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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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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