Thank you so much for your letter! Please speak out as much as you can You will not be silenced and called transphobic. Two weeks after my granddaughter graduated from kindergarten my daughter texted me to tell me that she was socially transitioning her and I was to use her new boy name and refer to her with he/ him pronouns. When I questioned where this was coming from my daughter stopped speaking to me. She said she couldn't trust me and that I am not safe around my granddaughter. I have not been allowed to see any of my three grandchildren since this happened. . Today my granddaughter has a shaved head, wears baggy old clothes of her brother's, and will soon be entering first grade as a trans boy. My daughter claimed they were doing this because " it is what he wants" How can a 6 year old who still believes in Santa Claus know what they want want for their future? The world has gone crazy if people think this is OK. Families who are transitioning their young children are moving to my state now for puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. Worse than teens who chose to transition and regret it later these children have no choice at all. Their parents are making these choices for them . Please help me by contacting your representatives and urge them to pass the Protect Children's Innocence Act to make so called "gender affirming care" for minors illegal in all states. My granddaughter will be eligible to be put on puberty blockers at age 8. I hope and pray that they will be banned before that time.
Anyone who is affirming a 6 year old to the point of medical interventions should be diagnosed with Munchausen's by proxy.
Show your daughter the side effects of puberty blockers and why Sweden, Finland, France, Denmark and here in the UK they are now banning their use.
Therapy should always be the first line of anyone's gender journey, unfortunately these days therapists are part of the problem as so many have drunk the affirmation kool aid.
My daughter says this transition is with the support of all therapists That would hers, her husbands and her daughters. They are all from the same hospital that also has a gender clunic My daughter and her husband have heard about the problems with those drugs but just say they are not doing that now. There are families that have been affirming young kids for years and are now moving to sanctuary states to put their kids on puberty blockers. That is why we must all convince our senators to pass the Protect Children’s Innocence and ban these drugs and surgeries for minors
Thank you for taking a stand against medical transition for minors. Our focus should comtinue to be to unite to ban this practice, while legal adults should be free to do what they want including to engage in what is cosmetic medical interventions - hormones and surgeries- to hide their sex ( it being impossible to actually change sex). However, there are two questions that come to mind. One is, is a person of 18 really mature enough to chose to sterilize themselves, limit or destroy their ability to experience sexual pleasure (if they have “bottom” surgeries) and turn themselves into lifelong medical patients, with severe likely life -shortenung medical problems when a person’s brain does not fully mature until age 25? And second, why are so many young women like yourself (more women then men) feeling so constrained by their female bodies and being read as female that they want to do their healthy bodies serious harm in order to pass as a male? Is it because men still have more power, respect and opportunities in the world then do women? Is it because girls and women are still expected to dress and act a certain way as a display of our subordination, and have certain interests and personalities and not others? What if sexism and homophobia were truly no longer forces in society and young women could dress and express themselves as they like, were no longer constrained by sex roles and stereotypes or faced with sex discrimination and male violemce in the workplace and in society at large? What if, when you searched the internet, instead of finding transgenderism, you had found feminism? I say this as a woman who as a young adolescent in the 1960’s had plenty of what is now called “gender dysphoria”, wanted to”change sex” as Christine Jorgenson had done, but was soon caught up in the Second Wave of feminism, and came to learn that it was my society and not my female body that was the source of my difficulties .
I’m sad to say that watchful waiting feels impossible now. My husband and I don’t use my ROGD 19 yo’s chosen male name or pronouns. But I feel like the rest of the planet does. And this has locked in her path towards medicalization.
It's heartbreaking, my daughter and her friends have all affirmed a friend of theirs who has recently bypassed therapy altogether bypassed the NHS (UK here) and flew to Turkey for top surgery.
That poor girl is one of the many new ROGD cohorts. Now forever altered. Technically an adult so she can get the surgery but not a mature person and one with many mental health issues.
Thank you so much for your letter! Please speak out as much as you can You will not be silenced and called transphobic. Two weeks after my granddaughter graduated from kindergarten my daughter texted me to tell me that she was socially transitioning her and I was to use her new boy name and refer to her with he/ him pronouns. When I questioned where this was coming from my daughter stopped speaking to me. She said she couldn't trust me and that I am not safe around my granddaughter. I have not been allowed to see any of my three grandchildren since this happened. . Today my granddaughter has a shaved head, wears baggy old clothes of her brother's, and will soon be entering first grade as a trans boy. My daughter claimed they were doing this because " it is what he wants" How can a 6 year old who still believes in Santa Claus know what they want want for their future? The world has gone crazy if people think this is OK. Families who are transitioning their young children are moving to my state now for puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. Worse than teens who chose to transition and regret it later these children have no choice at all. Their parents are making these choices for them . Please help me by contacting your representatives and urge them to pass the Protect Children's Innocence Act to make so called "gender affirming care" for minors illegal in all states. My granddaughter will be eligible to be put on puberty blockers at age 8. I hope and pray that they will be banned before that time.
Anyone who is affirming a 6 year old to the point of medical interventions should be diagnosed with Munchausen's by proxy.
Show your daughter the side effects of puberty blockers and why Sweden, Finland, France, Denmark and here in the UK they are now banning their use.
Therapy should always be the first line of anyone's gender journey, unfortunately these days therapists are part of the problem as so many have drunk the affirmation kool aid.
Good luck for the future
My daughter says this transition is with the support of all therapists That would hers, her husbands and her daughters. They are all from the same hospital that also has a gender clunic My daughter and her husband have heard about the problems with those drugs but just say they are not doing that now. There are families that have been affirming young kids for years and are now moving to sanctuary states to put their kids on puberty blockers. That is why we must all convince our senators to pass the Protect Children’s Innocence and ban these drugs and surgeries for minors
Thank you for taking a stand against medical transition for minors. Our focus should comtinue to be to unite to ban this practice, while legal adults should be free to do what they want including to engage in what is cosmetic medical interventions - hormones and surgeries- to hide their sex ( it being impossible to actually change sex). However, there are two questions that come to mind. One is, is a person of 18 really mature enough to chose to sterilize themselves, limit or destroy their ability to experience sexual pleasure (if they have “bottom” surgeries) and turn themselves into lifelong medical patients, with severe likely life -shortenung medical problems when a person’s brain does not fully mature until age 25? And second, why are so many young women like yourself (more women then men) feeling so constrained by their female bodies and being read as female that they want to do their healthy bodies serious harm in order to pass as a male? Is it because men still have more power, respect and opportunities in the world then do women? Is it because girls and women are still expected to dress and act a certain way as a display of our subordination, and have certain interests and personalities and not others? What if sexism and homophobia were truly no longer forces in society and young women could dress and express themselves as they like, were no longer constrained by sex roles and stereotypes or faced with sex discrimination and male violemce in the workplace and in society at large? What if, when you searched the internet, instead of finding transgenderism, you had found feminism? I say this as a woman who as a young adolescent in the 1960’s had plenty of what is now called “gender dysphoria”, wanted to”change sex” as Christine Jorgenson had done, but was soon caught up in the Second Wave of feminism, and came to learn that it was my society and not my female body that was the source of my difficulties .
Thank you for sharing your story.
I’m sad to say that watchful waiting feels impossible now. My husband and I don’t use my ROGD 19 yo’s chosen male name or pronouns. But I feel like the rest of the planet does. And this has locked in her path towards medicalization.
It's heartbreaking, my daughter and her friends have all affirmed a friend of theirs who has recently bypassed therapy altogether bypassed the NHS (UK here) and flew to Turkey for top surgery.
That poor girl is one of the many new ROGD cohorts. Now forever altered. Technically an adult so she can get the surgery but not a mature person and one with many mental health issues.
Not even 20 years old
Thank you for sharing your story, so helpful