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Joycella's avatar

Thank you for writing that. Now I have the words to say it too.

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Erin J. Morgart's avatar

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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Fiestynca's avatar

Thank you, Josh.

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Sara Samson's avatar

Thank you for being such a TRANSgressive! Surgical and chemical alteration is not natural and real. A charade is a performance. Tofurky is not turkey. The empower has no clothes.

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Mrs Miller's avatar

This is an excellent reminder. There have been a few people in my life who have, in conversations, explained, "Oh no, so and so is REALLY trans." Meaning the person they were talking about "felt" they were the opposite sex from an early age, or like the gender clinicians put it, were "persistent, consistent and insistent." Tell it to Chloe Cole.

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Jennifer Terry's avatar

Thank you. I have been getting closer & closer to being able to be openly real about this, and hearing you really does help. We have a "non binary" claiming man who has wormed his way into our family, & I currently feel like I am traversing a minefield trying to protect my younger child and not endanger my adult daughter by antagonizing the narcissist she loves & lives with. I hate this.

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Josh Slocum's avatar

You're welcome. And I'm going to push you just a bit: the time to tell the truth is now, Jennifer. It doesn't get easier. It gets harder the longer you comply.

Do not let this man near your child. Do not let him have contact. I don't care if he is a family member. Exposing your child to this, at least without VERY clear and firm conversations about reality, is child abuse. That's not an accusation toward you, but it is the truth that people you know in real life won't tell you out of fear.

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Jennifer Terry's avatar

I know. Thus far he never talks to us about the non binary thing. I only know about that from what he posts on FB. Unfortunately, over the past 5 years my son has spent time at their place & really loves to be around this guy, but over the last year, his narcissistic behavior (not evident in the beginning, naturally) has gotten so much worse. I have been trying to find ways to get out of the habit of hangouts at their house without making the real reason obvious, but it has reached the point of "never again" and I dread the fall out.

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Josh Slocum's avatar

I'm not going to sugar coat it: Jennifer, buck up right now. Stop "trying to find a way." Do your duty as a mother and stop the contact.

There's no "third way" you can find that will keep you in everyone's emotional good graces AND protect your child.

You have one question to answer, and only one: how much longer are you going to let this malign influence capture your own children?

Said sternly, but not with malice to you, I hope you know.

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Kitty's avatar

Please trust your 'gut' instinct. The 'non binary' identification gives pause, but you know deep in your bones something is amiss. Use that as...you just feel something is 'off'...you don't why...just a sense.

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Barbara Wegner's avatar

The word “trans” is supposed to mean “transitioning into.” This means a man might say he is a trans woman, meaning transitioning into a woman. Does that ever happen? No. It’s never a completed process because it can’t be done. You can never change the genes in your body to the other sex. It’s bizarre that people, who very well know they can’t actually finish their “transition” even bother to try. It can’t be done. It’s not a thing.

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mabsie007's avatar

just want to make sure it's okay to cut and paste these words as needed! LOl

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Josh Slocum's avatar

Yes! No permission needed. Writing on social media is public by definition. Use anything I write at any time for any purpose.

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Jake Wiskerchen's avatar

Truth is hard to come by these days.

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Tim's avatar

Funny. I’m not any of the 7 items listed and yet I concur with the statement that there is no such thing as trans. Perhaps Truth has nothing to do with characteristics.

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Josh Slocum's avatar

Of course. You did understand, yes, why I did that? I think I disclosed pretty clearly why I did, and I'm pretty sure that I said the very thing you said in your last sentence. I really hope you see that, and that you're not inappropriately "getting" me for something I already disclosed.

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Tim's avatar

Yes. I was being cheeky.

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Josh Slocum's avatar

Thank you. It's impossible to know on social media.

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Tim's avatar

Furthermore, what you have to say and your argumentation is what is of interest.

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Kathy Lux's avatar

We know who you are and love 💕 that person. Thanks for all you do to keep emphasizing truth.

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Jon Midget's avatar

For too long, I was one who was afraid to speak up that "trans" is a lie. It was hard because it was obviously a lie, and everybody obviously knew it was a lie, and yet the social pressure was outrageous (and even professional pressure -- I'm a public school teacher).

I finally thought "screw it, I'm not lying about this anymore" a couple years ago.

And never did I understand the phrase "The Truth shall set you Free" like I did then. There is still a lot of pressure in our world to lie about this. And there can be very real social and professional consequences.

And yet, because I stopped staying silent, because I stopped going along with the lie, I found that some people around me began to have the courage also. This didn't surprise me, because I was initially helped along when I saw a couple people I respected speaking truth.

Thank you, Josh, for your willingness to be upfront and honest about this. Because the more people do it, the more those stuck in fearful silence find the courage to break out.

Indeed, the Truth shall set you Free.

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James Allin's avatar

You also had to endure the hardship of being professionally "canceled" for leaving the cult of progressivism, something that no person -- absent a serious criminal conviction -- should ever have to endure.

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Pamela Garfield-Jaeger's avatar

The truth is the truth regardless of how people feel about it or who tells it. It’s nice to hear.

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Gregory S's avatar

Thank you for this! “Trans” is what started me down the path from democrats to republican. “Tran$” is a marketing campaign, not a type of person.

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Robert Fireovid's avatar

Yahoo! Right on Josh! Thank you!

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