strength we need to fight this! Do not give up!
I no longer support alphabet terrorism.
YES! When the TRANS bomb goes off in your own home it tries to destroy everything in its path. I really appreciate all these stories shared by other concerned loving parents. It helps me realize I’m not alone in this fight to save our kids from this cult-like ideology. Thank you for sharing!❤️
I'm so sorry for what your family is going through. This epidemic of girls being dragged into trans ideology is so distressing. I'm so very sorry.
I know this is not the same thing, but my relative (biological male) came out as trans about a year ago. He has struggled with mental health issues his entire life. He was also sexually abused when he was very young and as a preteen, sexually abused his younger (about 3 years younger) cousin. When he was a teen, he started having sex (please know I'm using this loosely) with adult men. Now, in his early 20s, having never gotten help for his many issues and trauma (his parents are equally troubled), he's now trans. I just can't wrap my head around how clear psychological issues and traumas are being overlooked and estrogen (in his case) is just handed out. Incidentally, his mom came out as non-binary about 4 months ago.
I agree with you that the majority of "affirming" parents, friends, doctors, and therapists think that they are being supportive and doing the right thing. As a parent, I'm often irritated out how little that virtue signaling costs them and how much their good intentions cost me. But there you are.
Still, I urge you and other parents like you, to be gentle and very careful in your interactions with these people. Simply put, we need them to be our allies by not accepting "gender affirmation" uncritically. This means recognizing that some kids really are gender dysphoric and will later identify as trans adults, while at the same time pointing out that not all kids who identify this way will do so permanently. It means suggesting that cultural influences such as friend groups and the Internet do matter without implying that they are the reason for every kid's identification. (This shouldn't be that hard. Most liberals already recognize that social media has other negative effects, like promoting unhealthy body images, particularly for girls.) It means pointing out that gender is a confusing part of identity in a time of development when kids are confused about growing up in general, and that parents and friends can be supportive of kids' explorations and experiments without affirming that these identities are "true" or unchanging.
I think I can hear where your heart is here Christopher, but I question certain elements. For example it appears clear to me that there is, particularly in the USA, a lucrative trans industry. When large amounts of money are involved, actual 'care' comes in a poor second. These healthcare practitioners do not have a vested interest in conceding that ANY children presenting with GD will grow out of it, and consequently I would argue that such people are NOT operating in good faith. Ethics and money rarely mix well.
Jim G,
I guess that may be true. I don't have evidence to either confirm or dispute it. I can only say that from my own experiences with medical/psychological professionals in regard to my own teenager, I think that they aren't motivated by profit but by ideology. They want to believe that they are working for marginalized and oppressed people. I think that their good intentions do harm but I don't think they come from bad faith. That's my personal experience--but it's admittedly anecdotal.
I' probably have grown quite bitter and cynical lately and suspect that many, many "supporters" are not well-meaning and actually experience schadenfreude . Especially, about the bright kids who for whatever reason fall so easily for this evil ideology (As in, you thought your kid was so bright and gifted. Look at them now) . Not all are but many actually enjoy the downfall of other people's children. It makes evolutionary sense - more potential partners and opportunities for their own genes.
I think there definitely is an morbid and perverse interest in watching some other family get into trouble. But this should be called out.
This notion that "gender dysphoria" is real is completely unsupported by any evidence. Kids like Jazz are CREATED by the parent's reaction to his innocent statements. Parents who support or agree with gender-confusion create horrible situations like Jazz.
Every "real gender dysphoric child" has a parent who has condoned and affirmed his/her delusion.
You basically are giving cover to the "gender insanity". Why is that?
I believe that some kids--a very small minority--do grow up to be trans. These people's stories are widely available. Some people transition and regret it. Some people transition and do not. I see no reason to disbelieve adults' stories about their own lives. The key here is the word "adult."
You say that gender dysphoria is unreal, is a delusion. Do you have evidence for this statement?
Again--I'll repeat my main point. We need people to question their knee-jerk response that "affirmation" is always appropriate. Dismissing the entire idea of gender dysphoria and the existence of trans people entirely is not going to win over these people. Besides that, it's just wrong.
The "evidence is required" is on the side of those who contend that this delusion is real. I don't have to produce evidence. YOU need to produce evidence.
As Sagan said many years ago, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
Show me a single study (I have read many) that provides an OBJECTIVE test for the existence of "a male brain in a female body" or vice versa. There is none. Show me a single test which can detect trannie-hood in children. There is none.
What there is, in point of fact, is parental mismanagement of the delusion.
The unsupported contention that the trannie psychotic delusion is "real" has never been shown to be true. We do know, from thousands of years of human history, that psychotic confusion is found in many people. Trannie delusions are no different.
If you are saying that a teenager's self-reporting that they feel extremely uncomfortable in their own body is not evidence of gender dysphoria (the current diagnostic used in the DSM), then I agree with you. Teenagers experience distress and anxiety and discomfort with their identities for a variety of reasons, and to simply assume that their self reporting of GD is the last word is a terrible practice. This is infuriating, and I've had to deal with it with my own teenager in my interactions with medical and psychological professionals.
But if you are saying that every adult who experiences these feelings, eventually transitions, and is okay with it, then I would questions why you think that person is delusional. At that point the question of male brains and female bodies isn't really the point. It's have they had the time and support to really consider the consequences of their own actions and are they living happily with the results? Of course, we should be gathering data about this, but if the answer is yes, then I think at that point, the burden of proof is on you to disprove their experience.
In no other area of life are parents expected to simply accede to a child’s weird version of “reality”. There is no other medical condition that a child can self-diagnose, that has no objective test, and where parents are pushed into blindly allowing life-altering medications and surgeries.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/31/equality-act-devastate-parents-ability-get-trans-children-help
My little brother thought he was Superman when he was 4. Bless him, he was genuinely devastated when he found he couldn't fly! And yet Stonewall UK believes a child can 'know' they're trans as early as 2 years old.
Yes and no. Any area that falls under the whimsical rubric of "mental health" is fair game for overreaching schools and overreaching government bodies. And – not coincidentally – they all profit pharma.
“… suicide danger is actually much higher for individuals 7-10 years following transition—when they realize transition wasn’t the panacea they had been promised.”
This doesn’t surprise me, and I’d love to know the source so that I can quote it.
I recently discovered that the false assertions that young people who aren’t affirmed have a heightened risk of suicide and that exploring causes of gender dysphoria is tantamount to “conversion therapy” go all the way up to the APA. I assume the APA is kowtowing to the trans rights activists. How on earth did they come to wield this kind of power?
Also, I have read accounts where kids are taught exactly what to do/say in order to convince their parents/counselors etc that they will kill themselves if they don’t get what they think they need in “affirmation care”.
I read an account where a therapist told the kid exactly what to say to get hormones. The therapist coached the kid to come up with a back story.
"How on earth did [American Psychological Association, correct?] come to wield this kind of power?"
I'd like to hear the answer from someone in this space. I'm not strongly versed in this space, but I'm guessing that WHO lobbied APA (since it relentlessly promotes a transhumanist agenda); and that pharma lobbied APA, since trans kids represent nonstop and lifetime earnings for the medical system and pharma.
The person who writes the 11thHourBlog has done a ton of research following the money...
https://www.the11thhourblog.com/
Thanks! I just looked and saw Jennifer Bilek's name. I'm familiar with her to some degree. Is 11thhourblog her site?
Ok! I found it at Trevoices.org under “Education!”
It is a very technical research article called: Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885
Thank you so much! I will read it!
This is not exactly what you are asking for, but if you like reading about studies, this is a really deep dive into several studies, research methodology, findings, flaws, and the ways in which various studies have been used to support claims about gender medicine. It's long... but fascinating. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/science-vs-cited-seven-studies-to
I am still searching through my bookmarks, saved articles and studies to see if I can get a good link to that often quoted “suicide goes up after 7-10 years.” I know that Scott Newgent of Trevoices.org who had major life threatening complications due to transition often talks about this phenomenon. But I’ll see if I can find a source to a study. If anyone else already has a link handy that would be helpful.
Thank you so much, Jennifer. Just today, a well-meaning friend sent a Today article to a support group I attend (which is for parents of kids with challenges, but not necessarily trans kids), claiming there is no such thing as ROGD or social contagion, and that there hasn't been any uptick in kids declaring themselves trans. I wanted to scream! The more hard data I can find to counter that kind of sloppy journalism and ignorance, the better.
I don't know what 'Today' is, but that's not sloppy journalism OR ignorance. It's the relentless promotion of a hard agenda. ROGD and social contagion can't be denied. It's in everyone's face all over the web-connected world.
I agree that there is a hard agenda behind it. The story was published by NBC and Jesse Singal wrote a rebuttal of it this evening on his Substack. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-new-study-on-rapid-onset-gender
Thanks for that. Terrible. I didn't know this Turban.
Off-topic RE trans kids, but on-topic RE psychiatrists and their personal agendas: 20 years ago in Vancouver (Canada), local psychiatrist and trauma expert Dr Gabor Maté used trash studies to promote "harm reduction" (free heroin for anyone who wants it) for heroin addicts.
The far-left poverty industry was behind his agenda (since it meant endless employment and grants for endless NGOs and three levels of marxist bureaucrats). Free heroin was established. Homelessness/addiction/crime is substantially worse than it was. Even junkies say out loud, "There's no motivation to rehab." What "harm" was "reduced", and for whom? Next year, personal amounts of MDMA, cocaine, and meth will be decriminalized.
Agenda-promoting psychiatrists using trash science to promote agendas that will injure and kill. Rinse and repeat.
(Sorry to go off-topic, but the similarity hit me.)
Here's another analysis that just came out that analyzes the shoddy methodology of the researchers who claim ROGD & social contagion aren't real. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-new-study-on-rapid-onset-gender?utm_source=email
One of the researchers, Jack Turban, is a big public face of the "science" and is often pointed to in the media (even on NPR which makes me sad.) Jack Turban is frighteningly unprofessional, with more focus on activism than psychiatry when devising & interpreting his research. Scary because he's going to be a professor at UCSF, teaching the next generation of psychiatrists.
That is the same article my friend sent around, and I'm so glad Jesse Singal wrote a rebuttal. It's sad to think that only people like us will read it. I'm going to print it and try to have his arguments ready to respond with when people repeat the idiotic things Jack Turban says. It is very scary that he will be teaching the next generation of psychiatrists at UCSF. Maybe by the time those folks graduate, there will be so many detransitioners around that nobody will buy what he's selling anymore.
Yeah, wow! The denial is astounding! And infuriating when seemingly professional publications are so captured and spread these falsehoods.
Money and a lot of influence. Socia media also help them and the censorship in the news
Well written thank you
The very first priority of this ideology,the teachers that hide your kids,the therapists and medical professionals that have made our children their new business model is to create a wedge between you and your children. That is how they steal them from you. It is premeditated, systematic and cruel. I hope they all burn in hell for what they do.
Truth. Just unequivocally the truth.
Also: isn't this the definition of grooming?
That's a very simple one. No.
Amen.
Thank you for sharing. Out of curiosity I went on the internet and took an ‘are you trans quiz’. Yes it declared me trans lol. I’m almost 50 and have been married for over 20 years… to a man. Lol.
Thank YOU. I followed suit. Didn't know these quizzes were everywhere. I'm your demographic. My result:
"You have a higher test result than an overwhelming majority of cisgender people. I wonder why? Remember, the issues you might have may not necessarily have anything to do with you being transgender - if you care at all, you should explore your gender identity a little."
Imagine if I was a confused 13-year-old. My God. The normalization of "gender exploration" is HORRIFYING and is the gateway drug.
I have taken a few other quizzes just to check them out. Even the ones that declared me “most likely not transgender’, suggested I explore my gender if that interest me. The way these questions are worded, I imagine most teenagers (going through the wired puberty changes), would test at some level of transgender. It gets presented as the magic cure
Thank you for telling the TRUTH and protecting children. You have a lot of support.
Brilliant!!!! Bravo and thank you!
A beautiful, spot-on piece of writing. Hold on. We're with you.
Glitter moms lack boundaries sticking their beaks where they don't belong. I deleted my FB account 2 years ago because of all the politics. I spent so much time on it and now I rarely think about it. There are some friends who I never interact with anymore which is sad. FB did make me feel crummy a lot of the time. Some people live on FB. I said goodbye to that world.
Keep up the good fight. The image that comes to mind is of a mother confronting kidnappers. Because that what this mindset is. We would die for our children. We are capable of confronting the devil and winning. Picture Sigorney Weaver's, Ripley, in Aliens when she confronts the alien in order to save her little ward. Fierce. I wish you all the best and thank you so much for your cogent thoughts and the pain you're going through.