So Your Child Wants To Be Our Next Sacrifice To The Gender Gods
A review of 'She/Him/Us: A Psychiatrist's Search for Her Daughter in the Transgender Sea' by Lisa Bellot
Lisa Bellot, pseudonymous author of She/Him/Us: A Psychiatrist's Search for Her Daughter in the Transgender Sea, notes that “people in zombie apocalypse movies aren’t particularly good at making obvious, commonsense decisions. They cock their heads, listen to the sound of snarling coming from the old, abandoned warehouse, and say, ‘I wonder what that could be. I think I will go investigate.’”
Like so many cases of sudden transgender identification in teenagers, especially girls, Bellot’s daughter Jordan — another pseudonym — wandered into the abandoned warehouse online at the age of eleven. When Jordan was confronted about her cutting behaviors, which continued throughout her ‘transition’, she announced that she was definitely trans, and in “words that sounded like a well-rehearsed speech rather than a conversation.” Rather than responsive thought, “she had well-prepared answers” she had learned from the internet.
“We were progressive people,” Bellot writes of herself and Zack, the child’s father. “We recognized the existence and struggles of transgender individuals, but I also knew my daughter, and on some fundamental level I felt that her transgender proclamation was not an accurate reflection of what she was going through.”
“Very little, if anything, about my daughter’s story fit a typical transgender narrative. To discern this, you will first need to familiarize yourself with the prototype of an authentic transgender narrative,” Bellot writes, entering the house of horrors herself. As a psychiatrist, Bellot has ‘helped’ a Janet turn into a Jack. She believes in the existence of “authentic gender dysphoria,” that a person can be “authentically transgender” or “genuinely transgender” as long as they fit the diagnosis.
Therapeutic professions have a lot to answer for in the rush to ‘transition’ as many young people as possible. Counselors, therapists, doctors, nurses, and administrators have all been trained to roll out a red carpet at the approach of a self-declared ‘trans child’.
Supposed experts on the magical, mystical gender journey asked: “Would you rather have a healthy son or a dead daughter?” This was extortion, a crime. While her daughter has desisted and seemingly escaped the house of horrors, Bellot seemingly remains trapped within it, unable to discern that ‘born in the wrong body’ is a patent statement of faith.
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