I'm Up For The Adult Conversation

In fact, most of the pro-liberty people want to have adult conversations exclusively when talking about stuff like freedom.

We're not going to get it because one side can't even use the word genocide correctly.

They will probably be driven into a murderous rage and kill some more innocent children and staff if you were to point out that, in fact, the adult conversation about teachers teaching this has already occurred and the ruling was in the parent's rights column.

People who are trans are about 0.1% of the population.  That number barely shifted when attitudes changed from suppression to tolerance.

When children start identifying as trans at a much higher level than the historical rate, something's afoot.

I don't like being the one to say it, but gender dysphoria is a mental illness.  Someone suffering from this condition literally isn't seeing reality correctly.

There are varying degrees of severity, but can we, perhaps, also admit that, for some people with this condition, seeing the wrong gender in the mirror might be the smallest distortion of reality they are experiencing.

Some are definitely higher functioning than others.

What appears to be going on in the schools is a conscious decision to inflict a mental illness on children where no illness existed before.

The appearance of this has been reinforced by the reaction to parents asking pointed questions about things like the contents of the library and drag-shows.

Aside: I've no problem with drag-shows, but they're adult entertainment.  I've no real problem with people who are trans and have locked horns with some you readers over how to show some basic, human, compassion towards someone suffering from the malady.

In short, the radical trans activists got busted for grooming.

Speaking of using words incorrectly, several activists tried to shift the term "grooming" to mean any teaching of a child about anything.

That screams that the parents were correct about what was going on to most people.

Even if we assume the best and that the trans-grooming was to create acceptance for the transgender (because acceptance would be better than tolerance) and not making children more vulnerable to pederasts, increasing the number of people with gender dysphoria means we're also increasing the pool of people who are very likely to kill themselves.

Either from an inability to find a groove where they can exist with themselves or from the condition clearing up later and seeing they can never return to being as they were; people with gender dysphoria kill themselves at a tragically high rate.

But, as I said, the argument was already settled in favor of the parents.

Public schools cannot teach religion in a manner which proselytizes.

Teaching acceptance of transgender norms is attacking firmly held religious beliefs and public schools are already barred from such education.  The rulings, to date, have been primarily used to stop the teaching of religious dogma, but they are clear that they apply to secular positions as well.  Read a couple, it's enlightening.

At the core, a parent has the right to decide what the state exposes their children to.

Exposing children to adult entertainment without regard to these parents wishes is wrong.

The retort that some parents DO expose their children to such things is irrelevant.  That parent is exercising their right to decide, not having the decision made for them.

Having books with adult content in a library where children can gain unsupervised access to it is not censorship.  Nor is taking those books out of the library "book burning."  I am starting to think the real problem here is language dysphoria, look how many words are being used incorrectly here.

The reason all this is so damned important is that children do not have the capacity to truly Grok many of these topics.  That comes with age and experience and the information has to be rationed out in small amounts as they prove they are capable of understanding.

It's why the answer to "where do babies come from" involves storks or cabbage leafs and not firing up PornHub when the kids are too young to understand.

Forcing someone to learn something they cannot understand creates its own mental illness as their brain attempts to assert coherence to something they, literally, cannot put into coherent context.  During this, you can sure as fuck steer them into giving you a desired response.

When you combine that with how easily children were manipulated on the witness stand and the pure fantasy of "recovered memories" the scope of the problem becomes clear.

Doing this to a child is wrong and should stop.

I've heard from a couple of trans people that they've "always known" they are trans.  Sadly, while they do believe it, it's most likely not true.

They're retroactively changing their memories to "realize" they've "always" been like this when, in fact, it didn't actually manifest until puberty started to creep in.

Aside: "But I've always wanted to wear girl's clothes!  You're mistaken, McThag!"  Prepubescent transvestitism is a separate thing and doesn't seem to have a real correlation to later dysphoria.  That both things can be present in one person doesn't prove a causal relationship.

Not a single thing I've said should be taken to mean that we should discriminate against transgender people.  I'm still in the compassion camp because what cannot be cured, must be endured.  There's no reliable and universal cure.  What works well for one person might be catastrophic for another.

The question remains about what age a child should be exposed to adult topics.

The answer is individual, and mostly private.

It is, also, certainly NOT the government's decision to make for a parent.  Nor is it the purview of any group who happens to be in fashion with the teacher's unions at the moment.