Thread by @4th_WaveNow

1. THREAD. Example of how moderators in the 8000+-member affirmative parent group vigilantly police and remove any information which may raise doubts. Here, a parent posts a forbidden article & wonders about underlying reasons that might be a factor in her teen's sudden trans ID.

2. "Admin, can this link be removed?"

3. Admin intervenes: "We've all been there" but remember -- it's suicide or transition. The not-so-implicit message is that even raising questions means the child "does not receive support at home," with dire consequences. Misuse of the NCTE 2014 stat follows.

4. Because the 41% stat is misused so often to terrorize cautious parents, please see the analysis by the Williams Institute, discussed in this article.
4thwavenow.com/2015/08/03/the…

5. The questioning parent is subjected to further schooling: "The author is what is known as a TERF" and even posting a link to her article harms trans kids and upsets the "thousands of parents who have learned how wrong they were."

6. Another parent dares to wonder if her child may also be identifying as trans for more complex reasons. She is quickly corrected and admonished to stop "ruminating" on "outs" to question her child's authenticity.

7. Tag a moderator--it's "super triggering to wake up to TERFs before coffee."

8. Reading the article, which is nothing but "crap opinion," can cause "fear and damage" to parents.

9. More reassurance that there's no such thing as a sudden acquisition of a trans identity; "it's not new for him."

**Four months** of identifying as trans is enough to know it is "highly unlikely" to change, according to her gender therapist.

10. "An admin turned off commenting for this post."

1a: Note that the photograph accompanying this post is from the article the parent shared, here:
psychedinsanfrancisco.com/transgender-te…