When Your Teenager Asks You to Sterilize Her, Your Job as a Parent is to Obey

Really? Your job as a parent is to ALWAYS agree with your child? If your 12-year old daughter tells you she is a boy (based on the fact that she likes to climb trees and doesn't like make-up), your job is to sign her up for surgery and testosterone? Your job is to always follow her directive, based on things she heard at school and from other teenagers, and then unflinchingly do your part to turn her into a life-long medical patient?

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Scott Nugent, Featured in “What is a Woman,” Challenges the News Media to Ask Real Questions on Transgender Issues

Scott Nugent, mother, lesbian and trans man, giving an impassioned scolding to a room filled with reporters. Scott is challenging them to ask real questions about the claims of profit-seekers to help struggling children instead of naively accepting the rhetoric of trans activists.

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TikTok Tics and Social Contagion

Reported by the Daily Wire:

A new paper published earlier this month in Comprehensive Psychiatry proposed that “social contagion” through prolonged social media use can explain why some teens, mostly adolescent females, self-diagnose with rare mental illnesses and personality disorders online.

The paper proposes that social media platforms like TikTok, whose core user base are teen girls, and the popularity of online communities that glamorize mental illness, may act as a “spread vector” for adolescents to adopt various disorders as part of their online personas.

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