Haven't you heard? There are no biological
certainties that a willful imagination cannot
surmount. Envy of gender in the fanciful minds
of children who once routinely wondered what
being the other might be like in the world of pretend
now sees those same youth -- your daughter who is
now he, your son now named Heidi -- of succeeding
generations wonder no longer for their yearning
to be other than what they are now has resonance
in the sounding board of some adults' memories
echoing that 'what if' that faded with time. Now it is
those parents dismayed at their child's rebellious
gender role misalignment who grieve that teachers
physicians and the courts speak of 'birth assignment'
and 'gender dysphoria' yanking parental discipline and
privilege from the family home to the court system
and the jury of the wide public disavowing the very
notion of permanence in sex-at-birth. Hello dysfunction
goodbye the trials and errors of child rearing and the
timely relief of eventual rescue in adult maturity.
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