Suffer The Little Children: Getting Kids to Snitch Against Parents

The issue of trans rights has run red-hot for the past year. Pride Month (remember war veterans get only one day a year) has been a Trans festival of guilt and recrimination gleefully exploited by merchants of social reconstruction. Naked bikers, phallic symbols and raving advocates of gender dysphoria have been ubiquitous. 

The peak may have come in NYC’s Pride Parade when some of the more militant began chanting “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re are coming for your children!” All in the service of the blend of self-pity and Marxist ideology that animates the Left these days. 

Witness Star Trek’s @GeorgeTakei rationalizing naked bike riders approaching children in public— which used to get men arrested. “Even if there were no naked guys on bikes this year, the (Right) would find picture or generate them and push the same agenda anyway. There’s no ‘fixing’ this by calling for self-censoring.” Get out of jail free card. 

Lost in this lecturing is the actual size of the @LGBTQ2 community— then and now. Polls show five percent of American adults under 30 now “identify” as trans. But five years ago, 0.6 percent of 18-29 year olds said they were trans. (Proving that claims people are born trans need updating.) 

While trans theory is now gospel in North America, “in the last two years, England, Sweden, and Finland have all conducted rigorous scientific reviews of pediatric gender medicine and concluded the opposite,” says Compact magazine “… These countries—every one of them liberal—responded to their independent reviews by shuttering pediatric gender clinics, curtailing the availability of these medicines, restricting them to experimental settings, or banning them entirely.”

Not enlightened North Americans. Perhaps the most nefarious development in the trans hysteria gripping people (whose sophistication on trans issues five years was Priscilla Queen of the Desert) is the pressure to distance reluctant parents from decisions over the future of their children’s gender. In California a new bill directs family court judges to award custody based in part on “a parent’s affirmation of a child’s gender identity”. 

Translation: if divorced parents disagree about a child’s genetic disposition judges are commanded to give custody to the parent who’s down with the gruesome butchery of “gender-affirming medicine”. So the California mania appoints teachers, sociologists and surgeons— not parents—as the ultimate decision-makers in the child’s development. 

U.S. president Joe Biden paused long enough from his descent into senility to emphasize the state’s role. These are “not somebody else’s kids; they’re all our kids,” he said. This is the 2020s version of Hillary Clinton’s famous, “It takes a village to raise a child”. The message is not subtle. To the contemporary state, parents who reject gender ideology are abusers of children- and should be banished . 

Children are being led to believe by schools and teachers unions that they can’t trust their parents with their personal decisions. Advocates of splitting the nuclear family cite a range of statistics on everything from parental abuse to incipient racism in the modern family that can only be rectified by a wise and politically correct adult. 

But the debate over trans kids keeping secrets from parents hides the larger agenda. Namely the movement to create a snitch culture among the young who are being taught that you can’t trust parents. Trans is Step,1. Barring an unforeseen collapse of this hysteria, within five years progressive politicians and judges doing their bidding will be begging kids to rat out the folks on any number of issues.

Samples: “What did Mommy and Daddy say at dinner last night about the prime minister?” “What now-disgraced music and books (Huckleberry Finn/ Little Women) might they be keeping in your home?” “Do they harbour forbidden attitudes on race and gender?” Call 1-800-SQUEALING. 

If all this seems dystopian, recall that Mao, revered by the Left, used children to create the Great Leap Forward in China. Children indoctrinated in state schools via Mao’s Little Red Book turned in (or killed) recalcitrant parents and leaders in an effort to purify the state. When that was done, an estimated 30 million were dead and the society was destroyed. The totalitarian regime in Cambodia also employed the naïve to root out anyone with views abhorrent to the state. 

Tyrants like Mao and Pol Pot knew that someone who has faced down their fears is a threat to the state. That’s why One World apostles like Justin Trudeau keep launching a steady stream of crises— from trans to climate to COVID to rez school graves— to retain the whip hand. Self reliance— a free people— is their kryptonite.

So they’ll use almost anything— yes, the childhoods of innocent kids— to create social chaos.  The only positive development: trans may be the breaking point, even for liberal wine moms who soaked up all the SJW manipulations so far. Splintering within the #LGBTQ movement suggests that perhaps the trans promoters have overreached. After their hard-won feminist gains, lesbians like Naomi Wolf and Martina Navratilova resent taking a back seat to the much-smaller trans part of their acronym. 

The blowback against Bud Light, Target stores or Blackrock Investments hints at a sea change. Blackrock’s Larry Fink, the most aggressive CEO on ESG for corporations, had his fingers burned in Florida, losing $2 billion in a fight over state pension money with governor Ron DeSantis. So he’s now switching acronyms and looking for cover.

"The pendulum swung too far,”  said Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.), arguing that asset managers have been too responsive to pressure from the left in recent years. He’s hoping all CEOs will see the light before the madness goes too far. Already the number of anti-ESG resolutions on corporate ballots between January 1 through May 31 rose by more than 400 percent from 2020 to 2023.

Good, because there’s not much time left before the forces of social craziness come for the children. 

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Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx