This whole argument by trans activists is ridiculous. If a student was taking drugs, had sex at school, was failing school, was bullying or fighting at school or being bullied, there is no question that parents would be informed. Why make this one issue a secret? It makes no sense.
. Sure, there are a few parents - very few, thankfully - who might harm their children for any of these reasons (they don’t want their kids: using opposite sex pronouns and new names and pretending to be the opposite sex, having sex, taking drugs, fighting, bullying or being bullied, failing or doing poorly at school, and they are unable to control their negative feelings and become abusive to their own children - and some few parent abuse their children for no apparent reason at all). What do we do about them? We refer them for the appropriate protection in the case of suspected abuse.
However, we don’t assume all parents will abuse their children if they find out something they don’t like, whether it be sex, bullying, drugs, bad grades, etc.), and keep the children’s issues a secret from their loving parents / even though most parents don’t want to hear that their kids are failing school or taking drugs. Why make trans-identification an exception to the normal way we inform families and keep parents in the loop, which is, in almost all cases, the best thing to do to help and support a child?
Is the distinction that trans-ID is a positive thing to be celebrated and therefore all parents who don’t immediately celebrate their children’s trans-ID are psychopaths? If that were true, then shouldn’t schools be reporting these lunatics to social services immediately once their children say they may not be supportive of a trans-ID (and how do these kids even know that for sure) to have appropriate interventions rather than keeping secrets from them to keep a fragile peace with these powder kegs?
Of course, it is not true that those parents who question trans-ID are lunatics.
There are many valid reasons to question a young person’s trans-ID. We must be honest that going down the road to transition is a difficult and dangerous path filled with many pitfalls - from sterility and loss of sexual function to all the other medical issues, from increased risk of strokes and heart attacks to bone density issues to urinary tract issues to infections to liver problems and so forth. And that there are a growing cohort of detransitioners proving that a trans-ID is not beyond question. Parents know their own children. If they don’t think their child is actually prepared for the road to transition or they their child should consider the possibility that other things are at play causing the child to think a trans-ID will solve their emotional or mental difficulties or make them have a better life, those parents deserve to have a say in how their child is treated. At the very least those parents must know what is happening to their own children at school. Leaving them uninformed because their children don’t want them to know is extremely irresponsible.
There is nothing transphobic about the policies of the two Canadian provinces. Any claim that they are violating the rights of kids claiming a trans-ID is absurd.
This whole argument by trans activists is ridiculous. If a student was taking drugs, had sex at school, was failing school, was bullying or fighting at school or being bullied, there is no question that parents would be informed. Why make this one issue a secret? It makes no sense.
. Sure, there are a few parents - very few, thankfully - who might harm their children for any of these reasons (they don’t want their kids: using opposite sex pronouns and new names and pretending to be the opposite sex, having sex, taking drugs, fighting, bullying or being bullied, failing or doing poorly at school, and they are unable to control their negative feelings and become abusive to their own children - and some few parent abuse their children for no apparent reason at all). What do we do about them? We refer them for the appropriate protection in the case of suspected abuse.
However, we don’t assume all parents will abuse their children if they find out something they don’t like, whether it be sex, bullying, drugs, bad grades, etc.), and keep the children’s issues a secret from their loving parents / even though most parents don’t want to hear that their kids are failing school or taking drugs. Why make trans-identification an exception to the normal way we inform families and keep parents in the loop, which is, in almost all cases, the best thing to do to help and support a child?
Is the distinction that trans-ID is a positive thing to be celebrated and therefore all parents who don’t immediately celebrate their children’s trans-ID are psychopaths? If that were true, then shouldn’t schools be reporting these lunatics to social services immediately once their children say they may not be supportive of a trans-ID (and how do these kids even know that for sure) to have appropriate interventions rather than keeping secrets from them to keep a fragile peace with these powder kegs?
Of course, it is not true that those parents who question trans-ID are lunatics.
There are many valid reasons to question a young person’s trans-ID. We must be honest that going down the road to transition is a difficult and dangerous path filled with many pitfalls - from sterility and loss of sexual function to all the other medical issues, from increased risk of strokes and heart attacks to bone density issues to urinary tract issues to infections to liver problems and so forth. And that there are a growing cohort of detransitioners proving that a trans-ID is not beyond question. Parents know their own children. If they don’t think their child is actually prepared for the road to transition or they their child should consider the possibility that other things are at play causing the child to think a trans-ID will solve their emotional or mental difficulties or make them have a better life, those parents deserve to have a say in how their child is treated. At the very least those parents must know what is happening to their own children at school. Leaving them uninformed because their children don’t want them to know is extremely irresponsible.
There is nothing transphobic about the policies of the two Canadian provinces. Any claim that they are violating the rights of kids claiming a trans-ID is absurd.
Canada is developing as a political battleground very fast.