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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 6 months

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I am Sage's mother, better known as Nana. I adopted Sage after my son died when she was still a baby. She's been through six foster homes by then, but we loved her and she blossomed into a joyful, lively girl who made music and art.

Puberty began and COVID hit, and she was treated for depression and anxiety, at times very severe. Her teachers shared any concerns with me so her treatment could be adapted.

The transparency ended in August of 2021 when Sage started high school. She started a public high school and she told me that all the girls there were bi, trans, lesbian, emo and she wanted to wear boy's clothes and be emo. Because I saw it as just a phase, it was fine with me.

But at school, she told them something different: she was now a boy named Draco with male pronouns. Sage asked the school not to tell me, and they did not tell me even though I informed them of her mental health history and medication. If I had known, this would be a much different story.

She was terribly bullied. No one told me. But boys followed her, touched her, threatened violence and rape. Something happened in the boy's bathroom but for two days, the school told me nothing. They kept meeting with Sage alone and she became so distraught they called me to pick her up.

That evening, I found a hallpass labeled 'Draco' and Sage told me she was identifying as a boy, and that her counselor said she could use the boy's bathroom. She'd been jacked up against the wall by a group of boys. She was crying, terrified. I said just stay home, we'll figure it out. That was my last conversation with Sage for five months.

The night she ran, she thought, to a young friend she'd met online, she left a note saying she was scared of what would happen if she stayed. The sheriff, FBI, search dogs were called in. I dropped to my knees in prayer. Nine days later the FBI found her in Baltimore. My baby had been lured online, sex trafficked by DC then Maryland. She was locked in a room, drugged, gang raped and brutalized by countless men. It was night. The FBI told us to pick her up in Maryland the next morning.

We packed our cars with blankets and stuffed animals and arrived by 8 am, but we were told we couldn't see her, and were summoned before Judge Robert Kershaw late that afternoon. They didn't even tell Sage that we came for her. We finally entered the courtroom and Sage appears on a huge Zoom screen from a prison cell. She looks tiny and broken, and I cry out 'I love you Sage.' Sage responds 'I love you too, Nana.' But attorney Anisa Khan rebukes us. She is a 'he' and his name is 'Draco' not Sage. We were floored.

Khan accuses us of emotional and physical abuse, that we are misgendering her, even though we just learned she claims to be trans and we're willing to use any name and pronouns to bring her home. My husband was so tearful he kept forgetting the new pronouns, so the judge had the bailiff remove him from the courtroom. I was pleading for my child to be returned and treated for her unspeakable trauma. Judge Kershaw told me, if I use the word 'trauma' again, he would throw me out too.

For over two months, he withheld custody. He housed Sage in the male quarters of a children's home. Sage told me she was the only girl and repeatedly assaulted. She was given street drugs by the other kids and Khan told her she didn't care. She just wanted to win the case and all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. Khan tried to prove abuse, but we were eventually cleared by both states of all charges.

Sage later told me Khan had told her to lie that we hit her. Khan even had Sage's school counselors testify against us, though they barely knew Sage and they didn't know us at all. Khan told my precious child I didn't want her anymore. I found out Sage never received any of the letters I sent her.

Sage ran from the Children's Home and disappeared for months. They told me she might already be gone forever, but I couldn't give up and I finally found a tip on her social media that led the marshals to her in Texas. She had been drugged, raped, beaten and exploited. This time I was able to be with her for the traumatic rape exam, and to bring her home.

Back in Virginia, she entered the mental health facility that Judge Kershaw had ordered, as it would affirm her as a male. The therapist began pressuring her to have her healthy breasts removed. Sage was too scared to protest, but she asked me to secretly buy her girl's clothes because she wanted to be a girl, but keep them in the car. It took a kind lawyer, Josh Hetzler to secure her discharge.

After almost a year. Sage was finally home. Safe. Alive. Sage is receiving professional trauma care. The first trafficker has already been convicted. Sage has nightmares, panic attacks, rape-related medical issues, but there's hope. I tell her she's not broken she's just scarred. And part of that hope is that in courageously sharing her story, others will be saved.

Sage said she doesn't know who she was back then. She wasn't a boy, she just wanted to have friends. But her school, the judge, the attorney and the doctor were all blinded by their ideology. The consequences for Sage were unspeakable.

Please don't let ideology harm another child. Let parents do our jobs. We know our children best and we love them a million times more.

Thank you.

Jesus Christ. This girl was exploited by everybody, except for her parents, who were villainized for literally nothing. It's opposite world.

And the fact that everybody with authority prioritized stupid shit like pronouns and trying to coax her further down into a fake identity, even against her will, and other ideological bullshit over her actual wellbeing is disgraceful.

The judge and attorney need to be disbarred, the therapist stripped of their license, and everyone who conspired to separate Sage from her parents fired.

#Sage's Law #HB 2432 #gender ideology #queer theory #ideological corruption #genderwang #safeguarding #child safeguarding #predators #groomers #predatory #gender cult #religion is a mental illness

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feminismnightmares · 2 years

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Friendly reminder girls can like boyish things and be tomboys and boys can like girly things and be feminine without being transgender.

“Dismantling gender roles” doesn’t work if you insist that any child who shows interest in something that goes against their sex implies they’re the opposite.

In fact it just reenforces those gender roles the woke crowd seem to hate so much

Interests have no gender and anyone can like anything. It doesn’t mean they’re not who they were when they were born.

#anti trans agenda #anti indoctrination #protect children #child safety #child safeguarding #anti lgbt #anti feminism #anti feminist #anti woke #anti woke ideology

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thearbourist · 1 year

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A Drag Queen Speaks Out Against the Queer Activist Left

James Lindsay might say this interview is “completely based”. Ryanna Woods is the Drag Queen being interviewed and he speaks to just about every issue that the misguided activist Left has pushed entirely too far in society.

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#Against Queer Bullshit in Society #Arguing Against Gender Ideology #Child Safeguarding #Conservative Drag Queen #Gays Against Groomers #Youtube

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lead-academy · 5 months

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Empowering Education: Level 3 SEN Teaching Assistant and Child Safeguarding Course Online

The Level 3 SEN Teaching Assistant and Child Safeguarding Course Online provides access to over 450 courses for all staff members, delivering engaging materials compatible with all major browsers and devices. This course offers a diverse range of learning, with 10-minute micro-learning videos to 40-hour full courses. All content is CPD approved and updated regularly to ensure the highest quality of learning outcomes. In addition, there is 24-hour customer support and dedicated account managers to assist any concerns. The course offers a comprehensive overview of safeguarding and SEN issues, ensuring students gain the knowledge, skills, and qualifications needed to become highly competent professionals.Here is the course link:https://lead-academy.org/course/level-3-sen-teaching-assistant-and-child-safeguarding-course-online

#sen mitsuji #teaching #catering assistant #online course #child safeguarding

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child-safe-foundation · 8 months

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Top NGOs In Mumbai That You Can Trust - Child Safe Foundation

An outstanding NGO in Mumbai with roots in India, Child Safe Foundation works to protect children's rights and ensure their futures by fostering a safe and caring environment for them. Their main focus is on finding lasting solutions to safeguard children from danger while tackling the underlying causes of child abuse, exploitation, and trafficking. You can help Child Safe Foundation in their admirable endeavors by making a donation right now. Every donation, no matter how modest, has the potential to make a significant difference in the lives of vulnerable children.

#child help #ngo #donation #help child #child safe #child safety #child safeguarding

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le2022 · 11 months

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Empowering Parental Peace of Mind: Unlocking the Future of Child Safety

In today's fast-paced world, ensuring the safety of our children is of paramount importance. With the rapid advancement of technology, innovative products have emerged to address this concern. Among them, the Kids Smart Watch SOS Call Location Finder Locator Tracker with a camera stands out as a remarkable solution. In this article, we explore the advantages of this smart watch, highlighting its features and how it can provide parents with peace of mind.

Ensuring Security:

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Real-Time Location Tracking:

One of the standout features of this smart watch is its advanced location tracking capability. By utilizing GPS and other positioning technologies, parents can effortlessly monitor their child's whereabouts in real time. Whether it's during school hours, extracurricular activities, or outings with friends, parents can stay informed about their child's location through a user-friendly mobile app. This feature not only provides peace of mind but also allows parents to ensure their child's safety, particularly in crowded or unfamiliar environments.

Safe and Secure Communication:

The Kids Smart Watch facilitates seamless communication between parents and their children. It enables voice calls, enabling parents to check in with their kids and vice versa. Additionally, the watch supports messaging functionality, allowing children to send quick text messages to their parents when they need to convey information or seek assistance. This direct line of communication serves as a practical and secure channel for maintaining contact, particularly when children are away from home.

Capturing Precious Moments:

Apart from its safety-oriented features, the smart watch also boasts a built-in camera. This addition enables children to capture memorable moments of their everyday lives, fostering creativity and self-expression. Parents, too, can enjoy glimpses of their child's adventures through the shared photos. It's an excellent tool for encouraging children to document their experiences and cherish these memories for years to come.

Conclusion:

In an era where technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace, it's essential to harness its potential to enhance child safety. The Kids Smart Watch SOS Call Location Finder Locator Tracker with a camera combines convenience, security, and communication in a single wearable device. By leveraging its SOS call function, real-time location tracking, safe communication features, and capturing capabilities, parents can have peace of mind while allowing their children the freedom to explore the world around them.

If you're interested in providing your child with an extra layer of safety and staying connected, click here to explore the Kids Smart Watch and see how it can benefit your family.

#kids safe #child safeguarding #child safety

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waffaatw · 1 year

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Self Driving Baby Stroller ‘Ella’ Showcased at CES 2023 – costs $3300

The founders of Vancouver baby gear startup GluxKind, came up with the idea of an AI-powered smart stroller "Ella" when they became parents in 2020. Their aim was to “take the load off your shoulders” and provide an “extra set of eyes” to ensure the safety of the baby.

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nomorerww · 1 year

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https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1537851532032491520?t=DYYCzYX0Y3BBwb9fXFliiA&s=19

meanwhile Turban: Drag normalizes LGBTBBQs! It's fine!

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MISOGYNIST, ladies! Trixie Mattel himself has said that his biggest supporters were lesbians and that other gay men hardly bought any of his stuff.

stop.

#child safeguarding #turban

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 2 years

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By: Oct 24, 2022

Following extensive stakeholder engagement and a systematic review of evidence, England’s National Health Service (NHS) has issued new draft guidance for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors, which sharply deviates from the “gender-affirming” approach. The previous presumption that gender dysphoric youth <18 need specialty “transgender healthcare” has been supplanted by the developmentally-informed position that most need psychoeducation and psychotherapy. Eligibility determination for medical interventions will be made by a centralized Service and puberty blockers will be delivered only in research protocol settings. The abandonment of the "gender-affirming" model by England had been foreshadowed by The Cass Review's interim report, which defined "affirmative model" as a "model of gender healthcare that originated in the USA."

The reasons for the restructuring of gender services for minors in England are 4-fold. They include (1) a significant and sharp rise in referrals; (2) poorly-understood marked changes in the types of patients referred; (3) scarce and inconclusive evidence to support clinical decision-making, and (4) operational failures of the single gender clinic model, as evidenced by long wait times for initial assessment, and overall concern with the clinical approach.

The new NHS guidance recognizes social transition as a form of psychosocial intervention and not a neutral act, as it may have significant effects on psychological functioning. The NHS strongly discourages social transition in children, and clarifies that social transition in adolescents should only be pursued in order to alleviate or prevent clinically-significant distress or significant impairment in social functioning, and following an explicit informed consent process. The NHS states that puberty blockers can only be administered in formal research settings, due to the unknown effects of these interventions and the potential for harm. The NHS has not made an explicit statement about cross-sex hormones, but signaled that they too will likely only be available in research settings. The guidelines do not mention surgery, as surgery has never been a covered benefit under England’s NHS for minors.

The new NHS guidelines represent a repudiation of the past decade’s approach to management of gender dysphoric minors. The “gender-affirming” approach, endorsed by WPATH and characterized by the conceptualization of gender-dysphoric minors as “transgender children” has been replaced with a holistic view of identity development in children and adolescents. In addition, there is a new recognition that many gender-dysphoric adolescents suffer from mental illness and neurocognitive difficulties, which make it hard to predict the course of their gender identity development.

The key highlights of the NHS new guidance are provided below.*

1. Eliminates the “gender clinic” model of care and does away with “affirmation”

The NHS has eliminated the “gender clinic” model of care where children are seen solely by a specialist gender dysphoria practitioner, replacing it with standard care in children’s hospital settings.

Rather than “affirming” a transgender identity of young person, staff are encouraged to maintain a broad clinical perspective and to “embed the care of children and young people with gender uncertainty within a broader child and adolescent health context.”

“Affirmation” has been largely eliminated from the language and the approach. What remains is the guidance to ensure that “assessments should be respectful of the experience of the child or young person and be developmentally informed.”

Medical transition services will only be available through a centralized specialty Service, established for higher-risk cases. However, not all referred cases to the Service will be accepted, and not all accepted cases will be cleared for medical transition.

Treatment pathway will be shaped, among other things, by the “clarity, persistence and consistency of gender incongruence, the presence and impact of other clinical needs, and family and social context.”

The care plan articulated by the Service will be tailored to the specific needs of the individual following careful therapeutic exploration and “may require a focus on supporting other clinical needs and risks with networked local services.”

2. Classifies social gender transition as an active intervention eligible for informed consent

The NHS is strongly discouraging social gender transition in prepubertal children.

The qualifying criteria for social gender transition in adolescence are:

All adolescents will need to provide informed consent to social gender transition.

diagnosis of persistent and consistent gender dysphoria

consideration and mitigation of risks associated with social transition

clear and full understanding of the implications of social transition

a determination of medical necessity of social transition to alleviate or prevent clinically significant distress or impairment in social functioning

3. Establishes psychotherapy and psychoeducation as the first and primary line of treatment

All gender dysphoric youth will first be treated with developmentally-informed psychotherapy and psychoeducation by their local treatment teams.

Extensive focus has been placed on careful therapeutic exploration, and addressing the broader range of medical conditions in addition to gender dysphoria.

For those wishing to pursue medical transition, eligibility for hormones will be determined by a centralized Service, upon referral from a GP (general practitioner) or another NHS provider.

4. Sharply curbs medical interventions and confines puberty blockers to research-only settings

The NHS guidance states that the risks of puberty blockers are unknown and that they can only be administered in formal research settings. The eligibility for research settings is yet to be articulated.

The NHS guidance leaves open that similar limitations will be imposed on cross-sex hormones due to uncertainty surrounding their use, but makes no immediate statements about restriction in cross-sex hormones use outside of formal research protocols.

Surgery is not addressed in the guidance as the NHS has never considered surgery appropriate for minors.

5. Establishes new research protocols

All children and young people being considered for hormone treatment will be prospectively enrolled into a research study.

The goal of the research study to learn more about the effects of hormonal interventions, and to make a major international contribution of the evidence based in this area of medicine.

The research will track the children into adulthood.

6. Reinstates the importance of “biological sex”

The NHS guidance defines “gender incongruence” as a misalignment between the individual’s experience of their gender identity and their biological sex.

The NHS guidance refers to the need to track biological sex for research purposes and outcome measures.

Of note, biological sex has not been tracked by GIDS for a significant proportion of referrals in 2020-2021.

7. Reaffirms the preeminence of the DSM-5 diagnosis of “gender dysphoria” for treatment decisions

The NHS guidance differentiates between the ICD-11 diagnosis of “gender incongruence,” which is not necessarily associated with distress, and the DSM-5 diagnosis of “gender dysphoria,” which is characterized by significant distress and/or functional impairments related to “gender incongruence."

The NHS guidance states that treatments should be based on the DSM-5 diagnosis of “gender dysphoria.”

Of note, WPATH SOC8 has made the opposite recommendation, instructing to treat based on the provision of the ICD-11 diagnosis of “gender incongruence.” “Gender incongruence” lacks clinical targets for treatment, beyond an individual’s own desire to bring their body into alignment with their internally-held view of their gender identity.

8. Clarifies the meaning of “multidisciplinary teams” as consisting of a wide range of clinicians with relevant expertise, rather than only “gender dysphoria” specialists

The NHS guidance clarifies that a true multidisciplinary team is comprised not only of “gender dysphoria specialists,” but also of experts in pediatrics, autism, neurodisability and mental health, to enable holistic support and appropriate care for gender dysphoric youth.

Such multidisciplinary teams will be the hallmark of the new Service, into which challenging and risky cases may be referred. In addition to specific expertise in gender identity development and incongruence, the clinical leadership teams of the newly-established Service will include strong, “consultant level” expertise in a wide range of relevant areas:

neurodevelopmental disorders such as autistic spectrum conditions

mental health disorders including depressive conditions, anxiety and trauma

endocrine conditions including disorders of sexual development pharmacology in the context of gender dysphoria

risky behaviors such as deliberate self-harm and substance use

complex family contexts including adoptions and guardianships

a number of additional requirements for the multidisciplinary team composition and scope of activity have been articulated by the NHS.

9. Establishes primary outcome measures of “distress” and “social functioning”

The rationale for medical interventions for gender-dysphoric minors has been a moving target, ranging from resolution of gender dysphoria to treatment satisfaction. The NHS has articulated two main outcome measures of treatment: clinically significant distress and social functioning.

This is an important development, as it establishes primary outcome measures that can be used by researchers to assess comparative effectiveness of various clinical interventions.

10. Asserts that those who choose to bypass the newly-established protocol will not be supported by the NHS

Families and youth planning to obtain hormones directly from online or another external non-NHS source will be strongly advised about the risks.

Those choosing to take hormones outside the newly established NHS protocol will not be supported in their treatment pathway by NHS providers.

Child safeguarding investigations may also be initiated if children and young people have obtained hormones outside the established protocols.

With the new NHS guidance, England joins Finland and Sweden as the three European countries who have explicitly deviated from WPATH guidelines and devised treatment approaches that sharply curb gender transition of minors. Psychotherapy will be provided as the first and usually only line of treatment for gender dysphoric youth.

The full text of the NHS guidance can be accessed here.

* This is a transitional protocol as the NHS works to establish a more mature network of children’s hospitals capable of caring for special needs of gender dysphoric youth. A fuller service specification will be published in 2023-4 following the publication of the Cass Review’s final report.

This is huge.

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