I truly appreciated your comments and how you came to the right decisions based on your child. You researched and examined the right sources and came out with the truth. You trusted your instincts.
I have to disagree, however with some points in your thinking that 1)we should be more understanding and I guess “be kind” to the parents who …
I truly appreciated your comments and how you came to the right decisions based on your child. You researched and examined the right sources and came out with the truth. You trusted your instincts.
I have to disagree, however with some points in your thinking that 1)we should be more understanding and I guess “be kind” to the parents who chose the worst course for their child. I don’t mean to say that some parents don’t represent a group that made a mistake with best intentions. The vile myth spread by some docs, therapists and educators that you’ll have a trans child or a dead one is one of the despicable lies to come out of the cult ideology led some parents down the wrong path. It implies right minded, sensitive parents didn’t care if their child lived or died. This undoubtedly swayed some parents who believe that so-called “experts” know better. But there are categories of parents for which this does not apply. 2) There are the “tranhausen” parents who use their children to manifest their own fantasies or to follow a sick “trend” leaving their child with irreversible damage. Some think they are being “progressive” (whatever that means today). I’m thinking of “jazz”, and all the disgusting notoriety that came out of that. The mother even saying in a notorious video that she would dilate her child’s faux-gina if she didn’t do it himself - after starting her son on an irreversible path by age 6.
3) Then there are the aggressive, often violent TRA parents who threaten parents and FEMALES in particular who want to protect children’s health and women’s spaces and voices. They call for violence against women and mothers they call terfs. I see vast differences in these parents and the ones you describe who now realize they made a wrong turn. I’m sure there are other categories of missteps that parents who affirmed rather than explore have made, but these come to mind. Having said all this, perhaps the only reason to give the enabling, affirming, empowering parents a door to return to sanity and science - is to end the cult. Many kids bodies and minds still will have been destroyed in their wake. They will have to live with that. Finally, I disagree that you were like the other parents who affirmed without question. There are fundamental differences in how people utilize and internalize information. Your thought processes were different, “better”, if you will than the others. But your journey can be a guide to other parents now faced with the insanity of cult ideology.
I truly appreciated your comments and how you came to the right decisions based on your child. You researched and examined the right sources and came out with the truth. You trusted your instincts.
I have to disagree, however with some points in your thinking that 1)we should be more understanding and I guess “be kind” to the parents who chose the worst course for their child. I don’t mean to say that some parents don’t represent a group that made a mistake with best intentions. The vile myth spread by some docs, therapists and educators that you’ll have a trans child or a dead one is one of the despicable lies to come out of the cult ideology led some parents down the wrong path. It implies right minded, sensitive parents didn’t care if their child lived or died. This undoubtedly swayed some parents who believe that so-called “experts” know better. But there are categories of parents for which this does not apply. 2) There are the “tranhausen” parents who use their children to manifest their own fantasies or to follow a sick “trend” leaving their child with irreversible damage. Some think they are being “progressive” (whatever that means today). I’m thinking of “jazz”, and all the disgusting notoriety that came out of that. The mother even saying in a notorious video that she would dilate her child’s faux-gina if she didn’t do it himself - after starting her son on an irreversible path by age 6.
3) Then there are the aggressive, often violent TRA parents who threaten parents and FEMALES in particular who want to protect children’s health and women’s spaces and voices. They call for violence against women and mothers they call terfs. I see vast differences in these parents and the ones you describe who now realize they made a wrong turn. I’m sure there are other categories of missteps that parents who affirmed rather than explore have made, but these come to mind. Having said all this, perhaps the only reason to give the enabling, affirming, empowering parents a door to return to sanity and science - is to end the cult. Many kids bodies and minds still will have been destroyed in their wake. They will have to live with that. Finally, I disagree that you were like the other parents who affirmed without question. There are fundamental differences in how people utilize and internalize information. Your thought processes were different, “better”, if you will than the others. But your journey can be a guide to other parents now faced with the insanity of cult ideology.