Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids

by Josie A. (Editor), Dina S. (Editor)

A medical scandal is currently unfolding across Western liberal countries. As Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans reveals, the primary victims are vulnerable, socially awkward kids with normally developing bodies who fall for the Internet-fueled promise that they can solve their emotional, psychological, or physical discomfort by adopting an opposite-sex identity. With deep reservations about the new gender orthodoxy that informs this promise and the one-size-fits-all medical prescription that comes with it, the parent contributors to this volume share deeply personal stories about transition and desistance that won’ t be told at the gender clinic. They also offer practical advice based on hard-earned experience that won’ t be found on mainstream media— all with the express aim of protecting children from harm by empowering and encouraging other parents and individuals to combat gender ideology at home, in schools, in clinics, and beyond.

Genres: Gender

392 pages, Paperback

First published August 14, 2023

Reviews

[Mya · Rating 1 out of 5]

Since ancient times in cultures around the world, there have been trans people.

It makes sense that the authors can't use their last names (and possibly not even their real first names) because they are not researchers, doctors, mental health professional, or profession remotely qualified to address the topic of a transgendered children. If they actually think that a parent loses their child if their child is trans, then it shows that they only think they can accept a non-existent version of the person that their child is. Research shows that when parents accept a trans child as the gender that the child says rhat they are, and call them by the name that the child identifies, it reduces suicide rates up to 48%.

Embarassingly, "Josie" and "Dina" use fictitious anecdotes, discredited and fallacious ideas to attempt to fool a gullible audience.

[Lisa J Shultz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a collection of moving testimonies from parents as they recount stories of losing their daughter or son to transgender ideology and medicalization. There were a few hopeful stories, but not many. The sad situation is that the tales are eerily similar and this trend is harmful to both kids and their families. Totally heartbreaking. Readers will learn from these parents about the issues of social contagion, and how schools, therapists, and many doctors usurp parental authority and wisdom. It is best to read this book before you are deep in confusion and despair. Get educated now! One thing is clear after reading this book, these parents loved their kids deeply. Sadly, there are a magnitude of factors that undermine a parent's concern and love. It is a difficult battle. I learned a lot from these parents.

[Camela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was heartbreaking. But the love behind the stories was real and beautiful. In their own words parents told how their children had been torn away from them . But there were also tales of hope and restored relationships.

[Camela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book about loss and hope. The parents tell their own real and raw stories about loss. They are tragic, but the love expressed is real and beautiful. And there are stories of children who desist and restored relationships that give hope.

[Karen Shilvock-Cinefro · Rating 4 out of 5]

A helpful for parents of children who have decided they are transgender. It contains stories and letters about what parents have experienced. And expresses the hope that this ‘cultural phenomenon will pass’, before more are hurt.

[Jason Anger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heartbreaking. As far away from the stereotyped depiction of parents as one could imagine.

[Tri · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ughh

If you want more information on Genspect and it’s founders/members, please read my review on “When Kids Say They’re Trans”

I mention this as the book is lapping the boots of both it’s founders and other orgs, right from the beginning as it claims all money earned will be ‘donated’ to Genspect. To TLDR it: Genspect’s founders have formed several orgs all under the same premise of discouraging and legislating against any and ALL forms of transitioning, including adults. It’s also founded on scrutinized surveys and studies that have been argued on its methodologies. Genspect and its sister orgs are in no way recognized by medical or scientific boards.

The book is a compilation of parents ranging from misguided from reading Genspect’s highlights to parents actively and openly disgusted by the possibility of their kid being trans. So many of the stories are “me me me” and often do very little to explore their kid’s thoughts and feelings, or even take into consideration that isolating their kid completely or reacting in harshly negative ways may…I don’t know…deter one from being more open about their gender troubles?

While I don’t doubt these stories happened, or even that some of the teens/adults mentioned truly desisted, it’s almost entirely too reliant on Genspect’s reasonings and methods of detransitioning. Not to mention the ABSURD amount of mentions of porn without talking about how they found that out in their kid or why the reasoning boils down to it.
One of the stories’ reasons for why “trans people are grooming your kid online to become trans” is because they found porn subreddits. Oh, were these in the search history? NO, THEY JUST HAD ‘TRANS’ IN THE SUB NAME. AND THEN LINKED DIRECTLY TO THE SUB. Yeah, because being sexualized or having an identity be a xxx category makes everybody under that label a sexed-crazed maniac…okay…

Shite. For the sake of both the parents and teens/adults, I hope Genspect implodes and lets these families reconcile if there’s still anything left to salvage.

Stella O’Malley being a part of this and SEVERAL other books published recently about trans people and families, and how each one makes transitioning a devastation on all accounts that must be corrected is infuriating to say the least. To frame again and again that trans people are diseased and when come into context your child will be “infected”…that families are right to isolate and alienate their kids…that the possibility of having an actually trans kid growing into a trans adult isn’t even in the realm of possibility…that in no way can a person just be trans and be an alright person…Cold. It’s cold.

[Briar Rose Reads · Rating 2 out of 5]

DO NOT get the audiobook. It’s horrifically unedited….. to the point where at the beginning you can hear the narrator scream in frustration when she makes a mistake and then go back over the sentence. MULTIPLE TIMES. Flabbergasted. She also mispronounces words like crazy, it’s almost like listening to a 14 year old whose reading comprehension doesn’t match up to the material try to read it out loud…. “Endocrinologists” she pronounces “indoctrinologist…. “Pediatrician” becomes “pedotricin”… absolutely riddled with baffling mispronounciations and complete butchery of English. Sometimes it felt like every sentence something was mispronounced or even skipped!! Who paid this person to narrate anything??

Needless to say, this took away from the material, which itself needed editing as it got repetitive and fuzzy.

[J Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

The stories are absolutely heart wrenching. A must read for any family member with a trans identifying child and for anyone interested in what’s happening with the indoctrination of Gender Theory, gender identity politics and the medicalization of vulnerable children and youth. So many families have been torn apart and devastated by this. It is time the world started listening to them.

Since publication, they continue to publish many great essays daily, available on Substack without a paid subscription. Please also tune into their Substack feed.

[Jamie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Parents and loved ones are speaking out about the abuse of the medical system on our children and the misinformation being told to children at school. Bless these parents and families from across the political spectrum. Turing a blind eye to these families is neglectful…listen.