@BarneyFife
And the public schools are fueling this change. They have a whole "support system" set up to assist young people with transition.
They will even remove a child from their home if their family is "unsupportive". Considered an "abusive" situation.
This movie trailer says a lot.
I remember about 5 years ago reading a post on Facebook by a cousin I was very close to as a child. She had just watched a documentary on PBS, I think about gender-dysphoric kids and she came away moved with such overwhelming compassion that she professed an instant paradigm shift in her thinking on the issue.
By chance, about 6 months ago, I stumbled onto the doc on YouTube. I watched the whole thing.
I'm an avid student of health, both mental and physical and I've read and studied a lot about emotional intelligence—an extremely inordinate amount. It truly fascinates me.
What I came away with was a profound sadness that
no one seemed to recognize how badly these kids were turned into themselves. Every single one of them was consumed with their own feelings and thoughts about being accepted as different from nearly everyone they knew. And while their parents were deeply concerned about their feelings and thoughts, nearly all of them exhibited absolutely no regard whatsoever for what their parents were going through.
Keep in mind that the human frontal lobe, which is the seat of the will, reasoning powers, and relationship function, starts to develop rapidly at about age 6. All of these kids were late pre-pubescent and adolescent-aged. Their lack of emotional management skills was so vastly predominant over their ability to empathize with others that their parents had little to no idea what to do to help them because of the completely lop-sided social structure of the home. The children were the undisputed social rulers.
This is more and more becoming the norm, even where there are no gender concerns. These children grow up to become adults who believe they can't stand to be subordinate to authority, which is why a different young adult starts handing you your coffee every 3 or 4 weeks from the window at Dunkin, and Help Wanted signs are getting permanently stuck to those windows.
20 years ago, kids were graduating from college, walking into six-figure jobs, and buying 1/4 million dollar homes. And I distinctly remember telling my co-workers that that was in no way sustainable. Fast-forward to 2008.
(My dad says I have an uncanny ability to see the future, but I just see it as reasoning from cause to effect. I predicted "the cloud" 30 years ago, according to my dad. I don't even remember that. I was building a supercomputer out of parts from computers that he'd picked up for pennies at the Navy base closing where he worked.)
Anyway, "The Kids Aren't Alright."
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