Religion is a Mental Illness

David Reimer (born Bruce Peter Reimer; 22 August 1965 – 4 May 2004) was a Canadian man born male but raised as a girl following medical advice and intervention after his penis was severely injured during a botched circumcision in infancy.

The psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. The academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer's realization that he was not a girl crystallized between the ages of 9 and 11 years and that he was living as a male by age 15. Well known in medical circles for years anonymously as the "John/Joan" case, Reimer later went public with his story to help discourage similar medical practices. At age 38, he committed suicide after suffering severe depression.

Case Study: Mom begins socially transitioning her 4-month-old 'theyby'

For this mom, 4 months old isn't too young to start priming her child for a trans identity.

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Last month, a mother of three young children made a post in a Facebook group for parents of “transgender kids” asking members when they began to notice their “trans child” (or themselves, for the adult trans members) exhibiting discomfort at being addressed according to “their assigned at birth gender.” She is curious because she claims to have noticed her “almost 2 year old” son getting “upset” when she refers to him using the word “boy.”

Because her son has apparently shown interest in stereotypically feminine things “from birth” like “long hair and pretty dresses and pink,” she decides that she “will no longer say terms with boy in it to him.”

In a public post on her personal page, the mother makes the extraordinary claim that she and all three of her children have Autism Spectrum Disorder.

While she doesn’t yet refer to her son as “trans,” she says a friend “mentioned it as a possibility,” and so she is asking whether anyone in the group had “experienced this from this young of an age.”

To back up her claim that her 1-year-old son “gets upset when I call him ‘baby boy,’” she shared a video of herself asking her son “are you my boy?” In the video, her son starts out smiling, but after his mother asks “are you my boy?” the child opens his mouth and his expression appears somewhat neutral.

Whether the boy changed his expression in response to the term “boy,” the mother’s tone, or for completely unrelated reasons is impossible to parse. Does the child, who the mother revealed in earlier posts is “autistic” and “doesn’t speak,” even understand what his mother is asking?

The mother’s posting history in the group begins in January 2021, when her son is only 4 months old. Throughout 2021, she posts about her infant “autistic” son’s gentle nature, his gravity towards baby dolls, his dislike for trucks, his long hair, and his apparent happiness at wearing dresses and girls’ accessories. None of this would be that strange, but since the mother is posting to a group for parents of “transgender kids,” it appears that she is searching for signs that her son might be transgender.

Her first post in the group describes her 4 month old son’s “gentle” play with a soft plastic toy baby doll.

Several days later, the mother posts again about her son’s preference for a plastic toy baby that he puts in his mouth, as infants tend to do with any soft plastic object when they are teething between 4 and 7 months old. The mother, however, describes this as “kissing his baby!”

She dresses her son in a bow and comments on how much he “loves” it and how he starts smiling when she puts it on him, as babies often do when their mothers show them attention and affection. She appears to be, once again, searching for reasons to believe her 4-month-old son might be transgender.

The mother then shared a story about something that happened at her son’s 6-month doctor visit. While in the doctor’s office, her son was given a book about trucks. The mother claims that she “sighed a bit after they left the room” because her son “has no interest in trucks and prefers babies,” and that she “felt a bit weirded out” that someone would simply assume her son would like trucks “because he’s a boy.” She also fishes for compliments on her “son’s beautiful hair!”

A commenter on her post then questions whether a 6-month-old can even have “gender preferences” in toys, adding that “At 6 months the only question is if it goes in your mouth or not.” The mother then confirms her son’s tendency for putting random toys in his mouth.

Several days later, she posts 17 photos to the group of a collection of new clothing items she bought from both the boys’ and girls’ sections intended for her son to wear.

A month later she shares a photo of her son in the “blue unicorn dress” she bought him. Although she claims to want to raise him as “gender fluid/neutral,” the clothing options she celebrates are those typically worn by girls.

“Look at the satisfied and happy look on my son’s face,” she remarks.

“People act like kids this age can’t have preferences on the things they like but they can and do!” she says about her 8 month old baby.

In August 2021, her son is now 1 year old. She shares with the group that her son likes to take clothes out of his drawers and that one day he “picked out a rainbow skirt” that she immediately put on him and took pictures to share with the group. She then explained her parenting philosophy of raising her children in a “gender free environment.”

Usually, “gender free” parenting consists of choosing colors like yellow, green, orange, white and brown, but this mother appears to think that “gender free” parenting involves encouraging her son to dress up in clothes typically worn by girls so that his boyness gets neutralized.

Again, none of this would be that unusual for an infant boy to play with dolls or dress up in a skirt had the mother not been posting about these things in a Facebook group for parents of “transgender kids” with the intent to seek advice and praise from other parents of “trans kids.”

In addition to sharing updates on her children’s gender journeys, she shares other transgender-related content she finds to the group. Interestingly, in a post from March of last year (2021), the mother actually makes an effort to discuss different viewpoints with the group by sharing a YouTube video from Blaire White, a well-known trans woman and critic of modern gender ideology. She points out that Blaire “doesn’t agree with theybies, child transitioning, etc.”

Moderators asked her to repost with a the link to the video in the comments so that it would not be as visible and easily playable for those scrolling the group’s timeline. They also insisted she add a “trigger warning” to avoid upsetting anyone who doesn’t want to be exposed to alternative viewpoints on trans issues.

Only one person replies to say he would rather listen to “trans folx” instead of “giving clicks to hatred.”

In addition to her “theyby,” she also has two other young girls who at the time of posting are 3 and 5. She asks the group for book and video recommendations on pronouns that are “easy to understand.”

Commenters recommend their favorite transgender children’s books about pronouns, and she buys them all.

Several days later—SURPRISE!—her eldest daughter, who is 5, has requested to be addressed using “they/them” pronouns. According to the mother, her daughter “still say[s] they’re a girl,” and is therefore still her daughter “for now.” The mother also admits she “wasn’t sure” her daughter “understood what it meant” to go by they/them pronouns, and so she “check[s] in occasionally to see if they still want to go by they/them,” adding that “it’s been solid ever since.”

She says her “husband wasn’t thrilled about it,” but that she knew she was “making the right decision” after conferring with the group. So, full steam ahead on her autistic 5-year-old daughter’s social transition.

What could be the motivation for all this?

On her personal page, she shares a public post of a screenshot from one of her TikTok videos showing her excitement at reaching “1000 likes.” It seems she may be using her children’s “trans” and “nonbinary” identities for clicks and to bring attention to her business selling social justice themed t-shirts.

Some of the t-shirts her children model for on TikTok feature statements like “Regulate Your Dick,” and include a woman’s hand giving you the middle finger. Another t-shirt displays the trans activist mantra “trans women are women.”

In a recent post she excitedly proclaims her TikTok channel has reached “10.5K likes!!” Her profile displays her intersectional bonifides: “They/them | Agender | Actually autistic | BLM.”

Another series of posts made 14 months apart reveal that the mother has been on a bit of a “gender journey” herself. In a post on January 15, 2021, she claims that she’s “a cis gender/bisexual woman so although I fall under the LGBTQ+ spectrum for sexuality, I don’t for gender,” (emphasis added). But in a post on March 18, 2022, she claims “I’m agender (a form of non binary),” and her TikTok profile in the image above indicates that she now uses they/them pronouns.

It’s difficult not to ponder whether this is a marketing strategy for her business.

This is the current end to the ongoing saga of an “agender” mom and her three autistic children she seems intent on guiding into transgender identities.

While this is only one case study, this is by no means rare. Every day, countless parents arrive in these private Facebook Groups seeking guidance from strangers. As we have reported elsewhere, these groups act as indoctrination centers for scared and confused parents—mostly mothers—looking for help and advice for their equally confused children who have succumbed to gender ideology. But instead of help, Group members guilt trip and shame parents into fast-tracking their children to hormones and surgeries.

We hope that by bringing these stories to light, we can help the public better understand the cult-like nature of these groups, and the true extent of the harm being brought upon vulnerable children in the name of “Social Justice” and “acceptance.”

4-year-old announces ‘I’m a boy!’ in transgender gender reveal at parade

Charlie Danger Lloyd’s “choices were not questioned and he was congratulated and everyone began using new pronouns,” his mom said.

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A 4-year-old child has captured hearts — and sparked a heated online debate — after announcing he was a boy via a rainbow-fueled gender reveal at the Vancouver Pride Parade.

Charlie Danger Lloyd of Canada was assigned female at birth — but from a young age expressed he was a boy, his mom said.

Now-viral footage and photos captured the moment young Charlie — with his grandmother by his side — released a confetti canon that filled the area with blue smoke.

“Once they closed the road, Charlie strutted out with Grammy and they faced the sidelines and after a short struggle, the cannon exploded with blue smoke and biodegradable confetti,” his mom Alaina Bourrel, 27, told South West News Service after her little boy ran into her arms. “Charlie jumped with joy as the crowd cheered him on. He couldn’t believe the love and support he was shown from the bystanders.”

Despite Charlie’s happiness, his mom said she has come under attack by vicious trolls online, calling her a “pedophile, groomer and rapist” for her son’s transition.

However, Bourrel said that her child started expressing different gender needs at the age of 2, telling his family he was “growing to look just like daddy” and “I’m a boy” all day every day.

The proud mom said the parade moment was dreamed up after they told Charlie the family held a previous gender reveal before he was born — and the smoke didn’t work properly.

“When we told him the story, he asked for a re-do with his granny at the Vancouver Pride Parade — so we bought him a smoke cannon and tucked it away for this day,” she said.

“He wasn’t your typical little girl. He would play with other boys and the parents would say he was more of a boy than their own children,” Bourrel recalled, saying they didn’t think of anything until the end of 2021, when he didn’t want to shop in the girls section and wanted his hair cut short.

“He refused to shop in the girl’s section, but was too nervous to shop in the boys,” she said. “After lots of expressing his feelings and emotions with me, he decided that he wanted a new wardrobe so we set out to find our new style.”

About a month after buying his new wardrobe, Charlie was ready to get his hair cut.

“We made an appointment with Lia at Big Bros Barbershop, a trans-owned and operated salon in East Vancouver,” his mom said. “After leaving the salon that afternoon, Charlie was a completely new child.”

After changes to his wardrobe and his appearance, his confidence went through the roof.

“We are four months since he began his social transition now,” she said. “He is still a normal kid that does completely normal little kid things like play with Lego[s], uses his creativity and learns to ride his bike.”

Despite online haters who criticize her parenting choices, Bourrel said Charlie’s family and friends have been nothing but supportive of the preschooler.

“His choices were not questioned and he was congratulated and everyone began using new pronouns,” she said, adding it is no different to raising any other child and she appreciates the support from those in their inner circle.

“We are so lucky to have the circle that we do,” she said.

“There is no such thing as a Christian transgender child: only a child of Christian Queer Theorist parents. Seize every opportunity to ram it home.”

-- (paraphrased from) Richard Dawkins

Case Study: A Mother Rushes To Get Her 15-Year Old Daughter’s Breasts Removed

‘Time is of the essence’ for this mom eager to get her daughter a double mastectomy.

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On October 13, 2021, in a private Facebook group with nearly 13 thousand members called “Parents Supporting Parents of Trans Children,” a mother made a post about her daughter’s long history of mental health issues that has ultimately resulted in her pursuing a transition from a girl to a boy. In the post, the mother tells the group to “follow your child’s lead,” “even if you think it’s crazy.”

She goes on to describe the intense struggles her daughter—who she now refers to as her “son”—has experienced for many years before finally coming out as transgender. She reveals that seven years ago they began family therapy due to her daughter’s “emotional disturbance and psych diagnoses,” and says the daughter has been going to individual therapy sessions ever since.

The mother lists her daughter’s timeline of mental health issues, which include:

• Age 7: inappropriate internet searches
• Age 9: suicidal ideation
• Age 10: ADHD and anxiety
• Age 12: cutting

At age 13, however, the daughter came out to her mother as transgender, and only a year later met with a plastic surgeon, where her daughter informed the surgeon that she “wants them (breasts) just gone, because I want to be a boy.”

The mother says, seemingly with trepidation, that “at this point I realize my kiddo is trying desperately to tell me something he doesn’t yet fully understand himself, and he needs my help to navigate the murky waters” (our emphasis). The says she began educating herself about transgender issues, and started “being more vocal with my support of him as a person, even if I don’t fully believe his reasons” (our emphasis).

A month into the school year, the mother says her daughter is now “fully socially transitioned” as a boy at school. Classmates and even upperclassmen say they “have his back,” including the school Principal.

Eight months later, on June 8, 2022, the mother returned to the group to describe her “rollercoaster” week of getting insurance to approve her daughter’s “top surgery” (a euphemism for an elective double mastectomy) and “talking through last minute jitters” before checking her daughter into the hospital. To calm these jitters, the daughter brought a “comfort item”—a stuffed animal cat—demonstrating that she is still very much an emotionally immature and vulnerable child. It may as well have been a teddy bear.

But despite the comfort animal, the reality of the situation began to weigh heavily on the child, and the mother reported that “By the time the surgeon came back for a last minute consult, [her daughter] was nearly in tears and voiced that [she] was having second thoughts and didn’t feel [she] was emotionally ready.” So they called off the surgery, and went home.

The tears continued at home, and the mother says her daughter’s “mood tanked” out of regret for not going through with the surgery. But instead of reassuring her daughter that they would be supportive of any decision, including not going through with the procedure, she tells her daughter that “when he IS ready” she and the daughter’s stepdad would “do everything in [their] power to make it happen.”

Responding to a commenter, the mother coveys some regret in not pressuring her daughter more to have the surgery—”part of me feels like I should have nudged him just a little harder…”

In an earlier post on March 1, 2022, we discover that mother would like to have her daughter’s surgery over with soon while they are covered by Medicaid in order to avoid paying the deductibles and copay for treatments that will kick in once she re-marries and her and her daughter join the new husband’s health insurance.

She explains that her 14-year old daughter is already “*very* large chested,” which is a source for her dysphoria. But having a large chest at such a young age can make any girl feel self-conscious, and a hallmark of adolescence is to feel uncomfortable and anxiety toward your changing body. In every post, there is no convincing indication that her daughter actually suffers from true gender dysphoria instead of simply being an average teenage girl insecure with her body, who also happens to be suffering from a multitude of mental health issues.

The mother also says that “there’s a niggling urgency in the back of my head that we should schedule the surgery sooner rather than later,” given the uncertainty regarding the future legality of performing elective double mastectomies on minors in Texas.

Commenters are unanimously in favor of getting her daughter on the operating table as soon as possible. “Your son’s mental health can’t wait,” “do the surgery sooner rather than later,” “postpone your elopement” they say, displaying the sense of urgency that echoes the commonly stated false dichotomy of parents needing to choose between having a “trans child or a dead child.”

Another commenter tells the mother to “Move it forward as quickly as possible,” and to “Push it through.” The commenter also guilt trips the mother by telling her, condescendingly, “It’s not about you.”

Leading up to the May 11 surgery date, the mother reveals that she is having difficulty getting an “affirming” letter of support from her daughter’s former therapist, which is needed to authorize the surgery: “The information that she [sic] providing isn’t exactly affirming, at least not enough to sway Medicaid’s decision I don’t think.” Because the surgery is only a few weeks away, the mother stresses that “time is absolutely of the essence.”

In a comment, we then learn that the reluctant therapist has been her daughter’s therapist for the last four years, and the mother even states that the therapist “is well aware of his other mental health issues.” The therapist is also aware the daughter has claimed to be transgender for over a year.

The mother then reveals that the therapist’s original letter of support had included a quote from her daughter saying that she “‘wants to try out’ male pronouns and his chosen name.” The mother is worried that this is “not the most affirmative information,” and so she is going to provide the therapist with a letter template from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and “ask her to redraft” the letter.

One commenter directs the mother to “tell that therapist exactly what you need.”

The mother and group members appear to view doctors and therapists not as professionals whose advice they should heed and respect, but as obstacles in their way or people to order around to fulfill their every demand to obtain hormones and surgery for their children as quickly as possible.

Fast forward to “pre-op day,” the mother still does not have approval from the insurance company for the surgery because the daughter’s former therapist “has been hedging on writing a letter of support.” Rather than trust the expertise of the therapist most familiar with her daughter’s long history of mental health issues, the mother says she has been persistently “nagging her” for the letter.

However, it now appears the mother does not need the therapist to write a letter of support because—”GOOD NEWS!”—the surgeon told her that she can simply have an endocrinologist, who they’ve met with only a small number of times, write the support letter and it will be “completed in one business day.” The mother is ecstatic, and types in all caps, “THIS IS GONNA HAPPEN!”

Unfortunately the story ends abruptly here, as the mother has not posted any updates on the Parents Supporting Parents of Trans Children Facebook Group.

One thing to note about gender-affirming care is how quickly an entire history of mental health problems is immediately explained away and ignored the moment any child “comes out” as transgender. Instead of viewing the sudden emergence of a trans identity as yet another manifestation of underlying mental issues, “gender dysphoria” is immediately taken to be the root cause underlying all of it, with transition viewed as a panacea.

While this is only one case study, this is by no means rare. Every day, countless parents arrive in these private Facebook Groups seeking guidance from strangers. As we have reported elsewhere, these groups act as indoctrination centers for scared and confused parents—mostly mothers—looking for help and advice for their equally confused children who have succumbed to gender ideology. But instead of help, Group members guilt trip and shame parents into fast-tracking their children to hormones and surgeries.

We hope that by bringing these stories to light, we can help the public better understand the cult-like nature of these groups, and the true extent of the harm being brought upon vulnerable children in the name of “Social Justice” and “acceptance.”

“It’s not about you.”