EnGendering Identity Crisis
EnGendering Identity Crisis
we can respect people and their choices, but these sex changes are political
I floated this subject the other day…
But I’m not done.
I’m just trying to imagine how confusing it must be for our children as ideologues reduce their parents to thought criminals. When they are told by “experts” that gender-affirmation is deemed “life-saving care” and standing in the way of it for any reason is anti-LBGTQ+, hateful and an affront to trans rights.
Is it me or is affirmation culture weaponized validation that ultimately serves to undermine everyone? Out of “compassion” and in the name of inclusion, we must validate everyone’s “reality” or we are somehow victimizing them. Yet many people cannot do that without denying their own reality. And lying to ourselves has it’s own consequences. Remember Orwell?
And are we really helping a generation of young people by allowing them to believe that it should be their “right” to chemically and surgically remove the discomfort of living in the bodies they were born with? Even if it is?
The fixation on trans-rights is rooted in activism, not health or wellbeing. And this seems to be a big part of the problem. Meanwhile, science has been telling us for decades that teens are prone to making rash decisions without thinking things through. And they’re even more likely to make risky choices among their peers. We know they are readily, often giddily “under the influence.”
I’m not saying they don’t exist, but I don’t know any parents who are refusing to accept their children for who they are. I know some who are supporting their children through transition. I know others who are trying to understand the roots of the suffering their children are experiencing before they embark on a journey that may be irreversible. There’s a reason parents want to talk first. There’s a very big and meaningful space between gender affirmation and “conversion therapy”. And there needs to be.
Take a look at the world via headlines…
Our culture seems to be encouraging our youth to a lot of extremes to avoid discomfort. And that seems pathological. Especially when the same culture is doing very little to prepare young people live with the potential consequences of their choices.
It’s puzzling. Some of the same people who want us who promote compliance in the name of compassion are working hard to help children find loopholes around their parents.
The law also contains legal protections for medical professionals who administer the controversial and irreversible treatments to minors despite their parents’ objections.
Pharmaceutical companies are teaming up with government agencies and media to influence our youth and manufacture their consent… without providing the complete picture.
Government and pharma-sponsored “risk awareness” campaigns promoted in mainstream media focus exclusively on problems that come with lucrative canned “solutions.”
And the risks that come with those “solutions” are only acknowledged once the market has been captured and the risks can no longer be suppressed.
But those who acknowledge the risks before the paid influencers and “experts” admit “rare” side effects are accused of spreading misinformation.
In an Editor's Statement on the importance of access to gender affirming care for our nation's youth, Transgender Health Editor-in-Chief Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH states, "LGBTQ youth need love, support, and acceptance, not misinformation and hate thinly veiled as compassion."
"Although recent attempts to distort science and disseminate misinformation—to dehumanize the most vulnerable members of our community, and as a result deny transgender youth access to health care—are not new, these strategies are now highly organized, pervasive, and well-funded," says Dr. Garofalo, Professor Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
(Biology is now “junk science”)
Meanwhile, the WHO and other public health organizations secure the ideological straitjackets by providing talking points to health care workers…
The World Health Organization and the American Psychiatric Association no longer classify gender dysphoria as a mental health disorder. Rather, it is described as the distress of living with physical characteristics that do not align with one's gender identity, worsened by nonaffirming social factors. Supportive mental health services can foster resilience in a hostile and transphobic climate, but are often inadequate alone. Body dissatisfaction, which intensifies as puberty progresses, is the root cause of gender dysphoria.
Thus, puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones have an independent and positive impact on mental health.
Throughout the pandemic we learned that compliance is paramount UNLESS you have a grievance that aligns with state-sanctioned, pharma-sponsored, WEF-adopted ideology. In that case, kids, go ahead and your parents.
The UN now considers criminalizing sexual activity with minors “an attack on human rights.”
While parents are criminalized for failing to fall in line…
Because it’s hateful and anti-LBGTQ+ to question teachable moments like this.
School districts that refuse to keep secrets from parents about the solicited gender identity of their own children are targeted.
And kids are encouraged to take things into their own hands.
This cultural shift isn’t over and it only gets more confusing for young people who are trying to figure out who they are.
(Edited because the thoughts are still stirring)
I don’t see a lot of parents who don’t love and support their children, although I don’t deny they exist. But it’s a farce to pretend that there are more “bad parents” than there are bad teachers, bad politicians, bad scientists, bad doctors. Human beings in every walk of life can be dangerously flawed. But of those groups I mention, parents are the least vulnerable to regulatory or ideological capture. They are not “just following orders” or bound by protocol. As a group, they are the least likely to put their job, license, or reputation ahead their child’s needs. They also know their children better than any licensed professional and are inclined to put much more time, thought and energy into evaluating those needs with their children.
I don’t see hate towards the LGBTQ+ community, although I don’t deny that it exists either. But I suspect LBGTQ+ youth are being let to believe that they have far more enemies than they really do. There’s a lot of bad behavior - from every direction, in every direction - from traumatized populations of misunderstood people who are suffering. They needn’t be enemies.
What I mostly see is what was eerily predicted by Paul Harvey in his 1965 warning to America.
Please, please let’s bring back meaningful conversations and family and boundaries. Our children are starving for something that no amount of medical interventions can fix.