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Can we talk about not giving moms more to feel guilty about? It seems like she loves her child with her whole heart and let's face it, so many people don't have that from one parent or the other or both and neglectful, hateful parents do so much damage, trans or not.

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Girl, please! ✋🏾 I even made a disclaimer about the fact that I'm not blaming Sade, and I had mentioned that she is trying to be a good Mom. Sounds like you are just projecting and did not even read this essay, as brief as it was. Just because someone is well-intentioned does not mean they are above accountability.

Yes, she loves her child AND she is wrong, AND it's okay for me to talk about it, especially when she is promoting that toxic ideology to the world through her music.

Two things can be true at once.

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Please excuse. I didn't mean to imply YOU were shaming her. I was talking more about the implication that not "seeing it sooner" is getting to the point that its being called child abuse when it could just be letting a child be a child.

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Oh, my bad!! Thank you for clarifying 🙏🏾 Yes, I also touched on that-there is so much shaming towards parents who are just doing right by their child.

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Children can no more "consent" to have their healthy breasts and genitalia removed or take puberty blockers than they can "consent" to have sex with an adult.

Similarly, parents and doctors can no more approve such permanent mutilation simply because a minor child desires it than they can approve their participation in pedophilia.

Ultimately society will see the truth and ban the practice as we have banned female genital mutilation. Do people support that practice if the parents consent? I truly hope not

It is monstrous to believe otherwise and those who do will ultimately be held to account for their actions. The obscene bureaucrat Rachel (Richard) Levine among those in the dock.

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