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Panel discussion about how parents are being excluded from medical decisions about their children at @genspect, with @stellaomalley3 @drgypsy and @jburgo55. Very topical discussion considering what's going on in the US. #GenspectBiggerPicture 1/
Joe Burgo was treated with contempt by the medical profession with regards to his trans-identifying child. "We have handed it over to the children and the world at large to decide what's true." This feels very new to him, he says. 2/
The theme of the separation of parent from their child is happening via the medical professional driving a wedge between them, says @drgypsy. In her parents' support groups, they talk about how they can win back that right to parent our children. 3/ #GenspectBiggerPicture
Stella describes how parents going through this get so isolated: you can't talk about it, and you don't go to the media. You live in fear. 17 felt like the most stressful age (feels like the soldiers are coming, one parent said) because once the hit 18 everything changes. 4/
@drgypsy talks about parents calling into meetings from the bathroom, from their car...not sure about what pronouns they can use for their child. @jburgo55 says you have to decide if you lean into your authority, but that's dangerous because wider society is not on your side. 5/
@sueevansprotect says: the children are indeed distressed and struggling. But the other thing that has to be tackled in this area is that they are aggrieved, controlling and they are dominating families. 6/ #GenspectBiggerPicture
They are controlling the family. @jburgo55 says it's part of the child-led parenting phenomenon. We need to help them through the horror of adolescence - but we don't have to save them from it, we don't have to cure it for them. 7/
Regarding parents hiding away in the car on Zoom calls, says @marcuse99903226 - it's a bad idea to act like it's you who has done something wrong. But @drgypsy talks about the horror story in Ontario taking away a child for not affirming them. Parents fear this, she says 8/
@stellaomalley3 brings up @iseult's talk from yesterday on the "chilling effect". This fear of your child might be taken away - people are "chilled" by it, but if you live in Ireland or the UK, for example, it's not something that can happen. (Not so in Canada, says @drgypsy) 9/
A mother of a detransitioner gets up. Her son transitioned back before this current mania erupted, so she believed the doctors. She talks about being called "lucky" because her son detransitioned, which is an awful feeling. 10/
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