The social push to make gender confusion trendy and cool has resulted in more children becoming gender-confused or, at the very least, pretending to be so they can receive validation from “tolerant” adults.
Data posted to Twitter from Montgomery County Public Schools helpfully illustrate this phenomenon. According to voluntary response surveys during the 2019-20 school year, 35 students in the MCPS system claimed to be gay or transgender. That number rose to 108 in the 2020-21 school year (when the pandemic started) and 239 in the 2021-22 school year before falling back to 41 in the 2022-23 school year. The school says the data are not meant to be scientific in any way.
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THE DARK SIDE OF GENDER TRANSITION IS ONLY BEGINNING TO REVEAL ITSELF, AND IT’S TRAGIC
Whatever the explanation, this shows that the enabling by adults and the shaming of people who do not think children have the capacity to make these decisions is wildly irresponsible. If we must “affirm” children in their identities no matter the method, how did the identities of hundreds of children in just one school district fluctuate so wildly from year to year? Surely, we can’t be expected to believe that 200 “gender-nonconforming” children transferred into the district over two years and then left the district before the start of this year?
Were those 239 children placed on puberty blockers and pushed toward irreversible surgeries? They should have been, according to the Biden administration and the broader Democratic Party. MCPS doesn’t even want parents to know what their own children write on these surveys or what they identify as, and school staff are banned from telling them if they are deemed unsupportive.
Most notably from this data, 45% of the students who returned these survey forms identified as “nonbinary,” meaning they choose to be neither gender. It is a meaningless term, but it allows students to claim to be part of a community that is now swamped in “affirmation” and praises of bravery by teachers and administrators. Is it a coincidence that such a surge happened at the same time students were being shut out of schools and thrown into social isolation?
If “affirmation” is what is best for these children, how did 200 of them so quickly recant their newly chosen identities? And, if the transgender movement among children is not a social contagion, how come a disproportionate number of children are declaring themselves to be transgender or “nonbinary” at a time when these identity shifts have surged among children, many of whom grow out of these feelings as they reach adulthood?
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“Affirmation,” which is the liberal euphemism for irreversible chemical and physical treatments for children, is not the answer here. These children are either gender-confused or simply seeking validation and acceptance by embracing the thing social media outlets (such as TikTok) promote to them as a new trend. Pushing children down an irreversible path because of this will ruin countless lives, just so activists and naive adults can feel good about “tolerance” and inclusion.
