This makes me sad. Yes, I am 100% with you on the urge to yell a your kids when they don’t clean up their rooms. I’ve done it. However, it’s not the only way to parent (my parents did that thing with the chore box described above). Most parents and their children have an underlying trusting relationship that is not threatened by occasion…
This makes me sad. Yes, I am 100% with you on the urge to yell a your kids when they don’t clean up their rooms. I’ve done it. However, it’s not the only way to parent (my parents did that thing with the chore box described above). Most parents and their children have an underlying trusting relationship that is not threatened by occasional yelling. The same is not true of left and right in our country. If we truly want to be able to treat gender medicine as an issue outside of left and right, it really helps to avoid screaming and throwing insults. It may feel satisfying to have the harsh language of the executive order, but it does not build bridges. I live in a very blue leftie community, where many believe what they read on bluesky. I have a young adult child who has been taking cross sex hormones for over two years and now reads as male. This executive order, while much of the content is good, legitimizes a harsh discourse that will help create a world that is more hostile to my child, and will further polarize the political conversation on the left in a way that is also harmful for my young adult child. The order could have been and should have been written in a way that was clear and strong, without including further polarizing language. Not leading with that kind of sentiment is throwing my kid under the bus. I get that many of the commentators here don’t really give a crap about my kid and others like my kid, but I do, and I am very sad and discouraged.
This makes me sad. Yes, I am 100% with you on the urge to yell a your kids when they don’t clean up their rooms. I’ve done it. However, it’s not the only way to parent (my parents did that thing with the chore box described above). Most parents and their children have an underlying trusting relationship that is not threatened by occasional yelling. The same is not true of left and right in our country. If we truly want to be able to treat gender medicine as an issue outside of left and right, it really helps to avoid screaming and throwing insults. It may feel satisfying to have the harsh language of the executive order, but it does not build bridges. I live in a very blue leftie community, where many believe what they read on bluesky. I have a young adult child who has been taking cross sex hormones for over two years and now reads as male. This executive order, while much of the content is good, legitimizes a harsh discourse that will help create a world that is more hostile to my child, and will further polarize the political conversation on the left in a way that is also harmful for my young adult child. The order could have been and should have been written in a way that was clear and strong, without including further polarizing language. Not leading with that kind of sentiment is throwing my kid under the bus. I get that many of the commentators here don’t really give a crap about my kid and others like my kid, but I do, and I am very sad and discouraged.
I’m so sorry to hear this Mina. You are truly in a double bind.