{"id":1500806,"date":"2022-06-02T08:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500806"},"modified":"2022-06-02T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:16:28","slug":"cbs-mini-doc-shows-tik-tok-is-a-ground-zero-for-kids-learning-about-transgenderism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-mini-doc-shows-tik-tok-is-a-ground-zero-for-kids-learning-about-transgenderism\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Mini-Doc Shows Tik Tok Is A Ground Zero For Kids Learning About Transgenderism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcbs-mini-doc-shows-tik-tok-is-a-ground-zero-for-kids-learning-about-transgenderism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1500806&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/boy-holding-smartphone-and-flaglet-e1650571625599.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>For all of the attention paid right now to weird public school teachers with the compulsive need to talk with their students about their \u201cgirl parts\u201d and \u201cboy parts,\u201d parents with young children really need to be looking just as hard at what\u2019s going on with the social media Tik Tok app.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/are-the-kids-all-right-gender-z-cbs-reports\/#x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mini-documentary<\/a> put out by CBS last month, \u201cAre the Kids All Right?: Gen(der) Z,\u201d features several children expressing their thoughts <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/27\/transhood-documentary-shows-why-kids-are-incapable-of-making-irreversible-medical-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on gender<\/a>.  One of them is Fin, a 14-year-old girl who says she feels like a boy. Fin has dyed purple hair and an off-beat sense of humor but otherwise presents herself as a normal teenage kid who lives with her mom, dad, and brother.<\/p>\n<p>By her own account, Fin was in all likelihood a typical adolescent going through the awkward phase of figuring out where she fit in. But, with too much free time on her hands, she found herself falling down a rabbit hole on Tik Tok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was watching Tik Toks while I was out of school because of the pandemic,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I just ended up on the, like, queer side of Tik Tok. I\u2019m like, I didn\u2019t, like, really know these people existed. Maybe this is who I am.\u201d She went on, \u201cAt first I thought I was a lesbian. And then I\u2019m like, that\u2019s not right. Maybe I\u2019m non-binary. No, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s right. Trans? Yes, that\u2019s what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, Tik Tok is most commonly known as a place where pre-teens and even some nerdy adults share videos of themselves doing dance routines. But as the wildly popular \u201cLibs of Tik Tok\u201d account on Twitter has documented at great length, there\u2019s a very large network on the app made up of transgender and \u201cqueer\u201d users who delight in sharing details about their sexual identities and the ways in which they\u2019ve exposed children to those concepts as well.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Fin was referring to when she said she stumbled across the \u201cqueer side\u201d of Tik Tok. Up until finding that surreal part of the Internet, Fin apparently thought nothing of the fact that she\u2019s a girl. \u201cI really thought gender was set in stone when I was younger,\u201d she said, \u201cbecause I didn\u2019t really know anyone who was different at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, Fin\u2019s journey through Tik Tok\u2019s gender-bending offerings did not stop at her deciding that she preferred to be referred to as \u201che\u201d and \u201chim.\u201d The program would eventually show her pursuing hormone treatment to block her pubescence and perhaps replace her natural estrogen with testosterone. (The program\u2019s producers undoubtedly saw the irony in filming Fin\u2019s clinic with an outdoor sign that read, \u201cWomen\u2019s healthcare facility.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>All indications are that Fin\u2019s parents truly care about their daughter and want the best for her. But by allowing Fin to make <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/22\/new-york-times-admits-experimenting-on-trans-kids-has-horrifying-irreversible-consequences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">irreversible, permanent alterations<\/a> to her body before it has fully developed, all because she stumbled upon some fantastical material on a social media app, isn\u2019t traditionally what it means to properly raise a child.<\/p>\n<p>Another subject in the program is 14-year-old Desmond, a boy who, with the encouragement of his mother, dresses in drag and attends gay pride festivals. \u201cI began identifying as gender-fluid a couple years ago when I was looking on the Internet,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The public schools have certainly shown themselves to be places that parents should be monitoring with a microscope. But Tik Tok and other social media are just as bad, if not worse.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of the attention paid right now to weird public school teachers with the compulsive need to talk with their students about their \u201cgirl parts\u201d and \u201cboy parts,\u201d parents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}