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Re: Netflix Sneaks _Tranny Ideology_ Into 'Baby-Sitters Club' Series
Red flags.
On 8/3/20 1:45 AM, Barb May wrote:
Netflix has released an “original” series based on a popular book
series from my childhood, “The Baby-Sitters Club.”
Like most stories targeted at “tween” girls, the topics in the books revolved around boys, family, illness, and more. Much to my chagrin,
though, Episode 4 of the Netflix series sneaks in issues surrounding a transgender child.
The novels, written by Ann M. Martin and published from 1986 to 2000,
were wildly popular and sold 176 million copies. The Netflix show also
is about a group of preteens and teenagers who operate their own
babysitting service.
But I don’t appreciate Netflix using the sweet, nostalgic “Baby-Sitters Club” series as a Trojan horse to discuss a controversial and
potentially harmful subject that young children often aren’t equipped
to understand.
Transgender children often express cross-gender behavior without being
exposed to TG information.
Netflix writer Rose Dommu posted a thread via the Netflix Twitter
account to explain why, as a trans woman, the transgender episode of “Baby-Sitters Club” meant so much to her. The Twitter thread is worth reading, providing insight into exactly why I think this was a bad idea
for the writers of the Netflix series to adapt the books into something
more progressive.
Dommu writes: “This generation’s BSC handle[s] the same dramas as their original incarnations, with the circumstances updated for 2020.”
This is convenient and important: Parents who might give the OK for
their children to watch Netflix’s “Baby-Sitter’s Club” because it’s just like the familiar book series might not appreciate this particular episode. Indeed, most of the series likely does stick more closely to
the books, just not Episode 4, which definitely updates “circumstances” to reflect the very progressive era we now inhabit. Dommu calls this
episode a “timely and poignant modernization.”
Transgender people has been for several thousand years around and yet
they are 19th century inventions in your brains.
Mary Anne, one of the babysitters, ends up watching Bailey, a boy who
has decided to be a girl. The scene the writers used to demonstrate
this is related to clothing. Dommu describes the scene well:
: Ready for an outfit change, Bailey explains that the closet
: is full of her “old clothes,” while her new clothes are much
: more sparkly—taste! Mary Anne understands immediately that
: Bailey knows who she is & has supportive parents who trust
: their daughter and want her to be happy.
She hasn't decided to be a girl, she discovered she was one. That's a difference. A red flag that transphobia is happening place.
Later in the episode, Mary Anne confides in her friend Dawn about
babysitting a transgender child, Dawn, who prides herself on hailing
from California, explains: “The same way that you know you’re right- handed, Bailey knows she’s a girl. And we all want our outsides to
match our insides right? And it’s rad to have parents and a babysitter
who get it. She’s really lucky.”
Cis people want their outsides to fit their insides too. They also can
dress how they want. This is not only limited to trans people.
Later, Bailey comes down with a fever and Mary Anne takes the child to
the hospital. This is clearly a ploy to allow the child to experience
what transgender people call being “misgendered.” The doctors refer to Bailey as “he” and suggest that he change into a blue gown for examination.
Mary Anne pulls the doctors aside and explains that even though he
might look like a boy, and his chart might say he is a boy, and indeed
he was born an actual boy, he feels like a girl. And therefore the
doctors must refer to Bailey as a girl or they are “ignoring who she
is” and making “her feel insignificant or humiliated.” The doctors, of course, apologize.
Good job, Mary Anne. Gender identity is biological after all. Studies
have shown that referring to the trans person's chosen name reduces suicidality.
https://news.utexas.edu/2018/03/30/name-use-matters-for-transgender-youths-mental-health/
Dommu, writing the Twitter thread about the importance of the episode, explains: “What this episode ultimately gives me is hope. It
illustrates what was articulated so perfectly in @Disclosure_Doc: You
can’t be what you can’t see. Imagine the young trans children who are going to watch this & see a version of themselves who is actualized, supported, and HAPPY.”
And the young cis children won't get a shit. You can't change anybody's
gender identity. If attempts to make people cisgender haven't worked,
neither do vice versa.
I’m disappointed to see the writers adapting this great book series use
it as an opportunity to sneak in such a complicated issue, which most audience members, likely between 7 and 15 years old, are unable to
truly grasp—especially the younger ones.
People are not too young to understand their gender identity. If they
question, they will find out what there was all along.
That the creators of the show not only sneak in this subplot but later highlight it on the Netflix Twitter account as a point of pride shows
how important it is to them to showcase progressive ideology, even to
small children.
If this is an ideology, it has been around as long as humanity itself.
Research shows that simply encouraging children to transition socially
is one of the more harmful ways to respond to gender dysphoria, which
is clearly what Bailey is experiencing in the show. Many health care professionals encourage therapy first rather than a transition to the
other sex. It’s too bad that option wasn’t shown here at all.
Show us this research, please. Otherwise, it's bullshit. Most trans
people, in fact, go to the therapy. People don't transition to the
opposite sex, they transition to their true gender. Is it a hidden advertisement for conversion therapy?
Nice wording in an attempt to piss on trans people.
Of course, parents can use their own discretion when it comes to
allowing their kids to watch this show. I have two daughters; I decided
they could watch this episode and we would discuss it together. I then explained what I believed to be more accurate, honest, and helpful to
young children about transgender ideology.
Other parents may choose not to allow their children to see it. That’s
up to them.
“The Baby-Sitters Club” so far is a charming series that discusses
topics that tweens already are thinking about, such as babysitting,
school, friends, and boys.
Why introduce to them a topic that’s not only rare but actually harmful
for kids? It’s disappointing to say the least.
Yes, this article pushes an ideology that is actually harmful to trans
kids. A TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) ideology.
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There is no verifiable evidence that gender dysphoria can be treated in
other ways than transitioning. None whatsoever.
Gender-affirmative trans care *requires* therapy. That is, unless you go
the informed consent route.
Scaring people away from transitioning and repressing their identities
*IS* conversion therapy.
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