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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/state_power_now_being_used_to_force_parents_to_transgender_their_kids__or_else.html

A disturbing report from The Federalist details efforts by transgender activists to school the courts in how to deal with parents who refuse to transgender their young children. In some cases, the courts have seized children whose parents refuse to recognize their child’s “true” gender.

Margot Cleveland of The Federalist talked to Dr. Michelle Cretella, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, who described “two waves” of this trend.

“I first began hearing from distraught parents in this situation in 2016 and in 2017, I heard from seven families in as many different states in this situation. In all but one case the child was a 15 year-old girl who never had any sexual identity confusion prior to her parent’s [sic] divorce,” Cretella said. “The other case involved 4-year-old triplet boys whose mother desperately wanted a girl. The mother was a psychologist herself and had cross-dressed one of the boys for two years, insisting that it was his idea. In each of the seven cases the guardian ad litems and judges removed the right to medical consent and/or custody from the parent who objected to transition with puberty blockers and hormones.”

The “second wave” is even worse.

We have since moved on to the second wave, Cretella told The Federalist. “The second wave is going on now, with emergency room staff, therapists, or doctors reporting parents to Child Protective Services who refuse to affirm their child’s false gender.”

More recently, Cretella explains, she has heard from two sets of parents who were accused of being “abusive parents” for refusing to consent to hormone treatments for their teen children. In one case, the parents sought treatment for their son’s suicidal depression. Their son was adopted out of an abusive family, had a long history of depression and anxiety, had been in therapy in the past, was on medications, and never had any sign of gender dysphoria.

https://pjmedia.com/video/lesbian-feminist-lgb-are-based-on-sex-transgend

On Tuesday night, lesbian feminist Julia Beck went on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to explain the LGBT breakup. She insisted that the L, G, and B — which stand for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual — are fundamentally different from the T — transgender — and that transgender identity is dangerous to women.

“The letters in the acronym share not much,” Beck told Tucker Carlson. “The L, G, and B are based on sexualities; they’re based on sex, biological realities. But the T is based on gender identity, which is not based in biological reality. In fact, I would argue it is supposed to biological reality.”

“The LGB is very different from the T, and I don’t think it’s fair to lump us into the same acronym,” Beck declared, arguing against the use of the LGBT acronym.

“Well, when we get down to it, women and girls all share a biological reality,” she insisted. “We are all female. But if any man, if any male person, can call himself a woman, or legally identified as female, then predatory men will do so in order to gain access to women’s single-sex spaces, and this puts every woman and girl at risk.”

Julia Beck was not arguing that people who genuinely suffer from gender dysphoria (the persistent condition of identifying with the gender opposite their biological sex) are a threat to women, but rather that enshrining gender identity into law would put women at risk. Indeed, voyeurs at Targets across America took advantage of that company’s transgender policy. CONTINUE AT SITE

https://pjmedia.com/trending/a-transgender-hero-breaks-ranks/

Even though it’s still young, the transgender movement has occasioned many bizarre and horrific stories. But even in that company, the saga of Jamie Shupe stands out.

Born in 1963, Shupe has been married to his wife, Sandy, for three decades; they have a daughter. He spent eighteen years (1982-2000) in the U.S. Army. In 2013 he began identifying as a transgender woman, claiming that he had struggled for years with a deep sense of being different and had been harassed in the military because he was perceived as gay. After declaring that he was a woman, he “lived for a year in Pittsburgh, got hormone treatments and a name change,” but never had a sex-change operation. Finding Pittsburgh inhospitable for a trans woman, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he continued living as a woman for another two years. In 2015, the New York Times profiled Shupe as part of a splashy, upbeat series celebrating “transgender lives.”

“I have effectively traded my white male privilege to become one of America’s most hated minorities,” Shupe lamented in the full-page Times testimony. “I now live in a world where radical, conservative politicians and religious groups routinely attack my very existence with legislation to deny me basic human rights such as a bathroom that matches my gender-identity….I am a transgender woman. My civil rights are fragile. I live in daily fear in a country that claims world leadership. And my trans brothers and sisters are forced to serve their nation in silence.”