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Take your time. I understand compiling evidence, obtaining specific information and double checking it for accuracy can take a while. I'll be here when you're ready.
"Being transgender....is now part of the curriculum"
Kids are told people are whatever they identify as. And then they're introduced to a kelidescope of different genders and orientations they can identify as. There's whole long list of various combinations. I've seen that from sources that promote transgenderism. Directly from the horse's mouth as they say.
Provide evidence means 'go on a google hunt for articles that I'll say are no good'. I think most of us have been doing this long enough to know how that silly little game works.
So you're admitting that you will say anything produced is no good without even considering it, eh? At least, when you look for your own evidence you might wind up educating yourself, if no one else (happens to me a lot).
Evidence, quality, credible evidence is now a silly game to you? Has it always been or only when you don't have any decent?
I'm talking about book series that I read to my son outside of school, that are about dragons and robots and the like, suddenly in the last 1-2 years having trans characters. It seems like every single series. And because the series isn't explicitly about gender identity (unlike, say, "George" by Alex Gino), and there hasn't been anything like this in the series prior, it takes us by surprise.
There's also the ridiculous badly distort what someone says game.
One of the most effective ways to establish a lack of credibility is to purposely distort what someone said. And then to score extra negative points, follow that up with a loaded question.
Of course when the number of kids who identify as trans et al continues to increase, the claim will be that adults who fed them all that, made 6 year olds feel safe to come out of the closet as genderfluid nonbinary pansexuals etc.
Provocation? Why would they want to want to provoke a negative response?
1) 10 years ago there were, I'd wager, approximately 0 books that included trans kids.
No, of course not every book. But just off the top of my head, I know that Dragon Masters recently had a nonbinary character, and the latest Wild Robot book that just came out (#3) has a fish that changes gender and a whole digression about how the robot main character isn't really female but is "programmed" to feel that way ... I'm sure there are others. As I said in an earlier comment, these led to some unexpected and challenging conversations at bedtime ...
My son spent a lot of his early life visiting doctors and having procedures and hospital stays. In trying to find books to help him process those experiences, I discovered that while there were picture books about hospital stays (broken limbs, maybe a tonsillectomy), there wasn't anything relevant to his medical conditions and the sort of procedures he was undergoing. I spent hours searching the web, asked librarians, etc. It was very frustrating. I don't want to go into the specifics of his medical conditions here.
Just wanted to point out that fish changing gender is a not uncommon occurrence. Also robot characters being programmed to feel a certain way is a common sci Fi trope.
I appreciate your boundaries.
I am aware. There are all sorts of interesting things like that in the natural world, and I don't have a problem with it being in a children's book. The way it was presented in this case was very didactic and didn't seem to arise naturally from the storyline.
I wasn't looking for something directed at his exact condition(s). Just something for kids going through medical stuff that went beyond a broken limb or a tonsillectomy.
I've had people ask me, "What's wrong with him?" in front of my son, so I'm not sure that's true. But you're correct that most medical conditions haven't been politicized in the same way as being transgender. But also, with most medical conditions, you don't run the risk of a child getting confused and seeking out surgery because they think they have it.
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But I hope you understand that is absolutely not happenning. Doctors don't do surgeries to kids who are "just confused". Never ever ever. As far as I know the Dutch Protocol is the recommended treatment when someone presents with a desire to be transgender. It involves a sizeable amount of psychological support and investigation to ensure that a child is not MERELY "confused".
As I said, I haven't seen much in the way of significant encroachment but as soon as I see it in his books, I'll belly up and see how it's being portrayed.
