SHOCKING New Documentary On ‘Transkids’ Accidentally Tells Disturbing Truth
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Summary
On Monday, a horrifying clip from a recently released HBO documentary went viral. In the clip, a woman forces her young son to publicly announce that he's a girl. And it's not long before she realizes that her son is actually a boy.
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On Monday, a horrifying clip from a recently released HBO documentary went viral.
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In the scene, congregants at a Unitarian Universalist church are invited by the female
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pastor to, quote, proclaim their identity publicly as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,
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queer or questioning, intersex, pansexual, asexual, or any category I've left out, unquote.
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A mother then pulls her young son, four years old it turns out, onto the stage to announce
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But the poor child has no interest in being paraded around like his mother's show pony,
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so he hands the microphone back, saying that he doesn't want to do it.
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The mother takes it upon herself to come out on her son's behalf, informing the audience
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that her son, Phoenix, would, quote, like you to know that she's a girl and she prefers
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Completing this apparently familiar ritual, the pastor hands the child a pink flower as
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a congregation repeats its creepy affirmation in unison, quote, may you be well, safe, and
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Of course, that's the exact opposite of what they're really doing.
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This isn't even the worst scene in HBO's transhood documentary, which is now available
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The film follows four transgender children over the course of five years.
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It's clearly meant to promote and normalize the deranged sort of child abuse just described,
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but any rational person who subjects themselves to the film, which I did, but I wouldn't recommend
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it, will come away with a number of important insights that the filmmakers did not intend.
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Phoenix's case is, I think, especially instructive.
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Before the forced coming out party, we see the boy in a dress, in a different scene, on a bed filled
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with lots of pink and rainbow-colored things, and he's being read a book called
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Then we slid into a shiny yellow dress, while Jacob wiggled into a sparkly pink dress.
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Put on some shorts and a shirt under that dress thing, mom said, and hurry.
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Let's get the sewing machine, she said finally.
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There are all sorts of ways to be a boy, she said.
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You are wearing their your clothes, so they are boy clothes.
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Next, in an interview, the mother, Molly, tells us that Phoenix is, quote, gender expansive,
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non-binary, gender non-conforming, gender awesome, under the trans umbrella, girl boy, and rainbow
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Before finally concluding that, quote, we don't really have a good term.
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Now, for his part, the father, Zach, mostly sits quietly, a common theme in the film, which
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But he agrees that his son's gender is somehow, quote, up in the air right now.
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Eventually, Phoenix, who never at any point shows any strong desire to be a girl and appears
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to be mostly confused and bored with the whole thing, is nonetheless socially transitioned
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But the years pass, and Phoenix continues in the nasty habit of being a boy, despite his
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Otherwise, eventually they get divorced, another common theme, and decide that, never mind,
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actually their son is a boy, after all, it turns out.
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But the good news is that Molly feels better at the end because she's worked through her
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issues and is starting a new leaf, where we are not exactly told how her son really feels
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While his home life is ripped in two and his parents give up on their marriage, his feelings
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and well-being appear to be more of an afterthought amid his mother's psychodrama.
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Shades of the Phoenix story can be easily detected in the other three trans kid profiles.
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She's a girl making the, quote, transition into a boy.
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Her father doesn't appear to be in the picture at all.
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But her mother, Bryce, is a lesbian who eventually meets and marries a defensive lineman from the
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We're first introduced to Jay when she's being given her first hormone blocker injection
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Later, she goes into surgery to have a blocker implanted in her body.
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Bryce, the mother, seems unsure, even at times distraught by all this, but she goes along
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with it and funds it and facilitates it every step of the way.
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Similar dynamic with Lena, 15 years old at the beginning of the film, also just beginning
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the medical transition, in this case from boy to girl.
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We meet Lena and his divorced father, Mike, as the two are out bikini shopping for the young
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We learn that Mike had his hesitations about the transgender thing when Lena first announced
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his gender confusion around the time of the parents' divorce, nine years prior.
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And now his sons, or his quote-unquote daughters, ambition is to become a victorious secret model.
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And Mike, along with his ex-wife, accompany Lena to his first modeling tryout.
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By the end of the film, Lena has decided to take it all the way, going under the surgeon's
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knife, the surgeon is also transgender, to make his physical transition permanent and
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The most disturbing story of all is that of seven-year-old Avery.
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He's a boy who, according to his parents, is really deep down a girl.
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Avery's mother, Debbie, traipses the child all around the country, doing media interviews,
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The cameras catch the moments when Debbie informs Avery that he'll be, quote, writing
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a trans-affirming children's book and then going on a book tour against his will.
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And also when Debbie tells Avery that a National Geographic photographer will be arriving shortly
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to take pictures for the magazine's upcoming cover story on gender.
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Avery is visibly and audibly unhappy with all of this, all throughout the entire film.
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And at one point late in the film, upon hearing that he'll be forced to attend yet another LGBT
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rally in D.C., says that his life is ruined and voices a level of exhaustion and weariness
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And we're going to be moving to the White House potential area to throw a book in Donald
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This one is Time to Thrive, and it's for people who work with LGBTQ youth.
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We actually go and meet with our senators, some representatives.
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After we do that, we go and sit and sell some of Avery's books for a little while.
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And now everyone in this world is going to know.
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If I sell my book, it's going to go on the news along with me for like the 50th time at
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Yeah, I did, but now that was really stupid, silly mistake, and now I don't.
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Avery doesn't seem too invested in this female persona.
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Minus the long neon-colored hair and the overcompensating rainbow outfits that his mother puts him in,
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he comes across like a relatively normal young boy.
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Debbie, noticing this with some level of alarm, decides that Avery is just a, quote,
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That would be a boy who is a girl who acts like a boy.
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As for Avery's father and his view of everything, it's never made entirely clear.
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Like the other fathers in the film, he's basically a useless lump of nothingness floating along with
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the tide while his wife psychologically and physically destroys his son in order to satisfy
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These men are literally watching their sons be turned into girls.
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And that's one of the ingredients that is always present whenever a young boy is forced
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They always have fathers who have already willingly sacrificed their own.
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And that is one of the important lessons the film doesn't want to teach us, but does anyway.
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There is no mystery to the transness of Avery, Phoenix, Lena, or Jay, or any trans child.
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In Avery's case, his mother has, it would seem, very clearly imposed a trans identity onto him.
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Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a known mental illness where a parent, usually a mother,
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pretends that their child is sick or sometimes even causes the child to be sick in order to
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gain sympathy and attention for themselves, from the public.
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If the psychiatric industry was at all honest and trustworthy, Debbie would be diagnosed with
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this disorder and her children removed from her care for their own safety.
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As it happens though, and as the film clearly portrays, doctors and therapists are much
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more likely to feed into this kind of mania than to diagnose and treat it.
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That's the other piece of the puzzle that removes any mystery from the trans epidemic among
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The entire medical field, with very rare exception, has bought into this radical left-wing gender
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A gender-confused child with a parent like Debbie stands no chance.
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He will find no help, no protection from his pediatricians or his therapist or his school.
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They're just going to send him off to be drugged, mutilated, and further abused.
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But not all trans kids have parents like Debbie.
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The other kids in transhood seem to have mothers and fathers who are perhaps less exploitative
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than they are confused, incompetent, and self-absorbed.
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But all throughout the documentary, we constantly see the parents turning to their kids and asking
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them for direction, relying on their children to take the lead, asking them, what do you want
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You tell us, putting it all on them, on their shoulders, the burden of leadership, placing
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Phoenix's dad gives the closest thing we hear to a fatherly lecture in the whole film, telling
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his son-turned-daughter-turned-son that it's okay that he was a girl before, and it's okay
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that he's a boy now, and it's okay if he's a girl later.
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Like any other child, Phoenix desperately needs direction and leadership and clarity.
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What he gets instead are shrugging shoulders and his pathetic, hen-pecked father's refusal
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So it's up to Phoenix to figure out who he is, what reality is, what anything is.
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His parents will provide nothing to the child except food, a bed, a roof, and a bunch of
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pretty dresses should he decide he wants to wear them.
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And that's how you end up with transgender children.
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Of course, the documentary wants us to learn a different lesson.
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In the epilogue before the credits roll, the last thing we're told is that Lena, right
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after waking up from his, as they call it in Orwellian speak, gender affirmation surgery,
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supposedly turned to his mother and whispered, I'm free.
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Now, I doubt whether he said that at all, but if he did, it was yet another expression of
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the tragic confusion that has plagued this kid since early childhood.
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But he is not free now that he has rejected himself and his own biological nature in a
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But that is another lesson he'll have to learn on his own with no help from his parents.
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And the sad thing is that when he does, like so many other kids, it'll be too late.