There’s a saying about “Progressive” parents with “trans” children: It’s like the vegan with a vegan cat — you know it’s not the cat who’s making the choice.
A few years ago, satirist Patri-Archie Comics drew a strip that showed a little boy playing with improvised toys. As boys will, any random object is re-purposed as a gun, a soldier… But then the boy picks up a lipstick case, to pretend it’s a missile — and his “progressive” mother pounces.
Caught you playing with lipstick! I always knew you were trans!
Satire can’t keep ahead of real life, in this Clown World we live in.
Lucas was only 8 when his mother dressed him in girl’s clothes and sent him to school. “I didn’t know who I was,” he told us in this heartbreaking email.
A few brave child psychologists dare to stand up to the trans-tyranny that’s swept the medical profession, and point out that gender dysphoric children almost always have a host of other things going on, psychologically. Family trauma, especially, almost always involving the opposite-sex parent.
Lucas’ parents were an Australian labourer and an American aspiring actress. After dating online, she moved to Australia, where they married and had one child, Lucas.
“I grew up and went to school in Australia and everything was quite normal […]”
Lucas says that he wasn’t aware that his parents were fighting and it took him by surprise when they split. She took him back to America where he would live with his mother and his grandparents until she could afford to rent a place of her own.
So, Lucas was taken away from the life he’d known, cut off from his father, and kept from going to school, where he might have made new friends, for three years. In the meantime, his mother spun a male-hating narrative around her now-ex.
Which puts into a lot of context what happened next.
It was in 2014, Lucas was only 9-years-old, when his mother started putting make up on him and dressing him in dresses.
“My mum would make me binge watch RuPaul’s Drag Race with her like all the time. Then one day she turned to me in the middle of an episode and told me that I’m special and not like the other kids. She asked if I identify more like her or like my dad… and from all of the terrible things I’d heard her say about my dad, I just responded, ‘like you, mum.’”
That was all the opening she needed.
She threw out his “boy” clothes, renamed him “Lucy” and turned him into the girl she’d apparently always wanted.
“She made me grow my hair out. She put make up on me and put me in dresses. She called me Lucy. She was my mother, so I just believed her. I think she noticed that I was still confused because I didn’t act the way she wanted, so she’d just say ‘do like the do on the show [RuPaul’s Drag Race].”
His mother covered him in glitter make up, and made him wear fishnet leggings with a shiny hot-pink dress and a matching bow tie in his hair.
And when it finally came time for him to go to school, his drag act wowed the “progressive” teachers.
“I was a star, or least I felt like it. The teachers absolutely adored me and used me as an example all the time. I got special treatment. I could never do any wrong. The other boys in my class didn’t bully me or anything. I guess I really enjoyed the attention so I started to embrace it and play it up a bit.”
According to Lucas his mother was enjoying the attention just as much as he was. She’d be invited to special events to talk about ‘raising trans kids’ and things like that.
And she turned out her child as ruthlessly as any other stage mother.
In the email Lucas claims that from the age of 11 to 14 his mother would take him to parties and other social events where there would intoxicated adults.
“She took me to a high-end club that was filled with men who were practically nude. They’d have stage shows where the guys would dance promiscuously and strip. A lot of these guys would always say nasty things to me and touch me inappropriately. I didn’t like it, I told my mum yet she didn’t care. She told me to ‘man up’, which I thought was very ironic.”
Lucas was pressured to take the stage and dance erotically in front of a lot of man. “I didn’t know what to do, so I just copied the other dancers and also did what I saw on RuPaul’s Drag Race,” said Lucas.
You can guess where this would end up: his mother set him up on a date with a gay man. “ALONE!”
Lucas was terrified and refused — and began to reject the “identity” his mother had foisted on him. The deal-breaker came when he developed his first adolescent crush — on a girl.
His mother became abusive, pestered him with homosexual pornography, and refused to buy him masculine clothes. His formerly adoring teachers turned on him, too.
“I was shamed by my English teacher. She said I was setting a bad example for other LGBTQ kids,” he explained.
“The special treatment was gone but at least I felt like myself again. My English teacher would call me Lucy and I would correct her by saying ‘it’s Lucas, miss.’ She yelled at me in front of the entire class and accused me of misgendering her and something called mansplaining.”
Once he turned 16, Lucas was finally able to legally emancipate himself.
“When I turned 16 I filed for emancipation and moved out. I don’t talk to my mum, but my crush is now my girlfriend” […]
Now 16-year-old Lucas proudly identifies as a boy and says his days of being called Lucy and being forced to be trans are over. He hopes his story helps somebody that may be experiencing the same thing.
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In many ways, Lucas was one of the lucky ones.
Today, he’d almost certainly have been chemically castrated, if not surgically “transitioned”, from the instant his mother decided he was “trans”. There’d have been no way back to being what he always was — a boy.
The many, many “de-transitioners” today face a far more difficult and painful journey to save themselves from what adults who claimed to be “helping” them inflicted on them.
