Horrific emotional manipulation of parents

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This popped up on my Facebook. I am the mother of an autistic gender non conforming daughter. This is what parents are being told. If you don't confirm, if you don't support experimental, harmful medical intervention, you are a bully. This is so fucking toxic

Oh look at those grey people. Only the trans and gay wings are colourful and special! Everything else is grey…

crikey. The way some people think is most peculiar isn’t it?

The invention of the "trans child" is really twisted.
The gender ideology message is that your parents are your enemy. That's twisted too.

Ignore the advert. It doesn't help anyone let alone children.

What rot. Should we just agree with everything our children say and do? If they hit someone and we give them time out, are we bullying them? If we make them put shoes on to leave the house, is that bullying? If we tell them that actually, they do have to go to bed when we tell them, is that bullying?

If I had an artistic bone in my body I’d try to do an alternative version, showing the parents and safeguarding measures intervening to rescue the child from warped child-catcher grooming. But I am as artistic as a misplaced turd, so will just join you all in saying how sick this gaslighting and manipulation and, yes, bullying is.

I think the bullying is when parents say boys cant play with that, girls cant wear that etc. Not when they say true facts like girls cannot turn into boys.

Couldn’t agree more. They can have gender dysphoria or be gender questioning but that doesn’t mean they’re trans either. The child looks tiny in that pic as well. A real red flag.

I think as a communication device that image ticks all the boxes. They have thought of everything, haven’t they? The tiny child, the colourful wings, the huge scissors that look more likely to snip the child in half, the grey parents looking like they stepped out of the 1940/50s, the pink hue moving to blue in threat mode.

Pity the message is so harmful.

Anyone who agrees with that should be treated with suspicion

A more truthful version would show a representative of the new rainbow family cutting off the child’s breasts with the giant scissors while the distraught parents look on in horror.

There’s nothing kind about encouraging a child to believe they need to break ties with their family and remove healthy body parts to be loved and accepted.

I find that image disturbing, though not for the reasons the creator was aiming for.

Is there a thought-provoking way of sharing that image with a non-GC audience that would help open the debate up constructively? Dialogue after you have peaked is difficult, as there is SO MUCH you cannot unsee, but the people you are talking to have not yet been on that journey and may still be at the Be Kind stage (aLbeit not actually being kind to women, or young children…).

That is a really sinister image. The message being conveyed is to make parents feel ashamed if they attempt to question gender ideology. The child appears to be so young possibly 8 or 9?

When you get so called feminists coming here and mocking us for being so over Invested and obsessed with gender ideology, this is one reason why we 'bang on' about it. Children have been manipulated and used to further this dishonest cause.

It's calculated to produce an emotional response so may be difficult to prompt a constructive dialogue.

However one could say - no child should need to be 'cut' in order to be themselves. Leave them be, don't medicate healthy bodies.

The trans wing eclipsing and almost obscuring the rainbow wing…

Yes, I picked that up too but didn’t write it.

This image really has all the elements.

It is such a harmful message. But whoever created it used as many ‘tools’ to carry the messaging. Every single element has been carefully considered for value.

Oh for goodness sake, this is the silly stuff of angsty young teens in a drama club. It would be extremely easy to knock up any number of drawings to the effect of do not mutilate your kids, do some bloody parenting, and protect your children from overdramatic adults with emotional incontinence and absolutely no common sense or balance who live in a fantasy world. And who are not really, from their self expression, a good example of a successfully parented, raised adult who is living a successful, happy life.

I've been following that page on Facebook, it's quite sinister - virtually every post is emotional blackmail.

I would be tempted to post that the cartoon might mean well, but it's transphobic because it suggests that cutting bits off the body is wrong.

And that it also looks like one of the bits being cut off is the gender-confirming pink and blue, which surely is a good thing? Don't we want to liberate our children from the binary that is pink/blue?

With people like this there are always ways to find transphobia in what they say - because any strand of the pretzel logic that you follow will inevitably lead to it contradicting itself.

Also they've assumed that parents are typically male and female, which reinforces cisheteronormativity. They should be exemplifying inclusion of all groups wherever they can.

It's not about logic, it's about sentiment and emotional manipulation.

The saying that you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into applies.

These people think they are rebelling against (some reductionist version) of the (american) 1950s. It's so odd, although it is fascinating too, the misplaced anger and the outmoded references. What world do they live in? It's like they went to see "Revolutionary Road" and got stuck there, believing it and thinking they are part of it. The irony of course is they are the smug ignorant ones, just like in the film.

An image that speaks volumes about an ideology with no basis in reality. Homo sapiens is not a winged species. And there’s no spectrum of flappiness.

And another one. This is fucking awful.

Cult talk. Threats of terrible harm, intended as much to terrify the adherents into thinking they or their friends might kill themselves, as it is to terrify parents.

My daughter cut me off, presumably as there was an implication that even being in touch with me might hurt her fragile friends. Ironically, though she doesn’t know it, I’m also fragile. What she is putting me through remains close to unbearable. I wonder how many parents have felt suicidal as they watch their children being taken over.

Good points @PriOn1