If you don’t encourage children to question sexuality, which they barely if at all, understand, you’ll find they don’t. Oh, look, you’ve cured it. This applies to teachers, educators, staff, therapists (who know better), coaches, and other parents. As I wrote here, the best thing you can do for a child is
- stop confusing them about gender. Why are you talking about sex with children? Why are you advocating or defending it? It is a form of mental abuse that causes dysphoria that leads to dangerous drugs and irreversible surgery.
- If a child is asking questions on their own, be supportive of the curiosity and be a friend, but be honest. It’s normal, most kids outgrow it, and drugs and (especially) surgery don’t really help. The drugs must be taken…forever. The surgery will harm you and cannot be reversed.
Children who have been drugged and mutilated are not less likely to consider suicide because the underlying mental health issue was never identified or addressed. All you’ve done is make it more complex and dangerous, increasing the odds the person you thought you helped will act out in anger, embrace substance abuse, or end their own life.
The dysphoria we need to treat first is among advocates and water carriers of harming children in this way. Those demanding that this is the correct path, massaging the idea, and assisting in its pursuit. It is child endangerment, but until someone engages in the serial prosecution of these practices as child abuse, from the public schools to the operation rooms, they won’t stop.
They need to stop. Leave the kids alone.
