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Non Complicit's avatar

This has me in tears Fern. My heart breaks for Vanessa’s parents and the senseless loss of their beloved daughter. The astonishing incompetence of our public agencies in this case leaves me frankly speechless and fearful for every vulnerable child in our country. And the complete inaction by her pro-ana / pro-trans online “communities” and so called “friends” and the utter stupidity and incompetence of the manager of the motel is nothing short of wicked.

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Especially girls born after 2005.

Our beautiful girl born then too, plus gender ideology classroom-saturation; plus cruel 2020-2022 national lockdowns; plus social contagion; plus social media algorithms caused a perfect storm of body dysmorphia, eating disorder, self-harm, suicidality right on the starting blocks of puberty.

Our girls came back to school after lockdown one with exhibitions of this damage - waifs, scarred, pale, and haunted.

There was only socially-approved affirmation, there was only peer-approval and whispers, there was only cult-membership as acknowledgement. Nobody would talk about this awful plague of assault on our teen girls in the midst of political compliance with this cruel ideology.

Thank you, Fern and Ruth, for peeling back the plasters, we really need to remember where the harm started and where to focus reforms. And my great condolences to the family for the loss of their daughter, it truly is a tragedy.

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