A Parent’s Guide To Not Transing The KidsTobacco companies employed ‘Get ‘em young’ to create lifelong smokers. So it makes marketing sense that transgender activism has targeted kids and public schools as ground zero.
By Rivka Edelman
February 8, 2017
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In response to the uptick of trans mania, a group of four mothers and one father met at a suburban Starbucks to compare notes on ways to help their children challenge the gender ideology pushed in the media and in the schools.
One mother said these meetings are taking place across the country. Parents are upset. “And it not’s what people think. Day in and day out, that stuff causes people to question their own judgement,” another mother said.
We agreed that most people know how propaganda works in the abstract. Recently many are realizing it is no small thing to force people to accept, repeat out loud, and refer to false facts and absurdities daily.
“It has a psychological effect. It erodes their (children’s) confidence and makes them question themselves,” said one of the parents.
That’s the point. It’s not recommended for raising healthy children. The trendiness leads to some social contagion, which troubles most parents. Other parents are in contact with attorneys. High school students are documenting incidents of boys in dresses twerking girls and other forms of sexual harassment. People are saving the threats transgender activists send on social media. A father told me, “They can’t go after every child and every parent. It isn’t like they claim. There’s been problems.”
The effects of the campaign can be seen in the sudden and dramatic rise of transgender students, mostly males who identify as female. One mother told us about a student who had
changed genders three times in nine months and the school supported each change. ...
After laying the groundwork in what now amounts to a lost art of common sense and decency, parents can proceed to empower their children by handing reality back to them. Let children know that they have a right to boundaries, and that includes who they share intimate space with and who can see their bodies.
Girls can refuse. Billy wants to pretend he is a girl while he is at school. His parents and school say is okay for him to wear girls’ clothes. The truth is, a naked girl is a girl, and Billy is still a boy. You and other children do not have to pretend anything you do not want to. You have the choice. ...
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