Time for Parents to Resist Transgender Activism

[JimG]

“With public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray, speak out, and, most importantly, teach their children that their sex is a beautiful, biological reality.”

Gender ideology is rapidly entering public schools and sometimes itself engendering “gender dysphoria” in children to young to know better. A recent article in First Things describes how one good school was ruined by gender ideology.

Here is the link.

 

[3DOCTORS]

Thank you for sharing. That article and others on the transgender topic recently at First Things deserve and need to be shared.

 

[Thorolfr]

“With public schools fast becoming incubators of gender ideology, parents need to cast off their fears of entering the fray, speak out, and, most importantly, teach their children that their sex is a beautiful, biological reality.”

Gender ideology is rapidly entering public schools and sometimes itself engendering “gender dysphoria” in children to young to know better. A recent article in First Things describes how one good school was ruined by gender ideology.

Here is the link.

I highly doubt that gender dysphoria is “engendered” in a child by something that happened in a public school any more than people end up gay because they had a certain family dynamic (distant or absent father, smothering mother, etc.). There is probably some genetic or biological component even if it has not yet been identified.

 

[Beryllos]

Yes, it’s time. My town has begun brainwashing its high-school kids about transgenderism.

It’s the Emperor’s New Clothes. Who will dare to speak up?

 

[NM505StKate]

If I may ask what sort of brainwashing are you going on about?

 

[Beryllos]

In health classes, they teach the kids about transgender concepts. You thought there were just two genders? Think again. They’ve got Pangender. You thought a person has to pick one gender? Nah. They’ve got Gender-Fluid. Guest speakers are invited to speak in the classroom or to school assemblies. Students are taught that acceptance of this stuff is mandatory, not negotiable.

Does anyone know, is this state-mandated?

 

[NM505StKate]

In health classes, they teach the kids about transgender concepts. You thought there were just two genders? Think again. They’ve got Pangender. You thought a person picks one? Nah. They’ve got Gender-Fluid. Guest speakers are invited to speak in the classroom or to school assemblies. Students are taught that acceptance of this stuff is not negotiable.

So accepting that someone is different is bad? That tolerance of someone despite them not looking like you or acting like you is wrong? Seeing that gender is fluid and not binary it is quite cool that the youth are taught this. It shouldn’t be repressed like in the days of old.

 

[Beryllos]

So accepting that someone is different is bad? That tolerance of someone despite them not looking like you or acting like you is wrong? Seeing that gender is fluid and not binary it is quite cool that the youth are taught this. It shouldn’t be repressed like in the days of old.

I’m not totally buying that, … but I love the music of Wendy Carlos.

 

[NM505StKate]

I’m not totally buying that, … but I love the music of Wendy Carlos.

What are you not “buying”?

 

[Beryllos]

What are you not “buying”?

That gender is fluid and not binary, and that it is quite cool that the youth are taught this.

 

[JimG]

Nouns are gendered. Humans come in two sexes–male and female, which cannot be changed one into the other.

 

[mVitus]

So accepting that someone is different is bad? That tolerance of someone despite them not looking like you or acting like you is wrong? Seeing that gender is fluid and not binary it is quite cool that the youth are taught this. It shouldn’t be repressed like in the days of old.

I think you have a misunderstanding on acceptance vs acceptance. (I honestly cannot think of a better phrasing.) We can realize that someone feels like a different gender than their body and accept they have that struggle. But we can’t accept when someone denies their biology and says they’re something that they’re not. If John feels like a Janette, that’s a struggle and we are called to be compassionate to John and help him accept he’s a man. But if John decides to become Janette, we can’t condone that, though we’re still called to compassion.

 

[NM505StKate]

Gender is fluid. Early native tribes had what was called Two Souls or Twin Spirit. It was far more accepted before Abrahamic religious spread throughout the world. It is the thought that being “compassionate” to someone by trying to convince them they are their assigned at birth gender that brings about harm. It sure as heck isn’t “trendy” to be LGBTQIA+ because of the bullying and stigma attached to it. Hopefully as generations pass the stigma will reduce to nothing.

 

[Thorolfr]

Nouns are gendered. Humans come in two sexes–male and female, which cannot be changed one into the other.

There are actually a number of gender neutral languages that do not have gendered nouns such as Malay, Tagalog, Estonian, Hungarian, etc.

 

[Crown_of_Stars]

I’m not looking for any argument, because the only thing I have to say on this is that I’m sick of it, and I’ve heard it to death for long enough. They may be doing this because they think the more and more we hear of it, day in, day out, morning noon and night, the more “accepting” we will be, until any stigma is gone. It won’t happen. The more I hear about it and have it forced on me, the more sick of it and turned off by it I become. Obsessing to death over something won’t make me so used to it I eventually think nothing of it. It will never work. At least not on me.

 

[mVitus]

Gender is fluid. Early native tribes had what was called Two Souls or Twin Spirit. It was far more accepted before Abrahamic religious spread throughout the world. It is the thought that being “compassionate” to someone by trying to convince them they are their assigned at birth gender that brings about harm. It sure as heck isn’t “trendy” to be LGBTQIA+ because of the bullying and stigma attached to it. Hopefully as generations pass the stigma will reduce to nothing.

It’s realized the inclination is not something they willed upon themself. But it’s also realized that it would be wrong to indulge in a fantasy so far removed from reality, even if the person has a strong inclination towards it. If you’re born a man, saying you’re a woman doesn’t mean you can get pregnant. You’re still fundamentally a man.

And as for citing native spirituality, we worship God, not the great mother. That’s like saying Hindu reincarnation beliefs mean teaching about Heaven/hell/Purgatory is false.

 

[Viki63]

I highly doubt that gender dysphoria is “engendered” in a child by something that happened in a public school any more than people end up gay because they had a certain family dynamic (distant or absent father, smothering mother, etc.). There is probably some genetic or biological component even if it has not yet been identified.

I can’t agree with you. Many adolescents pass through a time of confusion about their sex, and can be thrown off balance by peer pressure. I’m pretty sure my brother went through sex reassignment surgery because, in the end, of peer pressure.
And when a five year old says he’d like to be a girl because they have pretty clothes, some parents will leap to conclusions. My grandson said that, and his mom bought him a cowboy outfit, which solved the problem.

Youngsters should not be pushed into this process when they are undergoing social, physical and emotional metamorphoses enough.

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[Thorolfr]

Many adolescents pass through a time of confusion about their sex, and can be thrown off balance by peer pressure.

Many adolescents? When I was young, I don’t remember many of my peers having much confusion about what gender they were or about their sexual orientation. And peer pressure is almost always to conform to birth gender norms and heterosexuality. I should know. I’m gay but felt overwhelming pressure from my peers to be and act masculine and straight.

 

[Beryllos]

So accepting that someone is different is bad? That tolerance of someone despite them not looking like you or acting like you is wrong?

Actually I meant acceptance of the current theory or model of that aspect of human nature that has come to be called gender. In the same health class, students are encouraged to draw their own conclusions about the validity of expert opinions and research on other important issues. For example, research on the detrimental effects of marijuana on brain function is presented with a sort of “take it or leave it” attitude, but with regard to gender theory no dissent (or argument, or critical thinking?) is tolerated.

 

[NM505StKate]

Actually I meant acceptance of the current theory or model of that aspect of human nature that has come to be called gender. In the same health class, students are encouraged to draw their own conclusions about the validity of expert opinions and research on other important issues. For example, research on the detrimental effects of marijuana on brain function is presented with a sort of “take it or leave it” attitude, but with regard to gender theory no dissent (or argument, or critical thinking?) is tolerated.

All of this sounds very vague.