The gender thing will not disappear on it's own without intervention like any other manmade disaster does . This is a multi-faceted problem.
The pandemic fucked up the kids and a lot of them think they're trans. These children are damaged. They are looking for a place to belong. Normally when the children are damaged, the parents course-c…
The gender thing will not disappear on it's own without intervention like any other manmade disaster does . This is a multi-faceted problem.
The pandemic fucked up the kids and a lot of them think they're trans. These children are damaged. They are looking for a place to belong. Normally when the children are damaged, the parents course-correct them. Goth kids and punk kids eventually grew out of it. This is the first kid-driven phenomenon that parents have opted into. There is no one putting barriers around them so they keep escalating.
Parents of autistic kids now have the opportunity to change their kid's identity from autistic to trans. Autism is embarrassing. Trans has a flag and parades. The demographic of "trans" before 2016 was a young adult male. It's teenage girls now. But why?
Ten years from now we're going to have a crisis. When the kids discover that they're sterile and have no sexual functioning because their mom wanted to be cool, there's going to be a huge problem.
This is our lobotomy. Lobotomies were done for ADHD. Seems crazy now, right? What is it when you cut off the breasts of a 14 year old because she and her mom want you to? Kids are doing the same stupid things that kids have always done. The difference has been that the parents were smarter than the kids and now they're not.
One of the weirdest things about what's happening now is that I'm evidently right wing. I believe in the freedom of speech for everyone. And I think that government intervention in people's rights is bad. I don't need people to agree with me. I need them to know that they can.
Lots of good points here. I am another one of those "evidently right wing" people! Once you see how they will paint every single person with this label the second they disagree with even a fraction of the BS, you can't see the world the same. I was a life-long liberal or so I thought. The truth is that the trans incursion has actually made me more conservative. I can't un see the things I am seeing now.
Yes, it's weird that I am somehow right-wing now as well - simply because I am not a believer in the new fundamentalist religion. This is our lobotomy era. I think it is wrong to blame the moms in all cases though. So many of us moms and dads on PITT.substack.com fight for our teens and young adults but the schools and neighbors plus local, state, and federal governments work against us. Your kid does not even need to be autistic to be indoctrinated at school. The teachers have been trained to cheer and do not listen to parents. The kids normally do not make the big reveal until they are thoroughly indoctrinated and once they are 18 they can get opposite sex hormones from Planned Parenthood on the first visit. Our ROGD daughter seems to have desisted in time but GI spells years of hell for families. The kids are led step by tiny step - usually first by becoming an "ally" to the alphabet club at school. They are turned against the people who really love them. That is how cults work. And, what teen does not want to rebel against parents? What is different from the past is that society and the schools say the children "know" everything and parents do not understand their own children.
I should have made more clear that I was referring to the green-haired moms who have lawn signs and are into the latest thing. I'd never blame a conscientious parent because their kid fell into this. The pressure on kids is relentless. Like you, I know many parents whose kids are suddenly trans and they are at a loss as to what to do. I didn't intend to blame the moms. That job is hard enough! I'm sorry if I implied that parents are to blame for their trans kids' behavior. Far from it. You're the ones fighting to get them back!
Thank you so much, Vot4Labs. I appreciate your words :-) The green-haired and the lawn signs drive me bonkers as well - specially when they go on celebration mode while families melt down.
I think we all sometimes fall into using the Orwellian language of the forces that want to destroy our families and our society like "trans kids". When we do that, they are winning. For instance, how do we define what a "trans kid" is? Is it a child who has received "puberty blockers" and been celebrated by Biden?" So, for that reason I prefer to say someone is "Transed-out" or "Trans-ID". Like, if a girl cuts her hair short and makes an announcement, does that make her this magical thing called "trans"? Is it when Admiral Levine announces he "is a woman"? Does that make him this trans thing? Does it extend to those who have done medical stuff or just to cross dressers? To gay men who cross dress or just to the straight men with a parafilia/fetish?
I would like to quote to you from the comments section of yesterday's PITT
"But over the past half-century, left-wing gay academics contributed Queer Theory to the various critical theories of identity politics. Now "queer" and "queering" refer not to homosexuality per se, but to acting in ways that subvert and dismantle the foundational norms of society, specifically with respect to biological sex, sexual identity and sexual practices. This ideology has filtered down to the public schools and the medical profession, of course, and has the blessings of the Democratic party, which benefits financially from Queer donors such as the Human Rights Campaign and the Pritzker family. Times have changed.
"Most of the children claim to be some type of queer." When your five year-old comes home from kindergarten and tells you that even though he has a penis, maybe he's a girl, you're living in the Queer Zone."
a response: "This gender-cult is evil and vicious and selfish and it does not care who it snatches or whose family it tears apart."
Then: "In fact, snatching away children and tearing apart the family is the whole point."
The PITT-type parents doing everything in their power to try to protect their kids from the physical and mental harms of following trans cult diktats are nearly always invisible to others, because they have to be. Which leads some to conclude incorrectly that parents of kids drawn into identifying as trans tend to be on board with it, far more than is the case. We know there are legions of deeply worried or heartbroken parents out there, but muzzled, unable to speak out, because being identifiable would put them at risk of losing all that matters most.
We are all anonymous for our, mostly, daughters. Somehow, the world does not notice PITT or 4thwavenow, or TransgenderTrend. Our narratives are drowned out by the One Narrative across the media - Gender is Real and there are "few regretters" - parents who disagree are meanies or something.
We are mostly quiet as we do not want even more bad attention brought to our indoctrinated kiddo or to our families. When we have tried to speak out - at high school for instance - it has not gone well. Parents don't matter. The ideology does. Plus, as you make clear, we do not want to further disaffect the cult indoctrinated kid from the parents who love them most.
There's a certain group of moms who push their kids towards this. I should have clarified that that's who I was referring to. Parents like you are doing everything you can to stop this which is completely the opposite of what they're doing. My heart goes out to you. I didn't mean to imply that every parent was pushing this and I'm sorry that's the way it came out.
These moms are the ones who voted for the people who enabled and enshrined these policies (and they're going to continue to vote for these people for some time to come), so I do think it's fair to blame them. They may not have realized what they were voting for, and they probably still don't, but we're all having to deal with the results.
On the political side - which is only a part of it - I expect the radical left to behave as it does - but what of the establishment conservatives who "don't want to fight culture wars"? I agree that most basic Dems probably didn't understand what they were voting for. The leftist media and lack of real journalism outside of a very few like Abigail doesn't help. I have high hopes for Elon's Twitter.
Not me. But, I do understand how you feel. I know moms of ROGD girls who marched wearing those "pussy hats". Even so, I feel sorry for them. When our daughter ROGDed in high school we were shocked and against "social transition" but no one at school or anywhere else would listen to us mere parents. It's a problem that most people think this is just an issue among progressive liberals. It is everywhere and most of us who love our children and want to protect them remain anonymous.
Also, this goes way beyond politics. All of our institutions have been taken over by those who push Gender Ideology. Just look at the medical and psychological associations, our universities, our media, and the teachers unions (which should just be closed down along with the Department of Education).
"Autism is embarrassing. Trans has a flag and parades."
This is key to understanding ROGD. No one wants to be an "autist" - in fact, among youth, "autist" is the new "retard." Even if a kid is not actually autistic, they will get labeled as an "autist" by today's cruel generation if they are quiet or socially awkward. These peers of theirs are experts at bullying that flies just under the radar - saying things like "Hey, it's okay to be autistic" or "You're autistic, right? It's okay to be different" as often as they can to any "different" kids of any stripe. Adopting the "trans" identity provides these different kids a shield and a cudgel against bullies. Administrations don't care much about regular old losers - but if a "trans kid" says they're being bullied, it's all hands on deck. Can't have a "trans suicide" at this school, that'll be weeks of bad publicity, months of interviews and years of lawsuits. Regular old loser kid commits suicide? Sad, but that's pretty much it.
Parents need to think really, really carefully about how tagging their child as "autistic" will affect their child's self-image and affect how their peers will treat them. Even if the diagnosis is on all points correct - when is it a good idea to tell your child that he's inherently different, inherently incapable of understanding "normal" people, and will forever live on the fringe? Why do people think it's remotely okay to tell an elementary-school-aged child these things? If the child is capable of getting along in a normal school class, having him tagged autistic (or ADHD) brings few benefits and absolutely shatters kids' hopes that they will fit in. Imagine if you had to go through school being officially labeled a "retard" - and it wasn't even because you were stupid, it was just because you had trouble fitting in. It's exquisite cruelty - and that's before we come to the idea of medicating children for early-life social & academic difficulties, which is not only an absolutely pants-on-head retarded idea to anyone with the slightest understanding of developmental biology, but also teaches children the lesson that "pills solve problems" at an early age. It's absolutely not a coincidence that every person in my family who was put on medication as a child grew up to have issues with drug abuse, and it's absolutely not a coincidence that almost every person who goes down the "trans" pipeline starts out with "gateway" psychiatric prescriptions such as for antidepressants or ADHD medications, whether in childhood or adulthood.
If you are interested in the social contagion aspect, you might be interested in this article out not long ago in The TransAtlantic – "Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?". If you get something from it, please do share...
I think the first thing to do is stop affirmation. If you are interested in the social contagion aspect of this phenomenon, you might be interested in this article out not long ago in The TransAtlantic – "Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?". If you get something from it, please do share...
The gender thing will not disappear on it's own without intervention like any other manmade disaster does . This is a multi-faceted problem.
The pandemic fucked up the kids and a lot of them think they're trans. These children are damaged. They are looking for a place to belong. Normally when the children are damaged, the parents course-correct them. Goth kids and punk kids eventually grew out of it. This is the first kid-driven phenomenon that parents have opted into. There is no one putting barriers around them so they keep escalating.
Parents of autistic kids now have the opportunity to change their kid's identity from autistic to trans. Autism is embarrassing. Trans has a flag and parades. The demographic of "trans" before 2016 was a young adult male. It's teenage girls now. But why?
Ten years from now we're going to have a crisis. When the kids discover that they're sterile and have no sexual functioning because their mom wanted to be cool, there's going to be a huge problem.
This is our lobotomy. Lobotomies were done for ADHD. Seems crazy now, right? What is it when you cut off the breasts of a 14 year old because she and her mom want you to? Kids are doing the same stupid things that kids have always done. The difference has been that the parents were smarter than the kids and now they're not.
One of the weirdest things about what's happening now is that I'm evidently right wing. I believe in the freedom of speech for everyone. And I think that government intervention in people's rights is bad. I don't need people to agree with me. I need them to know that they can.
Lots of good points here. I am another one of those "evidently right wing" people! Once you see how they will paint every single person with this label the second they disagree with even a fraction of the BS, you can't see the world the same. I was a life-long liberal or so I thought. The truth is that the trans incursion has actually made me more conservative. I can't un see the things I am seeing now.
Yes, it's weird that I am somehow right-wing now as well - simply because I am not a believer in the new fundamentalist religion. This is our lobotomy era. I think it is wrong to blame the moms in all cases though. So many of us moms and dads on PITT.substack.com fight for our teens and young adults but the schools and neighbors plus local, state, and federal governments work against us. Your kid does not even need to be autistic to be indoctrinated at school. The teachers have been trained to cheer and do not listen to parents. The kids normally do not make the big reveal until they are thoroughly indoctrinated and once they are 18 they can get opposite sex hormones from Planned Parenthood on the first visit. Our ROGD daughter seems to have desisted in time but GI spells years of hell for families. The kids are led step by tiny step - usually first by becoming an "ally" to the alphabet club at school. They are turned against the people who really love them. That is how cults work. And, what teen does not want to rebel against parents? What is different from the past is that society and the schools say the children "know" everything and parents do not understand their own children.
I should have made more clear that I was referring to the green-haired moms who have lawn signs and are into the latest thing. I'd never blame a conscientious parent because their kid fell into this. The pressure on kids is relentless. Like you, I know many parents whose kids are suddenly trans and they are at a loss as to what to do. I didn't intend to blame the moms. That job is hard enough! I'm sorry if I implied that parents are to blame for their trans kids' behavior. Far from it. You're the ones fighting to get them back!
Thank you so much, Vot4Labs. I appreciate your words :-) The green-haired and the lawn signs drive me bonkers as well - specially when they go on celebration mode while families melt down.
I think we all sometimes fall into using the Orwellian language of the forces that want to destroy our families and our society like "trans kids". When we do that, they are winning. For instance, how do we define what a "trans kid" is? Is it a child who has received "puberty blockers" and been celebrated by Biden?" So, for that reason I prefer to say someone is "Transed-out" or "Trans-ID". Like, if a girl cuts her hair short and makes an announcement, does that make her this magical thing called "trans"? Is it when Admiral Levine announces he "is a woman"? Does that make him this trans thing? Does it extend to those who have done medical stuff or just to cross dressers? To gay men who cross dress or just to the straight men with a parafilia/fetish?
I would like to quote to you from the comments section of yesterday's PITT
"But over the past half-century, left-wing gay academics contributed Queer Theory to the various critical theories of identity politics. Now "queer" and "queering" refer not to homosexuality per se, but to acting in ways that subvert and dismantle the foundational norms of society, specifically with respect to biological sex, sexual identity and sexual practices. This ideology has filtered down to the public schools and the medical profession, of course, and has the blessings of the Democratic party, which benefits financially from Queer donors such as the Human Rights Campaign and the Pritzker family. Times have changed.
"Most of the children claim to be some type of queer." When your five year-old comes home from kindergarten and tells you that even though he has a penis, maybe he's a girl, you're living in the Queer Zone."
a response: "This gender-cult is evil and vicious and selfish and it does not care who it snatches or whose family it tears apart."
Then: "In fact, snatching away children and tearing apart the family is the whole point."
https://pitt.substack.com/p/rejection
I couldn't agree more. From experience.
The PITT-type parents doing everything in their power to try to protect their kids from the physical and mental harms of following trans cult diktats are nearly always invisible to others, because they have to be. Which leads some to conclude incorrectly that parents of kids drawn into identifying as trans tend to be on board with it, far more than is the case. We know there are legions of deeply worried or heartbroken parents out there, but muzzled, unable to speak out, because being identifiable would put them at risk of losing all that matters most.
100%
We are all anonymous for our, mostly, daughters. Somehow, the world does not notice PITT or 4thwavenow, or TransgenderTrend. Our narratives are drowned out by the One Narrative across the media - Gender is Real and there are "few regretters" - parents who disagree are meanies or something.
We are mostly quiet as we do not want even more bad attention brought to our indoctrinated kiddo or to our families. When we have tried to speak out - at high school for instance - it has not gone well. Parents don't matter. The ideology does. Plus, as you make clear, we do not want to further disaffect the cult indoctrinated kid from the parents who love them most.
This has to be a living hell for parents of pre-teens and teens. I'm so sorry that you're going through this.
There's a certain group of moms who push their kids towards this. I should have clarified that that's who I was referring to. Parents like you are doing everything you can to stop this which is completely the opposite of what they're doing. My heart goes out to you. I didn't mean to imply that every parent was pushing this and I'm sorry that's the way it came out.
These moms are the ones who voted for the people who enabled and enshrined these policies (and they're going to continue to vote for these people for some time to come), so I do think it's fair to blame them. They may not have realized what they were voting for, and they probably still don't, but we're all having to deal with the results.
On the political side - which is only a part of it - I expect the radical left to behave as it does - but what of the establishment conservatives who "don't want to fight culture wars"? I agree that most basic Dems probably didn't understand what they were voting for. The leftist media and lack of real journalism outside of a very few like Abigail doesn't help. I have high hopes for Elon's Twitter.
Not me. But, I do understand how you feel. I know moms of ROGD girls who marched wearing those "pussy hats". Even so, I feel sorry for them. When our daughter ROGDed in high school we were shocked and against "social transition" but no one at school or anywhere else would listen to us mere parents. It's a problem that most people think this is just an issue among progressive liberals. It is everywhere and most of us who love our children and want to protect them remain anonymous.
Also, this goes way beyond politics. All of our institutions have been taken over by those who push Gender Ideology. Just look at the medical and psychological associations, our universities, our media, and the teachers unions (which should just be closed down along with the Department of Education).
Look how awful Fox News is: "https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/22/exclusive-leaked-policy-exposes-fox-news-stances-on-woke-ideology/
Have a scan of: "Medical Journal’s False Consensus on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medical-journals-false-consensus-on-gender-affirming-care-sex-change-procedure-transgender-f10cd52b?mod=opinion_lead_pos7
The academic article Trans Activists are attacking:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02576-9
Most churches have gone Woke. And, look at this Catholic hospital: "Catholic Health Network Hospital Receives Millions For Sex-Change Surgery Robot"
https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-health-network-hospital-receives-millions-for-sex-change-surgery-robot
And, I highly recommend the "Transgender Leviathan": https://pitt.substack.com/p/lets-read-the-transgender-leviathan
I hope I get to vote for Ron DeSantis. That would be a step. But only one step.
"Autism is embarrassing. Trans has a flag and parades."
This is key to understanding ROGD. No one wants to be an "autist" - in fact, among youth, "autist" is the new "retard." Even if a kid is not actually autistic, they will get labeled as an "autist" by today's cruel generation if they are quiet or socially awkward. These peers of theirs are experts at bullying that flies just under the radar - saying things like "Hey, it's okay to be autistic" or "You're autistic, right? It's okay to be different" as often as they can to any "different" kids of any stripe. Adopting the "trans" identity provides these different kids a shield and a cudgel against bullies. Administrations don't care much about regular old losers - but if a "trans kid" says they're being bullied, it's all hands on deck. Can't have a "trans suicide" at this school, that'll be weeks of bad publicity, months of interviews and years of lawsuits. Regular old loser kid commits suicide? Sad, but that's pretty much it.
Parents need to think really, really carefully about how tagging their child as "autistic" will affect their child's self-image and affect how their peers will treat them. Even if the diagnosis is on all points correct - when is it a good idea to tell your child that he's inherently different, inherently incapable of understanding "normal" people, and will forever live on the fringe? Why do people think it's remotely okay to tell an elementary-school-aged child these things? If the child is capable of getting along in a normal school class, having him tagged autistic (or ADHD) brings few benefits and absolutely shatters kids' hopes that they will fit in. Imagine if you had to go through school being officially labeled a "retard" - and it wasn't even because you were stupid, it was just because you had trouble fitting in. It's exquisite cruelty - and that's before we come to the idea of medicating children for early-life social & academic difficulties, which is not only an absolutely pants-on-head retarded idea to anyone with the slightest understanding of developmental biology, but also teaches children the lesson that "pills solve problems" at an early age. It's absolutely not a coincidence that every person in my family who was put on medication as a child grew up to have issues with drug abuse, and it's absolutely not a coincidence that almost every person who goes down the "trans" pipeline starts out with "gateway" psychiatric prescriptions such as for antidepressants or ADHD medications, whether in childhood or adulthood.
If you are interested in the social contagion aspect, you might be interested in this article out not long ago in The TransAtlantic – "Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?". If you get something from it, please do share...
https://thetransatlantic.substack.com/p/ideology-and-anxiety-what-can-we
I will check it out and report back! Thanks!
""Autism is embarrassing. Trans has a flag and parades."
This is key to understanding ROGD."
That is so perfect. Good thinking.
I think the first thing to do is stop affirmation. If you are interested in the social contagion aspect of this phenomenon, you might be interested in this article out not long ago in The TransAtlantic – "Ideology & Anxiety: What Can We Learn From Penis-Shrinking Panics?". If you get something from it, please do share...
https://thetransatlantic.substack.com/p/ideology-and-anxiety-what-can-we