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—DENNIS PRAGER,
—MICHAEL KNOWLES,
—BEN SHAPIRO,
CONTAGION
parents are often in the best position to know whether the passionate dysphoria of adolescence began in early childhood.
Except, of course, if they are affirming
enlisting
“pansexual” (formerly known as “bi”)
???
Perhaps people with gender dysphoria naturally gravitated toward one another?
Wow kind of like…any group of people with similarities
It applies to Hula-Hoops and Pokémon and all sorts of cultural fads.
His earrings, cat tattoos, flop of hair dyed every vivid shade of parrot, and nail polish all slyly nod toward the sex of his birth.
??? And somehow transitioning is sexist, tf is this?!
Since they almost never undergo the phalloplasty necessary to achieve one of the defining features of manhood, it’s hard not to see their male identities as fragile; a quick trip to a urinal, and the jig is up.
Men piss in toilets
self-diagnosis.
As opposed to getting a formal diagnosis from an ‘evil big pharma groomer therapist’
Her daughter’s friends seemed to be fortifying the trans identity. To undermine that identity, Brie needed to get her away. They moved across the U.S., to the Southwest, where her daughter could start life, redux, once again as a girl. Brie became active in 4thWaveNow.
Fun fact: Said daughter started an anti-trans detransitioner group that has now been defunct for years! I wonder what she’s up to..?
Imagine we treated anorexics this way. Imagine a girl—5'6" tall, 95 pounds—approaches her therapist and says: “I just know I’m fat. Please call me ‘Fatty.’ ” Imagine the APA encouraged its doctors to “modify their understanding” of what constitutes “fat” to include this emaciated girl.
“Imagine this made up treatment”
It’s worth noting how different this is from being the parent of a gay adolescent. An adolescent who comes out as gay asks her parents to accept her for what she is. An adolescent who is transgender-identified asks to be accepted for what she is not. Even the most loving parent might be forgiven for failing this mind-bending test.
stares at decades of homophobia built on the foundation that gay people are denying their ‘true’ straight, biological selves
“Imagine if someone started to call you by a male name and pronoun,” she said. “It wouldn’t feel like it’s you, and it would feel disrespectful, right? We don’t really think about that. What if suddenly someone was calling you ‘Andy’ instead of ‘Abigail,’ and you’d be like, ‘What’s up with that?’ ” Try as it might, this notion had trouble working itself through the crusty loam of my cisgender brain.
Self-report as author malfunctions during empathy exercise
This can work. If you find your daughter steeping in a tea of gender ideology with all of her peers, do what it takes to lift her out and take her away. If she is still living with you, a move seems incredibly effective, especially if it’s early in her trans identification. If she is already at college, bring her home. A family sabbatical incorporating a year of travel was very helpful in one case. Of the parents I talked to, the few who packed up their families despite the considerable inconvenience were among the most successful. In almost every case, the young woman desisted. Not one of the
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