We Have Some Good News!
Our voices are being heard.
Dear PITT Community,
We have some good news we want to tell you!
PITT is a forum for parents to share our personal experiences of how we’ve been impacted by gender ideology. We are grateful for everyone who writes and reads our stories. Sometimes though, it can feel like we’re just shouting into the void. We wonder if anyone but us notices or cares about our experiences. Hopefully, the good news we have will reassure you that someone is paying attention to us, and our collective voices are being heard.
You may be aware that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case called U.S. v. Skrmetti which challenges the state of Tennessee’s ban on the use of puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries for trans-identified minors. U.S. v. Skrmetti is important because it will set precedent on challenges to the bans in other states, and brings attention to this issue generally.
Our good news is, that last week the PITT editors agreed to sign an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s defense of Tennessee’s ban. An amicus (friend of the court) brief is a legal document that allows people or groups to share their expertise and insights with the court.
A total of 17 associations from 14 different countries signed the brief, including AMANDA (Spain), Ypomoni (France), Parents of ROGB Kids (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), Our Duty (Australia), RESEAU-ESI (Canada), Aotearoa Support (New Zealand), among others. Parents of Desisters also signed. You can read the brief here.
PITT was asked to sign because we have become a powerful, authoritative voice on the harmful impacts of gender ideology on parents, children, families, and society. Our over 850 published firsthand accounts are the evidence.
By our count there have now been 83 amicus briefs submitted for this case, some in defense of and some opposing the ban. We’ve read many of them. We’ll tell you about that in a follow-up piece.
In the meantime, if you’ve ever wondered if writing your story for PITT made a difference, rest assured that it has. We know how harmful gender ideology is, and now the U.S. Supreme will know it too.
Keep those submission coming so we can continue to do our part!
Thank you!
The PITT Editors
As a psychologist, it troubles me how few in the mental health field have had the courage to speak up for principles and observations that only a few years ago were self evident. These include the fact that a core definition of mental health has to do with psychological adjustment to reality. What can be more immediate and real to a child then their own body?
Sometimes it is hard to measure the steady and consistent efforts to get the word out about the harms of gender medicine and counter gender ideological capture. Not all readers like or comment on posts or write book reviews but nonetheless are ingesting the information and shifting internally. A few trans activists, who shout loud to scare or silence people, sometimes make those still connected to truth and reality go into hiding. It is time to contribute to the turning tide and joining the wave of courageous people speaking up and standing up in some way.
So send a written piece to PITT, or you can share some of your favorite essays with another person instead. But share and spread the word. Plant seeds of doubt, then water those seeds.
Change the culture. Sometimes you have to take the focus off your own child and focus on helping other kids and other families. Your own child may get the message when the culture changes. Help change the culture. We can do this! Courage is contagious. Thank you PITT!