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I posted about the 46 children who ended their lives following the puberty blocker ban in the United Kingdom.
Some of the responses I received were from people blaming the parents.
To those people I want to say something and I want to say it clearly.
I hope your children are transgender. I hope your grandchildren are transgender. I hope your brothers and sisters have transgender kids. I hope there is a transgender person somewhere in your family close enough that you cannot look away.
I do not say this to hurt you. I say it because it is the only education that seems to reach people like you. Not statistics. Not the names of 46 dead children. Not science. Not grief. Personal proximity.
Transgender people are full of life and love and every quality that makes us human. They are not a tragedy. They are not a cautionary tale. They are people. When you meet one in your own family you will discover that. Some of you will discover it too late.
Only around one percent of the population is transgender so the odds are not in my favour here. But I hold out hope.
Not as a curse. As a wish. That you might one day sit across a table from someone you love who is transgender and remember what you wrote in a comment section about 46 dead children. Remember what you said about their parents.
Then sit with that.
I wish you all the best. I genuinely do.
I know two people who were gender critical one of them had a transgender kid some years later after their hate campaign and they cannot forgive themselves and another lady I know who has a niece who is transgender and they realised all the hurting pain. They caused other people and they changed their mind and they started advocating for transgender people. I hope that’s your path too. Maybe one day you might act human enough to understand what I’m saying. But until then. You’re a cruelness kills. Your hate campaign kills children. Your rage towards people you will never even try and understand ends lives and makes families and miserable.
So yes, I hope your kids are transgender. They will still be the greatest gift to your life that you ever had. But you might just think differently.

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