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[–] Guyven 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

When kids socially transition, she explained, their parents not only become their champions to teachers and other parents, but also often start engaging in trans advocacy that comes to define them in important ways. If the child starts to sense that their dysphoria is desisting, they’re faced with either sticking with a gender identity that no longer feels like it fits or telling their parents, as the clinician put it, “This whole life that you’ve created for yourself as an advocate, I don’t want to be part of that anymore.”

I sense a very strong impulse to avoid stating the obvious conclusion that any 'conservative' or 'middling' approach to throwing all confused children as hard as possible toward being locked in as trans... is seen as a threat to the filling of the ranks of those who will fight alongside these present activists. You're disrupting their enlistment initiative, plainly. They will vehemently deny such, and you're a bigot for thinking it. But it is so painfully obvious, and a conflict of interest for an advocate to advocate for an outcome that strengthens his position by enlisting others by default. "Caution" is their enemy... because "radical action" is required to lock in that first uninformed choice. Then how hard is it to leave them? Quote above implies: Very hard, Uncle Tom, very hard.

In a world where we have to write an 11,000 word essay to say without saying what the tactic is all about, it's no wonder we can't have a clear debate. "Gender Affirmative" == "aggressive recruitment." I know, I'm such an everything-phobe.