You cannot surround a child with liars and expect them to grow up as a healthy and rational member of society. Affirming parents are lying parents, and “trans” kids know that. It severs the bonds between parent and child, leaving the child unable to trust their authority figures. Their parents, teachers, etc. will look them in the face and lie to protect them from the truth — but that’s not healthy, and it’s not how you raise functional children.
@RadicalCartoons This the beating heart of the nonsense in which we live. When we play the oppression Olympics, there are no winners, because to win is to be the most oppressed of all. I struggle to imagine any other circumstances in which we would raise children to be so fragile that they cannot cope with any resistance, so they interpret the word NO as an existential threat that needs to be met with violence.