A billboard aiming to force discussion on the gender-transitioning of minors has been erected in Los Angeles and it asserts that “puberty is not a medical condition.”
The billboard, which was unveiled last week and will remain up for one month, reads: “Your child is learning about gender identity in school. Puberty is not a medical condition. Get the facts. Read this book.”
Positioned beside the text is the cover of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier. Shrier’s book is a work of investigative journalism that explores the rapidly increasing number of girls and young women swept up into a peer contagion, many of whom have been put on a pathway of experimental medicalization that yields permanent, often devastating effects on their mental and physical health.
The billboard is located near La Cienega and Rosewood in Los Angeles, not far from West Hollywood.
The Los Angeles-area Jewish father who put up the money for the billboard has a high school-age daughter currently caught up in the transgender ideology and spoke to The Christian Post by phone Monday on condition of anonymity. Should his identity be revealed, he risks losing his job. His daughter has not gone on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones but wishes to medically transition.
His daughter became mired in gender identity confusion through a combination of a trans-identifying friend, extended amounts of time on the internet, and a trans-affirming school curriculum, he said.
Most politicians and media say “follow the science,” except when the science disagrees with their ideology. There are only two sexes/genders. Biology matters.
Two excellent resources: When Harry Became Sally by Ryan T. Anderson and Eden Invitation, a Catholic ministry. If you are or know someone, especially a young adult, struggling with gender identity, same-sex attraction or bisexuality, I encourage you to check out the latter at
edeninvitation.com
May God bless and heal that family (and all of us).
It’s girl group think from kids who pay way too much attention to social media. They are easily influenced by their peers and want to be considered work and trendy. Ever notice that home schooled kids don’t go through this gender confusion nonsense?
Yes, they do.
Good for this father. God bless and protect him and his children against unscrupulous people. This is what good fathers, whether of the biological or spiritual kind, are meant to do. This is one reason why boys and girls, and even adults, need them.
Thank you so much for the billboard and thank you cal Catholic for posting it !
Do these children think they will magically look and function like a normal opposite sex person?
I think Dad should have the MD show her the after surgery photos- at least 3 persons
And tell her about the post-surgery care regarding pain, dressings, procedures.
How many surgeries and adjustments are initially needed
If future enlargements and adjustment surgeries are expected to be needed as they grow.
These children should be told they are embarking on a life-time of hormones and repeated surgeries. Probable life-time mental health issues
They need to understand about side effects, possibility of infection, and urinary obstruction
They will have to share bathrooms and gym with their new sex and be subject to curiosity
Obviously trangenders cant get or contribute to pregnancy so they will be depriving themselves and spouse.
Imagine the horror of the spouse on their wedding night or even dating difficulties
Do these children think they will magically look and function like a normal opposite sex person?
I think this “trans craze” should be illegal! Kids need to grow up normally, and be included as an important and highly-valued part of mainstream culture, from the day they are born! The dysfunctional, materialistic “adolescent trendy subculture,” with all of its idiotic and highly-destructive fads, should be abolished completly! Family life and love should replace this garbage! Kids should be introduced, when young, to many different, excellent pursuits and occupations, investigate what interests them, and then later be in a good position to choose for themselves, what they want to do, in life. Kids should spend their time with schoolwork, developing their minds, reading good books, and enrolling in extracurricular programs and classes that interest them, to learn different hobbies, sports, and skills. Parents should guide them in this process. Kids should never be exposed to evil, immoral, and dysfunctional fads and ideas, to accept and incorporate into their lives– that should be illegal, and abolished! Life should be family-oriented, very loving and supportive, based in the home, until children grow up, marry, and establish their own homes. When kids have problems, their parents, family and and kin should help them figure out good ways to handle their problems– maybe at times, with some good professional help, if needed– not turn to the streets and alleys, abandoned and exposed to the dangers and evils of the outside world.
If a child begins to show unusual potential problems adjusting comfortably to their biological gender, while growing up, parents and family can help that child at home, along with professional help and support, as needed. They can help the child figure out ways to comfortably live with their situation. To attempt to pretend one is the opposite gender, or insist that one must attempt to “change” to the opposite gender, “Frankenstein”-style– is dangerous and unnecessary. Best to accept yourself as God made you– and adjust the best you can, and then, go on with your life! Nothing in life is perfect. God can guide each person in the best possible ways, to live comfortably in the biological gender He gave them– according to His Divine Will.
American public schools should be strictly places of academic learning, with good standards and serious study. A shorter school day, purely focused on academics, is ideal! Social cliques, fads, immature “in-group” favoritism, and discrimination against other students, should never be allowed, in the classroom. The focus should simply be on learning. Teachers should teach and role model good social skills, and common, Christian morality. Students should learn and practice good behavior, and respect their teachers and fellow students.
Differences between students’ races and backgrounds, and all other characteristics– should be accepted, in a spirit of respect, love, and kindness. School should be only a place of learning– and anyone with an unusual backgroubd or characteristic, should be made to feel comfortable, in the classroom. After that– everyone should then get busy, learning and studying! All students should have the right to privacy– their life situations and problems are not a “social issue” for public schools to address! All of the students’ other needs, should be cared for by parents, at home. If a child is having personal problems at school, a teacher may address these issues privately, with a parent, and together, find good solutions, so the child can do well in school. A counselor or social worker also can be called in, with extreme cases.
If you were “confused” in your gender, or about anything else, frankly, and your father put up a billboard like this, wouldn’t you think something was pretty weird with your father? I mean seriously, whenever we have difficulties in life, did our parents take out billboards so that the entier world is brought into your family drama? Seems to me the guy is pretty confused about what it means to be a father.
On the contrary, this heartbroken father is trying to save other kids from believing the lies his daughter does. His child may be beyond his saving at this time but as a father, he is working for the good of children other than his own. That is fatherly and commendable.
Fathers don’t behaver fatherly by embarrassing their kids to the entire world.
Like you, the father and daughter are anonymous.
Incorrect. The article says that the man spoke to the Christian Post on the condition of anonymity. It doesn’t say he or the billboard is anonymous to the daughter. Even still, who in their right mind deals with any issues or concerns they have with their family on a billboard and think that that is constructive? At best, it is passive aggressive. At worst, it is child abuse.
Anonymous 10/31/20 4:13, Oh sure – Dad is abusive, transphobic, bigoted and male-phobic and your repeated message displays prudence and maturity, NOT! You like to Repeat a lie until it becomes the truth.
The Billboard msg is not a personal msg. It’s a True statement to confront the brainwashing in the schools, social media, and peer pressure. These children are the fodder of the family destroyers,Communists, and the $ pursuing experts that are violating the Hypocratic oath.
By failing to comprehend the horror of transgender mutilation and derangement, and attacking this persevering Dad, you are being irresponsible and ignoring evil.
Adolescence is an awkward age where identity is being shaped. Often kids talk of feeling adopted; different from others; a square peg in a round hole. Instead of experiencing and growing through this stressful stage, transgenderism suddenly is touted as the magic bullet to “fit in” and shine.
Boys, generally, idolize male athletes or Musicians. And girls often are joined at the hip with their BFFs and put them on pedestals (Idolize them). By 16 yrs old, they are all generally focused on the opposite sex. Puberty is not a medical condition.
Yes, I am going to repeat the truth: What father in his right mind deals with intimate family issues by taking out a billboard? That is not what fathers DO. You can spin that statement all you want, and put all kinds of words into my mouth, and you would be telling a lie. Good fathers do not take out billboards to tell all the world about their intimate family problems.
Reread the article, especially the fifth paragraph. The father did this anonymously, just as you are writing anonymously.
Anne TE reread the article: The father spoke to the press on the condition of anonymity. That doesn’t mean the child doesn’t know it was the father. It doesn’t mean the child doesn’t suspect it was the father. And it certainly does nothing to help his child. It is a passive aggressive way to shame his child.
The “transgender” chatter certainly is increasing leading up to Tuesday…that’s for sure….
Presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that transgenderism “is THE civil rights issue of our time.”
I really have to wonder about the mental health of a father who thinks shaming and humiliating his child or any child in such a public way about a privte family matter is an example of fatherhood. It is quite literally sadistic.
Sadistic is a father allowing the healthy teenage body of his daughter to be mutilated, drugged, and denied it’s biology without even putting up a fight. Real men fight for their children and don’t let politically correct wimps stop them. This father is heroic, and while he may not be successful, he is trying to save his kid from a lifetime of regret and suffering.
What is this ? 3 comments by an anonymous who is castigating the Dad as sadistic.
Saying it repeatedly will not make your opinion correct or agreed to.
Your priorities are out of order. Much like these wanna-be-cool adolescents who think that switching genders will make them special and popular.
You display false sentimentality – there is no compassion for the girl who is about to wreck her life and her dad.
You divert this tragedy to “humiliation”. What is a one-time humiliation (if they are outed by
transgenderist criminals) to mutilation, cancer, etc ?
Unless you have a uterus and ovaries and Testes, there is no gender confusion, you have “Preciousness”. Gender roles are not much disparate anymore, anyone can pursue just about any field or role.
This is reminiscent of the saying that if you don’t believe in something, you will fall for anything.
It’s not a ‘private family matter’, it is a contagion supported by (gotta say it) demonic persons.
Dear Anonymous, The father and daughter are anonymous, so no shaming.And nothing “sadistic”.
Anonymity means, I am not coming to your house to ask you why you did not think before you commented. Maybe this is a sensitive issue to you. But you have a wonderful brain. Do not let your emotions rule logic.Take a pause. This is a caring dad if you think about it.
If a child of mine was abducted by a child-abusing predator still at large, should I not anonymously warn other parents?!