re: Anyone actually deal with trannies and kids issues IRL?

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“This is a made-up issue by Republicans.

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Yep, it is. But you guys aren't republicans, you are cultists.

Have you seen Zooey Zephyr? What about the trans terrorist who killed innocent children at a Presbyterian church school?

The trans movement has reached critical mass. It’s real and a problem.

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Anyone actually deal with trannies and kids issues IRL

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Your question is disrespectful to many parents.

There are actually some children who truly suffer from gender dysphoria at a very young age. I knew one in Baton Rouge many years ago - a boy that just insisted he was a girl. It was agonizing for the parents, as they didn't know what to do and there was much less support.

But ALSO, there was much less compulsion to medicate and chop. So the child had counseling over the years - he was allowed to dress as he saw fit and wear his hair long, etc. Now pushing 30, my understanding is he turned out to be mildly on the spectrum AND just turned out to be run of the mill gay. (Which, BTW, is probably how the majority of those actual gender dysphoric males will turn out).

I know of another girl - 20ish now - who ALWAYS presented as a boy. Same thing - agony for the parents, didn't know what to do, counseling, etc. Now that she is an adult, she's had top surgery and intends to live the rest of life as a male. I personally encouraged her to wait until at least 25 (full brain formation) to make a decision, but she funded it on her own and is an adult.

All of this is to say, we shouldn't just call kids like this "trannies", like they are some human refuse without concerned parents. We should treat them with respect and sympathy and allow it to play out into adulthood.

Now, where I get off the boat is this crazy push for younger and younger children to just be "affirmed" - meaning puberty blockers, surgeries and all manner of other nonsense that clearly SHOULD NOT be done to children. In terms of that, I'm not personally acquainted with any. The worst I've seen is some school districts that have "progressive" gender policies that I don't like.

You created a straw man that doesn’t exist. No one says “trans” kids are garbage. We just think extreme life altering medical procedures for children should be banned and that we shouldn’t be forced to indulge anyone’s mental illness by denying reality.

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It's in your own back yard and on your front porch. Remaining ignorant to that, won't make it disappear.

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i have already had the talk with my daughter but she goes to church and knows already anyway it is wrong. she knows about the mental illness. the evil, demented stuff people are doing. when we were in middle school back in the day we all discussed sex, homos, lesbos ,etc. maybe not so much trans but we knew what a trans was. just because a kid may be banned from social media in your house and on your iphone you give your kid does not mean they will not watch shite on another friends phone. You have to have that talk. if not you are rolling the dice. there is no shielding your kid. they will eventually find out stuff. best it is on your terms.

Yes, BUT, my daughter is in the arts and you get a lot of fricking weirdos in there.

From my HS, there was a girl who was batshit crazy at the time who was an open lesbian who went to prom in a tux. She now claims she is trans. Not particularly surprised.

At my daughter’s school, at least two of the adults working in the musical theater problem are trans and one of my daughter’s friends also claims to be trans.


In general, my experience has been that trans has been mental issues due to not feeling secure in their own skin and thinking that being different would fix things. Nothing I have seen has changed my mind.

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Art middle and high schools breed this shite.

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You created a straw man that doesn’t exist. No one says “trans” kids are garbage. We just think extreme life altering medical procedures for children should be banned and that we shouldn’t be forced to indulge anyone’s mental illness by denying reality.

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I literally responded to the OP's thread title.

A more respectful title would have been "anyone actual deal with gender dysphoric children and their issues IRL".

I fully agree that it is a mental illness - which is why I'm often disgusted by how people on here talk about kids that have it...as if they are human refuse to be denigrated. They don't seem to hate the illness - they actually hate the kid.

I work at a pharmacy in ATX in a part of town that caters a bit to the demographic. We have about 10 changers that get monthly rx's for mostly hormones and always anti depressants and anti psychotics. I can say that working all over different parts of town that would be more likely to cater to these people that 5 to 7 years ago...we had nothing like the current state of things. We had none of this. Definately a new phenomenon.

All of it cycles though. Every 5-10 years its something new that captures a societal consciousness. We become focused on it for awhile and then something new comes along.