More ACLU lies
ACLU pushing girls in front of the train again.
Nobody’s trying to “push trans youth out of public life.” We’re trying to prevent males from invading and destroying everything women have. The ACLU couldn’t care less about women and our rights.
Furthermore, some of us would like to protect young people with gender dysphoria from being universally branded as “trans youth,” and pushed down a medical pipeline which will only harm the majority of them.
Every time someone in the media repeats the epithets “trans youth” or “trans kids,” they are supporting medical harm to these children.
Do they even take on cases protecting Nazis anymore, or are they all trans, all the time?
I guess you’re carefully hedging your bets, just in case these horrible drugs and surgeries will make life easier for a tiny percentage of gender dysphorics?
Or hoping that they don’t do lasting harm. No one is born in the wrong body, and it’s criminal to lead children to think that they are. Back in the 1970s when transsexualism was something I learned about, through reading about Jan Morris and Renee Richards, transing kids was not a thing at all. Why is it now? Because it’s been medicalized by people who are projecting their own misconceptions about gender on the bodies of kids who don’t know any better.
It isn’t unusual to hate your body, or feel that it doesn’t reflect who you are. That doesn’t mean it’s the wrong body, or that you are trapped in a body that isn’t right for you. The problem may be self esteem, or it may be not recognizing yourself when you look in the mirror. (I have to deal with both.)
Changing your body is drastic and irreversible in many cases. Fixing your perceptions? That can be so useful. We’re taking an option away from these kids: the option to learn to like themselves as they are, or at least accept themselves and move on.
In good part, yes. But reading quotes by proud mothers of “ trans kids” consistently referred to another factor: an emphasis on making the child happy by doing what they want.
Over and over again, these parents emphasized how hurt, upset, and miserable their child was until they gave in and “accepted them for who they really are.” The idea that kids can get fixated and furious over things and experiences they SHOULDN’T have didn’t seem to occupy as much space as “my job is to have a happy kid.”
Couple this with the fact that for whatever reason children often express a desire to be the opposite sex — sometimes insistently so for a long, sustained period of time — and you’ve got a recipe for Transing Kids. My guess is that the phenomenon of parents breaking down and pretending that yes, you ARE a boy may even have preceded the real push from the ideology. It started when parents became too focused on making sure the child didn’t have to learn to cope with disappointment and a few role model parents went public. Gay people telling stories of having to hide their “authentic selves” fueled the fire.
The idea of “trans kids” may have been partly formed from grass-roots parent-child relationships.