Gender ideology and cutting off parents
Someone on Twitter asked about how gender ideology encourages kids to cut off their parents. This is my response.
In trans spaces, gender-confused people are often encouraged to cut off family members who refuse to go along with their delusions. This happens because these people have already been told by trans activists that “gender affirmation” is all that will prevent them from committing suicide sooner or later and that every time they are “misgendered”, “deadnamed”, or kept from cross sex hormones is a moment that could cause such great dysphoria that it could lead to suicide. Thus, these people are led to believe that “gender affirmation” is as necessary for their survival as food and water. Using this reasoning, trans activists convince gender-questioning people that anyone who does not “affirm” is abusive, just as anyone who intentionally starves others and hounds people to suicide is abusive.
Additionally, trans activists use black and white reasoning to get what they want. You are either with them or against them, and if you do not constantly center them and cater to their demands, you are against them. An example of this is how trans activists use the suicide of Leelah Alcorn, a trans-identifying gay male who committed suicide after his parents sent him to ultra-conservative Christian therapy to get him to stop identifying as trans. Alcorn, who was gender nonconforming from a young age, grew up in an environment where being gay and gender nonconforming was unacceptable, so when he discovered trans identification and “being born in the wrong body”, he thought he found a way where he could no longer have to live as a gender nonconforming gay boy. Trans activists have used this story to show how “affirmation is necessary and life-saving for youth!”, when in fact that is not the whole story. Obviously, not all parents of gender-questioning youth are as homophobic and zealously religious as Alcorn’s parents, but trans activists believe that any parents who have questions about their child’s trans identification are as bad as Alcorn’s parents. Trans activists blackmail and strongarm parents by comparing them to Alcorn’s parents and telling parents that their gender-confused children will inevitably end up like Alcorn if they are not “affirmed”. In other words, if you are not a vocal “trans ally” who blindly rushes to “affirm” gender-confused kids, you are a homophobic, ultra-conservative religious zealot who wants all trans-identifying people to die. If you are not with trans activists, you are against all trans-identifying people, and trans activists use this line of thinking to convince people into cutting off “non-affirmative” relatives.