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Propaganda aimed at 'trans kids' in today's Guardian

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Catinaflap · 16/08/2019 08:14

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/16/i-have-some-important-things-to-tell-transgender-kids-today-right-now-youre-perfect

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Needmoresleep · 16/08/2019 08:50

Shocking...

Child protection red flags everywhere. "Your community" "Loved by people who haven't even met yet"

What is in the Guardian's Kool Aid. This is bonkers. No...grooming.

I know someone whose teenage DD suddenly announced she was a boy. Parents are almost certainly Guardian readers yet as parents instinctively lean towards watchful waiting not least because they suspect other things (depression, undiagnosed ASD etc) may be going on. It is really difficult given the all-prevailing affirmation-only approaches used by schools, SS and more. Why does the Guardian lack the imagination to see this issue from any perspective other than a TRA one?

Wurzelsnewhead · 16/08/2019 08:49

I have some important things to tell kids today, right now, you don’t have to be perfect. Enjoy your childhood.

Thingybob · 16/08/2019 08:38

What chance have these kids got of growing up to be mentally stable, grounded adults when they are given messages like this?

Hulo · 16/08/2019 08:33

Saw that. Imagined what it said. Couldn't bear to give it clicks

merrymouse · 16/08/2019 08:26

I'd rather somebody told children that they are perfect as they are than that they had to remove healthy body parts. The only bit I object to is the suggestion that most people are 'binary'. I'd love to know where all these 'gender uniform' people are.

I think the writer means well but hasn't really thought things through to their logical conclusion.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 16/08/2019 08:23

Yes tell kids they are perfect - as they are! I agree with that sentiment.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 16/08/2019 08:23

The guardian are having some problems with some writers aren’t they? Trying to appease them perhaps?

Yeahnahyeah · 16/08/2019 08:22

I cannot believe how much we have been cognitivley and policy captured.

I'll die on this feckin hill. 💪

Yeahnahyeah · 16/08/2019 08:19

So awful.

Capture complete.

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