We’ve seen some members of the gay community saying that the “LGB” part of the alphabet needs to cut itself loose from the “T” part because radical trans activists are actually hurting the gains the gay community has made with its own activism. There’s a big gulf between two adult men getting married and schools secretly drawing up “transition plans” for students without informing their parents. And we mention it a lot, but think about one school’s transition closet: Mom and Dad can send Alex to school dressed as a boy, but once the parents are out of eyesight, Alex can change into a dress and instruct the teachers to call her Alexa, and then do another switcheroo after school.
Lisa Selin Davis has published a piece on Substack called, “Why Some Liberals Embrace the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill,” which she’d hoped a major newspaper would publish. Instead, we have this thread:
Yesterday @DouthatNYT predicted: "Within not too short a span of time, not only conservatives but most liberals will recognize that we have been running an experiment on trans-identifying youth without good or certain evidence inspired by ideological 1/
— Lisa Selin Davis (@LisaSelinDavis) April 14, 2022
motives rather than scientific rigor, in a way that future generations will regard as a grave medical-political scandal. Which means that if you're a liberal who believes as much already, but don’t feel comfortable saying it, your silence will eventually become your regret. 2/
— Lisa Selin Davis (@LisaSelinDavis) April 14, 2022
I'm a liberal who's been trying to speak up. I've sent many pieces to @nytopinion. They asked me to write a piece about schools secretly socially transitioning kids, which discussed the science and emotional experience. Yet they declined to run it. https://t.co/XnNshUhfku 3/
— Lisa Selin Davis (@LisaSelinDavis) April 14, 2022
I've spent the last year helping psychologists, nurses, doctors—some of them trans—pen op-eds, to whistle blow on the poor care kids with gender dysphoria are getting. @nytopinion has turned them all down. @washingtonpost took one. Most have been ignored by multiple outlets. 4/
— Lisa Selin Davis (@LisaSelinDavis) April 14, 2022
This is a free speech issue. I'm contacted daily by people who want to speak up but fear losing their kids and/or their jobs. For my speaking up, I have lost work and professional relationships that took years to build. @DouthatNYT links to "well-subscribed" Substacks 5/
— Lisa Selin Davis (@LisaSelinDavis) April 14, 2022
But not to those of us w/ fewer followers & less power working doggedly to complicate the media narrative around kids w/ gender dysphoria, to expose the uncertain science, to encourage dissent and debate, and to make room for gender nonconformity. I spoke up. No one listened.
— Lisa Selin Davis (@LisaSelinDavis) April 14, 2022
Davis writes:
The [Parental Rights in Education] bill aims to make sure parents have rights such as accessing school records, and “prohibits school district personnel from discouraging or prohibiting parental notification & involvement in critical decisions affecting student’s mental, emotional, or physical well-being.” It prevents schools from encouraging “a student to withhold from a parent such information.”
Why would “the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding upbringing & control of their children” be necessary to vote into law when the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects parental rights?
Because some schools have been keeping information about children’s gender identity and mental health from their parents. Parts of this bill address a nonpartisan and very real issue: whether a school can secretly socially transition a child.
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… the Littlejohns are one of two families that have filed lawsuits against Florida school boards for facilitating their children’s secret social transitions, not only without telling the parents, but deliberately keeping it from them. In one case, the school hid not only the child’s gender identity from parents, but a suicide attempt. Parents have also filed lawsuits in California and Wisconsin.
Maybe the schools should be a little less anxious to help the gender transition along without telling the parents.
Keep speaking up, chipping away at the msm. The message is getting through, albeit more slowly than we would like. Your voice is important. Thank you.
— Annie (@Annie30365678) April 14, 2022
Please keep speaking up. You are noticed. And inspire us to speak up too. Maybe the NYT will rethink the pieces they rejected.
— Persephone Fiona (@fermentorfun) April 14, 2022
It's mind boggling how TRAs locked up the narrative so swiftly, considering the bottom line is *sex changes for minors.*
— Laura Wiley Haynes (@haynes_wiley) April 14, 2022
They laid the groundwork well in advance, first drawing parallels with sexuality ("born this way") then lying about hate crime and suicide statistics, to make it seem like a moral imperative.
— nerduro🗑️🦝🏳️🌈 (@nerduro) April 14, 2022
Yep. We present to you congressional candidate Eric Sorensen:
Encouraging kids to be who they are is suicide prevention.
— Eric Sorensen (@ERICSORENSEN) April 9, 2022
“Encouraging.”
Related:
Gov. Ron DeSantis features mother whose child was being 'transitioned' by school officials without her knowledge https://t.co/HoJlm5b7pg
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 28, 2022
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