Georgia Senator Vows to Protect Girl, But Then Runs Away After Learning She Is Trans
Georgia Senator Vows to Protect Girl, But Then Runs Away After Learning She Is Trans
During a visit to lobby legislators on transgender issues, Senator Carden Summers (R) knelt down and told a child he would protect her. When he learned she was trans, he backed away.
During a visit to lobby legislators on transgender issues, Senator Carden Summers (R) knelt down and told a child he would protect her. When he learned she was trans, he backed away.
On Feb. 6, a group of families met to lobby senators on issues affecting the local transgender community in Georgia. One mother, Lena Kotler, decided to take her two children with her to give the topic a human face. While waiting to meet with Democratic Sen. Kim Jackson, who they had heard was a big supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, another senator passed by — Republican Sen. Carden Summers, the primary sponsor of the state’s bathroom ban bill. Little did he know that one of the children he would be interacting with, Aleix, 8 years old, was a transgender child.
According to Kotler and other families who were present, the senator stopped to say hello. That’s when Kotler spoke to Senator Summers about how she was there with her kids to “talk to legislators about keeping her kids safe.” Although she did not mention that one of her children was trans, they were present with LGBTQ+ signage - something the Senator apparently missed when he knelt down in front of Aleix and said, according to Kotler, “Well you know, we’re working on that and I’m going to protect kids like you.”
Kotler then replied, “Yeah - Alex is trans, and she wants to be safe at school, she wants to go to the bathroom and be safe.”
That is when, according to multiple witnesses, Sen. Summers stood up and fumbled his words, repeating, "I mean, yeah, I'm going to make sure she's safe by going to the right bathroom," continuing to use the correct pronouns for Aleix. When asked if he would make her go to a boy's bathroom, he then allegedly backed away, saying, "You're attacking me," turned around, and walked off quickly.
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8 year olds have an IQ around 20. There's zero chance an 8 year old comprehends being trans. The mother is a narcissist.
That's not how IQ works
Have you actually met trans people? Have you talked to them about their childhoods?
Yes and yes.
Someone here has an IQ of 20, but it’s not that kid.
I don't know the full story of the kid's family, but some people already realise their sexuality at early age.
You do not need a high IQ to experience gender dysphoria. There are huge piles of evidence showing that children that young can, in fact, have a gender identity. Actually, significantly younger than 8. You are woefully ignorant of the fundamentals of the topic being discussed.
Saying that 8 year old has an IQ of 20 displays a misunderstanding of IQ and intelligence, but otherwise it's indeed very probable that the girl(?) is very confused.
I thought this article describes the still ongoing problem pretty well: https://www.npr.org/2008/05/07/90247842/two-families-grapple-with-sons-gender-preferences
Zucker has come to believe that taking the view that kids are born transgender ultimately produces more transgender people.
"By declaring the child as transgendered at, say, age 3 or age 4 or age 6, and then saying in a sense, 'Go with the flow,' ... that will impact, I believe, on how the kid's gender identity differentiates," he says.
The article was from 2008. Recent data shows that he was right on the money.
Most kids know their identity by age 4 according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, so what "recent data" are you seeing?
https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/BF_HealthySexualityGenderIdentity_Tipsheet.pdf
"Trans" wasn't something talked about on military bases in 1989 when I figured out something was up with my own identity, but I still argued with my parents that I was a tomboy and not a boy.
Recent data shows a sharp rise (at least double the amount since 2017) in children identifying as trans. But I believe it's still controversial as to why this happened.
And a larger percentage of the population in general is identifying as LGBTQ+. Nearly 30% of Gen Z does, and that number likely reflects the actual state of human orientation than previous generations which had a lot more stigma associated with it.
Yep. I think it's fascinating how this can be a generational phenomenon when I believe the understanding is that you get your sexual and gender identities more or less at birth. I mean if the liberalization of attitudes is the reason why more people identify as LGBT, shouldn't that affect the older generations as well?
I think the truth and sort of a non-answer is that the brain is a very complicated organ and everything affects it.
A lot of people are coming out in their 30s and 40s and beyond. Not everyone is in a place where doing so would be immune from job loss or relationship issues. I came out at 32, when I was getting divorced anyway and had a stable career in a safe environment. I know lots of people that aren't coming out because they are bi and married with no interest in exploring it at this time / feel like they haven't "earned" the label due to not struggling "enough".
I'm 40, I have know I'm trans my whole life. I have been to afraid to cone out and face that because of people with your false beliefs. I have struggled immensely in life for 35 years because I didn't feel it was safe to talk about or explore. I've decided it's finally time to take my life back.
You do not know what you are talking about, at all. Stop assuming you do, and start learning.
I’m 40, I have know I’m trans my whole life. I have been to afraid to cone out and face that because of people with your false beliefs.
Please explain what in my comments in this thread is a false belief that would make you be afraid to come out.
You do not know what you are talking about, at all. Stop assuming you do, and start learning.
I suggest you stop assuming things about people you don't know as well. It only generates ill will and really nothing positive. Besides upvotes in this place, I guess.
That "previous understanding" is still correct, despite new desires to feel special.
Sexual orientation is defined up to the first two months after birth, and homosexual population in humans is around 5-10%.
The same reason there was data showing more people identifying as left-handed once it stopped being taboo and "something to get corrected".
But I guess left-handed people brainwashed our youth as well.
Yes, I know that that is one of the possible explanations of this controversy. But just because you have one explanation, and you think strongly that it's the correct one, doesn't mean it's not controversial.
But I guess you think left-handed people brainwashed our youth as well.
"But I guess you think" never ends up in a happy place.
Yeah, sorry, that's why I edited my original comment. Was very unfair of me to put words in your mouth (or I guess "fingers" in this case).
Most likely just a gut reaction from all the people I see trying to argue a variation on the "we didn't have so many trans people before this, so something must be turning people trans" idea. Since most people just argue in bad faith, and are not actually looking for an answer.
(Actually I edited 3 times because of grammar, my brain was just not cooperating when it comes to typing).