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Our granddaughter is the light of our lives. She's giggly, funny and dramatic. In this strange era we're in, we are supposed to accept the acclamations of toddlers as valid. We're supposed to encourage and especially celebrate and AFFIRM their choices, even though they hold limited ability to reason and limited experience with which to compare. We have teens who claim to be the gender opposite of their birth or even choose to be a different species.

So it with all the pride in the world I tell you-

Our granddaughter is a cheeseburger.

She's told us this for a week now, so by the modern conventions, we should be slathering her with mustard and topping her off with onions and pickles. Don't be ridiculous, you say, and you would be right. She's two. She' s exercising her imagination, her sense of humor and her observations. A couple of weeks back, she was a ballerina. Before that she was a puppy. Next week? Who knows? But again SHE IS TWO YEARS OLD.

This is my point, All kids play with their identities as young children. The membrane between pretend and reality is very thin. The idea that we should honor the whimsical musings of a toddler is a great example of adults not being parents. Parents exist to confirm to the child that their imaginary ideas are not based in reality. It is wonderful for a child to make believe and mimic the world around them. What is not okay is adult projecting their own mental fragility on children for the same of self-gratification.

For example, if a child is given a doctor's play set, you certainly wouldn't demand they start writing prescriptions or operate on siblings. If a child has a toy cash register, you wouldn't send them out to work at the local Dollar Store at the age of four. So why are we letting these soft brained adults ruin children's lives by "affirming" things that simply are not true?

I predict in twenty years, the horror stories of gender reassignment will result in massive lawsuits against name universities, hospitals and individual providers. That American doctors are stubbornly clinging to the disproven theories on gender dysphoria when many other studies showing that gender dysphoria is much more about mental health than physical well being makes them appear they are only in it for the money. What is more, the medical damage done by faulty medication and drastic surgery of otherwise healthy young people will be viewed in the same light that the Chinese recall footbinding today.

We need to stop allowing a tiny minority of the population proselytize for a lifestyle by catering to kids who are already struggling. It's not a secret many of the children going under the knife for drastic surgical removal and alteration of healthy tissue are suffering from a variety of issues including depression, anxiety, autism and many have been sexually assaulted, adding to the trauma. It's time to stop being afraid of being called a bigot for protecting your children. I is also time for the role of parents, most of them mothers, who exhibit signs of mental illness before sacrificing innocent kids on the altar of transgenderism to be addressed.