I was reading reddit and there is an anti trans think tank that is asking for tips and people are running scripts to flood it with submissions. This came from “goodgaymergirl”

I hope they have fun reading my chatgpt generated stories like this lol, hopefully it catches their attention and wastes time. (I attached it as a file and pointed to it in the character limited incident details field) at least chatgpt is good for some things.

I am writing to express my growing concern about the way gender is being discussed in my child’s school. At first, I didn’t think much of it—I trust teachers to do their jobs, and I know kids today are growing up in a very different world than I did. But over time, I started noticing little things that made me wonder if there was an agenda at play.

It started when my child, who’s in middle school, mentioned that a classmate had started using a different name. The teacher didn’t make a big deal about it, just started using the new name like it was normal. That struck me as odd. When I was in school, a name change was a big deal—something you’d need a note from home for. But here, it was treated as no different than a nickname. I started paying closer attention.

Then, a few weeks later, my child came home talking about a book they’d read in class. It wasn’t some obvious activist material—just a story about a kid figuring out who they were. But there was something subtle about it, the way it encouraged empathy for someone questioning their identity. My child didn’t seem confused or upset—if anything, they seemed thoughtful. Still, I couldn’t shake the feeling that these ideas were being introduced too easily, too naturally, as if they were just… part of life.

I decided to look into the school’s curriculum, expecting to find something blatant, something I could point to and say, See? This is the problem. But what I found instead was more concerning in a different way. There was no single lesson, no obvious agenda—just an overall environment where kids weren’t being told what to think, but instead were encouraged to be kind, to listen, and to respect each other’s experiences.

I’ll admit, that made me uneasy. Shouldn’t schools be teaching facts? Shouldn’t there be more structure? The more I looked, though, the more I realized that this wasn’t about pushing any particular ideology. It was just about making sure every student felt safe.

The real tipping point came when my child brought up one of their friends—one of the kids I’d heard about before, who had started using a different name. My child said this friend seemed happier now, more comfortable. And then they asked me, ‘Why would anyone have a problem with that?’

I didn’t have a good answer. I wanted to say something about how things used to be, about how the world worked when I was their age. But I realized that wasn’t really an answer at all. Things change. People change. And maybe the real problem wasn’t what the school was teaching—maybe it was what I had assumed about it before I really took the time to see.

I thought I was writing to report an issue, but now I wonder if the real issue is how quickly we assume the worst. If kids are coming home feeling safe, feeling free to be themselves, and learning to treat others with kindness, is that really something we need to be afraid of?

  • Deestan@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Think Tank, to media:

    “We have received thousands of pages of written confessions from concerned parents. This is clearly an issue that must be curbed.”

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      7 hours ago

      Actually they were able to get the survey taken down because of the sheer number of nonsense stories and things like this that people have flooded it with.

      It was put back up, and this was in response people planning to do the same thing shutting it down.

      I was just amazed at the quality of story, and it was a powerful in my eyes.