Founding Members, Send Us Your Questions!
Here's the inside scoop on our May guest lineup
Here is the inside scoop on who we have booked next month. If you are a Founding Member, you not only get to find out early who is coming on the podcast, but you can submit your questions for these guests here. Our May, 2024 lineup includes…
Joshua Coleman on the topic of estrangement
Josh Payne, talking about detransitioner lawsuits
Emma Thomas from https://childrenoftransitioners.org/
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Forrest Smith
Please submit your questions for any one of these guests in the comments section.
Please include the following in your comment:
the name of the guest
your question
how you’d like to be identified, if you we use your question (for instance “Lori from Ohio” or “James from the UK”, you can also use a pseudonym, or be anonymous)
While we can’t guarantee we will have time to use everyone’s questions, we hope to include at least one listener question in each of these interviews.
Thank you so much for your input and your support!
This is for Forrest.
I listened to him on Detransituon awareness day and I thought he mentioned “Rainbow Mennonites?” I’m really curious about that. I know a few Mennonites and they always strike me as very down to earth, so the idea of “rainbow mennonites” seems a bit at odds, but maybe it’s not what it sounds like.
I don’t need to be identified but you can if you want to.
For Joshua, I'm wondering if estrangement has become a sort of social contagion. I have noticed that it seems to run within families, so that one family member does it and then another does it somewhere down the line. It's also striking that we're not talking about people estranging themselves from their parent, who is a convicted killer. They are just normal parents who did everything "right".
And a second aspect of that is whether there is something about doing everything "right" that backfires? is there such a thing as too much closeness?
I'm curious also if there are an prodigal sons in all this? All this is so new, that it's hard to know, but I have seen it happen over my own lifetime where estranged children find their way back, uneasily to their families. As Abigail Shrier wrote in Irreversible Damage, your glitter family probably won't be the ones who will show up and stay when you've been in a car accident, but in most cases, your family, is always your family. If that basic fact were taken for granted, perhaps we'd be more careful with the way we treat them.
You can call me Nancy from the US
(sorry I completely ignored the guidance on how to ask the question!)