🧵 Democrats:

We need to save the country.

We need to welcome the center, now screaming at town halls due to Trump's RECKLESSNESS and LYING.

We MUST NOT be reckless or lie! We need to be the obverse!

"Gender "is an Achilles heel position that we must quickly AMEND Protect "NONCONFORMING" people. No labels or acronyms needed. No neo pronoun Stasi stance.

No reification of made up horseshit like 'sex is a spectrum' or 'assigned at birth.'

Nonconformers *exist*, and must be protected from unfairness or harm. Just drop the BS parts!

🧵Democrats:

PLEASE, back away from "Gender Identity."

It is a TRAP.

Yes, ppl can define themselves according to their own beliefs... whether transubstantiation, Thetans, or 'gender.'

NO, there is no scientific proof anyone has a 'gender identity.' (Think: "self image") WPATH have led Democrats badly astray.

An activist group posing as a medical body, WPATH actively HID their own studies which show how paltry their evidence base is.

Liberal Europe increasingly REJECTS puberty blockers/ sex changes for minors because of the *poor evidence*.

We've got a cluster B society now, after a few generations of emotional neglect of kids. 🧵

We've got a child-ignorant society too, as fewer and fewer adults parent kids in species-specific ways with sense of species' norms. Or with sure belief.

Hence we have produced adults capable of INVENTING a tentpole TRAIT and deep NEED of humans and imposing it on their own kids all in last 10 yrs.

WHY? Their kids are unhappy, and they lack psychodynamic insights, & a set of skills their own parents or grandparents naturally acquired but they did not.

I am trained/sworn in as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for Foster Youth.

🧵 Here, a few reasons why Foster Parents should *not* be mandated to "affirm gender ID":

1. Kids are often wrong.
2. Foster kids have a great many mental health issues that mimic "trans" -Self hatred is a huge problem in foster kids
-Dissociation is a huge problem in foster kids

3. Foster youth have a higher likelihood of having been physically or sexually abused.
4. Foster youth are poor at introspection and have a poor sense of self.

LIBERAL reasons to oppose Transgenderism:

1. Women's Rights are not possible to speak about or protect when "women" is a mixed-sex category.

2. 'Gender' suggests there is a right way to be a boy (trucks, guns) and a right way to be a girl (dolls, glitter). That's utter BS! 3. Transgenderism says *faking* being the opposite sex is "authentic"-- and 'maybe passing better' is worth the loss of fertility and orgasm in adulthood. NO.

4. This ideation barely existed in kids before ~2012... & gender dysphoria was *nearly always outgrown* via *puberty.*

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My peers were first women to put very small babies, under age 1, in group care (c. 1985).

Today = adults w vastly different internalized concepts of "familial," "parental," "school," "care."

Way less sense of *protections* needed by children (as way-less-protected kids). The ways of parenting = modeled by parents, when you are a child. (The ways of teachers are different. The ways of temporary workers are very different.)

So now, "protect Trans kids" allies w no adult sense of what "protect" means, what "alliance" is, or "kids" needs/limits.

I am 61. I really think my peers and i need to painfully face that there are limitations to women's liberation that come in the form of the primal needs of very small children, most naturally met by mothers.

It's not forever, its ~2-3 years at the very beginning during which the brain is so-rapidly growing, favoring right brain systems.

What you 'know w/out thinking' is your right brain.

We need an apprenticeship at the knee of a mother, or other self regulated, reliable, loving permanent adult. To learn who we are and how we tick.

"Affirmative Gender Care" for kids:

-ignores that gender dysphoria, historically, was *outgrown* by 80-90% - most gay as adults.

-conducts "assessments" (of what?) in which a serious mental illness does not rule child out for Tx

-screams about "suicide!" danger but does not offer DBT or psychotherapeutic approaches that kids WOULD be getting for suicidal ideation if not 'trans'.

-does not track outcomes long term

-adultifies children-- they're responsible for initiatingPERMANENT treatment

-threatens and browbeats parents who disagree

"Common" knowledge about children is disappearing, because common knowledge is acquired experientially, via modeling-- that many no longer get.

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In my youth, you'd first observe your siblings/ family friends... Adults modeled what littler kids needed... & that different 2/ rules applied to the little ones... 'let him have the first turn; he's too little for that game; that TV show is too scary' etc.

You watched your mom pick up your little brother, comfort, help, buffer, soothe him. That meta.

Then you got left in charge for brief periods.

I'm a CASA/child advocate, who knows and loves many GNC people (mostly gay & lesbian adults) & who has a close relationship with a young trans person.

I have been reading deeply about gender and "doing my research" on this issue since first hearing about it's emergence

THREAD I had no horse in this race but being a well informed advocate and a critical thinker whose main job, after "love the child; advocate in their long term best interests" is "help the child learn trust, prudence and the adaptive habits of a stable, self-sustaining life."

The worst habitat loss, the one that drives all the other degradations, all the voracity and rage and anxiety of today's human: we've lost the climate of early life, good for building mental health.

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We've lost when one income could buy a home and send kids to college... We've lost lap time, nearby grandmothers, greenspaces to explore.

Our kids are anxious, depressed and self rejecting in huge numbers. Always blamed on technology but tech fills a pre-existing void for many people. The void of lack of relational, cozy, physically-attached