Turning Children Trans

The assault on parents is vicious and unconscionable. In order to get their way, trans activists offer parents these two options, well analyzed by Ginny Gentles of the Independent Women’s Forum:

“Do you want a dead daughter or a live son?”

This question, which is really a threat, is the central tenet of the campaign selling gender ideology to parents.

Parents are often told that they are putting their gender-nonconforming child at risk of suicide if they don’t medically “transition” him or her to appear as the opposite sex or at least treat their child as the sex he or she chooses. The child then internalizes this information and believes that suicide is an inevitable outcome without transition, as opposed to an unhealthy response to internal distress.

Note the last remark. The activists are convincing children that if adults do not allow them to transition, they should kill themselves. So, the assault on vulnerable children is equally vicious and unconscionable. Someone should shut these people down. Someone should cancel them. 

Sad to say, it will not happen, because, as the old saying goes, the lunatics are running the asylum.

Besides, the threat is based on a false set of alternatives. The girl who transitions does not become a boy. No sensible and rational adult would argue otherwise.

Moreover, as we reported on this blog some time ago, those who do transition seem inevitably to lose connections between friends and family. After the first rush of acceptance, other people turn away from the transgendered-- leaving them alone and bereft.

So, the girl who becomes a boy, like the boy who becomes a girl, will not become a member of the opposite sex. You cannot surgically produce opposite sex genitalia. It is impossible. And, And those who do transition will not be accepted socially according to his or her chosen sex.

That tells us that the war over pronouns and the insistence on acceptance is covering up a basic and fundamental problem. While the medical profession and many psycho professionals, not to mention school counselors, are cheering the transgendered, the social reality is that these people are going to be rejected, as pariahs. Clearly, this will not improve their mental health.

So, trans activists are trying to take over the American mind, to mutilate children in a modernized pagan ritual sacrifice. The reasoning is so appalling that one hesitates to call it such.

Sad to say, it is an exercise in brainwashing. Consider the notion of consent. As you know, and to take an easy example, consent is a vitally important component to any sexual interaction. A woman who does not consent to have sex, and who is forced to have sex, has suffered a felonious assault. 

But also, if said female is under the age of what we call consent, and if she consents to have sexual relations with an adult, the act counts as statutory rape. It is a felony, because she is considered to be too young to give informed consent.

Now, what would happen if a nine-year old girl, for instance, decides that she wants to have carnal intercourse with an adult male who is twenty-nine years of age. Let’s say that she has been told that this act will cure whatever ails her, will help her to fight her psychic demons and will produce a new wave of happiness. If she has learned this, she might well believe that a sex act will be therapeutic.

And let us say that you, her parents are strongly opposed to this exercise of uninformed consent. You will do everything in your power to disabuse her of this notion, and you will certainly not allow her, if you have a say in the matter, to act on such manifestly false beliefs. 

Now, take it a step further, as a thought experiment, one that does not require any extensive knowledge of the law. Let’s say that your nine-year-old says that if you, her parents,  do not allow her to fornicate with said twenty-nine-year-old, she will commit suicide?

Would this persuade you to allow her to get her way, to do something that you know will damage her, to act on a set of beliefs that constitute psychic manipulation at its worst? And, have you put this girl in the position where she now believes that the only solution to her problem is suicide.

As I said, this is a form of pagan child sacrifice.

As Gentles points out, now that the medical and the paramedical professions have decided that gender transition is the cure for most of what ails children, there is no arguing the point. And there is no way to offer other treatments:

Parents who are not caught up in this social contagion know that children who threaten suicide are not born in the wrong body and that a risky regimen of puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries won’t bring children the peace and joy they desperately crave. A child who threatens suicide requires love, kindness, and therapy to address underlying struggles, not sterilization.

The children captivated by gender ideology often have underlying conditions, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or autism spectrum disorder, which are associated with lagging social skills, obsessive rumination, depression, and anxiety.

Of course, transitioning becomes the problem, not the solution. 

Both research studies and the stories shared by a growing number of those who have detransitioned reveal a tendency to self-harm and suffer from eating disorders. Life has been hard for these highly sensitive and emotionally intense young people, and they’re understandably seeking relief.

For the record, the prevailing ideology on these questions must be exposed for what it is. Especially since these crackpot beliefs are being promoted as science:

Children are told that doctors guess the gender when a child is born and sometimes get it wrong; that if they don’t feel like they fit into regressive stereotypes about males and females, they must be transgender; that a “safe space” is one that affirms fleeting feelings rather than biological reality; and that anyone who doesn’t immediately and fully embrace their new transgender identity hates them and wants to “erase” them. Most perniciously, children receive a steady drumbeat of messages focused on suicide and death.

These slogans are used like a giant switch that turns off critical thinking and forbids even gentle questioning. They are repeated over and over in colorful children’s picture books; at GSA (gender sexuality clubs) meetings; and in classroom lesson materials created by organizations like Queer Kids, Gender Spectrum, Advocates for Youth, and, of course, Planned Parenthood, an organization that profits from this ideology by doling out cross-sex hormones at clinics across the country.

These slogans are also baked into local and state transgender policies adopted—often quietly or even without a formal vote—by school boards.

Those who are not directly involved in this madness do not and cannot imagine what is being taught. And they cannot and do not understand the level of madness that has taken over the psycho professions. One suspects that this is not an outlier. This is standard operating procedure. This is a dogmatic belief that you had best accept, less you lose your license. 

It is terrifying because it is so completely insane. It represents a form of human sacrifice practiced by a culture that has returned to its roots in pagan idolatry. The alternative to the Western Judeo-Christian tradition-- the one that rejects child sacrifice-- is not some enlightened rational atheism. It is paganism.