The normalization and promotion of child abuse and mental illness isn't the appropriate venue for a live-and-let-live attitude.
I don't care where a 40 year old trans lady wants to take a piss, but I do care about what this whole thing is doing to our children and how the normalization of trans is going to change how the state treats parents. Mark my words, in our lifetime we will see a parent lose custody of their child because they denied hormone therapy.
Interesting story. I used to work for Child Protective Services. We had a training full of about 25-30 Protective Service workers. The state trainers had us go through scenarios and do mock safety assessments and talk about what would we should do and what the best course of action would be.
One scenario was a Christian father that had a 10 year old son that was a closet transgender. When the father found out about the kid being transgender it made him angry. The father, in the scenario, starts throwing things and throwing a tantrum. Neighbors see this and call the police. They interview the boy and the boy, in the scenario, says that he does not feel safe.
The advice the trainer gives is that since the dad had an angry outburst after finding out his son wants to be his daughter instead is that the child needs to be removed from the home. I was thinking that the trainer was thinking overnight or until dad can calm down but the trainer told the Protective Service workers that since the Dad is religious and showed an act of aggression toward his child's gender choice that the child may never feel safe or be safe in his own home and we would have to think about foster homes and getting Dad therapy to deal with his issues and that the child's gender would need to be cultivated by getting him into transgender groups so he can feel normal in these groups and learn how to handle being transgender out in the community.
I have a 7 year old son. Three years from now he will be 10. If I found out he was serious about wanting to be a girl and was dressing as a girl behind my back I could see myself throwing something and saying some bad words.
So to the bolded part, I see where some child welfare agencies are already prepping for things like this. In this discussion there were many social workers that seemed very anti Christian and seemed overwhelmingly pro gay and pro trans. I got the vibe that they were all wanting to get the boy out of that house and wanting to make trans 100% of his life. Again this was just a scenario but I think it showed that Social Work and similar fields are flooded with this "free" thinking. I thought it was scary because these are the people that will be making decisions on child placements, therapies, and other needs children might have. It was a very awkward day of training.
I also noticed, while working there, that finding a Conservative/Republican Social Worker or social services worker might be as hard to find in some offices as it would be to find a dinosaur in your backyard.
