Rachel Rooney criticised by Philip Pulman

It's such an odd exchange as she is saying that Rachel has attacked her... Im very confused.

I think she's trying to claim/imply that Rachel has posted on the thread? But she hasn't. Zero deleted posts and no hidden posts.

So I think that what she means is that Rachel Rooney replied on her very own twitter profile and Rachel's friends supported Rachel there. Clara finds it a personal affront that Rachel has friends too? Oh, and it's all the big bad Rachel's fault that Clara's family members had a nose at what Rachel's friends were saying back.

This woman's thread is... Odd with a capital O and so are all the people clapping her.

She claims a book is propaganda, but she never says why. Her evidence is that the same group produces some stickers she opposes. That's not evidence a book is horrible, is it?

She wants to lay into Rachel Rooney on a public website, but she doesn't want Rachel Rooney to be aware of it?

Has amazon really wussed out and refused to stock it?

If there was a Like button, all the posts in support of SisterWendy, who's been true to her child's best interests, would've had them.

SisterWendyBuckett I'm so sorry. That's heartbreaking.

SisterWendyBuckett

Hopefully in the future parents and children will have more open choices available and not end up in this no win situation.

[quote HecatesCatsInXmasHats]You can buy it here:

www.transgendertrend.com/product/my-body-is-me/[/quote]
Just ordered - thank you

@ClaireP20 @Backbee
You can buy a copy here: www.transgendertrend.com/product/my-body-is-me/
Easy enough with a PayPal account.
It doesn’t surprise me that Amazon have refused to sell it. Good reviews and yet the book is no longer available 🤔

Vulliamy was completely out of order the first time, but this latest just makes her look like someone with a personal vendetta. It's nasty and unnecessary. I don't care what her personal circumstances are, this bullying has to stop.
PP comes across as a clueless, pompous arse. His reply to RR
"Ashamed of supporting someone I like and admire?"
Yeah, supporting her in bullying a children's author who has done nothing wrong. Ffs.

SisterWendyBuckett

I'm heartbroken for you. What a terrible position you are in.

It's such an odd exchange as she is saying that Rachel has attacked her... Im very confused.

This is why we are all blocked. We probably follow JK Rowling or whatever 🙄

I'm horrified to see what CV intimated about Rachel Rooney and her lovely, body-affirming book. PP's response was utterly ignorant and wrong.

Undoubtedly Keira's case has rattled a lot of cages and many with a vested interest are attempting to push back very forcefully. Especially in the light of so many brilliant, eye opening articles in the papers this weekend.

However, I am loathe to criticise other parents and consign them to the 'bad' box if they cheerlead their kids. Because it is very very hard to not go along with this.

If you don't become your child's number 1 supporter and amplify the ideology then it is likely you'll be branded as transphobic and a bigot.

Depending on the age of your child, they may completely cut you out of their life and this can cause absolute havoc throughout the family.

Any parent who has the strength to stand firm and chooses not to enable and collude becomes metaphorically gagged and literally silenced. The battle to own truth is at the heart of this movement and dissenting parents will be sacrificed.

I chose not to collude. I tried to help my daughter understand that her body was absolutely perfect in all its beautiful femaleness. I begged her to keep her future options open. To pause before embarking on medical treatments as things had escalated so quickly.

She hasn't spoken to me
or her Dad since before beginning testosterone over 2 years ago and will have nothing to do with us.

We simply couldn't
go along with the madness, revision of her history or support medical transition - and it has been unspeakably painful to take this position.

For me, wanting my daughter to remain physically whole and to work through her mental distress was the most truly loving thing I could do as a mother. But others will make a different choice.

I might wish they didn't affirm and enable, I might profoundly disagree with their solutions but I don't blame them. I have to believe that they think they are doing the best for their children. And that this vile ideology makes losers of us all.

CV probably uses the infamous Terfblocker designed by the Challoner family (of child abuse/ Green Party fame) to premptively block any dissenting views.

I'm not surprised he's taken against Rachel Rooney. His books are pretty anti-woman in my opinion. I mean they're great stories and it's nice to have female child protagonists but with one exception all the mothers are at best absent and more usually malevolent or even murderous towards their children.

I realised yesterday that this ruling puts the kibosh on all those parents who have been socially transitioning their children, hoping that they can stealthily move them onto puberty blockers and then CSH hoping that none of their classmates know they're actually male when they're presenting as a girl /vice versa.

Social transition for primary aged children in England is now over.

Also, is it really surprising that a children's fantasy author has got a bit carried away by magical thinking? He was never likely to be the best judge, was he?

There seems to s lot of concern for children already on PBs, having presented as the opposite sex for years, suddenly having drugs withdrawn and undergoing a puberty they don't want which will shock their friends. I don't think there was anything in the judgement about refusing PBs to children already on them, though.

Likewise very young children who are on PBs because of precocious puberty. I don't think the judgement affects them, but their plight is raised.

Hence the need to announce it. I it was my children, it would have stopped at "two grown up children" to protect their privacy.

To be fair, it must be extraordinarily difficult to say that if it then seems as if you’re not being supportive to your child’s identity. I understand what you mean about privacy, but I don’t think CV can be accused of not respecting her child’s privacy. But it obviously does inform her reaction to the Transgender Trend book by RR. What I think is very misguided is not to have considered that the content of the book is exactly what CV herself says she believes children’s books should be: inclusive, showing diversity etc.

This is the 'Susie Green' effect in action. When one is so invested in the ideology and has taken one's own children down this path, there is no going back, and all one can do is try to persuade the world (and possibly oneself) that one has done the right thing.

Hence the need to announce it. I it was my children, it would have stopped at "two grown up children" to protect their privacy.

My children are the same age and I had no idea about this ideology when they went away to university. I only found out by talking to them about what I had read on here. One did a course with someone transitioning, one lived with someone with Asperger's who had transitioned socially and one of their friends at school is now ftm, and another said she is asexual (she went away to study biology ) and has social anxiety problems.

I think parents of children this sort of age were totally unprepared for anything likes this.