This is exceptional!! Thank you so much for posting this. A very clear and present danger in our culture, just another example of the insanity that seems to be trying to overtake us. This post is not just a warning, but also solution focused. The suggestions here are right on (I too am a psychotherapist, and am very happy to become more knowledgable after reading this). Good job!!
I too appreciate that you have offered some down-to-earth and mature approaches, attitudes, and principles that parents can use to navigate the vise-grip that so many children and parents have been put in by brazen and scheming ideologues. A theory I read, which makes sense to me, as to one of the multiple reasons so many youngsters are pulled into this insanity is the concurrent indoctrination of CRT-based ideas. When young white girls and boys, particularly girls, are taught that they belong to an oppressor racial group, that there is no way to ever transcend their innate racist tendencies, it is an understandable reaction when they consciously or subconsciously look for a way out. That can be to enter into one of the most celebrated "oppressed" and "victimized" groups by declaring themselves transgender. Of course the only ones who celebrate this are unhinged progressives and all the institutions into which they have inveigled this mind-boggling and body-altering craziness. Even children's hospitals are participating with "gender affirmation" treatment that typically ends up with puberty blocking drugs, hysterectomies, mastectomies, surgical and chemical castrations -- all on the healthy bodies of children and teens. Such disordered thinking on the part of all the adults involved!
This is exceptional!! Thank you so much for posting this. A very clear and present danger in our culture, just another example of the insanity that seems to be trying to overtake us. This post is not just a warning, but also solution focused. The suggestions here are right on (I too am a psychotherapist, and am very happy to become more knowledgable after reading this). Good job!!
I too appreciate that you have offered some down-to-earth and mature approaches, attitudes, and principles that parents can use to navigate the vise-grip that so many children and parents have been put in by brazen and scheming ideologues. A theory I read, which makes sense to me, as to one of the multiple reasons so many youngsters are pulled into this insanity is the concurrent indoctrination of CRT-based ideas. When young white girls and boys, particularly girls, are taught that they belong to an oppressor racial group, that there is no way to ever transcend their innate racist tendencies, it is an understandable reaction when they consciously or subconsciously look for a way out. That can be to enter into one of the most celebrated "oppressed" and "victimized" groups by declaring themselves transgender. Of course the only ones who celebrate this are unhinged progressives and all the institutions into which they have inveigled this mind-boggling and body-altering craziness. Even children's hospitals are participating with "gender affirmation" treatment that typically ends up with puberty blocking drugs, hysterectomies, mastectomies, surgical and chemical castrations -- all on the healthy bodies of children and teens. Such disordered thinking on the part of all the adults involved!
The website Parents with Inconvenient Truths About Trans (https://pitt.substack.com/archive?sort=top) shares story after story and each is pretty heart-wrenching. And there is a fascinating email exchange between Abigail Shrier, author of "Irreversible Damage, The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters" and Heather Heying, an evolutionary biologist, https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/the-torment-and-tragedy-of-teenage.