Ruth Mann

Mom of 6 boys & 3 girls; 4 boys have cochlear implants. MDiv student at @SBTS.

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@GloryGe523 @rj152122 @jwhaifa I remember it was in French and I watched it with English subtitles. It was a good movie and suspenseful. I love resistance stories.

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@rj152122 @jwhaifa I think I watched a movie about this. It sounds very similar. It was Lucy’s … something I can’t remember. She rescued her husband.

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@MattSmethurst @glenscrivener Reminds me of the Parable of the Christ Knight. ❤️

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@JDarling56236 @megbasham @CVernonSmith @Natasha_Crain Seriously? She wrote a book. Start there.

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@NickJFreitas Instead tell him to marry the mom.

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@RustyBarstow @michaeljknowles @AOC Consider this. It’s a short video. https://t.co/ZjdkqHJ4ua

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@JimDrumheller @megbasham Our children all know the phone is not a private journal and everything is game--AND we remind them that their dad and I don't have any secrets on our phones between us either. And we're older than 16.

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD March 6, 1901:
Amy Carmichael, serving as a missionary in India, shelters her first temple runaway, a young girl dedicated to the Hindu gods and forced into prostitution to earn money for the priests. Founding the Dohnavur Fellowship, she rescued hundreds, raising them in a Christian refuge.

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@FOX59 @sagesteele Now it’s New Haven Middle School’s turn.

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@philvischer @conservmillen I’ll pass on that episode. I get enough petty bickering from my kids. But if you chat about other stuff then I’d be interested.

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

Rebuttal 11: “You’re overreacting. Trans children are only a tiny proportion of children”

Even if only a small number of children socially transition, the impact is not confined to those children. In a school setting in particular, social transition functions as a public developmental script that all children are required to learn, interpret, and accommodate.

Child development theory explains why this matters.
1. Schools don’t just “support” a child — they teach a framework to everyone
Vygotsky and Bandura show that children learn identity concepts through social mediation, modelling, and reinforcement. In a school environment, a socially transitioned child is not simply an individual case. It becomes a lesson about what sex is, what identity is, and how to interpret discomfort.

Children treat adults and institutions as epistemic authorities. If the school treats “gender identity” as a fact, children absorb it as a fact.

2. Young children think concretely, not abstractly
Piaget’s work shows that primary aged children are still largely concrete thinkers. They struggle with abstract distinctions such as “sex is biological but gender is internal.”

When schools introduce identity claims that contradict bodily reality, children do not process this as a nuanced philosophical position. They process it as:
- confusion
- contradiction
- a new rule they must obey to avoid punishment

This does not create understanding. It creates compliance.

3. It disrupts Kohlberg’s sex constancy development
Kohlberg’s sex constancy model describes how children gradually learn that sex is stable across time. This is a normal cognitive milestone.

School policies that require children to treat sex categories as negotiable, or to treat pronouns as overriding biology, interfere with that developmental process. This affects not only the transitioned child, but the entire peer group’s developing understanding of sexed embodiment.

4. Social transition is not a neutral accommodation
The Cass Review notes that social transition should be viewed as an active intervention, not a harmless change.

In children, identity development is time sensitive and path dependent. Once a child is socially transitioned in front of peers, the psychological and social cost of reversal rises sharply. This creates a ratchet effect: persistence increases, not necessarily because the identity is innate, but because reversal becomes humiliating, destabilising, and socially costly.

5. Adolescents are vulnerable to imitation and social reward
Erikson and Marcia locate identity formation in adolescence, when belonging, status, and peer approval are paramount.

In this stage, identity categories can spread socially because they offer:
- a ready-made explanation for distress
- a protected status
- a peer community
- a narrative of meaning

This is not a moral claim. It is a developmental one.

6. It forces all children into “doublethink” about sex
Children are not just witnessing a transition. They are being required to participate in a new paradigm: that sex can be overridden by declaration.

For many children, this produces:
- anxiety about saying the wrong thing
- fear of punishment
- the lesson that reality is negotiable if authority insists

That is not inclusion. It is training in contradiction.

7. It reframes boundaries as prejudice
Safeguarding depends on children learning:
- bodily privacy
- sex-based boundaries
- that discomfort matters

If children are told they must accept opposite sex peers into intimate spaces, they learn that their instincts are morally suspect and that boundaries are “unkind.”

This is a safeguarding issue, not an ideological one.

8. It pressures children into speech they don’t understand
Compelling children to use language that contradicts what they can see teaches:
- words matter more than reality
- honesty is punishable
- social harmony requires self-censorship

That is not healthy moral development. It is institutionalised coercion.

9. It reshapes peer dynamics, especially for girls
In practice, these policies often shift the burden of adaptation onto other children, particularly girls. Girls learn that discomfort must be suppressed for social peace, while boys learn that sex boundaries can be bypassed through identity claims.

Again: this is not neutral.

Conclusion
The “tiny proportion” argument misunderstands childhood development. Schools are not simply accommodating a few children. They are teaching a highly contested theory of sex and identity as fact to all children at the exact developmental stage when concepts of embodiment, category permanence, boundaries, and truth telling are being formed.

In that context, small numbers are anything but trivial.

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@conservmillen @JoshuaBarzon @megbasham No contest. #3. I follow both of you.

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@megbasham In contrast to this, which is so cute. https://t.co/PbTVGeooiO

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@megbasham Just prayed for you. 🙏❤️

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@auesar @bethanyshondark @dcexaminer I don’t think so !? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@auesar @bethanyshondark @dcexaminer We have liked CAP’s Latin. When I read WTM’s stuff 20+ years ago I found it a helpful starting point but not a landing point.

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@Papote_T @bethanyshondark @dcexaminer Tapestry of Grace. I’ve used it for 20+ years. It works well with classical and/or Charlotte Mason. Weaves a biblical worldview into everything. Flexible. Rigorous at higher levels.

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@megbasham Just peeked at it. NO comments disagreeing. Says at the top any hate will be blocked. So only echo chamber talk allowed. I asked if differing opinions are hate or if civil discourse is allowed and I expect to get blocked.

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Colette is still booking for 2026 if you’re looking for a wedding videographer/photographer! She also does an amazing job with photo shoots for senior portraits, families, and couples sessions!

https://t.co/c1wssIW4oQ

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@planty_chick85 @Spanky101201 @DanielOBrien65 @buitengebieden Ours is green all winter in Indiana. A cousin from Colorado visited once and couldn't believe how green everything was in the middle of winter. As soon as our snow melts, you can see the green again. Now August is a completely different conversation. Nothing but brown.