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“My experience as a parent whose young adult daughter needed time, exploration of treatment options, and healing of multiple issues but instead clambered aboard the medicalized trans train has led me to feel like I’m in a tortured dream state.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: gender-critical, gender-ideology, medicalization, parental-alienation, parenting-quotes, trans, trans-identity, trans-ideology, trans-issues, transgenderism

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#2

“When trans ideology comes to a family, it is like a bomb drops and relationships are decimated, the profound ripple effects spreading from the point of detonation.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: family, family-drama, family-relationships, gender-critical, gender-ideology, parenting, parenting-quotes, trans-ideology, trans-issues, transgender

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#3

“Even when raised by a loving parent, a young adult may be influenced to the point of hopping on the fast-moving trans train and leaving the loving family behind.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: family-love, family-relationships, family-relationships-trauma, gender-critical, gender-ideology, medicalization, parent-love, parent-love-and-protection, parenting-quotes, trans-ideology

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#4

“The biggest decision of a young person’s life, to present themselves as the opposite sex, needs time and thorough investigation of the root causes prompting the request for drastic measures of drugs and permanent surgery to remove healthy body parts.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: decision-making, gender-critical, medicalization, root-causes, trans-identity, trans-ideology, trans-issues, transgender, underlying-causes, underlying-problems

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#5

“When I look at the US now, I am devastated and angry that we live in a country that supports the narrative that it is okay to medicalize young girls and women by prescribing testosterone and performing mastectomies as a first response to the girls’ gender confusion, stress, or mental health concerns.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: gender-confusion, gender-criticism, gender-dysphoria, mastectomy, medicalization, mental-health, parent-child-relationship, testosterone, transgender-issues, transitioning

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#6

“This mastectomy craze of removing healthy breasts that is happening to our young girls and women today will probably be the era that we look back on in the future and ask ourselves how and why we ever allowed and glorified self-harm.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: gender-confusion, gender-critical, gender-ideology, mastectomy, self-harm, top-surgery, trans, trans-issues, transgender, young-girls

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#7

“Many families have been emotionally blackmailed and told that they will lose their kids to suicide if they don’t agree to participate in the affirmation model. This threat is an unsubstantiated claim. When parents tap into the experiences of detransitioners, they learn that mental health often crumbles after transition. If it doesn’t work out so well on the other side, then what? It is a no-win situation for parents.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: detransition, emotional-blackmail, gender-affirmation-surgery, gender-ideology, mental-health, parent-child-relationship, parental-acceptance, self-harm, suicide, transgender-issues

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#8

“I am against the rush to medicalize our children and young people to present as the opposite sex when they are confused or when other conditions such as autism are misattributed as trans.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: autism, autism-spectrum, gender-affirmation-surgery, gender-confusion, gender-critical, medicalization, protecting-children, trans, trans-issues, transitioning

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#9

“On an individual basis, unless one has worked to address their feelings and issues through years of therapy and other gentle, natural options, and unless one has examined the personality, past, and underlying issues, as well as the relationship with social media, then healthy body parts should not be cut off. We are harming our children and pretending we are helping them when we do not allow them time to mature.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: gender-confusion, gender-critical, maturity, natural-opinions, personality, protecting-children, therapy, trans-issues, underlying-problems

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#10

“I hope to see those who participate in the gender affirming care model switch to engaging in the examination of deeper issues and the exploration of other treatment options beyond immediate transition when gender confusion presents itself. Young people may need support with counseling to understand and heal from the root cause of their feelings and experiences of dysphoria.”
― Lisa Shultz

tags: gender-affirmation-surgery, gender-confusion, gender-critical, gender-dysphoria, protecting-children, root-cause-of-problems, root-causes, transition

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#11

“When a drastic and rushed medicalization approach based on trending controversial ideology is presented as the only option to solve the emotional, psychological, or physical discomfort of our kids, then we have failed to help the younger generation set themselves up for future health and well-being.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: controversial-ideas, emotional-distress, gender-ideology, health-and-wellbeing, medicalisation, medicalization, protecting-children, psychological-discomforts, puberty

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#12

“As a mom, I feel compelled to ask questions. Why are girls demanding the drug testosterone in skyrocketing numbers? Why are so many young girls and women getting mastectomies? What is happening when the young woman’s scarred mastectomy chest is glorified? Why is there a new industry profiting from removing any traces of femininity of our daughters? Why is this drastic medicalized trend rushed, creating a destructive trans train that roars fast and furious, ignoring the whole person, their history, and their family?”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: daughters, family-history, femininity, gender-critical, mastectomy, medicalization, self-acceptance, self-harm, testosterone

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#13

“There’s no need to rush life-changing, body-altering decisions that are difficult or impossible to reverse.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: do-no-harm, gender-affirmation-surgery, gender-critical, gender-ideology, life-altering, life-changing, protecting-children, rushing-things, trans-issues

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#14

“Only allowing affirmation indicates that a child’s feelings are facts, and we believe that feelings, which are often transient, are not facts. One may hold respect and empathy for those suffering from gender confusion and still say no to a destructive ideology that advocates the medicalization of kids.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: controversial-ideas, do-no-harm, emotional-distress, empathy-for-others, gender-confusion, gender-critical, gender-ideology, parents-and-children, protecting-children

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#15

“Kids today are born into an era where gender identity ideology threatens to take away their right to mature naturally through puberty and into adulthood without damaging and altering their healthy bodies.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: do-no-harm, gender-identity, gender-ideology, healthy-body, kids-development, maturity, protecting-children, puberty, transgender-issues

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#16

“I am not aware of any other mental or medical condition in which a kid or young adult self-diagnoses themselves after social media and internet engagement, undergoes no objective testing, and then receives irreversible medication and surgery upon demand”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: do-no-harm, gender-affirmation-surgery, gender-critical, gender-identity, gender-ideology, irreversible-damage, protecting-children, social-media-influencers

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#17

“Something is terribly wrong when natural and holistic measures to relieve emotional struggles are left untouched in favor of lifelong, irreversible medical interventions that are experimental, expensive, and come with a host of additional adverse effects.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: adverse-effect, do-no-harm, emotional-distress, gender-affirmation-surgery, gender-confusion, gender-critical, gender-dysphoria, holistic-health, irreversible-damage, transitioning

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#18

“There is a significant lack of evidence that cross-sex hormones and surgical procedures, such as mastectomies, that attempt to chemically and cosmetically alter biological sex are effective solutions to young women’s difficulties. Transgender medicalization is an experiment that might have dire consequences on the future of our children and society.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: biological-sex, do-no-harm, gender-critical, gender-ideology, medicalization, protect-children-quotes, root-cause-of-problems, trans-ideology, transgender-issues

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#19

“Girls and women, both straight and lesbian, are particularly affected by gender ideology; they are losing their rights, safe spaces, and fairness in sports.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: do-no-harm, fairness, gay-rights, gender-ideology, lesbian, women-s-dignity, women-s-issues, women-s-rights

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#20

“Let us question why we are losing so many teenage girls and young women to an ideology that encourages them to discard all things that represent womanhood and motherhood. Moms are often thrown out, along with the young women’s healthy breast tissue. Being a woman is a gift if not rejected.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: do-no-harm, gender-critical-feminism, mastectomy, motherhood, mothers, protection-of-children, teenage-girls, womanhood, women-s-dignity, women-s-rights

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#21

“I will ask over and over until I die why doctors, therapists, school educators, and counselors are not looking deeply at the individual in front of them and creating a treatment plan with options that heal trauma, offer tools and adaptive coping strategies to navigate their emotional life, and address underlying mental issues before placing that young person on a rapid medicalization pathway that ignores complex dynamics of their personality and experiences.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: coping-skills, do-no-harm, emotional-distress, gender-affirmation-surgery, healing, medicalization, mental-health, trauma, treatment-plan, underlying-problems

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#22

“Everyone involved in our children’s transition failed to adequately address or treat the full range of each child’s complex personality and history. The affirmation care model and those involved in it also failed to preserve the precious parent-child bond.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: do-no-harm, family-relationships, gender-ideology, irreversible-damage, parental-alienation, parental-bond, parents-and-children, protecting-children

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#23

“Why is there a perseveration on gender instead of expanding inquiry and addressing all dimensions of a being in distress? Why are we enabling kids to possibly run from something such as past trauma or encouraging distraction from emotional pain by quickly writing a prescription for puberty blockers or a cross-sex hormone on the first or second visit to a clinic?”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: do-no-harm, emotional-distress, emotional-pain, enabling, gender-critical, gender-identity, gender-ideology, quick-fix, traumatic-stress

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#24

“We need to engage with the family for deeper insight into the dysfunctions and dynamics that led to a decision to make permanent body changes with surgery. Taking the easy route of writing a prescription for testosterone after one or two short visits, instead of careful evaluation and exploration, is woefully inadequate.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: do-no-harm, family-dynamics, family-dysfunction, gender-confusion, health-care-reform, hormone-therapy, irreversible-damage, parental-worries, protection-of-children, root-cause-of-problems

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#25

“I join thousands of parents globally in advocating for our daughters to accept their natural bodies and for the cessation of the harmful notion that only a “new one” will bring happiness.”
― Lisa Shultz, The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

tags: child-protection, do-no-harm, gender-confusion, happiness, mothers-and-daughters, natural-beauty, parental-guidance, parental-love, parenting, safeguard

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#26

“The word 'affirmation' is literally a 'positive' word, and so our gut instinct is that it must be a good thing. In reality of course an 'affirmation only' approach denies the person any thoughtful enquiry, which could be extremely helpful. After all, the phrase goes, 'a problem shared is a problem solved', and not merely a solution shared...'. The post op regretters were universally of the opinion that if they had been able to access an exploratory space in the first place, then they would not have pursued the irreversible physical steps, which they later came to regret.”
― Dr Az Hakeem

tags: detransition, gender-affirmation-surgery, gender-confusion, gender-critical, gender-ideology, irreversible-damage, medicalisation, root-causes, transgender, underlying-problems

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#27

“the new “affirmative-care” standard of mental health professionals is a different matter entirely. It surpasses sympathy and leaps straight to demanding that mental health professionals adopt their patients’ beliefs of being in the “wrong body.” Affirmative therapy compels therapists to endorse a falsehood: not that a teenage girl feels more comfortable presenting as a boy—but that she actually is a boy.”
― Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

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#28

“the new “affirmative-care” standard of mental health professionals is a different matter entirely. It surpasses sympathy and leaps straight to demanding that mental health professionals adopt their patients’ beliefs of being in the “wrong body.” Affirmative therapy compels therapists to endorse a falsehood: not that a teenage girl feels more comfortable presenting as a boy—but that she actually is a boy. This is not a subtle distinction, and it isn’t just a matter of humoring a patient. The whole course of appropriate treatment hinges on whether doctors view the patient as a biological girl suffering mental distress or a boy in a girl’s body. But the “affirmative-care” standard, which chooses between these diagnoses before the patient is even examined, has been adopted by nearly every medical accrediting organization. The American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, and the Pediatric Endocrine Society have all endorsed “gender-affirming care” as the standard for treating patients who self-identify as “transgender” or self-diagnose as “gender dysphoric.”
― Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

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#29

“Gender critical is not 'anti-trans', or 'transphobic', in the same way that psychiatry is not 'anti-mental illness'.”
― Az Hakeem, DETRANS: When transition is not the solution

tags: do-no-harm, gender-critical, gender-dysphoria, gender-ideology, mental-illness, trans, transgender, transphobia, underlying-problems

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#30

“Queerness," then, is not a sexual orientation, but rather a radical political project, and a form of revolutionary activism.”
― Ben Appel, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic

tags: lgbtq, queer, queerness, radical-politics, revolutionary-activism, sexual-orientation, trans, transgender

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