Doctors Claim To Know Kids Are Trans Before They Can Even Talk!

Fun fact, I was not always girly. My mother wasn’t girly, and since I never knew when I’d be locked outside and forced to “enjoy” nature, I didn’t dress like a girl. I was a black girl who didn’t know much about doing black hair, so I just wore a messy afro puff, and other girls didn’t share my sense of humor so I mostly hung with the boys. Its safe to say I didn’t adhere to normal gender stereotypes until I hit puberty, learned that mascara would make me look like I had eyelashes (heeey), and I watched the movie Clueless so many times I was inspired by the wardrobe. From then on I was ALL girl.

Had I been born a few decades later, my pediatrician likely would have had me on puberty blockers and transitioned me into being Kevin or something. Doctors are claiming, and “doctor” is apparently a loose term these days, that every facet of my absolutely normal childhood is an indicator of a child knowing they are trans.

Director of the Gender Multispecialty Sevice at Boston Children’s hospital says, “A child will often know that they’re transgender from the moment they have any ability to express themselves, and parents will often tell us this…We have parents who tell us that their kids knew from the minute they were born practically.”

I believe I’ve told you guys once before how I used to be Wonder Woman when I was a kid. Like, I didn’t play Wonder Woman games, but I was pretty positive I had super powers that were simply slow on emerging. I was finna BE Wonder Woman, you hear me? I was She-Ra for a while, and then red-headed ragga-muffin Pippi Longstocking. I would split my afro puff into two cock-eyed braids and sit a stuffed monkey on my shoulder regularly. In the end I grew up to be myself, and I’m lovely by the way. I benefitted from my play time, for sure, but I also benefitted from my family understanding that I was riding a phase and that they needn’t restructure our lives along my newest interest or fad. “That’s nice She-Ra, but we don’t bring swords to the dinner table” is a far stretch from offering to get me blonde extensions and a pet horse so my insides could match my outsides.

Dr. Jeremi Caswell would have you believe that when boys pee sitting down or girls try to pee standing up, and kids try on their siblings clothes, or play with toys from the opposite gender they’re giving “pre-verbal indicators that they are meant to be the opposite sex.” That’s a doctor the way Jim Jones, David Koresh, and Charles Mason were spiritual leaders. Don’t drink the kool-aid, exit the building quickly, there’s a whole lot of nope to be had.

You know who pees sitting down? Kids who see their moms pee sitting down when they’re learning to potty train. Who know who wants to pee standing up? Anyone who thinks it would be cool to aim a stream. Now I’m no rocket surgeon, but nearly every kid I know with a sibling has tried on that siblings clothes or their parents shoes, regardless of gender, and I don’t think that makes them trans. If only we could simply let kids be kids instead of trying to fix them, classify them, and put them on damaging puberty blockers.

And “fixing them” isn’t as innocent as it sounds; leading trans health experts are recommend lowering the ages for medical gender transitions. Imagine being a moody teenager who was really into a book or a show or a style that inspired you to look a certain way, and maturing out of it only to realize your parents have permanently affixed you to that stage or phase of life. Maybe you’re insecure about your changing body and want to hide it. Maybe you have a nervy neighbor whose attention you don’t want. Maybe you just haven’t finished figuring out who you’re going to be! Parents can misinterpret WHY you acted or dressed the way you did, and make medical decisions based on those misconceptions without medical professionals pumping the brakes. It seems absurd, right? Now imagine these kids can’t even talk yet, so you’re interpreting their non-verbal indicators of gender and changing their lives because of it. I mean. Is everyone stupid?? Because, at least at Boston Children’s Hospital, it sounds like everyone is stupid.

There have been very few long term studies on puberty blockers and transitioning kids, but the ones that exist show everything we’re sold about “putting a pause on puberty” and letting kids decide later is a lie. Studies show bone density win children who are put on puberty blockers even temporarily never resumes a normal path and these kids are prone to osteoporosis and fractures in adulthood. They have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, breast and uterus cancers, sterility, and other psychoactive effects of high-dose hormones such as mood swings and even psychosis. If your child is struggling mentality, putting them on puberty blockers isn’t even a band-aid it’s shoving them off a cliff and patting yourself on the back for teaching them to fly.

I’m glad my children are older, because if I had young kids in this day and age I would keep them away from EVERYONE. Not only are some teachers and weird losers on social media trying to encourage alternative identity lifestyles, but doctors are too. Hard pass. I’d be studying herbal remedies and disappearing into the woods.