Parents Explain Why Gender-Affirming Care For Kids Is Just A Fad

“This is just like when I replaced my penis with a Beanie Baby in the ’90s.”

“They’ll miss the suicidal, gender dysmorphic thoughts they had the second they get gender affirming surgery.”

“Genitals themselves are a fad, regardless of a person’s age or gender.”

“This is just like the cisgender craze all over again.”

“Wanting rights is a fad. Women wanted rights for a while and then they stopped, Black people wanted it a few years later and then it just kind of petered out. None of them want rights any more. These things come and go.”

“Trust me, kids will do all kinds of crazy things for attention. Even kill themselves!”

“In the grand scope of time, all is a fad. My life, yours. These fleeting concerns of joy and happiness, love and hatred. All will be dissolved in the great ocean of time’s passage.”

“I swear, if my kids ever did anything that made them feel good about themselves, they’d be out on the streets.”

“Trust me, eventually gender-affirming will be forgotten just like penicillin.”

“Nothing screams fad like necessary and irreversible medical intervention to treat psychological, physical, and emotional trauma.”

“These kids just want to be cool by changing their gender and then being beaten to death for it.”

“Trust me, knowing who you are as a person will come and go just like frosted tips.”

“Because I said so. Now go to your room, young lady.”

“Kids shouldn’t have gender care, they should have jobs!”

“I just don’t think we should staple genitals from the national stockpile of loose genitals onto whatever kid asks. I think there needs to be a process before we staple the genitals on there. I worry that our national stockpile of loose genitals will get depleted and then China will eat us.”

“We shouldn’t be sexualizing children anywhere except for on television, on concert stages, and in our churches.”

“Young people these days all feel like they should assert an identity other than the one that’s been imposed onto them, it’s not realistic.”

“Kids should at least have to wait to get gender affirming care until their mid-30s when their pocketbooks are fully developed.

“For kids it’s a fad, sure. But for super old people? It’s here to stay.”

“Oh, me? I don’t know anything about any of that stuff, but I do think my uninformed opinion should shape the laws about it.”

“What if a boy comes to you and says ‘I want three tits’? What do you do then? What if hundreds of boys swarm the local middle school screaming ‘We want three tits’ in unison for hours? Is that the kind of world we want to live in?”