Discussion Gov. Peggy Flanagan on sex changes for minors: "When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That's what it means to be a good parent."

I knew my dad was being a dick when he told me I couldn’t be a donkey when I grew up. I remember it now, it’s one of my earliest memories.

My mother did nothing to defend me and just backed him up.

Now I’m a biped with opposable thumbs and responsibilities.

When I think to what I could have been if my truth had not been crushed...

If my child comes to me and says she hates her body, it is my job as her parent to listen and to believe what she is telling me about her feelings.

It is not my job to affirm her hatred of her body and assure her that with enough cosmetic surgery she will one day be able to "be herself."

If my child comes to me and says he is really a girl inside because of the clothes and toys and hobbies he likes and how he wishes people would treat him, it is my job to listen and believe him about his feelings.

It is not my job to affirm the sexism he has internalized. It is not my job to tell him that he's right, the sort of personality he has is only for girls, and therefore we must change him into a girl.

Being the grown up does not mean abandoning a child to their fears. The fuck?

So true! If your daughter says she's an ugly fatass, its your job as a parent to buy her diet pills, arrange her lap band surgery, and get her liposuction. It doesn't matter if her BMI says she's already dangerously underweight. BMI is a social construct and also a bigot! And don't ask her or her therapist to examine why she thinks she's fat when she only weighs 70 pounds because that's conversion therapy! Its way healthier to feed her pills and give her surgeries than it is to teach her to accept her body and have a more balanced relationship with food!

I really wish someone would just go stand up there and read out the side effects of "totally safe" blockers, such as brain damage and osteoporosis. I would love to see them talk about the dangers of T for young women, about the extremely high risk for thromboembolism, cardiomegaly, and vaginal prolapse. I really wish someone would go up there and describe just how "neophallus" and "neovaginas" are created, that being from the carved up flesh of a woman's arm and the transplanted blind pocket made out of a man's shit chute. I want this up there, and I want it with pictures.

I want them to see that the only way the "neophallus" becomes erect is with a saline or air bag implanted into the woman's body. I want them to see the foul yeast and ecoli infested discharge that leaks from a neovagina if the man neglects to ram a douche and a dildo in it every day. I want them to see this, really SEE it, for the barbarism it is. I want them to see they are little different than the prehistoric humans we often laugh at for having drugged up kids and left them to perish on the mountains to appease the ire of some make-believe god.

I would live to see them, in the fact of all this ghoulish evidence, still try and say this is "care".

A good parent sets boundaries for their children while they are too young to know what is good for them. Children want and experiment with all sorts of things which may not be age appropriate or safe. A child may want to run down an active train track, or "fly" off a bridge like a bird. Does a caring parent let them? No, they explain to them why that is not a good idea. And sometimes just say NO. Boundaries. To help them grow up safe, to adulthood.

This Gov. is just plain ignorant, or more likely a Democrat making sure she parrots back what her "base" wants to hear so she can stay in power.

I now identify as Lt. Governor of MN! So Peggy Flanagan needs to get the fuck out of MY office and stop collecting MY salary before I get depressed and kill myself!!!

Regardless of how moronic this philosophy is, why don't they ever consider this is exactly what pedophiles want? To consider a child, regardless of brain development and life experience, perfectly capable of making their own decisions? Including going along with an adult who abuses them?

Children are not capable of understanding, that's why we have to protect them. You wouldn't bother trying to explain college level math to a 5 year old, because you know it would be unfair, they simply don't have the brain power. But when it comes to gender ideology bullshit, all of a sudden a 5 year old is perfectly advanced enough to understand what medications and surgeries do, the lifelong irreversible effects? All kids do is parrot whatever sexist gender roles you keep feeding them, only now we've invented a monstrous punishment for children who don't comply. Sexism+, now with mutilation.

Edit: I also don't think it's just me who has this happen: suddenly recalling a childhood memory and with your adult mind, realizing you were wronged? But you didn't know it at the time? It's hard for children to recognize when they are being wronged, they're isolated and impressionable! They are extremely vulnerable to suggestion and manipulation! And these childhood experiences affect your entire life! WHY HAVE WE SUDDENLY REVERSED COURSE ON THIS

I had this discussion on Facebook. The question was, what would you do if your child came out as trans? I responded that I would act the same way as if they decided they were a different species or race or whatever, it would depend on why I thought they were saying that. I might play along a bit if they were prancing around the room and stating they were a horse. (If they thought they were the opposite gender I would ask why and show them that everything they stated a X could do a Y could do and vice versa and depending on the age, add, save for babies, it takes a mommy and daddy to have a baby).

Anyway, people argued this with me. Could you pretend for awhile (no, not if they actually believed etc.) They just didn't get the danger.

What parent in their right mind would allow their child to sleep outside in a field because the child thought they were a horse? Or eat hay?

It scares me that they are parents.

My son said he wanted to marry me when he was 5

So my 5-year-old nephew really is Spiderman?!

The trans stuff is a major glaring example of this, but this weird overly permissive parenting style where you defer to the kids on everything strikes me as ultimately harmful. We are breeding a generation of wimpy narcissists who cannot handle adversity and think the world revolves around them. Previous generations could be harsh and dismissive of feelings, but we’ve gone too far in the other direction. This attitude has oepened the flood gates for child transition.