Kids aren’t “Kids” anymore
The era of sexualities and gender identity and the growing child.
How did we go from educating people on having sympathy for the LGBTQ+ community to imposing sexualities and gender identity on kids who are yet to know what it means to be a child?. In an era where therapy is ignored and more communities are created as excuses for coping mechanisms and bad behaviors without an actual understanding of a person’s history, emotions, and mental health.
It's not enough that people now have to be extremely careful about voicing out their opinions so as not to offend someone or be seen as a "hater" with regards to people who aim to find accusations and rejections in every word uttered. We no longer let toddlers be toddlers or teenagers be teenagers, we now force perceptions of things not experienced nor understood on them.
The list is long. It goes from videos on YouTube showing mentally ill attention-seeking mothers, imposing a lifestyle on a growing child. In this present time, a mother of a 3-month-old child stamps the gender identity of "them/they" on her child and rejects giving her child a name, with the explanation of wanting the child to develop an identity on the verge of becoming a person and yet we say nothing.
We now have teachers who are rejected from schools because they refused to identify as a cat to a human child who identifies as a cat and yet I repeat we say nothing (Video reference 'The poor man's podcast). Let's not forget the 6year old boy, whose mother now grooms him as a trans-girl because he showed symptoms of female attributes at 3 years old. I am inclined to ask again, where do we go from here?.
I stand for the notion that children should be taught on the topic of sexual education, only at the age of understanding. I refuse to support the alarming yet bothersome freedom of sexualities and gender identity being forced down the throats of young souls who have neither been abused nor harassed without a reason as the self-acclaimed " depressed/confused" humans who didn't go through the path of help nor therapy but rather are under the cloak of a community.
The YouTube channel (Jubilee), in its spectrum with middle school students, has two 12 yrs old agreeing to the question "I am old enough to date" with the excuse that relationships at the age of 12 would help them understand relationships when they are older. It's time we don't let the need for sympathy ruin the need for understanding and experience, we need to let children be children and help them find their path without making them an extension of our experienced traumas. The more issues we sweep under the carpet, the more dirt we accumulate of which we may never be able to get rid of.
In the words of Preach "knowledge is one thing and it's just part of the equation", I would also like to add that experience is another and it's a necessary part of knowledge learned. Children are born pure, they are to be loved, secured, taught, and nurtured. The goal is to build better leaders of tomorrow, not trauma bonding individuals.
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