It’s Susan--Forgive me the mic noise. I used wired earbuds/mic so that WOULDN’T happen. I even tested it! It gets better about 5 minutes in, then off and on. It definitely wasn’t on Jen’s end.
As discussed in the podcast, I have already had the chance to ask my (gay) son (24) about his thoughts on trans people (he is active in the gay community). He mulled it over a minute, then tentatively said that he thinks it’s a social fad, like ear gauges, tattoos, pink hair, etc. It’s an easy way to buy social cache. Ultimately, though, he thinks trans people are delusional. But that said, he did acknowledge that it wouldn’t necessarily preclude him from dating one, assuming that one delusion was the biggest problem. (He has only ever been with men, but I bet he’s technically “pansexual”). Kids are VERY open-minded sexually these days. He said he sees the “woke” ideology as a MUCH bigger problem.
Upon more reflection, so much of the trans programming came out of the anti-bullying programs so popular in 2010-2011, slippery-slope-style, just as the Uber-Right, “Crazy Christians” warned it would. I can post sources, but Matt and I both totally remember it all.
Around that time, the district introduced “Sexuality Ed” standards, where 6th graders learned to get used to using the “right” words with their peers (boys and girls), and they were instructed to shout words like, “Vagina!”, “Penis!”, “Anal sex!”, “dildo!”, etc., over and over until it stopped being funny. My kid sat next to a little girl he went to church with. How fun! (/sarc). Desensitization and grooming has been used for at least a decade.
A thought about the position (unhappy) parents of trans kids find themselves: MY mother couldn’t have kept me from using drugs or sleeping around when I was young: it would have taken it as a challenge...but she tried. I wouldn’t be any more successful than my mother: even if I wanted to, I couldn’t talk Matt out of being gay. Let’s pretend he was living a wild, unprotected dangerous sex romp of a life...it wouldn’t work. Did YOUR mothers’ concerns make you change your behavior? Bet not.
A wise woman recently said something like, “What can you do besides let it go”? And I say, “Give it to God.” Same thing. Trust the process and don’t stop loving them. 💚
It’s Susan--Forgive me the mic noise. I used wired earbuds/mic so that WOULDN’T happen. I even tested it! It gets better about 5 minutes in, then off and on. It definitely wasn’t on Jen’s end.
As discussed in the podcast, I have already had the chance to ask my (gay) son (24) about his thoughts on trans people (he is active in the gay community). He mulled it over a minute, then tentatively said that he thinks it’s a social fad, like ear gauges, tattoos, pink hair, etc. It’s an easy way to buy social cache. Ultimately, though, he thinks trans people are delusional. But that said, he did acknowledge that it wouldn’t necessarily preclude him from dating one, assuming that one delusion was the biggest problem. (He has only ever been with men, but I bet he’s technically “pansexual”). Kids are VERY open-minded sexually these days. He said he sees the “woke” ideology as a MUCH bigger problem.
Upon more reflection, so much of the trans programming came out of the anti-bullying programs so popular in 2010-2011, slippery-slope-style, just as the Uber-Right, “Crazy Christians” warned it would. I can post sources, but Matt and I both totally remember it all.
Around that time, the district introduced “Sexuality Ed” standards, where 6th graders learned to get used to using the “right” words with their peers (boys and girls), and they were instructed to shout words like, “Vagina!”, “Penis!”, “Anal sex!”, “dildo!”, etc., over and over until it stopped being funny. My kid sat next to a little girl he went to church with. How fun! (/sarc). Desensitization and grooming has been used for at least a decade.
A thought about the position (unhappy) parents of trans kids find themselves: MY mother couldn’t have kept me from using drugs or sleeping around when I was young: it would have taken it as a challenge...but she tried. I wouldn’t be any more successful than my mother: even if I wanted to, I couldn’t talk Matt out of being gay. Let’s pretend he was living a wild, unprotected dangerous sex romp of a life...it wouldn’t work. Did YOUR mothers’ concerns make you change your behavior? Bet not.
A wise woman recently said something like, “What can you do besides let it go”? And I say, “Give it to God.” Same thing. Trust the process and don’t stop loving them. 💚