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Saving our Children
The resolve of the Woke community to propagandize and control our children has continued to steamroller ahead, especially in the
area of transgenderism. The Left is targeting them on multiple levels and in numerous venues, and we seem to be helpless to stop them. A recent article reminded me that since the Left is so determined to “follow the science,” science is one area to focus on to make sure that our children’s wellbeing is not permanently destroyed. I’ve also identified other steps we can take to at least slow down the transgender movement; at this moment, it seems like an out-of-control speeding train. But if we want to have a generation that can carry on a future that is moral and productive and to protect this country we cherish, we must act. Now.
Medical Facts
The first medical fact that parents must know and medical professionals must acknowledge is that there has been an explosion of transgenderism among adolescent girls. Up until recently, however, gender dysphoria, the confusion over gender identity, has primarily manifested with young boys; eventually, most children revert to their natal identity:
As explained in the medical volume Treating Transgender Children and Adolescents, ‘follow-up studies have demonstrated that only a small proportion of gender dysphoric children become trans … at a later age,’ and ‘The gender dysphoria of the majority of children with gender dysphoria or gender variance does not persist into adolescence.’
For reasons still not fully understood, 75 to 90 percent of children struggling with gender dysphoria at young ages revert to identifying with their natural sex and gender by puberty. This is also supported in a careful 2020 re-evaluation of the Dutch approach published in the journal European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry explaining, ‘In a majority of the cases, the adolescents themselves ended the (transitioning) process due to a discontinued wish for medical treatment.’
It is difficult enough to imagine that parents are being brainwashed into believing that their children are transgender in their adolescence, but that the medical community would contribute to this lie is unconscionable.
Social Media
The inroads that the transgender crowd have made with teenage girls are legion. A primary reason for this “progress” is that teenage girls, more than ever, feel isolated. They feel awkward, alienated, misunderstood, and confused, and social media provides an outlet and resources to reassure them that they are not only transgender, but they have found a community to support them. In her book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing our Daughters, Abigail Shrier describes the devastating impact that social media has had in converting teenage girls to its transgender agenda. Instead of seeking help for depression and confusion, these girls are embraced by forces they may never have experienced previously. And many accept these gestures with gratitude and relief.
Familial Estrangement
Parents have tried all manner of strategies to help their daughters through this barrage of propaganda; some parents are on the Left side of the political spectrum and don’t realize the dangers ahead for their daughters; other parents are on the political right and are concerned, eventually alarmed, by the efforts of their daughters to “fit in” with friends, but often don’t imagine how far their conversion will go. By the time they realize what has happened, it appears to be too late to turn back. And then there are those parents who are delighted that their children have chosen this bizarre and disturbed lifestyle.
Schools
Teachers and administrators, school nurses, and counselors are at the front of the line for holding the hands of these lonely children. And they are quite happy to provide sources, solace, and opportunities for conversion. They work hand-in-hand with willing parents, creating an unbreakable team effort for brainwashing and corrupting these adolescents.
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At first glance, the situation sounds beyond redemption, doesn’t it? But have you thought about the future of these young women if we give up on them? Many of them do not have loving relationships once they’ve abandoned their families. Many may decide not to have children; others will have mastectomies. Although they may present to the world a happy exterior, they will clearly be troubled and continue to feel isolated. As Shrier said in her book:
Only 12% of natal females who identify as transgender have undergone or even desire phalloplasty. They have no plans to obtain the male appendage that most people would consider a defining feature of manhood, As Sasha Ayad put it to me, ‘A common response that I get from female clients is something along these lines: ‘I don’t know exactly that I want to be a guy. I just know I don’t want to be a girl.’
What will they do with their lives? Will they find jobs? Will they pursue education? Will they have genuine friendships? Will they marry? Have children?
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What can we do? All of the following steps will be difficult to implement. And there’s little point in going after the activists because they will shout us down. But I think the strategy can target school administrators and boards, finding ethical medical professionals who will pay attention to the data and parents themselves.
With the schools: If you’ve been following the pushback on Critical Race Theory, you’ll see some of the strategies that will work. Fight the school boards at their meetings; attack them on social media; promote the actual medical facts in every venue. Keep the pressure steady and determined.
With medical professionals: Promote the truth with actual data through medical journals. Hold conferences to communicate the truth. Establish professional medical groups that are focused on helping children. Enact rules and laws that prohibit the use of puberty blockers or deforming surgeries before a certain age without parental permission.
With Parents and Families: Be aggressive about telling parents where they can get the information they need; side-step everyone who tries to stop you. Form support groups and networks. Provide teen groups that offer healthy and functional young women who want to live happy and productive lives. Find ways early on to limit a child’s access to social media; negotiate their staying off damaging sites that will try to convince them that transgenderism is healthy and attractive. Offer a balance of compassion and clear rules that show that all of us, to live meaningful lives, must find the balance between getting everything we want in life and finding happiness. Stress the value of being a good person, of having relationships, of being a contributor to the world.
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Although some people might be tempted to write off these children as impossible to rescue, I hope others might take up the cause. In many cases, these were bright and social children who, once they entered puberty, became sidetracked. These kids are our future. They deserve a chance to emerge from this nightmare.
They have deserved the right to simply be themselves.
[My thanks to Rodin for recommending Abigail Shrier’s book.]
Published in Culture
What is Disney trying to get girls to think and feel? Is it healthy?
Then there’s this, which I just came across.
Here’s an interesting point from the article:
That is an extremely reliable (D) voting demographic. No doubt it’s just a coincidence.
It’s holding out for Prince Charming (Disney) vs being your own salvation (feminism).
The reality is, women have a built in need for someone capable of taking care of them but reality dictates that those capable of taking care of them don’t all meet Prince Charming standards.
Now, the truth of the fairy tale is that Prince Charming isn’t human – in western culture, Prince Charming is allegory for Jesus Christ. But Disney cheapens and erodes the underlying cultural message and makes it about romantic love aimed at young girls.
So we place an unrealistic expectation on men that they can’t meet and then also adopt an unhelpful cope by attempting not to depend on ANY man because the Prince is just a fairy tale.
To a healthy girl, an average guy can still satisfy. To Disney Princess trying to be a Feminist, only the utmost in perfection will do.
From Marie Claire a few of years back:
Not a princess, but Disney’s Lucasfilm unit is reportedly going to introduce a trans Jedi in a future Star Wars installment. Then there’s the creepy infantilization of the princesses’ bodies:
Insightful points, Stina, and sad. I’ve not heard the Prince Charming allegory, though.
It’s part of traditional western fairy tales. Unless you’ve delved into the original material, it’s pretty much lost in pop culture that prefers tragic and anti heroes to heroes. Dragons are satan and knights in shining armor wielding swords shaped like crosses are the savior. The damsel in distress is the church/the common man. And all the evil that plagues the damsel are the evils of this world.
For instance, the original Little Mermaid wanted to be human because she wanted a soul. She was a monster or creature, not possessing a soul. The entire story is her quest to have a soul.
As much I liked that movie as a kid, the subversion of the original has had me seriously concerned over the years. From teen rebellion to rejection of family heritage to trans, the lessons pulled from this are dastardly.
My favorite twist on the Little Mermaid is the sequel where, if taken with Andersen’s story, is essentially the robbing of a child’s soul…
Isn’t the Little Mermaid the one sitting on the rock in Copenhagen harbor?
Yes. It’s Andersen’s most famous fairy tale even before Disney. The statue was erected in honor of Hans Christian Andersen, the Dutch’s very own celebrity.
Thanks, Stina. But I’m wondering who were the writers who elaborated on the allegory? I don’t see it as “western”; it is clearly Christian, so that is likely the reason I’d never heard it. I was a big reader of fairy tales as a child, but since I didn’t have children, I probably wouldn’t be familiar with the Christian understanding.
Those people are evil. I wonder how happy they would be to send their daughters into locker rooms undressing with men?
The fairy tales were written by Christians in Christian cultures.
That you weren’t equipped to see the allegory doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. And western culture is Christian. While Christianity is built on the foundation of ancient Judaism, it is Christianity that influenced western culture and development into the late 19th century.
I’m having trouble finding sources for you. You’ll have to read the fairy tales and look for specific literary criticisms. It was one of my favorite subjects in high school and I read the fairy tales voraciously. It’s been baked-in, so to speak.
The parallels are pretty abundant.
But, for instance – Snow White is the sinless innocent, the step mother is the snake in the garden, the apple is the forbidden fruit. The sleep is death and Prince Charming is the Song of Songs bridegroom (Christ) come to awaken his bride and take her to the happily ever after (heaven, paradise).
Pinnochio is an allegory of how the good father’s laws make us fully human the way he intended, disregarding his guidance leads to ruin, and it is death (resembling Jonah and the whale or Jesus’s three day burial) that leads to rightness with the father. Pinnochio is Jonah in the whale and Gepetto is Christ in the grave.
A lifetime of sleeping with unsatisfactory dwarves?
After a long cultural tradition (and Disneyed inculcation) of girls waiting to become adults through marriage, the feminists changed the culture. No more would women be dependent. They didn’t need a man. You can do it all! You can have it all!
Now they need a government. And they still can’t do or have it all.
Pretty much if you want kids and a house, you have to go halvsies. And that is what we pay for with taxes.