As many people know, in a New York minute, @PsychToday published, and than swiftly removed an article about trans-identified young people disowning their parents-a known fact to the parents, but apparently a novel narrative to the happily uninitiated /1
. https://archive.is/hhMDv 

The article was pulled within minutes, after what looked like a coordinated attack by the TRAs. Comments from grateful and concerned parents were drowned out by the "How dare yous". Not surprising to anyone anymore, is it? /2

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/against-all-odds/202011/trans-kids-may-reject-family-not-the-other-way-around

The comments illustrate perfectly what's going on in the gender debate. It's not hard to see who the unhinged bully is, and who is the reasonable voice in this conversation. But we live in the world were bullies win. /3

"Irresponsible, damaging, disgusting, vile" - a crowd of TRAs piles on within minutes of the article going live, all reaching for the same few words. /4

The TRAs are appalled it was published on Trans remembrance day. But on that day, many bereaved parents are mourning not the death of their loved one by suicide (as the narrative dictates), but because the young person's cut off all family contact-an act encouraged by the TRAs./5

TRA comments go and and on; 20 minutes later, the parents (aka "adults") arrive. It's hard to see the transphobic parent narrative being accurate. Judge for yourself: /6

A plea from parents for psychological exploration of the "suddenly trans" teen phenomenon, before one proceeds to cut off body parts, is countered with the false but powerful "dead son or happy daughter" (or increasingly, the other way around) dichotomy. /7

This is the other side of the "dead son/ happy daughter" argument, which powerfully weaponizes the rare events of suicide to bully parents into experimental and drastic medical interventions. This parent did not ask for psychological exploration, and did "everything right." /8

Back to the comments. Do these responses strike you as transphobic? Bigoted? /9

But of course, the writing is on the wall--both for the author and for @PsychToday , and everyone knows it. /10

Welcome to 1984, folks! Best wishes for the coming New Year!