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Twitter weighs in when father asks if he’s a ‘bigot’ for preventing his kid from playing with transgender child

July 19, 2023 | | Print Article

A debate has erupted over whether it’s bigoted for a father to prevent his child from playing with “transgender” children.

The debate erupted after an Irish radio show host posed the question in a Twitter post published Tuesday.

“Also on Todays Niall Boylan Podcast we received an email from a man who doesn’t want his ten year old having play dates with a child that’s changed gender as he believes it’s a bad influence on his child. Is this parent just teaching his child to be a bigot?” the post reads.

Look:

The replies were almost universally “no,” suggesting therefore that perhaps Boylan broadcasts to a mainly conservative audience?

Look:

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But also, he broadcasts to a European audience, and the fact is European nations aren’t as gung-ho about LGBT radicalism as America is.

“A growing number of countries, including some of the most progressive in Europe, are rejecting the U.S. ‘gender-affirming’ model of care for transgender-identified youth. These countries have adopted a far more restrictive and cautious approach, one that prioritizes psychotherapy and reserves hormonal interventions for extreme cases,” The Hill reported last month.

The Hill further noted that unlike U.S.-based medical groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), European health authorities “are recommending exploratory therapy to discern why teens are rejecting their bodies and whether less invasive treatments may help.”

The complete opposite is happening here, with U.S. medical officials automatically accepting whatever gender narrative that young children relay to them.

For example, in an interview recorded last month, Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Rachel Levine argued that the government should have no say in whether or not children may receive “gender-affirming care.”

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Meaning, in other words, that the government shouldn’t be allowed to stop American parents from trying to transition their children. In America, it is, sadly, very common for parents to try to transition their children:

Dovetailing back to the responses to Boylan’s question, note how many Twitter users justified the dad’s decision by raising concerns about the other child’s parents.

“He is protecting his child, and making sure the parent who must have enabled the transgender child cannot reach his child,” one critic wrote.

The criticism was based on the accusation that the parents of so-called “transgender” children have effectively brainwashed their children into thinking they’re of the opposite biological gender.

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It’s not always the case. Sometimes the child expresses an interest in the “transgender” lifestyle first. But what’s absolutely commonplace is for many American parents to automatically accept this narrative and go with it.

What’s less common is for parents to push back on their children’s desires to be “transgender.” This is partly due to the law, which in some states has effectively made it illegal to try to preach biological reality to a “transgender” child.

Over in California, for example, a bill currently being considered “would make a parent’s refusal to ‘affirm’ a child’s transgender identity grounds for denial of custody or visitation rights,” according to the Washington Free Beacon.

“The legislation, which already passed the state Assembly, would require any judge hearing a custody dispute over a trans-identifying child to favor a parent who ‘affirms’ the kid’s preferred gender,” the Beacon reported last month.

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