TRANSHAUSEN BY PROXY?
I am now working on my second series, looking at parents who believe they have a “transgender” child. They are, overwhelmingly, fervent belief and, as many of us have pointed out, their conviction they have been sent a “transgender child” is quasi-religious. In common with other faith belief systems their God is “Gender”, it has a soul like quality and is therefore unfalsifiable. Non-believers are heretics and believers attempt to convert/coerce by imposing the symbols of the religion, such as mandated pronouns. The believers congregate in closed facebook groups and put their religion at the centre of their lives. Having a “transgender child” puts your family higher up in the church hierarchy. Their religious rites focus on hair length and clothing until they move on to the chemically dependent stage.
The first research I looked at was by Cal Horton, who is fierce mum on twitter.
Cal is a non-binary they/them.
Cal is doing a PhD at Goldsmiths college, London University, based in the education department. She is supervised by Anna Carlile, the Head of Department.
Anna’s research interests are as follows:
Notice that Carlile has co-authored research with Elly Barnes, of Educate and Celebrate, who provide training for schools and trainee teachers. You can read more about them at Transgender Trend, link below: 👇
Here are a couple of quotes from Elly Barnes/Educate and Celebrate:
Here is Elly misrepresenting the statutory duty of schools by pretending it covers “Gender Identity”. There is no legally protected characteristic of “Gender Identity”.
Carlile displays a similar lack of adherence to facts as illustrated in a 2018 piece criticising the government’s LGBT action plan. They make a similar “mistake” about the law by inserting “gender identity” and, of course, no mention of the actual legally protected characteristic of sex.
Here is fierce mum in an interview with Metro, defending Mermaids, referencing transgender lobby groups and quoting Paris Lees.
Many parents are listening to adults who identify as transgender to inform their decision. This is a mistake because many are overly invested in the idea of “transgender children” to validate their own, adult, choices. This is a quote used by Fierce Mum:
Just in case you thought this was just a random parent and not a fully paid up member of the Church of Gender:
You can read the research undertaken by Cal in my two blogs, which you can find here. The thing that struck me about these parent accounts is how invested they are in having a special child. They are deeply resentful of any exploration of why their child is struggling with their sex and distrustful of any clinician who to delves into possible causes. They regard any attempt at a therapeutic approach as deeply intrusive and harmful.