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Based on the comic book my husband and I are both “transgender”. Everyone I know is apparently secretly “transgender,” because I have yet to meet a human that perfectly fits the left’s caricature of what roles women are “supposed” to perform, and what roles men are “supposed” to perform. My pretty boy went to college on a men’s soccer scholarship 6’ husband who works out and has a 40 year old man’s male hair pattern is not a woman just because he cleans a lot. 😂

Gender ideology is ridiculous. It conflates the caricatures from the imaginations of Hollywood producers and those who actually know almost nothing about the strictness with which gender roles are enforced both today and historically with real life.

While kindness is important, it’s not kind to indulge the delusional theories of ignorant full grown adults, particularly when the observed actual outcome is confusing kids and sterilizing, causing impotence, and genitally mutilating about 1 in 100 kids with rates still rising in the US. Gender theory is bigoted, stupid, misogynistic, and cruel. There is nothing kind or inclusive about it.

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This is so crazy. I grew up knowing that I wasn't limited in my roles at home or at work (or anywhere else) even though (or despite) being female. Why isn't practicing and teaching that concept so much easier than trying to force the body to those limited stereotypes? This is definitely a step backward for men and women.

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Thank you for this excellent article, Laura. I appreciate how you break down each book/website into the categories of "who's recommending it?" and "what does it say?" As a reader trying to keep up with the tsunami of information about the indoctrination in schools, this framing was super helpful for a quick understanding. Gender wheel is particularly mind-boggling. (Dear somebody: please make a scientifically correct one as an alternative!) Your points about the shifts in the ideology (or theory, as you call it) since I am Jazz are important, pointing out that the books now are even worse because the "theory" has morphed. Also appreciate you pointing out three different concepts and how the TRAs use whichever one works to counter opposition. It's all part of the queering mentality.

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It was not “controversial” what Florida passed.

If you try to teach this stuff to children and try and get them to hide it from parents then I’m sorrry but you’re a groomer. End off.

For those that don’t already know them google John Money. He was the beginning of this gender crap. He’s evil.

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I have mentioned this before, but I want to reiterate the second point (that kids who display anything less than stereotypical behavior from decades ago) are explicitly told they are on the spectrum in many 7th grade health textbooks in the US. I know, because I was on the textbook selection committee. The book was otherwise good and well thought out, which makes me think, though I haven't looked it up, that gender ideology is required by some state education agencies. I am guessing California since they (and Texas) have enough purchasing power to influence textbooks sold in other states (it is not required in Texas. Thank you for succinctly explaining why bringing back such backwards, non feminist , antiquated ideas is harmful. I would suggest everyone reading this ask their local school

board if gender identity is in middle or high school health textbooks, then lobby for a review of the sex ed curriculum.

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“It’s not based on biology or logic... biologically, there aren’t just two options... there are dozens of other possibilities”

And whatever mammalian species other than humans have these “other possibilities” and what are those possibilities? If sex isn’t binary, what’s the third sex? Where did it come from? Can anything other than one male gamete and one female gamete produce a human being? And if not, how could a human being be something other than male or female?

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Thank you for laying out these books so clearly and showing how much of this stuff is not only nonsense, but confusing, self-fulfilling and dangerous. We are, on purpose, confusing the heck out of our kids under the pretense of inclusion. All we are doing is creating a generation of kiddos who are unmoored from reality and science. Crazy to think that this is what we want for their future.

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I just can’t buy into “think yourself a different sex”. The horrifying part of this article is the complicity of the adults in this grim *experiment*. Teachers are neither doctors nor psychiatrists. Surgeons that experiment on children should have their licenses revoked.

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Since antiquated and really rather silly "gender stereotypes" seem to be integral to this ideology, what to make of the recent California law that stores stop segregating toys into girl's and boy's toys, but to put them all together? If gender stereotypes are so important, why is it bad to have dolls in one aisle and tonka trucks in the next?

I too am not interested in dresses, makeup, or jewelry, and have been that way all my life. I am a horsewoman and all my horsey friends have similar interests. Are we all trans? NO!

What has happened to the feminists here? For decades they have been pushing to end female stereotypes and tell women (XX women) they could do anything a man could do. So now are they actually all men? The ones who didn't do what the feminists said are the only remaining women?

This entire ideology is completely incoherent and would be ridiculous except that it is so dangerous.

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I've always been quite comfortable with people who don't want to fit in the comic book's boxes. Tomboys and gentle men. But being a tomboy doesn't mean you must cut your breasts off and have a floppy tube of skin grafted onto your perineum! And boys who like sewing, cooking and domesticity need not castrate themselves. If you want to make a big deal out of gender then feel free. All the trouble starts when you either confuse it with sex or claim that sex doesn't exist.

And to the point of the article, I believe children know without being taught that some of them are boys and some are girls. And frankly, that's all small children need to know. Introducing sexual and gender teachings at that age is icky, wrong and suggestive of sinister motives. Leave kids to enjoy what they can of childhood innocence: they'll run all too soon into the complications of growing up and adulthood.

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According to "Trans 101", trans/non-binary people are those who feel certain ways, but might not feel certain ways. They might make physical changes to their bodies, or they might not. They might honor gender stereotypes, or they might defy them. So, this video takes eight minutes to convey no significant information, except that I'd better watch how I speak. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't typically appreciate being told what words I can and cannot use.

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These books are trite drivel and can't be read with any genuine sincerity. I am so glad they weren't part of the picture when my sons were 5 & 8, and their father went down this rabbit hole. I had to straighten out a lot of his false claims that he was actually biologically female, when our sons came back from over there. I was so cowed by the court experience that I wasn't able to call it out as a load of bull, for fear of getting hauled back. However, the entire schema involves alienation of affection towards the mother, which is supposed to be actionable. I've heard many older teachers say they throw this material out or in a dark, dark place, as soon as it arrives in their school mailbox.

Unfortunately, parens must forewarn their young children that some people in school will promote religious beliefs in direct contradiction to "our family's mindset." Then teach them how to be quiet about it, sorry to say. Brave parents can challenge any book in a school library, and at least have the right to say their child does not have permission to check it out.

From 1992, I was rowing this trans widow boat all on my own--now it feels like millions of parents are realizing how the cross-sex (aka synthetic sex) ideology has snuck into schools, tech firms, corporate communication standards and etc. One look at the webpage, Trans Journalists Association Style Guide online, and you'll see the indoctrination and brainwashing. I thought I'd outrun it, darn it all!

Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)

uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com

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Laura, you have done a very thorough deconstruction of the under age sexual grooming/indoctrination material that in more normal times would have been regarded as a shocking example of perverted psychopathy that one would ordinarily have only been articulated in mental asylums and by more foolhardy soapbox cranks who were prepared to risk being jeered and things being thrown at them by appalled bystanders.

https://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/2180479-Transgenderspeak-The-ITVs-Butterfly

https://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/2188652-Transgender-Inc-Kafkas-Children

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