Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast The Witness: True Stories of Children and Gender Identity

A father talks of his intelligent, sensitive son with ADHD who was bullied throughout public school. He went off to college and after a difficult breakup with a girlfriend and encouragement from "gender affirming" therapists decided he was a female. His parents fear for his mental and medical health as they watch him struggle with the concept of who he is.

A mother describes the difficulties her daughter with ADHD and high functioning autism has fitting in with her peers. Her daughter vacillates between believing she is a girl and a boy and finds communities that support her confusion and seemingly accept her.

Follow this mom's reflections on her journey with her trans-identifying daughter. She finds meaning and tries to "savor and appreciate the moments of closeness."

You can find StoicMom's written piece and more from her here: https://stoicmom.substack.com/p/pivotal-moments

Most episodes for The Witness are read and recorded by voice actors. This episode was done with the voice of the author, StoicMom.

A mother details her daughter's pathway to a "trans" identification and the inconsistencies and maladaptive strategies she observes along the way. 

This father takes a turn in his strategy with his ROGD daughter as they navigate the ramifications of a "transgender" identity. This is part 5 in a 5 part series.

Loving father continues to have impactful conversations with daughter and navigate how to handle an ROGD adoption.

Father continues the long process of loving discussion with his ROGD daughter and offers guidance and reassurance for other parents.

Conversations between a father and ROGD daughter. Part 2 of a 5 part series.

Listen to this father have lighthearted conversation while discussing trans-identification with his ROGD daughter in this 5 part series.

A mother chronicles how the courts and other adults facilitate the loss of her young adolescent daughter and the breakdown of the bonds they once had.

In this love letter a parent holds steadfast and nurtures the relationship with her daughter with truth and reality. Link to article on the PITT substack https://pitt.substack.com/p/dear-daughter?utm_source=url.

This parent of a 13 year old daughter lays out her 10 part strategy that helped her child to desist.

Tune in to this loving conversation between a mother and daughter who examine the many misguided reasons behind adopting a gender identity. This is part 4 of a 4 part series.

The conversation continues between this mother and daughter. Fostering mutual respect and understanding, they continue to navigate the murky waters of gender identities. This is part 3 of a 4 part series.

Listen to how this mother and daughter continue to navigate and examine the murky waters of gender identity ideology. This is part two of a 4 part series.

Listen to how this mother and daughter maintain a loving relationship while navigating and examining the murky waters of gender identity ideology. This is part one of a 4 part series.

Daughter identified as female her whole life until dealing with anxiety and depression in her first year at college and decided she was “transgender.”

Mother asks a series of important, exploratory questions to her ex-husband who affirms their daughter in a new gender identity.

3 Stories from Gendermapper.org :

1. Dr. refuses to look into mental health issues before prescribing hormones.

2. Female hormones suspected to cause stroke in 24 year old son.

3. Endocrinologist at Gender Clinic Recommends Medical Transition of 11 Year Old son with no Mention of Therapy or Side Effects.

In this interview a 16 year old desistor gives insight into the reasons she became attracted to the trans identity she adopted and why she eventually realized her ideas seemed to have some logical fallacies and she desisted.

Mother tells the story of how a therapist used cognitive mindfulness therapy to help her daughter become comfortable with her body and heal the entire family by treating them as the cohesive team they were meant to be.

Mother tells the tale of how her family navigated her daughter's gender dysphoria and "transgender" identification from onset until her daughter desisted. This mother hopes that sharing their experience will help other families who are going through similar difficulties with gender identification.

Mother watches, horrified and heartbroken while her daughter does irreversible harm to herself with the help and encouragement from her community and the gender identity industry.

Parents are concerned that same-sex attracted daughter is being influenced by adults and online influences to believe she is born in the wrong body. They worry that her potential for joy in her own body and her fertility will be compromised by irreversible and harmful medical procedures when she is too young to comprehend the full implications of these losses.

A mother processes the pain and confusion of parenting a son who is trans-identified by writing letters she will never send.

A mother processes the pain and confusion of parenting a son who is trans-identified by writing letters she will never send.

A mother processes the pain and confusion of parenting a son who is trans-identified by writing letters she will never send.

Mothers around the world are rising up to fight back. This army of mothers is powerful and determined to change the tide against the harms being done to our children by the gender identity industry. These mothers won't give up.

A parent tells the story of how her efforts were counteracted by the school, medical and mental health professionals. She realizes she has no voice in the matters of her child in the public school and decides to take things into her own hands and homeschool. She finds success teaching her daughter to be comfortable with her body and who she is when taken away from the influences in the school and on the internet.

Mother challenges daughters pronouncement of suicide and finds it to be merely a threat and means of control. Parents pull her from public school where teachers and administration were socially transitioning her without the parents consent or knowledge.  They fight to keep their daughter safe from the prospect of medical harm.

What happens when a parent decides they are "trans." While the trans-identified parent is celebrated and catered to the family he left behind are treated with scorn, isolation and abuse. Children struggle to mourn the father they lost who completely changed personality and even became abusive. They suffer from extreme, lasting mental health issues.

2 stories:

1. Mother fights to save daughter who experiences dysphoria due to sexual assault and daughter gets coached by trans activists online to lie in order to get harmful medical treatments. 

2. Mother loses her daughter to the transgender cult. Daughter takes harmful drugs and has irreversible surgeries. Mother speaks up and fights to bring awareness to these atrocities.

Two stories: 1st Story - Planned Parenthood prescribes hormones in one-half hour visit without any mental health history.

2nd Story - Son with depression diagnoses himself with dysphoria and therapist agrees with the self diagnosis in a one-hour session with no consideration of past mental health issues.

Two stories of duplicity and gender identity. 1st story: Michigan clinic offers testosterone to 13 year old girl at first visit. 2nd story: Schools, therapists and doctors undermine a parent's efforts to find out the true reasons for her child's gender confusion.

This episode features stories from kesleycoalition.com and music from Kevin McLeod.

2 stories of professionals leading parents toward harms to their Children. 1st story: Parent makes plea to state legislators after a therapist misleads her disabled daughter into believing she was born in the wrong body. 2nd story: Medicaid pays for a 17 year old's mastectomy and hysterectomy without parent's consent.

This episode features stories from kesleycoalition.com and music from Kevin McLeod.

3 Stories of gender confusion and parent's concerns about medicalization. Story 1 - A parent's concern over daughter who struggles with anxiety and depression and longs to medically alter her body. Story 2 - Parent tells of a daughter who has struggled with anxiety from a young age and decided her problems were because she was transgender and was advised by Endocrinologists to prescribe puberty blockers in one visit. Story 3 - "Gender Specialist" prescribes puberty blocking drugs to minor in one half hour visit.

Stories provided by gendermapper.com with some music by Kevin McLeod.