Carol, thank you so much for what you are doing. Most people have no idea what is going on and think any objections to gender ideology in schools are just coming from a bunch of hysterical right wingers who don't want books about gay parents in the school libraries. As if! The kids themselves have grown up with it, so they don't know there is anything strange when the risk assessment survey that the guidance counselor makes them all take asks what sex they were "assigned" at birth and what gender they identify as now. Can you imagine never knowing anything else? Funny how when we criticize the subversion of language we're told it's only words, but if we say biological sex is real we are COMMITTING TRANS GENOCIDE!
I understand now the fierce responses of the school board, she has a trans kid and will or can never ever admit that she may be wrong. She literally would die defending her ideology.
You're brave. And that inspires more bravery, in me and others.
Reading your report on this meeting helped me realize that we must be willing and able to bear people hating us and lashing out as we speak up. Some aren't able but will be soon. We know the hatred will point our way, but we also can be sure that children who are swimming in this indoctrination need to know that not everyone agrees, there is dissent, and then they can find out why. At this point it is starting to seem like juvenile adults are driving the bus...the teachers, therapists, "clinicians," activists and the parents who refer to their children as "kiddos."
They are driving the bus smugly, with absolute surety, and, as you point out, unaware of their indoctrination.
But the wheels are coming off with every child, youth and adult who desists and detransistions, and with every brave doctor and whistle-blower who sounds the bell of reasoned truth that gets through to one more person.
As more and more young people grow into realization they were harmed by smug, shallow, criminally-irresppnsible, greedy ghouls who couldn't care less about brutal, off-label drugs and irreversible body modification that leaves them sterile, incontinent, and with no sexual function, there will be hell to pay. Glad you documented this so well...
thanks for sticking up for kids. gender activists provide guidance on how to counter gender critical people and views. they instruct libraries on how to keep porn on the shelves. they instruct school boards on how to deal with people inconveniently point out they are harming kids and promoting regressive misogyny and homophobia.
the way to counter gender cult activists is to pick your battles, get them on record and then use their statements against them by voting them out. we know every gender biz stat, study and claim is a lie. every gov systematic review ever done on earth found gender meds dont help kids. every study ever done to see if kids grow out of gender dysphoria found kids do with puberty, unless given gender meds. thats why countries that have done systematic reviews if gender meds help stopped giving them to kids after their study found it was a scam. they also found that social transformation dosent help kids either.
gender activists play pretending that those who voluntarily ID as another gender are like historically marginalized groups actually harm the groups they claim to help.
You are incredibly patient Carol, with these gender losers, cos I would have given up on them some time ago. I dont know if you can fix deluded people, and I would let them all sink. I can understand you trying to rescue humanity, even when they dont want to be rescued, and you must be getting better at having the right answers for them. In New Zealand we have just voted out our woke government, so I am hoping the whole woke ideology will now be discredited and ignored, and schools will go back to normal. The wokies are sounding disturbed and all shook up by getting a Christian PM, but we took the best political option available at the time. We got lucky. I hope you get lucky too.
Carol, below is the letter that I just sent to every member of the school board. (Much of my activism involves writing letters to people.) These people are the lunatic fringe. They are completely brainwashed by a set of bad ideas. I wrote the letter in a way that I thought might reach them.
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Dear Ms. Rankin,
I am a gay man in Rhode Island, and I have been following events in the Seattle schools regarding the gender issue. It seems to me that there are some things you may not understand, which is why I am writing. Let me launch right into them:
(To make matters easier, I am going to speak about girls more than boys.)
Gender has become a fad among kids. The fad is occurring for a couple reasons. First, kids are being told (mostly by their schools, but also on social media) that they have a right to choose their gender. That being the case, some of them are naturally deciding to do that.
Here's the problem:
Let's say that a girl thinks she might be gay. All she needs to do to resolve that question is to experiment sexually with another girl. No harm is done. But if a girl thinks she is a boy, figuring out whether or not that is true is a much more complicated process. It involves adopting a new identity, changing her name, possibly taking puberty-blockers, taking testosterone, and ultimately having various surgeries. Now, if the girl has been influenced, that means she isn't really trans. Like homosexuality, being trans is something that comes from within, which is innate. By the time she comes to her senses and halts the process, her body may already be damaged. Both puberty-blockers and testosterone can make permanent changes to a girl's body.
We do need to protect trans kids, but we also need to protect the ones who are transitioning for the wrong reasons. Being trans has become such a huge fad that it is possible that a majority of the kids who are now transitioning are not actually trans. It is because it has become a fad that transgenderism is spreading at an exponential rate among children.
So what's the solution to this problem? First, "affirmative care" is the wrong approach. Girls who have decided they are boys, and boys who have decided they are girls, need to see a therapist who will examine the child's motives. Such a therapist is called a "gate-keeper", but there are no gate-keepers any more. The trans lobby has been so successful at spreading their ideas that most therapists have adopted the "affirmative" model. A girl who has been influenced may go through the entire transitioning process before she realizes she has made a mistake. By then, her voice may have dropped into the baritone range, she may have a beard and body hair that won't stop growing, and she may be infertile -- not to mention the damage done by any operations she had. Social media is full of unhappy young women who are bemoaning the fact that they now sound like men when they speak.
Affirmative care doesn't help children to figure out whether they are being motivated by other issues. Affirmative care just rushes them through the transitioning process.
So you see, parents who object to the spread of transgender ideas in public schools also have the best interests of children at heart. They just see things differently. They are concerned that their children will become collateral damage. They are not "haters".
Society is moving too fast on this issue. We need to slow down. We need to remember that children are not adults. Their brains are not fully developed. Some so-called "trans" children may simply be going through a phase -- if so, they need time to let the phase run its course. Despite what anyone says, the trans life is not an easy one. Trans people require constant medical care. Being trans can also create identity problems. Trans people live their lives as neither fully male nor fully female. Any trans-leaning person who can make peace with his or her natural sex will be better off.
There is one more issue to consider: Does a child have the right to make life-changing decisions on behalf of the adult yet to come? Many people think that children don't have the emotional maturity to do that.
The trans lobby has been very effective at spreading the idea that being a trans child is exquisitely painful, and that children -- even very young children -- must be allowed to transition immediately or they may commit suicide. People who have investigated those claims haven't found them to be credible. Indeed, the available evidence suggests that detransitioners have a higher suicide rate.
Here is the bottom line: Medical transition to the opposite gender is a decision that only an adult can make responsibly.
Schools should not be telling children that they have the right to choose their gender. It puts the idea in their heads, an idea which can cause trouble. Telling a girl that she can become a boy if she wants to may create in her a desire to transition. In other words, by teaching such things, schools are influencing children in risky ways. This is why such issues should be handled by parents, not by schools. Children who are truly transgender will know they are trans without being prompted or influenced -- just as I knew at a young age that I was gay without any influence from anyone. Like being gay, being trans must come from inside.
It is all well and good to /accommodate/ children who are convinced that they are trans, but it is wrong to /encourage/ transgenderism in your students. That is not the proper role of any school.
Absolutely infuriating. What sheer reserves of energy you must have to patiently respond to all this nonsense being thrown at you. I’m exhausted just reading this.
Don't get drawn into defending yourselves. They hurl endless piles of BS just to keep you on the defensive. The more time and energy you consume on defense the less you have for standing up for reality. Go on the attack and STAY on the attack. If you feel you must defend sometimes, make sure you turn the defense around into an attack by the end of it.
This is as much a war of confidence and righteousness as it is a war for reason, morality and reality over insanity.
Hampson has demonstrated she cannot be reasonable or respect parental rights. Advise you personalize the issue and focus your fire on her in particular.
Carol, thank you so much for what you are doing. Most people have no idea what is going on and think any objections to gender ideology in schools are just coming from a bunch of hysterical right wingers who don't want books about gay parents in the school libraries. As if! The kids themselves have grown up with it, so they don't know there is anything strange when the risk assessment survey that the guidance counselor makes them all take asks what sex they were "assigned" at birth and what gender they identify as now. Can you imagine never knowing anything else? Funny how when we criticize the subversion of language we're told it's only words, but if we say biological sex is real we are COMMITTING TRANS GENOCIDE!
I understand now the fierce responses of the school board, she has a trans kid and will or can never ever admit that she may be wrong. She literally would die defending her ideology.
You're brave. And that inspires more bravery, in me and others.
Reading your report on this meeting helped me realize that we must be willing and able to bear people hating us and lashing out as we speak up. Some aren't able but will be soon. We know the hatred will point our way, but we also can be sure that children who are swimming in this indoctrination need to know that not everyone agrees, there is dissent, and then they can find out why. At this point it is starting to seem like juvenile adults are driving the bus...the teachers, therapists, "clinicians," activists and the parents who refer to their children as "kiddos."
They are driving the bus smugly, with absolute surety, and, as you point out, unaware of their indoctrination.
But the wheels are coming off with every child, youth and adult who desists and detransistions, and with every brave doctor and whistle-blower who sounds the bell of reasoned truth that gets through to one more person.
As more and more young people grow into realization they were harmed by smug, shallow, criminally-irresppnsible, greedy ghouls who couldn't care less about brutal, off-label drugs and irreversible body modification that leaves them sterile, incontinent, and with no sexual function, there will be hell to pay. Glad you documented this so well...
thanks for sticking up for kids. gender activists provide guidance on how to counter gender critical people and views. they instruct libraries on how to keep porn on the shelves. they instruct school boards on how to deal with people inconveniently point out they are harming kids and promoting regressive misogyny and homophobia.
the way to counter gender cult activists is to pick your battles, get them on record and then use their statements against them by voting them out. we know every gender biz stat, study and claim is a lie. every gov systematic review ever done on earth found gender meds dont help kids. every study ever done to see if kids grow out of gender dysphoria found kids do with puberty, unless given gender meds. thats why countries that have done systematic reviews if gender meds help stopped giving them to kids after their study found it was a scam. they also found that social transformation dosent help kids either.
gender activists play pretending that those who voluntarily ID as another gender are like historically marginalized groups actually harm the groups they claim to help.
You are incredibly patient Carol, with these gender losers, cos I would have given up on them some time ago. I dont know if you can fix deluded people, and I would let them all sink. I can understand you trying to rescue humanity, even when they dont want to be rescued, and you must be getting better at having the right answers for them. In New Zealand we have just voted out our woke government, so I am hoping the whole woke ideology will now be discredited and ignored, and schools will go back to normal. The wokies are sounding disturbed and all shook up by getting a Christian PM, but we took the best political option available at the time. We got lucky. I hope you get lucky too.
Carol, below is the letter that I just sent to every member of the school board. (Much of my activism involves writing letters to people.) These people are the lunatic fringe. They are completely brainwashed by a set of bad ideas. I wrote the letter in a way that I thought might reach them.
======================
Dear Ms. Rankin,
I am a gay man in Rhode Island, and I have been following events in the Seattle schools regarding the gender issue. It seems to me that there are some things you may not understand, which is why I am writing. Let me launch right into them:
(To make matters easier, I am going to speak about girls more than boys.)
Gender has become a fad among kids. The fad is occurring for a couple reasons. First, kids are being told (mostly by their schools, but also on social media) that they have a right to choose their gender. That being the case, some of them are naturally deciding to do that.
Here's the problem:
Let's say that a girl thinks she might be gay. All she needs to do to resolve that question is to experiment sexually with another girl. No harm is done. But if a girl thinks she is a boy, figuring out whether or not that is true is a much more complicated process. It involves adopting a new identity, changing her name, possibly taking puberty-blockers, taking testosterone, and ultimately having various surgeries. Now, if the girl has been influenced, that means she isn't really trans. Like homosexuality, being trans is something that comes from within, which is innate. By the time she comes to her senses and halts the process, her body may already be damaged. Both puberty-blockers and testosterone can make permanent changes to a girl's body.
We do need to protect trans kids, but we also need to protect the ones who are transitioning for the wrong reasons. Being trans has become such a huge fad that it is possible that a majority of the kids who are now transitioning are not actually trans. It is because it has become a fad that transgenderism is spreading at an exponential rate among children.
So what's the solution to this problem? First, "affirmative care" is the wrong approach. Girls who have decided they are boys, and boys who have decided they are girls, need to see a therapist who will examine the child's motives. Such a therapist is called a "gate-keeper", but there are no gate-keepers any more. The trans lobby has been so successful at spreading their ideas that most therapists have adopted the "affirmative" model. A girl who has been influenced may go through the entire transitioning process before she realizes she has made a mistake. By then, her voice may have dropped into the baritone range, she may have a beard and body hair that won't stop growing, and she may be infertile -- not to mention the damage done by any operations she had. Social media is full of unhappy young women who are bemoaning the fact that they now sound like men when they speak.
Affirmative care doesn't help children to figure out whether they are being motivated by other issues. Affirmative care just rushes them through the transitioning process.
So you see, parents who object to the spread of transgender ideas in public schools also have the best interests of children at heart. They just see things differently. They are concerned that their children will become collateral damage. They are not "haters".
Society is moving too fast on this issue. We need to slow down. We need to remember that children are not adults. Their brains are not fully developed. Some so-called "trans" children may simply be going through a phase -- if so, they need time to let the phase run its course. Despite what anyone says, the trans life is not an easy one. Trans people require constant medical care. Being trans can also create identity problems. Trans people live their lives as neither fully male nor fully female. Any trans-leaning person who can make peace with his or her natural sex will be better off.
There is one more issue to consider: Does a child have the right to make life-changing decisions on behalf of the adult yet to come? Many people think that children don't have the emotional maturity to do that.
The trans lobby has been very effective at spreading the idea that being a trans child is exquisitely painful, and that children -- even very young children -- must be allowed to transition immediately or they may commit suicide. People who have investigated those claims haven't found them to be credible. Indeed, the available evidence suggests that detransitioners have a higher suicide rate.
Here is the bottom line: Medical transition to the opposite gender is a decision that only an adult can make responsibly.
Schools should not be telling children that they have the right to choose their gender. It puts the idea in their heads, an idea which can cause trouble. Telling a girl that she can become a boy if she wants to may create in her a desire to transition. In other words, by teaching such things, schools are influencing children in risky ways. This is why such issues should be handled by parents, not by schools. Children who are truly transgender will know they are trans without being prompted or influenced -- just as I knew at a young age that I was gay without any influence from anyone. Like being gay, being trans must come from inside.
It is all well and good to /accommodate/ children who are convinced that they are trans, but it is wrong to /encourage/ transgenderism in your students. That is not the proper role of any school.
Yours truly,
Perry James
Absolutely infuriating. What sheer reserves of energy you must have to patiently respond to all this nonsense being thrown at you. I’m exhausted just reading this.
Way to go!!
Don't get drawn into defending yourselves. They hurl endless piles of BS just to keep you on the defensive. The more time and energy you consume on defense the less you have for standing up for reality. Go on the attack and STAY on the attack. If you feel you must defend sometimes, make sure you turn the defense around into an attack by the end of it.
This is as much a war of confidence and righteousness as it is a war for reason, morality and reality over insanity.
Hampson has demonstrated she cannot be reasonable or respect parental rights. Advise you personalize the issue and focus your fire on her in particular.