{"id":1759041,"date":"2022-12-02T03:17:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T08:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759041"},"modified":"2022-12-02T03:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T08:17:37","slug":"how-i-lovingly-guided-my-child-away-from-transgenderism-and-how-you-can-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-i-lovingly-guided-my-child-away-from-transgenderism-and-how-you-can-too\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Lovingly Guided My Child Away From Transgenderism \u2014 And How You Can Too"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fhow-i-lovingly-guided-my-child-away-from-transgenderism-and-how-you-can-too%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=1759041&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>About a year and a half ago, I noticed that my son \u2014 let\u2019s call him Andy \u2014 was putting rainbow stickers on his phone. And a friend alerted me that Andy rebuked her daughter in a group chat for being \u201cso cisgender.\u201d I did some delicate digging, and it became clear: My child, then 13, was flirting with going \u201ctrans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not alone. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/10\/science\/transgender-teenagers-national-survey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">number<\/a> of transgender-identifying kids is up <em>20 to 40 times<\/em> since a decade ago, to 1.5 percent of all teens. And the gender facilities that say they are the experts have been unmasked. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/boston-childrens-hospital-deletes-references-vaginoplasties-17-year-olds-online-furor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Videos and statements have revealed<\/a> that doctors in these so-called clinics are willing to give 15-year-old girls double mastectomies and call it treatment.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t about to send my son off for experimental medical interventions that didn\u2019t treat any underlying psychological issues. In this, I think I\u2019m representative of the silent (and bullied) majority. Still, what <em>could<\/em> I do?<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I had to do was to realize that the gender cult is powerful, and I can\u2019t control the choices and feelings of my kid. I had to accept my limits, but that didn\u2019t mean I was helpless. Parents are still the most important influence on their kids.<\/p>\n<p> Finding a New School <\/p>\n<p>I was lucky: My son was at a private school that did not push kids, behind their parents\u2019 backs, into exploring alternate sexualities and getting \u201ctreated\u201d by lifetime medicalization. If my son had been at a trans-affirming school \u2014 which means just about any public school \u2014 I would have been undermined at every turn.<\/p>\n<p>At this school, however, he did have a cohort of \u201crebel\u201d friends who all seemed to identify themselves as gender-questioning. And the school itself was not academically challenging enough for Andy. So I focused on academics, and we looked for a new school that would be a better fit on that score \u2014 and still supportive of my values. Finding one gave him a fresh start and a new peer group.<\/p>\n<p> Building Real Identity <\/p>\n<p>Next, I decided I would not provoke Andy by debating gender and trans issues. Maria Keffler in her book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.partnersforethicalcare.com\/desist-detrans-detox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Desist, Detrans, and Detox<\/a>\u201d reminds parents that transgenderism in adolescents is less about sex and more about identity, identity, and identity. A few decades ago, Andy probably would have worked through his teenage crises by going goth or arguing with me about religion. These days, becoming one of the letters in LGTB is the shortcut to being interesting, not \u201cbasic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, I didn\u2019t want to make gender-bending <em>the<\/em> way he was going to differentiate himself from his parents. If he had been openly claiming a different so-called gender identity, maybe I would have been more confrontational about it. But since he was just flirting with being trans, not yet eloping, I decided not to make the topic of the sexes even more important than it already was. Instead, I focused on helping him build an identity in a healthy way.<\/p>\n<p>I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to accept my limits, but that didn\u2019t mean I was helpless. 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