Posted on 02/08/2023 6:14:07 PM PST by NetAddicted
' ... In reality, the track that I had put my son on would have ended in irreversible damage to him. Not my “transgender daughter.” My son.’
(LifeSiteNews) — A self-described “social justice warrior” mother of two boys said she stopped affirming the alleged “transgender” identities of her sons after she realized that transgender ideology is a “cult.”
The former progressive “true believer,” who co-parents her sons with another woman, said the boys are now thriving after she realized she needed to raise them according to their true, biological identities.
The anonymous mother, identified only as “Rose,” made the statements in a February 6 follow-up to an August 2022 piece entitled “True Believer,” both of which were published on the Substack Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT).
In her original essay, Rose said she had dived deep into progressive ideology, describing herself as “a social justice organizer and facilitator before social justice overtook the world.”
She “came out as a lesbian, and identified as queer,” then “entered a committed relationship with my spouse,” another woman. Together, they had two sons.
“We raised both our sons as gender neutral as possible, with gender neutral clothes, toys, and language,” Rose wrote. “While we did use he/him pronouns and others in their life called them boys, we did not call them boys, or even tell them that they were boys. We made all language gender neutral.”
According to the Substack piece, the oldest boy began to ask whether he was a boy or girl when he was about four years old. His mother said she told him the decision was up to him, a response she said “would come back to haunt me for years, and continues to haunt me now.”
“What I know now is that I was ‘leading’ — I was leading my innocent, sensitive child down a path of lies that were a direct on-ramp to psychological damage and lifelong irreversible medical intervention. All in the name of love, acceptance, and liberation,” Rose said in the February 6 follow-up entitled “Return to Reality,” published after an interview on YouTube channel Triggernometry.
In the post, the boys’ mom said her experiences and realizations caused in her a “huge cognitive shift.” She said she “viscerally felt the realization that I had believed that I was doing something ‘good,’ but that it was actually not based in reality.”
“That in reality, the track that I had put my son on would have ended in irreversible damage to him. Not my ‘transgender daughter,’” Rose said. “My son.”
Leaving the “cult” of transgender ideology, though, would mean separating herself from “many of our friends and neighbors, and the culture as a whole” that praises families for “affirming” children’s divergent gender identities.
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Despite challenges, she said “we made it out,” adding that “[b]oth of our sons are doing very well,” though she admitted that “[w]e don’t know the actual impacts of socializing a young child in these formative years as the opposite sex, or what all needs to unfold in the process of desistance.”
Rose trusts, however, that “time would heal.”
Concluding, the mother acknowledged that she’s likely to get pushback from both sides of the cultural and political aisle for speaking out.
Some people, she said, “will think I am a terrible, evil person who is not worthy of compassion,” and “will also blame me and my partner because we are two female parents raising boys without a father.”
Meanwhile, others “will consider me a terrible, evil person who is not worthy of compassion,” and “will believe I have abused my son by telling him he cannot be a girl.’”
No such outside accusations, though, “can come close to the feelings of anguish I have felt in realizing that my beliefs and actions could have caused irreversible harm to my own child,” Rose said.
“I cannot change the past,” she said. “What I can do is share my story in hopes it can serve to pull one more brick out of the wall.'
Just imagine how many leftoids are still believing in this chit. Nothing less than child abuse.
Eunuchs don’t procreate and have “served the state” throughout history.
I’m glad people are starting to wake up.
I hope she didn’t do too much damage to their physical development. Once the body shuts off a process, on the way to adulthood, it’s gone forever.
Let me guess. She is white.
As Sarah Huckabee Sanders said so well, there is “normal” and there is “crazy.” I’m sure many who crossed over to the “crazy” side in the interest of being “social justice warriors” are yearning for a return to “normal,” even if they won’t admit it to their woke friends, or even to themselves.
White liberals are the dumbest people on the planet.
A friggin’ bird knows if it’s male or female. This is ridiculous.
My child is trans due to an incurable genetic defect.
Less than 1/10th of 1% of the entire population has this particular brand of genetic disorder.
This sudden explosion in “trans” youth is the result of social contagion, kids using it as an escape hatch from reality, brainwashing, mental illness, etc.
Enough already. Unless there is a legitimate underlying medical condition, the kids need therapy (or the parents do).
God bless her. That’s a step in the right direction.
One step in the right direction. May she renounce lesbianism as well and find true Salvation through Jesus Christ.
Was your child a chimera?
Well, at least she caught herself now, before the boys got any older, when that attitude would become really confusing for all. No word on if her partner was on board with the policy change. Maybe she was. Many people are willing to play
‘follow the leader’ and just go along with whatever the more decisive partner says.
I noticed, no mention of grandparents, aunts, uncles or cousins. An extended family is often a child’s first chance to see how other folks outside their home choose to live.
“What I know now is that I was ‘leading’ — I was leading my innocent, sensitive child down a path of lies that were a direct on-ramp to psychological damage and lifelong irreversible medical intervention. All in the name of love, acceptance, and liberation,” Rose said in the February 6 follow-up entitled “Return to Reality,” published after an interview on YouTube channel Triggernometry.
In the post, the boys’ mom said her experiences and realizations caused in her a “huge cognitive shift.” She said she “viscerally felt the realization that I had believed that I was doing something ‘good,’ but that it was actually not based in reality.”
“That in reality, the track that I had put my son on would have ended in irreversible damage to him. Not my ‘transgender daughter,’” Rose said. “My son.”
Leaving the “cult” of transgender ideology, though, would mean separating herself from “many of our friends and neighbors, and the culture as a whole” that praises families for “affirming” children’s divergent gender identities.
This is an almost unique testimony. collectivist wokes in the first place really believe they are real liberals as in liberating man from the chains of superstition, bigotry, evil thoughts, mean spiritedness into the bright sunlight uplands of secular humanist man made heaven.
In this everlasting crusade for a man made heaven up is always down. The transgressive, the criminal, the tramp, the pervert are always those on the side of goodness. Their violence is only self defence against an evil social order (the normals who work for a living).
Once one believes they are good by definition of their beliefs (it is called ‘having the right politics’ or ‘doing good politics’) and the effects of being brainwashed by bs memes on ‘compassion’, sentimentality, ‘empathy’, political altruism since childhood are incredibly powerful.
This woman has had a revelation that much of what she believed in with religious fervor was and is false. In that moment one either psychologically collapses or realizes they have led a life of lies and accept a new truth. She is still a lesbo but should be treated as a potential recruit in the army of normality which emerge to destroy collectivist wokeism no matter how much real violence is necessary or there will be no more America forever
Gosh, I wonder why their sons grew up confused? Having two lesbian "moms" and no dad was obviously a contributing factor.
I’m trying to imagine this, considering that over 45% of people who transition attempt suicide as a result of their decision. They become depressed because of the hormones, most will experience liver and kidney failure from taking the hormones, and their own bodies will reject the changes. This is child abuse.
Transgendering a child is like an insult to God. Like saying He made a mistake creating them with the gender they were born as.
She still committed child abuse, probably with her carpet munching co-conspirator. They should both be locked up.
Good!!
This is what makes "trans-gendering" children so evil.
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