What I do believe is the stronger component of gender dysphoria is nurture, not nature. I do believe those parents provided that environment when raising their kids and I would classify it as abuse.
Be specific. What are the details of "that environment"? What are the abusive elements? Take your swing, as a true believer who doesn't care about the opinion of the medical community. Make sure account for the existence of gender-non-conforming people in every culture and throughout known history.
I doubt you have it in you. I think if you list some details, you'll find out how wrong you are, and you want to avoid that embarrassment.
It is not molesting, not trafficking, and may be as small a thing as neglecting to control what their kids were exposed to but I do think the environment those kids were raised in before they were 10 years old has manifested in young adults that do not have the life skills to form families or even move out of their parents houses.
My kid moved out of the house for college (including renting a furnished apartment from a regular landlord), even though we live across the river from SLU and it hit their pocketbook severely. They're back in the home for graduate school because they won't have time for an outside job and living on a stipend is poverty-level. Whatever required "life skill" you name, they have.
By the way, I have five kids, four are gender-conforming. I raised them all the same way. Also, there are plenty of people just like you, who raise kids in the same manner, that are gender-non-conforming.
I think those parents are blaming the world and people they see as hateful rather than taking responsibility for the poor job they did as parents.
People are hateful to the gender-non-conforming.
I think those parents are blaming the world and people they see as hateful rather than taking responsibility for the poor job they did as parents.
People are hateful to the gender-non-conforming.
I do think engaging in competitive events in childhood is important, for boys especially.
Are you smart enough to understand the difference between "the primary purpose of this school-funded activity is to develop and challenge students physically" and "the primary purpose of this school-funded activity is to see who can jump the highest"? Because the former is used as the justification for funding school sports, the latter is not.
I didn't come by that from nothing. Two of the most influential books I read when my wife was pregnant with our kid were NutureShock and Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing, both by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman.
Two authors who have zero expertise in early childhood development. You read books that you knew were going to feed your biases, got those biases confirmed, and felt educated.
I think his ideas on how kids should be raised are horrible,
What, precisely, are your complaints? Be detailed. I think if you investigate, you'll find we raised our children in largely the same fashion you did.
You, Gameface, and Gandalfe were the only ones on this board opposing a favorable depiction of the movie
This is a lie. I repeatedly said I didn't know anything about the movie, gandalfe said nothing about the movie, and Gameface posted a link that separated the movie from the utterances of its lead actor. Not one of us has objected to people enjoying this movie.
... but there did seem to be something that resonated with all three of you enough to jump on the favorable depiction of a movie you haven't seen.
Aside from the lie I pointed out immediately above, I explained why I wanted to differentiate between reliable sources of real-world child-trafficking and this movie. You responded that I chose "to fight against the stigmatization of child trafficking and pedophilia in this movie" (
another lie), without bothering to digest what I said in any fashion.
It was a coincidence in the three of you that I found interesting.
As I explained, this issue has been forced on us as parents of gender-non-conforming children. Anytime you figuratively stroke your beard at the connection between child sex abuse and gender non-conformity, you're contributing to a side of the culture that says gender-non-conforming people need to be eradicated by supporting one of their talking points. It means nothing to you if my child is beaten or killed. It means something to me.