Monday, July 17, 2023
A State of Parental Dysphoria -
my thoughts: "It is so sad to see what our young people and parents are going through. I don't think I have ever seen anything so evil (except perhaps abortion) as this trans indoctrination of our children who have been brainwashed by a society that is morally sick. God doesn't make mistakes; nobody is born in the wrong body. Why are so many boys deciding they want to be girls and vice versa with girls. It is absolutely unbelievable that instead of receiving much-needed help from professionals such as doctors, psychologists teachers, these so-called professionals are affirming these delusions. What an absolute nightmare for parents and other family members This is a disgrace and undoubtedly will eventually be seen as a very dark time in history" Maureen
https://quillette.com/2023/07/06/a-state-of-parental-dysphoria/
Anonymous
The author is a parent in British Columbia and a member of the group Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans.
I suffer from parental dysphoria.
Parental dysphoria is a new condition, growing in prevalence as the transgender trend that is indoctrinating our children picks up steam. Specifically, it’s the discomfort with your sense of self and view of reality that results from your child’s sudden announcement that he or she is transgender. Parental dysphoria commonly results from the immense societal pressure to unquestioningly support your child’s “gender journey,” up to and including social transition to the opposite gender (or non-binary identity), wrong-sex hormones, and surgeries.
Parental dysphoria involves the extended state of having to stay silent about something that you know will lead to tragedy, because you don’t want to lose your child, your friends, your extended family, and your marriage—everything you’ve worked to build. You do this to preserve some small chance of having an impact, to keep your child close enough to eventually help them find their way out of this delusion. It’s living with fear—fear of loss, fear of estrangement, fear of losing your own mind, fear of losing your integrity by denying your own instincts. Those who suffer from this condition, myself included, know this to be the most awful feeling you’ve ever experienced in your life.
If you suffer from parental dysphoria, you wish to say, “You were not ‘born in the wrong body’—that’s impossible.” But you also know your child wants so badly to believe this that you aren’t sure whether to lie or tell the truth about how you see things. So, instead, you say very little and pray every day that your child will find peace in their own body before it is too late, before your child denies and destroys their own sexual function and fertility, and poisons their body with synthetic hormones.
It’s the tears you choke back as you do your best to support your child despite their best efforts to push you away. It’s holding your breath, not even knowing how you can carry on. It’s a feeling of hopelessness you have never felt before.
It’s the horror of being told by your other child, the one who serves as the pronoun police in your home, that you are the one who isn’t loving and supportive. It’s the shame of realizing that you’ve lost your ability to be the adult in the room. It’s feeling that the liberal, progressive values you instilled in your children are being used against you in a way you could never have seen coming. It’s disheartening, destabilizing, and destructive.
Parental dysphoria is what follows when you’re advised by a professional to call your child by a new name, one that represents to you a symbol of their deep pain, a name that is more likely to have its origins in Pokémon than in the family heritage you tried to pass on to them.
It’s the dissonance of having to validate a decision to transition at school made by a child going through a confusing and difficult time in their life. It’s the out-of-body experience of hearing your child say, “I am not the person you raised—I am someone else entirely.” It’s the loneliness of being the only person who thinks all of this is damaging to your child, rather than it being “brave” and “liberating.”
It’s insane, actually, this parental dysphoria. It’s insane to live with and to live through. It makes you gradually lose your own tether to reality, bit by bit, day by day.
We should all want to know why so many kids are declaring a trans identity. We should not simply accept this as normal, and we should certainly not teach it, nor enshrine it into law, until someone can demonstrate through unassailable longitudinal studies that any of it is valid in the first place. Many of these young people are being led astray by the very people who are supposed to protect them. Doctors and psychologists are no longer experts to be trusted.
Teachers and schools have not only betrayed their most vulnerable students by encouraging them down a path of self-sacrifice but have also destroyed the sacred bond they hold with parents to ensure the healthy growth and development of their children.
To experience parental dysphoria is to be told you are wrong when you know your instincts come from the deepest place a mother can ever draw from—the instinct to protect her own child.
Our children, our friends, and our society are being groomed to believe a harmful ideology, and they aren’t even aware that this is happening. Even though it’s hard, I choose to treat my parental dysphoria rather than to live with, “affirm,” or “validate“ it. That means I must keep speaking up. I must never stop believing that my child’s dysphoria can be healed, as can my own; that this cultural phenomenon will pass, as all trends pass; and that our children will come back to us, hopefully all still in one piece.
The situation is especially bad for parents of children on the autism spectrum, parents like me who were trying to protect their already vulnerable child.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) varies greatly from one child to the next, but common characteristics include black-and-white thinking, sensory challenges, and difficulties with interpreting social cues, processing language, planning, physical coordination, and proprioception. For girls on the spectrum, the process of menstruation can be extremely difficult to adjust to and manage, especially if extreme hormonal shifts, imbalances, or endometriosis accompany their monthly cycles. It is not uncommon for individuals on the spectrum to have digestion issues and food sensitivities that result in chronic stomach discomfort. Communication challenges associated with autism and poor mind-body connections can make it difficult for young people with ASD to articulate their physical symptoms. In a nutshell, there are many reasons why a teen with autism may feel uncomfortable with his or her body, even before introducing confusing concepts such as gender identity.
Children on the spectrum are especially vulnerable to a theoretical concept that suggests a person can be born in the wrong body and that identifying and transitioning to the opposite sex could relieve the individual from all the mental pain and physical discomforts they have been experiencing. Gender ideology conveniently avoids the obvious, that an individual’s biological sex cannot be changed and that medical interventions are purely cosmetic and come with health risks, many of which are still unknown due to lack of research.
As a child growing up in Canada, I benefited from the “village.” Before I started kindergarten, my retired neighbor read to me in English because my immigrant parents could not. The first time I ever put on a pair of ice skates or visited a museum was on a school field trip, and it was the librarian at my local public library who helped me fill out an application for a library card. These experiences complemented the efforts of my parents to positively impact my overall development.
Things are so different now. My child and I experienced a radically different village, a threatening one that actively sought to work against my efforts to protect and nurture my autistic daughter in her teen years.
This village interpreted her nonconformity to gender stereotypes, her quirkiness, and her same-sex attraction as things that needed to be fixed medically. In order to be part of the community, she needed to fit a specific box, even if that meant taking lifelong medications and undergoing multiple surgeries. Because she wasn’t mainstream, it wasn’t okay for her to stay in her natural state. Meanwhile, I accepted and loved her differences and wanted to give her time to see if she could love and accept those differences in herself.
The “village” turned on me, and tried to prevent me from fulfilling my responsibility to protect my daughter. The first stop was my daughter’s public school, where gender ideology was introduced into the anti-bullying/sex education curriculum, not as a theoretical concept but as fact. The school curriculum informed my vulnerable daughter that individuals who feel uncomfortable with their bodies, and whose preferences and behavioral traits fit the stereotypes of the opposite sex, are transgender.
The next stop was the medical community. After she learned of the concept of trans, and decided that it applied to her, we sought professional help. Every single one of the clinicians involved with my daughter instantly “affirmed” her self-diagnosis of being trans and her belief that she required testosterone and a double mastectomy to survive.
This was back in 2016–2017. The medical community not only dismissed my concerns about the risks involved and the lack of assessment inherent to the affirmation model, but also told me my questions were not supportive and were detrimental to my daughter’s mental health. The “village” was telling me I was wrong and negligent for trying to weigh the benefits against the risks, and for considering other less invasive methods of treatment.
I quickly learned that I could not safely ask questions about these procedures. Nor could I demand that these clinicians evaluate the root causes of my daughter’s distress and treat any coexisting conditions first, without the risk of having social-services officials become involved. Like the school system, the healthcare and social-services system further ingrained into my child the concept of “being born in the wrong body” and the need for medicalization.
At that time, the gender clinic inside the children’s hospital where my daughter was seen still acknowledged biological sex in their consent form for testosterone, making it clear that any medical interventions could only go so far, not to the point of literally changing a person’s sex. It included the following language: “Even though I think of myself partially or completely as male, I am genetically, biologically and physically female.” Today, the language in those consent forms no longer includes the words “male” and “female.” They now refer to “masculine” and “feminine” traits, resulting in even less clarity and less reasonable possibility of informed consent.
Even at the time of my daughter’s visits, important information was withheld from patients and their families before medical interventions were introduced. For example, none of the clinicians told me that, prior to the “affirmation” model, under the watchful-waiting approach to gender confusion, approximately 80 percent of patients with childhood gender dysphoria desisted and eventually accepted their biological sex; and that many, if not most, grew up to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual. This was kept from me even after I told them my daughter was unsure of her sexual orientation.
What does it say about a “village” that doesn’t allow such children to realize their sexual orientation naturally, knowing that many would otherwise grow up to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual?
I was also not informed of the documented overlap of gender dysphoria with autism and other coexisting conditions, despite the concerns I expressed about my daughter’s black-and-white thinking, immature social skills, and body dysmorphic comments. What does it say about a “village” that immediately accepts a teenage girl’s declaration that she is a boy without first considering whether she had experienced sexual trauma, suffered from an eating disorder or body dysmorphia, experienced painful periods, or was neurodiverse—or without first questioning or discussing any other potential causes of her distress?
It means the “villagers” have chosen to look away from the truth: that homophobia exists, that children and adult females are the predominant victims of sexual assault, that social media exacerbates body-image issues, that the medical community has not poured sufficient time and energy into researching gynecological issues such as endometriosis, and that some people’s brains just work differently.
Parents are undermined in other ways as well. There are cases of schools proceeding with the social transitioning of children despite the objections of parents who think a watchful-waiting approach is what their child needs. Parents who have not affirmed their child’s gender identity have had their child removed from their care, and two court cases in British Columbia ruled against parents objecting to the gender-affirming medicalization of their child due to prior mental-health concerns that had not been addressed under the affirmation model of care. The mainstream media further undermines parents by presenting affirmation as the only viable means by which a parent can show love and support, while at the same time refusing to report on the growing number of detransitioners.
It is hard to protect your child when the other “villagers” are holding your arms behind your back.
My daughter’s gender dysphoria gradually resolved without medical interventions over a two-year period, as she began to accept her bisexuality and learned how to better cope with the sensory and social challenges of autism. I shouldn’t have had to fight “the village” to allow my child time to do that.
This article was adapted from the newly published book, Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids, edited by Josie A. and Dina S., with a Foreword by Stella O’Malley. Published by Pitchstone. Copyright © 2023 by Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans.
Annunciation of the Lord - Vacation Bible School - 2023
Overcome evil with Good
2 short videos
I think the graces received by the children and their families and our parish this week will continue to bless all of us and the world. Every Parish should take notice.
After mass yesterday I took these photos and wow praise Jesus! What a gift this week will be for our children. Fr. Rob said that they had about 120 kids and 50 volunteers. Let us pray for all of them
Nobody knows the mind of God but I know that this week will be a hit with Him. He created the Universe and put a beautiful planet ( the Earth) into this great expanse for all his children but sadly we went astray. So He becomes a little child so we can come to know Him and love Him and serve Him in this World so to be with Him forever in Heaven. God's love and greatness is beyond comprehension.
This type of experience of our Catholic Faith is so much needed these days of apostasy.
Thank you, God, for everything!!!
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I love all the outer space stuff. When I was a kid I was fascinated with the stars and I still am. Being able to look into the past is so unbelievably awesome. My brother John and I were always looking at the stars and galaxies with his telescope. And every August Mom and Dad let us sleep in the backyard on the groundsheet and blankets so we could watch for shooting stars. Eventually, we got spooked and went in. John became a geologist and a great hope he had was to become an astronaut and collect rocks on the moon.
Anyways here we go
Up up and away! Hee Haw!
Run With Life: QAnon, Xenophobic, Pro-Trump, Pro-Life types, raci...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Babylon Now - Mark Mallett
There is a startling passage in the Book of Revelation, one that could easily be missed. It speaks of “Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth” (Rev 17:5). Of her sins, for which she is judged “in an hour,” (18:10) is that her “markets” trade not only in gold and silver but in humans.
The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because there will be no more markets for their cargo: their cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; fine linen, purple silk, and scarlet cloth… and slaves, that is, human beings. (Rev 18:11-14)
Addressing this passage, Pope Benedict XVI said quite prophetically:The Book of Revelation includes among the great sins of Babylon — the symbol of the world’s great irreligious cities – the fact that it trades with bodies and souls and treats them as commodities (cf. Rev 18:13). In this context, the problem of drugs also rears its head, and with increasing force extends its octopus tentacles around the entire world — an eloquent expression of the tyranny of mammon which perverts mankind. No pleasure is ever enough, and the excess of deceiving intoxication becomes a violence that tears whole regions apart — and all this in the name of a fatal misunderstanding of freedom which actually undermines man’s freedom and ultimately destroys it. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, On the occasion of Christmas Greetings, December 20th, 2010; http://www.vatican.va/
to continue:Babylon Now
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Saturday, July 8, 2023
‘Warning and Hope’ — ‘Dramatic’ Photo Exhibit on the Persecuted in Iraq and Nigeria Opens in New York| National Catholic Register
Friday, July 7, 2023
Run With Life: All Canadians deserve to be respected
Subject: All Canadians deserve to be respected
To: Justin Trudeau <justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: Poilievre, Pierre - M.P. <pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca>, <Jagmeet.Singh@parl.gc.ca>, Maxime Bernier <info@maximebernier.com>, Mona Fortier <Mona.Fortier@parl.gc.ca>, <Yves-Francois.Blanchet@parl.
Dear Justin Trudeau,
I have a question for you Mr. Prime Minister and it is a sincere question that I would really like an answer to. I am concerned about the divisiveness of many of your policies towards many Canadians. Are you aware of how your policies affect the people you govern?
I first started to notice this nine years ago, before you even became Prime Minister. I wrote to you about your policy to exclude pro-life people from belonging to the Liberal party. https://run-with-life.
As the years passed, it seemed to me that there were many Canadians whose values you didn't share. It felt like you wanted to punish them by enacting policies that disrespected and marginalized these people you didn't agree with, or that didn't agree with you.
You seem to have taken a particular dislike to pro-life people, and this continued when you denied them government funding for the Summer Jobs Program. And more recently, by threatening to remove the charitable status from pro-life organizations. You said that there were groups like pregnancy care centres who provide women with dishonest counseling. But you could never provide any evidence that this happens. Yet you gave out, and continue to give out, millions to the people who support and celebrate abortion.
Then there was the pandemic. If people chose not to get the shot, you called them names. You closed the churches but kept the abortion clinics open. People were really hurt by your policies; people went bankrupt; people lost their jobs; families were separated; mental health issues soared; people couldn't get medical treatment. You fired public servants who refused to get vaccinated. You wanted people to do what you wanted them to do. If they didn't, you called them names and punished them.
Currently, parents who are concerned about gender ideology being forced on them and their children, are called "far-right". There are millions of Canadians who do not agree with this ideology, yet we are forced to look at pride flags everywhere, for not just one day; not just one month; but now for an entire season. This makes no sense. While all Canadians deserve respect, why are we now being forced to "celebrate" an ideology that is against our sincerely held values and beliefs? Catholics and Muslims, and others, do not share this ideology. But it is being forced upon us everywhere we turn. I do not ask you to celebrate my Catholicism or my being pro-life. But you insist on me "celebrating" pride in all of its forms.
It seems you want all Canadians to agree with you on everything. But we don't. And we should not be forced to. We are also Canadians Prime Minister, and we deserve to be respected and treated with dignity.
I hope you will watch this video of Jordan Peterson's interview with Tamara Lich. https://open.spotify.
Tamara is a Canadian hero. She headed a movement that brought all Canadians together. The trucker convoy was not divisive. People from coast to coast to coast supported it; of all ethnicities; of all faith backgrounds; from all walks of life; they came together and asked that you listen to them. Tamara said of the movement: "People were proud to be Canadian again." But you would not meet them. You would not listen to them. Instead you called them names, invoked the emergency act and froze their bank accounts. You wouldn't even talk to them. I heard you went to the Laurentians to ski when the emergency act was invoked, while Canadians were fighting for their livelihoods, yet you refused to listen to their concerns. You called people 'racist,' 'misogynistic,' and the unvaccinated were a “small fringe minority” with “unacceptable views.” The truckers kept Canada running during the pandemic. Yet you had no time for them, or their concerns.
Canadians have different values and different beliefs. I will respect your beliefs, but please respect mine, and please respect the beliefs of all the Canadians whose beliefs and values are different from yours. Please stop calling us names. Please stop penalizing us. Please stop marginalizing us. Please stop punishing us. Please respect us.
I ask you, I beg you, please stop being divisive.
Sincerely,
Patricia Maloney
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Saturday, July 1, 2023
Happy Canada Day and Sir John A MacDonald's Unrealized Legacy
two Canada Day Articles to instill hope for our Country
from Life Canada https://lifecanada.org/
Original English words to our national anthem by Robert Stanley Weir from 1908, written after the French original lyrics and music were composed.
Since 1908 amid great prosperity, love, and LIFE we have also faced world wars, internal strife, separation from England, a transformation of law, education, and democratic processes, inflation, famine, and strife.
Yet these words keep us focused.
The last verse
Ruler Supreme, Who hearest humble prayer,
Hold our dominion within Thy loving care.
Help us to find, O God, in Thee
A lasting, rich reward,
As waiting for the Better Day,
We ever stand on guard.
National Post Sat, Jul 1, 2023
http://epaper.nationalpost.
Correcting the record
JOHN A. MACDONALD SAVED MORE INDIGENOUS LIVES THAN ANY OTHER PRIME MINISTER
GREG PIASETZKI Greg Piasetzki is a Toronto lawyer and citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario.
This chapter excerpt is from the Aristotle Foundation’s new book, The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished—not Cancelled, edited by Mark Milke. · Jul 1, 2023
IF MACDONALD’S STORY HAS CHANGED, IT IS BECAUSE CANADIAN SOCIETY NO LONGER UNDERSTANDS ITS OWN HISTORY. (JOHN A.) MACDONALD WAS CONSIDERED A NATION-BUILDER. — GREG PIASETZKI
Given that he died in 1891, the facts of Sir John A. Macdonald’s life are unchangeable. The story of his life, however, has changed dramatically. For most of Canada’s history, Macdonald was considered a nation-builder worthy of celebration and veneration. Today he is a war criminal, at least to hear some tell it. But a proper and balanced consideration of Macdonald’s life reveals that, through his own actions and policies, Canada’s first prime minister was directly and deliberately responsible for saving the lives of untold numbers of Indigenous people. Given the temper of our times, this is not likely to be a popular notion. But that does not make it any less true.
For the rest of this article see link below
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Sky News Australia host slams ‘idiot’ parents pushing trans agenda
Yeah in the days of sanity, these exhibitionists would have been arrested on the spot. Now it's reversed. If you complain then you're arrested, thrown in jail, and probably with a big fine, charged with hate speech and you lose your job. It's unbelievable.
Do Hard Things - Fr. Mark Goring, CC
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Trudeau's internet takeover is well under way - and cruel treatment of our military under Trudeau during covid
- Trudeau's Internet takeover is well underway -
- and the cruel treatment of our military under Trudeau during covid
- Bill C-18 – one of Justin Trudeau's internet regulation bills – is now law, prompting Facebook to ban news so as to avoid having to pay out media outlets. While Facebook made the decision to block news links, True North's Andrew Lawton points out that the whole thing is Trudeau's fault, as he's the one who thinks Big Tech needs to subsidize the legacy media.
- " 330 active duty and former members of the Canadians Armed Forces have joined a proposed mass tort action lawsuit against the Canadian military over the vaccine mandate that either coerced vaccination or forced CAF members out of service. Valour Law lawyer Catherine Christensen joins the Andrew Lawton Show to discuss the case...