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There Ought To Be a Law: Transing Children Is Child Abuse And Should Be Punished
The Federalist ^ | 10/23/2019 | Joy Pullmann

Posted on 10/23/2019 9:11:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A Dallas, Texas jury on Tuesday awarded custody of a seven-year-old child to his mother, who has the boy dress as a girl while in her care because she believes he is transgender. The child’s father, Jeffrey Younger, has been fighting the child’s mother, Anne Georgulas, in court to prevent her from ultimately chemically and possibly physically castrating the child, which is now the politically correct way to treat gender dysphoria.

Younger says young James is comfortable as a boy while in his care, choosing boy clothes, preferring his male given name to his mother’s transgender moniker “Luna,” and describing himself as a boy. Witnesses his mother paid to appear during the trial explained this by calling him “gender fluid” and saying he “does not identify with only one gender.”

Georgulas sued to reduce Younger’s contact with his sons (James has a twin brother, Jude), and Younger requested a jury trial. Georgulas has had James diagnosed with gender dysphoria and marked on medical records as female, and has brought him to medical personnel who have recommended he begin puberty blockers perhaps in the next year or two, which will ultimately render him infertile. Puberty blockers have other side effects, according to Mayo Clinic, including high blood pressure, blood clots, weight gain, diabetes, and heart diseases.

During the court proceedings, LifeSiteNews reports,

the amicus attorney shared that James initially came to his mom asking to be called ‘Starfire,’ a female character in Teen Titans Go!

…Dr. Schumer, a pediatric endocrinologist specializing in gender ‘transitioning,’ was flown in from Michigan to testify. In his testimony, he said that children begin developing the concept of gender between six and seven years old, but later also stated it occurs between five and seven years old. James first reported to his father that his mother told him he was a girl when he was just three years old.

A mother of three boys who are “James’ and Jude’s best friends” posted publicly her planned court testimony that she was prevented from giving during this case. It included the following observations about James based on her sons’ relationship with him and spending more than “150 hours with them in the last year.”

Over the past year, I have observed that James is blissfully happy as a boy. He loves to march around outside and yell, ‘we are the only boy scout troop’ or ‘I’m the Leader of the wolf pack!’ He is always the ring leader, even though he isn’t the oldest of the group. He loves dressing as a super hero and sword fighting. One day we all walked to a playground near my house and on the way home James slipped in some mud and got his clothes dirty. He asked if he could borrow some of my kids clothes and I could wash his. Of course I said, ‘no problem’ and grabbed him a pair of shorts from the chest of drawers and tossed them to him. I said, ‘hang on while I grab a shirt from the closet’. He immediately said, ‘Mrs. Sarah, I don’t need a shirt! It’s hot! And boys don’t have to wear shirts if they don’t want to! Isn’t that awesome!’ He was so cute. I said, ‘yes that is awesome!’ As he ran off to play. I did eventually get him to put on a shirt. It was gray with lizards on it and he loved it! He also likes having his hair cut a certain way but told my son Grayson that his mom wouldn’t let him get it too short even though he wanted it to be spikey.

I am also the den mother to a little wolf pack. My sons roll into and out of our house and neighborhood with some portion of approximately a dozen little boys all day, every day. I have seen just about all of them at some point put on a skirt, play with a doll, or do some other stereotypically female thing. Yesterday the neighbor’s four-year-old boy ran around the whole day in a bee dress (striped black and yellow) — while wielding swords and doing ninja kicks. I am very familiar with this little boy. He is in no way gender fluid or questioning. He doesn’t even know what gender is. He is just playing dressup.

So was my three-year-old son when he put on his sister’s sparkly pink princess dress and laughed uproariously at himself for half an afternoon sometime last year. He knew and knows he is a boy, as they all do. He thought — rightly — that it would be hilarious and kind of fun to try something else out for a bit. It’s called playing. That’s what children do. There are no sexual, political, or religious connotations. It’s innocent. Remember innocence?

The person who looks at a three-year-old playacting as a female cartoon character and decides he needs a trip to the gender clinic and possibly chemical castration is the problem, not the child. The person who tries to take a son away from his perfectly normal, loving father is the problem, not the father.

Our society has laws against child mutilation, and for good reason: Because it is evil. It’s evil when it’s female genital mutilation, it’s evil when it’s double mastectomies on healthy 13-year-olds, and it’s evil when it’s the slow chemical castration of a perfectly healthy eight-year-old boy whose only crime was to playact as the wrong cartoon character in front of his mother.

The only reason this mother is being rewarded instead of punished for wanting to mutilate her child is because her actions fit a particular political and anti-religious ideology. Tell me, what is different about thousands of underage children being mutilated in the United States right now in the name of transgenderism and the sex trafficking ring in England that was not investigated because its leaders were nonwhite immigrant Muslims? Both scandals involve minors who were brutalized while adults looked the other way because of political correctness. Their ignored existence is a mark of shame against every single person, especially those with legal authority, who refuses to protect children.

If any mom threatened to mutilate her kid without claiming the shield of gender identity, child protection laws would be applied, and rightly so. So the only reason child protection laws are being suspended here is ideology. Again, how would this be any different from legalizing female genital mutilation inside the United States? Why is the gender identity rationale considered superior to the religious one?

If I or any mom decided our sons wearing a princess dress a few times was a reason to cut off their penises, we should be hauled away from those kids as fast as possible for their safety, regardless of the reason we claimed for doing so. This Dallas jury decided to do the opposite: To put this vulnerable child more completely under the care of his clearly manipulative, dishonest, and unstable mother and her cadre of false “experts” who profit from destroying children’s lives.

You see, if every child who ever pretended to be someone he was not was a potential patient for some “clinic,” that “clinic” sure would have a massive potential clientele. If many perfectly healthy children were given a lifelong regimen of surgery and drugs, that sure would make a lot of money for whoever makes the drugs and surgeries. And if every child who playacted was told that means he’s actually part of some identity politics group that has no choice but to vote a certain way for life, because he’s a victim, that would be a lot of political power for a party that doesn’t mind getting votes by wrecking human beings.

Republicans, that’s a lot of political power that will never accrue to you. So if you don’t give a damn about the fact that child mutilation is sick and evil, maybe you could give a damn about the fact that all of this only creates more clients for the other political party and its goal of unstoppable government power — which always decimates a weak opposition.


Joy Pullmann (@JoyPullmann) is executive editor of The Federalist, mother of five children, and author of "The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids." She identifies as native American and gender natural. Her latest ebook is a list of more than 200 recommended classic books for children ages 3-7 and their parents.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: chemicalcastration; children; lgbt; trans
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1 posted on 10/23/2019 9:11:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Now it’s a verb? That’s not good. I don’t want to find anyone transing my children.


2 posted on 10/23/2019 9:14:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I disagree. I think this will be a self-correcting problem. The government is already involved in too much of our child-rearing. When these kids get old enough to see what their parents did to them.....I leave it at that.


3 posted on 10/23/2019 9:14:53 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would be have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SeekAndFind

Some people should be burned at the stake.


4 posted on 10/23/2019 9:18:39 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: SeekAndFind

If the boy is really “gender fluid” then what kind of surgery would make him “gender fluid”?

Giving him both sex’s equipment?

This is child abuse by the mother to carry out her insane delusions.


5 posted on 10/23/2019 9:23:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Great commentary! I notice all these so-called trans children are under the influence of a bitter female parent. Seems the mothers want to humiliate their ex-husbands. This case is the worst ever, and did you know the mother is not even the biological parent? I hope this gets appealed and overturned.
6 posted on 10/23/2019 9:28:00 AM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: SeekAndFind

“... to prevent her from ultimately chemically and possibly physically castrating the child....”


These same liberals/radicals who are fully backing the transgender movement are 100% opposed to a boy having his (non-functional) foreskin removed - and that on the basis that it is “mutilation” of the boy. Well, AS USUAL, these people are complete hypocrites and as illogical as they come.

We also forbid anyone from giving an aspirin or other OTC pain reliever to a child in school without a doctor’s note, but somehow or other hacking off the kid’s private parts when one parent completely opposes it is just fine.

The Leftists are absolutely NUTS!


7 posted on 10/23/2019 9:29:08 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: SeekAndFind

So would the opposite of “gender fluid” be a “gender solid” or a “gender gas”?


8 posted on 10/23/2019 9:29:39 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: SeekAndFind

Most of these trannies don’t want to be actual women

They want to appear as women

It’s a mental disease


9 posted on 10/23/2019 9:30:01 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: SeekAndFind

Open minded to the point of brains falling out.


10 posted on 10/23/2019 9:33:43 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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To: BlueLancer

You forgot gender plasma.


11 posted on 10/23/2019 9:34:20 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Texas Eagle

While it is true that the government liberally imposes itself on families, especially in forcing an education, curriculum and assignments that reek of liberalism to guarantee more liberals are produced, it is also true that child abuse is still child abuse and always has to be addressed.

Transing kids is severe mental abuse and becoming “trendy”, perhaps not far removed from other sexual exploitations of kids.

Ignoring the trend mainstreams a dangerous game, when in a Godless nation, and more laws and protections will replace God, faith, morals, ethics, increasing without conscience, until we inevitably break like Rome in future generations.


12 posted on 10/23/2019 9:34:56 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Publik Ed/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming. Infinitum.)
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To: Texas Eagle

No.
It is not OK to abandon any child to being neutered and having their identity erased because when they grow up they will fix the problem.
They may fix it by killing themselves or a bus load of strangers. Texas has failed this child thus far. The Dad says they will appeal. I hope sanity will prevail.


13 posted on 10/23/2019 9:35:28 AM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
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To: SeekAndFind

What is the relationship between the mother and father, other than him being a sperm donor?


14 posted on 10/23/2019 9:35:53 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: SeekAndFind
If I walk into my doctor’s office today and say, “Hi, I’m Margaret Thatcher,” my physician will say I am delusional and give me an anti-psychotic. Yet, if instead, I walked in and said, “I’m a man,” he would say, “Congratulations, you’re transgender.”

If I were to say, “Doc, I am suicidal because I’m an amputee trapped in a normal body, please cut off my leg,” I will be diagnosed with body identity integrity disorder. But if I walk into that doctor’s office and say, “I am a man, sign me up for a double mastectomy,” my physician will. See, if you want to cut off a leg or an arm you’re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you’re transgender.

No one is born transgender. If gender identity were hardwired in the brain before birth, identical twins would have the same gender identity 100 percent of the time. But they don’t.
- The Dangers of a Transgender Ideology


15 posted on 10/23/2019 9:35:54 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: Ancesthntr
Gender plasma?

Is that a real thing?

Nobody ever tells me nothin'!

16 posted on 10/23/2019 9:36:10 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: SeekAndFind

I was looking at the California law forbidding conversion therapy and believe the way it is written could be interpreted to outlaw therapies that treat gender dysphoria by transitioning the person.


17 posted on 10/23/2019 9:37:24 AM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: ClearCase_guy

“I don’t want to find anyone transing my children.”

Well if you are in the state of Illinois, you better take note. Beginning July 2020 the LGBTQ is part of the k-12 curriculum and 8th graders according to an article must past a test of understanding in order to graduate to high school. https://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/look-whats-in-store-for-public-school-students-in-illinois-yikes/


18 posted on 10/23/2019 9:40:18 AM PDT by Maudeen (http://thereishopeinjesus.com/)
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To: SeekAndFind

If the trans remorse doesn’t get to her kid, what happens if HE ends up with serious life threatening conditions as a result of his dysfunctional mother’s indulgences? What a hell of a price to pay for being stylish and PC. I can envision a “very special Lifetime presentation”, Remembering Jazz. There’s a reason Johns Hopkins doesn’t do these procedures. Medical ethics? Or do they see the writing on the wall? It would come as no surprise if these lost souls file class actions against the quack therapists, hospitals, Drs, even their own parents who enabled them to go through with this crap. And the same lawyers fighting for trans rights will be the same shysters filing those suits. Follow the money. Always follow the money.


19 posted on 10/23/2019 9:41:36 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: SeekAndFind
There Ought To Be a Law: Transing Children Is Child Abuse And Should Be Punished

In a sane world this wouldn't be an issue.

We now have a self-proclaimed elitist 'intellectual' class who believe they know better.

Until they can be removed from positions of influence, we're doomed.

20 posted on 10/23/2019 9:44:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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