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Ideology & indoctrination
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* Introduction *
Gender ideology is the source of the belief that children can be born in the wrong body. It leads Californians to think that if a young girl feels anguish over her body, the doctors should not help her adjust to her body but should change her body and her surroundings—name, bathroom, pronouns—to conform to her “gender identity.” It fuels the spread of concepts like “gender identity”—including the many new supposed identities such as non-binary and pansexual—and the telling phrase “sex assigned at birth.” It inspires opaque proclamations like “transwomen are women.”
(Source: "What Is Gender Ideology? | The Heritage Foundation")

Children around the nation and the world are being indoctrinated into the idea that their bodies have nothing to say about what sex they are "inside." This ideology is putting millions of kids on a path of lifelong medicalization and labelling parents who don't capitulate to all of their children's demands as "transphobic," "toxic," and "hateful."
NYC Drag Marchers chant “we’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children”
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In less than two decades ‘transgender’ has gone from a term representing individuals and little used outside of specialist communities, to signifying a powerful political ideology driving significant social change. Young children are introduced to the latest ideas about sexual orientation and “gender identity” and immersed in an environment that idealizes being “queer.”

It’s important that children learn to accept differences; but indoctrinating them or promoting an agenda is another matter. Children develop at their own pace. Many aren’t psychologically or emotionally ready to discuss or think about their “identity.” The harm to children is physical as well as psychological.
(Source: "Gender Ideology Isn’t Kids’ Stuff")

Gender ideology is based entirely upon regressive sex-role stereotypes, such as “Boys play with trucks,” and “Girls like pink.” In the past, children were taught, for example, that if one is a boy, he must like and play sports, and if one is a girl, she must like to cook and play house. Today the gender industry has flipped this already unacceptable pigeon-holing, and created an even worse situation. Now children are told that if a girl likes and plays sports, she must actually be a boy inside, and if a boy likes to cook and play house, he is actually a girl who was born in a boy’s body. Advocates does not agree with these kinds of labels. Likewise, we do not give high value to the term gender-non-conforming because it assumes that certain attributes and preferences exist which are representative of females and others which are representative of males. We prefer to see all people given the freedom to express themselves and their talents/preferences irrespective of their sex category.
(Source: "Advocates Protecting Children")
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* Our Duty *
Our Duty is an international support network for parents who wish to protect their children from gender ideology. Gender ideology is a set of ideas that is leading to many children to think that they are transgender. Adolescents in particular are prone to seeking refuge in a gender identity that is at odds with the reality of their sex.
(Source: "Our Duty")

Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) is a type of gender dysphoria that begins suddenly, either during or after puberty in an adolescent or young adult. ROGD affects both sexes, but in recent years there has been a huge increase in cases involving adolescent or young adult females. According to the most recent figures from the Gender Identity Development Service, almost three-quarters of children seeking to change their ‘gender’ are girls.

It seems to come out of the blue, including amongst children who may have been anything other than stereotypically masculine or feminine and is associated with intensive use of internet and social media transgender sites and forums, and often occurs in a peer group where one or more friends have become gender dysphoric and transgender identified around the same time.

It is important to note that children will not think of themselves as transgender without it being presented to them as a valid or even likely option to explain their natural feelings of discomfort. In recent years, the whole of society has effectively become one huge machine for the indoctrination of children into transgenderism.

Instead of promoting gender ideology, schools and wider society need to be promoting critical thinking skills and practical self-improvement customised to the child’s susceptibilities.

A quick look on the internet throws up a host of transgender vlogs acting as guides for young people preparing to visit their own GP or clinician. Thought-terminating clichés are everywhere: ‘Some people are trans, get over it!’ Tips and feedback are shared on exactly what to say to achieve a transgender diagnosis.Once this is obtained, the path opens up for teenagers and young people to access life changing medication and radical surgery.
(Source: "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria | Our Duty")
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* Transgender Trend *
Transgender Trend advocates for the most vulnerable children who are caught up in the recent trend in society to replace the objective reality of sex with the subjective idea of ‘gender identity’ as the criteria for being a man or being a woman. ‘Gender identity’ ideology teaches children who don’t conform to masculine or feminine stereotypes that their personalities are ‘wrong’ for their sex, and their bodies are then ‘wrong’ for their gender identity.

Boys and girls should be able to wear what they like and have whatever interests they choose without adult interpretation through the lens of a non-scientific, ideological belief that human beings are born with an innate sense of being male or female, which is inevitably based on sex stereotypes.

In schools all children deserve to be taught science-based facts, not ideology disguised as ‘fact’. All children have the right to privacy from the opposite sex in toilets and changing-rooms. Policy in schools must always put safeguarding first and schools should not use resources that confuse children about sex. Children should not be coerced into expressing a belief in ‘gender identity’ through the threat that not to do so is ‘unkind’ or ‘transphobic’.
(Source: "Transgender Trend")
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* Related resources *
5 Pillars of Transgender Ideology - Liz Wheeler exposes the radical trans movement. According to the founder of queer theory, pedophiles are the victims in society.

Date: Mar 7, 2023


Are universities the elite training camps for LGBT indoctrination? - A new report is claiming over a third of an Ivy League institution’s students identify as LGBT, revealing the power of universities to brainwash and pressure students into conformity.

Source: The Christian Post | Date: Jul 19, 2023


Dallas conference seeks to 'unmask' transgender ideology's harm to society - 'This is a belief system' - Panelists attributed rising transgender ideology to belief that truth is relative

Federal Judge Strikes Down Free Speech Rights Of Student - In one of the most egregious encroachments on free speech in schools yet, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled that a public school was right to reprimand a student who wore a shirt, saying that there are ‘only two genders’.

Gender - New Discourses - This entry in 'Translations from the Wokish' is an explanation of the term 'Gender.'

Gender Ideology Isn’t Kids’ Stuff - WSJ - A campaign is under way to introduce schoolchildren to the latest ideas about sexual orientation and “gender identity.” Psychologically and emotionally, most aren’t ready for it.

Source: The Wall Street Journal | Date: Jul 17, 2023


Generation Indoctrination: Inside the roots of the trans movement - As the public become increasingly aware of what's happening to children in gender clinics, many are bewildered, asking: How did this happen so quickly?

Source: The Christian Post | Date: Oct 31, 2022


Generation Indoctrination: Inside the transgender battle and gender chaos in America - The explosive proliferation of a seemingly infinite number of so-called “gender identities,” including “transgender” or “non-binary” and “genderqueer,” has become impossible to ignore in the last five years.

Source: The Christian Post | Date: Oct 14, 2022


Ideology not evidence is driving US trans agenda, say international experts - The care of gender-confused young people in the US is being driven by political ideology not evidence, a group of international experts have warned.

Source: The Christian Institute | Date: Aug 5, 2023


Only Women are Women - by Yolande Norris-Clark - Standing Up to Gender Ideology

Date: Jul 11, 2022


Parental Trauma in a World of Gender Insanity - Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Miriam Grossman discuss the grief and trauma associated with the Transgender movement, not just for those transitioning, but for the parents and families who now find themselves shunned and alienated if they refuse to affirm their own child's delusion. They also go into detail on the history of the ideology, the monstrosity of Dr. John Money, and his horrendous failed experiment on which he built his doctrines.

Date: Apr 10, 2023


Radical Gender Ideology is Transforming American Society - A transgender fever is gripping the North Atlantic world. According to a 2019 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, an astonishing 1.8% of high school students now identify as transgender.

Date: Mar 7, 2023


Schools & Children: Caught in the Transgender Industry's Web - YouTube - How the transgender industry has captured our schools and children via money, activism, propaganda, and marketing.

Date: Feb 14, 2022


The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology - In less than two decades ‘transgender’ has gone from a term representing individuals and little used outside of specialist communities, to signifying a powerful political ideology driving significant social change.

Source: Civitas | Date: Jun 30, 2020


Transgender Ideology - Transgender ideology claims that each person has a ‘gender identity’ (an internal sense of gender) which may or may not align with their biological sex. The ‘real you’ is what you feel it to be on the inside.

Transgender ideology is irrational dogma - The central tenets of gender ideology are (1) that women can be male and men can be female and (2) that one can change one’s “gender”

Date: May 5, 2023


Transgender Ideology Is Riddled With Contradictions. Here Are the Big Ones. - What exactly is this “gender identity” that is supposed to be the true medical determinant of sex?

Date: Feb 9, 2018


What Is Gender Ideology? | The Heritage Foundation - Recently, I received separate inquiries from reporters working on stories about the use of the term “gender ideology.” What do I think it means? What is its origin? They wanted to know, rather, whence this nasty right-wing slur, “gender ideology,” came.

Source: The Heritage Foundation | Date: Jul 7, 2023


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