A Mom in Los Angeles describes her daughter’s path towards a trans identity.
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Hi, I am a mom from Los Angeles, California.
So much to say, so little time.
The seed was planted when my daughter was 11, when she went to a homeschool theatre programme, where she got into my car one day and declared she was queer. And I had asked her how she learned that and she said the kids were talking about sexuality. Then that continued, where the kids kept pressuring her, What’s your sexuality? What’s your gender identity? And it got to a point where her and a girl were exchanging messages and my daughter declaring that she was lesbian and this girl, kissing her. So I pulled her out of that, and that was four years ago.
During that time, we continue to homeschool; this year in ninth grade she decided to go to public school. During the pandemic, though her best friend moved to Thailand, her other best friend, she cut that relationship off. So she was very isolated and alone.
She was a ballerina, and so we everything went online and she was doing her ballet in her room and my mistake was to allow her to keep that computer in her room. If I could go back and change one thing that would be to never ever have my daughter have that computer in her room.
So flash forward to the lonely isolated girl, goes to her first couple of days of public school. Her room is a total disaster. I decided to be a good mom and clean it up. I’m looking at her sketchbooks because she’s an artist, and I find horrifying mutilation pictures of herself cutting out her vagina and her breast and letters declaring that she’s trans and she is gay. And so I decide to take my time and confront her in a couple weeks, after I do my own research on what’s going on, because at that moment, I’m like, I can’t put my finger on it, there’s some sort of phenomenon happening with girls.
So I sit her down we have a talk. I tell her that her dad and I love her very much. We will not be affirming her. She will not be getting a binder. We will not be calling her by Max or Arthur. Her name is Tess and biologically and chromosomally, she is a girl. I had an amniocentesis for both my kids because I’m an older mother.
What I’ve learned is that the transgender ideology has billionaires money behind it; it has federal government behind it; it has my California Governor behind it. They have just passed a law where a 14 year old could go into Planned Parenthood and get hormones.
The worst advice was a therapist telling me to put my daughter on Prozac and so I decided not to do that.
My advice is do not affirm your child. What I’ve seen by not affirming her is that within two months, I have my daughter back.
Hope? Do I have hope? We have to have hope. If we don’t, then the transgender ideology has our kids.