Excellent! Thank you for posting this. So much of this is just plain common sense that it's gobsmacking that it has to be spelled out and that so many people are vehemently, even violently, opposed to it.
Young people are being preyed upon by this ideology and its adherents. Young people with autism are even more at risk. I don't understand why this is so hard to understand.
My fellow liberals who think you're being "kind" and "inclusive" by supporting this ideology -- hello??
When I first started Googling "transgender and autism" a few years ago (in the US), after my son "came out," the few sites that acknowledged the link crowed about how autism allowed a person to see beyond the strictures of conventional culture, thus perceiving one's "true self," i.e., one's "true gender," i.e., one's destiny as a lifelong patient/customer/acolyte. I hope other national autism organizations will follow the Danish example.
There are so many people and groups that are hurt by this plague and any “kindness” is a one way street. It is entirely self centered and reeks of entitlement at everyone’s expense. I am getting closer to thinking of this not just as forces of darkness but evil.
“No man chooses evil because it is evil, but rather mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks”. Mary Shelly.
Thank you so much for this. As a counselor who works with children with autism and as a parent of a trans identified daughter who was screened for autism, I applaud these common sense (should be common place) guidelines. I was appalled to read that so large a % of children and young adults with autism were identifying as trans. Our job is to safeguard all children and especially children with disabilities. I was also horrified to learn of a child with Downs Syndrome who transitioned. Advocates know so little about disabilities, child development and safeguarding it's extreme.
Excellent! Thank you for posting this. So much of this is just plain common sense that it's gobsmacking that it has to be spelled out and that so many people are vehemently, even violently, opposed to it.
Young people are being preyed upon by this ideology and its adherents. Young people with autism are even more at risk. I don't understand why this is so hard to understand.
My fellow liberals who think you're being "kind" and "inclusive" by supporting this ideology -- hello??
When I first started Googling "transgender and autism" a few years ago (in the US), after my son "came out," the few sites that acknowledged the link crowed about how autism allowed a person to see beyond the strictures of conventional culture, thus perceiving one's "true self," i.e., one's "true gender," i.e., one's destiny as a lifelong patient/customer/acolyte. I hope other national autism organizations will follow the Danish example.
Very insightful! Thank you
There are so many people and groups that are hurt by this plague and any “kindness” is a one way street. It is entirely self centered and reeks of entitlement at everyone’s expense. I am getting closer to thinking of this not just as forces of darkness but evil.
“No man chooses evil because it is evil, but rather mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks”. Mary Shelly.
Thank you so much for this. As a counselor who works with children with autism and as a parent of a trans identified daughter who was screened for autism, I applaud these common sense (should be common place) guidelines. I was appalled to read that so large a % of children and young adults with autism were identifying as trans. Our job is to safeguard all children and especially children with disabilities. I was also horrified to learn of a child with Downs Syndrome who transitioned. Advocates know so little about disabilities, child development and safeguarding it's extreme.