Many of the books I read as a child featured girls who didn’t fit the mold that society expected them to fill, and who even felt the desire to be boys.
Jo from Little Women, George from the Famous Five, and Caddie from Caddie Woodlawn all have more masculine interests and desire in many ways to be treated as boys and wear boy’s clothes. The category of tomboy has existed for hundreds of years.
Yet, according to A Kid’s Book about Being Transgender, they were all perhaps really transgender.
The author, Gia Parr, transitioned from male to female in 8th grade, and was featured on Good Morning America with his letter to his middle school telling them of his transition. His mother was a journalist for ABC News for over a decade.
The book starts by explaining that doctors decide sex on birth based on the child’s body, but that isn’t the full picture, and that from a young age Gia felt like a girl because he had feminine interests.
“I loved playing with dolls and dressing up like a princess. I would put a T-shirt on my head and pretended I had long hair. I even had purple pants that I refused to take off,” Gia explains.
When Gia was 11 he searched the internet for the term “boy who feels like girl” and decided that he was transgender.
Gia’s parents “told me that they believed and that they loved me.”
“Gia’s smooth transition is my little bit of goodness in the world,” Gia’s mother shared in a Good Morning America article. “That she could find the courage to be her true self at age 12 fills me with awe and pride.”
The rest of the book outlines all the ways that Gia’s life improved after his transition and urges children that they should be who they want to be and that they’ll always be able to find people who accept them the way that they are.
This book is recommended for children ages 5 and up, and State Farm urged its Florida insurance agents to take
action to donate to get this book into classrooms through a partnership with the GenderCool program. The company only backed down under public pressure.
This isn’t a book that should be read to children under any circumstances for the following reasons:
- A person’s sex isn’t determined by his interests.
Just because a girl doesn’t conform to stereotypical girlish interests doesn’t make her less of a girl, and a boy not liking stereotypical boy interests doesn’t make him less of a boy. It makes sense that Gia at age 11 years old would have thought that he was a girl because he had feminine interests; most children think that way. But the adults around him failed him drastically by transitioning him instead of telling him that he can be a boy and still enjoy girly interests.
- The Rise In Transgenderism Among Children isn’t Natural
The number of teenagers who identify as transgender has doubled since 2017 and there are now an estimated 421,000 teenagers in the US, while adult number have remained steady. In the UK, the young people referred for “gender treatment” increased from 97 in 2009 to 2,510 in 2017-2018, an over 4,000 percent increase in a single decade. This dramatic rise is the natural result of the telling children that they are transgender if they don’t fit common stereotypes.
- Transgenderism is a deadly Disease
Studies have found that 28% to 52% of transgender people have attempted suicide. Research has found that 85% of transgender adolescents reported “seriously considering suicide,” while over half of transgender adolescents have attempted suicide. While liberals claim that “gender affirming care” saves lives there hasn’t been a single randomized control trial on the effectiveness of “gender affirming” care and the puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries which cause depression, infertility, heart attacks, cancer and bone loss. Adults are putting children on the path of large medical inventions when the majority would outgrow their feelings naturally if they were just left alone.
- Truth Matters
Feelings do not and cannot change reality. And it’s unkind to teach children that the universe can conform to the whims of their fancy, because the battle against reality is a fight that can never be won. We’re setting up children for failure by boiling biological sex down to a stereotype and giving them transgenderism as the cure. Transgenderism is a lie, an elaborate fiction developed by people longing to escape reality.
Our children deserve better than A Kid’s Book about Being Transgender, they deserve better than being told that they need to change their body to fit their feelings. They should be allowed to be children who have strong emotions and attachments without being medicalized and pushed into a box.
I feel deeply sorry for Gia, deeply sorry for the world that we’re creating for children. When books like this are published for children the world is crumbling. Come quickly Lord Jesus.
