I think it’s an easy escape for teens, a trendy idea, but also a gateway to destructive thoughts and actions.
Like the idea of marijuana being a gateway drug. Or, in my family, a pet bunny being a gateway pet! Now we have a zoo.
I think nonbinary fits right in with how young people are being are taught that climate change will kill us all soon, overpopulation is bad and there is no solution, the west and America are evil, Capitalism is morally wrong, police, law and order are racist, etc.
Nonbinary is a way to identify OUT of the fear they have absorbed.
And it’s a way to signal that they are good. On the right side of this social revolution that must happen. Like in the 60’s but way worse. They need a cause. They need to feel that their parents are unenlightened! Because we were never teenagers, of course. 😅
I think many of the adults in positions of authority affirming kids in this are groomers and sick in their own way. Affirming THEMSELVES by leading more and more vulnerable people down this path to destruction.
I hope you'll make it on Saturday and can bounce these ideas around with us. I agree very much that this is a political way to attempt oping out of a system they think is morally wrong
Hi Elizabeth. It’s really hard to know what to so. Your friends child is so young, only nine! And with your adult kids, I’m not sure that you and your husbands use if they/them is what lead to their desire for cross sex pronouns. At the adult stage there are far more influences than what mom and dad do. But all of this is just so messy - hope to see you later today
What I meant is that a 9 year old can get very confused about reality if the parents are using they them. And yes. That giving up your own authenticity is one of the most destructive things that happens to families when they try to affirm against their instincts. So difficult
Wondering if what you heard on NPR was the obituary of poet Andrea Gibson - I heard it earlier today. I really wonder: how does language like "their battle with ovarian cancer"..."their wife" (in a same-sex marriage)... "their ex-girlfriends" (in same sex-relationships)..."their art" (in an art world historically dominated by men)...serve society, or serve women? What does it mean?
FYI my daughter is registered for the course at RIT "Trans Lives: PastPresentFuture." I'm not sure how to navigate that, other than to avoid bringing it up; she did say after her surgery that she did not want to discuss the topic of being transgender with me anymore.
I think it’s an easy escape for teens, a trendy idea, but also a gateway to destructive thoughts and actions.
Like the idea of marijuana being a gateway drug. Or, in my family, a pet bunny being a gateway pet! Now we have a zoo.
I think nonbinary fits right in with how young people are being are taught that climate change will kill us all soon, overpopulation is bad and there is no solution, the west and America are evil, Capitalism is morally wrong, police, law and order are racist, etc.
Nonbinary is a way to identify OUT of the fear they have absorbed.
And it’s a way to signal that they are good. On the right side of this social revolution that must happen. Like in the 60’s but way worse. They need a cause. They need to feel that their parents are unenlightened! Because we were never teenagers, of course. 😅
I think many of the adults in positions of authority affirming kids in this are groomers and sick in their own way. Affirming THEMSELVES by leading more and more vulnerable people down this path to destruction.
I hope you'll make it on Saturday and can bounce these ideas around with us. I agree very much that this is a political way to attempt oping out of a system they think is morally wrong
Hi Elizabeth. It’s really hard to know what to so. Your friends child is so young, only nine! And with your adult kids, I’m not sure that you and your husbands use if they/them is what lead to their desire for cross sex pronouns. At the adult stage there are far more influences than what mom and dad do. But all of this is just so messy - hope to see you later today
What I meant is that a 9 year old can get very confused about reality if the parents are using they them. And yes. That giving up your own authenticity is one of the most destructive things that happens to families when they try to affirm against their instincts. So difficult
Listening to a person being referred to as “they” gives me a headache. (I was just listening to NPR…)
Wondering if what you heard on NPR was the obituary of poet Andrea Gibson - I heard it earlier today. I really wonder: how does language like "their battle with ovarian cancer"..."their wife" (in a same-sex marriage)... "their ex-girlfriends" (in same sex-relationships)..."their art" (in an art world historically dominated by men)...serve society, or serve women? What does it mean?
Yes that’s what I was listening to (that gave me a headache).
Indeed!
FYI my daughter is registered for the course at RIT "Trans Lives: PastPresentFuture." I'm not sure how to navigate that, other than to avoid bringing it up; she did say after her surgery that she did not want to discuss the topic of being transgender with me anymore.
FYI Jamie Shupe, referenced in the episode, died by suicide in January: https://www.pghlesbian.com/2025/02/i-knew-elisa-rae-shupe-1963-2025-and-she-deserved-better/
Thanks Ann. Yes, quite a complex and disturbed person, it seems