There are all sorts of things we won’t let our children do, but we’re supposed to allow them to make a life-changing decision to switch their sex, with no input from their parents and heavily influenced by ideological zealots within the educational and medical establishments. It’s bizarre and it’s sick. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
just what are these people driving at?
this seems to be a weirdly prevalent emergent ideological stance that keeps cropping up, generally from gender activists but with some overflow into the sort of classic communist/authoritarian gang.
i’m honestly curious about where this is trying to go.
just what is their argument?
on the one hand, sure, this is basically true and long has been. you do not “own” your kids in the manner of a car or a goldfish. you cannot sell them. you cannot dispose of them by the side of the road if you no longer want them. in many historical cultures, you did own them and could literally kill them or vend them as chattel if you chose, but this has not been the case in the west for a very long time and pretty much no one seems anxious to bring it back. that which was très chic in sparta is monstrous to modern sensibilities.
childhood is different now
there is a sort of specific contract civilization erects that places parents as guardians of their kids during the period of their minority before they are deemed “adults” in a society and gain the rights and responsibilities thereof. some of this involves forcing kids to do things they may not want to like eat vegetables or go to school or go to bed. childhood is, by design and custom, a period of limited agency and responsibility. not all choices are available and many actions fail to carry the more serious consequences that would accrue to an adult in similar circumstances. and this makes sense.
How can you own your kids if you dont own yourself?
Welcome to Col. Soros’ Plantation. Now get to pickin
cotton.