> "What is a transgender child rejecting - their expected gender role or their sex?"
Very good question. @KathleenStock quite reasonably suggests, in her Material Girls, that at least some of them "identify WITH" and/or exhibit "gender nonconforming" traits that are typical of the other sex. And are then tricked into thinking that they should mangle their bodies, transmogrify them, into ersatz replicas of the other sex. Crime of the century.
The huge problem here in Australia, is ACON being empowered by our government, with huge sums of public money, which it uses disingenuously to promote its business. ACON needs to be stripped of its charity status.
ACON is a disgrace- it turned against gay people long ago, can’t be trusted to administer public health programs, in fact can’t be trusted with our public money at all!
Really excellent article thankyou, so many reasons to save and add to my list of references to refer colleagues and friends to, when they call me transphobic etc for my views. However surely by far the biggest reason kids come to trans ideology, is the fact that it’s delivered to them by activist groups, enabled by vast sums of taxpayers money. It would’ve been so good to reference this in your article;
Yes that is true about activist groups, bankrolled by taxpayers, negatively influencing children. However, the article RGE has shared focuses on the development of identity from Dr Pertot’s perspective as a retired clinical psychiatrist. ACON is another whole story.
A very poignant and intelligent question. Suspect it is part of creating the 'transhumanism' agenda. The past 50 yrs of empowering women to own who they are is being dismantled.
Hi. As an academic women’s studies feminist some 30+ years ago my major research focus was how children acquire and interpret societal gendered messages. So to say it drives me mad this mixing up of sex (binary biological determinism) with gender (chose where you want to be along the stereotypical female-male scale) drives me absolutely bonkers. And to see so many feminists colluding with this trans nonsense takes my breath away. What have we been arguing for these last 50+ years if not that your biological sex need not be a constraint on how you want to live your life. That women can drive trucks, be sexually attracted to males or females or both etc etc. and that doesn’t mean you were ‘born in the wrong body’. And that boys can like barbie’s and sparkly colours, that men can be relationship rather than power-driven and that they don’t have to ‘change sex’ to have their preferences accepted.
After leaving academia I was a child therapist for many years. I obviously wouldn’t last a minute now as I would clearly refuse to go down the ‘gender-affirming (I.e ‘born in the wrong body’) rabbit hole.
> "What is a transgender child rejecting - their expected gender role or their sex?"
Very good question. @KathleenStock quite reasonably suggests, in her Material Girls, that at least some of them "identify WITH" and/or exhibit "gender nonconforming" traits that are typical of the other sex. And are then tricked into thinking that they should mangle their bodies, transmogrify them, into ersatz replicas of the other sex. Crime of the century.
The huge problem here in Australia, is ACON being empowered by our government, with huge sums of public money, which it uses disingenuously to promote its business. ACON needs to be stripped of its charity status.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/lgbtq-group-acon-given-7-million-to-produce-nongendered-language-cancer-campaign-meant-for-indigenous-and-migrant-women/news-story/778b6c55c09f0886498a88f064c2d72a?amp
ACON is a disgrace- it turned against gay people long ago, can’t be trusted to administer public health programs, in fact can’t be trusted with our public money at all!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/row-over-hiv-health-cash-20110115-19rvu.html
Really excellent article thankyou, so many reasons to save and add to my list of references to refer colleagues and friends to, when they call me transphobic etc for my views. However surely by far the biggest reason kids come to trans ideology, is the fact that it’s delivered to them by activist groups, enabled by vast sums of taxpayers money. It would’ve been so good to reference this in your article;
https://www.governmentnews.com.au/concerns-raised-about-government-links-to-advocacy-group/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p09yjmph
Yes that is true about activist groups, bankrolled by taxpayers, negatively influencing children. However, the article RGE has shared focuses on the development of identity from Dr Pertot’s perspective as a retired clinical psychiatrist. ACON is another whole story.
A very poignant and intelligent question. Suspect it is part of creating the 'transhumanism' agenda. The past 50 yrs of empowering women to own who they are is being dismantled.
Hi. As an academic women’s studies feminist some 30+ years ago my major research focus was how children acquire and interpret societal gendered messages. So to say it drives me mad this mixing up of sex (binary biological determinism) with gender (chose where you want to be along the stereotypical female-male scale) drives me absolutely bonkers. And to see so many feminists colluding with this trans nonsense takes my breath away. What have we been arguing for these last 50+ years if not that your biological sex need not be a constraint on how you want to live your life. That women can drive trucks, be sexually attracted to males or females or both etc etc. and that doesn’t mean you were ‘born in the wrong body’. And that boys can like barbie’s and sparkly colours, that men can be relationship rather than power-driven and that they don’t have to ‘change sex’ to have their preferences accepted.
After leaving academia I was a child therapist for many years. I obviously wouldn’t last a minute now as I would clearly refuse to go down the ‘gender-affirming (I.e ‘born in the wrong body’) rabbit hole.