We Used To Just Call It 'Being A Parent.' Now It's Called 'Conversion Therapy'

Another conversation about Genspect and the PITT Parents book

On Sunday, I joined Christina Goeke, one of the activists who helped organize the recent protest against the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, DC, and her friend Edwina, to discuss the new book by Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT).

The entire discussion is on YouTube. (You can also watch a livestream of the protest that took place on 11 August. My review of the book is here.) During the conversation I noted that the PITT parents are not doing anything unusual to their ‘trans’-identifying children, that in fact they are simply reasserting their role as parents.

“We used to call it just ‘being a parent,’” I told them. “Now it’s called ‘conversion therapy’” whenever a parent fails to affirm their child, no matter how sudden the announcement. No one is allowed to question it because all ‘gender identity’ claims are unfalsifiable truths, i.e. woo.

It was a good discussion because both women have formed strong opinions from their research and experience, but as …