Your writing is the best I have seen no this topic Lisa! Keep it up! Thank you from another mom of an ROGD child. I went to a play at our local high school this past weekend. This performance was unique because all of the plays were written, directed and casted by the students. My child who identifies as Non Binary, was one of the 12 teens in this single production who identify under the current trans umbrella. During the play, which was a queer version of a Sherlock Holmes mystery, wherein Watson was in the midst of planning his upcoming wedding with his boyfriend, Sam, when he dies of poisoning. (both of these male characters were played by natal females who identify as non-binary.)The set had only one prop - a vase of pink and blue flowers with a trans flag proudly displayed on stage. This had no relevance to the play whatsoever... The theater faculty members who guide and sponsor these student directors both have links to GLSEN on their email signatures as to why using pronouns is supportive. I left so astounded by the utter ideological capture of this public school that I was speechless. At what point and HOW do we get adults to actually stop and think at all about what they are doing? Teen explore. Teens do things in groups. This would all be beautifully creative if the conveyor belt of transition wasn't looming in the background and the detransitioners continue to multiply. How can our institutions be supporting this with NO pause or dialogue at all. BTW - my child has changed their name and pronouns at school and no one has EVER contacted me about this.
"Informed consent for social transition represents a gray area. Evidence suggests that social transition is associated with the persistence of gender dysphoria (Hembree et al., 2017; Steensma, McGuire, Kreukels, Beekman, & Cohen-Kettenis, 2013). This suggests that social gender transition is a form of a psychological intervention with potential lasting effects (Zucker, 2020). While the causality has not been proven, the possibility of iatrogenesis and the resulting exposure to the risks of future medical and surgical gender dysphoria treatments, qualifies social gender transition for explicit, rather than implied, consent."
Your writing is the best I have seen no this topic Lisa! Keep it up! Thank you from another mom of an ROGD child. I went to a play at our local high school this past weekend. This performance was unique because all of the plays were written, directed and casted by the students. My child who identifies as Non Binary, was one of the 12 teens in this single production who identify under the current trans umbrella. During the play, which was a queer version of a Sherlock Holmes mystery, wherein Watson was in the midst of planning his upcoming wedding with his boyfriend, Sam, when he dies of poisoning. (both of these male characters were played by natal females who identify as non-binary.)The set had only one prop - a vase of pink and blue flowers with a trans flag proudly displayed on stage. This had no relevance to the play whatsoever... The theater faculty members who guide and sponsor these student directors both have links to GLSEN on their email signatures as to why using pronouns is supportive. I left so astounded by the utter ideological capture of this public school that I was speechless. At what point and HOW do we get adults to actually stop and think at all about what they are doing? Teen explore. Teens do things in groups. This would all be beautifully creative if the conveyor belt of transition wasn't looming in the background and the detransitioners continue to multiply. How can our institutions be supporting this with NO pause or dialogue at all. BTW - my child has changed their name and pronouns at school and no one has EVER contacted me about this.
Go to the school with https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2046221
"Informed consent for social transition represents a gray area. Evidence suggests that social transition is associated with the persistence of gender dysphoria (Hembree et al., 2017; Steensma, McGuire, Kreukels, Beekman, & Cohen-Kettenis, 2013). This suggests that social gender transition is a form of a psychological intervention with potential lasting effects (Zucker, 2020). While the causality has not been proven, the possibility of iatrogenesis and the resulting exposure to the risks of future medical and surgical gender dysphoria treatments, qualifies social gender transition for explicit, rather than implied, consent."