If your teen suddenly announces s/he is transgender...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:or you could reach out to PFLAG, the gender clinic at Children's https://childrensnational.org/news-and-events/childrens-newsroom/2015/childrens-national-opens-youth-pride-clinic-for-district-lgbt-youth or any number of other resources.

Jut because your child's announcement seems "sudden" to you doesn't mean that it hasn't been well thought out by the child over a long period of time.

Trans kids are at huge risk of suicide and other self-harming behaviors. Family support is a tremendous protective factor.

Whether your child eventually decides to transition or not is less important than whether your child is happy, healthy, and alive.

Let me just state right here that if ever faced with this, PFLAG and other pro-gay groups are the very last that I would reach out to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mental illness. Hurting people seeking pain relief. Children need solid parenting.

+1000. What are we doing to this generation of kids?

[Anonymous]

Don't give into this trendy bullshit. Tell your child he or she is beautiful the way he or she is. Tell your child that boys can wear pink and girls can wear camo. Don't encourage them to disassociate from their bodies. It is parents' job to help children to love themselves as they are and to help them reach their dreams from a place of reality, not a place of delusion. Help your child have the courage to be a feminine male and be proud of himself and live in the real world with a healthy body, not one crippled by sterility and ill-health from estrogen. Stop the madness, seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I went through a phase of wishing I was a boy, dressing like a boy and cutting my hair short. Thank God it was before the "trans" fad. I grew out of it and I'm a married mother of two.
This complete thing is so overblown and extremely confusing and potentially harmful to children and adolescents.

+1 its absolutely crazy

[Anonymous]

This professor of psychiatry does a great job of calling out all the transgender nonsense. It's junk science.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/17/psychiatry-professor-transgenderism-mass-hysteria-similar-1980s-era-junk-science/#.WRXz69aMjqA.twitter

[Anonymous]

Before that brain is developed, parents better hold firm. This is trendy crap. Suicide? Because mental illness is awful. Transgender is more of that. Help the person get mental help and all gets better. Wait until all these people ask for their penises back. It will be another crisis in our society. Stay firm, Moms and Dads. We can do better than we are with these struggling young people.

[Anonymous]

As long as my teen grows up to have a good and honorable person, has a good career and can support a family, provide me with grandchildren (biological or adopted) and is not a jerk I do not care for the sexual orientation or gender identity. There are worse things to be than a transgender person for example the current POTUS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't give into this trendy bullshit. Tell your child he or she is beautiful the way he or she is. Tell your child that boys can wear pink and girls can wear camo. Don't encourage them to disassociate from their bodies. It is parents' job to help children to love themselves as they are and to help them reach their dreams from a place of reality, not a place of delusion. Help your child have the courage to be a feminine male and be proud of himself and live in the real world with a healthy body, not one crippled by sterility and ill-health from estrogen. Stop the madness, seriously.

Plus a million, especially "Don't encourage them to disassociate from their bodies."

[Anonymous]

Bonus points on his college application. If he is a URM - we are talking a free ride!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as my teen grows up to have a good and honorable person, has a good career and can support a family, provide me with grandchildren (biological or adopted) and is not a jerk I do not care for the sexual orientation or gender identity. There are worse things to be than a transgender person for example the current POTUS.

Actually I strongly disagree with you. When kids think they are transgender, MDs and therapists will convince you your kid needs to be on hormones...and likely will need sex reassignment surgery. There are dangerous side effects to both. They cause irreversible changes.

The problem is that many kids are falsely identifying as transgender when what they really need is time for their brains to develop and counseling. Studies show -- that if left alone -- most of these kids will grow up to be fine in their bodies. But gender therapists don't tell you that. They use very misleading statistics to imply that if you don't transition your kid, they are at risk for suicide.

I speak from experience. I fell for this crap. Now my daughter is paying the price.

This is not just some harmless trend...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not dangerous to identify as trans and then later identify as cis.

It is dangerous to identify as trans, not have family support, and do stuff like attempt suicide or run away from home.

This is a simplistic view of the situation.

Yes, it can absolutely be damaging to identify as transgender and have your family reject you. It can increase the depression and sense of alienation these youth are already experiencing, and put them at greater risk of running away or attempting suicide.

But it absolutely also can be damaging to identify as transgender and then later desist from that identification. These detransitioned young women, who identified as transgender as teens and began medical transition, would disagree with your that there are no possible harms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP5B98KY8mU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-r7ttcw6c

The long-term effects of puberty blockers are unknown- even top gender doctors say as much, although they believe the benefits outweigh the (as-yet-unknown) risks. Puberty blockers followed by cross-sex hormones means irreversible sterility. Cross-sex hormones that don't follow puberty blockers can damage fertility, although certain sterility is not guaranteed. Before the widespread use of puberty blockers, in various studies of trans-identified kids, 60-90% desisted after puberty and most went on to be well-adjusted gay or lesbian adults. These medications are blocking puberty, and thus persistence rates are higher. I absolutely do think it is dangerous that kids who would otherwise have been gay are being "converted" to straight and sterilized through the use of lifelong medication.

[Anonymous]

All I can say is there are going to be a lot of lawsuits in about ten years when all these kids realize the MDs sterilized them based on a trendy belief....and parents that blindly went along with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as my teen grows up to have a good and honorable person, has a good career and can support a family, provide me with grandchildren (biological or adopted) and is not a jerk I do not care for the sexual orientation or gender identity. There are worse things to be than a transgender person for example the current POTUS.

Actually I strongly disagree with you. When kids think they are transgender, MDs and therapists will convince you your kid needs to be on hormones...and likely will need sex reassignment surgery. There are dangerous side effects to both. They cause irreversible changes.

The problem is that many kids are falsely identifying as transgender when what they really need is time for their brains to develop and counseling. Studies show -- that if left alone -- most of these kids will grow up to be fine in their bodies. But gender therapists don't tell you that. They use very misleading statistics to imply that if you don't transition your kid, they are at risk for suicide.

I speak from experience. I fell for this crap. Now my daughter is paying the price.

This is not just some harmless trend...

I don't believe you for a second. Stop spreading dangerous, bigoted lies. I work in the field. None of the experiences I have been a part of, nor the myriad of stories I have been privy to both personally and professionally, track with what you are saying. I suspect your son is very ashamed of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All I can say is there are going to be a lot of lawsuits in about ten years when all these kids realize the MDs sterilized them based on a trendy belief....and parents that blindly went along with this.

Clearly you have no clue what you are talking about. There is no sterilization of minors (or adults, unless explicitly consented to) going on. Take your ignorance elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

18:52 - I speak from experience, not from ignorance. My child was seen in a clinic where we met many other CHILDREN who are MINORS who were on CROSS-SEX HORMONES. That means they cannot have children among many other DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES.

This is not about being a bigot. The transgender movement has created a dangerous trend.

Many others are speaking out against this -- even some transgender adults like this one:

https://www.transgendertrend.com/a-trans-adult-speaks-out-against-gender-indoctrination-of-children/

22:35, 22:37, you are the one who is ignorant and has no clue what you are talking about. I suspect you are one of those gender therapists or gender doctors who are making money off of this. How do you live with yourself? People like you destroyed my child. I will not be silenced.