Before 2015 who even knew the term “Transgender”? But within a year Transgender issues were on the front pages of newspapers every day, at least in the western world. Suddenly “Transgender” had become a household word.
Transgender ideology is now mainstream. Children are asked to declare their “preferred pronouns” in their school classrooms. Graduate students in universities routinely note their pronouns on written assignments. Anyone can be disciplined for “mis-gendering.” The Cambridge dictionary has added a definition of the word woman: “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.” Medical professionals must speak of “chest feeding” (not “breast feeding”) and at Harvard Law School “pregnant person” has replaced “pregnant woman.”
If your three year old son were to tell you, “I’m not a boy, I’m a GIRL!” or your 13-year-old daughter suddenly announce, “I’m Trans’, what would you do?
Should you take him or her to a therapist? To the school counselor? To your family doctor? Maybe not.
Some parents do, in the hope of alleviating their child’s distress. A mother in Australia was “proud” of her 15-yar-old “son” as he “went through menopause. A Canadian journalist documented on radio the step by step transition of her daughter. The mother of Jazz Jennings also walks through Jazz’s transitiioning publicly on the TLC Reality TV show “I am Jazz.”
Why not? The experts know best!
These parents, and thousands more, are being betrayed, says Dr. Miriam Grossman. In Therapists Have Betrayed the Parents of Gender-Confused Kids And There’ll Be Hell To Pay. She describes in detail the “atrocities” being committed in offices and hospitals. Medical professionals affirm the self-diagnosis of children and adolescents that they are Trans and hasten their transitioning: social (change of name, pronouns, dress), medical (puberty blocking hormones), even surgery to make their body align with their feelings.
No careful assessment. No consideration of other possible causes for the child’s distress.
Parents are “shocked, overwhelmed, confused, and anxious. Their distress is “massive. It demands acknowledgement.” But they are assured that this is the only solution and that if they do not agree to this treatment they are putting their child at risk for suicide. This is often said in front of the child.
“What will it take to put the brakes on?” asks Dr. Grossman, And where can parents find the advice and support they can’t get from the experts?
To be continued
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