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Georgia Senator Vows to Protect Girl, But Then Runs Away After Learning She Is Trans
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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Those "politics" this woman is "involving her child" in are actively seeking to harm her child. The child is fully involved already even if she was left at home, because the GOP can't keep themselves out of children's pants.
Just because you're using the same word (involve) it doesn't mean it has the same semantics.
She is exposing and labeling her children herself. She's probably telling her kids what to feel and what they are. At that age a kid isn't like "Mother I have become transexual, we need to fight the Republicans, bring me to the nearest politician".
Don't get your kid involved in politics, don't tell your kids they are transgender, don't you dare giving them surgery for their gender....... let them grow and figure it out themselves. Just be supportive and loving. You can fight for them, but don't get them involved in something that isn't necessarily permanent to them.
That's a lot of assumptions you've just made about this random mother and child you know nothing about.
It's a kid. Do you think a kid knows what transexual means without an adult telling them? Or what a politician or laws mean? Or that the politician was going to be there? Did the kid tell the mother what to say?
Please explain to me how this could have happened, a likely scenario, in which the mother didn't push this on the child.
You wouldn't know what transexual means if you hadn't been told or read or heard about it somewhere. That is as true of adults as it is of children. What you seem to be implying is that a child could not possibly understand the concept, and that is where we clearly disagree.
You don't give children enough credit. Children are capable of understanding how they are different from others, even if they don't have the words to describe it. They can understand that there are people with authority who make the rules, even if they don't know the details. They are able to recognize when things are unfair and feel indignant about it, even if they're unsure of why or how.
The mother can give her child the words to describe how they feel, the details of the world we live in, explain the whys and hows of it, and the child is capable of comparing that to what they know and thinking for themselves. Children are impressionable because of their lack of prior knowledge with which to make that comparison, but that does not mean they lack agency.
It is certainly possible that this mother manipulated her child, put words in her mouth, shielded her from information that could provide a basis for comparison, but that is an assumption for which you have no evidence except that you can't imagine the alternative.
The alternative being that this mother raised her child lovingly, taught them all they could, trusted them with information from other sources, trusted them to make their own judgements with their guidance, and supported them when they came to their own conclusions.
So, the kid read the newspaper and asked to go there?
Don't know and it doesn't matter. The point is the kid, if informed properly and given the choice to go or not to go, is capable of making that choice.
Kids know what they are.