The other side of trans: the untold story of parents who believe the welfare of their troubled children is not served by a rush to "affirm" gender change https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/parents-feel-new-gender-was-a-foregone-agenda/news-story/08fe653987f5838f5a8c09d41f1cc436 … @australian #ChildWelfare
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Replying to @Bernard_Lane @australian
"How many others are out there?" A lot. There are a lot of us...here in the USA, there in Australia, and everywhere youth are spending a lot of time on the internet finding their "authentic selves". Cross-sex hormone use comes with a great deal of medical risk that's ignored.
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The MSM have been studiously ignoring a source/voice existent for nearly 5 years. They ax any mention of our existence. We have published articles by professionals, personal stories of detransition, and the "other side" without letup since 2015. This ignoring is deliberate.
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @notworthmessing and
By contrast, the US rightwing media has made grieving parents a cause célèbre recently, further marginalizing the issue and promoting the lie that only conservative, homophobic parents and organizations talk about the massive increase in teen girls who think they're trans.
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @notworthmessing and
Because many detransitioned people and many parents recoil from the policies and positions of the socially conservative right and refuse to be platformed by it, the real story of supportive parents (from across the political spectrum) and trans regretters is not being told.
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @notworthmessing and
Reporters (and editiors) who might like to cover this issue are scared away because of perceived "guilt by association" with organizations who fought against gay marriage, gay adoption, climate change sanity, and other political issues that cannot simply be waved away.
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @notworthmessing and
And yet in UK, concerns about the rise in teen transition have been covered by Guardian, Observer, Times and Sunday Times, Spectator and Economist, Telegraph, BBC Newsnight as well as Mail on Sunday.
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It's not about "parental politics." It's about media-generated perceptions. The way it is covered ensures that the public sees this as a right-left wedge issue.
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