Mom says BBC lied to get her to take part in ‘anti-trans’ documentary about her kid
“The program information gives an interview with Dr Kenneth Zucker, who the documentary filmmakers say ‘lost his job for challenging the new orthodoxy that children know best’.
In fact, Zucker lost his job after being hit with allegations of psychological abuse against minors. His ‘techniques’ were aimed to ‘repair’ the ‘biological’ gender, and told parents to discard of ‘feminine toys’. The Canadian ‘doctor’ was discredited, disgraced and the gender clinic issued an apology to the more than 500 pre-pubescent youth who came into contact with him since he started practicing in the 1970s.”
(via Gay Star News)
This gives me hope for humanity
Fantastic New Fairy Tale Stars a Transgender Princess
“Classic fairy tales like Cinderella and Snow White
tell the stories of young women who overcome obstacles to live a happy
life. (We take issue with the happily ever after having to involve a
guy, but they weren’t written in 2015, so.) Still, for
young transgender girls, it can be discouraging to see a life you want,
but fear you can’t have.
A revolutionary new children’s book called The Royal Heart
aims to totally change that. This fairytale is the first in a series of
children’s books about LGBTQ characters, staring a little transgender
princess named Lyric, who is struggling to be the prince her parents
expect her to be. “
Anonymous:
if you had children, what would they call you?
At first it would be just sounds. The brush of air through hands opening and closing towards me. The whisper folding of their furrowed eyebrows. Pouty lips slurping up breakfast. A sigh before sleeping.
Then it’s happy babble at dawn after no sleep, the warm weight of them against my heart. It’s them looking up at me for explanation, rain running down their face, during our first thunderstorm. The patter of their feet falling towards me learning to walk. The beginning of trust. They’ll call me the feeling of hands always close to their own when they cry. They’ll call me warm kisses over bandaid knees. They’ll call me the smell of my skin lingering on them after so many hugs. They’ll call me my hair wrapped around their soft hands, hiding in it from everyone’s sight.
My child will call me “always safe” and “please stay home with me” and “will you tuck me in?”.
And when someone asks them what they call me, this willow limbed parent of theirs, they won’t be embarrassed that it was never mom or dad.
They’ll smile with the lil fangs I gave them and say “They are all mine, they are just all all mine.”
Yesterday my mom, my 5 year old nephew and i were hanging out, and my mom kept constantly using female pronouns and calling me by my birth-name.
finally my nephew interrupted her to say,
“He wants to be called Ben. He’s a boy now. You can’t call him a girl if he’s a boy.”and right after that, she started using my pronouns and name correctly. i guess it kind of hits you hard when a 5 year old child calls you out, cause anytime i’d try to correct her she’d keep making the excuse, “It’s hard, I’m trying.”
i am so proud of my nephew, i shit you not.
YES! on the fourth of July, my 8 year old cousin followed me around and everytime someone called me by my birth name, she whispered “Ben” behind me.
When I went home for my birthday this past week, my parents were using the right name/calling me Ben but using the wrong pronouns. When I gently reminded them of my pronouns, my step dad was incredibly defensive and yelled at me and said not to bring it up. The next day, (my actual birthday), I was alone with my 14 year old brother. I told him I was bummed, told him the story and asked if he wouldn’t mind trying to use the correct pronouns around our family to lead by example/encourage them. He was like yeah no problem dude! Layer that night, my mom used the wrong pronouns and my brother responded with “yeah, I think he would like that.” And looked at me and smiled and my mom responded using the correct pronouns.
This trickle down education bullshit clearly does not work. Younger kids are so eager to understand and accept things, and it makes so much more sense for kids to be taught and go on to educate their parents.
kids learn from example and if you’re their example, they’re more than happy to oblige
Watch: These kids’ reactions to Caitlyn Jenner will give you tremendous hope for the future
YASSS!!! Kids are so fucking accepting and intelligent
Omg there is hope for the new generation, I pray they are more accepting and loving than ever. This is awesome. I wish more adults spoke about these changes the way these kids are.
me:
*walks into room in boy clothes*
little sister: why do you look like a boy?
me: because sometimes i feel like a boy.
sister: *smiling* oh! that's really cool! it's like i have an older brother sometimes.
little sister: why do you look like a boy?
me: because sometimes i feel like a boy.
sister: *smiling* oh! that's really cool! it's like i have an older brother sometimes.
