But Adults Can Do Whatever They Want

The untold story of young adult transition This article is reposted, with permission from the author. You can find the original article, here. We are finally reaching a point in culture where the reality of the scandal of pediatric gender transition and it’s horrifying life changing consequences is beginning to prick the consciences of even the … Continue reading But Adults Can Do Whatever They Want

My daughter

Forged in the Fire, Together My Daughter,  These are the things I want to say to you. The things I want you to truly hear. When I decided to conceive you, I changed my life. I studied. I gave up alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine, sugar, processed foods, etc. I exercised, drank lots of water, attended to … Continue reading My daughter

We’re TERFS – and proud of it

Rebranding a slur TERF  Abbreviation 1. Trans Educated Rational Female (female form) 2. Trans Educated Rational Father (male form) 3. Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (archaic) During the recent controversy about Dave Chapelle’s Netflix special, The Closer, the term TERF was in the news although, as is common when it comes to trans issues, the mainstream media reporting … Continue reading We’re TERFS – and proud of it

Gender transition concerns must transcend the political divide

My mentally ill son has fallen prey to an epidemic-please stop looking the other way I’m ready to speak up. I'm mom to a 18 year old who suddenly proclaimed himself to be female. This conviction took hold during the Fall of 2020, when he was a new student at university during the COVID pandemic. … Continue reading Gender transition concerns must transcend the political divide

An Unremarkable Story from the Age of Trans

My story is completely unremarkable. When new parents introduce themselves on the Genspect forum, the introduction is often word-for-word the same as mine. So here is my very ordinary 21st century story. We’re a liberal family, of the social justice variety. My husband and I both have a postgraduate education. I’m trained in epidemiology so I know … Continue reading An Unremarkable Story from the Age of Trans

Sticking my head above the parapet in a rainbow sea of harmful affirmation – A parent’s perspective

I live in a country far behind the UK and Europe, the USA and Australia in terms of gender critical advances. In other words, I am surrounded by those still blindly in the thralls and thrills of the militant affirmation glitter rainbow. All the adults in the room seem to have forgotten basic biology and logic. … Continue reading Sticking my head above the parapet in a rainbow sea of harmful affirmation – A parent’s perspective

Trans and the myth of sloppy parenting

Recently in online transgender activist realms, I have been encountering a kind of casual acknowledgement of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) by associating it with sloppy parenting. The message seems to be that if your adolescent child is asserting transgender identity and demanding new pronouns and cross-sex hormones it is the result of your own failure to … Continue reading Trans and the myth of sloppy parenting

Parent Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy Or Doctor Munchausen?

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.-Ivan Illich Munchausen syndrome by proxy: a condition where a caregiver or spouse fabricates, exaggerates, or induces mental or physical health problems in those who are in their care, … Continue reading Parent Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy Or Doctor Munchausen?

Outside influences: how our spirited daughter boarded the trans train

Our daughter was unique and spirited from birth.  As a young child she was imaginative, highly intelligent. She loved learning about new things and developing theories about how the world around her worked.  She also was extremely girly and loved dressing up, makeup, posing for photographs, and dancing. She never met a stranger and would … Continue reading Outside influences: how our spirited daughter boarded the trans train

What it Really Feels like to Have a “Trans Identifying” Kid

To my family and friends who have not supported me or been by my side during the hardest time in my life.  My son told us 2 years ago that he was “transgender”. I immediately knew that something was off, that something else was going on with him. I researched it, for endless hours, as … Continue reading What it Really Feels like to Have a “Trans Identifying” Kid