The Myth of the Trans Kid
The "trans" kid is not biological. It is something manufactured to validate adult delusions. In this piece, I explore how it takes advantage of children's development.
Think back to a time when you were very young—young enough to start making assumptions about the world around you. You’re starting to find your place in the world, see where you fit in, but you don’t have the language or full understanding to articulate what you want or what you’re experiencing. Most of what you’re doing is absorbing information at such high speed you can’t even process it fully. You just take in the information and try your best to succeed at navigating society.
You played pretend based on careers or social roles you learned about. You built forts or block towers and houses. You may have served meals to your family and friends made of plastic food or leaves and dirt. Some of you even had a real bite of those pretend meals and learned the hard way that your imagination doesn’t change toys and dirt into gourmet cuisine. This is how children learn about the world—they take in information about everything, from how food is prepared and served to the complex workings of society like jobs, building, and relationships. You didn’t even realize you were doing this or how much of the world you were absorbing and reflecting through your fun and games.
In retrospect, this would’ve been a challenging and confusing time as you grew and learned so much in such a short time. But most of you made some friends and assimilated with peers well enough to keep you relatively grounded and survive the schoolyard into adulthood. Some of you may not even remember because it was so inconsequential of a time and your memories focus on moments of rambunctious play or precocious pranks. However, some of us recall this time in painful detail. Fitting in was a struggle and the messaging from peers was that we were missing something and we weren’t sure what or why.
The reason for being an offbeat outcast can be any number of things—disorders, bad parents, or even just as simple as atypical interests or not keeping up with the pack. For the most part, this cohort works out the reason and pushes forward. They find their fellow misfits and get through the growing pains. However, some of those kids—often the ones with trauma—don’t. With such a limited understanding of the world and an even more limited way of expressing themselves, these children do their best to make sense of why they don’t fit in and often blame themselves for that inability. An assessment and a question form subconsciously, “Everyone else is able to get along, aren’t they? It must be something about me that’s wrong.” This was my experience, and, like so many children seem to fall into today, I thought it was because I was born the wrong sex.
How Sex Rejection is Reinforced
I was very young when I settled on this reason. And, for me, it was continually reinforced by my environment. I had difficulty fitting in with girls. I preferred playing with boys as a result, and they accepted me without question. The games and activities I liked were very general. I liked building and taking things apart, rough and tumble interactions with others, acting out various careers, and my toys were more likely to go on dramatic adventures than they were to play house. This worked better with the boys than the girls on the playground.
Although, my case happened back in the 90s and early 00s, well before social media spread trans identity like a plague, the overall story and thought process is much the same as it is for anyone who blamed their distress on their sex.
At some point:
the individual experiences distress or trauma they can’t fully parse
the individual believes their bodies and personality are a source of disgust and should be rejected, and
the individual latches onto an alternate identity of the opposite sex as an ultimate rejection of themselves and source of comfort in an idealized fantasy identity.
Major contributing factors can be fetishistic disorder, autism, body dysmorphia, social contagion, sexual trauma or other comorbidities. Some researchers have also shown links to weakened areas in the brain that relate to perception of the self in individuals with sex distress (aka gender dysphoria). However, there has never been any proof that this distress has an origin beyond subjective belief and cultural stereotypes.
The Mythical Trans Kid
Enter the cultural phenomena of the “trans kid.” Thanks to the media pushing distressed and groomed children like Jazz Jennings into the public eye as a sensational novelty, the idea that a child could somehow know they were born in the wrong body has been widely accepted by the public.
Initially, this idea was rightly questioned, but it was swiftly silenced by sympathetic talkshow hosts and news outlet highlights featuring the children, giving simplistic, yet passionate claims about being themselves and knowing who they are. At the time, for most people in the West, this was a fair enough explanation, as they were afraid of crushing a child’s sense of self and belonging. And, at the time, most people believed this was only affecting a few children and the thought that such a serious claim about a child would be backed without any evidence by the medical and psychological communities was even more unbelievable than that of someone being born in the wrong body. Thus, with its foot firmly in the door, the myth of the trans kid was able to squeeze its way into the cultural zeitgeist and spread from the fringes of daytime TV and special investigative reports to the total saturation of children’s media, school curriculum, and every corner of social media with full backing and protection of major corporations and institutions.
With this total capture, creation of and admittance into gender clinics, trans identification, and policies that mandated affirmation proliferated under the public’s collective noses. Seemingly overnight, nearly every family was touched by this in some way—daughters were claiming to be nonbinary, a friend or relative’s little boy was actually a girl all along, or a child’s quirky new friend introduced themselves with mismatched pronouns and an unusual name like Luna, Kai, or Blaze. What was initially shrugged off as a phase was soon realized to be a state- and corporate-enforced system all thanks to the quiet spread. And this, was by design—a devious plan years in the making, formulated by megalomaniacs and people lost to their delusions.
The Creation of the Trans Kid
The plan was to use children as a means to validate the (mostly male) adults who had historically been the majority of “transsexuals.” It sounds simple enough, but was, in fact, multifaceted. The validation would accomplish multiple things:
The opposite sex identification would be seen as lifelong and immutable—similar to the argument made for sexual orientation
The sympathy for the children would pass along to the adults, who had, until then been seen mostly as pariahs.
The sympathy and acceptance would change the cultural narrative to make all legal and societal demands more palatable to the public.
The validity of the trans identity as a lifelong issue would open the door to more experimental “medical treatments” and insurance coverage.
Obliterating the societal protections and consent laws for minors around their bodies and identity would open up children to other forms of exploitation.
The push to transition children also opened the door for the dark underworld of fetishistic older men who desire to keep people in a youthful, vulnerable state while grooming them into sexual exploitation. This can be seen in multiple cases such as Kim Petras, Corey Maison, and, based on his social media, Brianna Ghey, who was tragically murdered in 2023. All three of these boys had “transitioned” and ended up either making sexualized content or, as in Corey’s case, went fully into pornographic fetish content for the gratification of men who celebrate the medical transition of children.
This plan is, for the most part, explicitly laid out constantly, although presented as a sympathetic plea, rather than a methodical strategy:
In curriculum and the legal system, it’s framed as a desire to be inclusive and eliminate stigma that would place males in female sports and spaces.
In medicine, it’s framed as a more accurate and necessary method of treating patients by not acknowledging sex as an important part of assessment and treatment.
In psychology, it eliminates cross sex identification as a delusion or pathology and transforms it into the cure-all solution to all other disordered conditions.
With the proliferation normalizing trans identification and the goals of the plan in the public, activists were sure they would fully realize their goals totally unchallenged. And this is where fundamental questions about human development became some of the strongest arguments against this agenda.
The Questions Gender Ideology Ignores
With all the robust studies about how children and adolescents learn and develop, how could we believe that children—particularly prepubescent children—know with such certainty they were meant to be the opposite sex?
How was this accepted with no hard evidence to the extent of subjecting these children to dangerous and crippling experimental procedures?
How can children be born knowing they weren’t in the right body, knowing nothing else about the world around them?
And most importantly, why is the rejection of the body seen as the cure-all as opposed to yet another symptom of deeper issues?
These children are being offered a culturally sanctioned answer for all their troubles. It’s an answer they’re celebrated for accepting. It’s an answer that confirms their false belief that they were at fault for not fitting in—that there was something wrong with them all along. It’s an answer that seals them into stereotypes, affirming only that girls and boys can’t have atypical interests without actually being the opposite sex. It’s an answer these children are readily waiting to accept because they’re so desperate to fit in and succeed. It preys on the normal, biological drive for a social species that we evolved to have. Such blatant manipulation is grotesque and deliberate.
One of the most striking things we learn in childhood is that things we believe are real during play are often not. Dirt and plastic toys aren’t food; there are no five-year-old firefighters; unlike real babies, your doll can be put down and forgotten; and no matter how many animals you pretend to be, you’ll always actually be a human.
With proper guidance, kids who felt like I did would learn that not fitting in can be normal and isn’t their fault. They would learn how to cope with and get treatment for the underlying causes behind those feelings. They would optimally be able to cope with reality and accept their bodies. This now radical idea—acceptance of the self and the body—is the most productive and truthful option that has the best hope for integrating the child into society with a healthy body and mind.