
Parents have been forced into an underground resistance lifestyle. At times, there are coded conversations. “It’s frightening that, in small town Canada, a mother of an obviously troubled teenager and her conceivably concerned teacher are being strong-armed by a government-backed ideology into conversing as if sitting in front of a Telescreen,” writes one exhausted parent of a gender-identifying child.
“We are the first generation of parents confronting this particular challenge: that, with the help of the government, schools, and the medical-industrial complex, our children can be converted to a new faith where one can and should choose their own sex,” write the editors of the new book Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans Volume II: More Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids.
It is the follow-up volume to their 2023 compilation of primary sources describing the experience of parenthood under attack, seemingly by the entire world around them. “This is the first time that democratic nations have encouraged a movement that aims to separate parents from children, in the home and in the classroom,” they write. Well-meaning people undermine parental authority. Friends become enemies. Parents become suicidal in the social isolation of church and state and community conspiring against them.
Raised in Russia, one parent writes that “if our family was deemed to have problematic beliefs, my parents could be taken away by the KGB. I told my son the same thing could happen here. If he said the wrong thing about gender ideology, CPS could determine that I am a bad mom and take him and his sister away. That has happened to several families where I live.” As in East Germany, the Gender Stasi (“Gender Party”) is everywhere, all-powerful, unaccountable, with a monopoly over what ideas are acceptable.
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