Have You Noticed?

It seems to be an age for strange notions.  You know, things like “defund the police”, killing defenseless babies to protect “reproductive rights”, and smearing history’s noblest and most generous nation. Here’s another one: opposing parental notification in cases where a child may be considering “transitioning.”  Yep, it’s become one of the hot topics at school board meetings and elsewhere.  The basic idea is that all parents should remain uninformed about a child’s interest in changing their pronouns, their bathrooms, their lorckerrooms, and even their gender because some parents might not handle the news well and resort to abuse of the child.  I’ve heard that argument many times.  You know what I’ve never heard?  No one has ever presented statistics to back up the argument.  Do FBI records report that “X” thousand cases of criminal abuse of children have resulted from “unaffirming” parents?  Does CPS document that “Y” percent of the children they have seized were taken in order to protect them from brutal parents who couldn’t handle their child’s gender confusion?  I mean, how big a problem is this?  Does such abuse happen in one out of every ten cases, or one out of every ten million cases?  Don’t you think we should know this before deciding to keep all parents in the dark about such an important matter?

Beyond this, there is something very peculiar—and maybe even sinister—about this idea.  Have you noticed?  Where else is this logic applied?  No one argues that all parents should be kept in the dark about their child’s failing grades because some parents might not take the news well.  No one argues that all parents should remain uninformed about their child’s truancy record because some parents might go ballistic.  Should we deny information to all parents if their child brought a handgun or illegal drugs to school because a few might resort to physical abuse?  How come “transitioning” is the only issue that justifies keeping parents uninformed about their child’s behavior?

​Of all the potentially harmful behaviors which a child might manifest, this needs to be near the top of the list.  The desire to transition is, in certain ways, tantamount to suicide.  Think about it.  We have a child who is so dissatisfied with his or her existence that he or she is considering terminating his/her identity.  But instead of resorting to a bullet or pills or a step off a tall structure, they turn to drugs and scalpels and endless therapy.  Even if transitioning solved the child’s misery, it is still a very serious, life-changing matter, and parents need to be involved.  Tragically, however, transitioning often does not solve the problem.  In fact, it could make matters much worse.  Some records show that the suicide rate for children who have transitioned is 50 times higher than the rate for the rest of the child population.  Who would want to deny parents information about something that would make their children 50 times more likely to kill themselves?

So, what is the real motive behind the argument to keep parents in the dark?  I don’t know, but when you peek into that dark closet, you likely will catch a glimpse of some real monsters.

​These poor children need our help and our love.  Most of all, they need God; and yet, have you noticed, God is never a part of the formula for recovery offered by the schools, the state, or the woke advisers.  I think that glimpse of the real monsters just got clearer.