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This is so true and so close to my heart. My son was in his mid twenties when he decided he was really a woman, having left home, married, emigrated and become a father by the age of twenty and not long afterwards gone through a bitter divorce and cut off from his little son. I have no influence and no standing at all in the eyes of society. I'm seen as the failed mother who can't let go, who refuses to accept his "real" self. My beloved troubled boy that I know so well and tried so long to help and may never see again. The law is not on our side. We are on the sidelines, heartbroken, helpless.

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Thank you for writing the truth. If only the professionals in this country cared enough to do the same.

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Unfortunately, puberty is often only the "pre-wash cycle". Most body-medical transition measures take place when the kids from 18 can sign everything themselves. This is a very stressful time for parents because they can no longer influence anything.

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Planned Parenthood has returned to its eugenic roots. I wrote them a letter months ago saying I would never give them another nickel while they dispensed wrong-sex hormones. They've strayed FAR from their mission to provide reproductive health. It's disgusting and I hope that when the pendulum swings the other way, a new reproductive health care organization that prides itself on being truly a reproductive health organization and different from Planned Parenthood arises from the ashes.

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Please tell me where I can join your support group Lynn. I’m not doing well and no one I know can relate to what I’m going through. Sorry to sound so desperate but I’m losing my battle of staying strong enough to see my way through this on my own.

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Planned Parenthood dispensing wrong hormones is a form of contraception. Eugenics.

The vulnerable youth of society are being targeted by the transgender ideology which is nothing but a deception. The intention is to encourage them to self sterilise.

Who is responsible for this?

Pharmaceutical companies? Government intent on depopulation? Nobody is taking responsibility or showing any ethical concern. Except parents.

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My daughter just turned 18 two months ago and has already obtained a prescription for testosterone. I keep trying to pick myself back up and move forward after years of trying to get her to desist or at least focus on other aspects of her life and mental health, but she is laser focused on all things transgender. My heart has been broken over and over for several years but this one has me feeling more helpless than ever.

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Thank you Lynn for talking sense. We need to talk about what will happen to our daughters when they discover they have damaged their bodies. Rejected family might not be around to pick up the pieces. The psychiatric institutions that used to care for trans people will not care for them because being trans is now normalised. The law will say that they are not mentally ill. There will be so many of them that any health service would be overwhelmed if it attempted to care for them. Just like a pandemic, transgenderism is spreading,

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Dec 27, 2021·edited Dec 27, 2021

Have you ever considered what the roots of the transgender insanity are? My faith (Catholicism) teaches that its modern roots are in contraception and abortion, which have almost severed the psychological link between sex (i.e., "gender"), sexual activity, and the procreation of children. I'm not here to push this at anyone, just to offer it in love and respect, as an idea to reflect on.

Also, there is a Catholic support group for family and friends of LGBT persons. It's called EnCourage, and obviously does not support the transgender *lifestyle*, but totally supports all LGBT *people* and their loved ones, and offers lots of support to family members, as well as help in loving their kids (even from afar), praying for them, and giving strategies to help draw them gently out of the lifestyle when possible.

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This is coercion: "assaulted with demands that we suddenly ascribe to beliefs we don’t have. Our children have a new belief system, and so we are supposed to radically alter ours in order to accommodate it.

We are told that unless we call our sons daughters and our daughters sons we will never have a relationship with them again. In other words, we have to lie, or it’s curtains, mom."

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Never know whether the trolls in the comments are fools or agent provocateurs .... thx for this article Lynn - it's the truth.

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I am sorry that I missed this article until today. Its power is intense.

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You should oppose it no matter what the law says. Never give in.

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Nov 2020our son older adult moved out april 2021 he told us always wanted to be a woman we were shocked never any sign may he had the major surgeries bottom and top don’t know how they were paid for he was not employed he’s been in and out of the hospital since with so many complications so he got his surgery but now in a wheelchair with a catheter and I can’t begin to describe the horror of what he’s gone throgh but says he’s happy !!!! ( still in the hospital ) battling kidney infection

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As a father, I can't imagine behaving this abusively towards my child, or any child. To publicly condemn your own kids, and demonize their medical care like this... It's tragic enough on its own, but for you to also advocate for others to throw away their relationships with their children is reprehensible.

As a transgender man who transitioned as a young adult, your mischaracterizations and misinformation are absurd. No,.trans people have not suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Some transphobes claimed it was a trend or a phase when I came out 20 years ago. It wasn't true then, and it wasn't true now. Transitioning is what allowed me to become the successful adult, husband, and father I am today. I'm lucky to have a strong community where we support and respect one another both emotionally and physically. That's what love is, and what family is. I so hope your children experience that, in spite of your destructive behavior.

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Lynn Meagher is a liar, an abuser, a threat to the community. She has several unmedicated mental health / personality disorders that she refuses to get treated while all the rest of us paid the price for 20 years. Meanwhile she thinks she's qualified to tell other people they can't take their medications either even if they want them. Lynn is a poopoo peepee dumb dumb bad humanbeing and I hate her.

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