By Sheri Few for TOWNHALL
A recent survey found “the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats,” don’t think males should be allowed to compete in female sports. But, just last week, a 16-year-old California boy took championship medals in a girls’ competition. President Trump’s declaration of June as Title IX month demonstrates strong leadership against a harmful ideology. Worse yet, the “T” aspect of LGBTQ is nothing to celebrate as it relates to the often-irreparable harm it causes children who are guided into the mental health disorder known as gender dysphoria.
As I’ve studied this issue, I’ve come to realize that I may be putting myself at risk by speaking publicly about it. The author of a book on the harm to children influenced to transition used a pseudonym because she feared death threats, which were realized. Then, there is the case of a Jane Doe lawsuit on behalf of a mother whose daughter was secretly transitioned and, two years later, attempted suicide. She, too, fears harm for speaking out, resulting in her anonymity in the lawsuit. Her lawyer pleads with other parents in Rhode Island to also come forward to enhance the lawsuit, but the fear factor is real.
Jane Doe asserts that her daughter’s Rhode Island school implemented a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) survey that asked personal questions about her family and herself, including several questions related to her sex and whether she felt like a boy. The mother believes the survey could have been what influenced her daughter’s desire to transition into a boy.
While Jane Doe’s daughter had been transitioning for two years, her mother only learned of it after her daughter attempted suicide. After cutting herself in her bedroom, the daughter came into the kitchen and tried to stab herself with a knife right in front of her mother. The mother later learned that her daughter had been forced to live a double life for two long years — as a boy at school, and a girl at home. The school encouraged the daughter to hide the transition from her mother. Jane Doe believes the stress of living a dual life led to her daughter’s suicide attempt. The lawsuit says the school’s policies caused harm to the daughter and her mother. The obvious harm was in the near loss of life, but the fundamental harm, in my opinion, was caused by the school blatantly teaching the girl to lie to her mother, creating a wedge between the parent and the child.
