Did you suspect that the prescribed treatment for children or young adults suffering from gender dysphoria – lifelong medication, removal of healthy body parts, sterilization – was NOT the correct course of action?
I'm right with your last paragraph. Will I ever get my son back? I am not hopeful at this point. He changed his name and gender and no longer wants a normal, loving parent-child relationship with me and my husband. He is likely taking hormones and having surgeries. He was brainwashed during COVID via social media when he was only 25 years old and likely was suffering from depression, along with having ADHD, and possibly autism spectrum disorders, mood disorder, and such. He had just started to emerge from his sheltered life in school, college, and family life, and was in transition as he was growing up in his 20s. This is a time when young adults are trying new ideas to find themselves. Why were these life-changing harms pushed on him? Those who are doing this to our youth should be held criminally responsible for creating irreversible damages. This is and will be totally devastating for him, his life, and for our family.
I have long suspected that the reason (cause) behind so-called gender dysphoria is society’s refusal to accept members who possess physical/social/spiritual qualities of not just one gender but both. Many Native American tribes cherished their two-spirit members. They considered them gifted. Rather than ostracizing two-spirits, they recognized their unique talents and gave them important roles to play in society. If only our society valued two-spirits like that, we would all be okay.
We live in a time when facts are subordinate to tribal identity. If read with an open mind this and the WPATH email leak would inspire investigative reporters to care. But as I watched both land with heads turned away from the evidence and the facts disappear down the memory hole, I have diminished hopes that anyone will ever back off their non-evidence based assumptions. It means admitting error and that there are consequences to that error.
The activists do their "left handed" comparison, while the better graph is iPhone adoption. (You don't have to ignore the before time on the graph or the industrial revolution in order for that to be an interesting correlation)
We actually won’t get it back. We will, however, be more willing to push back and state (restate) our position with those around us who have denied our truth. 388 pages of what we knew to be true is significant. we will get much deserved validation, while we weep for what we’ve lost.
What an excellent question...but who really has the answer? How do we return to our lives before this cult barged into our world and stole our children? I am afraid that too much has been lost and that there is no normalcy to go back to. How can all the damage be undone? Families and relationships have been severed, destroyed and ruined. How can our pain be forgotten? I am thrilled that the Cass Report has been published and I hope it will make a difference for the future of innocent children not yet trapped. The truth will be devastating, but will our lost children be able to cope? I just want accountability and pray that the wrong will be made right.
At last the Cass report tells the truth. Here in the UK the fight goes on. Let's hope victims start to sue those unprofessional monsters who attacked their children and young people.
It's a shame the report uses the language of magical 'gender' ideology and still assumes there is something to this gender nonsense. It doesn't question the concept of 'being born into the wrong body', or that these children should be treated as the opposite sex. I got the feeling the authors were forced into giving in, reluctantly.
It shows how ingrained this nonsense has become. These words and concepts are now part of our society, they teach children this rubbish in nursery schools! So much has to change. We fight on!
I hope we see some absolutely massive class-action lawsuits against physicians, medical groups, and all the ancillary mental health and social work support service providers who facilitated this barbaric madness under the banner of their barking-mad - "woke virtuousness"
I agree. I retired as a clinical social worker out of Alaska in 2014, before this madness really took off. Since my retirement it appears that the social work profession in the U.S. has been completely captured. In spite of my 40 year career in the field - were I still working today I'd be unceremoniously drummed out of the profession for the crime of believing in biological sex. It's all rather quite surreal I must say - and certainly couldn't be happening at this level without the blessings of Western oligarchy.
Yes it is surreal. I am in New Zealand now.. Even here something sinister is happening in society. Common sense, including belief in biological sex, has become a crime. Real crimes are not being dealt with. Police concentrate on protecting the real criminals who tell them lies which they believe. Data protection and privacy acts work perfectly to cover up any mistakes and make it impossible to find out what police really do. There is an absence of an ability to discern truth from fantasy.
So like in Scotland there is the madness of imaginary hate crime for “misgendering”.
In England I was at risk of a criminal record for referring to my daughter as “she” after she became legally male. Fortunately England did not go as far off the rails as did Scotland.
Police could not enforce this ridiculous law but they have to waste time trying. They have lost respectability.
My only grandchildren, now in England, are living in the house that I bought for my “adult” children. The youngest has just had her 25th birthday. She does not communicate with me, has been deluded seven years identifying as male. Social workers see no problem with her looking after my grandchildren. Her older sister has left her husband taking the two children with her. Both these daughters are on the autistic spectrum. I am not allowed to look after those children because I am “transgenderphobic”. There is a campaign to get children into the care of trans people so they can grow up and be indoctrinated into accepting transgenderism as normal. This social engineering is very scary.
According to my son-in-law if his wife is found unsuitable to keep the children he is second in line to have custody, although the latest court judgement prevents him from seeing his children except in a contact centre! I have no idea what my youngest child is telling social workers. All seems very evil. Trans people are protected by unfair laws. beyond criticism for their beliefs. They pretend to be the opposite sex, their fantasy lives based on lies, ruled by their narcissistic sense of entitlement. They are confused, authorities enabling this.
I fear the plan is to accuse the father of domestic abuse so that my “trans” child could get custody of the children (maybe some consolation for her having lost her sterility after seven years on testosterone). The father is justifiably paranoid. I am too. His mother, a psychologist in Soith Africa, thinks my daughter (her daughter-in-law) is psychotic. If so, I think both my daughters could be considered psychotic. This transgenderism is a mass psychosis, a contagion.
So sad. You have my deepest heartfelt sympathies. Its all quite barking mad at this point. I can't help but sense that with the rapid embrace of trans-gender ideology and of "affirmation only" practices - that we are being gaslighted by oligarchy for reasons that are not clear. Is it as Jennifer Bilek suspects, to open the door to trans humanism? Is it simply the latest "divide & conquer" tactic to keep us divided as the repressive apparatus of the State controls more and more of what we think and say? The one thing I am clear about - is that I don't for a minute think that elite concerns for the welfare of our children is in any way driving this madness.
Thanks for your sympathy. Knowing I am not alone gives me strength to speak about this. I noticed how the State has become increasingly powerful. I agree this madness is not driven by concerns for the welfare of our children. “Child Protection Services” are not actually meant to protect children. There are some evil bullies controlling big organisations. The World Health Organisation supposedly is concerned for our health but the cost will be our loss of freedom.
This is another topic but related. I lost trust in the NHS, refusing all treatments including vaccines. My Dad was a doctor and toward the end of his life he did not want treatments. He told me he was scared of the big hospital. It is life a factory. People have been worshipping the health care services. They need to worship God instead.
I hope they all get sued into oblivion for conducting medical experiments on children. They should never be allowed to "treat" anyone again. Parents and kids will suffer lifelong damage. The rest of the country will inadvertently find themselves caught up in the aftermath of this as well. The increase in medical claims for botched gender surgeries will affect the profits of the insurance companies. Someone's going to have to make up those losses and I'm pretty sure it's us.
I really do not believe that for males they have gender dysphoria, but fetishize women and want access to Lesbians. They want to wear our skin. If you ask them what, why they thing they are women, I've never yet heard an answer that is not about fetish and objectification of females.
For girls and women.... well, pick any group who is treated as inferior, with less rights and respect, and is grotesquely pornified in the media and most places, and who wouldn't want to have the rights and privileges of their oppressor? I sure would like to.
Our sons are often on the spectrum, have never felt or connected to masculine culture and go online to find a whole lot of information telling them they are actually female. You are inferring they have some perverse motivation for becoming trans. Please don't do that. Please respect that they are young, impressionable and confused. Thanks.
We can see girls and boys on the spectrum find puberty difficult, go online and are misled into weird thinking. They are vulnerable. As parents we do not judge them, we just want to protect them from evil influences.
Many do though. I was responding about the males of all ages who invaded Lesbian communities and took over and destroyed what we built for over 50 years. That's what they've done to girls' and women's sports also. Every little thing that girls and women created.
I don't respect anything about males harming females. I am sympathetic, but this is on a continuum of those with more privilege taking over what those they oppress have. The Rachel Dolezal story is a perfect example, but the African-descent community just flat out said no to her racism, but she did get sympathy -- from other white women.
If boys can realize they are taking what is not theirs to take, that could help. It makes sense to not feel connected to "masculine" culture, but that does not mean they are female. I think it could help to focus on how none of this is about personal choices but is about affecting everyone.
I think there is a cohort of males like that. But for autistic or quirky boys uncomfortable with / shocked by the changes of puberty, they feel like their bodies are alien - totally normal for teen boys, really. But now they go online and search "feel weird in my body" and they get "you were born in the wrong body - you are a girl." If they are black-and-white thinkers they feel if they are not one thing, they are the other. It's a minefield.
That is so sad because it makes sense to hate men when finding out the extent of horrific violence, but then not to include those who care, and definitely not to want to be one. I knew a woman who said she wanted to be a man to not get raped anymore, but there are so many other options.
I sort of understand wanting the privilege, though not to betray other females, but it ultimately makes no sense at all.
And will any of the unethical practitioners who were ideologically-driven and not evidence-driven who caused unnecessary harm to minors be held accountable?
While some good news in this and we will take all the good news we can... as fast as these stories are coming out and the detransition stories, the gender cult mafia is quickly working to suppress these stories and studies and also pass laws to make sure doctors, counselors, hospitals, etc. are NOT held responsible or liable in any way for such irresponsible, unscientific and harmful treatments. Completely protected If a patient / family later decide to sue them because of the horrific damage or even death they have caused, and the patient / family have NO RECOURSE. We already see all the hoops and political pressure to divert billions of dollars (much of our tax $ and rising insurance premiums) to "gender affirming care" BUT NOTHING for these poor souls who later realize what a terrible mistake they made and need help to detransition... they are met with scorn, ridicule and not one penny to help them then from these so called "caring' doctors and "community"... so much for really caring about these people... it's all an agenda and our dear children and youth are paying the price for being pawns in the game. Only GOD can avenge this evil, heal, redeem and bring beauty from such ashes. I pray HE does soon!!!!
I tend to think that the Insurance Industry has a big hand in this. The doctors, counselors and hospitals won't be paying......the Insurance Industry will be paying for the claims. This is what happens in end stage Capitalism.
The insurance industry does not have a money tree. If they're paying claims then we're the ones funding them. Insurance companies stay in business by bringing money in, not by paying it out. Profit is what happens in all stages of capitalism.
If insurers exclude coverage for 'transitioning' interventions and 'care' providers and hospitals/clinics are liable that should curb these ghoulish interventions. The WPATH Files were an off-ramp for insurers and for those so-called care providers involved in the unethical, unsafe, and harmful 'transgender' industry-the Cass Final Review is another off-ramp.
If the insurance companies have to start paying damages for these practices, then they won't be willing to cover those practices in the future. Recourse against the villains for past acts won't happen, because they can claim "ve vere just followingk orde-- er, best practices", but at least they won't be able to harm any more kids.
This group posts such effective and powerful stories that one would think it is enough to stop the current practice of gender-affirmation for at least those under 18, if not the entire population. But you are careful to avoid moral debates, recognizing the wide range of views held by your readers. Today, although I am not a Catholic nor bound by the Pope’s statements, I was impressed by recent writings which specifically condemned gender ideology and sex changes. Would someone in this writing group be willing to study this, and report on it, and on whether it an an effective strategy to roll back our current crisis?
I'm right with your last paragraph. Will I ever get my son back? I am not hopeful at this point. He changed his name and gender and no longer wants a normal, loving parent-child relationship with me and my husband. He is likely taking hormones and having surgeries. He was brainwashed during COVID via social media when he was only 25 years old and likely was suffering from depression, along with having ADHD, and possibly autism spectrum disorders, mood disorder, and such. He had just started to emerge from his sheltered life in school, college, and family life, and was in transition as he was growing up in his 20s. This is a time when young adults are trying new ideas to find themselves. Why were these life-changing harms pushed on him? Those who are doing this to our youth should be held criminally responsible for creating irreversible damages. This is and will be totally devastating for him, his life, and for our family.
Yes how to mitigate the harm that has been done. On so many levels!
I have long suspected that the reason (cause) behind so-called gender dysphoria is society’s refusal to accept members who possess physical/social/spiritual qualities of not just one gender but both. Many Native American tribes cherished their two-spirit members. They considered them gifted. Rather than ostracizing two-spirits, they recognized their unique talents and gave them important roles to play in society. If only our society valued two-spirits like that, we would all be okay.
We live in a time when facts are subordinate to tribal identity. If read with an open mind this and the WPATH email leak would inspire investigative reporters to care. But as I watched both land with heads turned away from the evidence and the facts disappear down the memory hole, I have diminished hopes that anyone will ever back off their non-evidence based assumptions. It means admitting error and that there are consequences to that error.
The activists do their "left handed" comparison, while the better graph is iPhone adoption. (You don't have to ignore the before time on the graph or the industrial revolution in order for that to be an interesting correlation)
We actually won’t get it back. We will, however, be more willing to push back and state (restate) our position with those around us who have denied our truth. 388 pages of what we knew to be true is significant. we will get much deserved validation, while we weep for what we’ve lost.
What an excellent question...but who really has the answer? How do we return to our lives before this cult barged into our world and stole our children? I am afraid that too much has been lost and that there is no normalcy to go back to. How can all the damage be undone? Families and relationships have been severed, destroyed and ruined. How can our pain be forgotten? I am thrilled that the Cass Report has been published and I hope it will make a difference for the future of innocent children not yet trapped. The truth will be devastating, but will our lost children be able to cope? I just want accountability and pray that the wrong will be made right.
At last the Cass report tells the truth. Here in the UK the fight goes on. Let's hope victims start to sue those unprofessional monsters who attacked their children and young people.
It's a shame the report uses the language of magical 'gender' ideology and still assumes there is something to this gender nonsense. It doesn't question the concept of 'being born into the wrong body', or that these children should be treated as the opposite sex. I got the feeling the authors were forced into giving in, reluctantly.
I don't think we will ever be able to put the gender genie back into the bottle.
It shows how ingrained this nonsense has become. These words and concepts are now part of our society, they teach children this rubbish in nursery schools! So much has to change. We fight on!
you are right. i will never get my daughter back.
I can only hope that all of those complicit will get massively suited in this life and burn in hell after.
I hope we see some absolutely massive class-action lawsuits against physicians, medical groups, and all the ancillary mental health and social work support service providers who facilitated this barbaric madness under the banner of their barking-mad - "woke virtuousness"
Social Services in the UK have been captured by woke madness. They deserve to be bankrupted by lawsuits. That would stop this nonsense.
I agree. I retired as a clinical social worker out of Alaska in 2014, before this madness really took off. Since my retirement it appears that the social work profession in the U.S. has been completely captured. In spite of my 40 year career in the field - were I still working today I'd be unceremoniously drummed out of the profession for the crime of believing in biological sex. It's all rather quite surreal I must say - and certainly couldn't be happening at this level without the blessings of Western oligarchy.
Yes it is surreal. I am in New Zealand now.. Even here something sinister is happening in society. Common sense, including belief in biological sex, has become a crime. Real crimes are not being dealt with. Police concentrate on protecting the real criminals who tell them lies which they believe. Data protection and privacy acts work perfectly to cover up any mistakes and make it impossible to find out what police really do. There is an absence of an ability to discern truth from fantasy.
So like in Scotland there is the madness of imaginary hate crime for “misgendering”.
In England I was at risk of a criminal record for referring to my daughter as “she” after she became legally male. Fortunately England did not go as far off the rails as did Scotland.
Police could not enforce this ridiculous law but they have to waste time trying. They have lost respectability.
My only grandchildren, now in England, are living in the house that I bought for my “adult” children. The youngest has just had her 25th birthday. She does not communicate with me, has been deluded seven years identifying as male. Social workers see no problem with her looking after my grandchildren. Her older sister has left her husband taking the two children with her. Both these daughters are on the autistic spectrum. I am not allowed to look after those children because I am “transgenderphobic”. There is a campaign to get children into the care of trans people so they can grow up and be indoctrinated into accepting transgenderism as normal. This social engineering is very scary.
According to my son-in-law if his wife is found unsuitable to keep the children he is second in line to have custody, although the latest court judgement prevents him from seeing his children except in a contact centre! I have no idea what my youngest child is telling social workers. All seems very evil. Trans people are protected by unfair laws. beyond criticism for their beliefs. They pretend to be the opposite sex, their fantasy lives based on lies, ruled by their narcissistic sense of entitlement. They are confused, authorities enabling this.
I fear the plan is to accuse the father of domestic abuse so that my “trans” child could get custody of the children (maybe some consolation for her having lost her sterility after seven years on testosterone). The father is justifiably paranoid. I am too. His mother, a psychologist in Soith Africa, thinks my daughter (her daughter-in-law) is psychotic. If so, I think both my daughters could be considered psychotic. This transgenderism is a mass psychosis, a contagion.
So sad. You have my deepest heartfelt sympathies. Its all quite barking mad at this point. I can't help but sense that with the rapid embrace of trans-gender ideology and of "affirmation only" practices - that we are being gaslighted by oligarchy for reasons that are not clear. Is it as Jennifer Bilek suspects, to open the door to trans humanism? Is it simply the latest "divide & conquer" tactic to keep us divided as the repressive apparatus of the State controls more and more of what we think and say? The one thing I am clear about - is that I don't for a minute think that elite concerns for the welfare of our children is in any way driving this madness.
Thanks for your sympathy. Knowing I am not alone gives me strength to speak about this. I noticed how the State has become increasingly powerful. I agree this madness is not driven by concerns for the welfare of our children. “Child Protection Services” are not actually meant to protect children. There are some evil bullies controlling big organisations. The World Health Organisation supposedly is concerned for our health but the cost will be our loss of freedom.
This is another topic but related. I lost trust in the NHS, refusing all treatments including vaccines. My Dad was a doctor and toward the end of his life he did not want treatments. He told me he was scared of the big hospital. It is life a factory. People have been worshipping the health care services. They need to worship God instead.
I hope they all get sued into oblivion for conducting medical experiments on children. They should never be allowed to "treat" anyone again. Parents and kids will suffer lifelong damage. The rest of the country will inadvertently find themselves caught up in the aftermath of this as well. The increase in medical claims for botched gender surgeries will affect the profits of the insurance companies. Someone's going to have to make up those losses and I'm pretty sure it's us.
I really do not believe that for males they have gender dysphoria, but fetishize women and want access to Lesbians. They want to wear our skin. If you ask them what, why they thing they are women, I've never yet heard an answer that is not about fetish and objectification of females.
For girls and women.... well, pick any group who is treated as inferior, with less rights and respect, and is grotesquely pornified in the media and most places, and who wouldn't want to have the rights and privileges of their oppressor? I sure would like to.
Our sons are often on the spectrum, have never felt or connected to masculine culture and go online to find a whole lot of information telling them they are actually female. You are inferring they have some perverse motivation for becoming trans. Please don't do that. Please respect that they are young, impressionable and confused. Thanks.
We can see girls and boys on the spectrum find puberty difficult, go online and are misled into weird thinking. They are vulnerable. As parents we do not judge them, we just want to protect them from evil influences.
Many do though. I was responding about the males of all ages who invaded Lesbian communities and took over and destroyed what we built for over 50 years. That's what they've done to girls' and women's sports also. Every little thing that girls and women created.
I don't respect anything about males harming females. I am sympathetic, but this is on a continuum of those with more privilege taking over what those they oppress have. The Rachel Dolezal story is a perfect example, but the African-descent community just flat out said no to her racism, but she did get sympathy -- from other white women.
If boys can realize they are taking what is not theirs to take, that could help. It makes sense to not feel connected to "masculine" culture, but that does not mean they are female. I think it could help to focus on how none of this is about personal choices but is about affecting everyone.
I think there is a cohort of males like that. But for autistic or quirky boys uncomfortable with / shocked by the changes of puberty, they feel like their bodies are alien - totally normal for teen boys, really. But now they go online and search "feel weird in my body" and they get "you were born in the wrong body - you are a girl." If they are black-and-white thinkers they feel if they are not one thing, they are the other. It's a minefield.
I agree and think they really need support among each other that they are not alone with this....
I think that describes my son plus he doesn’t want the toxic masculinity label.
My daughter used to say she hated all men. Now she wants to be one.
That is so sad because it makes sense to hate men when finding out the extent of horrific violence, but then not to include those who care, and definitely not to want to be one. I knew a woman who said she wanted to be a man to not get raped anymore, but there are so many other options.
I sort of understand wanting the privilege, though not to betray other females, but it ultimately makes no sense at all.
The internet is full of this rubbish. That's what needs to change. It should be illegal to be online grooming children and vulnerable young people!
And will any of the unethical practitioners who were ideologically-driven and not evidence-driven who caused unnecessary harm to minors be held accountable?
While some good news in this and we will take all the good news we can... as fast as these stories are coming out and the detransition stories, the gender cult mafia is quickly working to suppress these stories and studies and also pass laws to make sure doctors, counselors, hospitals, etc. are NOT held responsible or liable in any way for such irresponsible, unscientific and harmful treatments. Completely protected If a patient / family later decide to sue them because of the horrific damage or even death they have caused, and the patient / family have NO RECOURSE. We already see all the hoops and political pressure to divert billions of dollars (much of our tax $ and rising insurance premiums) to "gender affirming care" BUT NOTHING for these poor souls who later realize what a terrible mistake they made and need help to detransition... they are met with scorn, ridicule and not one penny to help them then from these so called "caring' doctors and "community"... so much for really caring about these people... it's all an agenda and our dear children and youth are paying the price for being pawns in the game. Only GOD can avenge this evil, heal, redeem and bring beauty from such ashes. I pray HE does soon!!!!
I tend to think that the Insurance Industry has a big hand in this. The doctors, counselors and hospitals won't be paying......the Insurance Industry will be paying for the claims. This is what happens in end stage Capitalism.
The insurance industry does not have a money tree. If they're paying claims then we're the ones funding them. Insurance companies stay in business by bringing money in, not by paying it out. Profit is what happens in all stages of capitalism.
If insurers exclude coverage for 'transitioning' interventions and 'care' providers and hospitals/clinics are liable that should curb these ghoulish interventions. The WPATH Files were an off-ramp for insurers and for those so-called care providers involved in the unethical, unsafe, and harmful 'transgender' industry-the Cass Final Review is another off-ramp.
If the insurance companies have to start paying damages for these practices, then they won't be willing to cover those practices in the future. Recourse against the villains for past acts won't happen, because they can claim "ve vere just followingk orde-- er, best practices", but at least they won't be able to harm any more kids.
Please also see this: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/over-75-pediatric-gender-clinics-across-america-jay-richards-5623807?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
This group posts such effective and powerful stories that one would think it is enough to stop the current practice of gender-affirmation for at least those under 18, if not the entire population. But you are careful to avoid moral debates, recognizing the wide range of views held by your readers. Today, although I am not a Catholic nor bound by the Pope’s statements, I was impressed by recent writings which specifically condemned gender ideology and sex changes. Would someone in this writing group be willing to study this, and report on it, and on whether it an an effective strategy to roll back our current crisis?
Though Cass Report is welcome news & can only hope slows, then stops medical mal practice given the name 'gender affirming' care
Tis cold comfort