Commonsense Care: Parenting Gender-Confused Kids with Truth & Love
Millions of children, teenagers, and young adults are announcing transgender identities out of the blue. Parents are often pressured to accept and affirm these new identities, putting children on a path toward lifelong medicalization. Is there another way to respond? Advocates Protecting Children brings parents the Commonsense Care video series and podcast to answer that question. Erin Brewer is co-founder of Advocates Protecting Children & the Compassion Coalition; as well as (formerly) Partners for Ethical Care. She holds a PhD in instructional technology, and is a former ”trans kid” who was helped back to reality by good cognitive therapy, which is today being banned for children. She lives in Logan, Utah (USA). Maria Keffler is a co-founder of Advocates Protecting Children, and (formerly) Partners for Ethical Care and the Arlington Parent Coalition (Virginia). An author, speaker, and teacher with a background in educational psychology, Ms. Keffler has fought to support families and protect children from unethical activism and dangerous policies around sexuality and transgender ideology since 2018. She lives in Arlington, Virginia (USA). Donate to Advocates Protecting Children to support the Commonsense Care podcast: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/AdvocatesPC
Episodes
Transing Our Children, by Erin Brewer with Maria Keffler, is a handbook exposing the gender industry's predation on children.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Parenting-Gender-Confused-Transcripts/dp/B09ZCSTMXQ/ref=sr_1_1
Desist, Detran...
Desist, Detrans & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult, by Maria Keffler, is a book offering parents a different and safer path to helping their children escape the gender industry's clutches.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Car...
Erin Brewer was assaulted by two men when she was a little girl. Her beautiful and touching book, Always Erin, recounts the healing she received because adults did not affirm the gender dysphoria that arose after the assault, but they helped her deal with and overcome her difficult feelings.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcrip...
When your child desists from (gives up) claiming a transgender identity, celebration is appropriate. But there's still some work to do to help your child and family heal from this difficult and nightmarish journey.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commo...
Erin & Maria role-play when a teenager tells her mother that she's transgender.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Parenting-Gender-Confused-Transcripts/dp/B09ZCSTMXQ/ref=sr_1_1
Desist, Detrans & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gende...
What parents need to know how about how kids are funding expensive hormone regimens and sex reassignment surgeries.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Parenting-Gender-Confused-Transcripts/dp/B09ZCSTMXQ/ref=sr_1_1
Desist, Detrans & Detox:...
How the term "deadname" gives away the ethos of this sinister ideology, and how our basic First-Amendment freedoms are threatened by bullying tactics to force us to say things we don't really believe.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Pa...
Move over Twilight & Harry Potter & all you witches, warlocks, and werewolves. There's a new young adult genre in town: transgender lit. And it's probably already in a library and classroom near you.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Par...
Social transition-- changing one's haircut, clothing style and name, as well as demanding a designer set of pronouns-- is often touted as harmless. But when we see nearly 100% of children who socially transition move on to medical transition, we must agree that social transition is certainly not harmless.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-...
How does Borderline Personality Disorder overlap with transgender identification?
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Parenting-Gender-Confused-Transcripts/dp/B09ZCSTMXQ/ref=sr_1_1
Desist, Detrans & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gen...
The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey is one of the primary documents used to buttress faith in transgender ideology and to drive the medicalization of children. But what's in this survey, how was it created, and is it actually a valid and reliable tool to defend gender industry practices? (Answer: Junk, via biased methodology, and "No.")
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren....
Social media is another one of the drivers of the explosion of transgender identification among young people. What is happening to kids on social media, and how can parents protect children?
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Parenting-Ge...
Boys are developing gender dysphoria and announcing transgender identities, as well as girls. What are the unique aspects of this issue for boys?
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Parenting-Gender-Confused-Transcripts/dp/B09ZCSTMXQ/ref=s...
How has pornography use fueled the explosive rise in transgender-identification among young men and women?
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Parenting-Gender-Confused-Transcripts/dp/B09ZCSTMXQ/ref=sr_1_1
Desist, Detrans & Detox: Getting ...
Is there such a thing as a truly transgender person? Can someone really be born in the wrong body?
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Parenting-Gender-Confused-Transcripts/dp/B09ZCSTMXQ/ref=sr_1_1
Desist, Detrans & Detox: Getting Your Chi...
Rewriting history is one of the defining features of cult recruits: they change their memories of what happened in the past in order to mesh their lives with the cult narrative. How can parents respond when their children rewrite their histories?
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-l...
Kids who have been sucked into the gender cult have had their true identities subjugated, and a false "transgender" identity put on top of them. How does this work, how can parents help their kids come back to their true identities, and how does boomeranging play into this phenomenon?
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-pare...
Why do so many parents affirm, or agree with their children that they are really transgender?
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Parenting-Gender-Confused-Transcripts/dp/B09ZCSTMXQ/ref=sr_1_1
Desist, Detrans & Detox: Getting Your Child Ou...
Gender ideology is constructed on lies and supported by fallacies. Learn what some of these errors are, and how to respond to them.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-kids-with-truth-love https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Care-Parenting-Gender-Confused-Transcripts/dp/B09ZCSTMXQ/ref=sr_1_1
Desist, ...
Adolescents are a fascinating bunch of people, with very specific characteristics and needs. Learn about what's going on with kids at this stage of life, and how parents can work with their children at this stage in order to protect them from the gender industry.
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Commonsense Care Transcripts (Book): https://www.advocatesprotectingchildren.org/product-page/commonsense-care-transcripts-parenting-gender-confused-...
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