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His conservative parents, after much discussion and counseling, decided to allow him to socially transition at about 13 or 14. Before they did, he was angry, depressed and failing in school. After the transition, he became happy, engaged and is thriving in school. He is in the top ten in his class of 800 students. He is a rising star on the debate team. At about 15 he started taking testosterone. The family knows this was the right decision for him and for the family. Maybe you don't know as much as you think you do about this issue.

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Then she will be getting major health problems very shortly sadly if not already. 4000% increase in young women at Tavistock- now closed- but was largest supplier of hormones and trans surgery in the UK. This is a social contagion that has serious health reprocussions especially for a growing in both mind and body young woman. I am sorry it has impacted your family. https://www.peaktrans.org/trans-men-becoming-postmenopausal-in-their-20s/

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Are you also a believer in Ivermectin, and did you not get the Covid vaccine because you thought it was dangerous?

The real social contagion is the gob smacking ignorance spreading through right-wing social media. You people will believe anything.

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No- I have always voted Democrat and believe in science and vaccinations. Dawkins, Heyling, Wright , Hoover are four scientists who have pushed back and their careers have suffered you can check out. Gender Ideology is a belief system that is anti-women and anti-gay that sterilizes and makes young people medical patients for life- many of them on the autism spectrum. It’s one of the biggest medical scandals in modern history.

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Wait. I missed that on first reading. You are a skeptic about the vaccines?

I see. Then you don't believe in science. You are a conspiracy theorist who doesn't believe the scientific community as a whole.

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I do know someone intimately and I believe in vaccinations. I am from one of the most left cities in the U.S. I don’t know but would your nieces conservative parents accept that maybe your niece might have been attracted to women? I have heard that in red states it might be preferable to have a trans child over a gay child. We can agree to disagree but This podcast explains it well the ideology belief system comparing gender ideology to other religions https://open.substack.com/pub/louiseperry/p/the-church-of-transgenderism-colette?r=505il&utm_medium=ios

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We don't know his sexual orientation yet. And some trans people are attracted to the same sex, others the opposite sex, others are more asexual or bisexual. Gender and sexual orientation are more complex and nuanced than conservatives want to believe.

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So you're only confused about the fact that there are trans and nonbinary people, and there always have been.

It's not an ideology. Only someone who doesn't know a trans person intimately would say that.

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Carole Hooven I meant

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