Excellent, PITT. Know what I think about people like that? Practically nothing. I could care less that they don't understand me as a transman. I mostly don't care what anybody thinks. They don't have to live in my skin, and I'm not in theirs.
Many young trans folks find themselves in my inbox. From all over the world. I'm sad they went through their entire childhood messed-up, including myself. I take them home. No, not literally, but figuratively.
BTW, found out my steering wheel is heated. What a useless feature, and I was working like mad to figure out how to turn it off. 😆 Got a new car, and I've never seen such a sophisticated computer in a vehicle. I think more about that thing than I do about confused cishet people's views of us. They're just afraid of what they don't understand. If they won't ask us, fuck 'em. 😉
Families are being destroyed because idiot parents are rejecting their kids? Yeah, I can see that. Being trans destroys nothing. Foolish parents are destroying the spirits of their children. Sex may be binary, but that is not what makes a human-being HUMAN! Our brains are wired one way; our bodies are wired another way. That has been scientifically proven and we've been around forever.
Given you sound like a bit of a bigot, or maybe a lot, I wouldn't click on anything you put in here. You can always find agreement in this hostile world. God, I hope you don't have any trans children. They'll be in trouble with your mindset. Jesus didn't reject anybody and there's too many people jumping right over that part. 🙄
You are right in that kids' mental health is being harmed and families are being destroyed, but not for the reasons you suggest. The 'destroyed families' you mention aren't casualties of trans identities - they're casualties of parents choosing dogma over their children's well-being. Whenever a family rejects their kid when they come out, be it gay or trans (or both), it causes a deleterious effect on their mental health. We have data, evidence, and studies that show this to be a known issue with a clear correlation. So what's truly 'destroying' families isn't trans people existing - it's the refusal to accept them. Every major medical and psychological organization worldwide has examined the evidence and reached the same conclusion: affirming care saves lives, while rejection causes demonstrable harm.
As for your claim about sex being strictly binary - this is simply scientifically inaccurate. Even at the biological level, sex characteristics exist on a spectrum with natural variations in chromosomes, hormones, and physical development. The video you've shared cherry-picks information while ignoring the wealth of scientific evidence and medical consensus that contradicts its simplistic view.
No matter how much you may want it to be so, sex is not binary because people cannot be grouped into two separate, non-overlapping groups. Sex characteristics form what scientists call a bimodal distribution - two common clusters with a spectrum of possibilities between and beyond them. While most people cluster around typical male or female patterns, variations in chromosomes, hormones, and physical development naturally occur. These aren't abnormalities to be dismissed but natural biological diversity that medical science recognizes.
The video you shared deliberately ignores this complexity to push a simplified narrative that actual biologists reject. Also, maybe don't take pseudoscience about medicine and biology from an architecture student as fact. Try peer-reviewed papers based on methodologically sound science. If you would like to read some of those papers, please let me know, or read the papers cited here as start: https://pittpeople.substack.com/p/gender-vs-sex-and-beyond-the-binary
If you're genuinely concerned about young people's well-being, I suggest examining why you're so invested in denying or dismissing their lived experiences rather than supporting them. The evidence is clear on which approach actually prevents the 'grave harm' you claim to be concerned about.
Dear God, this is wonderful and compassion is key. I'm a parent (thank you for the gift of my son), we are trying to save kids from grave harm and potential death.
I listen to you intently for ways to help prevent this. It appears that you have given me a voice and knowledge to speak my version of the truth. 🙏 I pray for guidance.
You missed something here. A very important 'something'. It's folks like you who are destroying your kids with made-up versions of what you think God is telling you. HE does not discriminate or harm His children. I suggest you do the same. My mama supported me, no matter what she thought I was or wasn't. Clear?
Oh, Gwen. You know what's fascinating about your comment? You've somehow read a satirical letter challenging anti-trans rhetoric and interpreted it as divine permission to continue exactly what the piece was criticizing. Or you did not realize which PITT site you were commenting on.
Let's break this down for a second. You're "trying to save kids from grave harm and potential death." That's a hell of a claim, and it deserves examination. What actual harm are you preventing? Because the data tells us something very different - trans youth with supportive environments have dramatically better mental health outcomes than those who face rejection.
You've mentioned you're speaking "your version of the truth." That phrase is doing some heavy lifting there. See, when it comes to medical consensus and lived experiences, truth isn't really a choose-your-own-adventure situation. The medical community, from the American Academy of Pediatrics to the American Psychological Association, has guidelines based on research - not on what feels right to parents who've spent a weekend on Facebook groups.
The beautiful irony here is that while praying for guidance, you've completely missed the guidance offered in the satirical piece you're commenting on - which is essentially "maybe don't presume to know better than people about their own identities."
Perhaps it's time to reconsider your media diet. The Substack ecosystem is flooded with self-appointed "child protectors" like Abigail Shrier, Jesse Singal, Colin Wright, and various "concerned parents" collectives who've built entire careers on manufacturing panic and pseudoscience about trans kids. They cherry-pick outliers, ignore scientific consensus, and rarely include actual trans voices. Maybe instead of funding these fear merchants with your time and money, consider subscribing to publications that feature actual trans perspectives, academic research from reputable medical journals, or organizations like PFLAG that support parents in actually supporting their children.
You know what's truly compassionate? Listening. Not positioning yourself as some divinely appointed gatekeeper of gender. Not assuming you understand someone else's experience better than they do. Just... listening.
And here's the thing - I get that parenting is terrifying. Every generation thinks they're protecting their kids from something unprecedented. My parents thought Dungeons & Dragons would turn me into a Satan worshipper. Instead, it just turned me into someone with strong opinions about dice quality.
So maybe, just maybe, when you pray for guidance next time, consider that the answer might be simpler than you think: love your kid for who they are, not who you expected them to be.
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Excellent, PITT. Know what I think about people like that? Practically nothing. I could care less that they don't understand me as a transman. I mostly don't care what anybody thinks. They don't have to live in my skin, and I'm not in theirs.
Many young trans folks find themselves in my inbox. From all over the world. I'm sad they went through their entire childhood messed-up, including myself. I take them home. No, not literally, but figuratively.
BTW, found out my steering wheel is heated. What a useless feature, and I was working like mad to figure out how to turn it off. 😆 Got a new car, and I've never seen such a sophisticated computer in a vehicle. I think more about that thing than I do about confused cishet people's views of us. They're just afraid of what they don't understand. If they won't ask us, fuck 'em. 😉
These are my thoughts and observations. I stand by them. You can't deny that the physical and mental health of kids and young people are being gravely harmed and that families are being destroyed. Also sex is binary and immutable. https://x.com/zaelefty/status/1892474090868384125?t=PBEZ5l1zJJZKBEYBX5YTjw&s=19b
Families are being destroyed because idiot parents are rejecting their kids? Yeah, I can see that. Being trans destroys nothing. Foolish parents are destroying the spirits of their children. Sex may be binary, but that is not what makes a human-being HUMAN! Our brains are wired one way; our bodies are wired another way. That has been scientifically proven and we've been around forever.
Given you sound like a bit of a bigot, or maybe a lot, I wouldn't click on anything you put in here. You can always find agreement in this hostile world. God, I hope you don't have any trans children. They'll be in trouble with your mindset. Jesus didn't reject anybody and there's too many people jumping right over that part. 🙄
Hi Gwen,
You are right in that kids' mental health is being harmed and families are being destroyed, but not for the reasons you suggest. The 'destroyed families' you mention aren't casualties of trans identities - they're casualties of parents choosing dogma over their children's well-being. Whenever a family rejects their kid when they come out, be it gay or trans (or both), it causes a deleterious effect on their mental health. We have data, evidence, and studies that show this to be a known issue with a clear correlation. So what's truly 'destroying' families isn't trans people existing - it's the refusal to accept them. Every major medical and psychological organization worldwide has examined the evidence and reached the same conclusion: affirming care saves lives, while rejection causes demonstrable harm.
As for your claim about sex being strictly binary - this is simply scientifically inaccurate. Even at the biological level, sex characteristics exist on a spectrum with natural variations in chromosomes, hormones, and physical development. The video you've shared cherry-picks information while ignoring the wealth of scientific evidence and medical consensus that contradicts its simplistic view.
No matter how much you may want it to be so, sex is not binary because people cannot be grouped into two separate, non-overlapping groups. Sex characteristics form what scientists call a bimodal distribution - two common clusters with a spectrum of possibilities between and beyond them. While most people cluster around typical male or female patterns, variations in chromosomes, hormones, and physical development naturally occur. These aren't abnormalities to be dismissed but natural biological diversity that medical science recognizes.
The video you shared deliberately ignores this complexity to push a simplified narrative that actual biologists reject. Also, maybe don't take pseudoscience about medicine and biology from an architecture student as fact. Try peer-reviewed papers based on methodologically sound science. If you would like to read some of those papers, please let me know, or read the papers cited here as start: https://pittpeople.substack.com/p/gender-vs-sex-and-beyond-the-binary
For a complete debunking of the video you linked, this person pulled that video apart piece by piece here (with linked sources/citations): https://simonesun.com/blog/2022/5/12/stop-pretending-transphobia-is-scientific-debate
If you're genuinely concerned about young people's well-being, I suggest examining why you're so invested in denying or dismissing their lived experiences rather than supporting them. The evidence is clear on which approach actually prevents the 'grave harm' you claim to be concerned about.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/sa-visual/visualizing-sex-as-a-spectrum/
Gwen confused your site with the false information mean spirited site or they wrote this intending to be a sanctimonious jerk. Maybe both. 🙄
Great response.
Dear God, this is wonderful and compassion is key. I'm a parent (thank you for the gift of my son), we are trying to save kids from grave harm and potential death.
I listen to you intently for ways to help prevent this. It appears that you have given me a voice and knowledge to speak my version of the truth. 🙏 I pray for guidance.
Your humble child,
Gwen
You missed something here. A very important 'something'. It's folks like you who are destroying your kids with made-up versions of what you think God is telling you. HE does not discriminate or harm His children. I suggest you do the same. My mama supported me, no matter what she thought I was or wasn't. Clear?
Oh, Gwen. You know what's fascinating about your comment? You've somehow read a satirical letter challenging anti-trans rhetoric and interpreted it as divine permission to continue exactly what the piece was criticizing. Or you did not realize which PITT site you were commenting on.
Let's break this down for a second. You're "trying to save kids from grave harm and potential death." That's a hell of a claim, and it deserves examination. What actual harm are you preventing? Because the data tells us something very different - trans youth with supportive environments have dramatically better mental health outcomes than those who face rejection.
You've mentioned you're speaking "your version of the truth." That phrase is doing some heavy lifting there. See, when it comes to medical consensus and lived experiences, truth isn't really a choose-your-own-adventure situation. The medical community, from the American Academy of Pediatrics to the American Psychological Association, has guidelines based on research - not on what feels right to parents who've spent a weekend on Facebook groups.
The beautiful irony here is that while praying for guidance, you've completely missed the guidance offered in the satirical piece you're commenting on - which is essentially "maybe don't presume to know better than people about their own identities."
Perhaps it's time to reconsider your media diet. The Substack ecosystem is flooded with self-appointed "child protectors" like Abigail Shrier, Jesse Singal, Colin Wright, and various "concerned parents" collectives who've built entire careers on manufacturing panic and pseudoscience about trans kids. They cherry-pick outliers, ignore scientific consensus, and rarely include actual trans voices. Maybe instead of funding these fear merchants with your time and money, consider subscribing to publications that feature actual trans perspectives, academic research from reputable medical journals, or organizations like PFLAG that support parents in actually supporting their children.
You know what's truly compassionate? Listening. Not positioning yourself as some divinely appointed gatekeeper of gender. Not assuming you understand someone else's experience better than they do. Just... listening.
And here's the thing - I get that parenting is terrifying. Every generation thinks they're protecting their kids from something unprecedented. My parents thought Dungeons & Dragons would turn me into a Satan worshipper. Instead, it just turned me into someone with strong opinions about dice quality.
So maybe, just maybe, when you pray for guidance next time, consider that the answer might be simpler than you think: love your kid for who they are, not who you expected them to be.