My statement in regard to the FTC's request for Public Comment on “Gender-Affirming Care” for minors

The mind bending queer shenanigans are doing a number on all of us. I suppose it's the meta cognitive meltdown too.

Public Comment to the Federal Trade Commission on Gender-Affirming Care’s Failure to Disclose and Institutional Overreach

The Core Problem: Schools, therapists, and doctors guide children toward life-altering paths — yet parents remain legally and morally responsible for their child’s wellbeing. Across these institutions, parents are treated as obstacles, not partners. The result is a profound strain on the parent-child relationship. In Arizona, which has restrictions on GAC, the pressure is unrelenting. It must be unbearable raising a child in a state that has fully embraced GAC. The GAC social affirmation policy is an insidious “queer” ideology. It is not ethical, neutral, or inconsequential.

My Request to the FTC: Root out preferred name and pronoun policies. Policy-Code-ACD

Parents entrust schools and providers with their children, on the assumption of safety and neutrality. That trust is being violated under “gender-affirming care” in schools, healthcare, and therapy. GAC must be recognized as institutional overreach and consumer deception.

The preferred name and pronoun policy is the gateway to professional ethical violations. The FTC must identify practices misrepresented as “safe” and settled. In reality, GAC is deeply contested, high-risk, and corrosive to family integrity. The very meanings of words are abused by this misguided, insidious ideology.

Parents are not obstacles. We are the guardians of our children’s best interests. Institutions that forget this destroy the very trust on which their legitimacy rests.

Testimonial:

A Serious Lack of Transparency Against my wishes, the school continues to “affirm gender identity.” Children role play as other genders, but children also can identify as therians. Teachers play along.

Failure to disclose when parents don’t comply Parents want to know: what’s going on? Instead of responding, they play games. I have sent emails to the superintendent, school board, principal and teachers. They shut down and evade written communication.

Surgery and pharmaceuticals for life are a serious consequence to GAC Across the school system, therapy, and pediatric medicine, I found a rigid enforcement of “gender-affirming care” that treats me as an adversary rather than a parent. My 10-year-old daughter came home from school with Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria in September 2022; she had a new gender identity and asked for TOP SURGERY. She said the teacher gave an unscripted pronoun lecture at school: “You don’t have to LIKE everyone’s pronouns, but you DO have to RESPECT people’s pronouns.” There were “how to transition” YouTubers like Jamie Dodger in her feed.

I was blindsided by the distressing erosion of basic human values, like respect for the parent-child relationship. I delayed my return to work for a full year because I could think of nothing else but protecting my child. Friendships fell away, conversations had to be whispered, and everywhere I turned, institutions silenced dissent.

• School GSA Clubs: Activist teachers who don’t respect parents. In September 2023, sixth grade teachers assured me I’d have “informed consent.” They’re still affirming her trans identity in 2025. I’ve told them how I feel. I send many emails. They don’t respond.
  
  I said no to the GSA Club after school. They welcomed her when she told them she “didn’t feel safe” telling her parents. I even called the GSA sponsor teacher, who failed to disclose that my daughter was attending the GSA meetings. The GSA Sponsor made the claim about suicidality of trans kids. I exercised my right to walk into the school the next time the club met. The counselor greeting me in the office was caught in the lie. I found my child in the after school GSA Club meeting. Only after the school year ended did my child tell me that the other kids had brought signed permission slips.
  
  

• Child Therapist: The GAC belief system undermines the parent-child bond by framing parental caution as harm. We sought to maintain the relationship, but it ended after six months because of our failure to comply with social affirmation. We brought the issue to the therapist, who couldn’t claim to be “an expert” on “gender identity.” We know this ideology comes from activist organizations, and discredited ones at that. Professionals are failing to uphold ethical boundaries, because GAC inverts normal protocols. The activists are not the client. The child is not the adult. We shared our perspective that parents bear ultimate responsibility for a child’s best interests. Searching for a therapist is exhaustive, not simple. I finally determined that the field is corrupt. Even very experienced counselors will not say anything against GAC, for fear of reprisal. I continue to focus on doing positive things for my child and our relationship.
  
  

• Pediatrician: If parents were given the chance, we would opt out. Is this why they’re not being transparent? Is this why they don’t want us asking questions?
  My daughter needs treatment for an ongoing earache. At routine appointments during 2025, our doctor forced “preferred name and pronouns” in our presence in front of our daughter. This triangulation amounts to a struggle session, and it undermines parental authority. I took the opportunity, when the doctor referred to my child as “they” in a message in the portal, telling her to stop, citing AZ statute SB 1451. She acknowledged my feelings in a phone call. Our beloved doctor has treated all three of our kids, since the first one’s birth in 2003. The trust is broken.

• School Leadership / GSA Club: The middle school principal enabled teachers to promote GAC and to sponsor a Gender & Sexualities Alliance Club. I objected: the GSA is not neutral. It is an explicitly political organization founded in Berkeley with a queer social-justice activist agenda. Sixth graders are too young for this ideological recruitment. The teacher was enticing students with “free swag” LGBTQ+ flags and snacks, showing how easy it is to prey upon impressionable young children. Even the good intentions of “anti-bullying” and “safe spaces” messaging fails to stand up to deceit, manipulation and indoctrination.

• When you call it what it is, it becomes easier to see–the exact thing that it says it’s not, and vice versa. Sneaky queer legal FAFO.
  
  

• Raising a child shouldn’t require a lawyer. Root out the activist policies, and put the legal counsel and leadership in check. Let teachers focus on teaching their subjects, doctors focus on medical issues. Get rid of the ideological preferred name and pronoun policies.
  
  

• They’re sneaky and manipulative when we don’t consent. Currently, in TUSD, the school board’s policy from 2020 is still on the books.