As I wrote in the previous email, my idea was to give my son a working vocabulary that could be used to describe gender ideology. I wanted him to first learn this vocabulary in other contexts, for example, while learning about cults or totalitarian regimes. I hoped that he would be able to make these connections himself, and eventually he did make them.

If you end up on the subject of the Holocaust, and even if not, the movie JoJo Rabbit is one of the best movies you can watch with a trans-identifying child. We watched it several times. My kids love it. It can be easily translated into being “about trans”, and I think it does affect their subconscious. JoJo is a little boy who wants to belong and he is a Nazi; his imaginary friend is Hitler himself… The ideology cripples him, literally, and yet he continues to believe, because it offers such an escape from the reality of war. All the while, his mother is in the Resistance Movement. “You are not a Nazi, JoJo, you are a little boy who likes to wear a uniform and wants to belong,” his mother says. What a perfect line!