Each time I read another story like this, I think about how the narrative that trans kids (and adults for that matter) are a uniquely vulnerable population, and that unlike virtually any other issue or identity marker, there’s a sense that people need to actively participate in support. Like, if a 13 year old comes out as gay, all anyone feels compelled to do is say, Good for you. If they’re lonely or struggling, maybe suggest a club at school or a therapist, but nothing else.
But with trans kids, it opens up this world of interventions that teachers and counselors and friends and parents are supposed to engage in. I can’t think of any corollary.
And it’s all undertaken under the guise of support and empathy or compassion, like this form of “compassion” is what these kids, uniquely, need.
"I pulled her out of school when all this happened. We pulled her out of school, I homeschool her now." - I was gonna say that you need to get her out of that school! You did the right thing. You saved her.
Kids try on identities. That’s what they do. I think it’s a very important part of growing up.
Given that, I can understand how trans identity became a thing. As I said, children go through this experimentation all the time. What I don’t understand is why schools and doctors are supporting this and are offering permanent solutions to an often temporary issue.  That had to have started somewhere. 
This has become common in many school districts. This is why you have States like Florida banning this practice.
It is beyond me how anyone takes the option of some 20 something teacher, who has a BA in early childhood education as some sort of an expert in a very rare and complex issue. I believe these teachers are being indoctrinated in this very toxic ideology in the education departments of the universities they attended.
The schools and the Internet are fueling this social contagion. Hopefully, like the Tavistok institute these gender clinic get shut down and the physicians get sued so the madness ends
To label those kids as lgbtq and to group them or treat them differently from straight children or non lgbtq children is sex discrimination under Title IX. You can file discrimination complaints either with the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights or with your state non-discrimination agency. For more details please check out my substack on filing complaints when your child is groomed or segregated by sexual orientation, sex, or race. https://justingaffneysamuels.substack.com/p/filing-complaint-against-groomers I could personally help Partners with Ethical Care file discrimination complaints. Please get in touch!
You'r'e doing really important work, Wesley...and against a tremendous withering gale-force hurricane of a moral panic that casts you as a villain.
Talk about your slings & arrows.
Thanks for standing up against the roaring cataract of well-meaning imbeciles. ;)
It's gotta be horrendously lonely, difficult, & bereft of the kind of positive feedback these kids are getting...it might sound corny, but it's plain fkn heroic to stand up against a tidal force like this, just because you care about what's actually **right**, not what will get you **affirmed.**
Does this woman still live in WA? I would consider moving. At some point they won't be content to just let u dissappear.
I can't remember where I saw it, but I remember reading about a Muslim family in the PNW with an autistic kid who were blindsided by a meeting with school officials and cultist medical professionals. The father consulted a lawyer friend of his and he told him to agree with everything at the meeting so they let your kid go home with you, then move out of state. And they did.
So according to the queer theorists, gender is socially constructed. So then they socially construct gender in such a way that some people suffer long-term medicalisation...?
The transitioners are very much a cult. I see them as no different to the ancient cult of Molech, who took new borns from their parents a burnt them as a sacrifice to gain prosperity.
CRT is just white guilt packaged in pseudo-academic babble. The reason trans is more central is because we all still feel a certain yuck factor and therefore guilt. Maybe that is the reason for their laser focus on elementary school drag shows. It revolts, and hence more effectively guilt trips the progressives among us.
Each time I read another story like this, I think about how the narrative that trans kids (and adults for that matter) are a uniquely vulnerable population, and that unlike virtually any other issue or identity marker, there’s a sense that people need to actively participate in support. Like, if a 13 year old comes out as gay, all anyone feels compelled to do is say, Good for you. If they’re lonely or struggling, maybe suggest a club at school or a therapist, but nothing else.
But with trans kids, it opens up this world of interventions that teachers and counselors and friends and parents are supposed to engage in. I can’t think of any corollary.
And it’s all undertaken under the guise of support and empathy or compassion, like this form of “compassion” is what these kids, uniquely, need.
"I pulled her out of school when all this happened. We pulled her out of school, I homeschool her now." - I was gonna say that you need to get her out of that school! You did the right thing. You saved her.
Kids try on identities. That’s what they do. I think it’s a very important part of growing up.
Given that, I can understand how trans identity became a thing. As I said, children go through this experimentation all the time. What I don’t understand is why schools and doctors are supporting this and are offering permanent solutions to an often temporary issue.  That had to have started somewhere. 
This has become common in many school districts. This is why you have States like Florida banning this practice.
It is beyond me how anyone takes the option of some 20 something teacher, who has a BA in early childhood education as some sort of an expert in a very rare and complex issue. I believe these teachers are being indoctrinated in this very toxic ideology in the education departments of the universities they attended.
The schools and the Internet are fueling this social contagion. Hopefully, like the Tavistok institute these gender clinic get shut down and the physicians get sued so the madness ends
To label those kids as lgbtq and to group them or treat them differently from straight children or non lgbtq children is sex discrimination under Title IX. You can file discrimination complaints either with the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights or with your state non-discrimination agency. For more details please check out my substack on filing complaints when your child is groomed or segregated by sexual orientation, sex, or race. https://justingaffneysamuels.substack.com/p/filing-complaint-against-groomers I could personally help Partners with Ethical Care file discrimination complaints. Please get in touch!
You'r'e doing really important work, Wesley...and against a tremendous withering gale-force hurricane of a moral panic that casts you as a villain.
Talk about your slings & arrows.
Thanks for standing up against the roaring cataract of well-meaning imbeciles. ;)
It's gotta be horrendously lonely, difficult, & bereft of the kind of positive feedback these kids are getting...it might sound corny, but it's plain fkn heroic to stand up against a tidal force like this, just because you care about what's actually **right**, not what will get you **affirmed.**
Good man.
Fantastic parent and interview. Thank you, Wesley!
Does this woman still live in WA? I would consider moving. At some point they won't be content to just let u dissappear.
I can't remember where I saw it, but I remember reading about a Muslim family in the PNW with an autistic kid who were blindsided by a meeting with school officials and cultist medical professionals. The father consulted a lawyer friend of his and he told him to agree with everything at the meeting so they let your kid go home with you, then move out of state. And they did.
We need to bring all of these narcissists (gender/race/climate) back in line.
So according to the queer theorists, gender is socially constructed. So then they socially construct gender in such a way that some people suffer long-term medicalisation...?
The transitioners are very much a cult. I see them as no different to the ancient cult of Molech, who took new borns from their parents a burnt them as a sacrifice to gain prosperity.
CRT is just white guilt packaged in pseudo-academic babble. The reason trans is more central is because we all still feel a certain yuck factor and therefore guilt. Maybe that is the reason for their laser focus on elementary school drag shows. It revolts, and hence more effectively guilt trips the progressives among us.
My ten year old announced she wanted to change to a boy last fall. Will be switching to middle school next year.
Thank you for your efforts on behalf of vulnerable children and their families.
Another keeper, Sir Wesley. TYTY.
So many leading questions. Much worse than the opiod crisis? Really?