This is why the election matters to me.
Sorry if this is long.
Here is my story of how the woke left came for my kid:
My own story is of our daughter who was 13-14 when the lockdowns happened, went through puberty with social media, came across transgender ideology thanks to Instagram and YouTube, had tremendous anxiety and asked us to find her a therapist to deal with the anxiety of starting high school.
This therapist secretly groomed our child, gave her a binder without our knowledge or consent, violating the Parents' constitutional right to parent their child, and taught her to adopt a new male name, male pronouns, and that anyone refusing to support her delusion was 'dead naming' her and was bigoted and transphobic. She told us she was trans and wearing a binder after 7 months of seeing this 'therapist.'
We were taught to immediately affirm, buy her binders, all while our hearts broke for the child we raised for 15 years who was supposedly now 'dead.' We sent her to another therapist since her new identity didn't solve her anxiety.
This ’trans’ identity made the anxiety worse and caused new comorbidities such as cutting.
This therapist after 6 months of meeting with our daughter advised us to bring her to a surgeon for a double mastectomy consult.
When we asked our daughter if this was what she really wanted she said no, she just wanted to get through high school.
We asked her to ask the therapist for a family meeting so we could understand, since wanting this drastic barbaric procedure was not typical of our cautious daughter.
In response the therapist determined meeting with us would be detrimental to treatment and 'what does your mom want to ask me anyway.’ Red flags didn't pop up at the therapist's suggestion that amputation of our child's healthy body parts would solve her anxiety, instead they popped up when the therapist refused to meet with all of us to get at the truth or any kind of understanding.
Truly sickening and unacceptable predatory malpractice.
Later we found out this therapist/activist wrote letters for her clients to transition when we specifically asked the practice for a therapist who would not push the transgender or any kind of gender ideology.
When we asked the practice for the therapy notes, we saw that this therapist forged written documents claiming we had been informed and consented to our child's therapy being focused on 'gender identity.’
Neither us as parents or our kid ever was told this ’trans identity' was a ’treatment’ goal.
We fired this therapist, reached out to her grandparents for help who told us not to affirm, agreed to watching or reading about gender critical videos, books 2x a week, reached out to Gays Against Groomers who we are profoundly grateful to, who put us in touch with detransitioners to speak to our daughter, and a gender critical family therapist. She finally desisted 3 months later.
When we asked why she wanted to transition, she said she hated herself so much that she thought it was a way of starting over. My heart broke hearing that she had so much pain and self-hatred she wanted to erase and mutilate herself. For what? She didn't kill people or animals, defraud the elderly, bomb a school! She is an amazing, bright, compassionate, loving person. How could she feel so terribly about herself?
This ideology preys on children and people who are sensitive and vulnerable.
Why is there a gender clinic proudly advertised on every college website?
Bragging at handing out cross sex hormones without even a psychological evaluation that even WPATH recommends?
Why does health insurance cover these costly experimental therapies where evidence is of very low quality
and science has proven to be irreversible and damaging?
Why is detransitioner health care NOT considered a human right?
This is our personal story with this ideology that has cannibalized our society whole.
It's dangerous, destructive.
Transgender people are bright, sensitive, beautiful,
and are the opposite of the Transactivist movement that is harming and dividing society.
I wish people would have some courage to seek to be truly informed instead of opinionated.
If you are interested in doing a deeper dive, going down the rabbit hole, here are a few resources I recommend:
The Cass Review (first 20 pages at least)
The WPATH files by M. Shellenberger
'Irreversible Damage' by Abigail Shrier
'Lost in Transnation' by Miriam Grossman
@againstgrmrs@AdvocatesPC@TransAgainst@genspect@pittparents@AmerAcadPeds@detransaqua@FtMdetransed@LauraBeckerReal@JDVance@realDonaldTrump@SenateGOP@HouseGOP
Ugh. This is DISGUSTING @LushLtd. Teenage girls love to shop in your stores and here you are happily encouraging them to CUT OFF THEIR HEALTHY BREASTS in the name of trans pride.
This is beyond repulsive. It's dangerous and sick. No parent should allow their child near your stores.
Please share: #BoycottLushNow
@JuliaHB1 Trans activists says it never happens, yet a therapist recommended we take our child for a 'top surgery' consult to 'enhance communication.' Thank God we paused, questioned, changed therapists, and our daughter desisted, now happy in her body. This ideology is a death cult.
The fact that this man was willing to post this publicly, with his full name attached, says a lot about how untouchable this community thinks they are.
These men think they can go around making threats like these, and talking about the thrills they get from “breastfeeding” helpless infants, and harassing women in public restrooms, and no one will do anything about it, because after all, we’re just women.
That is a mistake.
If they’d played it cool, or been willing to make even the tiniest of compromises, they almost certainly would have won. All they had to do was be nice about it, show a little understanding for women, and a little bit of respect when using our spaces, and society would have continued to treat them as sacred beings who must be pandered to and protected in every way possible.
They didn’t do that.
Instead, they showed themselves to be depraved, deviant, dangerous predators. They graphically threaten women with rape, torture, and death; carry signs threatening decapitation; physically assaulted women who told them “no”; openly masturbated in the public areas of women’s restrooms; oh, and let’s not forget that they’ve sucked hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children into their toxic death cult to be mutilated and sterilized.
Unsurprisingly, most people have had enough of it — and of them.
Now the tide has turned. No one cares if they get offended anymore. The backlash is coming, and it’s going to be ugly. These people have spent the last decade or so being pandered to in every possible way, and they’re not taking “no” very well. The temper tantrums are going to be epic.
So is the comeuppance.
At 65, I’m a man of contradictions.
I’m conservative, but gay.
I’m black, but I don’t obsess over slavery, racism, oppression, or reparations.
I don’t fit into any of their boxes.
I voted for Trump because he offered me more than any democrat has ever done.
He offered to love my country and make it GREAT AGAIN.
That's what I voted for.
Because I’m just an American who wants to see his country remain the best in the world.
And nothing Donald Trump has ever said made me afraid to vote for him.
If he could run again, I’d vote for him again.
Because let’s be honest:
He’s a better president than any of the last 3 democrats we’ve had, or whoever they crap out in 2028.
Is anybody with me on that?
@NotTheirScript The transgender movement stared with Dr. James Money psychopath with a psychology degree. Abused and gaslighted a boy David Reimer circumcision gone wrong. Forced him to be a girl for his sick studies.
https://t.co/ZQZvt0eTXF
Incredible post. Most ppl are unaware that Affirming Care was included in Obamacare when it passed in 2010. The language was then restructured in 2014 to cement what Affirming Care was and included children. Gay marriage passed in 2015. People had tired of being told they were cruel and intolerant. An over correction was due. The breeding ground was fertile for what you just described and who were the useful idiots who brought it to the forefront, why women, of course. The children were being influenced by their smart phones/ TikTok and their teachers at school, but it was their mothers who ensured they received the "care" they needed so they didn't commit suicide, but they went further, they demanded acceptance from all the students in school and received it for the most part. And in the background, Big Pharma and the Medical Community stood to gain massive amounts of $$$ via Patient for Life care. If they had to mutilate a few kids in the process and make them all but eunuchs, that was the chance they were willing to take. Proving once again, it has less to do with "care" than it does to do with $$$$. Lots of $$$$$. I've been paying attention.
@_Revan38_@zogtrotter@aBagorn@PollTracker2024@againstgrmrs@pittparents No, my kid was groomed. I might not be a perfect parent, but I love my child fiercely and will die for her. I was supportive of her trans identity until the therapist told me to bring her to get a double mastectomy consult when she was 15. So thankful she didn't do this.