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The state of children transitioners is in my not so charitable opinion a giant Munchausen by proxy from the mothers being enabled by society. You don't get to consent to sex as a child, you shouldn't even have the concept of being the wrong gender/sex mix. If we could somehow blanket out from the children memeplex the concept of gender we could save them and ourselves so much grief.
You can't decide you should be a boy or a girl different from what you were born if you don't have the names for these concepts. At worst you could decide you're a tomboy or an effete guy.
Kids know what boys and girls are and the concept of boys becoming girls definitely occurs to them.
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Some of them? Abso-fucking-lutely. Those mothers (and fathers, if there is a father in the mix) should be jumped on by CPS and charged with child abuse.
The problem is that there are kids with genuine problems, and parents genuinely trying to help them, and relying on medical professionals to guide them, and those professionals either being True Believers or terrified into 'if I oppose this I'll be charged with attempting conversion therapy which is illegal in this state' and going with the path of least resistance, which is to Affirm.
Some kids have mental health problems which need to be addressed. Some kids have problems with puberty (which is a confusing and often scary process) and need guidance around that. Some kids are genuinely trans, but how many and to what degree is what we are trying to figure out, as well as what is the best way to navigate that.
Unhappily it all gets thrown into the same basket, and the grifter adults take advantage of that.
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The concept of changing genders is trivial to imagine without requiring people tell you about it, though?
If you're referring to the pseudosoul thing that Gender has become, fair enough. But children are capable-of going, "Hey, can boys turn into girls?" How disappointed / satisfied / excited / ambivalent any particular child would be to any particular response, IDK.
But yeah, the response to that question should not be "Ooh, come into this secret doctor's office and find out, and if your parents try to stop you, threaten to kill yourself."
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This is a very stranger take. Children very much have a concept of being a boy or a girl, and are aware of grownups being men or women. Also, "minors" doesn't just mean hapless little six-year-olds who don't know about the birds and the bees. A fourteen or fifteen-year-old is a very different matter.
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How do you square this with the erstwhile right-wing complaint that schools will encourage kids to transition while keeping it secret from their parents?
Munchausen by proxy doesn't have to come from the mother.
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The "social transitioning" (ie teachers and staff hiding from the parents whats going on) is also an absolute shit show and a major own goal by the coalition of the ascendant.
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Yeah, I think what he's talking about also happens, but is obviously not the whole picture.
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