1. Many commenters in our recent threads featuring leaked posts from an "affirmative" Facebook parent group call for some sort of legal action or reporting of the parents. This shows a lack of understanding of how things currently stand in North America.
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3. The parents in this group have (by their own reports) consulted with gender therapists/MDs, who encourage and enable the behaviors you are seeing in these threads.
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4. As far as reporting these parents to any authority (such as CPS), prominent gender specialists/activists have been hard at work in the legal/judicial realm, painting parents who don't "affirm" their kids as transgender as abusers.
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5. The parents in the "affirming" FB group are behaving exactly as activist-clinicians want them to. Please see this article, which is sourced w/audio recordings from gender MDs discussing how to remove custody from parents who don't approve transition.https://4thwavenow.com/2017/02/25/reportable-trauma-us-gender-docs-train-judges-call-cps-on-balking-parents/ …
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6. In fact, several well known activists are **MEMBERS** of the 8200+-member Facebook group called parents of transgender children. These individuals comment in the group and give advice. We will share some of these posts in the coming days and weeks.
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7. Some commenters ask why the names & other identifying details of parents posting in the group are concealed. It is a closed FB group, and as a matter of ethics, we don't believe it proper to "out" them on social media. We may make exception to this for posts by public figures.
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8. Even if some of these parents have extreme opinions, it cannot be overemphasized how much there views are **fully in accord** with the aims of powerful advocacy groups like Gender Spectrum (currently in a joint relationship with the
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9. We are doing this because we believe the public has a right to know not just happy trans kids stories, but the more troubling aspects of the gender-affirmative movement, particularly as it pertains to minors. US mainstream media has so far abdicated its duty in this regard.
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10. This isn't some outlier bunch of parents. It's co-moderated by Jazz Jennings' mother, one of its leaders is activist-parent Debi Jackson (google for info). Other members: Buck Angel, Asaf Orr (lead attorney for NCLR, Jen Burleton, (director of Transactive Gender Center).
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Horribly sad. But true.
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