Well said ,the author. We will defeat this horror in the end ,because the overwhelming majority of sane people agree with you. Take Care. Keep fighting x
I can see you don't see the connection that when section 28 was banned everything went berserk. People that were outrageous about that regulation didn't understand and probably they still don't understand human nature, everything is connected it, you mentioned that understanding and dialogue and all those attitudes ended up to be better and people ( those repressive folks who live in the past) aren't afraid anymore of people who is "different".
We are human beings and our identity is not our sexual orientation, being homosexual doesn't make special and I don't need a special treatment, privacy should be the standard and people have the right to live their lives as they choose as long they don't hurt children and are two consent adults, that doesn't mean that those behaviors are good but they are legal, but all of us have the right to choose our favorite road to hell, don't we?
Still if we don't believe in hell or what God made us for and we have a completely atheistic and materialistic way of thinking, we can all agree that there are objective evil and transgenderism is one of them because goes against nature and natural law summarizing goes against humans, it's a hate road. People who support this are HATERS (probably come from broken families )
The solution is simple, not education institution not any governmental organization probably none organization should mention sexuality at all, sexuality is just a little bit of what we are as human. We continue growing and pro creating by millennia without any teaching in sexuality, we manage pretty well with 7000 millions in the world. It is a lie that children need to know about it, it is so natural but nowadays we make such a fuzz, of course people weakened when they started to be sexualy active from short age and sex lose its beauty and purpose. Some adults persist into exterminate the innocence in children, let children and teens be, all mature in different times, we need to aim for a more carefree and less stressful society, parents should teach their children as the questions come, about sex without hidden anything including the responsibility that entitles, sex is for mature people, for adults who know what they are doing, sex and children should not be in the same sentence. We must stop glorifing sex, it has two purposes only and we should protect our children. I know many families myself that teach chastity and it is doable including in this hyper sexualized society. The children and the young are the victims here, they are the symptom of a sick society, we are all at fault we allowed this to happen. Recently an English gay couple who killed a nineteen months old baby they adopted (they shouldn't be allowed, kids have rights to a mother too) was sentenced after years.They raped until they killed him and they didn't get the death penalty. I wonder how are we not in the streets asking for justice, are we all so insensitive? Where is our compassion? Our understanding, open to dialogue??? Of course our children are confused about their identity, you have to be very strong with a strong supportive family not to be and still. They see how much " open mind " we are and how we accept anything twisted and anti natural as normal. We accept the killing of children without a blink, we should be in the streets against human trafficking and against the elites who are behind but NO we are comfy at home watching Netflix.
Everything is connected it!!! Sorry I know I won't gain any fans with my opinion but it's important that we put things into perspective, the transgender cult is a religion of our times and our society and it didn't come up from thin air, it has a trajectory. Fifty years ago this would never occurred to people, this trend would have been considered madness, twenty years ago people stopped to consider it madness but something we can considered now because we are "open minded " after all (virtue signalling) that truly and in practice means that we are more corrupted. The results are at large and we have to take responsibility because the monsters (doctors , pharma) and predators (social media, media in general including the entertainment industry; and support groups) are free to take our children and we opened the doors and invited them in .
It's extremely encouraging to see the homophobic nature of trans being articulated more and more often. Between gay and trans, one is found in nature across hundreds of species and across entirely different animal kingdoms too. The other is... not.
I think right from day 1 the trans activists knew what an impossible sell this was going to be to the general public. The threat of 'they'll commit suicide if they can't transition' functioned as the perfect gun-to-the-head for terrified parents. So strange that gay kids got the very very reasonable social campaign of 'it gets better', and then after that... the message gets rolled out that TRANS kids actually will commit suicide unless they can have what they want right this second. But... gay kids were able to wait. Why couldn't trans kids also wait for 'it to get better'? Because they knew the vast majority of parents would rather harm themselves than turn their child into a physical abomination. Also they know that early indoctrination and especially those SUNK COSTS of medicalization would be very helpful to jacking up their numbers and keeping them in the cult.
Same with the obviously coordinated campaign of referring to almost everything trans as LGBTQ, very soon after gay marriage was won in the United States. Again, the trans activists knew exactly what they were doing and what an impossible sell trans would be. So they called everything TRANS by another name: LGBTQ. 'We'll call ourselves by an acronym that starts with LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL. That'll take the stink off our sick cult beliefs.' I remember when Mayor Pete was addressed in an interview as 'you are LGBTQ'. No gay man I've ever known would describe himself this way. So strange and awkward. So obviously leveraging grass roots support for The Normal to jack up support for The Abnormal. So many countless examples of the media having done this over the past ten or so years. They knew exactly what they were doing with their impossible sell from day one.
Great essay! You wrote: “I want schools to stop lying to children. I want them to tell the truth: that sex is real and immutable, that stereotypes are not identities, and that liking different clothes, toys, friends, or feelings does not mean a child was "born wrong."
YES! 100%! This is the truth - stop lying to children whether you are an adult family member, neighbor, friend, teacher, therapist, doctor…STOP lying, please.
I agree with Donna, this tolerance thing has made the gay thing a glitter costume virtue-exhibitionists take on and wear and that led to same sex marriage even 'blessed' in church, when religion is clearly against. Now all the discussion of 'trans inlusive' and trans seems to be the new fad, leading to numerous lives destroyed ( I'm not even coutning the parents and siblings!) due to damaging and life-threatening surgery, or mind-killing surgery as some turn to suicide when they realise what they have done to themselves. Equally, through the 'hetero parents can be worse than a loving kind gay couple' the West has led gay couples to be able to easily adopt, and this is not the first time we have discovered abuse of the 'adopted child', lately one leading to the death of the baby( not toddler!) by 2 gay men barely three months after the adoption. Did they consider the rights of a child who might have wanted to grow in a normal family and not having to bear with the difference imposed on them or even have to be a 'warrior-spokesperson' for their gay parents? Where are the rights of the infant/ toddler/adopted or 'fabricated' baby of the gay couple when they say it is the right of a gay couple to have /adopt kids? I question everything because every time we have strayed away from nature, it has been a catastrophe. When are people going to find their moral compass again? EDIT FOR TYPOS
It’s all the same. It’s a perversion of the human reproductive system and it will get worse over time. The holier-than-thou tolerant people who shamed Christians in the 80s welcomed what came next. I’m beyond sick and tired of listening to them denying it.
They want us to question our sanity - that's the whole sad point. I've done it plenty of times, asking myself if I'm actually a bigot. But we parents here clearly have spent a lot of time searching our hearts, and we know that trans just doesn't add up, it's destructive, and is not likely to produce the outcome our children seek. In fact, it's likely to cause more harm than good.
It's interesting that the author don't see that the repealing of 'Section 28" is what directly led to the madness going on now. Those "bigots' were absolutely right. School is not the place to talk about sexuality. Homosexuality OR heterosexuality. That is a discussion that belongs in the home. Introducing it into to the schools and then caving into those crying 'bigot! Homophobic!" directly led to what is now being presented in the schools. It had nothing to do with "knowledge" or "compassion" being shut down and everything to do with protecting children. Until the author of this piece understands that, he or she still doesn't get why this is happening and how to stop it. Get sex OUT of the schools. ALL sex.
I have to agree that normalizing and celebrating that which is not normal only paves the way for acceptance of increasingly controversial concepts in the future. The melding of "TQIA+" with "LGB" is a perfect example. There would be no "Transgender" happening to our youth today if not for the widespread prior acceptance of the LGB agenda.
Can't we teach children not to bully those who are different without glorifying everything?
I think the key is understanding that not all social change is bad, but any and all social movements can and often do go too far. We are correcting the over correction right now really. It's possible to offer gay people a way forward in society where we can earn real respect, without sexualizing everything, without focusing on children, and without challenging society's natural heterosexual dominance. I really do understand the desire to look to 'what came first' and blame that. I get it. But very very black and white thinking.
Trans and gay are actually profoundly different. even if so many of us were duped into believing they are the same. I was duped too. I believed trans was 'under the queer umbrella' so of course gays should push for trans. And I am a rather bright gay person. If I was duped, natural to understand how so many others could be duped as well, straight or gay.
Don't let the fact that so many were duped by the lie that gay and trans are even remotely similar poison your opinion of normal gay people like me who have no political agenda except to fight against this demon shit.
I like this frame and agree! People can and have also blamed feminism for this crazy mess, and it's not that there isn't some blame deserved, but it's not black and white. Same with gay rights movements. We might as well blame the suffragettes for pushing for women to get the vote. You can draw a direct line from that movement through second wave feminism, which in my opinion got some things right and some things wrong. Intersectional feminism came next, and social justice ideology. Does that correlation and unfolding make the struggle for women's rights and opportunities in our society the source of the problem? No. That is a dangerous and profoundly incorrect leap to make. Same thing with gay rights. As you say, things can and do go too far in any movement. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is that organizations are created that require a cause to continue.
Yes, LGB has been a doormat for all that has come after. The AIDS agenda set up an infrastructure to begin meddling in sexed reality. Even Olsen Kennedy brings this up in the recent NYT piece but it was glossed over. She mentions the UCLA was treating HIV patients. She claims the 'transwomen' wanted to get their gender medicine from the same place as their HIV treatment (much of it harms, the testing is bogus, etc) AIDS/ HIV is fraught with lies and deceit for those that are not aware. There are countless groups, docs, journalists that have written about this but big medicine has a way of squashing the truth. The home is where sex ed belongs. Right now it is handed out top down through orgs like UNESCO and their 'comprehensive sex education' and spread to all nations, religions, families of the member nations. The ultimate goal is things like ectogenesis, birthing babies the synthetic way.
This paragraph (slightly re-tooled for US readers) is a such a great distillation of my process too: "When I start to worry I may be turning into an anti-gay bigot, I remember gender ideology is homophobic, regressive and an adult agenda that doesn't belong anywhere near children. It has nothing to do with anti-gay sentiment. In fact, gender ideology actively works against children who might grow up to be gay. No one is born in the wrong body and children are not trans.
Thanks so much for sharing these words. I am trying to put together a sort of 3 X 5 dossier, talking points and sources, to "come out" to friends on social media as gender critical. I don't want a fight - I want to be heard, so I am trying to think of what will resonate most and be heard with my liberal friends. This is too important to keep silent.
Jenny--not sure how long you have been gender critical in your stance, so you might know this already, but if not...my experience is that anything AT ALL brings up a fight. I am not saying you should not speak up in the clearest and most mindful and strategic way possible--far from that. You should do as your conscience dictates, and I wish more people would do that. But when I started speaking up years ago, using careful language like this, I still lost friends. No matter what you share, be prepared to be misunderstood and vilified, especially by progressive friends. Good luck!!
Making us question our sanity has always been the goal. Stay strong! The children who see many adults going along with the ludicrous ideology aren't going to forget the ones who didn't, who told them they weren't broken
Well said ,the author. We will defeat this horror in the end ,because the overwhelming majority of sane people agree with you. Take Care. Keep fighting x
One is about sexuality.
One is about mental illness.
One is about loving the same sex.
One is about not loving yourself as you are.
One is about self-acceptance.
One is about making others accept fantasy.
It's not hard to see why they split.
#LGBWithouttheT
I like the term "compelled pronouns" instead of "preferred pronouns." I haven't heard that before but it's so appropriate. Great essay!
I can see you don't see the connection that when section 28 was banned everything went berserk. People that were outrageous about that regulation didn't understand and probably they still don't understand human nature, everything is connected it, you mentioned that understanding and dialogue and all those attitudes ended up to be better and people ( those repressive folks who live in the past) aren't afraid anymore of people who is "different".
We are human beings and our identity is not our sexual orientation, being homosexual doesn't make special and I don't need a special treatment, privacy should be the standard and people have the right to live their lives as they choose as long they don't hurt children and are two consent adults, that doesn't mean that those behaviors are good but they are legal, but all of us have the right to choose our favorite road to hell, don't we?
Still if we don't believe in hell or what God made us for and we have a completely atheistic and materialistic way of thinking, we can all agree that there are objective evil and transgenderism is one of them because goes against nature and natural law summarizing goes against humans, it's a hate road. People who support this are HATERS (probably come from broken families )
The solution is simple, not education institution not any governmental organization probably none organization should mention sexuality at all, sexuality is just a little bit of what we are as human. We continue growing and pro creating by millennia without any teaching in sexuality, we manage pretty well with 7000 millions in the world. It is a lie that children need to know about it, it is so natural but nowadays we make such a fuzz, of course people weakened when they started to be sexualy active from short age and sex lose its beauty and purpose. Some adults persist into exterminate the innocence in children, let children and teens be, all mature in different times, we need to aim for a more carefree and less stressful society, parents should teach their children as the questions come, about sex without hidden anything including the responsibility that entitles, sex is for mature people, for adults who know what they are doing, sex and children should not be in the same sentence. We must stop glorifing sex, it has two purposes only and we should protect our children. I know many families myself that teach chastity and it is doable including in this hyper sexualized society. The children and the young are the victims here, they are the symptom of a sick society, we are all at fault we allowed this to happen. Recently an English gay couple who killed a nineteen months old baby they adopted (they shouldn't be allowed, kids have rights to a mother too) was sentenced after years.They raped until they killed him and they didn't get the death penalty. I wonder how are we not in the streets asking for justice, are we all so insensitive? Where is our compassion? Our understanding, open to dialogue??? Of course our children are confused about their identity, you have to be very strong with a strong supportive family not to be and still. They see how much " open mind " we are and how we accept anything twisted and anti natural as normal. We accept the killing of children without a blink, we should be in the streets against human trafficking and against the elites who are behind but NO we are comfy at home watching Netflix.
Everything is connected it!!! Sorry I know I won't gain any fans with my opinion but it's important that we put things into perspective, the transgender cult is a religion of our times and our society and it didn't come up from thin air, it has a trajectory. Fifty years ago this would never occurred to people, this trend would have been considered madness, twenty years ago people stopped to consider it madness but something we can considered now because we are "open minded " after all (virtue signalling) that truly and in practice means that we are more corrupted. The results are at large and we have to take responsibility because the monsters (doctors , pharma) and predators (social media, media in general including the entertainment industry; and support groups) are free to take our children and we opened the doors and invited them in .
It's extremely encouraging to see the homophobic nature of trans being articulated more and more often. Between gay and trans, one is found in nature across hundreds of species and across entirely different animal kingdoms too. The other is... not.
I think right from day 1 the trans activists knew what an impossible sell this was going to be to the general public. The threat of 'they'll commit suicide if they can't transition' functioned as the perfect gun-to-the-head for terrified parents. So strange that gay kids got the very very reasonable social campaign of 'it gets better', and then after that... the message gets rolled out that TRANS kids actually will commit suicide unless they can have what they want right this second. But... gay kids were able to wait. Why couldn't trans kids also wait for 'it to get better'? Because they knew the vast majority of parents would rather harm themselves than turn their child into a physical abomination. Also they know that early indoctrination and especially those SUNK COSTS of medicalization would be very helpful to jacking up their numbers and keeping them in the cult.
Same with the obviously coordinated campaign of referring to almost everything trans as LGBTQ, very soon after gay marriage was won in the United States. Again, the trans activists knew exactly what they were doing and what an impossible sell trans would be. So they called everything TRANS by another name: LGBTQ. 'We'll call ourselves by an acronym that starts with LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL. That'll take the stink off our sick cult beliefs.' I remember when Mayor Pete was addressed in an interview as 'you are LGBTQ'. No gay man I've ever known would describe himself this way. So strange and awkward. So obviously leveraging grass roots support for The Normal to jack up support for The Abnormal. So many countless examples of the media having done this over the past ten or so years. They knew exactly what they were doing with their impossible sell from day one.
Great essay! You wrote: “I want schools to stop lying to children. I want them to tell the truth: that sex is real and immutable, that stereotypes are not identities, and that liking different clothes, toys, friends, or feelings does not mean a child was "born wrong."
YES! 100%! This is the truth - stop lying to children whether you are an adult family member, neighbor, friend, teacher, therapist, doctor…STOP lying, please.
I agree with Donna, this tolerance thing has made the gay thing a glitter costume virtue-exhibitionists take on and wear and that led to same sex marriage even 'blessed' in church, when religion is clearly against. Now all the discussion of 'trans inlusive' and trans seems to be the new fad, leading to numerous lives destroyed ( I'm not even coutning the parents and siblings!) due to damaging and life-threatening surgery, or mind-killing surgery as some turn to suicide when they realise what they have done to themselves. Equally, through the 'hetero parents can be worse than a loving kind gay couple' the West has led gay couples to be able to easily adopt, and this is not the first time we have discovered abuse of the 'adopted child', lately one leading to the death of the baby( not toddler!) by 2 gay men barely three months after the adoption. Did they consider the rights of a child who might have wanted to grow in a normal family and not having to bear with the difference imposed on them or even have to be a 'warrior-spokesperson' for their gay parents? Where are the rights of the infant/ toddler/adopted or 'fabricated' baby of the gay couple when they say it is the right of a gay couple to have /adopt kids? I question everything because every time we have strayed away from nature, it has been a catastrophe. When are people going to find their moral compass again? EDIT FOR TYPOS
Calling everyone who tried to protect the innocence of children in the 80s bigots doesn't help.
And it was those teachings that those so called "bigots" repelled that led us to where we are today. On little time you pull out a thread....
It’s all the same. It’s a perversion of the human reproductive system and it will get worse over time. The holier-than-thou tolerant people who shamed Christians in the 80s welcomed what came next. I’m beyond sick and tired of listening to them denying it.
They want us to question our sanity - that's the whole sad point. I've done it plenty of times, asking myself if I'm actually a bigot. But we parents here clearly have spent a lot of time searching our hearts, and we know that trans just doesn't add up, it's destructive, and is not likely to produce the outcome our children seek. In fact, it's likely to cause more harm than good.
and at one time I looked around and noticed it was the mst tolerant families that were hit by this
It's interesting that the author don't see that the repealing of 'Section 28" is what directly led to the madness going on now. Those "bigots' were absolutely right. School is not the place to talk about sexuality. Homosexuality OR heterosexuality. That is a discussion that belongs in the home. Introducing it into to the schools and then caving into those crying 'bigot! Homophobic!" directly led to what is now being presented in the schools. It had nothing to do with "knowledge" or "compassion" being shut down and everything to do with protecting children. Until the author of this piece understands that, he or she still doesn't get why this is happening and how to stop it. Get sex OUT of the schools. ALL sex.
I have to agree that normalizing and celebrating that which is not normal only paves the way for acceptance of increasingly controversial concepts in the future. The melding of "TQIA+" with "LGB" is a perfect example. There would be no "Transgender" happening to our youth today if not for the widespread prior acceptance of the LGB agenda.
Can't we teach children not to bully those who are different without glorifying everything?
Exactly, there can be "no bullying" policies without all this garbage attached to it.
I think the key is understanding that not all social change is bad, but any and all social movements can and often do go too far. We are correcting the over correction right now really. It's possible to offer gay people a way forward in society where we can earn real respect, without sexualizing everything, without focusing on children, and without challenging society's natural heterosexual dominance. I really do understand the desire to look to 'what came first' and blame that. I get it. But very very black and white thinking.
Trans and gay are actually profoundly different. even if so many of us were duped into believing they are the same. I was duped too. I believed trans was 'under the queer umbrella' so of course gays should push for trans. And I am a rather bright gay person. If I was duped, natural to understand how so many others could be duped as well, straight or gay.
Don't let the fact that so many were duped by the lie that gay and trans are even remotely similar poison your opinion of normal gay people like me who have no political agenda except to fight against this demon shit.
I like this frame and agree! People can and have also blamed feminism for this crazy mess, and it's not that there isn't some blame deserved, but it's not black and white. Same with gay rights movements. We might as well blame the suffragettes for pushing for women to get the vote. You can draw a direct line from that movement through second wave feminism, which in my opinion got some things right and some things wrong. Intersectional feminism came next, and social justice ideology. Does that correlation and unfolding make the struggle for women's rights and opportunities in our society the source of the problem? No. That is a dangerous and profoundly incorrect leap to make. Same thing with gay rights. As you say, things can and do go too far in any movement. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is that organizations are created that require a cause to continue.
Yes, LGB has been a doormat for all that has come after. The AIDS agenda set up an infrastructure to begin meddling in sexed reality. Even Olsen Kennedy brings this up in the recent NYT piece but it was glossed over. She mentions the UCLA was treating HIV patients. She claims the 'transwomen' wanted to get their gender medicine from the same place as their HIV treatment (much of it harms, the testing is bogus, etc) AIDS/ HIV is fraught with lies and deceit for those that are not aware. There are countless groups, docs, journalists that have written about this but big medicine has a way of squashing the truth. The home is where sex ed belongs. Right now it is handed out top down through orgs like UNESCO and their 'comprehensive sex education' and spread to all nations, religions, families of the member nations. The ultimate goal is things like ectogenesis, birthing babies the synthetic way.
You seem confused about the difference between accepting gay people as human beings without prejudice and their lifestyle.
This paragraph (slightly re-tooled for US readers) is a such a great distillation of my process too: "When I start to worry I may be turning into an anti-gay bigot, I remember gender ideology is homophobic, regressive and an adult agenda that doesn't belong anywhere near children. It has nothing to do with anti-gay sentiment. In fact, gender ideology actively works against children who might grow up to be gay. No one is born in the wrong body and children are not trans.
Thanks so much for sharing these words. I am trying to put together a sort of 3 X 5 dossier, talking points and sources, to "come out" to friends on social media as gender critical. I don't want a fight - I want to be heard, so I am trying to think of what will resonate most and be heard with my liberal friends. This is too important to keep silent.
Jenny--not sure how long you have been gender critical in your stance, so you might know this already, but if not...my experience is that anything AT ALL brings up a fight. I am not saying you should not speak up in the clearest and most mindful and strategic way possible--far from that. You should do as your conscience dictates, and I wish more people would do that. But when I started speaking up years ago, using careful language like this, I still lost friends. No matter what you share, be prepared to be misunderstood and vilified, especially by progressive friends. Good luck!!
This is key to understanding the push to "save."
Making us question our sanity has always been the goal. Stay strong! The children who see many adults going along with the ludicrous ideology aren't going to forget the ones who didn't, who told them they weren't broken