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How To Rescue Your Child From The Trans Cult

A review of 'When Kids Say They're Trans'

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Matt Osborne
Oct 30, 2023
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Parental authority is under attack. Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, and Stella O’Malley, the authors of When Kids Say They're Trans: A Guide for Parents, are “three psychotherapists, two of whom are mothers.” They have written “a book for parents who would like to support their child’s exploration of identity but who do not believe it is advisable to concretize such exploration with irreversible drugs and surgeries.”

“It is a guide for parents who affirm their child’s wonderful, unique personhood without believing ‘gender identity’ should be privileged over other aspects.” The idea that some sort of ‘true trans’ condition exists is “the wrong framework” for dealing with a child who claims a transgender ‘identity.’

“We don’t believe there is such a thing as a ‘trans child.’ There is no evidence that children can be born in the wrong body, or that some childre…

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