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Karen Bracken's avatar

This is clearly a mental illness issue. Children are placed in unnatural environments and live in mostly chaotic homes. They feel abandoned, unwanted and like they don't fit in. They hate themselves and don't know why then comes along someone that convinced them they are unhappy because they are not who or what they have been told. This is not a physical issue....it is a mental health crisis brought about by the destruction of the family and narcissistic parenting.

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my older youngling is XX and claimed gender dysphoria symptoms to shrinks and school admin since about age 16.

never had any vaccines until a runaway at 17, went and got konvid injected at a Walmart without parent or guardian signature. did have "vitamin k" shot involuntarily after birth in hospital.

before the dysphoria diagnosis, Oppositional Defiant Disorder since starting public school in 4th grade. never had more than slightly above average behavioral issues before being exposed to the public school system. but once there, realized no authority would do anything about negative behaviors except for the "Safe Seat," not requiring my child do the same work as everyone else had to, and free trips home in the middle of the day with sometimes additional days off for being violent or otherwise acting out. she was testing above her grade level in all courses when homeschooled, though sometimes I had to sit with her for literally hours before she'd stop claiming "I can't do the work" and would then bust out the days assignments in 10-15 minutes at least 80% correct to be allowed to get up and do whatever else.

school immediately tried to claim she was autistic and learning disabled, forced a shrink. shrink said she was either 1) outright psychotic and said that was unlikely or 2) ODD and on the path to juvenile delinquency (prediction correct.)

by 11th grade the school finally grudgingly admitted no autism, no learning disabilities, just Executive Functioning issues.

while she was definitely uppity as a child and would sometimes break her own property when angry, she never had any of the severe issues or obvious mental dysfunction that showed up after being enrolled in public school.

I blame a combination of school, internet, and teenage self-loathing for the dysphoria. she's never gotten over it (age 20 now, high school dropout after runway, wouldn't get GED equivalent.) had a kid, insisted on the idiotic term "pregnant man." at least she doesn't freak out anymore when people don't get her preferred labeling right.

my younger is XY and never had any of the behavioral or mental dysfunctions. home birthed instead of hospital, no "vitamin k." no medic visits ever at all in fact, except for keeping other people company when they were the ones checked in. age 17 now.

being second child he avoided the parenting learning curve my first dealt with but I don't feel like their home environment was different except for the consequences of rule breaking the older often dealt with. as my younger didn't break rules he avoided all of that, likely increasing resentment by the older who bullied and threatened him with some consistency.

other than school and often sneaky access to the interwebz I'm not aware of what could've triggered the dysphoria. or if it was even real. she's not even homosexual, she just doesn't like her body being female and thinks that can be changed.

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