{"id":1632987,"date":"2022-09-05T07:32:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632987"},"modified":"2022-09-05T07:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:33:01","slug":"the-transgender-movement-isnt-just-targeting-kids-its-targeting-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-transgender-movement-isnt-just-targeting-kids-its-targeting-families\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transgender Movement Isn\u2019t Just Targeting Kids, It\u2019s Targeting Families"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fthe-transgender-movement-isnt-just-targeting-kids-its-targeting-families%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=1632987&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--><p>The evidence continues to mount that a concerted effort is underway between major hospitals and public school systems to indoctrinate children with transgender ideology and push harmful, sometimes irreversible, medical procedures on minors \u2014 sometimes without the knowledge or consent of parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The point of the indoctrination, though, isn\u2019t only to create more \u201cgender-nonconforming\u201d students. It\u2019s to break down family structures and parental authority. The goal isn\u2019t simply to teach and encourage transgenderism in our schools. It\u2019s to lay claim to the students themselves, over and against their parents and families, for purposes that go far beyond the promotion of gender identity. After all, you can\u2019t very well reshape society according to your utopian vision if something as solid as a family is standing in the way.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is of course to break down the family. Most recently, Christopher Rufo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/chicago-childrens-hospital-partners-with-local-school-districts-to-promote-radical-gender-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported this week<\/a>\u00a0that the largest children\u2019s hospital in Chicago has partnered with local school districts to promote a radical transgender agenda, including sexually explicit materials that push \u201ckink,\u201d \u201cBDSM,\u201d and \u201ctrans-friendly\u201d sex toys for children.<\/p>\n<p>In his customary muckraking fashion, Rufo has obtained insider documents from Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital of Chicago detailing a collaboration between transgender activists at the hospital and public school administrators throughout greater Chicago. The primary training document, a presentation titled \u201cBeyond Binary: Gender in Schools,\u201d encourages teachers and school administrators to promote \u201cgender diversity\u201d in their districts by affirming students who mistakenly believe they are members of the opposite sex, teaching a \u201cnon-binary understanding of gender\u201d in classrooms, and aiming to disrupt \u201centrenched [gender] norms in western society\u201d in hopes of creating a more \u201cgender creative\u201d world.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t laugh, though. As outlandish as this might sound to most people, the targets of all this are impressionable students, many of whom are susceptible to such messages for the simple fact that they are dealing with the turbulent \u2014 albeit altogether normal \u2014 emotions and angst that accompany adolescence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth quoting Rufo at length to get a sense of how lurid this program is. At the end of the \u201cBeyond Binary\u201d presentation, which was circulated to teachers in at least two Chicago school districts\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>the hospital recommended a \u201cBinder Exchange Program\u201d to assist teenage girls in binding their breasts, a \u201ckid friendly website for gender affirming gear,\u201d which sells items such as artificial penis \u201cpackers\u201d and female-to-male \u201ctrans masc pump[s],\u201d and an \u201cLGBTQ friendly sex shop for teens\u201d that sells a range of \u201cdildos,\u201d \u201cvibrators,\u201d \u201charnesses,\u201d \u201canal toys,\u201d \u201ctrans-friendly toys,\u201d and \u201ckink &#038; BDSM\u201d equipment. The links include graphic descriptions of sadomasochism, bondage, pornography, and transgressive sex.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>In addition to these materials on gender theory, Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital has also publicly released a policy guide for school administrators, encouraging districts to adopt a \u201cgender-affirming approach\u201d to the curriculum; provide \u201cgender-affirming children\u2019s books\u201d in school libraries; and allow students to compete in athletic events, use restrooms and locker rooms, and sleep in bunks during overnight school trips in accordance with their \u201cgender identity,\u201d rather than their biological sex. The hospital also encourages school districts to designate special \u201cGender Support Coordinators\u201d to help facilitate children\u2019s sexual and gender transitions, which, under the recommended \u201cconfidentiality\u201d policy, can be kept secret from parents and families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rufo rightly identifies part of the dynamic here is the creation of a \u201cschool-to-clinic\u201d pipeline. A cynic might say the motive is simply profit, since every transgender patient represents a lifetime of medical interventions and surgeries. But there is another motive, says Rufo. Transgender activists, he writes, \u201cbelieve that they are in a struggle for liberation from the system of \u2018cisheteropatriarchy\u2019 \u2014 and each \u2018gender non-conforming\u2019 child is another tool in that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s right, but it\u2019s even worse than that. Put bluntly, these activists are in a struggle against parents and families, many of whom are not at all on board with the radical redefinitions of sex and the multiplicity of genders being pushed on their children in school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As my colleague Joy Pullmann\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/30\/parents-and-pastors-across-america-fight-drag-shows-for-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported recently<\/a>, parents in Illinois and Montana quickly organized community pushback to planned \u201cdrag queen storytime\u201d events in their small towns, in one case gathering enough signatures to put taxpayer-funded drag shows for kids on this November\u2019s ballot as a referendum item.<\/p>\n<p>Another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/31\/so-excited-emails-show-local-librarians-recruiting-drag-performers-for-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent Pullmann piece<\/a>\u00a0chronicled how librarians in several Republican-leaning suburbs of Saint Louis used their taxpayer-funded positions to organize a series of \u201cdrag queen storytime\u201d events this past June to coincide with \u201cPride Month,\u201d even though they knew many local parents and residents were opposed. One of the drag performers hired by a library in Glen Carbon, Illinois, posts pornographic material online that\u2019s available to anyone who searches his stage name, Maxi Glamour. In preparation for the events, and for the expected protests, the executive director of one of the libraries sent trustees talking points for how to deal with \u201ccommunity backlash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sure, these are just local events in flyover country, but they illustrate the problem in microcosm. For transgender activists, parents\u2019 justified concerns over exposing children to sexually explicit content and transgender ideology are nothing but \u201cbacklash,\u201d and the parents themselves are nothing but a problem to be overcome. The solution isn\u2019t to engage parents but to dissimulate and deceive \u2014 hide the \u201cgender transition\u201d of children from parents, as the Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital of Chicago program recommends for Chicago schools, or intimidate parents with dire warnings of suicide if they don\u2019t affirm their child\u2019s new \u201cgender identity\u201d and support medical interventions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was the case with one courageous young woman in California named Chloe Cole, who testified this week before the California Senate Judiciary Committee. She spoke against a bill that would make the state a \u201crefuge\u201d for minors from other states seeking \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d \u2014 a euphemism for the mutilation and sterilization of children.<\/p>\n<p>Cole\u2019s story is gut-wrenching but increasingly common. In her testimony, she said she was awkward in school, had trouble making friends, and suffered from gender dysphoria and other mental health conditions. She easily fell prey, she said, \u201cto the narrative that if I felt different, and did not want to be a highly sexualized girl, I must be a boy. I obsessed over becoming a boy. I believed that all my insecurities and anxiety would magically disappear once I transitioned. The mental health professionals did not try to dissuade me of this delusional belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole was \u201cfast-tracked into medical transition\u201d after being diagnosed with gender dysphoria. In her testimony, she noted that in California a child can pick their gender identify, and if a medical provider questions that, it\u2019s considered conversion therapy, which is illegal in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents were told the options were transition or suicide,\u201d she said. \u201cThey complied because they were not offered any other treatment solution for my distress. My distraught parents wanted me alive, so they listened to my doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole was placed on puberty blockers and testosterone by her therapist and was approved for a double mastectomy at the age of 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one explored why I did not want to be a girl,\u201d she said. \u201cWho here really believes that as a 15-year-old, I should have had my healthy breasts removed, or that it should have been an option?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Cole and her parents were lied to by the medical professionals they should have been able to trust. Instead of treating Cole, they maimed her. To her immense credit, she realized the harm that had been done to her and now has the courage to speak out. She closed her testimony to California lawmakers with a defiant challenge: \u201cHow many more children\u2019s bodies will be destroyed before you actually listen? What is the sweet spot? A hundred? Two hundred? A thousand? SB107 will open the floodgates for confused children like me to get the gender interventions that many so regret. I am the canary in the coal mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, what happened to Cole is playing out all over the country, from Lurie Children\u2019s Hospital of Chicago to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/19\/the-transgender-movement-is-not-just-intolerant-its-barbaric-and-violent-and-its-coming-for-your-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boston Children\u2019s Hospital and the Children\u2019s Hospital of Pittsburgh<\/a>, and, if you live in a major metro area, probably your own local hospital. It is happening in your local library and your local public schools.<\/p>\n<p>It is happening online all the time, on messaging apps and social media, where major brands, Hollywood, Big Tech, and corporate media are all promoting transgender ideology and seeking, in ways large and small, to get between young people and their parents in order to destroy the last, sturdiest bulwark standing between them and their utopian project to reshape society: the family.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. 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