Father Of Gender Confused Says There’s Nothing Conservative About Blocking Care Or Something

It’s rather maddening how quickly people bought into the transgender madness, that they’d willingly accept children engaging in what is really a fad, mostly driven by adults and peer pressure, rather than any real belief that the kids are “in the wrong body.” And it’s especially disturbing how quickly the parents bought into the fad, and, certainly, the notion of the kids believing they are trans must be driven by certain parents, considering how we hear that very young children are “trans”, instead of actually protecting their children from significant life-altering decisions

I’m the parent of a trans daughter. There’s nothing conservative about blocking her care.

I write as the proud father of a courageous, kind and empathetic 24-year-old transgender daughter to provide some insight into our family’s experience with gender-affirming care and hopefully to correct some of the most egregious misinformation about it.

In the past year, there has been a tsunami of anti-transgender legislation in the United States, with bills targeting transgender people introduced in nearly every state. These bills and their sponsors are supported by a richly financed group of anti-LGBTQ+ groups such as the Alliance Defending Freedom, which received more than $96 million in contributions and grants in its 2022 fiscal year.

Planned Parenthood is dumping $40 million into the 2024 election cycle. A coalition of abortion on demand groups will dump at least $100 million.

Most distressing is this network’s focus on banning gender-affirming care for adolescents, which has been passed into law in 25 states. We know from our own experience just how radical and cruel these laws are.

When our daughter came out to us as transgender just before her 16th birthday, we listened to her intently, trying to understand what she was going through and how we could best support her. And we questioned, like many parents of transgender children do initially, whether this was just a phase that she would outgrow. In hindsight, we didn’t really comprehend then what it would mean for her to be transgender, but we understood clearly that she was suffering.

Your son. “She” is biologically male. It is not just cruel, but, insane and child abuse to not only let a child take all sorts of drugs but mutilated their bodies. It’s all elective. If they do nothing their health will not suffer, especially if you get them mental health help from a proper professional who hasn’t been captured by the trans cult. Helping the minors “transition” is a dereliction of parental duties.

One of the most common misconceptions about being transgender is that it reflects a choice, closely related to the false narrative of “social contagion” whereby children allegedly are influenced to identify as transgender by peer pressure, especially through social media.

However, when we consulted experts in transgender care, we came to understand what a federal court at the time found after hearing the evidence: “that being transgender is not a ‘preference,’ that being transgender has a medically-recognized biological basis, and that it is an innate and non-alterable status.”

You should have searched out other professionals.

Critics of gender-affirming care for adolescents baselessly claim that children are rushed into such care, but the opposite is true: A recent study found that the median wait time for transgender adolescents is 10 months between contacting a clinic and receiving puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

It’s child abuse. If they want to do this after they are adults, they are welcome to do this. Otherwise, kids cannot consent to significant medical procedures, and parents should be arrested and charged with child abuse.

Our daughter achieved substantial relief from her depression and dysphoria once she started taking puberty blockers and then initiated hormone therapy. She has told us, and repeated publicly, that she may not have survived her teen years without this medically necessary care. Those who would deny teens this medically necessary care can offer no medically approved alternative therapy whatsoever.

Somehow, this is all supposed to be conservative values to not only allow this, but, to support it? Get bent. You should lose your parental rights and be jailed.

I was a registered Republican for decades, and I know there is nothing conservative about interposing the state between a child and their parents and physicians who know best how to care for that child.

Complete hogwash. You can bet that if this fad started while Reagan was around he’d say to wait for the kids to become adults, rather than believe in their fad fantasies. Hormone therapy for children is not safe, and is blocked in a good chunk of nations, including most European ones. Elective procedures and mutilation seems like the path of least resistance for many of these parents. The “experts” being consulted are the same ones who push all this stuff on children.

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